Miscellaneous

Man's Truck Steals Itself

You know, back in the 90s, you could actually pull the keys out of your ignition without putting your car in park (I think most newer cars have corrected this flaw). For dumbasses like myself, the results aren't always pretty. I had car that once rolled out of his parking space and halfway down a street before softly (thank God) running into another car. And yet, another time, I had gone to pick up my girlfriend. I knocked on her door, and when she opened it, she said, "Is that your car rolling down the street."

Indeed it was.

But nothing beats this story in that department:

A California man who called police after his truck disappeared from a convenience store said security video revealed the vehicle had effectively stolen itself.

Michael Otero said he left the keys in the ignition and the doors unlocked when he exited the red pickup truck to enter a 7-Eleven store Sunday in Laguna Beach, so he feared the worst when he came out of the store to find no trace of his vehicle, the Orange County (Calif.) Register reported.

Otero said police arrived and screened surveillance camera footage to find a most improbable explanation for the mystery. The video shows the manual transmission truck -- which Otero said had been put into first gear with the parking brake on -- rolling in reverse from its parking space and heading toward the street until it curved and slid into an empty parking spot in an adjacent lot.

"I'm just cracking up," Otero said. "I just thank God it didn't hurt anyone."

TaDa!

Full post as published by Quiz Law on February 13, 2009 (boomark / email).