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former beauty queen looking after her brother's Maserati discovered it looking like an old crate after it was moved and flipped on its roof by a forklift-driving construction worker in Sydney's exclusive Bilyard Avenue in Elizabeth Bay this morning.

Rachel Huljich, a former Kiwi beauty queen who once defied a request from New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark, moved her brother Jason Huljich's $110,000 car to a construction zone in the road two days ago.

When a forklift driver tried to move the Maserati this morning things went horribly wrong when the car fell over the forks two metres off the ground.

Source: SMH

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MANWHORE Grand Master

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That is actually pretty ridiculous on behalf of the construction guys. When they say 'construction zone', all that means, is a couple of builder bogans have bunged a few cones out on the road. Means nothing at all. Personally, I wouldn't park there because it's asking for trouble, but legally speaking, I don't see any problem parking there?

Moving someone's car with a forklift damges it(bending chassis rails, sills etc). I would most certainly be bringing criminal proceedings against the person who did it, as well as civil proceedings against the company, the person, the site manager for recovery of the amount.

lingeringsoul Grand Master

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Hmmm...time to park my car there and get that flipped over..................hello new car :::::rubs hands :::::::

as to the maserati....................................................MEH

scathing Grand Master

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This cracks me up, though:

Resident Stephen Gray said workers for SMS Construction had been moving cars in the street with forklifts for some time while they work on a four-storey building.

"They've been doing it for months now,'' he said. "It's outrageous and just really arrogant.''

The guy lives in an exclusive part of a pretty exclusive suburb, and we're talking about some stupid bint (who decided to ignore a boycott of a country that decided to stone a woman over having a child out of wedlock, as requested by her prime minister, so she could go giggle and probably tell everyone she wanted "world peace") that parked her brother's Maserati in a construction zone for 2 days, and he has the gall to call these workers "arrogant".

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lol i read about this yesterday. Apparently the forky fled the scene... as you would. Why they didnt just get it towed by calling up the council is completely beyond me.

Was she parked ilegally???

ctjet Grand Master

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What I want to know is how a "2m drop" has the car ending up on its roof?

i think it would have slipped of the front of the forks as he was reversing, hit one the passenger side door and rolled onto its roof. I used to drive a fork adn i dropped heaps of shit off the front... still, itsa pretty n00b mistake from a guy who drives a fork for a living

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That is actually pretty ridiculous on behalf of the construction guys. When they say 'construction zone', all that means, is a couple of builder bogans have bunged a few cones out on the road. Means nothing at all. Personally, I wouldn't park there because it's asking for trouble, but legally speaking, I don't see any problem parking there?

Moving someone's car with a forklift damges it(bending chassis rails, sills etc). I would most certainly be bringing criminal proceedings against the person who did it, as well as civil proceedings against the company, the person, the site manager for recovery of the amount.

have u ever been on a construction site b4??? i think u might be surprised what a few cones on the ground mean

I wonder if the person who parked the mazza sign in , did she have a green card , did she have hard hat and work boots on , if not she was on the construction site illegally.

If i was working on that site i would have grab the fork and moved it to, but i would have jammed the forks through the doors to make sure i didn`t drop it :)

scathing Grand Master

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Or just get a tow rope and tow the damned thing out into the middle of the street (they surely have at least 1 vehicle with enough torque to do so), where it blocks all the snooty residents, and wait for the cops / council to sort it out.

No risk of dropping the car then.

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