BERLIN (AP) — Luxury carmaker Bentley says it’s recalling 820 cars worldwide over fears that its famous “Winged B” hood ornament could injure people in an accident because it might not properly retract.
Bentley Motors’ European head office in Berlin said Thursday the recall affects 620 cars in the United States and Canada and 200 in Europe who added the raised hood ornament as an option on Arnage, Brooklands and Azure models made between October 2006 and March 2009.
The company says no injuries have been reported but a dealer noticed the spring mechanism under the ornament has a tendency to corrode and might not always function properly.
Bentley, owned by Volkswagen AG, will replace the mechanism free and says the work takes about an hour to complete.
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conservativeme
Posted on September 24, 2010 at 12:09amIt’s about time. Pedestrians are getting killed by those things every day, and nobody has ever taken notice until now!
Report Post »Cynic-clinic
Posted on September 23, 2010 at 11:21pmI only bought my Bentley with THAT hood ornament so my chauffer and I could go out hunting pedestrians. Now they’ve spoiled all our fun. Dang!
Report Post »IAMABLAZE
Posted on September 23, 2010 at 11:02pmWhat a riot … the comments here were worth the read. Best laugh I’ve had all day.
Report Post »Mermaz
Posted on September 23, 2010 at 10:58pmWith stories like this it’s amazing the human race has managed to survive this long. How did we do it without the nanny state?
Report Post »Sylvia Soraya
Posted on September 23, 2010 at 10:35pmbroker0101 is confused,
Report Post »“Okpulot Taha, I must say, I am perplexed by you.”
Shoot broker0101 haven’t you ever seen a crazy conservative red skinned girl before?
Okpulot Taha
Posted on September 23, 2010 at 11:40pmSoraya suggests a not so good idea, “Shoot broker0101 haven’t you ever seen a crazy conservative red skinned girl before?”
Umm… Soraya, this might not be such a good idea considering my usual state of dress which is none. Should BROKER 0101 see this red skinned girl, no doubt he will turn red skinned of the face.
Watch your native tongue as I do; we are surrounded by good Christians. Seeing bare skin tends to highly annoy those Christians.
Okpulot Taha
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Venom
Posted on September 24, 2010 at 3:45amNeither one of you make any sense to me…and by the way….Christians dont get offended at what one says…more like what they actually do in person. Thus, your attempt at anti-faith humor was in vain
Thanks for playing
Game Over
Venom
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Okpulot Taha
Posted on September 24, 2010 at 10:04amVENOM, an ordinary garden snake, hisses, “Neither one of you make any sense to me.”
Your living in your parents’ basement does not make sense to us.
Now slither along before I decide to make a hat band out of you.
Okpulot Taha
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Republic
Posted on September 23, 2010 at 10:33pmBut if you are going to get run over, then the guy who afforded the Bentley can afford to pay you…or your family real well. I see a mad rush of the poor throwing themselves in front of Bentley’s.
Report Post »Ramcharger
Posted on September 23, 2010 at 10:03pmIf you are hit fast enough to be impaled by the hood ornament; then I think the bumper is gonna kill ya first!
Report Post »Dubyagee
Posted on September 23, 2010 at 10:01pmPut a “No morons within 50 feet” decal on it. Better?
Report Post »S.Hill
Posted on September 23, 2010 at 9:56pmWait just a dang minute! How dare these rich snobs even own a Bentley! Don’t they know that people are dying in the streets from starvation? 1 in 7 (50% margin of error) live in poverty in the US, and these jerks drive around in six figure automobiles? FOR SHAME, you greedy pigs! I say let the government confiscate their cars, and sell them off to fund penis enlargement research in India to ‘stimulate’ the economy. It’s for the greater good!
Report Post »Okpulot Taha
Posted on September 23, 2010 at 10:08pmS. HILL suggests something stimulating, “…fund penis enlargement research in India to ‘stimulate’ the economy.”
Obama and Biden used TARP funds to sponsor a program quite similar to this.
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(CNSNews.com) – The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), a division of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), spent $823,200 of economic stimulus funds in 2009 on a study by a UCLA research team to teach uncircumcised African men how to wash their genitals after having sex.
The genitalia-washing program is part of a larger $12-million UCLA study….
- Matt Cover, “Feds Spent $800,000 of Economic Stimulus on African Genital-Washing Program”
http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/75198
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I am sure this is a job many would enjoy to hold.
Okpulot Taha
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Sylvia Soraya
Posted on September 23, 2010 at 10:39pmTaha focuses on genitalia, “(CNSNews.com) – The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), a division of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), spent $823,200 of economic stimulus funds in 2009 on a study by a UCLA research team to teach uncircumcised African men how to wash their genitals after having sex.
The genitalia-washing program is part of a larger $12-million UCLA study….
