Tuesday, September 18, 2012
Growing up fast!
It’s so weird. I mean, it was only like a few years ago that mum was always shouting at me that she wasn’t a taxi.
Now I’ve had my own licence for a few years, have been through a Peugeot 206, a Renault Clio, and am now the proud owner of a Vauxhall Vectra (my friends say this makes me square).
If that wasn’t weird enough – on top of actually driving my own car to my own job and being paid in real money, now a few of my friends have gone and had babies.
I often say to them, “C’mon, girls, you’re letting the team down! We’re meant to be the young ones! All the other people are the grown-ups, not us – we’re the kids!”
Still, at least I get to be a godmother, which is pretty cool – although, like I said to Natalia when she asked me if I’d take the job, I’d much rather be known as a godsister to little Keira (it suits me more, I think).
Anyway, I’m still getting my head around things like paying into my pension, paying for car insurance, and saving a deposit for a house. I could do without the added stress of pregnancy, children’s clothes, and the school and nursery run.
On the subject of the school run, What Car? recently discovered that it adds around £52 to the cost of petrol each year. But to be honest, I’m more worried about the 52 extra wrinkles each year you get being a parent.
I’m staying young!!!
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Now I’ve had my own licence for a few years, have been through a Peugeot 206, a Renault Clio, and am now the proud owner of a Vauxhall Vectra (my friends say this makes me square).If that wasn’t weird enough – on top of actually driving my own car to my own job and being paid in real money, now a few of my friends have gone and had babies.
I often say to them, “C’mon, girls, you’re letting the team down! We’re meant to be the young ones! All the other people are the grown-ups, not us – we’re the kids!”
Still, at least I get to be a godmother, which is pretty cool – although, like I said to Natalia when she asked me if I’d take the job, I’d much rather be known as a godsister to little Keira (it suits me more, I think).
Anyway, I’m still getting my head around things like paying into my pension, paying for car insurance, and saving a deposit for a house. I could do without the added stress of pregnancy, children’s clothes, and the school and nursery run.
On the subject of the school run, What Car? recently discovered that it adds around £52 to the cost of petrol each year. But to be honest, I’m more worried about the 52 extra wrinkles each year you get being a parent.
I’m staying young!!!
Image © jencu via Flickr, under Creative Commons Licence
Labels: car, insurance, licence, petrol, Peugeot, Renault Clio, taxi, Vauxhall
Monday, September 10, 2012
Are you having to put fuel before family?
I am about to pull you into a confusing and ridiculous dreamscape – just go with it.
You’ve just driven your car down a long road, and suddenly your car begins to take over. You let go of the steering wheel, but it keeps trundling along. It seems to know where it’s going – and soon you are in a petrol station forecourt. One of the pumps unhooks itself and turns its little oily eyes towards you.
It says, “You’ll have to cancel that Sunday Roast, mate. This is going to cost you more than you thought.”
All of a sudden, your pockets, which were filled with money, are empty, and you leave the forecourt feeling annoyed.
Ok – when I click my fingers you will wake up.
Right, so, how do you feel? Did that dreamscape hold some parallel to your real life?
According to Hyundai, it should do. A surprising number of people have had to stop visiting their family as often because of fuel costs, with 60% of families missing out on gathering together for the Sunday Roast.
Don’t despair though – there are ways to save on the costs of motoring. One of them is by driving in a safe and economically friendly manner. Another, which might help low mileage motorists and young drivers receive a cheaper quote upon renewal, is by purchasing telematics car insurance.
Get a quote and see if that Sunday Roast is back on the cards!
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Labels: car, drive, family, forecourt, low mileage, money, petrol, pumps, quote, road, steering wheel, Sunday Roast, telematics, visit, young driver
Monday, September 3, 2012
The safest car
There are a lot of things to consider when buying a new car, such as its engine size, boot capacity, fuel type, and a whole host of other factors which might affect drivability and car insurance cost.
However, one thing some people might forget about when purchasing a new vehicle – whether it’s second-hand or fresh off the forecourt – is its safety score.Well, for people worried about the safety of their car, there’s one vehicle they can rely on to keep them very, very safe indeed.
That, according to the Euro NCAP tests, is the Volvo V40.
Reportedly, this vehicle achieved the highest ever recorded score. It was tested on adult and child occupant protection, safety assist, and pedestrian protection, and excelled in all!
