Smart Tipping?

[Immelmann]

Tip and run?

Posted by Sam Philipat 4:23 pm on Tuesday July 28, 2009

If you’re of a rural bent, you’ll have heard of cow-tipping – the sport where cruel country-dwellers tip a dozing bovine off its feet and into the grass for the simple reason that the lumbering beast finds it near-impossible to stand up again.

Well, exchange the world ‘cow’ for ‘ForTwo’, and the word ‘grass’ for ‘canal’ and you’ve hit upon the phenomenon of ‘Smart Smijten’, currently sweeping the Netherlands.

Yes, Amsterdam police have reported a worrying rise in the cases of Smart-tipping, as high-spirited Dutchmen tip ForTwos into local canals after a long night on the Oranjeboom.

Taking advantage of owners who park their ForTwos perpendicular to the water’s edgewater, the feckless Smijteners lift the front of the poor Smart and shove it backwards into the canal.

The police say they have known about this trend for a while, but have tried to keep quiet about it to prevent copycat crimes.

Which means, er, we shouldn’t have said anything.

Forget what you just read.

And don’t park your ForTwo next to water.

Read the full story in local Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf - if you can speak the language…

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Uhm, odd bit of news to start off the day... :p