Trix is for kids!
Trix is for kids!
zomby woof wrote: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5ZWhELqnlA Or....(this nasty, but hilarious) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHwILZQY6r0&feature=related
Thanks. I'm a little ashamed of myself after watching that
After watching it, or laughing at it?
You'll be happy to know that she's had a miraculous recovery.
And now it turns out the Runaway Prius driver is bankrupt and hasn't made payments on his Prius in a while. Shocking.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_runaway_prius said: By ELLIOT SPAGAT, Associated Press Writer Elliot Spagat, Associated Press Writer – Wed Mar 10, 9:59 am ET EL CAJON, Calif. – Before he called 911, James Sikes says he reached down with his hand to loosen the "stuck" accelerator on his 2008 Toyota Prius, his other hand on the steering wheel. The pedal didn't move. "My car can't slow down," he began when a California Highway Patrol dispatcher answered his call. Sikes, 61, rolled to a stop 23 harrowing minutes later, he and his blue Prius emerging unscathed but Toyota Motor Corp. suffering another big dent. Toyota has watched its reputation for quality crumble with recalls tied to risks that cars can accelerate uncontrollably or can't brake properly. Todd Neibert, the CHP officer who gave instructions to Sikes over a loudspeaker as they went east on mountainous Interstate 8 in San Diego County Monday afternoon, said he smelled burning brakes when he caught up with the Prius. The officer said he told Sikes to push the brake pedal to the floor and apply the emergency brakes as the Prius neared 85 mph. The car slowed to about 55 mph, at which time Sikes says he turned off the ignition and the car came to a stop. "The brakes were definitely down to hardly any material," Neibert told reporters Tuesday. "There was a bunch of brake material on the ground and inside the wheels." The officer found the floor mat properly placed and the accelerator and brake pedals in correct resting position. The freeway incident happened at the worst possible time for Toyota — just hours after it invited reporters to hear experts insist that electronic flaws could not cause cars to speed out of control under real driving conditions. Another driver in suburban New York told police Tuesday that her 2005 Toyota Prius accelerated on its own, then lurched down a driveway, across a road and into a stone wall. The driver, a 56-year-old woman, escaped serious injury. Police said the floor mat did not appear to be a factor; Toyota said it's not yet known whether the company will investigate. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has sent two investigators to examine Sikes' car. Toyota spokesman Brian Lyons said the automaker is sending three of its own technicians to investigate. Another Toyota spokesman, John Hanson, said the company wanted to talk to the driver. Sikes' car was covered by Toyota's floor mat recall, but the driver said the pedal jammed and was not trapped under the mat. Sikes, a real estate agent, said he was passing another car when the accelerator stuck and eventually reached 94 mph. During the two 911 calls, Sikes ignored many of the dispatcher's questions, saying later that he had to put his phone on the seat to keep his hands on the wheel. Leighann Parks, a 24-year-old dispatcher, repeatedly told him to throw the car into neutral but got no answers. "He was very emotional, you could tell on the line he was panicked," Parks told reporters outside the CHP's El Cajon office. "I could only imagine being in his shoes and being that stressed." Neibert told Sikes after the CHP caught up with him to shift to neutral but the driver shook his head no. Sikes told reporters he didn't go into neutral because he worried the car would flip. The driver rolled down the window and Neibert told him to apply both brakes. Sikes said he lifted his buttocks from the seat to press the floor brake, an account backed by the officer. The cars maneuvered around two trucks going uphill to a "clear, wide-open road," Neibert said. The officer had only about 15 miles to stop the vehicle before a steep downgrade and was considering spike strips to puncture the tires as a last resort. In the final minutes of the 911 call, Sikes tells the dispatcher, "My brakes are almost burned out." After the car stops, Sikes sighs with relief. Neibert, a 14-year CHP veteran, worked with Officer Mark Saylor, who was killed in August along with his wife, her brother and the couple's daughter after their Lexus' accelerator became trapped by a wrong-size floor mat on a freeway in nearby La Mesa. The loaner car hit a sport utility vehicle and burst into flames. Toyota has since recalled some 8.5 million vehicles worldwide — more than 6 million in the United States — because of acceleration problems in multiple models and braking issues in the Prius. Regulators have linked 52 deaths to crashes allegedly caused by accelerator problems. Still, there have been more than 60 reports of sudden acceleration in cars that have been fixed under the recall.
What are the chances there? Small world.
