Another reason NOT to get a Smart Car (updated)

(Amsterdam, Netherlands) Dutch media indicate that environmentally-friendly "smart" cars, tiny two-seaters, are being picked up by roving bands of "pranksters" and tossed into the city's canals. According to the Dutch-language Telegraff, five of the smart cars have been thrown in the water in the past two weeks. Authorities fear the practice will spread to other locations. ... The Smart Smijten practice has been compared to the 1960s stunts of picking up and moving Volkwagen Beetles but there's a difference. As I recall, the Volkwagens floated. Smart cars don't and "any car that spends the night sleeping with the fishes at the bottom of a canal is very likely a total loss." Nevertheless, I suggest that the problem of "pranksters" taking Smart cars would be prevented by providing the light-weight vehicles with beefy bicycle chains and locking them to fence posts or street lights. You're welcome. Interested-Participant

	The Sun

I vote we only allow people to drive cars they can carry. If we are going to go this direction, then we need the Jetson type cars that fold up in to little briefcases. Or wallets. That would take care of this problem. Or, make the things float.

UPDATE:

The more I look at that picture, the faker it looks. The reflections in the window do not look right for some reason and the shadow in front of the tire doesn't look right either. Not sure why. The reflection in the water is too light compared to other things reflecting in the water. The engine is in the back so that car should have sunk like a stone. That is, unless we are expected to think someone threw the cart by hand that far in the canal. When comparing the scale of the car to the boat even closer to the canal, it is wrong. Someone on that closest boat would be as tall as the top of the door to that car. Unless it is a boat designed for children, I call shenanigans on this pic.