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A new Hindenberg, narrowly averted

Via weirdnews:

"Credit Ford Motor Co. CEO Alan Mulally with saving the leader of the free world from self-immolation. Mulally told journalists at the New York auto show that he intervened to prevent President Bush from plugging an electrical cord into the hydrogen tank of Ford's hydrogen-electric plug-in hybrid at the White House last week. "

While this would have been the Mother of All Darwin Awards, it would also put the general public off of hydrogen fuel technologies for another 7 decades. So on the whole, it's probably a slight positive that this self-immolation didn't occur...

On a serious note, if this sort of accident is even possible at all, then Ford is guilty of severe negligence, and the company richly deserves any lawsuits they get if they _don't_ fix the design flaw immediately. So, I'm kinda skeptical of this article, and fully expect to see a Snopes rebuttal within a few days.

Update: Whaddayaknow, it _was_ a joke that got taken at face value after all. The news media who reported it as fact have all retracted it, not that that will stop them from jumping the gun next time or anything. Now, all of the bloggers who spread the story should do so too. I mean, I like slamming Bush as much as the next godless lib'rul, but fair's fair. There's no justice in taunting him for something that he didn't actually do; It's not as if there's any shortage of _true_ stories to mock him for.