Driving Your Rolls Royce Through The Wall Is Not A Good Way To Lodge A Complaint
This is probably something we shouldn't have to tell you, but apparently some people are confused. For example, this guy: He decided to drive his 1983 Rolls Royce Silver Spirit through the wall of a store after a dispute over the delivery of a mattress.
From the Telegraph:
[The prosecutor] said: "There was an argument about a furniture order and they did not deliver a mattress with a bedroom set.
"Staff in the store were trying to help him, but they weren't getting anywhere with customer service because it was a telephone order from Tesco Direct, not from them.
"The staff were on the phone trying to help him, but [the customer] was intoxicated and was getting agitated.
"Then he went and got in his car and had a conversation with at least one security guard and asked him how long it would take to evacuate the store.
"He said he was going to drive his car in there. A little while later he drives the car up to the glass and nudges it, and then reverses a bit and puts his foot down."
Man drove Rolls Royce into Tesco [Telegraph]
(Photo: PA)
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How terribly British. In the US he'd just drive into the store, customers or not. In the UK they politely request that the store be evacuated before they ram it.
Keith Moon is still alive?!?
@scoobydoo: Also note: No Guns involved.
Who the hell rams into a store and does not start shooting indiscriminately.
Maybe he was looking for some Grey Poupon!
@MostlyHarmless: Well, from what I've learned of my studies about British culture,
in the country, everyone and their mum packs a weapon - farmers, farmer's mums. Maybe that's true of this place.
I had to click through to the article just to see if it was Jeremy Clarkson.
Why would you do this with a Rolls? That's seriously messed up. I could see if he was driving a Yugo, but not a Rolls.
Dudley Moore strikes again
@SacraBos: It's an '83 Silver Spirit. Unless it's in really cherry condition, it's only worth about $20,000.
Dad, have you moved to England???
@pecan 3.14159265: Bummer, once I saw it was an imdb link, I was hoping for Snatch :)
Anyway, here's your fixed link - [www.imdb.com]
@pecan 3.14159265: Everybody and their MUMS is packin' 'ere!
(Sorry, Hot Fuzz was the first thing I thought of.)
@SacraBos: Hell, I wanted one until I read somewhere that they only get eight miles to the gallon.
Now I want a Bentley. Even more after I actually SAW one. And a Lamborghini, because I drive like Batman on crack. :D
"I get me brain medicine from the National 'ealth!"
Where was the designated driver?
I take it that it was not The Stig, since some say he doesn't sleep.
@HogwartsAlum: The car I've wanted, ever since the first time I saw one, is a Citroen DS. Every time I see one it strikes me how drop-dead gorgeous they are.
He was pissed (for good reason) and drunk (for whatever reason), but considerate nonetheless.
Bad that people got hurt - did the security guard call for evacuation of the store?
Wonder if he finally got his mattress.
@Orv: Who are we to argue. "...named the most beautiful car of all time by Classic & Sports Car magazine"
Tesco accepts Cash for Clunkers?
@omgwtflolbbqbye: depends on if the owner assembled it in their garage from a kit. then it would likely just disintegrate into its component parts, leaving the glass intact
This is an old story:
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For some reason the Daily Telegraph website seems to randomly resurrect old stories and repost them with today's date. Or perhaps there isn't any news today.
Anyway, this man is a drunken idiot. His complaint was with Tesco Direct which, although owned by Tesco, has nothing to do with Tesco stores. In fact it seems that the Tesco store staff were actually going above and beyond the call of duty in trying to help him but he was too drunk and psychotic to understand this.
@MostlyHarmless: Apart from at a country show where there was a trapshoot, I haven't seen a gun in the UK for over a decade.
@Orv: Only the saloon - the estate is the ugliest car in existence.
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How they managed to make two versions of the same car, one sublime the other ridiculous, is a source of endless fascination.
I rememeber falling in love with the DS on holidays in France in the 60s.
Maybe he got one of those defective cars the automakers are always passing off on the elderly. You know, the ones with the gas and brake pedal reversed.
If one has a Rolls, one simply does not shop at Tesco. It isn't done.
The late John Bonham (no, he didn't die in a car wreck) of Led Zeppelin expressed his frustration with bad customer service in a similar fashion once. Bonham, bearded, long-haired, wearing jeans and sandals, walked into a UK Rolls dealership and inquired about the top model on the showroom floor. The salesman (who obviously had no idea that Bonham was a multi-millionaire), sniffed and basically ignored him.
Bonham got in the car, started it, then drove it through the nearest display window. He then got out, handed the astonished salesman the keys, told him to clean up the car and send him the bill for the Rolls and the damage, finishing with, "... and don't you ever talk back to me again."
@scoobydoo: So true. Only a Brit would politely ask for the store to be evacuated. LOL. He probably asked for tea and crumpets after getting out of the car.
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but [the customer] was intoxicated
That explains a lot. For a moment there I was afraid it was just some hot headed idiot who did this when fully sober.