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MINI attacked by giant gorilla at Dusseldorf airport!!

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Old Oct 4, 2012 | 01:09 PM
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MINI attacked by giant gorilla at Dusseldorf airport!!

Flew through Dusseldorf last week on business, and happened to catch this MINI getting grabbed by a giant gorilla hand!



 
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Old Oct 4, 2012 | 01:36 PM
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The engineer who designed that must have been hitting the Hefeweizen a little hard that day.
 
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Old Oct 4, 2012 | 02:50 PM
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Reminds me of the bear at the Denver Convention Center

 
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Old Oct 4, 2012 | 07:15 PM
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Sixt being a German car rental company, I hope that means they rent MINIs. I'll have to remember that if I'm ever in Germany again.
 
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Old Oct 4, 2012 | 07:32 PM
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Awesome! My kids are gonna love that. The picture, of course. We ain't going to Germany any time soon.
 
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Old Oct 4, 2012 | 08:12 PM
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spiney, can I please grab those photos and post them on my Facebook page? People would get a kick out of that!
 
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Old Oct 5, 2012 | 12:55 AM
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Originally Posted by JoanieB
spiney, can I please grab those photos and post them on my Facebook page? People would get a kick out of that!
Please do! If you want the original that I cropped to get the second one let me know.
 
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Old Oct 5, 2012 | 06:33 AM
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Here's the original for the second one anyway:

 
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Old Oct 5, 2012 | 08:38 AM
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This coupe was waiting in the border control line at another airport last year:
 
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Old Oct 5, 2012 | 08:45 AM
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...and here's another Sixt "ad" from last year:
{Google Traslate from Dutch: When was the last time driving was so much fun? (The MINI now extra cheap on sixt.nl or directly to the hall on Schiphol Plaza)}
 
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