"Ryanator122" (hawkeye122)
09/13/2015 at 12:14 • Filed to: None
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"Ryanator122" (hawkeye122)
09/13/2015 at 12:14 • Filed to: None | 0
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The author effectively condones people keying expensive cars on the basis of inequality, and has now taken to Twitter to try and defend herself.
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‘’Swanky Cars a symbol of a screwed up world - key ‘em all
I READ about a man who was caught keying a swanky car. A proper full-on swanky car. An Aston Martin V8 Vanquish, if you please.
Do you know what an Aston Martin V8 Vanquish would set you back? Somewhere in the region of £90,000. Alex Salmond would have to write a fair few columns before he could afford one.
So the man, Gary Brissett, spotted this Aston Martin V8 Vanquish parked outside a supermarket and decided, for no discernible reason, to take his keys from his pocket and run them along the length of the vehicle’s bodywork.
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Mindless, pointless vandalism that caused £7,741 worth of damage.
Good for him.
I often feel like keying swanky cars. I particularly feel like keying Audis.
One day someone will buy an Audi and decide to be the one person to change the reputation of Audi drivers. They’ll drive their Audi and they’ll be a decent guy.
They’ll go at the speed limit, even when it’s 30mph. They’ll let other cars out in front of them when merging. They’ll obey the two second rule on the motorway.
They won’t race along suburban streets as though the devil’s at their tail. They won’t zoom about, rashly, as though overtaking this one car in front will give them the clear way they need to pelt to wherever they’re going. The wherever that is obviously far more important than anyone else’s destination. The rest of us are just pootling: the Audi driver, he’s got somewhere to be.
Mr Brissett, who is a single father, is now facing a possible prison sentence, which won’t be good for his child. He’s, I imagine, most likely kicking himself as he prepares for his sentencing date next week.
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I hate to generalise but allow me to generalise - I bet the driver of the Aston Martin V8 Vanquish is a bit of an awkward character. You can’t spend more than a house worth on a car and claim the moral high ground.
Why is it impressive or desirable to show off your wealth buying a car with a top speed of 201mph when you can’t take it more than 70mph?
Surely a chap confident in his man credentials would be happy in a Nissan Leaf, ostentatiously plugging it in to charge at a city centre rapid charging point, winking at the ladies going by as he shows how much he cares about the future of the planet.
The level of fancy of the car is in direct proportion to the level of morality of the driver. You don’t get boy racers in a Fiat 500.
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Ostentatious cars driven selfishly by the unthinking are a motorised symbol of all that’s wrong with this wealth divided world. And don’t get me started on 4x4s in the city.
Key ‘em all, I say. Mr Brissett deserves a medal, not a prison sentence.’’
The editor comes in and backs her up, on the grounds of “Free Speech”, and then the article suddenly has all of the comments deleted and locked. A bunch of us on the RLM site have already lambasted her on Twitter, but there’s always room for more I suppose.
pjhusa
> Ryanator122
09/13/2015 at 12:24 |
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This is utter bullcrap. You're sad because you don't drive an Audi? Work for it, and deal with it.
ly2v8-Brian
> Ryanator122
09/13/2015 at 12:27 |
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Just an example of how fucked up the world is.
AMGtech - now with more recalls!
> Ryanator122
09/13/2015 at 12:48 |
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Sounds like someone is jealous.
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Ryanator122
> AMGtech - now with more recalls!
09/13/2015 at 12:50 |
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Or someone is a privileged female in and industry where if she dies anything wrong she can accuse everyone of discrimination.
MLGCarGuy
> Ryanator122
09/13/2015 at 12:55 |
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Why is it impressive or desirable to show off your wealth buying a car with a top speed of 201mph when you can’t take it more than 70mph?
Because this is fun…? That’s why people work to buy these types of cars.
Also, WTF is a “V8 Vanquish?” It’s a Vantage, for crying out loud.
And I’m sure that even the author herself is going to go for a guy with a nice car. No one is attracted to a Nissan Leaf. Not even Greenpeace.
Klaus Schmoll
> Ryanator122
09/13/2015 at 13:45 |
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Besides all the bullcrap which I don’t consider worthy of a comment it just shows that Audi drivers are the new BMW drivers when it comes to displaying bad manners on the road.
smobgirl
> Ryanator122
09/13/2015 at 14:18 |
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The level of fancy of the car is in direct proportion to the level of morality of the driver.
She's obviously never visited many low-income areas.
ranwhenparked
> Ryanator122
09/13/2015 at 14:36 |
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This woman has to be absolutely insufferable in person. People like her are the reason society is going down the tubes.
TwinCharged - Is Now UK Opponaut
> Ryanator122
09/13/2015 at 14:46 |
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Luckily for her it’s 3AM here and I’m too tired to unleash the tornado of sass I have at her on Twitter. Someone remind me tomorrow morning.