There's an article now, with a link to the video.

http://cbsnewyork.com/topstories/top...046113452.html

 

This vid link still doesn't work for me. Just brings up the video viewer page and says "Loading video". Never loads up. Can someone download and host it someplace or email it to me please? Thanx.
Cheers,

 

Wow, had to fire up IE to see it but it was an object lesson worth watching. Goes to show that no matter how small something looks, a ton and a quarter beats 200 pounds every time!

 

Hey the guy in the MINI is a putz. Anyone stupid enough to get out of his/her car and kick someone elses car needs help. Serious problems going on in his head. The video was amazing. Goes to show, you can't do anything in public without someone lurking around with a video camera.

 

This is just the kind of bad judgment and illegal behavior that could give the MINI community a bad name!

What an idiot that MINI driver was. I hope they throw the book at him!


Clover

 

19% would change the whole situation!

He should be able to take off and gone...long before they turned the camera on.

 

His MINI looked good though.... Was it lowered or was the guy that was hanging on really fat??

 

This is my take on this whole situation.

Having the guy hanging on to the car like that upsets the handling characterstics of the car. Too much camber change from side to side.

Hand in the intercooler scoop reduces the efficiency of the intercooler, resulting in a high IAT and too-rich operation = reduced HP. Front mount intercooler whould help alleviate this.

Having a yo-yo stumbling around holding onto the car only adds to the probably yo-yo/stumble the car may already have. Two wrongs dont make a right.

Aftermarket brake pads would make those S-Lites look better longer.

Brake light mod? Hello?!?

 

 

His MINI had the Oriacari body kit.

 

I have not seen the video,takes to long to download on dial-up
But sounds to me like a stunt,why did buddy happen to have a vid. cam. there. And if not a stunt,then just 2 idiots going at it.With the benifit of a cam. shot that somehow turns this stupid act into "news"

 

Alright, now the vid came through. Not exactly the best quality. Crazy times on the streets. So this could be a NAM member and we may never know.
Cheerio,

 

Well....I sure hope he's not a NAM member. For shame, to drive that way, endangering someone's life! He doesn't deserve the privilege of driving a MINI or any other car!


Clover

 

I got dibs on the MINI if anyone takes it away from him.

 

I think this is just a hoax! Totally made up NEWS from MINI competitors!

I can see VW, Honda, Acura and Ford are the strings behind this NEWS.

 

I still have not seen the video,but if this luggan is a member,I for one say toss him
I like to motor in my MINI,it out does most on the road in these parts,big lumbering 4x4's and mini vans are easy to to get away from.but being MEAN
is not part of it
Come on,motor happy,be proud of what your in control of

 

Thanks for the write-up. I have a Mac and can't run the vid.

Cheers,

Tony

 

The look on that newswoman's face after she says "quickly turned dangerous" cracks me up every time. She looks like she'd like to disembowel old Salvadore herself!

 

Try Internet Explorer - I couldn't get Safari or Firefox or Netscape to play it, but it finally worked with IE.

 

The guy that hung on to the car is a idiot too!!!
Was he realy thinking that he was going to be able to keep the MINI from going anywhere???
He put his own life in danger.

 

I have an iMac as well. I think it runs under a Windows Media Player program that you can download off the net for Macs
Cheers,

 

If you are on Mac it won't run in Safari. You have to browse the sight with IE and you have to have Windows Media Player for Mac installed.

Sean

 

Simple fact is as stated the guy put his own life in danger. He the same idiot that would get shot for 50.00 hold up. And the media sensationalizes stupidity and makes it look like heroism. Stupid is as Stupid does.

 

A few weeks ago I was going out to eat with the wife when I casually
stopped at a red light. Suddenly, this guy was at my window screaming about
something so I put my window down about 1/2 way to hear what he was saying. He started yelling at me that I should'nt have stopped at the red light because he was in a big hurry (I then put 2 and 2 together and realized he came from the car behind me) Just then he suckerpunched me in the head.
I leaped from my car and beat this idiot severly landing hundreds of lefts and rights to his head until he crumpled like a rag doll.
Suddenly, I was surrounded by multiple cops all with guns drawn at me. Luckily, many witnesses came forward saying all I did was protect
myself from this idiot who started the whole mess by punching me while I sat in the car with my wife for no apparent reason. I was cleared of any wrong doing, the cops apoligized for drawing the guns, and the guy beat to a pulp was arrested for assault. All in a day's work

 

Luckily you had witneses. As you found out the one that wins is the one they point the gun at.Glad it worked out. It doesn't always.