The car is available at a starting price of £19,745. I’m going to start saving up!
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Labels: boot capacity, car, car insurance, cost, drivability, engine, Euro NCAP, forecourt, fuel, new, protection, safety, safety assist, second-hand, test, vehicle, Volvo V40
Thursday, August 30, 2012
Wheel Clamp Man faces prosecution
Hoot! doesn’t know what to say about Wheel Clamp Man, the lycra jumpsuited and speedo-wearing “superhero” who takes an industrial strength saw to zealously clamped vehicles so that he can remove them.
For anyone who’s ever had their vehicle opportunistically clamped by a “clamping cowboy”, it would be easy to see how he might be viewed as some kind of hero. Stories abound of drivers having their cars clamped as they briefly pull up outside their own homes, during doctor emergency calls and even mid-heart attack with stricken drivers still actually behind the wheel.All the “superhero” asks in return for saving drivers the £88 release fee is a small donation to be given to a homeless charity.
But, in a strict interpretation of the law, police have described the man as “a menace” and have said that they “will deal with him”.
Yet, Wheel Clamp Man is not cowed. “I’m helping people out. I don’t feel I’m damaging property,” he said.
“The amount of money these companies make off innocent people is insane. Where does that money go? Not into car parks or safer streets. It goes into their pocket.”
Wheel Clamp Man describes himself as on a crusade for justice that was inspired by, he says, being unfairly clamped in the past.
But it seems he might need real-life superpowers if he is to avoid being prosecuted.
Image © Cristiano Betta via Flickr, under Creative Commons Licence
Labels: car, driver, law, police, vehicle, wheel, Wheel Clamp Man
Tuesday, August 28, 2012
App for avoiding a red light
Fed up of being caught by red lights?
Not only is it frustrating getting stuck behind a red – sometimes for several lights in a row – but stopping and starting all the time is uneconomical when it comes to fuel and can cause car wear and tear. A group of researchers in Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA, are trying to solve this problem, and have come up with a clever mobile phone app.
It’s still being tested at the moment, and there are no reports as to whether it would eventually be released for sale in the UK, but here’s how it works.
Mounting a phone on a vehicle’s dashboard allows the device to take photos of any traffic lights being approached by car.
By sending several photos of the lights to a computer, which analyses the information, the mobile phone then receives an estimated speed at which the motorist should drive to avoid having to stop at a red light.
To avoid the road user having to pick up the handset, the information is not sent via text. Instead, one quick glance at the phone’s screen, without any need to remove it from its mount on the dash, should tell the driver what they need to know.
One would imagine that the app will not encourage motorists to speed in order to avoid the red. It is likely the app will signal that the driver should slow the car so by the time they reach the lights they have turned green again.
I’m guessing that there will also be a message on the screen at times which states something along the lines of ‘sorry – there’s no way you can miss this one – so don’t even try’.
Photo © dlofink via Flickr, under Creative Commons Licence
Labels: app, car, dashboard, fuel, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, mobile phone, red light, speed, traffic light
Monday, August 20, 2012
Shelley the self-driving car
The Dynamic Design Lab at Stanford University, California, and the Volkswagen Electronics Research Lab have made a very speedy self-driving car.
Shelley – that’s the vehicle’s name – can drive up to 120mph and managed to complete a three-mile-long race track in less than 2minutes and 30seconds.
That’s impressive – and even more remarkable when you realise that all of this was done by using algorithms (complicated mathematical instructions to you and I).
Shelley has a boot-full of electronics which guide her and tell her when to brake, how tightly she needs to take a corner, and so on and so forth.
While it might seem this technology may be being tested to allow people in the future to be driven about by autonomous cars, the labs are actually working towards providing safety systems which will – for example – help motorists negotiate icy roads.
Before you start to get worried that machines will be taking over every aspect of our lives and will be better than humans at all the tasks we set them, don’t worry too much.
Apparently, although Shelley can drive at 120mph, that’s still a few seconds slower than a professional human racing car driver. Ha! Take that technology!
Photo © Ana Patricia Almedia via Flickr, under Creative Commons Licence
Labels: 120mph, brake, car, Dynamic Design Lab, icy roads, race track, safety, self-driving, Shelley, Stanford University, vehicle, Volkswagen Electronics Research Lab
Monday, July 23, 2012
Sardine-related traffic
Have you ever been driving along, heard a rattling noise and thought – which door isn’t closed properly?
