One of the upshots of the ‘Cash for Clunkers’ programs put into place by many countries (U.S.A, Germany, U.K., to name a few) to stimulate the economy and ‘save or create’ jobs is that thousands of perfectly decent cars (the ‘clunkers’ traded in) must be destroyed. This is one of the many videos of these clunkers being put to death that is floating around on ‘teh internets’, it looks like a late model Volvo S60 on death row. As part of the deal the car dealers accepting these cars as trade-ins must destroy them. They do this by putting either sulphuric acid or some sort of liquid glass compound into the cars’ engines which are first drained off of oil and then run them till they tear themselves apart.

But can anyone spot what is wrong with this video?

THIS CAR ISN’T A GODDAMN CLUNKER!

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Leave it to what is the arguably the best show on television today to do an episode (called Margaritaville) about the deep doodoo that the economy is in and to make it toe-curlingly, laugh-out-loud funny to boot.

Also, since South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone are two of the few people in the industry that actually understand ‘teh internets’, you can actually watch the entire episode online. And not just if you were born in the USA! They won’t block you even if you’re sitting in a third world country like India! Woot!

Click on the image to go watch the full epsiode.

Spoiler: Just for bonus points (in my book at least) they sucker punch El Presidenté at the end. Priceless.

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