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Invulnerable BMW driver

2005 Reader Submission
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I'm not much of a writer so please feel free to edit/improve on what I write. News article url included. I have some photo's of the car afterwards in case you are interrested. Please email me if you are and I will forward them.

Story: One Saturday night in Johannesburg South Africa a river flooded over a Witkoppen raod. Barbara Ntshona, a BMX X3 4x4 driver arrived and despite warnings by police that the road was unusable decided that her BMW could make it, after all, it was a BMW. Her and her car where washed off the bridge and roled a few kilometers. She drowned and the car didn't do much better. Police had to cut the roof open to retrieve her body.

url: http://www.joburg.org.za/2005/jan/jan11_storm.stm

Submitted on 01/21/2005

Submitted by: Michael
Reference: www.Joburg.org.za 11 jan 05

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Jack said:
Neutral: Darwin Award
If she was driving a Beemer 4WD and thought that would allow her to make it through some serious flood waters, then that shows the sort of arrogant stupidity that we're looking for. And I used to do the same thing in my ol' '74 Blazer here in Texas...


Daniel said:
Definitely Toss: Repeat
A good story, we have it under consideration.


Charles said:
Neutral: Darwin Award
I'll side with Jack. This is the first time I've seen this one, so I don't know if we already have it...


Kelly said:
Neutral: Honorable Mention


Tracy said:
Definitely Keep: Darwin Award
Yep - needs re-writing to make it more humourous, but it has potential!!!


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