Fail Pic.

[bobswire]

Took this pic on my ride today, was heading to Fort Mason near the Marina Green and saw this poor guy on Marina Blvd.
He tried to cut around stalled traffic and didn't realize it was freshly poured concrete.
http://i43.tinypic.com/im04lg.jpg

http://i44.tinypic.com/jr88x0.jpg

[gdw]

Classic, thanks.

[MattTuck]

Can the city bill him for the extra labor and materials to fix that stretch of concrete?

I feel for his car, but they typically don't just have wet concrete with out warning and some cones, etc.

[EDS]

For sure was not distracted by cellphone . . .

[pavel]

let see:

Marina;
porsche;
driving like an a-hole...

Not somebody I would have bothered to empathize with by calling him "poor guy!" In fact, I cant think of a more appropriate person/demographic to whom I would want to allocate this great doling out of justice.

[William]

let see:

Marina;
porsche;
driving like an a-hole...

Not somebody I would have bothered to empathize with by calling him "poor guy!"


Screw the guy, poor Porsche!! :crap:




William

[Steve in SLO]

Dam lil' Porsha!
Shoulda bot 'merican!. Iffn he had a lifted truk like mine, heda' drived right thru that-there mud!

[Louis]

Perfect!

There was a story on NPR the other day about product placement. They mentioned how it's done for a variety of purposes, including sending specific messages to the audience. The guy being interviewed said something like: "Take cars, for instance, any time you want to emphasize to the audience that a particular guy is an @sshole you just have him drive a Porsche."

I think this confirms that insight...

[bobswire]

It was coned off he was just trying to sneak in from a side street. Concrete "looked" solid.
I should have took a pic of all the folks gathered around taking pics, guy was stuck in car. He didn't want to open door and have concrete get in, the whole undercarriage and brakes will need to cleaned or replaced.

[tuxbailey]

Can I borrow this pic and propagate it through the interweb?

This is just too good to not to share.


Edit: I hope the driver had the good sense to buy a round for the guys who got him out. Where was roadside assistance?

[bobswire]

Can I borrow this pic and propagate it through the interweb.

This is just too good to not to share.
Be my guess care of Bobswire@ :beer:

[Louis]

They should have just used one of these:

http://www.progressindustries.com/products/logcrapx.jpg

[fourflys]

Perfect!

There was a story on NPR the other day about product placement. They mentioned how it's done for a variety of purposes, including sending specific messages to the audience. The guy being interviewed said something like: "Take cars, for instance, any time you want to emphasize to the audience that a particular guy is an @sshole you just have him drive a Porsche."

I think this confirms that insight...


except for Steve in SLO... he's one of the good guys that drives a 911 (my dream car BTW)...

[Louis]

except for Steve in SLO...

Correct. Or anyone else on the forum who drives one.

[54ny77]

That. Is. Awesome!

[Steve in SLO]

except for Steve in SLO... he's one of the good guys that drives a 911 (my dream car BTW)...

SHHHHH! I'm having fun making fun of Porsche drivers.

[old_fat_and_slow]

Seeing some D-bag ruining his new Porsche ..................... (priceless ! ! ! )

[majorpat]

Occasionally, things like this go down in order to balance the world out.

Smooth move, hardcharger!

[bobswire]

Better detail (it this distorts the page too much I can delete and provide a link>
http://oi43.tinypic.com/25gqyl5.jpg

[Louis]

Tomorrow he'll just use the red Beemer. ;)

[54ny77]

this is making the rounds. a pal just posted it on rennlist.

:D

[tiretrax]

too bad his license plate wasn't visible.

[tuxbailey]

The cement won't do any favors to the Brembo brakes :)

[Louis]

Why do I get the feeling that you will never, ever, see a Honda Fit in that situation?

[indyrider]

Semi warm afternoon, that concrete will set in less than 45 minutes...What an idiot :beer: Feel for the Porsche though :crap:

[Louis]

too bad his license plate wasn't visible.

He's famous!!!

http://sfist.com/attachments/SFist_AndrewD/meanwhile_porsche.jpg

[rwsaunders]

He should have purchased the all wheel drive version....

[rugbysecondrow]

So, how did they get him out?

[Louis]

So, how did they get him out?


Local info here (http://sfist.com/2012/02/16/meanwhile_in_the_marina_porsche_dri.php)

[Liv2RideHard]

That is...my dream car...stuck in concrete. Unfreakinbelievable!!!

