Car in pool
March 12, 2007 10:37 PM Subscribe
A woman escaped injury when her car crashed through a fence and into a swimming pool on February 24, 2007 in Woodland Hills. (flickr. Via). Not the first time it happened either
This probably won't last long, but anyway...
When I was younger, I remember one day waking up to find that a horse from a nearby farm had escaped and had got itself stuck in our pool. It could stand comfortably out of the water and it wasn't freaking out, just kinda standing there, hanging out at the pool. It was a bizarre sight. Also, the best day off school ever!
posted by teem at 10:48 PM on March 12, 2007
When I was younger, I remember one day waking up to find that a horse from a nearby farm had escaped and had got itself stuck in our pool. It could stand comfortably out of the water and it wasn't freaking out, just kinda standing there, hanging out at the pool. It was a bizarre sight. Also, the best day off school ever!
posted by teem at 10:48 PM on March 12, 2007
Women who drive into pools are funny! LOL!
posted by miss lynnster at 10:52 PM on March 12, 2007
posted by miss lynnster at 10:52 PM on March 12, 2007
Is this something you have to live in the Valley to care about?
posted by eyeballkid at 10:54 PM on March 12, 2007 [1 favorite]
posted by eyeballkid at 10:54 PM on March 12, 2007 [1 favorite]
I'm not following you on the second link. Am I to believe that this particular woman drove cars into all of those pools?
posted by KevinSkomsvold at 11:15 PM on March 12, 2007
posted by KevinSkomsvold at 11:15 PM on March 12, 2007
Hey, growabrain: Grow a brain, mmmkay? Like, Where is "Woodland Hills"? On the moon? Madagascar? Virginia? Suburban Detroit? Or is it a cemetary, in Portland, Maine?
Or perhaps you think the junction of car and pool makes it clear it must be California. You should get out more. We have cars and pools even in South Africa.
posted by Goofyy at 11:17 PM on March 12, 2007
Or perhaps you think the junction of car and pool makes it clear it must be California. You should get out more. We have cars and pools even in South Africa.
posted by Goofyy at 11:17 PM on March 12, 2007
The Los Angeles Fire Department is on Flickr? That—and that alone—makes this post A++++ WILL CLICK AGAIN.
Knowledge is Power: We Share It!
posted by wemayfreeze at 11:27 PM on March 12, 2007
Knowledge is Power: We Share It!
posted by wemayfreeze at 11:27 PM on March 12, 2007
I love how Metafilter has devolved into this self-assured, hypercritical cesspool. Get a fucking grip, Goofyy.
posted by phaedon at 11:27 PM on March 12, 2007
posted by phaedon at 11:27 PM on March 12, 2007
Not only is the LAFD on flickr, but it's got a very hep and responsive blogging fireman in Brian Humphry, who posted that story and who keeps the citzenry clued in on matters Fire Departmental.
posted by Scram at 11:47 PM on March 12, 2007
posted by Scram at 11:47 PM on March 12, 2007
Nothing personal, Burhanistan. I just think this post could use some slack.
posted by phaedon at 11:56 PM on March 12, 2007
posted by phaedon at 11:56 PM on March 12, 2007
Hungarian woman driving into a sinkhole.
(No offence, Goofyy - I noted it in the tag)
posted by growabrain at 12:07 AM on March 13, 2007
(No offence, Goofyy - I noted it in the tag)
posted by growabrain at 12:07 AM on March 13, 2007
Woodland Hills! My hometown! I'm glowing, just glowing with pride. Our elderly women can lick your elderly women any day of the week. None of that "Ooo, I can't get the car wet, someone buy me multiple Lifehammers, I don't float" nonsense. Our seniors will remorselessly dunk your surly teens in the brine like revivalist robots from the future, and then swagger off to The Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf for scones and Extreme Pinochle. Woooodland Hiiiiills!!! Yeah!
uh, this is going to get deleted, right?
posted by maryh at 12:17 AM on March 13, 2007 [1 favorite]
uh, this is going to get deleted, right?
posted by maryh at 12:17 AM on March 13, 2007 [1 favorite]
I see your underwater car in Woodland Hills and raise you a formula one racer in a bubble villa on the French Riviera.
posted by muckster at 12:23 AM on March 13, 2007
posted by muckster at 12:23 AM on March 13, 2007
Is there a cars in pools pool on Flickr? Is that what this is about? Because I know you folks love your Flickr-brand Yahoo! Product, almost as much as you love your Apple-brand Generic Product of the Week.
Also, I love how the car did the crashing. Not she crashed her car. Her car crashed.
Bad car. You sit there at the bottom of that pool, and you think about what you've done.
posted by Eideteker at 4:06 AM on March 13, 2007
Also, I love how the car did the crashing. Not she crashed her car. Her car crashed.
Bad car. You sit there at the bottom of that pool, and you think about what you've done.
posted by Eideteker at 4:06 AM on March 13, 2007
Wow...life imitates Snow Crash.
Questions:
Is that woman with the white hair the driver or a witness? She doesn't look all that wet.
How do they get the car out...bring in a large cherry-picker crane and set it up alongside the fence?