- Matt Cover, “Feds Spent $800,000 of Economic Stimulus on African Genital-Washing Program”
Darn girl I told you to behave today.
Sylvia
Report Post »Okpulot Taha
Posted on September 23, 2010 at 11:29pmSoraya chides me, “Taha focuses on genitalia…Darn girl I told you to behave today.”
halito pinti iskitini nukwia! chim achukma? I know almost all here speak my native tongue, Choctaw, just like Soraya. For those few who are not native tongue speakers, “Hello shy little mouse! How are you?”
You know this topic is my temptation and my weakness, Soraya, and you know I cannot resist enjoying this topic. This is a big issue for me.
I created a logo for those university eggheads teaching African boys how to wash up:
“Wash your junk after you dunk”
Obama should send me a million bucks for my creativity and for my own personal studies on this hot topic. Obama has plenty of money to spare, trillions to spare.
Not long back, Obama lectured us to wash our hands. With my jingle, Obama can lecture us to wash our junk, least boys. This has to be worth a million to Obama; he loves bumper sticker slogans.
I am curious, though. Why is Obama not teaching African girls how to wash their stuff? Seems a bit sexist to me. Oh well, I do have another million dollar jingle for girls,
“Wash your **** after you stuff”
If Obama will pay me for my efforts to help out with this critically important research, if Obama will pay me my money’s worth, I will be a multimillionaire, more so than already.
Okpulot Taha
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N37BU6
Posted on September 23, 2010 at 9:34pmI always carry one for protection.
Report Post »Venom
Posted on September 24, 2010 at 3:41amDon’t we all….
Report Post »broker0101
Posted on September 23, 2010 at 9:08pmOkpulot Taha, I must say, I am perplexed by you.
Report Post »Okpulot Taha
Posted on September 23, 2010 at 9:27pmBROKER 0101 is confused, “Okpulot Taha, I must say, I am perplexed by you.”
Well, this is a lot better than being solar plexed by a 1963 Cadillac rear fin.
Okpulot Taha
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broker0101
Posted on September 23, 2010 at 9:32pmRoger that.
Report Post »Okpulot Taha
Posted on September 23, 2010 at 8:49pmCars can be dangerous simply parked. I am thinking to write Obama and Pelosi to ask they have legislation passed requiring no sharp corners, no fins and no protruding hood ornaments for all cars.
Decades back, my husband and I are walking across a grocery parking lot. He is looking over his shoulder at a beautiful buxom blond wiggling and jiggling in the other direction. My boy walks right into a rear fin of a 1963 Cadillac catching him right in his solar plexus. Punched the air right out of him. Poor boy sucked air for a half hour. I did not have the heart to whop him upside his head.
Yep, we need to protect society from dangerous parked cars. No sharp corners, no fins and no hood ornaments. I will write Obama and Pelosi.
However, a wife catching her husband ogling a wiggling and jiggling buxom blond is more dangerous. Not sure Obama and Pelosi can do much about this.
Anyhow, I will be watching for Bentley cars over at our local 99 cent store to make sure my boy does not hurt himself on a Bentley hood ornament.
Okpulot Taha
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carol m
Posted on September 23, 2010 at 9:00pmSure they can, They can ban blondes and make everyone get breast reductions. Don‘t worry it’s already in the budget lol
Report Post »Okpulot Taha
Posted on September 23, 2010 at 9:23pmCAROL M quips, “Sure they can, They can ban blondes and make everyone get breast reductions. Don‘t worry it’s already in the budget lol”
You know, I remember reading an inclusion in the Obama health care bill, something about “Preventative Services for the Visually Distracted”. Did not make sense when I read this inclusion, something about Lady Clairol raven black and an elastic ACE Bandage. Your comments clarify this for me, I now understand this health care bill inclusion which is a stereotypical expensive left liberal solution and a stereotypical left liberal sexist solution; blame women.
My conservative solution would be cheap mule blinders for men; no messy stained hands nor squashed discomfort for women.
Okpulot Taha
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Deutscher
Posted on September 23, 2010 at 10:31pmHow does this have anything remotely to do with Obama and Pelosi? Seems pretty trivial to me.
Report Post »Okpulot Taha
Posted on September 23, 2010 at 11:05pmDEUTSCHER asks, “How does this have anything remotely to do with Obama and Pelosi?”
This topic points to one of the most serious problems plaguing America, perhaps the foremost problem. This is a problem of left liberals stripping us of our freedoms under a guise of “protecting us”.
An example is Obama and Democrats going after farmers. This is the “subsidy” issue. Obama intends to limit or halt subsidies to family farmers and large argi-business. Truth is Obama intends to direct this federal funding to agri-businesses which produce “green” food in a sense of environment. This is part of his agenda to switch America over to a “green economy” regardless of how many nor how much this harms Americans and our economy, such as shutting down tens of thousands of family farms. Obama is cutting off our reliable source of food in the name of environmentalism, for our own good.