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/runaway-prius-more-like-runaway-media-hype-2010-03-09 said: CHICAGO (MarketWatch) -- An accident here the other day claimed the lives of four women when their car slammed into a tree. But since they were riding in a 2000 Pontiac Bonneville instead of a 2010 Toyota Prius these women didn't rate the top slot on any national newscast -- or much mention on any newscast at all -- nor send people tweeting away in outrage nor stoke Internet chat room furor. No, all of the attention and hype in the last 24 hours has been focused on one guy who says his Prius accelerator got stuck on a California freeway and who had to be talked down from his 90-mile-per-hour express commute by California Highway Patrol officers who shadowed him in the fast lane. Read more on the runaway Toyota Prius. No one was hurt. But we have a new instant celebrity. When what we really need is to put the brakes on out-of-whack priorities. Yes, there have been several systemic problems with Toyota Motor Corp. /quotes/comstock/13*!tm/quotes/nls/tm (TM 76.96, +0.60, +0.79%) cars of late. And we should take seriously any new reports of potential life-endangering foul ups. But magnifying beyond all reasonable proportion one isolated incident isn't going to help resolve current safety concerns that have arisen with a number of automakers. This, though, has become the American Way, ever since O.J. meandered down a California freeway in his Ford Bronco. The cable networks now salivate over any sort of highway chase or high-speed thriller, hoping they have the next classic road drama -- and, though they won't admit it, hoping even harder it is the next road disaster -- live and in person. Well, this wasn't it. But we're still forced to endure the media hype as if it was. Say, whatever happened to the Balloon Boy? We know what happened to Jacquelion Hampton, 35, Latoya Cathina, 28, Alicia Landon, 28 and Toccara Jones, 25, all residents of Chicago's South Side. They died in a car crash of unknown causes, returning home from a birthday celebration for Cathina on Saturday night, the Chicago Sun Times reported. Police continue their investigation. As the circus grows around every little Toyota engine burp, turn a thought to those four women. It'll help you keep your perspective on true tragedy. -- Steve Kerch, assistant managing editor
Here is the funniest, best answer to the runaway Prius dilemma...
Warning: Not safe for work, christian ears...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZ4PtafRB9c
As much as I like to see Toyota burn, The hype is way overboard. I found this article to be really interesting...
good article
another runaway Prius http://jalopnik.com/5491932/norwegian-prius-unintentionally-accelerates-to-109-mph-rams-guard-rail
I also liked the Washington Post article.
I thought the Jalopnik article was funny timing. I just got done ruminating over lunch that the 90+mph guy sure seemed like he wished he had a balloon and a kid.
pinchvalve wrote: I have shifted into neutral from WOT and your car does indeed immediately flip over. All cars, not just the Prius. Please, do not try this yourself.
Except for cars with rotary motors, Because of the direction of the motor and the centripetal force exerted by the spinning irons, during a gravitational equinox (when all 9 (now 8) planets are in alignment, it's high tide, its on the day of the winter or summer solstice, and the location you are in is experiencing a lunar eclipse) these cars can perform elaborate barrel rolls at speed by shifting into neutral at any speed above 88mph and pulling sharply on the passenger side seat belt.
DukeOfUndersteer wrote: Here is the funniest, best answer to the runaway Prius dilemma... Warning: Not safe for work, christian ears... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZ4PtafRB9c
Hahaha. If he toned down the language he might have made 20/20 for John Stossil's next "Big" moment.
I still have problems with a Prius being able to do 109 mph ( maybe the article meant to say 109 kph...) plus there isn't much damage to the front end.... my Mom's 20mph wreck in her Neon showed much much more damage...
I am not surprised the prius can do 109.. they are a VERY slippery shape and have more than enough power. Enough of them pass me on the highway doing 80+ mph
HaHA
http://jalopnik.com/5492199/exclusive-ex+business-partner-claims-runaway-prius-driver-a-scammer said: Since reporting the questionable past of runaway Toyota Prius driver James Sikes there's been a deluge of tips coming in about his character, including the following from a former business partner who alleges Sikes stole from their company. William Sweet says he went into business with Sikes, together opening up a paralegal services company called "AAA California Aid" in 1997. Sweet operated the main office and Sikes ran one in Los Banos, California. Sweet alleges numerous incidents of fraud and theft involving Sikes led him to dissolve their partnership, including an incident in which Sikes sent an employee to break into the main office to steal payment records. "I had him on video where he would have one of his employees from the Los Banos office go through our files and he would pull out cases that have balances on them and he would go collect the money," said Sweet, now sole owner of the company operating under a new name. "He would take the money over in Los Banos." Disagreement over the business finances wasn't the only issue Sweet had with Sikes as he echoed reports of mysterious thefts involving Sikes and claims his former partner stole office supplies. "We'd buy paper for the office ten reams at a time, and within two weeks he'd be totally out. According to the cameras he was hauling boxes out three-or-four at a time. He was feeding his other two offices." Jim Sikes apparently was displeased with Sweet over the installation of a security system and security cameras, but since Sweet ran the office there was nothing Sikes could do. Given his past with Sikes, Sweet was not surprised regarding the scrutiny over Sikes' background. He claims to have not had contact with his former partner since 1999 and was immediately skeptical when he saw Sikes on television. "As soon as i heard the words "Jim Sikes" I immediately woke up out of a dead sleep and thought "uh oh what the hell is this guy up to now?" He's trying to do a scam, and get in on that lawsuit for the Toyota thing, that's immediately what i thought." We sought comment from Sikes' representatives on his former relationship with Mr. Sweet but they have yet to return our calls amid growing scrutiny over the "technical details" of his claims.
