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Burning Mercedes

Help me get my photo of Amy’s Burning Mercedes up on Fail Blog.  All you have to do is click through on the picture below and vote for it. 

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And yes – that really is Amy’s old Mercedes on fire in our driveway.  Oops.

January 31st, 2010     Categories: Personal    
  • Pablo

    Wow! I hope everyone is all right!

  • http://intensedebate.com/people/bfeld bfeld

    Yup – we are.  This was from a few years ago.  Amy showed extreme courage by getting in the car after the fire had started (smoke only), turning the car on, and backing it away from the house and the two other cars it was parked between.  By the time she got out, the fire had really gotten started.

  • http://www.facebook.com/bruce.wyman Bruce Wyman

    Man, if this is how parties at your place *usually* end, I'm not going to the right parties…

  • http://intensedebate.com/people/steve_bergs2127 steve_bergs2127

    Maybe that wasn't courage . . .

    Getting into a burning car?

  • http://intensedebate.com/people/bfeld bfeld

    Hah!  Only the parties in my mind.

  • http://intensedebate.com/people/bfeld bfeld

    Irrational courage!

  • http://intensedebate.com/people/micah105 micah105

    Oy. You need help. I re-captioned it: http://cheezburger.com/view.aspx?ciid=6654484 now it fits better on fail blog. (Sheesh, adults these days…)

  • http://www.howtobecomeapoliceofficer.org.uk jonson

    Interesting blog thats good shearing points keep it up about work become a police office

  • http://twitter.com/DonaldFoss Donald E. Foss

    So what's the real story? What caused the fire in the first place?

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  • http://intensedebate.com/people/bfeld bfeld

    Fuel injector leak.

  • http://duo.nanoverso.com/ Nathan Rodriguez

    What a loss ! Hope that insurance contract was in order.

  • http://intensedebate.com/people/bfeld bfeld

    That’s a longer and very frustrating story that has a happy ending nine months later.

  • Griffin Boyce

    WOW! =O How did that manage to catch fire?

  • http://intensedebate.com/people/bfeld bfeld

    It turns out it was a fuel injector leak.  Pretty scary stuff.

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Hi, I'm Brad Feld, a managing director at Foundry Group who lives in Boulder, Colorado. I invest in software and Internet companies around the US, run marathons and read a lot.

 
 
 
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