Brickbat: Chop Shop

In India, Ishwar Deen spent more than two months and 250,000 rupees ($2,998) modifying his car to look like a helicopter, welding a propeller to the top and a boom with a propeller to the back. The first day he took the car on the road, police seized it for illegal modifications. Deen was also fined 2,000 rupees ($24).

Comments

[Fist of Etiquette]

Perhaps if he had welded rotors instead of propellers he could have flown away from the police.

CAPTAIN PEDANT STRIKES AGAIN.

[Will Nonya]

It is one thing for an average laymen to not know the difference, it is quite another for someone to write an 'article' and still remain willfully ignorant.

[Idaho-Bob]

From the linked article. Rotor or the win.

Mr Deen welded a helicopter’s rotor blade onto the car’s roof and attached the tail boom to the boot of the vehicle which he named “car copter”.

[Fist of Etiquette]

To be fair, from the picture it looks more like beanie propellers. Which makes it even more ludicrous to have seized the car.

[mad.casual]

Which makes it even more ludicrous to have seized the car.

Again, as someone who has secured body and bed panels with baling wire, it would be awesome to see one come off in traffic.

About a month ago, what I presumed to be an empty refrigerator shipping container came off the back of a truck on the expressway ahead of us. I was able to avoid it, but the 18 wheeler about 4 car lengths behind us was not. It was more mind blowing than anything Stephen King cooked up while coked out of his skull.

[Davedave]

'Car copter' is particularly egregious too. Helicopter is from helico - helix/screw - and pter - wing.

[AT]

We wouldn't have a daily brickbat if that were the case.

[Longtobefree]

And they want money for this?

More of a cottenball than a brickbat.

[mad.casual]

As someone who has secured makeshift body panels and bed walls with baling wire and metal fence posts;

I assumed they seized the car for the tail sticking out more than approximately 1 car-length behind the brake lights (if they're even still operable) where someone is practically guaranteed to run into it (esp. in the dark/sand/fog/snow) despite observing his brake lights.

Even then, I'm pretty sure I'm being generous with regard to his welding skills and the car's body structure supporting said tail wherever he may drive it.

[Nazi-Chipping Warlock]

I guess he should have looked into the local motor vehicle code.