Last Friday Hungary made the pages of super-popular American car blog Jalopnik thanks to a spectacular incident earlier that day in which a crane being used to build the new Metro 4 station stop at Baross tér fell over and almost chopped a parked car in half (above left). It was a great and grizzly item as these things go, especially since the driver of the car had just gotten out. But we’ve got it beat.
By a rather unnerving coincidence, just the day before the accident in Budapest, a motorcyclist was actually chopped in half by the sharp end of the digging bucket on a backhoe he collided with on a street somewhere in Debrecen (above right). No word on whether one half or the other of the poor guy ended up in the bucket, but at this point, you have to figure it’s pretty much a given. Oh and by the way, the very same day that the motorcyclist was being divvied up in Debrecen, a glider being piloted by an Australian collided head-on with a tractor trailer near Szeged, thrusting the plane’s wing through the windshield (right), critically injuring – though apparently not bisecting – the driver. For his part the pilot escaped, as they say, all in one piece. [haon.hu/origo.hu]
Sing along everyone….nobody does it better, not
like we do, we’re the best!
At this rate, there won’t be any Hungarians left by the end of next year…