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Paging Audi Owner: Your Car Is Covered In Ice

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Luke Mathews
Most of the city's car owners spend winter on constant snow maintenance, and if you ever wondered why it's because this is what their car would look like if they didn't. Reader Michelle send us this photo of an icicle-covered Audi on 2nd Street between 1st and 2nd Avenue, and short of using a flamethrower we're not sure how the owner is going to get it out until spring. Oh, and once it is chiseled free, it can immediately drive into a sinkhole! This, folks, is why we take the subway.

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By Jaya Saxena in on January 23, 2011 4:23 PM

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  • Subway is the best way. Anyhow the owner of this car would be happy to introduce the new ice-cream (choco-audi).
  • Just Me
    Chocolate covered cars?
    Mmm.
  • dubstepc
    how I love living in California
    who the fuck wants to put up with that?
  • aydiosmio
    It's not such a big deal if you don't own a car. Who wants to put up with Californians?
  • dubstepc
    Today's temperatures:
    NYC 20°F
    San Francisco 64°F
    San Diego 68°F
    Los Angeles 72°F

    Now if you'll excuse me - I need to lower the top on my convertible

  • smorrebrod
    I like seasons and snow, thank you very much.
  • dubstepc
    yeah, that's the lie people keep telling themselves when they live in a place with shitty weather.
  • Peanut_Butter
    You're absolutely right. That's why New York City is such a backwater. Your town must be the center of the universe.
  • diablofreak
    then wtf are you doing on a blog for nyc

    wacky idiotic californians!
  • dubstepc
    I just love to see how miserable the weather is on the east coast. and I love to see new yorkers trying to convince themselves that it's a nice place to live
  • Peanut_Butter
    Cause you don't understand what a weighted average means.
    3/4 of an East Coast year is still better than 4 West Coast seasons.
  • dubstepc
    whatever you may tell yourself, 95 degrees and high humidity is *not* comfortable. rain, snow, thunderstorms etc are also not comfortable.
    keep living the lie.
  • JenEsss
    I don't think many of us consider it "nice." More like "convenient."
  • unretrofiedforu
    O ok - anyway you guys have plenty of stopping time during all that traffic - plenty of time to put it in park and bring up and down the top say, ooo 40x.
  • The license plate is unreadable and so is the registration sticker on the windshield. It'll stay ticket-free until it thaws.
  • Its an Audi so it will of course start right up. If it was an Olds or some other nasty American brand, the owner would be screwed..
  • unretrofiedforu
    Really? Haven't had a lot of experience with VW I see.
  • luke_1
    Car owners are on constant snow maintenance except for the snow mullet they leave on top of their (usually lumbering SUV) jalopy, to be rained down on unsuspecting individuals behind them.
  • RobNYC
    Well it is supposed to be about 40 on Tuesday. If you can open the drivers side door and get it started the rest of the ice will melt off pretty quickly.
  • Ph
    Oh man that really sucks.
  • This Person just does not want to give up a good parking spot they are hard to find in the city
  • It should be quite well protected ... if it survived the freezing process.
  • robingee
    Put your tongue on it!
  • remote car starter - wait 2 hours- everything's fine
  • Rocknrope
    What's that? Is that a man in there?
  • VelvetTiff
    The word "entombed" comes to mind.
  • WetButt
    I would pay money to see the owners face when they try and move that car
  • Guest
    looks like my friend's birthday cake, except this one looks shitty.
  • how does one go about getting all that ice off?
  • Peanut_Butter
    Get Fat Bastard to fart on it.
  • Guest
    the human torch!
  • GentleGiant
    Or a few buckets of hot water.
  • mmheidelberger
    Tons of lock de-icer...
  • mrmanhattan
    flamethrower
  • silver
    chainsaw
  • GentleGiant
    One waits until Spring.
  • Stevennnn
    The biggest problem with owning a car in the city is many homes don't have a garage or driveway....Staten Island, Eastern Queens doesn't have that problem for the most part.
  • unretrofiedforu
    It's called a 'monthly parking space'. The guy's got a $40,000 rebadged Audi Golf; think he can afford it.

    And even though - maybe you need to rethink Manhattan. Only rich fools park their precious on the streets. NYC streets should be for DAILY DRIVERS ONLY.
  • mrmanhattan
    The biggest problem with owning a car in the city is not realizing you no longer live in Wyandanch.
  • Stevennnn
    Maybe you need to leave Manhattan.
  • Guest
    Wow so glad I don't own a car!
  • Hey, there is always bike lanes. He can cycle to work
  • Guest
    trying to convert one here, eh?
  • How does this car not have hundreds of tickets for leaving the car there for so long?
  • ShunHipsters
    This kind of tomfoolery is probably the result of hipsters...
    www.shunhipsters.com
  • SuperCow
    There's probably no place to slip in those tickets!
  • GentleGiant
    The ice is from a water main break that caused the sinkhole, which apparently happened yesterday.
  • So a wrong place, wrong time kinda thing huh? I feel bad for this guy. I live near there... Maybe I'll go have a look tomorrow. Ha ha ha.
  • It seriously doesn't have to have been there all that long to have accumulated that kind of ice, that ice storm only happened earlier in the week.
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