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    Brit Fights The Power (With A Saw)

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    4 days ago in ASD Labs - 212.866.4402 · Authority: 9

    Parking a junk car on the side of the road in front of your house is a time honored grease monkey tradition. Ian Taylor was simply maintaining that tradition with his junk Ford Fiesta at his Tredworth, UK home when the Clampers tried to get one over on him. Though the Fiesta was parked only an inch on the pavement, a clamp was placed on the unlicensed car. Not one to let someone take advantage of him, Mr. Taylor took things into his own hands. After the clamping service refused to take the clamp off, and Ian refused to pay out of principle, the next step would be for the car to be seized for non-payment. Since it was about to be scrapped anyway, this was essentially an empty threat. So instead of letting them have a car they could sell, Ian did what any hard-headed guy would, chopped the car in half. Take that clampers. Congratulations Ian, you’re today’s real British hero. Via: [Jalopnik] & more at [BBC News]

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    Your tax dollars at work, border guards hold up traffic to check out Challenger

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    4 days ago in Barbara Woodhouse Car Blog · Authority: 1

    Your tax dollars at work, border guards hold up traffic to check out Challenger Filed under: Autoblog — Sam Abuelsamid @ 11:59 pm Filed under: Coupes, Etc., Government/Legal, Chrysler, Dodge If any of you were stuck in traffic trying to get through the Detroit Windsor tunnel late last week, we may now know why. There was no major international incident or terrorist crackdown happening. Apparently, Chrysler Canada CEO Reid Bigland grabbed a fresh-off-the-line Dodge Challenger SRT8 and headed over to Detroit from his office in Windsor, Ontario. Agents of the Customs and Border Protection Service decided they wanted to check out Chrysler's new muscle car. Several agents spent time going over the new Challenger and asking questions about it rather than processing travelers through the downtown Detroit border crossing point. Traffic quickly got backed up and according to Bigland there was about an hour delay by the time the agents let him proceed. Oh, and they never even asked for Bigland's ID. [Source: Detroit News] Read | Permalink | Email this

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