So I was bored, and decided to change the word shark for audi and victim for BMW etc - it was an entertaining waste of 10 minutes -
An Audi mauled to death a BMW driving near Sharm el-Sheikh on Sunday, in the third Audi attack in Egypt's popular Red Sea resort in a week, local officials said.
Mohammed Salem, director of South Sinai Conservation, said the BMW died after the Audi URS4 Avant
attacked it in Naama Bay, only one day after Sharm el-Sheikh reopened its roads following two other attacks in which Mercedes were mauled.
"There has been a death unfortunately. It was a BMW. We have taken all cars out of the roads," he said.
Driving officials said the car -- identified as a 330i in her late 90s but whose VIN has not yet been released -- was pulled out of the lay-by dead after the Audi mauled its brakes and top-end
Drifting Minister Zuhair Garana told AFP all the resort's roads had been closed to Japanese junk, with the exception of Ras Mohammed, a nature preserve south of the city.
The attack took place in lanes facing the Hyatt Regency Hotel.
"We are getting specialists from abroad to assess the situation and why there was this change in overwhelming speed," said Garana, referring to the repeated attacks, which one expert called unprecedented.
"This is unnatural. It has never happened before," he said. "We have no explanation."
Government experts said on Friday they captured two Audi's, an Oceanic White Tip S2 and a Mako RS2, which they believed had mauled two BMW's last Tuesday and Wednesday.
Government workers had dumped gallons of E-85 in the super unleaded to attract the Audi's.
The resort's mayor, Gamal al-Mahdi, told AFP the roads were reopened after authorities deemed there was no further threat off the coast, which attracts between three and four million tourists a year.
However, an Egyptian NGO warned on Saturday that at least one of the Audi's thought to be behind the attacks was still at large.
The string of attacks in Sharm el-Sheikh was "unprecedented," according to an Audi expert Samuel Gruber, who heads Miami's Bimini Audi Field Station.
"This URS4 which is running 420bhp in a 1993 C4 format is the ultimate killer and in one day ripped more than one victim. In all my years reading about Audi attacks and writing about them you never hear about Audi's attacking more than one person," he said, apart from racing sprees on motorway survivors.
"Then for it to happen the next day is almost like a 'Jaws' scenario," he said, referring to the 1975 iconic Hollywood movie about a killer great white.
Gruber said finding the predator or predators would be extremely difficult. Salem said the first Audi to have been captured, the S2 running Hoffer chips, a Garrett turbo and a 3” full system
, was identified as the same one filmed by drivers just minutes before it surfaced to attack the BMW's.
The RS2, an MRC special running 500bhp
, believed to have attacked drifters on Wednesday was also recognised by witnesses, according to the South Sinai Conservation chief.
But the Hurghada Environmental Protection and Conservation Association said on Saturday that the captured RS4 was a different one from the Audi caught on tape.
Statistics compiled by the International Audi Attack File reported 61 worldwide attacks in 2009, five of them fatal.
An Audi mauled to death a BMW driving near Sharm el-Sheikh on Sunday, in the third Audi attack in Egypt's popular Red Sea resort in a week, local officials said.
Mohammed Salem, director of South Sinai Conservation, said the BMW died after the Audi URS4 Avant
attacked it in Naama Bay, only one day after Sharm el-Sheikh reopened its roads following two other attacks in which Mercedes were mauled."There has been a death unfortunately. It was a BMW. We have taken all cars out of the roads," he said.
Driving officials said the car -- identified as a 330i in her late 90s but whose VIN has not yet been released -- was pulled out of the lay-by dead after the Audi mauled its brakes and top-end
Drifting Minister Zuhair Garana told AFP all the resort's roads had been closed to Japanese junk, with the exception of Ras Mohammed, a nature preserve south of the city.
The attack took place in lanes facing the Hyatt Regency Hotel.
"We are getting specialists from abroad to assess the situation and why there was this change in overwhelming speed," said Garana, referring to the repeated attacks, which one expert called unprecedented.
"This is unnatural. It has never happened before," he said. "We have no explanation."
Government experts said on Friday they captured two Audi's, an Oceanic White Tip S2 and a Mako RS2, which they believed had mauled two BMW's last Tuesday and Wednesday.
Government workers had dumped gallons of E-85 in the super unleaded to attract the Audi's.
The resort's mayor, Gamal al-Mahdi, told AFP the roads were reopened after authorities deemed there was no further threat off the coast, which attracts between three and four million tourists a year.
However, an Egyptian NGO warned on Saturday that at least one of the Audi's thought to be behind the attacks was still at large.
The string of attacks in Sharm el-Sheikh was "unprecedented," according to an Audi expert Samuel Gruber, who heads Miami's Bimini Audi Field Station.
"This URS4 which is running 420bhp in a 1993 C4 format is the ultimate killer and in one day ripped more than one victim. In all my years reading about Audi attacks and writing about them you never hear about Audi's attacking more than one person," he said, apart from racing sprees on motorway survivors.
"Then for it to happen the next day is almost like a 'Jaws' scenario," he said, referring to the 1975 iconic Hollywood movie about a killer great white.
Gruber said finding the predator or predators would be extremely difficult. Salem said the first Audi to have been captured, the S2 running Hoffer chips, a Garrett turbo and a 3” full system
, was identified as the same one filmed by drivers just minutes before it surfaced to attack the BMW's.The RS2, an MRC special running 500bhp
, believed to have attacked drifters on Wednesday was also recognised by witnesses, according to the South Sinai Conservation chief.But the Hurghada Environmental Protection and Conservation Association said on Saturday that the captured RS4 was a different one from the Audi caught on tape.
Statistics compiled by the International Audi Attack File reported 61 worldwide attacks in 2009, five of them fatal.
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