Here's a SUV ad idea
Upon reading a story about an investigation of an F-16 fighter firing its 20mm rapid-fire cannon at two soldiers in an SUV on the Utah bombing range, I'm sure your attention, like mine, stopped on the words, "a rental from Avis."Hill Air Force Base has had it's share of mishaps lately, including accidentally shipping some nuclear weapon fuses to Taiwan, but this one strikes a chord with anyone who has ever rented a car. The soldiers were not badly injured, but the incident brings up all kinds of questions that the official investigation does not seem to be addresssing:
- Does the Army routinely rent SUVs to drive on the bombing range?
- Does Avis know that the military is renting its vehicles for combat training? ("Could I interest you in an upgrade to a half-track?")
- What additional insurance boxes do you initial if you are going to drive a rental car into harms way?
- Finally, what did the G.I.s tell Avis when they turned the SUV back in? "You're kidding — 20mm holes? Huh, it must have been that way when we picked it up."
1 Comments:
So far, every contract I've looked at from a rental agency has specific prohibitions against driving a rental car off paved roads. That includes SUV's.
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