By Robert Emslie
This was the scene yesterday when a pair of hoons decided to take a shortcut down a frozen-over canal near Winchburgh, West Lothian in Scotland, only to find that they literally were on thin ice. The 22 and 25-year old occupants managed to escape the Peugeot 407 before the captain signaled the order to rig for silent running.
When police arrived they discovered the hoons shivering canal-side, and the car in the soup. A police spokesman called the canal run an act of stupidity, and further stated: There is no doubt that these two individuals had a lucky escape, and had the canal been deeper, there could very well have been a different outcome.
While not condoning such acts, the thought of blasting down a frozen canal does have its appeal. And remember everybody – If it’s not Scottish, it’s crrrrrap!
Source:[News.Scotsman.com]
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The Rideau Canal in Ottawa is a good one too, and if you can get people off the World's Longest Skating Rink — I think you'd have about 18km of awesome hoonage.
About 2AM should work. Check the heavy equipment ramp at Dow's Lake, you can get on there ; ) Seriously though, the maintenance folks usually put at least one truck through the ice every year. But you do have me thinking about the Hoonage potential of the venue. An 18km LeMons ice race, no studs allowed, would be an absolute hoot. You could bank off the Canal walls in the corners. Unfortunately the city fathers might be upset with the resulting scars and destroyed beaver tail shacks.
It'd be sort of like a fan-boat tour, without all those pesky gators.
Sounds like fun.
You ever take a fan boat tour? Those things are a blast! Fun to drive, too!
Been on two.
In both cases, the guides and staff were as entertaining as the ride itself.
They are. Scared the crap out of my wife and sister in law. I was laughing my ass off the whole time. If I ever move to Florida, I'm buying/building one.
And this is why Europeans shouldn't be allowed to have winter.
Canada knows that you need 25 cm before putting a car on ice, 30 cm for trucks and I see what looks like open water…..
You'd think we know that, but Lake Simcoe is littered with the remains of snowmobiles, cars, and trucks.
To wit, I saw this Ram being towed out, about six months after it went in.
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Around here, we're finally getting around to thinking of charging people to have their trucks (for it's nearly always trucks) and snowmobiles hauled out of the lakes. About time, I say.
Around here, we're finally getting around to thinking of charging people to have their trucks (for it's nearly always trucks) and snowmobiles hauled out of the lakes. About time, I say.
Huh – my partner lives only a few miles from there. I'll ask him tomorrow if he's heard anything.
Also, neds are stupid, and it comes as no surprise that the region is enjoying its first real winter in years.
Nothing freezes over here in the winter. No water to freeze. You just drive into the wash and hoon around in the sand. You might wreck, but you're damn sure not going to drown.
I love that the local constabulary has to put up a sign reading "POLICE — ACCIDENT", just in case someone else might be driving by. Thanks for the warning.
Probably would have been fine if the car had a snorkle.
Or if their ride of choice had been a Jeep rather than a Peugeot.
I think my Jeep would take issue with that there hole…
Aww, c'mon, your Jeep can handle that! I've seen ruts caused by 18 wheelers that were deeper!
Maybe we can borrow Mad_Science's…
Wow, these guys really screwed up. The car was a Lotus Esprit S1, not a Pug 407. Roger Moore — of London — was in The Spy Who Loved me, not the Scottish actor who had previously portrayed the hero. Finally, the trunk being open like that probably created enough wind resistance that the car couldn't maintain proper skipping speed, while also letting water in.
I'm still impressed they made it that far….
I had no idea Peugeot was making submarines now. I guess those dude didn't know how to surface properly.