VIDEO: Repairing your own Maybach
Going hand-in-hand with the wrecked Maybach we found, here is one of the most appalling thing we've ever seen. This is a great example of what not to do to any car. Romanian soccer team owner and billionaire Gheorge Becali managed to rack up the ne plus ultra of Mercedes at least four times. Out came the crowbars, away went pieces of the doorskin. We wept openly. The Maybach may not be a looker, but it certainly doesn't deserve this type of sadism.
Thanks to tipster maddan.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
Gale @ Dec 22nd 2006 2:42PM
The terms "billionaire" and "nice guy" seldom intersect, but they NEVER intersect in Russia. There are two ways to get wealthy in Russia: 1) Be a member of the Russian mob, and 2)Chew up the poor and spit them out with gusto.
So this couldn't happen to a nicer guy. Obviously he's not the sharpest knife in the drawer, either.
P to the C @ Dec 22nd 2006 2:52PM
Wow, this guy doesn't make you very optimistic about the human race. What a moron.
Alex @ Dec 22nd 2006 2:58PM
First of all, Gale, you are a complete idiot when it comes to other nations. You know nothing about Russia, or Romania, such as that these are two COMPLETELY different countries and were NEVER a part of the same country.
Also, most of people in Russia are quite prosperous these days. I know, I visited Russia last September.
Thirdly (and finally to the point of this video), I think it's very cool. There is a strong feeling of Boratish absurdity in here! (Now recall that faux-Kazakhstan hometown of Borat was actually filmed in Romania).
:)
Edsel @ Dec 22nd 2006 3:09PM
I'd be just as frantic to fix my Maybach knowing it was either take a crow bar to it or take the donkey cart to work.
SoloTwo @ Dec 22nd 2006 3:40PM
What the hell is this retard trying to accomplish except show that he's certainly lacking any mechanical skill whatsoever.
I still haven't figured out exactly what he was trying to destroy.
BOB @ Dec 22nd 2006 3:50PM
WELL, those decades of Soviet rule did not help the Rumanians to bring out the classiest part of their culture.
To those who do not "get" what he is doing: he is showing the world that he is so rich, that he can treat a Maybach like an old tractor, and it does not matter. Perhaps Vulgaria would be a better name for his world.
George Krpan @ Dec 22nd 2006 3:50PM
Oh boy, rich bastards doing stupid shit.
Car videos & Motorcycle videos @ Dec 22nd 2006 5:26PM
And to think there are people starving in this world :(
Peugeot @ Dec 22nd 2006 6:12PM
Um, people he'd sideswiped a pole or something earlier, so taking a crowbar to the door was the only way to get it open.
Nico @ Dec 22nd 2006 6:15PM
Do you see why we can't have nice things?
Keano @ Dec 22nd 2006 7:04PM
This is the country's idiot! yeah his rich..so what..he brings my country down!(yeah I'm a Romanian). The dude is on tv twice a week, and if you get to see him you'll be amazed, his the stupidest man I've ever seen.
John P. @ Dec 22nd 2006 7:55PM
His little bodywork job with the crowbar was an improvement to that maybach, what?
Jake @ Dec 22nd 2006 8:28PM
If he does this two a car how would he treat a human?
zzz @ Dec 22nd 2006 8:43PM
Dynamite story. "Billionaire messes up his very expensive, not that interesting, and admittedly ugly car, and he doesn't even seem to care. Waaaaah! Oh the humanity!"
No offense but it really comes of as sycophantic and weird to care so much about a car that's only distinguishing feature is its price tag.
JB @ Dec 22nd 2006 8:45PM
If he was so rich, he would be able to afford more than one car.
Grajeda @ Dec 22nd 2006 10:55PM
wtf???
this is exactly what you are not supposed to do ever.
Andy @ Dec 22nd 2006 11:53PM
Alex (#3):
You need some corrections. Most people in Russia are VERY POOR. The poverty is such a problem that it is a high contributor to the suicide rate among adult men and the declining population. Male life expectancy is just sixty-one years. The per capita income is just over $4,000.
Another correction: Romania was a puppet state of the USSR during the Cold War. The Russian army took over the country in 1944-45 and installed a pro-Soviet republic in power with troop divisions stationed throughout the country for added preserve the state socialist government. The Russians withdrew after civil unrest in East Europe and the killing of Nicolae Ceauşescu in 1989.
C @ Dec 23rd 2006 12:37AM
He's so rich he doesn't even know there's another door on the other side.
Troll House Cookie @ Dec 23rd 2006 3:12AM
If it weren't for Romania there wouldn't be any Caesar Salad. Must have Romaine lettuce for that, right?
Thomas @ Dec 23rd 2006 4:07AM
I was expecting him to say "GREAT SUCCESS!!" at the end