Ibiza Motoring

Every now and then I'm able to raise a smile at some of the motoring mayhem stories that appear in the local paper - mainly because I'm not involved in them. The general theme running through them is a 50cc brain, a 2 litre motor and a tree!

You've already got the picture but I'm going to supply the details from two articles from the last two days.

Article one. Some rich bloke bought his son a brand new car for Christmas and the son duly piled it into a tree and wrote it off completely the same day. It was a €60,000 Porsche.

Article 2. In Playa den Bossa the wonderful 'La Griferia' (you have your own computer controlled beer pump on your table) was subjected to another assassination attempt by a suicide motorist. This is the seventh time a car has ended up either in it or on its terrace since it opened and the fourth time this year.

This powerful Audi was going just a bit too fast, hit the only remaining tree (all the others went in previous accidents) and just missed two kids drinking lemonade on the terrace. When it caught fire, alert staff, used to this kind of thing happening, doused the flames (thankfully with the contents of a fire extinguisher and not the beer pump)

Image from Ultima Hora

(You can just see the tree, branches akimbo, in the photo)