{"id":17865,"date":"2014-07-14T01:10:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-14T01:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/struth-thats-no-way-to-park-a-lambo\/"},"modified":"2015-08-10T08:21:54","modified_gmt":"2015-08-10T08:21:54","slug":"struth-thats-no-way-to-park-a-lambo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2014\/07\/struth-thats-no-way-to-park-a-lambo\/","title":{"rendered":"Struth! That&#8217;s no way to park a Lambo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-ahY9hal9IfA\/U8MuFDBTb1I\/AAAAAAAAnQY\/AUybaUU04nY\/s1600\/Crashed%2BLamborghini.BigBoysToyzFacebook.rsz-743144.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-ahY9hal9IfA\/U8MuFDBTb1I\/AAAAAAAAnQY\/AUybaUU04nY\/s320\/Crashed%2BLamborghini.BigBoysToyzFacebook.rsz-743144.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<div>\n<div link=\"blue\" vlink=\"purple\" lang=\"EN-AU\">\n<div>\n<p><b><span>\u00a0<\/span><\/b>IN his continuing search for the more weird, wacky and wondrous in the world of travel, David Ellis says a hotel car-park valet in India has been given indefinite leave &#8220;to recover psychologically&#8221; from having crashed a guest&#8217;s shiny white Lamborghini sports car \u2013 first into the back of another car, and then into a concrete wall.<\/p>\n<p>The valet had moved the car from the Le Meridien Hotel&#8217;s car park in New Delhi, briefly get out, re-entered the vehicle \u2013 and guests watched in horror as he took-off with a lurch, first slamming into the rear of the other car, and then sickeningly into the wall.<\/p>\n<p>The damage bill is said to be around the AU$330,000 mark, with a hotel spokesperson saying the hotel forecourt had been wet from rain when the incident occurred.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The valet has worked with us for 10 years,&#8221; the spokesperson said. &#8220;He&#8217;s on indefinite leave until he recovers psychologically\u2026 when he does come back to work, we may not put him straight back on valet as he could initially be quite nervous.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><u><\/u>\u00a0<u><\/u><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>PHOTO CAPTION:<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/p>\n<p><u><\/u>\u00a0<u><\/u><\/p>\n<p>[] SORRY sight: the crumpled Lamborghini. <i><span>(BigBoysToyzFacebook)<\/span><\/i><u><\/u><u><\/u><\/p>\n<p><span><u><\/u>\u00a0<u><\/u><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0IN his continuing search for the more weird, wacky and wondrous in the world of travel, David Ellis says a hotel car-park valet in India has been given indefinite leave &#8220;to recover psychologically&#8221; from having crashed a guest&#8217;s shiny white Lamborghini sports car \u2013 first into the back of another car, and then into a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[105,240],"tags":[377],"class_list":["post-17865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-struth","category-struth-3","tag-struth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17865"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23033,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17865\/revisions\/23033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}