Dammit! I hate it when that happens.

[BoomerD]

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sidesho...ly-swimming-pool-drunk-driving-154737300.html

Lexus found submerged in family’s swimming pool; drunk-driving suspected

A 40-year-old California man is accused of driving his Lexus through a cinder block wall and into a family's backyard swimming pool. The man, Modesto Cabral, was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence on Sunday after the 5:25 a.m. one-vehicle crash.

Pieces of the wall were seen stuck in the car's windshield. An orange swimming noodle was floating near the driver's side door.

The La Puente, Calif., family described the bizarre scene to reporters. "We woke up to an awful noise and looked outside, and a car was in the pool," Janelle Diaz, the family's 16-year-old daughter, told the San Gabriel Valley Tribune. "We had always joked around about it—that someone was going to end up in the pool—because they've hit our wall before."

The driver apparently drove his silver 2006 Lexus GS430 straight through a "T" intersection—and through the concrete wall. He climbed out of the car through the right front window after the car became submerged.

Authorities used a crane to lift the Lexus out of the pool, according to KABC-TV.

 

[highland145]

P.O.S. made in China diving boards. Can't handle the fatties.

 

[BillGates]

Obviously this is an inaccurate story since it says a man was driving.

 

[waggy]

For Sale. 1 slightly used Lexus. slight water damage. CHEAP!

 

[highland145]

Obviously this is an inaccurate story since it says a man was driving.

He was Asian, if that helps.

 

[xBiffx]

You did the ninja thread move on me but I found you. :ninja:
What I posted before the move:

The driver's doctor said he should get out and exercise more
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so he decided to hit the pool.

I get the sinking suspicion that
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the loan for this car is underwater.

 

[waggy]

boooo!

 

[BoomerD]

You did the ninja thread move on me but I found you. :ninja:
What I posted before the move:

The driver's doctor said he should get out and exercise more
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so he decided to hit the pool.

I get the sinking suspicion that
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the loan for this car is underwater.

Yeah, I meant to post this in OT, not in P&N...I moved it pretty quickly, but apparently, not fast enough.

 

[jagec]

You kill it, you keep it, right?

 

[BoomerD]

You kill it, you keep it, right?

:biggrin:

It's in MY fucking pool...it's MINE!

 

[Krazy4Real]

LOL!

 

[EagleKeeper]

Pump out the pool and check for cracks;

Looks like a new pool is coming.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Throw a couple shamwow in that pool and that car should come out completely dry and ready to go. May need to replace headlight cover and top up the head light fluid and it should be good to go.

 

[Rubycon]

Instead of building a stronger wall just install a few of these and raise them whenever there's a threat...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZZayp59WRk

 

[destrekor]

Instead of building a stronger wall just install a few of these and raise them whenever there's a threat...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZZayp59WRk

Yeah if my property had already been hit, I think I'd just go with a wooden privacy fence instead of a block wall, and then add yellow/orange barrier poles on the other side.
Actually, I'd demand the city do the latter part. Especially now that the wall was not only hit before, but this time hit and driven through.

As the property owners, they've done their part imho. It's up to the city to protect the property owners from traffic in a possibly bad spot.

 

[Rubycon]

I guess it boils down to the codes and laws.
If the homeowner does this and the person is killed they probably would get sued.
If it happens to be a truck of play sand it looks like you'd have a nice beach around the pool, however.

I see permanent bollards in front of larger retail establishments. I presume these are to prevent crash and grabs where they run a vehicle through the front of the store, grab what they can and drive away?

People are funny like that.

 

[swanysto]

Does anyone else find it suspicious that the front end of the Lexus is nearly flawless except for the left wheel well area? I would think the cinder block wall would do more damage than that. Seems fishy to me.

 

[CurseTheSky]

Well... that's one way to car pool.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Does anyone else find it suspicious that the front end of the Lexus is nearly flawless except for the left wheel well area? I would think the cinder block wall would do more damage than that. Seems fishy to me.

I was thinking the same too.

In fact I'm surprised a car was able to go through a cinder block wall, unless the blocks have no rebar and arn't filled, then I could easily see it. Guess when you have half a metric ton of weight traveling at 50km/h or more, that's a lot of energy.

 

[destrekor]

I was thinking the same too.

In fact I'm surprised a car was able to go through a cinder block wall, unless the blocks have no rebar and arn't filled, then I could easily see it. Guess when you have half a metric ton of weight traveling at 50km/h or more, that's a lot of energy.

Cars smashing through cinder block isn't difficult at all. How reinforced they are determines how mangled the vehicle is in the process, but that's how smash and grabs can be quite effective - they really don't hold up to a whole lot of mass being throw at them at a high rate of speed.

For example, a store wall comprised of cinder block is not really much of a match for 2 tons of hurtling steel at even 30mph.

Also: I see no rebar hanging out of that wall, so I can almost guarantee that is not a reinforced wall. The blocks might have been filled with either concrete or a masonry sand mix, but without reinforcement, that just helps each block hold together, not the entire wall, when subjected to stress. The wall is thus really only as strong as the masonry compound/grout between each block.

Oh, and that car looks like the brunt of the entry force was focused on the front passenger-side area - the car looks fairly torn up in the front fender and wheel well. For other dents and scratches, being submerged under water, what with its refraction properties and in general the lower light/exposure of the photo, likely has masked some of the lesser visible damage. But look at that front passenger-side, it's a mess.

 

[Atomic Playboy]

The economical family, rather than paying a high price at a dealership, can make use of traps to catch automobiles and repurpose them for personal use.

 

[T_Yamamoto]

Sue sue sue