Mike and I were having dinner at Goat Hill Pizza when a giant SUV limo appeared out of nowhere and promptly grounded out on the hill. I couldn't resist taking photos...
Why people do super-stretch limos in a city that's mostly hills I will never know.
65 Comments:
ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!
*snork*
hoist by one's own petard...
especially since "petard" was basically an engine of war filled with gunpowder...this is an engine of ego filled with gasoline getting 3 gallons to the mile!
lmao!
ROTFLMAO!!! Oh oh, my sides hurt! That is one of the funniest things I've seen in ages. Thanks! I needed that.
"Take a run at it next time!" I saw one of those in Ottawa... It had trouble making a right turn from Dalhousie northbound onto Rideau, both of which are 4 lane roads...
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effing hilarious. woulda linked but it calls for the photo itself. votes are 32 points from the readship so far. also check the tags for related comments.
and I thought limos were supposed to be classy and elegant... why they make them with SUVs it kind of ruins the effect... of course when you beach it that ruins the effect, too
Wonderful shot. I'm almost sure I remember the funny little house in the background, from some time spent long ago in SF -- what streets are these?
It's Goat Hill Pizza, 18th and Connecticut, in Potrero Hill.
PRICELESS!!!
Awesome. I live in Brooklyn now but used to eat at Goat Hill all the time when I lived in the Mission.
Great pic.
Rudy
ouch! that's gonna leave a mark. if it's towed out of there, the whole bottom is gonna get FUBAR. i thought i recognized the corner...
Someone's ego just ook a direct hit.
you know what - they just weren't going fast enough, that's all. at 250mph, they'd have totally cleared that...
Rotfl :) Perhaps it would be a good idea to install more wheels in the middle and allow for some flexibility, like for a bus ;)
Why people do super-stretch limos in a city that's mostly hills I will never know -?? otherwise limos are cool?
Serves them right. I hope they also got a ticket for obstructing traffic, and another for ruining the road surface.
down hill and a sharp stop, Wonder if the folks in the back ran all the way to the front OOOOh OUCH
You know, as amusing as I find the photo (and it is damned funny), what's even better is reading some of the smug comments that've been left behind.
I mean, people in the Bay Area are liberal and open-minded and totally tolerant of everyone and everything, right? Oh, yeah, wait: only the things they deem suitable of requiring tolerance.
For the love of God, people, IT'S A LIMO STUCK ON THE CREST OF A HILL. We could let it stand on its own merits, but no, better to hijack this in order to be able to get up on our OMG-SUVs-are-evil high horses and bang our collective pots together. Thanks for wasting raw materials and energy that can't be recliamed by buying that brand-new hybrid. Hey, what happens in seven or eight years when that battery pack needs to be replaced?
Christ, the sooner that city slides into the sea (or, preferably, has airstrikes called upon it), the better-off both our state and nation will be.
Who hijacked what now?
Get away from me, kid, you bother me.
lol that was goooood, made me laugh!
hey anonymous--I think someone in texas took a picture of a prius that ran into an oil rig, and all the houston conservato-bloggers are ripping on it. Go admonish them as well, in the interest of fairness and all....
Gotta love it...also gotta love Mr. Self-Righteous Hummer Driver aka Anonymous above.
Aren't any and all limos just tacky, anyway? I mean, I never see one and think "ooooh, power! big man inside!" It's more like "huh, must be prom season."
Dear Anonymous Ass:
1) Limos in general are tacky, tasteless, ostentatious and just stupid;
2) San Francisco is the most beautiful city in America, with wonderful climate, architecture, art, culture, and an enlightened LIBERAL populace;
3) SUVs and Hummers are not only butt ugly but also detrimental to the environment, for no good reason [see #1 above].
Glad I could clear all that up for you. You're welcome!! :+P
Those guys should stop at Blockbuster and rent the movie "Bullitt", and see how Steve McQueen flew over those hills in his souped-up Ford Mustang.
ha! that's great! as if that limo couldn't look worse. thanks for posting it!
lol ... proves that longer is not always better.
