Doofus Of The Day #495

Today's award goes to the police force in Fangchenggang, China.

Police in the good city of Fengchenggang in Guangxi Province re-badged their Mercedes-Benz ML350 into a Honda CR-V. There is a lot of criticism in China lately about local governments who waste taxpayers money. Police in Fengchanggang so made some changes to their 900.000 yuan ML350, a Honda CR-V only costs 200.000 yuan.




But the plan went wrong. Citizens of Fengchenggang were not to be fooled and posted pics of the Benz CR-V on the internet where 'netizens' had a field day ridiculing the local government as hard as they could. Best part: the police flatly denied they made any changes to their car.

There's more at the link.

I love it! Just how the cops thought they were going to get away with that one, I have no idea, considering that the CR-V is smaller in every way than the ML350 - shorter, narrower, lower and a lot lighter! Anyone knowing anything about cars would have spotted the substitution in no time . . . as local residents did, it seems!

I wonder if one can give cops a ticket for that sort of thing?





Peter