Small cars driving through a safari park in Merseyside have been chased by confused lions who think they are prey.
David Ross, park manager, told the BBC News website that a group of lionesses chased after one Smart car after being confused by its compact appearance.
news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/hi/england/merseyside/...m
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A new slant on 'meals on wheels'
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and a tiger in my tank...
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Some of the Smart cars in my area - only about 20 miles from the safari park - have quite fancy body paintwork rather resembling stripes which might confuse the animals.
Must be very somewhat frightening if you are in one of them at the time...
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There's no way I could have pride in a Smart.
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Did anyone else see the Top Gear episode where they tested to see how well small cars cornered? And the Smart car, erm, didn't...
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>>There's no way I could have pride in a Smart.>>
You're lion of course?
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If the animals are smart and want to stay alive they will learn to paws at the kerb or use a pelican crossing...
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>>There's no way I could have pride in a Smart.>> You're lion of course?
The pun was the whole point of the post!
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The last time I went to Knowsley Safari park was in a Ford Maverick and the monkeys had off with the spare tyre cover.
I've never been since.
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Adam
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If you must take a Smart car to a safari park you need to hope that the lions are feeling hungry and not s*xy!
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Here?s another reason
www.outuk.com/index.php?http://www.outuk.com/conte.../
Sorry, can?t do links
And before I get any wise cracks back, no this isn?t where I spend my time when I?m not in the back room, I typed "gay cars" into google to prove a point to some Polish motoring journalists who were cooing over some 206cc and a Tigra coupe we were testing. I was surprised to find that the 206cc didn?t make the list but it?s interesting reading nonetheless.
I?m a happily married man with a keen eye for hot chicks.
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Methinks you do protest too much..... Even the handle indicates you are in denial.. out OUT I say.
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I'd be wary of taking any car into one of these safari parks.
A colleague of mine bought a brand new Passat and as a first family outing in the car they went to one of these parks and the monkeys ripped off his, as yet unused, windscreen wipers and scratched the paint.
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I just knew it was gonna be you RF!
Do you think Wavey Davey would have been better?
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The Longleat monkeys were real stars. Went in my old mans car, where one jumped on the bonnet and ripped the wiper blades off. It then proceeded to poop and wipe its big red botty all over the windscreen.
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>>The pun was the whole point of the post!>>
I know......(sigh) I just elaborated on it.
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I always thought Smart cars are good in cities but a bit suspect on mane roads.
As a kid we went there and watched in glee/horror as the car in front had its vinyl roof ripped off in seconds flat by the baboons.
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Always thought baboons had good taste.
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0-62 in under 19 seconds. Truly breathtaking.
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Slow on paper, but they feel much faster behind the wheel! I´ve had a lot of fun in Smarts...
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Is 19 seconds fast for a baboon or slow?
I always think the designer of baboons ran out of ideas when he got to the rear end - it's even more ungainly than a Renault Megane.
Pleasingly ironic, then, that it was the Renault family that got the - shall we call it output, and pronounce it as the French might - all over the windscreen.
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I think it was when he had the VW Beetle. A dung beetle?
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