Vilnius Mayor wins Ig Nobel Peace Prize

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Do you remember remember the mayor of Vilnius, Lithuania who ran over cars parked in the bike lane with an armored vehicle?



Arturas Zuokas wins the 2011 Ig Nobel Peace Prize “for demonstrating that the problem of illegally parked luxury cars can be solved by running them over with an armored tank.”

Via Bob. That is all.



See also:

  1. Armored vehicle crushes bike lane parking scofflaw
  2. Door Prize in the New York Times
  3. UK Sustrans wins £50 million in lottery funds
  4. Woolley wins


5 Comments

  • geonz
    October 2, 2011 - 3:49 am | Permalink

    Snork.   I thought he was proving that the right image will get you viral.

  • bikesgonewild
    October 2, 2011 - 4:38 pm | Permalink

    …snark…i thought it was his mother-in-laws car & he was getting a little ‘pay-back’…

  • Andrew Dasilva
    October 4, 2011 - 9:07 am | Permalink

    I thought *that car*,specifically was a big PR stunt and was owned by someone who donated it. I mean…. it wasn’t a Ferrari…. it was a late 80′s/early 90′s Mercedes..?

  • Cyclelicious
    October 4, 2011 - 10:50 am | Permalink

    Yeah, it was a PR stunt using a junker and an actor as the driver of the car.

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    October 4, 2011 - 11:51 pm | Permalink

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