All you dudes are on a witch hunt and this berkeleyer just took you all for a ride.. HA!!!!!!!!!!!!!
http://jalopnik.com/5492096/is-jim-sikes-the-new-balloon-boy
He owes $700k.
toyota witch hunters = tea baggers.
Dr. Hess wrote: That whole incident sounds like scam to me. Guy drives a Prius, stomps on the pedal, calls the po-po, whole thing is recorded, sues TMC and "wins the lottery."
John Brown wrote: I feel the same way.
First two posts of this thread
mad_machine wrote: I am not surprised the prius can do 109.. they are a VERY slippery shape and have more than enough power. Enough of them pass me on the highway doing 80+ mph
There's no possible way for that to occur in the DC metro area. There's always a Prius in the left lane doing 57 mph, or driving 1 car length behind and to the right, or left of any other car to prevent passing.
Even with all of Toyotas bad press I don't think anyone was buying prius guys story.
zomby woof wrote: After watching it, or laughing at it? You'll be happy to know that she's had a miraculous recovery.
That my chances with a cheerleader had improved
Ignorant,
You missed the later article about this Bob Costas being involved in some really wack olnine pron ring! 
His story is definitely bogus (Edmund's Inside Line posted a video yesterday of their Prius and how the brake over-rides the throttle).
P71 wrote: Ignorant, You missed the later article about this Bob Costas being involved in some really wack olnine pron ring!
yeah.. no there are so many stories with this guy it's unbelieveable... And now any incident that would have been classified as "operator error" is .. "zomg the prius made me do it"
ignorant wrote: yeah.. no there are so many stories with this guy it's unbelieveable... And now any incident that would have been classified as "operator error" is .. "zomg the prius made me do it"
It's not just Priuses (Prii?). I've seen a couple of stories in the local paper about accidents involving Toyota/Lexus vehicles, and they're all blaming the car/unintended acceleration.
ignorant wrote: HaHAhttp://jalopnik.com/5492199/exclusive-ex+business-partner-claims-runaway-prius-driver-a-scammer said: Since reporting the questionable past of runaway Toyota Prius driver James Sikes there's been a deluge of tips coming in about his character, including the following from a former business partner who alleges Sikes stole from their company. William Sweet says he went into business with Sikes, together opening up a paralegal services company called "AAA California Aid" in 1997. Sweet operated the main office and Sikes ran one in Los Banos, California. Sweet alleges numerous incidents of fraud and theft involving Sikes led him to dissolve their partnership, including an incident in which Sikes sent an employee to break into the main office to steal payment records. "I had him on video where he would have one of his employees from the Los Banos office go through our files and he would pull out cases that have balances on them and he would go collect the money," said Sweet, now sole owner of the company operating under a new name. "He would take the money over in Los Banos." Disagreement over the business finances wasn't the only issue Sweet had with Sikes as he echoed reports of mysterious thefts involving Sikes and claims his former partner stole office supplies. "We'd buy paper for the office ten reams at a time, and within two weeks he'd be totally out. According to the cameras he was hauling boxes out three-or-four at a time. He was feeding his other two offices." Jim Sikes apparently was displeased with Sweet over the installation of a security system and security cameras, but since Sweet ran the office there was nothing Sikes could do. Given his past with Sikes, Sweet was not surprised regarding the scrutiny over Sikes' background. He claims to have not had contact with his former partner since 1999 and was immediately skeptical when he saw Sikes on television. "As soon as i heard the words "Jim Sikes" I immediately woke up out of a dead sleep and thought "uh oh what the hell is this guy up to now?" He's trying to do a scam, and get in on that lawsuit for the Toyota thing, that's immediately what i thought." We sought comment from Sikes' representatives on his former relationship with Mr. Sweet but they have yet to return our calls amid growing scrutiny over the "technical details" of his claims.All you dudes are on a witch hunt and this berkeleyer just took you all for a ride.. HA!!!!!!!!!!!!! http://jalopnik.com/5492096/is-jim-sikes-the-new-balloon-boy He owes $700k. toyota witch hunters = tea baggers.
Dude, I agree with you on the Toyota thing, but bringing tea party into this without any cause at all, seemingly just to use the slanderous term seems pretty low, even for you.
tuna55 wrote: Dude, I agree with you on the Toyota thing, but bringing tea party into this without any cause at all, seemingly just to use the slanderous term seems pretty low, even for you.
sorry I hurt your feelings.. want a hug?
tuna55 wrote: Dude, I agree with you on the Toyota thing, but bringing tea party into this without any cause at all, seemingly just to use the slanderous term seems pretty low, even for you.
You do know the term tea bagger was around before the recent tea party movement, right?
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