Straight outta The Magic Christian. Terry Southern woulda loved it.
you should of waited till the occupunts got out and then kick the shit out of them!!
Nice. Saw a similar thing in Times Square once, the guy couldn't make the turn off 43rd onto Broadway :)
For what it's worth, the same company that owns the monstrosity in the photo has a whole stable of similarly absurd limos made from humvees and other non-luxury mastodons.
Such limos are but one manifestation of the Banality of Affluence that's overtaken San Francisco when the city began in the mid 1980s to convert itself into a suburb of Greater Fisherman's Wharf.
At the same time, I have to laugh why all those trying to move the limo push it back (having to lift most of its weight) instead of pulling up the back of the car (with some counterweight in the front already) to let it slide down. And if it didn't have enough brake power -- well, few would care, it seems...
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"Banality of Affluence" ... that is a perfect description.
A regular limo or town car is a respectable luxury. (Not even all that expensive; town-car or limo service from, say, SFO or LAX to your home costs about the same as a taxi if you reserve the service in advance -- about $60. Well worth it after the usual grueling horror of air travel in our alleged Era of Terror.)
But the dull vulgarity of a block-long "limo" in the shape of an SUV or Hummer or whatever is just sad. Seeing one of those monstrosities stuck on Potrero Hill is just embarrassing, like watching a homeless guy take a crap in the street – hardly the image the limo's passengers wanted to project, I'm sure.
No matter how much money they've got, Americans seem incapable of doing anything without being a despicable jackass.
@Anonymous
"I mean, people in the Bay Area are liberal and open-minded and totally tolerant of everyone and everything, right? Oh, yeah, wait: only the things they deem suitable of requiring tolerance. Christ, the sooner that city slides into the sea (or, preferably, has airstrikes called upon it), the better-off both our state and nation will be."
You must be from Texas. Come to the bay and say that. I dare you.
I'm worried about the people laughing so hard at this. Yeah, it's mildly amusing but it isn't the funniest thing I've seen in the last 10 minutes, let alone today.
Some people need to broaden their horizons.
Yo Anonymous (he/she of the airstrike SF comment)
You ever been here? That tasteless and stupid comment tells me:
1) You haven't been here
2) You NEED to come here
3) You're an IDIOT
4) See #3
Yo Anonymous (he/she of the airstrike SF comment)
You ever been here? That tasteless and stupid comment tells me:
1) You haven't been here
2) You NEED to come here
3) You're an IDIOT
4) See #3
Yo Anonymous (he/she of the airstrike SF comment)
You ever been here? That tasteless and stupid comment tells me:
1) You haven't been here
2) You NEED to come here
3) You're an IDIOT
4) See #3
SF: the world loves you, worry not. You're a model city and unlike any in the world. We don't want you to slide in the ocean, though we worry about it.
SUV-Limo renters: Most everyone thinks you're an idiot. Go charter a party bus or something, if you must. At least you can actually stand up in the thing.
''"I mean, people in the Bay Area are liberal and open-minded
....
the better-off both our state and nation will be."
You must be from Texas. Come to the bay and say that. I dare you.''
Hello?? I'm from Texas and I'm liberal and open-minded, and think SF is a wonderful city. Not all Texans are tactless Republiclones. ;-)
Is it Goat "Hill Pizza" or "Goat Hill" Pizza? In which sequence do the adjectives apply?
It's "Goat Hill" Pizza. See http://www.goathillpizza.com .
wow. I mean, who really needs a stretch limo SUV? Sounds like another reason to try to "bling" and waste more of the Earth's atmosphere and someone's money. Sucks to be that driver!
well -
What in the ____ did you expect ?????!!!!! -
"Liberal and open-minded" does not mean totally lacking of opinions and accepting of any sort of idiocy. It means accepting those who are not hurting anyone else with their beliefs and lifestyles. It does not extend to those who ARE hurting others. Conservatives seem to think that if liberals don't accept their homophobia, racism and environmental destruction, then we're not being "open minded." My favorite is when right-wingnuts quote Martin Luther King in the service of gay-bashing.