[buldogge]

What's his red motorcycle have to do with anything? ;)

(Bimmer)

Tomorrow he'll just use the red Beemer. ;)

[Louis]

(Bimmer)

Shows you how much I know about them. ;)

[Elefantino]

too bad his license plate wasn't visible.
http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l84/gmmtwo/license_20120216192315_84813.jpg

[tribuddha]

yup on brannan at third in SF he though he could go around the cones and get in the driveway....nope into the mud.. tried to blame us..hilarious...scary to think these chuckle heads are driving cars where we ride.. be careful out there

[tuxbailey]

This is front page news now.

In Jalopnik: http://jalopnik.com/5886160/this-is-why-you-dont-drive-your-porsche-into-wet-cement

And I think one of the pictures used in Yahoo is yours:

http://autos.yahoo.com/blogs/motoramic/porsche-stuck-wet-cement-proves-karma-exists-210302568.html

And the paceline forum got a nice boost from the article :)

[bobswire]

I made the Sun > :hello: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/4142047/Porsche-911-daft-driver-He-is-stuck-in-cement-trying-to-beat-traffic.html

[vqdriver]

hehe. your pic was on the msn front page for a while as well.

[BumbleBeeDave]

http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l84/gmmtwo/license_20120216192315_84813.jpg

. . . about a whole office full of people in the CA DMV that does nothing but review the vanity plate applications to make sure nobody slips a fast one past them. They also had a two page spread of pics of some hilarious examples of people who had succeeded.

BBD

[steampunk]

i bet it ends up on Top Gear's facebook sooner or later.

[Louis]

. . . about a whole office full of people in the CA DMV that does nothing but review the vanity plate applications to make sure nobody slips a fast one past them. They also had a two page spread of pics of some hilarious examples of people who had succeeded.

BBD

What's wrong with "I am a duck" ?

[54ny77]

youtube video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DqTxfYPlgg&feature=player_embedded

too bad the crew didn't just let him sit there and get really, really stuck. :banana:

[tuxbailey]

youtube video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DqTxfYPlgg&feature=player_embedded

too bad the crew didn't just let him sit there and get really, really stuck. :banana:

So... he didn't at least buy the crew lunch?

[BumbleBeeDave]

. . . I was expecting him to just gun it and drive away.

I would be very curious as to the ultimate outcome of this and whether the guy IS charged the freight on re-doing the concrete.

Anybody know if there was anything in the SF papers about this or the results?

BBD

[nm87710]

Congrats

[bobswire]

. . . I was expecting him to just gun it and drive away.

I would be very curious as to the ultimate outcome of this and whether the guy IS charged the freight on re-doing the concrete.

Anybody know if there was anything in the SF papers about this or the results?

BBD


That would be interesting to know. The workers had to stop their jobs to help and free his car up. I would guess an hours work. I arrived within 5 minutes of him getting stuck, I took a couple of pics then left to visit a friend working at Fort Mason I returned 45 minutes later and the car was gone and the street re paved.

[charliedid]

I need a pic of the driver otherwise I am convinced it was Bobswire

[jimsantos]

Saw this on SFFixed and posted it on my Facebook before I had traced it back here (credited Bobswire @ Paceline when I found out)

I believe I was the first to post it on FB? It went totally viral (relatively) and now has almost 3400 shares!

The idea really seems to resonate with people, especially in these tumultuous economic times. Never thought it would blow up that big, but glad to be a part of the chain!

[benitosan1972]

I need a pic of the driver otherwise I am convinced it was Bobswire

PICS of the driver or GTFO! :banana:

[jet sanchez]

Did you receive compensation for these photos? I have seen your photos all over the place now...

[Louis]

Did you receive compensation for these photos? I have seen your photos all over the place now...

Have your people call Bob's people.

(Bob's now a big-time photographer and too busy hanging out with models to respond to the likes of us.) ;)

[redir]

There is something so delightful about Schadenfreude especially when doled out to the 1%.

But really, I would have thought that car would be able to drive out of that.

[bobswire]

There is something so delightful about Schadenfreude especially when doled out to the 1%.

But really, I would have thought that car would be able to drive out of that.

Look again. It was sitting on it's undercarriage, eventually they dug it out.

http://i43.tinypic.com/25gqyl5.jpg

[PanTerra]

The Yahoo news story just got posted on my Facebook news feed by Click & Clack's Car Talk.

[Joel]

Was on the London based "Daily Mail" yesterday (which makes TMZ look like the Harvard Business Review) :D