That's correct. Now they steal the airbag and sell it. I hear that it's very
expensive to replace them, over $1000
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From: mgs-owner
To: Ragthyme
Cc: erasjfr; mgs; Michele Liguori; Ny Martin
Subject: Re: Fiat Bashing/accident prone
Date: Wednesday,August 14,1996 11:00PM
On Wed, 14 Aug 1996 Ragthyme@aol.com wrote:
> There's been here a rash of young hooligans who steal
> cars with air bags and then drive them into walls .... just to get the
airbag
> to inflate, thinking they are otherwise safe from a head-on collision with
> brick and masonry.
This is an urban legend, and has been fairly thoroughly debunked on
alt.folklore.urban.
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