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tvengineer · 08-02-2009, 02:59 PM

Agreed.....
but if we could at least locate the date the picture was taken... maybe I could find the news article on the original accident and have ammunition to fire back when someone claims that this is a Smart.

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Originally Posted by smart fortimo

That picture showed up in my twitter tracker on July 30-- hard to say when it started the rounds without wasting a bunch of time on a picture I considered suspect. I say suspect because of the non-smart wheels and the apparent crumpled look of metal not plastic.

tvengineer · 08-02-2009, 03:01 PM

Sorry... and I meant to say that I did NOT take offense at your comment. .I understood...

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Originally Posted by Bum-bling-B

pssst. calm down....count to three.....let me explain further. When I said "see, I made one of those dumb generalizations too" I was getting at how you wouldn't believe all of the people that don't live in the south who think ALL of New Orleans is below sea level. Pretty much trying to get at the same thing as those uninformed New Orleans people that posted in the comment section of that article who think Smarts are unsafe because of their size. They didn't check the facts, just like not all of New Orleans isn't below sea level. I hope you understand that now. Did I explain it clearer?

Not a jab at you, but I did single out New Orleans since the article was from there.

John_H · 08-02-2009, 05:03 PM

The earliest I can find is here (July 24) and there are 2 comments (condensed): "It's not a Smart" "I stand corrected, thanks"

forestacademy · 08-02-2009, 06:57 PM

To bad those commnets were hidden and he didn't correct the original blog.

The Myth will continue

John_H · 08-02-2009, 07:07 PM

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Originally Posted by forestacademy

The Myth will continue

The joy of the internet.

HGB · 08-02-2009, 08:33 PM

Sure the myth continues...in our local paper a large SUV was deemed a smart which was crushed between two vehicles. The SUV which looked like a Mitsubishi may have looked like a smart, yet the tailights were very much different. Yet the baloney about the dangerous smart began immediately and well before I saw the photo and then the story disappeared before I could contradict that.

Neonspinnazz · 08-02-2009, 08:43 PM

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Originally Posted by John_H

The earliest I can find is here (July 24) and there are 2 comments (condensed): "It's not a Smart" "I stand corrected, thanks"

Some humor from the same page

http://pard1959.blogspot.com/2009/07...boy-again.html

Yeah I agree that KC is a bit far but it would make for a fun journey and 1st real road trip...

We can't change them all, but we can prove them wrong and humiliate them!

Kermit · 08-02-2009, 09:07 PM

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Originally Posted by tvengineer

Sorry... and I meant to say that I did NOT take offense at your comment. .I understood...

Copy that.

John_H · 08-02-2009, 09:15 PM

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Originally Posted by Neonspinnazz

Yeah I agree that KC is a bit far but it would make for a fun journey and 1st real road trip...

It's not that KC is far for a multi-day national get together. Personally, I don't know where I'll be living or working, whether I'll have a relationship, whatever. Life happens when you're not looking.

Neonspinnazz · 08-02-2009, 10:19 PM

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Originally Posted by John_H

It's not that KC is far for a multi-day national get together. Personally, I don't know where I'll be living or working, whether I'll have a relationship, whatever. Life happens when you're not looking.

True, I'm thinking 10 months ahead of time. The whole world can change in such short time...