MAKE SURE YOU DON’T PARK NEXT TO AN ELECTRIC VEHICLE…
Imagine the following: You've managed to scrape together a few dollars to run to the grocery store and buy a few staples with the dwindling purchasing power of your US dollars. You park your car, and, of course, lock it, and run into the store to do some shopping. While you're shopping and noticing that the price of an egg is now $3.30 and pondering how you might be able to hard boil it and make it last for maybe three days(thank you Build Back Better and Bidenomics), there is a muffled "whump!" that momentarily gently shakes the store. You along with a few customers look up, glance at each other, and shrug your shoulders, and continue shopping. Butter? $13.67. Bread? $3.12.... The cart has 17 items in it, and the total is $341.03. With your rewards card, you managed to save 24 cents, losing a considerable "reward" because you insist on paying cash. You watch the teenaged cashier with the glazed-over eyes looking - with less understanding than you might have wished - at the computer screen on the cash register telling him how much change you're owed for the four one hundred dollar bills you've managed to save up over the last four weeks for this trip. "Two of those," you say, trying to help, and pointing to the twenty dollar bills, "good, now one of those" (pointing to the tens), "one of those" (the fives), "three of those" (to the ones), "three of those (the quarters), "two of those" (the dimes) "and two of those" (the pennies). You're grateful that the cashier can at least count up to ten.
While this is going on, you've noticed there are all sorts of people streaming to the doors of the store, while outside there appears to be some sort of commotion; sirens can be heard in the distance.
Taking your few purchases you push your cart to the door to exit and return to...
...and then you see it. The parking lot - especially close to where you parked your car - is a mess of debris, a couple of cars are on fire, others clearly damaged from some sort of shock, their alarms wee-wawing wildly. Firemen and police tell you to stand back.
"But that's my car!" you protest, pointing to a burning mass of somewhat crumpled car.
"Sorry sir, you can't go near there until we get the fire put out, and that may be a while."
"Why? what happened?"
"An electric car blew up, sir."
Does this sound implausible? Think again, for it happened in South Korea, and it left other cars damaged, and some people hospitalized:
Now, regular readers here will know I just cannot resist stories like this, for they're a symbol of everything wrong with contemporary "culture". Some nano-brained nitwit buys an electric vehicle in order to virtue signal that they're all about "saving the environment" and not using "fossil fuels" (which are not from fossils anyway) and "fighting climate change", and what should have been a relatively quiet and uneventful day has handed you and your insurance company a problem to straighten out over the next few days, because you parked next to an electric vehicle, or rather, one parked next to you. Your insurance company is denying your claim because "you were reckless and careless in parking next to an electric vehicle because everyone knows they have a tendency to spontaneously combust", and you reply that you did not park next to an electric vehicle, it parked next to you and after you had gone into the store. "Prove it!" your insurance company says, and your lawyer (whom you have had to hire to get your claim honored) happily informs you it will be just a few weeks for the courts to process the order to the grocery store to produce the security tape which proves that the electric vehicle parked next to you, and not vice versa. The happy day finally arrives, but the store has apparently lost the tape, or the cameras were not working or there was some problem with the security system that day... your lawyer is rather vague on the specifics.
How many episodes like this will it take before this nonsense stops? How long before stores start dividing their parking spaces into "EV only" and "all other vehicles" lots? How long before the lawsuits start piling in before these expensive white elephants are admitted to be just that: expensive, unsafe, hazardous indulgences for the uber-rich virtue signaler?
The moral of the story: the next time you go shopping, don't park next to an electric vehicle. And give copies of this article to the store manager and suggest they make a special area of the parking lot just for electric cars in order to protect the rest of their customers... and the store itself from lawsuits.
It's ridiculous, folks... How ridiculous? Here's what the article says this one electric vehicle did:
The vehicle was not charging or running when it ignited.
According to Korea JoongAng Daily, the fire department received nearly 200 calls while the fire spread and belched black smoke into the sky.In total, 177 first responders arrived to fight the fire and handle evacuations of the complex.Despite the massive response, it took emergency crews eight hours to extinguish the blaze completely.
In total, 106 people were rescued as smoke filled the area, and 103 others were evacuated. No deaths were reported, but 21 people were sent to the hospital with injuries sustained during the fire.
177 firefighters, 106 rescued, 103 more evacuated, and 21 hospitalizations, all because someone wanted to spend lots of money to virtue signal and save the planet.
These people are a menace. They're characters straight out of Atlas Shrugged, and they're not the good guys in that novel.
See you on the flip side...
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(Our thanks to V.T. for spotting and sharing this story)
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