Well I know I have, and luckily every time it’s happened I’ve found a safe place to pull over, get out of the car, and close the door firmly before continuing my journey. One delivery truck driver in Poland wasn’t so lucky though, since he failed to close the rear doors correctly, and didn’t notice in time.
This resulted in 24 tonnes of sardines spilling out onto the road, reportedly covering several hundred meters of the highway and bringing other road users to a standstill for hours while the fish were cleared up.
The truck driver was fined £50, and also had to pay £5,000 for the clearing of the road.
One motorist caught in the traffic stated, “At first we thought it was some sort of divine judgement – like a plague of locusts or frogs.”
I may very well have thought the same thing had I encountered thousands of tiny fish on the road – it can’t have smelt particularly divine through…
Hopefully the driver will be more careful next time. What a waste of fish!
Photo © rockyeda via Flickr, under Creative Commons Licence
Labels: car, closed, door, driver, driving, fish, highway, journey, Poland, rattling, sardines, traffic, truck
Monday, July 9, 2012
Former racer against speed increase
A race driver bemoaning a possible increase in the speed limit for the UK’s highways? That’s odd.
Well, Damon Hill, a former world champion race driver who has won the Grand Prix 22 times, has said that he thinks an increase from 70mph to 80mph on motorways would be a disaster. The ex-racer, who retired in 1999, explains, "Most people aren't safe to drive over 55. The speed limit going up to 80mph makes me shudder.
"People mostly drive too fast on the motorway and too close to the car in front. They think they know what they're doing and they don't."
This might sound like a big insult to a large number of this country’s motorists, but in comparison to him we must all be pretty unskilled behind the wheel.
Unfortunately, whereas Mr Hill states that he doesn’t like driving over 70mph because he finds it stressful, it’s usually the most unskilled and inconsiderate road users among us who decide to ignore the speed limit regulations.
Talking about his ‘boy racer’ days, Hill says, “I escaped by the skin of my teeth when I was younger because I was a good driver, but that didn't make it OK."
It’s a shame we can’t give reckless road users some hindsight, so that they could see how dangerously they are behaving. Sadly some of these motorists might not learn how important being safe behind the wheel is until it’s too late.
Photo © Supermac1961 via Flickr, under Creative Commons Licence
Labels: car, Damon Hill, drive, driving, Grand Prix, highway, motorway, race driver, road users, speed limit
Wednesday, June 6, 2012
Learning lessons
When you’re only just starting out at something, whatever it is, there’s no point pretending that you know it all. Even if others don’t find you out, you yourself will.
This maxim applies more to being a young driver than it does doing most things. After all, driving can be a matter of life and death, so it’s always worth admitting what you don’t know and moving on from there.
With this in mind it’s good advice to learn from the tragic example of 21-year-old young woman driver from the South of England who lost her life in a recent accident.
Only three-months after passing her test, the girl was approaching a roundabout in her Ford Ka car, when, apparently following the instructions of her satnav, she took the first exit.
Little did she know that it was actually a slip road and that she was travelling in the wrong direction. As a result, she collided head-on with an oncoming BMW.
The girl’s mother has wise words of warning for any young driver, “Satnavs are a help to youngsters on the road who don’t know where they are going but young drivers have so much to think about.
“If they are following the satnav they can’t always be aware of the road.
“If the satnav tells you to get off there you just think it’s telling you the right thing. She believed she was doing the right thing and didn’t question it.”
Furthermore, she thinks that satnavs “should be included in some way in driving lessons... maybe it would stop a tragedy like this happening again”. An interesting idea, and one that is certainly worth of consideration.
What do you think?
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Labels: car, Ford Ka, young driver
Friday, April 27, 2012
Diesel drivers don’t drive enough
Everyone’s trying to save money, and I don’t blame them.
Times are tough for many people at the moment, so it’s wise to cut down on any costs which can be reduced without having a detrimental effect on day-to-day life or safety. In an attempt to save themselves money in the long term some people have been buying diesel vehicles, believing them to be cheaper to run.
