Don't Let Your Sister Drive Your Mazza

[scathing]

former beauty queen looking after her brother's Maserati discovered it looking like an old crate after it was moved and flipped on its roof by a forklift-driving construction worker in Sydney's exclusive Bilyard Avenue in Elizabeth Bay this morning.

Rachel Huljich, a former Kiwi beauty queen who once defied a request from New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark, moved her brother Jason Huljich's $110,000 car to a construction zone in the road two days ago.

When a forklift driver tried to move the Maserati this morning things went horribly wrong when the car fell over the forks two metres off the ground.

Source: SMH

[MANWHORE]

That is actually pretty ridiculous on behalf of the construction guys. When they say 'construction zone', all that means, is a couple of builder bogans have bunged a few cones out on the road. Means nothing at all. Personally, I wouldn't park there because it's asking for trouble, but legally speaking, I don't see any problem parking there?

Moving someone's car with a forklift damges it(bending chassis rails, sills etc). I would most certainly be bringing criminal proceedings against the person who did it, as well as civil proceedings against the company, the person, the site manager for recovery of the amount.

[lingeringsoul]

Hmmm...time to park my car there and get that flipped over..................hello new car :::::rubs hands :::::::

as to the maserati....................................................MEH

[scathing]

This cracks me up, though:

Resident Stephen Gray said workers for SMS Construction had been moving cars in the street with forklifts for some time while they work on a four-storey building.

"They've been doing it for months now,'' he said. "It's outrageous and just really arrogant.''

The guy lives in an exclusive part of a pretty exclusive suburb, and we're talking about some stupid bint (who decided to ignore a boycott of a country that decided to stone a woman over having a child out of wedlock, as requested by her prime minister, so she could go giggle and probably tell everyone she wanted "world peace") that parked her brother's Maserati in a construction zone for 2 days, and he has the gall to call these workers "arrogant".

[scathing]

The 1999 Maserati 3200GTs ran 3.2L twin turbo V8s. I wonder if the owner would take $50 for the engine? I could find a good home for it. Probably bung it in an R31 or something.

[ctjet]

lol i read about this yesterday. Apparently the forky fled the scene... as you would. Why they didnt just get it towed by calling up the council is completely beyond me.

Never liked em anywayz...

[scathing]

What I want to know is how a "2m drop" has the car ending up on its roof?

The rims look unscuffed, so its unlikely it was tipped on its side and then rolled over.

[jantolis]

lol i read about this yesterday. Apparently the forky fled the scene... as you would. Why they didnt just get it towed by calling up the council is completely beyond me.

Was she parked ilegally???

[Silver-Arrowz]

The genius who lifted up the car... bend over and use some KB jelly. It's gonna hurt.

[ctjet]

What I want to know is how a "2m drop" has the car ending up on its roof?

i think it would have slipped of the front of the forks as he was reversing, hit one the passenger side door and rolled onto its roof. I used to drive a fork adn i dropped heaps of shit off the front... still, itsa pretty n00b mistake from a guy who drives a fork for a living

Edited January 18, 2007 by ctjet

[ctjet]

Was she parked ilegally???

im assuming it was blocking thier entrance to the worksite, why else would you have to move it? surely not for fun knowing the risk involved

[PHATR32]

she was beauty queen? they must have some pretty average chicks down there.......

[Sarumatix]

yeah pretty novice mistake to drop a car like that. Had to have let off the clutch to fast or had the forks angled down.

Ugly cars though so no biggy .

[scathing]

Maserati = Poor man's Ferrari

He can collect the insurance and trade up to a proper car.

[scathing]

she was beauty queen? they must have some pretty average chicks down there

If we're talking New Zealanders, Lucy Lawless looks heaps hotter than this chick.

[GTR32GUS]

That is actually pretty ridiculous on behalf of the construction guys. When they say 'construction zone', all that means, is a couple of builder bogans have bunged a few cones out on the road. Means nothing at all. Personally, I wouldn't park there because it's asking for trouble, but legally speaking, I don't see any problem parking there?

Moving someone's car with a forklift damges it(bending chassis rails, sills etc). I would most certainly be bringing criminal proceedings against the person who did it, as well as civil proceedings against the company, the person, the site manager for recovery of the amount.

have u ever been on a construction site b4??? i think u might be surprised what a few cones on the ground mean

I wonder if the person who parked the mazza sign in , did she have a green card , did she have hard hat and work boots on , if not she was on the construction site illegally.

If i was working on that site i would have grab the fork and moved it to, but i would have jammed the forks through the doors to make sure i didn`t drop it

[ctjet]

^^^

lol best idea yet

[scathing]

Or just get a tow rope and tow the damned thing out into the middle of the street (they surely have at least 1 vehicle with enough torque to do so), where it blocks all the snooty residents, and wait for the cops / council to sort it out.

No risk of dropping the car then.

[PHATR32]

u blow too early and she'll beat the piss out of ya

If we're talking New Zealanders, Lucy Lawless looks heaps hotter than this chick.

[scathing]

u blow too early and she'll beat the piss out of ya

Some people pay extra for that