Wadda ya gonna do when you're drunk with your friends and have no cows to tip? You go flipping Smart Cars of course! :crazyeyes:
Suspects Flip Over Smart Cars in San Francisco
Someone's been vandalizing compact "smart cars" in San Francisco, flipping the tiny vehicles on their heads and rear ends in the streets of San Francisco.
NBC Bay Area found three of the smart cars between Sunday night and Monday morning: One was found on Anderson Street, and two others were found a bit south on Sweeny Street. They were either sitting on their headlights, rear bumpers high in the air, or vice versa.
Witness Brandon Michael was out having a cigarette about 1 a.m. Monday when he spotted about six to eight suspects wearing hooded sweatshirts flip over the cars.
"They looked like they were up to no good," he said. "And sure enough, they huddled around it and lifted it up."
And the vandalized cars? Michael said they reminded him of little dogs: "They look like they are dachshunds sitting up on their hind legs."
San Francisco Police Officer Gordon Shyy said the suspects are still at large.
Smart Automobile is headquartered in Boblingen, Germany and has its primary assembly plant in Hambach, France. The nearly one-ton cars start at about $13,000 and the company brands its cars with a lower case "s."
Smart car flipping is not new, but the reasons for it are slightly unclear, other than the cars are smaller and lighter than most vehicles.
The VoiceofVancouver showed a video of people flipping over a smart car in 2011 during a citywide riot, as did another YouTube user who showed people smashing the high-tech mini-car.
In 2009, the Toronto Star wrote a piece, "Tipping smart cars the latest prank trend," comparing the act of tipping over the pint-size vehicles as the modern-day equivalent of tipping over cows.
The smart car website has a forum with frustrated car owners discussing the pricey prank. And a parody Facebook page was set up called "Smart Car Tipping" by a creator who does not "practice, promote or condone Smart Car Tipping."
http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/Suspects-Flip-Over-Smart-Cars-in-San-Francisco-254177981.html