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snerk. I think it might be possible Mr. Airstriker was our beached driver. Would explain why he wants SF to blow up. *gives his ego a bandaid* Either way, driving Limos in SF is just never a good idea. It doesn't really have that much to do with liberal anything - stupid is stupid. I'd laugh the same if I saw a person try to zoom down one of those hills on rollerskates and land on his ass at the bottom. Stupid, but entertaining.
and it wasnt even a all-you-can-eat night at goat hill! wtf is a stretch SUV doing in potrero anyway? isnt that like a US marine putting around baghdad in prius?
The stupidest part of this picture is the sign above the limo that reads: HILL.
Uh, San Francisco? Quite possibly the hilliest city in the country? (if "hilliest" is a word, which if it isn't it is now) And anyway shouldn't it be blindly obvious that yes, there is a hill there? What kind of MORON can't figure out "Hey, the ground slopes downward really sharply here, I wonder what that means..."
I'm not sure who's the stupidest person here--the driver for trying to traverse too steep a grade difference, the limo company for buying a vehicle that can't navigate the roads, or the city for warning drivers of the blatantly obvious.
*laughs out loud* Not only howlingly funny, but poetic justice as well. I don't have any problem with people renting regular limos for weddings or stuff like that, but something that long screams "inferiority complex" as well as looking patently ridiculous. Also, renting a limo in SF is just stupid because of the hills. In such a beautiful artistic treasure of a city, why not rent a cable car? It'd be a _lot_ more fun.
Uh, people, the vehicle in the photo is a Ford Expedition, not a Hummer.
The obnoxiousness/irresponsibility factor of the vehicle, however, is still significant, if somewhat slightly lower than that of a Hummer.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
dumb a$$
Yeah, when I used to drive those, I would stop down the street and say "Nope, can't go down there. You're walking".
Dumb driver...
F**kin diked.
Ha ha ha, i havent laughed so hard in ages.
WOW - Peewee Herman drives a limo!!
I'd like to see how far he gets in that on the roads where I live. Outer Hebrides, isolated islands off the west coast of Scotland. Best beaches in the world, but most of the roads are single-track, winding affairs, with the occasional passing place. I'd like to see him try and get to this beach.
lol I could get to that beach in my limo! check out liftedlimo.com. This picture is now making the myspace rounds as i sent it to all my friends.
lol. That a great photo
obviously you understanding of freedom of expression is not lost on you just wasted
sherre says:
well, obviously the original "airstrike/slide into the
ocean" idiot #l deserves alot of
criticism!
But idiot #2 this one is for you!
How did you discern that idiot #1
is a Texan?
I am from a cattle ranch in Texas and lived in SF for 25 years; so, I've had the best of both worlds. I can guarantee that the idiocy shown in both instances is NOT limited to any state or country!
and by the way moron, #1 said, "OUR state" will be better
off when....etc!--it seems to me
that means he's from California!
Sherre--back out in the beautiful hill country of Texas after loving the SF "hill country"!! for 2 1/2 decades-- Young
ps:
I just read my comment with the
computers configuration and see
that it makes my comment about--the idiocy of both instances--seem
as if I was commenting on being from a cattle ranch in Texas &
living in SF for 25 years!
NOT!!
Sherre
Well, didn't that just ruin some party-animal yup's day. Oh, well, better luck next time.
File that one under inexperienced driver...
--Russell
Limo Express
Don't worry, now you can buy bling to scramble the Coast Guard if this happens, or if you need Grey Poupon, or ice, or underwear .....
(I linked to your photo on my blog - it's perfect...)
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