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Satanic Renault Car Kidnaps Its Owner

  • 07-10-2004 1:54pm
    #1
    spongebob
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,143 ✭✭✭


    OK. The man was on a motorway in France when
    the car's automatic speed regulator stuck, AFP reports. Travelling at break-neck speeds and unable to stop the vehicle, Dequiedt alerted the authorities by phone. They quickly broadcast radio alerts and activated electronic warning signs. The police also raised the barriers at the Riom tollgate in anticipation of the satanic Vel Satis making a break for freedom.
    Lest you think that he might get compo for this ordeal you should remember that Renault is part of the Civil Service in France so guess what happened :)
    Renault officials immediately impounded the car and whisked it off to the company's technical centre near Paris.
    Where the driver will probably be blamed for hacking his own car while the company furtively patches the Vel Satis when it comes in for a service.

    The rest of the story here is on The Register ...of course. :)

    M


Comments

  • #2
    Nuttzz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,778 ✭✭✭Nuttzz


    not bad for a mobile couch all the same....

    There really is no substitute to Crtl Alt Del is there :)


  • #3
    Krusty_Clown
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,535 ✭✭✭✭Krusty_Clown


    Hi-tech toilet swallows woman.
    Cyberkiosk assaults Spanish teenager
    Fire-breathing buses threaten London
    Cyberappliances attack Italian village

    It's definitely SkyNet! We need to start building a new world underground..
    :eek:

    Run Away!


  • #4
    Ciaran500
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,225 ✭✭✭Ciaran500


    Surely he could of just pulled the handbrake?

    The laguna is a front wheel drive car and the hadbrake is controlled by cable, so the electronics couldn't of stopped him doing it.


  • #5
    passive
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,403 ✭✭✭passive


    Surely he could of just pulled the handbrake?

    Could have*
    and not to be too smart... but if it was that easy to stop he probably wouldn't have been stuck/called for help so presumably he couldn't have just pulled the handbrake :p


  • #6
    abgeurteilt
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15 ✭abgeurteilt


    passive wrote:
    Could have*
    and not to be too smart... but if it was that easy to stop he probably wouldn't have been stuck/called for help so presumably he couldn't have just pulled the handbrake :p

    Look guy's the you're all forgetting one major factor in the whole story, he was FRENCH !!!.

    Case closed. :cool:


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  • #7
    segadreamcast
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,872 ✭✭✭segadreamcast


    Well, I presume pulling the handbrake at 'breakneck speeds' would be somewhat dangerous in the first place, no?


  • #8
    FX Meister
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,217 ✭✭✭FX Meister


    This thread is a bit behind the times, in yesterdays paper it was reported that Renault are to sue the driver after it was found that the car had nothing wrong with it.


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