However, statistics from Glass’s Guide, the car valuation expert, shows that in fact the cost of running a diesel car is only cheaper than a petrol car if the driver travels 10,000 miles annually or more.
For some motorists, this isn’t a problem, but a spokesperson from Glass’s Guide states that the organisation knows a large majority of diesel owners are wasting their hard-earned cash.
Reportedly, 8,763,500 drivers of diesel cars drive less than 10,000 miles a year, which means that they would probably be better off with a petrol vehicle.
Potentially, this lot might even be able to save money by getting telematics insurance for low-mileage drivers.
If you think you might be one of the people spending more money than necessary on your car, why not work out how many miles you travel a year? You could save a lot of money, which will allow you to start buying those weekly take-aways again – don’t worry ‐ your secret is safe with me.
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Labels: car, cheaper, costs, diesel, driver, Glass’s Guide, low-mileage, petrol, save money, telematics, vehicle
Monday, April 23, 2012
Road markings cause bafflement down south
Is a car illegally parked if it encroaches slightly onto a set of clearly defined double yellow lines? That's the question hot on the lips of motorists in the area of Poole in Dorset.
The answer, according to the rule de minimis is that it depends. Apparently the law does not concern itself with issues where a very slight infringement has been made.Where this would leave a driver who parked along the 26 inch long double yellow lines of Poole's Clarendon Road is highly debatable.
What is clear is that this would never have become an issue if the council had not decided to paint double yellow lines in the spaces left vacant by the town's motorists.
In a bid to clarify the matter Poole Council's Senior Engineer said, “Obviously lining contractors often find that there are cars parking in places where they need to paint lines and they paint as much as they can and then return to finish the gaps.”
Perhaps it would have been better for all involved had the workers been granted the right to temporarily restrict access to the road.
However, as the cyclists who've had the pleasure of navigating an eight foot long Exeter cycle lane would testify, the southern council representatives don't seem to mind causing a bit of confusion every now and then.
Photo © dumbledad via Flickr, under Creative Commons Licence
Labels: car, cycle lane, double yellow line, illegally parked, motorist, parking, Poole
Tuesday, April 10, 2012
Youngsters prefer to surf than drive
It is a sure sign of the times that youngsters are choosing to connect with each other via social networking websites, rather than in traditional get-togethers. Indeed, recently conducted American research would seem to suggest that boy and girl racers are increasingly regarded as old fashioned stereotypes.
The academics who carried out the study were intrigued to discover that a higher proportion of men and women aged under 30 were in possession of full driving licenses in 1983 than today. Apparently this proves the hypothesis that internet and mobile interaction act as a replication of real-world contact for some youngsters.One might expect parents to be worried about the possibility of their offspring becoming increasingly ‘switched-off’ from the outside world. However, there is some evidence to prove that the older generation have been just as affected by the online bug.
A motoring expert said, “In every other generation, kids had to leave the house to see their friends and now you can do all that online. A car is no longer required. It's the first time we've seen that and that's why it's a little bit alarming”
Perhaps one way to ignite a passion for motoring among the young community would be to develop technologically advanced cars such as the Aiolos Concept or the Kinetia Cuboy. Racing superstars such as Jenson Button and Lewis Hamilton could also play a part in generating interest.
Personally though, I think the main problem might be the cost of cover at the moment – luckily we’re here to help with that!
Photo © Dunedin NZ via Flickr under Creative Commons Licence
Labels: car, cover, full driving licenses, Jenson Button, Lewis Hamilton, motoring, racers
Monday, April 2, 2012
Driver-inflicted windscreen damage
Imagine the scenario, you're idly cruising along a scenic countryside lane when out of nowhere a suicidal duck comes hurtling towards your car windscreen. Such a scenario may be enough to deter some people from ever taking to the road again.
Rather worryingly the windscreen repair specialists Autoglass have reported that such events occur with some regularity. Indeed, during the last year alone the motoring public have made calls about snowball and pheasant-related damage.
One may well wonder how the call centre staff managed to keep the smirks from their faces when being told about the man who parked in front of a golfer’s tee, or the apparently evil intentions of the most adorable feathered critters.
They must also have struggled to resist a laugh at the expense of the motorist who managed to cause damage by scraping their windscreen with a Susan Boyle CD. Apparently such tales are only to be expected as part of working life at an auto repair company.
