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YOUR COMPUTER HAS CRASHED: PRICE TAG? $50,000

Chinatown will soon be able to claim bragging rights to the city's first and the nation's second fully computerized robotic parking garage. Opening in Chinatown in just a few days, Microsoft Windows will park your car without the aid of irresponsible illegal alien. The driver stops the car on a pallet and gets out. The pallet is then lowered into the innards of the garage, and transported to a vacant parking space by a computer-controlled contraption similar to an elevator that also runs sideways.

And if the computer crashes? What? Windows crash?

At the nation's first such fully computerized parking garage, built in 2002 across the river in Hoboken, N.J., the computer dropped an unoccupied Cadillac Deville six floors in 2004 and a Jeep four stories the following year. Early last year, a computer glitch trapped cars inside the over-sized vending machine for just over 26 hours.

But hey, that was the old Windows.  Vista promises to treat your car with all the love and concern of a Mac.

(Source, Associated Press. Wise ass remarks, me.)