Ford employee chases spy photographer in 2008 F-250
To hear Chris Doane tell it, the day was like any other. He stumbled upon a 2008 Ford Super Duty F-250 Powerstroke in a parking lot and started snapping away. The driver eventually returned and this is where Doane's day took a sharp turn towards the bizarre and frightening. The driver in question, who our sources tell us is indeed a Ford employee, snapped a synapse and chased Doane on public roads for a half an hour, including following him in and out of parking lots, tailgating him while running through highway traffic, and nearly swallowing his car in the gaping maw of the F-250's grille at stoplights. To hear it in Doane's own words is a treat, and you can do so here. As for the Ford employee who lost control of his 'roid rage, it's just a 2008 Super Duty, man. Chill. We've got three posts up linking to spy shots of the next F-350 here, here and here. It's not like you were driving a C1 Focus or next-gen Mustang.
Thanks SobeSVT for the tip!
[Source: Cheers and Gears]
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
saab99 8:18PM (7/20/2006)
"How's My Driving? Call 1-800-FIRE-ME"
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Michael Karesh 8:22PM (7/20/2006)
This was also posted at GMInsideNews here:
http://www.gminsidenews.com/forums/showthread.php?t=34400
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Dan 8:23PM (7/20/2006)
Wow! That's a crazy story! Is it the first time you hear that type of story?
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JC Whitless 8:33PM (7/20/2006)
Wow! That's a crazy story! Is it the first time you hear that type of story?
That Story reminds me of a Story I heard one time about a guy telling a Story.
Now that is a great Story
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Pa Kettle 8:42PM (7/20/2006)
This guy was really taking his job seriously. I wouldn't care, I would probably have helped the guy get better pictures.
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Jay 8:57PM (7/20/2006)
Wow, they weren't kidding about those bold moves...
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MikeW 9:18PM (7/20/2006)
Five words: Tele-Active Shock Electronic Repulsion, okay one word TASER
If he makes a furtive gesture, drop him!
Make a HUGE fiasco, TV news crews, cops, fire dept.,
etc.
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Kelvin.Choy 9:23PM (7/20/2006)
i bet the employee was in bad mood that day...it's too crazy
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Tim UF 9:33PM (7/20/2006)
Do the auto companies think they are hiding anything with all that zebra striping? I mean, if i saw a big assed zebra striped ford super duty, i would be drawn to it. Not so much because i'm a truck fan, but because, well, its a big ass truck someone wants to look like a zebra.
Why dont they just paint it matte black ?
And... if they thought spy shots were that big of a deal, theyd never have allowed the truck out in the first place, so what bug crawled up that FoMoCo employee's ass?
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PJ 9:35PM (7/20/2006)
Who's surprised? This doesn't sound too different from the typical Super Duty driver 'round the Bay Area. Oh, the fun I've had letting testosterone-crazed, duallie-driving jackasses tailgate me right up to their 90 MPH speed limiters...
"you've almost got me, almost... almost...! Oh, gee, I'm really gettin' scared now... "
"Oh, aww, is *that* where you top out? Oh, I'm so... I'm terribly sorry. Maybe we can do this again sometime, but you know, I've really got to run."
:-)
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Tim UF 9:39PM (7/20/2006)
So, I'm an engineer for Boeing. Imagine if I were out tooling around in say... one of these: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AH-64_Apache
I could do a lot more road rage damage with that than a super duty ever could over a few spy shots, heh.
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Hank 9:44PM (7/20/2006)
My guess is that this guy was slacking off, or where he wasn't supposed to be and didn't want someone takin' pictures of him more than no wanting pics of the truck.
From the look of the pictures, I'm guessing this guy's going postal in a McD's sometimes soon, too.
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Dan Gauss 9:45PM (7/20/2006)
It's okay... he had the cloaking device activated.
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Mr Oblong 10:00PM (7/20/2006)
Keep clocking the "Loser" points Ford Motor CO.
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Seth 10:04PM (7/20/2006)
I'm 17. i drive a little gold nissan. i've had my fair share of idiot soccer moms trying to plow me off the road in a suburban/Excursion/School bus. Until of course,i drop to 3rd gear and go for a sharp corner. I can't understand how someone with a car that big can act like they have that small a brain.
Shakespeare has nine simple rules involving SUVs.
"If thou can't drive it,thou shouldn't buyeth it.
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Rastus 10:07PM (7/20/2006)
Tim, t
Too bad Boeing sucked in their performance of the Comanche...otherwise Congress wouldn't have pulled the plug:
http://www.defensetech.org/archives/images/comanche_small.JPG
And regarding this guy from Ford...what do you expect from a Penis Leach employee from FORD!!! Afterall, it's not like he's working for Hyundai...3-4 rungs up the ladder. So this is just another case of angry white-trash ...angry for the sake of being...angry.
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bob h. 10:25PM (7/20/2006)
This story is suspicously like another story that was floating around a couple of months ago about a engineer in a Ford truck. In that story the couple that were taking the pictures were not "spy" photographers but just curious folks...very similiar description of the reaction from the engineer...Which story is real??? Which is propaganda? or do all Ford engineers react this way? The way forward redefined?
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Rastus 10:37PM (7/20/2006)
Make that Penis Leech (sp)...with a capital "P".
Wow, such emotion you angry SOB :D
Go leech on to your penis, it'll be alright.
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Stoneman 10:42PM (7/20/2006)
That article is a year old. Not new.....but interesting.
-S
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PiCASSO 11:21PM (7/20/2006)
"Why dont they just paint it matte black ?"
Mainly because you want to hide the sheet metal features. The zebra (or black & white combination) camouflauge makes it difficult for digital artists to put accurate PhotoShop/Sketches for the public.
OEM vehicle development prefer this over the plastic covers (full body bra) since the zebra camouflauge is only a "sticker" on the vehicle and doesn't create drag on the vehicle, which causes noise and other non-production representative aspects.
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