"DJ Johnny Vaughan's dog Harvey crashed his Maserati supercar leaving him with a £8,000 repair bill.
Harvey got his head wedged under the glove box on a trip back from the vets.
Johnny moved into the passenger seat to prise him free but Harvey jumped across and hit the accelerator pedal.
The £70,000 car ploughed into a skip near the Capital Radio host's South London home.
Johnny said: "The funniest part was having to explain to my insurers.
I couldn't make a claim as Harvey wasn't a named driver on the policy.""
How could this have happened? Have some details been skipped?
Have any forum members had to pay out because of damage caused by a pet/ aninmal ?
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I reckon he thought there were only 30 days in March.
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I don't know where the report appeared, but I shall presume it will be covered at length in some of the tabloids. Some readers of the tabloid papers will believe just such a story!
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Lucky he didn't pile in to a pedestrian. Lesson here is a dog should be restrained in a car, mine never have been but then again they've never tried to drive either !
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It has re-appeared in the tabloids (or I think I saw it on MSN News last week,, but it isn't 'news', even if it is true. I think Vaughan recounted the story on either the Jonathan Ross show or Top Gear well over twelve months ago
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Go on, get out of the car...
www.mikes-walks.co.uk
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silly season then
On doing some research (it is friday afternoon), I reckon the story originally came to light when 'johnny + harvey' featured in BBC 'Celebrity Dog School'....... three years ago.
very lazy 'journalism'
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Go on, get out of the car...
www.mikes-walks.co.uk
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Not journalism at all, or a believable story come to that. Man drives into skip in fast car, blames dog. A p. 24 filler.
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Skip ? It was a van when this uk.tv.yahoo.com/031007/128/eah7c.html
was posted in Oct 2003 !
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Go on, get out of the car...
www.mikes-walks.co.uk
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"DJ Johnny Vaughan's dog Harvey crashed his Maserati supercar leaving him with a £8,000 repair bill. Harvey got his head wedged under the glove box on a trip back from the vets. Johnny moved into the passenger seat to prise him free but Harvey jumped across and hit the accelerator pedal. The £70,000 car ploughed into a skip near the Capital Radio host's South London home.
Henry, out of interest, where did you get this story from?
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man leaves car in gear, without handbrake on, gets into passenger seat and car did not move unil dog drives off.
Or Man leaves car out of gear , with handbrake on and dog puts car in gear, takes off handbrake and accelerates away.
Funny for those who don't drive or think imo...
madf
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Sounds like that loopy "More Than" dog to me!
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Put it like this - the dog in our household (the one that lives inside the house) takes the blame for a number of things that go wrong. The dog by its very nature cannot do likewise.
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Must be where the idea for the More T>an adverts came from.
Except that the dog in this case was a hero...:-)
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takes the blame for a number of things that go wrong.
There is another reason for having a dog?
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I love it. 'The dog failed to make my tax return.' 'The dog left the oven on for the whole weekend.' 'The dog finished the Scotch.'
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>>There is another reason for having a dog?>>
A dog - any dog - is a vastly more loyal and utterly faithful companion that 99 per cent of the people you meet in every day life.
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even when you blame them for everything under the sun
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even when you blame them for everything under the sun>>
Is this a question or a statement?
Either way the loyalty and faithfulness is uncompromised...:-)
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A dog - any dog - is a vastly more loyal and utterly faithful companion that 99 per cent of the people you meet in every day life.
Agreed.
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Red Baron saiddon't know where the report appeared, but I shall presume it will be covered at length in some of the tabloids. Some readers of the tabloid papers will believe just such a story!
Henry, out of interest, where did you get this story from?
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It was in a local free sheet
I then Googled it and the first hit I found
tinyurl.com/jxag7 I posted the text so left out the link
Yes it was a red top dated 6 March 2006
But now I look further it is also up market in tinyurl.com/z5wgd and that is dated today.
and other reports.
>>Skip ? It was a van when this uk.tv.yahoo.com/031007/128/eah7c.html
was posted in Oct 2003 !
Most odd
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So file uner "Urban Myth".
Leads me to :
20 years ago, in the Stafforshire village where my parents live, the local butcher killed and prepared many of the items he sold.
One day he was about to shoot a pig when it moved, resulting in the butcher literally shooting himself in the foot.
My dad suggested to the local paper that they could report this with the headline "Pig shoots butcher" ; unfortunately they declined.
Chris Muriel, Manchester
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