The Autoglass Managing Director said, “The UK's potholed and congested roads don't make things easy for motorists, but sometimes it seems vehicle and glass damage is self inflected or the result of freak occurrences.”
Photo © dan taylor via Flickr, under Creative Commons Licence
Labels: auto repair, car, countryside lane, damage, duck, motoring, motorist, parked, road, windscreen
Friday, March 23, 2012
Leaving a window open is not enough
It’s that time again...the sun is coming out more often and the inside of your car is likely to get very hot, very quickly!So, if you’re travelling with a dog in your car, or any live animal for that matter, you need to be aware of the dangers posed to animals in hot cars.
The RSPCA’s campaign – Dogs die in hot cars – carries the message that you should not leave your dog alone in a car and passers-by who see an animal in a car on a hot day are encouraged to call the police.
It’s also probably a good idea to be aware that you could be prosecuted under the Animal Welfare Act if you have put your animal at risk.
The RSPCA advises that leaving a window open or putting a sunshield over the windscreen is not enough and that heatstroke in a dog can be fatal.
To find out more about heatstroke in dogs please go to the RSPCA website and remember DOGS DIE IN HOT CARS!
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Labels: animal, Animal Welfare Act, car, dog, heatstroke, hot, hot cars, RSPCA, window
Monday, February 27, 2012
Ompton man’s dummy camera
Whether you’re in your car or walking along the pavement, it’s easy to get angry at speeding motorists who put other people’s lives at risk with their dangerous driving.
One 50-year-old man living in Ompton, Nottinghamshire, has got so frustrated by road users travelling through the village at high speeds that he has installed his own dummy speed camera. The speed limit through the village used to be 60mph, which was then reduced to 40mph. However, the locals have been campaigning for it to be reduced once again to 30mph.
The maker of the dummy speed camera states that he built it after the council failed to put up a camera itself or further lower the speed limit.
It cost him £250 to make using scrap metal, and he believes it’s just the thing to cut down on the number of people driving too fast, however, he states, “I’ve been told if someone causes an accident by obeying the legal speed limit through the village, then it’s my fault.”
The highways district manager has told the man that if anyone claimed that they had crashed due to the presence of the dummy camera, he would be liable for civil action.
Well, we applaud this man for trying to make his village a safer place, however dubious the methods may be, his intentions are good, and we hope that all the villagers see a reduction in the number of speeding motorists as a result.
Photo © Pug50 via Flickr, under Creative Commons Licence
Labels: car, dangerous driving, dummy speed camera, motorist, Nottinghamshire, Ompton, road users, speeding, village
Friday, December 23, 2011
Christmas shopping in style
When I finally bite the bullet and attempt to do my Christmas shopping, I usually decide that taking my car is definitely the way to go. Hours of shopping can make my feet very weary, and being able to pile my shopping into the boot without the need to wait half an hour for a bus tends to make my life a lot easier!
However, it seems that for a couple of shoppers in Knightsbridge a standard-size car simply wasn’t big enough for all to their Christmas shopping. It has been reported that two men pulled up outside the prestigious department store Harrods in a stretch Ferrari.
The driver of the bright red vehicle struggled to find an appropriate parking space and seemed happy to settle for stopping on the double yellow lines outside the front of the shop.
Reportedly, the car is a one off and boasts the title of fastest stretch limousine in the world – also it’s worth an estimated £250,000.
According to the designer of the Ferrari, the vehicle can fit eight people inside, so I’m pretty sure that these two shoppers will have easily been able to find space for their purchases once they had finished their (probably very expensive) shopping spree.
Photo © MikeDixson via Flickr, under Creative Commons Licence
Labels: boot, bus, car, christmas, Ferrari, shopping, stretch Limousine
Monday, December 19, 2011
Time travelling traffic warden
Traffic wardens do tend to swoop in like vultures sometimes don’t they…
One innocent man fell victim to what must be the world’s fastest traffic warden ever know to human-kind recently. A 53-year-old man had parked his car in Ludlow but was out of the parking bay for more than two hours when he went home, before he returned to park in the same space.
When he came back to his car later that day he found that he’d been given a ticket, but, unlike many people, he thought that since he’d already been ticketed earlier in the week it was a bit excessive and warranted an investigation.
