Toyota Yaris vs rock...

The Mirror newspaper in the UK yesterday carried a dramatc illustration of the effect that a boulder can have on a car.  This car was parked by the side of the road in Hayfield in Derbyshire on Sunday when an eight tonne boulder slipped off a lorry.  Fortunately there was no-one in the car:

 Time to buy a new bottle of T-cut?  Picture from the Mirror

Now that is what I call a boulder!

Thanks to Dr Kurt Douglas at the University of New South Wales for drawing my attention to this. The Australian Courier Mail has a story today about a family that survived a near miss from a 1500 tonne boulder that rolled from the hill above their house in southern Queensland on Friday. The rock detached from the slope above their house and rolled to within 50 m of their property at 3 am. All this sounds quite unremarkable until you see the pictures of the boulder:

And the source: