By Robert Emslie
Some car washes offer brushless cleaning, others tout “hand wash” but if you really want your Mazda to be summer fresh, nothing beats a full immersion in the clorine-rich waters of an apartment house swimming pool.
That’s perhaps what the driver of this hatchback 3 thought as he knocked down the fence and bellyflopped into the unoccupied pool. The Cobblestone at Eagle Harbor apartments in Orange Park Florida had to find somewhere else to do their water aerobics as it took the wreckers 4 hours to pull the car out, and by then its tires were no doubt all pruny from all that time in the drink.
Long before the Mazda was ready to come out, the driver and his Golden Retriever escaped with the help of a neighbor.
So, if you’re in the market for a Florida sub-compact, and are leaning towards a Mazda 3, you might want to check under the hatch for floaties before buying.
Source: [news4jax.com]
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Kamil Kaluski
I hope the water was warm, otherwise the poor Mazda 3 might have had a bad case of shrinkage going on when it was pulled out to safety.
Haha! My first thoughts as well! Might end up looking like this.
<img src="http://image.automobilemag.com/f/6672229+w750+st0/0703_z+2008_mazda_2+rear_corner.jpg">
Maybe that's their secret manufacturing process!
So this is why Amber's car was in the shop!
Yeah, bleached the black right off of her too, dangit.
Somebody watches way too much Mythbusters.
http://dsc.discovery.com/videos/mythbusters-car-s…
Although, between Kari Byron and Jessi Combs, can you really blame them?
Kari is just YUM!
Behind evey shurbery fence lies a pool waiting to swallow a wayward minivan or Rolls. Is that a check box on the homeowners insurance form, In-ground Pool submerged Car deductable $500
Did someone say shrubbery?
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Yikes. Shrubbery. I blame Monday for my lack of spell check skills…
"Shurbery" sounds like a village in Massachusetts… or perhaps a delicious dessert.
Shurbery… don't they make clothing and purses and stuff? I think I might even have some of their cologne.
Well, someone may have drowned a Mazda3, but at least it died with a smile on its face.
+ [bajillion]
Glub Glub!
Jeremy Clarkson remains unimpressed.
<img src="http://www.tyresmoke.net/attachments/444997-RR.JPG">
Tow truck driver Mike Tewkesbury said on a scale of difficulty, "this was a 10, as far as having to use your brain a little bit more."
So, let's see, dropping the rollback to the ground, hooking up a winch, and dragging a disabled car up on the bed is easier than picking one up out of a swimming pool? You don't say!
Speaking of using one's brain, how in the hell does a person get his vehicle into a swimming pool to begin with? Unless your car is a Toyota with an ACS manufactured accelerator pedal, there's really no excuse. This guy should probably have been paying attention to driving and not to his iPhone or Golden Retriever.
Sham-wow. Problem solved.
I'm surprised nobody's said it yet: "Aww, ya flooded it."
Just needs a few modifications to make it accross the pool and up the stairs…
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At least they carpooled.
<img src:http://extras.mnginteractive.com/live/media/site5… /> Mazdas always dig a quick swim.
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