This Bentley hood ornament issue is like our government banning raw milk to protect our public. Our family is raised on raw milk which is now impossible to find. Nothing tastes better than squirting warm raw milk into your mouth straight from a cow’s teat. No more. Raw milk is “dangerous” for us.
This Bentley hood ornament issue is the same type of stupidity. Many here have pointed out being impaled by a hood ornament is not the problem, being run over by a Bentley is the problem.
This topic is highly related to Obama and left liberals by pointing to this idiocy of stripping us of our freedoms to “protect” us, from ourselves.
Stay out of the way of Bentley, no problem. Do not drink curdled raw milk, no problem, unless you are planning to churn up some buttermilk.
Okpulot Taha
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DRAIN_THE_CESSPOOL
Posted on September 23, 2010 at 8:41pmYou might as well recall the entire car. It might run over someone. Or worse, it uses too much gas. Bad for the planet…unless you can get the carbon credits to make up for it. LOL
Report Post »patriotwoman
Posted on September 23, 2010 at 8:32pmSeems to me that people who can afford a Bentley can afford to pay for the hospitalization of whatever peasant they run down with their “Winged B”.
Report Post »midcoastmainepatriot
Posted on September 23, 2010 at 8:31pmHey lets get the morons to hate the rich more !!!!!!!!!nobody like Bentley owners!, right!!!! Obama the Destroyer strikes again!!!!!
Report Post »Spirit-of-76
Posted on September 23, 2010 at 8:29pmHow does one get impaled by that? Either your having sex on the hood or the car just hit you…
Report Post »Venom
Posted on September 24, 2010 at 3:37amHaving sex on a Bentley huh? LOL lets not get it dirty though ok?
Report Post »Waiting4George
Posted on September 23, 2010 at 8:24pmI kinda think that is the least of your worries if you have met with the front end of a car–either in your passenger seat or as you fly up into the windshield.
Report Post »booger71
Posted on September 23, 2010 at 8:21pmI think the bumper of that Bentley might do more damage to the human body than the hood ornament. Just sayin
Report Post »Ldawg
Posted on September 23, 2010 at 8:20pmThere should be a full Senate investigation sounds like the “rich people” have found another way to harm the poor poor pitiful poor.
Report Post »RightPolitically
Posted on September 23, 2010 at 8:18pmLet’s just recall all cars now and get it over with. This BS is realllllly getting on my nerves. The do-gooders are at it again!
Report Post »poverty.sucks
Posted on September 23, 2010 at 8:03pmNobody touches my “Winged B”
Report Post »carol m
Posted on September 23, 2010 at 7:54pmOh darn such a bother. Can‘t these people move out of the way so it doesn’t hit them when my car does. roflmas
Report Post »Tate
Posted on September 23, 2010 at 7:53pmRecall, Recall, Recall ! Total Reacall for all cars made on Earth.
IF AN 18 WHEELER HITS YOU IT COULD KILL YOU!
Only car you can drive in is a Hummer. Not the after-crap 2 and 3, but A “HUMMER!”
Report Post »Huckabee Gingrich 12
Posted on September 23, 2010 at 10:59pmThat’s called a Humvee.
Report Post »Sheepdog911
Posted on September 23, 2010 at 7:45pmI’ll get right down to my dealership!
Report Post »skeptic
Posted on September 24, 2010 at 2:45pmBetter recall those tires too. They may run over a pedestrian. And that bumper? What a hazard! To be extra safe, have them replace the windshield with bubblewrap. Or, maybe, leave the dangerous hunk of mobile metal alone and recall the minds that have been filled with pending litigation and the promise of the nanny state.
Report Post »Sheepdog911
Posted on September 23, 2010 at 7:44pmAlert the press. Worldwide recall of 820 items.
Report Post »wingedwolf
Posted on September 23, 2010 at 7:51pmI’ll have the chauffeur bring it right down to the dealer, as soon as he’s finished buffing out my Lotus! Blaze people, if you haven’t done it yet, go to BQI’s blog at http://www.blackquillandink.com and watch the video “Tea Party Member Stuns Crowd.” I PROMISE you won’t be sorry!!!! LOL
Report Post »LDSPATRIOTFAM
Posted on September 24, 2010 at 3:31amGreat video, it gave me goose bumps!
Report Post »Venom
Posted on September 24, 2010 at 3:35amYeah winged i did when i saw you earlier…that was awesome.
Report Post »independentvoteril
Posted on September 24, 2010 at 9:51amwingedwolf.. I go to BQI website regularity and while I seen this clip before it gives me the chills every time I do.. it’s a great site..
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