Originally published at: Tesla crashes into backyard pool in Phoenix, Arizona | Boing Boing
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he heard a loud noise from his recently-removed backyard
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That’ll buff right out.
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Haven’t you seen Vittorio De Sica’s classic, “I ladri del cortile” (The Backyard Thieves)?
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Keith, is that you?
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Another round of “guess the autocorrect”. Best I can come up with is “recently mowed”, but it’s a bit reachy
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Or “renovated”. close enough in letter count.
Here’s hoping the home owner doesn’t have to deal with a months long debacle with either their insurance company or the car owner’s insurance company to get the wall repaired. (had a friend of mine deal with a similar issue, and the issues they had with their insurance company just makes my blood boil.)
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Gonna be tricky getting the car out of that pool safely. Tesla batteries are several hundred volts, and pool water is conductive. (note to kibitzers: pure, distilled water is barely conductive with resistivity of 18 megohm-cm, but even a tiny bit of salt, chlorine, or pool acid will change that story dramatically. So I’d be careful in pulling out the Tesla without a well thought out plan)
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Uncle Enzo won’t be happy.
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“Full self-driving this year.”
Musk, 2016…
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The homeowner said “I looked out the window and saw my worst nightmare”.
Sorry, Charlie, but that’s a severe failure of imagination on your part. That’s a stack of bricks and some concrete. Yeah it will be an insurance headache, but hardly the stuff of nightmares.
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Pfft! As if any of his deliverators would be driving a Tesla! Elno reminds him of this officer in Nam…
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It’s okay- being outside in Phoenix, I’m sure the pool’s water has all boiled away. The hard part will be prying the melted tires off the bare concrete.
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Why does it being a Tesla make it newsworthy? Any other make it would just be called a car.
Maybe - hear me out - they could drain the pool first?
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Well, I’d start by draining the pool 
[ETA: Whadda ya know? They didn’t]
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The driver didn’t get the upgrade package, I see.
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Musk bought that car ten years ago with a stated goal to make it into a functional submarine. Of course he didn’t, because he’s an idiot who actually knows very little about engineering.
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