Looking at the official traffic warden logs he found that the warden had noted giving him a ticket at 2.40pm in Ludlow, but apparently managed to give another car a parking ticket 35 seconds later 28 miles away in Shrewsbury.
Impressive, huh?
Needless to say, this showed that the warden hadn’t bothered checking on the man’s car. If he had he’d have noticed that the car had been moved during the day before returning and therefore not been in the space for longer than allowed in one stretch.
Luckily, a tribunal ruled in the motorist’s favour and overturned the ticket.
Still, beware the lightning-fast traffic warden. He is estimated to travel at 3,013mph, so you might have an unfair ticket before you know it!
Photo © Instant Vantage via Flickr, under Creative Commons Licence
Labels: car, parked, ticket, traffic warden
Friday, December 2, 2011
Disobeying disabled bay rules
Here at Hoot we are often baffled by the arrogance of some of the motorists we read about in the news, and we’ve found a new driver to shake our heads and tut at today!
A man in his 40 in Essex decided to park his Bugatti Veyron, a sleek car worth around £839,000, in a disabled bay.It is important at this moment to say that there was no disabled badge on display!
Passers by were taking photos of the fancy car on their mobile phones when a traffic warden spotted the offending vehicle and wrote the driver a well-deserved ticket.
When the owner returned to his vehicle, a witness states that he didn’t seem that bothered by the ticket, got into his car and sped away from the scene.
It is irritating that although the man didn’t escape without a ticket – the maximum fine is £1000 – it’s probably just loose change for someone who owns such an expensive vehicle!
We can only hope that this fine means he can’t buy as many cocktails when he goes on his yearly tropical holiday this Christmas…
Grrr!
Photo © Sudhanwa.. via Flickr, under Creative Commons Licence
Labels: Bugatti Veyron, car, disabled bay, Essex, fine, motorists, park, ticket, traffic warden, vehicle
Monday, November 28, 2011
Oh, grandmother, what an empty fuel tank your car has!
When you think of grandmothers you probably envision a kindly elderly woman sat on a plump sofa, with fluffy slippers, knitting something. Maybe with a cat or two next to her.
When you think of thieves you probably envision people sneaking about silently dressed in dark clothes. Well this story is about two grandmothers, but un-stereotypically they are both thieves, and un-stereotypical thieves at that.
Stealing £400 of alcohol at an ASDA in Chadderton on the outskirts of Manchester, these women piled the loot from their trolley into their car but didn’t make a very swift getaway.
This is mainly due to the fact they’d forgotten that for a car to work, it needs petrol.
A fundamental mistake really.
Furthermore, they took so much alcohol that they struggled to close the vehicle’s boot, had to ask a passer by to help them push the car to ASDA’s own petrol station to fill up, were filmed committing their crime on several different CCTV cameras, and were stupid enough to try their stunt again at another supermarket in the area later that day.
You’ll be thankful to know that these two thieving grandmothers were caught.
Photo © Sean McEntee via Flickr, under Creative Commons Licence
Labels: alcohol, ASDA, boot, car, CCTV, Chadderton, crime, grandmother, petrol, steal, thieves
Monday, October 10, 2011
An alternative way to create a road trip soundtrack
Here at Hoot, we love to prepare a CD or tune into the radio to make our car journeys more enjoyable.
However, most drivers wouldn’t even dream of the method used by an ambitious trio of young men in Russia to ensure that they could rock out on a highway.The three men have been filmed sitting astride a motorbike and sidecar while travelling along a busy road in Russia, but that’s not the strange part. While one of them drove the vehicle, another played a drum kit positioned on the sidecar whilst the final man, seated on the bike behind the driver, strummed a guitar
Although an unusual vision, the musicians appear to be having the jamming session of their lives as they all display bright grins.
The English translation of the video title reads ‘Town Musicians of Bremen’, which is a Brothers Grimm fairytale in which a donkey, a dog, a cat and rooster embark on a journey to Bremen in the hope of making it as musicians.
The animals’ strange musical sound scares some robbers out of a house on route, conveniently giving the mismatched four a place to live happily ever after.
Despite the main stars of the viral film having not yet been identified, the video has scored well over a million views. Impressive, but not a technique we’ll be trying out anytime soon!
Photo © treehouse1977 via Flickr, under Creative Commons Licence
Labels: car, fairytale, journey, musicians, radio, road, vehicle