I assume the car wasn't all that badly damaged...how do they dry it out completely to make it drivable again? Can they do something to retard mold formation in the air-conditioning system and upholstery?
On a whim, I bought one of those self-rescue gadgets that can slice a seatbelt strap and crack a car window -- it's attached to the upper part of the seatbelt where I can get to it one-handed if need be. I'm fairly sure of my driving, but you never know when an out-of-control eighteen-wheeler is going to hit you broadside and dropkick you across three lanes of traffic and into the reservoir.
posted by pax digita at 4:33 AM on March 13, 2007
Questions:
Is that woman with the white hair the driver or a witness? She doesn't look all that wet.
How do they get the car out...bring in a large cherry-picker crane and set it up alongside the fence?
I assume the car wasn't all that badly damaged...how do they dry it out completely to make it drivable again? Can they do something to retard mold formation in the air-conditioning system and upholstery?
On a whim, I bought one of those self-rescue gadgets that can slice a seatbelt strap and crack a car window -- it's attached to the upper part of the seatbelt where I can get to it one-handed if need be. I'm fairly sure of my driving, but you never know when an out-of-control eighteen-wheeler is going to hit you broadside and dropkick you across three lanes of traffic and into the reservoir.
posted by pax digita at 4:33 AM on March 13, 2007
Goofyy: "Hey, growabrain: Grow a brain, mmmkay? Like, Where is "Woodland Hills"?"
Does it matter?
(Christ, what an asshole.)
posted by Plutor at 4:54 AM on March 13, 2007
Does it matter?
(Christ, what an asshole.)
posted by Plutor at 4:54 AM on March 13, 2007
Be nice people. Traffic in LA is really bad, particularly in the San Fernando Valley. Can you blame her for trying to carpool?
posted by redteam at 5:10 AM on March 13, 2007 [1 favorite]
posted by redteam at 5:10 AM on March 13, 2007 [1 favorite]
"Be nice people. Traffic in LA is really bad, particularly in the San Fernando Valley. Can you blame her for trying to carpool?"
Finally, something witty! Bravo redteam, you get my vote!
posted by newfers at 5:48 AM on March 13, 2007
Finally, something witty! Bravo redteam, you get my vote!
posted by newfers at 5:48 AM on March 13, 2007
Am I to believe that this particular woman drove cars into all of those pools
I like to take it one step further and imagine it's the same woman and the same pool every time.
She just can't get that clean blue water out of her mind. The sweeping kidney curves of the tiled edge. The gentle gurgling as her wheels slowly drift to the smooth bottom, no longer to grip the scarred highway in a fantastic hell-race of fear.
Sweet, blissful sleep.
posted by CynicalKnight at 7:53 AM on March 13, 2007 [1 favorite]
I like to take it one step further and imagine it's the same woman and the same pool every time.
She just can't get that clean blue water out of her mind. The sweeping kidney curves of the tiled edge. The gentle gurgling as her wheels slowly drift to the smooth bottom, no longer to grip the scarred highway in a fantastic hell-race of fear.
Sweet, blissful sleep.
posted by CynicalKnight at 7:53 AM on March 13, 2007 [1 favorite]
Oddly enough, the Google Image Search link took me back to a post titled car in pool from July 2004 on growabrain's blog.
posted by knave at 10:26 AM on March 13, 2007
posted by knave at 10:26 AM on March 13, 2007
knave writes "Oddly enough, the Google Image Search link took me back to a post titled car in pool from July 2004 on growabrain's blog."
Yeah! I saw that too. It was a weird little aside. OMGSELFLINKBAN!1!!!
posted by KevinSkomsvold at 11:22 AM on March 13, 2007
Yeah! I saw that too. It was a weird little aside. OMGSELFLINKBAN!1!!!
posted by KevinSkomsvold at 11:22 AM on March 13, 2007
Elderly women licking elderly women.
posted by Foam Pants at 11:23 AM on March 13, 2007
posted by Foam Pants at 11:23 AM on March 13, 2007
Plutor: Yes, it matters. If the place wasn't mentioned, it wouldn't. But don't name obscure towns without a state or country.
growabrain: good point on the tags, but if you put it in a tag, why couldn't you put it in the actual text? I seldom look at tags myself.
posted by Goofyy at 11:29 PM on March 13, 2007
growabrain: good point on the tags, but if you put it in a tag, why couldn't you put it in the actual text? I seldom look at tags myself.
posted by Goofyy at 11:29 PM on March 13, 2007
"She just can't get that clean blue water out of her mind. The sweeping kidney curves of the tiled edge. The gentle gurgling as her wheels slowly drift to the smooth bottom, no longer to grip the scarred highway in a fantastic hell-race of fear."
Cerulean blue is like a cooool breeze...
posted by Eideteker at 4:08 AM on March 14, 2007
Cerulean blue is like a cooool breeze...
posted by Eideteker at 4:08 AM on March 14, 2007
My favorite part is that the car matches the color of the pool so well. They were meant to be together.
posted by whatnotever at 9:31 AM on March 14, 2007
posted by whatnotever at 9:31 AM on March 14, 2007
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