Seven time Formula One Champion Michael Schumacher made the news for driving fast but not in a sanctioned event. This is from a Breitbart/Canadian Press piece.
Cab drivers are best known for giving hair-raising rides, not being taken on them.
But when one cabbie in southern Germany apparently wasn’t driving fast enough, his customer, former Formula One champion Michael Schumacher, took the wheel himself.
“It was sheer lunacy,” cabbie Tuncer Yilmaz told the Muenchener Abendzeitung newspaper. “He took the curves with full speed, but you couldn’t even notice it. He just knows how to do it.”
You know how it is when a cab driver is just poking along. There’s nothing more frustrating than sitting in the back of a cab, when you have important business to do and some guy, that you are paying to drive you around, is taking his own sweet time tooling down the Autobahn. What would you do? I wouldn’t stand for it. Michael Schumacher is an important man and I’m sure he’s very busy.
Schumacher’s spokeswoman, Sabine Kehm, confirmed the story Wednesday. She said Schumacher had flown in from Switzerland on Saturday on his private jet to buy a puppy from a breeder in the town of Gesuelz.
A puppy???!!!!
That’s right a puppy. You got a problem with that?
Listen Cabbie, there’s three things you gotta know. I’m Michael Schumacher, I am picking up a puppy and I’m in a hurry. Got that- Cabbie. So, move over.
Try that one in Chicago or N.Y.C.
Cab drivers in Gesuelz are cut from a different cloth, evidently.
Yilmaz said he would never forget the ride.
Nor the tip. On top of the US$88.03 fare, Schumacher gave him $146.72.
Yilmaz’ only regret is that German photo radar didn’t catch Schumacher speeding, which would have produced a ticket with a photo that would have been sent to Yilmaz, as the car’s owner.
“I so much would have loved to get a speeding photo of this ride,” Yilmaz told the Abendzeitung. “I would have gladly paid a ticket for that.”
At least he tipped and Tuncer will have a story to tell his Enkelkinder.
Another story of reckless behavior in Germany, this one from Breitbart/AP.
A man nearly died from alcohol poisoning after quaffing a liter (two pints) of vodka at an airport security check instead of handing it over to comply with new carry-on rules, police said Wednesday.
The incident occurred at the Nuremberg airport on Tuesday, where the 64-year-old man was switching planes on his way home to Dresden from a holiday in Egypt.
New airport rules prohibit passengers from carrying larger quantities of liquid onto planes, and he was told at a security check he would have to either throw out the bottle of vodka or pay a fee to have his carry-on bag checked as cargo.
Instead, he chugged the bottle down—and was quickly unable to stand or otherwise function, police said.
A doctor called to the scene determined he had possibly life-threatening alcohol poisoning, and he was sent to a Nuremberg clinic for treatment.
The man, whose name was not released, is expected to be able to complete his journey home in a few days.
I can’t count the number of times I’ve gotten on to a plane with a bottle of Egyptian Vodka. Nothing is more fun than going to Egypt and doing it up right. You know, you go to the pyramids, see the sphinx, eat some yogurt, maybe a falafel or two, and then you grab a bottle of the potato juice for the ride home. Who hasn’t done this?
Nothing is more refreshing than a liter of Egyptian vodka on an international flight. Unfortunately, security doesn’t allow it. What’s a guy to do?
Now, he could have paid extra and checked the bag, enjoyed his bottle of Gaza grain when he got home. But c’mon, what are the chances that it makes it through the baggage guys in one piece? So, he did the only sensible thing; chugged it.
The only problem is, when you chug a liter of Vodka it makes you “quickly unable to stand or otherwise function”. Quickly, that is. The standing part, you can do without but, the otherwise functioning is necessary for a plane ride. Got to otherwise function.
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Tags: drinking vodka at the airport, Germany, Michael Schumacher, Tuncer Yilmaz
Grasshopper wrote,
Yilmaz told the Abendzeitung, “Icht lasse dicht nichten, hausen fro lein, bitten bi en puppy Jones!”
Hey, if’n ya have a moment — refer to today’s top story, glimpse of which is you guessed it, on my bloggerspotter. That’s the puppy??!!!
And good morning to you’n maestro… as your faithful sidekick, I bow earnestly to your reportage…
>gh dba MPW “Wee loves to read great stuff”
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ps. By the way Jack, did you do the segway tours at the pyramids? Kinda scary climbing the sphinx.
“…I wonder how long the batteries last driving through 100 degree heat and dusty shamals… and what if you put Schumacher on one of those:
…anyway here is the segue for the two cab stories above:
“Here’s a story; Segway hit and run. I am sure you have all seen it but here it is again. http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/news/111903_nw_segway.html ”
“I was walking down the street a couple days ago and saw one get pulled over. The driver and cop dickered so long that by the time I had purchased a loaf of bread and was on my way home, they were still at it. As I walked by, I noticed the cop was scanning his statute book trying to figure out what to charge the Segway driver with. (see comments: by margaret at the tribe)” http://people.tribe.net/margaret/photos
http://dorkbot.tribe.net/thread/cf49438f-f4cf-4036-b369-8cbade44b727#32a76327-1c96-4dbb-8292-fae8be42566b ”
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pss. Drunk guy on a segway at airport, could be a problem since the fall down drunk keeps on standing, and kinda swaying like a pendulum.
Thus, Result of google-ing Chugging vodka/fall down drunk… (Why Iki Peed Ya) shows a picture of yours truly 18 years ago at the wash-a-teria in Washington, MO. I love open source, don’you?
All this new technology: don’ worry Lucy, Wee got your sixes >pd/gh/MP
Grasshopper’s last blog post..Who’s Your Beagle?
Link | February 14th, 2008 at 10:04 am
Pribek wrote,
“climbing the sphinx” heh-heh
Sounds like Burgess Meredith in “Grumpy Old Men”.
“Looks like she went back to Chuck’s house to ride the sphinx”.
Link | February 14th, 2008 at 10:22 am
Grasshopper wrote,
B. Meredith: they should have called that movie “kinda funny old men; but much funnier older man”
…okay I’ll take the bait…
grumpy old men — Burgess Meredith
Grandpa Gustafson: Looks like Chuck’s taking old one-eye to the optometrist.
Grandpa Gustafson: Kids; Can’t live with them, can’t shoot them.
John Gustafson: You’re supposed to be smoking filter cigarettes.
Grandpa Gustafson: I’m 94 years old. What the hell do I care?
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and later in grumpier: [after Allie swallows a quarter]
Grandpa: Relax. Kids swallow quarters all the time.
Melanie: Really?
Grandpa: Sure. If she craps out two dimes and a nickel, then you can start worrying.
He was the catalyst for sure. One source says he “started out as a tenor in St. John Choir in NYC, around 1929-31? with a full scholarship.” I didn’t realize he was a singer. Had to be a triple threat in those days.
Grasshopper’s last blog post..Valentines Day 2008, get your e-card early!!!!!
Link | February 14th, 2008 at 1:14 pm
Pribek wrote,
sequel, cross franchise idea-”Of Mice and Grumpy Old Men”
Link | February 14th, 2008 at 1:30 pm
Gh wrote,
definitely a possibility…
Gh’s last blog post..Valentines Day 2008, get your e-card early!!!!!
Link | February 15th, 2008 at 9:43 pm