Crime 58 twelve packs of Stolen Miller Genuine Draft found crammed in hatchback

[The Helper]

Two budding Christchurch beer barons had their booze heist foiled by police who stopped their low-riding hatchback to find 58 dozen bottles of Miller Genuine Draft crammed inside.

Police say the car was "packed to the gunwales" with the allegedly stolen 696 bottles of beer last Friday night.

Acting Sergeant Gordie Myer said the Mazda 323 was stopped in Opawa Rd after being seen "literally driving on its springs", weighed down with beer.

Police found another 33 dozen bottles at a Bordesley St, Phillipstown, house soon after.

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[FireCat]

Haha, That's pretty dumb.

 

[Sevion]

696 bottles of beer in the car, 696 bottles of beer.
Pop the cap, down the beer, 695 bottles of beer in the car!

 

[Varine]

696 bottles of beer in the car, 696 bottles of beer.
Pop the cap, down the beer, 695 bottles of beer in the car!

Damn dude that would be awesome. My calculations come to, assuming each bottle was 12 ounces, 8352 ounces of beer in that car. That is 522 pounds which really isn't that much for a car to hold actually... I don't see how it would be down to 'driving on it's springs'. I've had that if not more in my little sedan without much of a problem.

 

[Slapshot136]

those are glass bottles - 600 of them, they probably weight as much as the beer itself

 

[Varine]

I'll go weigh one of mine. Regardless, I've had like five 150+ pound people in the backseat of my car, plus at least six hundred pounds of shit in the trunk, and didn't do much. I meant it took a toll, but it didn't drop considerably and even if it did since when is that a reason to pull someone over?

 

[Wiseman_2]

In Ireland at the height of the Troubles, one of the tell-tale signs of a car bomb was a sagging suspension. The IRA's car bombs were not always large enough to do that, but 500lb devices could probably be spotted by the suspension sagging.

Might I also ask what car you had? This was a small hatchback so probably wasn't built to handle such large loads

 

[ReVolver]

Sir, have you been drinking tonight?

*Burp* no offiser sir. I dunt drink

 

[Tru_Power22]

Hm...

It seems the man never got a chance to wet his whistle.

*Takes off sunglasses*

YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH-

 

[Varine]

In Ireland at the height of the Troubles, one of the tell-tale signs of a car bomb was a sagging suspension. The IRA's car bombs were not always large enough to do that, but 500lb devices could probably be spotted by the suspension sagging.

Might I also ask what car you had? This was a small hatchback so probably wasn't built to handle such large loads

I have a Sonata. I've driven hatchbacks too, it just doesn't seem like very much weight to me.

 

[The Helper]

Ha! Still funny 13 years later