h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Well...

Before I start, I would like to include this merely for Psycorp's sake - There is no other purpose for it being here:

Since people appear to be under the impression that I killed a horse, I'd better defend myself.

I did not kill a horse. It is still alive. Or at least it WAS still alive when I last saw it.

This weekend was the Horse Show-Jumping Championships.
The place where I work was the main sponsor of the event, and we therefore got the final horse jump in the cross country section to design as we pleased.

So do that we did.

And as a nice touch, since we'd be driving the brand-spanking-new company cars there - one week old Toyota RunX's no doubt (and I got to drive one!!!) - we decided to place one on either side of the jump.

Well, actually I had nothing to do with that decision, thank goodness!

Because here we parked next to the jump, and the inevitable happened...

It was a sunny day...

The crowds were lazing about on the bank...

The horses were smiling...I think...

The cars were looking good...

The cross-country section was going smoothly...

Until a rider caught up with the rider in front of him...

Now instead of circling around and waiting for the other rider to take the jump, he decides to pull a Shumacher and race around the other horse...

Needless to say, he ends up coming at that jump veeeeerrrrrry fast...

Too fast, in fact.

So at the last minute he decides to swerve out and go past the jump...

Sensible enough, yes.

Until he realised my car was standing there and thought "Let's jump the next best thing!"

What he obviously forgot, is that my RunX is THREE times the size of his jump he was supposed to have taken!

And he is only in the intermediate section on the lower jumps!

But anyway...

The horse ended up rolling over the car.

Both rider and horse are fine...

But the car???

Side doors and smashed in, roof is conked in, framework is buckled - who was handing out those panel-beating mallets?

And that deformed scrap is what I had to drive back home in...*sighs*

So my ego is more bruised than anything else really.

And no - I did not kill a horse.

The Insurance Company will wet themselves trying to work that claim out!!

*giggles*

I don't know what a Toyota RunX is but if it took that much damgae I don't think I will be buying one.

Toyota Carolla with silly foriegn name

Hah! The horse killed your car! That's even funnier than you killing a horse!

A Toyota flatbed would have survived. Did you see those episodes of Top Gear?

i think i saw that

*coughs* horse murderer

Has the jockey made a claim yet?

Never mind that, has the HORSE made a claim?

Omg...

You never cease to amaze me Laudy

It could only have happened to Lauda!!

Funny story.

OK, so horse and rider are ok, but has the poor car recovered?

It went in for repairs today.
Costing a helluva lot, but hey.

laudaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa you're back

Laudy...

Just hope it's not you're insurance, Lauda!

*yells* equal rights for 's

Equal rights? You mean it's the horse's insurance that has to pay for Lauda's car? What if it didn't take out insurance?

I think I shouldn't be allowed to have a car...
Every weekend so far, something has happened to a car of mine...Oh dear...