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The New York Post reports the comic was driving alone in his vintage 1967 Fiat BTM when its brakes stopped working. Police in Long Island say the emergency brake didn’t help either, as the car sped toward traffic.
Authorities say Seinfeld had to swerve to avoid the intersection, and the car flipped over just yards from the highway. The East Hampton town police chief tells the Post that Seinfeld’s maneuver probably avoided “a very serious accident.”
The sitcom star didn’t need medical attention and no summonses were issued. Seinfeld took it in stride, however, warning young people that “driving without braking” is not something he’d recommend.
Way to go Jerry.
Thanks MJ.
I am sure we will hear all about this for the next few months in what only he calls comedy.
Must be a slow news day if we are down to “celebrity” car accidents.
“WHAT’s the DEAL with these BRAKES? I’m PRESSING the PEDAL, but NOTHING’S HAPPENING!”
[Har. – ed.]
Do you suppose brake failure is more dangerous than yelling racial epitaths at black people in a comedy club?
[Ah, that was Michael Richards, and did you mean epithets?- ed.]
Nice title.
Anyway, he sounds like a good driver. Kudos to him for doing the right thing and quick thinking in his situation.
Ditto #5. Good going, Jerry.
How many people would automatically panic and plow into everybody without attempting to avoid the worst case scenario? Answer: Most.
Fiat BTM = could that be “Breakes, Try (need) Maintenance”
Odds are they dripped out of brake fluid and Jerry hasn’t popped the hood in several years.
Still, I admire anyone that keeps and (maintains) a vintage car.
Timing is everything==but turn off the ignition (Helps avoid a fire after the crash too) and downshift?
Maybe some maintenance on the hand brake too?
Seinfan, that was funny. #1, you’re a dipshit.
Since the emergency brake operates completely independently of the regular hydraulic brakes, you have to wonder how BOTH could fail simultaneously. Something fishy here. The Bullshit-O-Meter is moving into the red zone.
#9–Mustard==so you think hydraulic and cable actuated brakes were both maintained on this vintage car and something else more likely intervened such as to call for the BS-o-Meter?
I look forward to confirmation of the extraordinary trumping the ordinary. God intervenes once again.
Who owns over 70 high end Porsche vehicles and not have top mechanics on staff? He was fucking off and lost control. There is no way that those brakes failed, he’s probably got after-market brembo’s or something way over sized.
he’s lucky he crashed into nothing.
Just a note here… Nobody can ever be in Long Island. They can only be on it.
So, was he driving the weird little Fiat 500 or the somewhat sexy Dino?
Or the horrid little 1100D like my folks had….
Bobster; Yes, I think both brakes were maintained, and something else is operating here. Could it be that Jerry’s career is cooling like Mama Bear’s porridge? I’ve had many cars, maintained and not maintained, and I’ve NEVER had something go wrong with both the emergency brake and the regular brakes.
As to your comment about God, wtf? Don’t bait the bull, son.
>>Do you suppose brake failure is more
>>dangerous than yelling racial epitaths
>>at black people in a comedy club?
“epitaths”? wtf are they?
Mustard… try frickin google. (define:epitaph)
An epitaph ( literally: “on the gravestone” in ancient Greek) is text honoring the deceased, most commonly inscribed on a tombstone or plaque. Traditionally an epitaph is in verse, but there are exceptions. Many poets have been known to compose their own epitaphs prior to their death.
[Fiat BTM = could that be “Breakes, Try (need) Maintenance”
Odds are they dripped out of brake fluid and Jerry hasn’t popped the hood in several years.]
Seinfeld is a certified car nut. Odds are more likely that the brakes failed because it’s Fiat.
fiats have brakes?!?
next thing you’ll tell me is they have a reverse gear..
Heres a racial epitath:
You’re Black,
I’m White,
You’re Wrong,
I’m Right.
Copyrighted by bobbo
– – – or- – – –
Lets reverse it:
You’re White,
I’m Black,
You’re Right,
I’m still Wrong.
Copyright by bobbo.
Somehow the first more direct version where I’m White and Right just feels better. Being Right is like that.
being wrong is funner
FIAT = Fix It Again Tony.
>>Mustard… try frickin google. (define:epitaph)
I know what an epitaph is, Einstein. I’m just not familiar with an “epitaths”.
Answer the question that’s asked, Momma, not the one you know the answer to.
#17
““epitaths”? wtf are they?”
That’s what is known as a typo, it happens sometimes when a happy go lucky type person posts something in a hurry trying give everybody a few chuckles.
I wouldn’t expect an uptight asshole to understand that.
#9, MM,
Have you ever tried stopping a car using only the emergency brakes? Especially one that hasn’t been used?
While granted there are those who do use the emergency brake, most people I know would leave the car in gear instead. Especially if you have ever had the emergency brake seize while the car was parked.
I think the automatic transmission blind American driving public has forgotten most of the idiosyncrasies of standard transmission driving habits.
BTW, I loved your retort in #26. A classic.