This week’s Big Waste Of Your Time comes to us from the other side of the planet. First Monte Carlo, then Japan…
Last year, a woman was texting and driving, when she crashed into a bunch of cars. Normally, this isn’t really a newsworthy event. My guess is this happens at a Starbucks every 11 or 12 seconds. But normally the accident scene doesn’t look like this:
Yeah, so the prices are in British Pounds, but you get the idea. The damage was well over $1,000,000, mainly because of ALL THE SUPER-EXPENSIVE CARS SHE JUST RUINED. The good news was that she had unlimited texting, so that part of the accident didn’t cost her anything.
So that took the title of World’s Most Expensive Car Wreck. At least until last weekend, when this happened on a highway in Japan.
You can’t tell from the picture, but from top to bottom, you’re looking at: a Ferrari, then a Ferrari, a Ferrari, a white Ferrari, yet another Ferrari, a Ferrari, a Toyota Prius, and, uh…oh yeah, a Ferrari. Just outside the picture were 3 more Mercedes Benz and Lamborghini Diablo. This crash makes what that texting lady did look like a fender-bender between my first car and my second car.
And how do you think that Prius owner feels? Like, “Man, I actually own a super-expensive car. You should have told me we were all gonna smash into each other…” It’s really hard to get 100 miles per gallon when your Prius is stuck under a billion dollars worth of exotic sports cars.
The newspaper noted, “This is why we don’t text and drive.” But seriously, this is why? Really? Because we’re afraid if we hit send, 19 luxury automobiles might spin recklessly out of control, ending in a burning pile of custom leather and hundred dollar bills? Seems irrational. I don’t text and drive because my phone won’t send texts while you’re playing Angry Birds.
Oh, the second crash cost $3.85 million, if you’re wondering. Or, $3.846 million if we take out the Prius.
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