Fred Flintstone Must Have Been The Driver
The other day I came across a very amusing Associated Press article in the back pages of my local newspaper. I thought it would be nice to share it with my readers:
FEET DON'T STOP BRAKELESS CAR
ROSEVILLE, Mich. (AP) - A police video camera captured images of a 24-year-old Detroit-area man who tried using his feet to stop a runaway pickup truck with faulty brakes and caused multiple collisions, exhibiting "moronic decision-making," a Roseville police official said Thursday.
After the vehicle's brakes failed on a busy street in Roseville, about two miles north of Detroit, the man continued driving and stuck his feet outside the car to stop it, Roseville Deputy Police Chief James Berlin said.
Witnesses said the man reached speeds of about 40 mph and was able to stop the car on at least two occasions. The car eventually struck four vehicles.
"This guy's no rocket scientist," Berlin said. "Citizens were calling in saying this guy is all over the road, using his feet."
I hope the guy's shoes had thick soles.
FEET DON'T STOP BRAKELESS CAR
ROSEVILLE, Mich. (AP) - A police video camera captured images of a 24-year-old Detroit-area man who tried using his feet to stop a runaway pickup truck with faulty brakes and caused multiple collisions, exhibiting "moronic decision-making," a Roseville police official said Thursday.
After the vehicle's brakes failed on a busy street in Roseville, about two miles north of Detroit, the man continued driving and stuck his feet outside the car to stop it, Roseville Deputy Police Chief James Berlin said.
Witnesses said the man reached speeds of about 40 mph and was able to stop the car on at least two occasions. The car eventually struck four vehicles.
"This guy's no rocket scientist," Berlin said. "Citizens were calling in saying this guy is all over the road, using his feet."
I hope the guy's shoes had thick soles.
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Aug 22, 2011 05:50PM
He may have at the start, but I think he would have been shaving skin if he kept that up. What was he thinking? Right,duh, he wasn't!
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Someone needs to inform him that Fred Flintstone did not do his own stunts:-)
Jewel wrote: "Someone needs to inform him that Fred Flintstone did not do his own stunts:-)"Good line. LOL.
Where is Bam-Bam when you need him? :)
Stephen wrote: "Nothing surprises me any more. My favorite headline ever in a newspaper is: 'Man charged with battery.'
He wasn't electrocuted."
LOL!
This is too wild to believe. He really didn't think about his safety nor the safety of others. Forty miles per hour and stopping the car with his feet? Wow.
Stephen wrote: "Nothing surprises me any more. My favorite headline ever in a newspaper is: 'Man charged with battery.'
He wasn't electrocuted."
I hadn't heard that one. Funny, what people get into nowadays.
That's a cheery thought. Let's the imagination do the walking the way it's written, doesn't it?
"Federal Agents Raid Gun Shop, Find Weapons."
Stephen wrote: ""Two convicts evade noose. Jury hung.""Funny.
