Man Loses Car He Just Parked

1. beckster
   February 20th, 2009 at 10:29 pm

   That is so creepy!

2. Johnny Cat
   February 20th, 2009 at 10:37 pm

   How odd that it slipped around into the next block, out of sight. It's like a Pixar story or something!

3. Frau
   February 20th, 2009 at 10:42 pm

   There are people who still leave their keys in the ignition and doors unlocked?
   Idiot.

4. ragazzambulante
   February 20th, 2009 at 10:44 pm

   does it not look like he goes back in and comes back out like, "okay, i'm just imagining, and if i try this again, the car will be there....."

5. violet
   February 20th, 2009 at 10:59 pm

   Yeah, I think it might serve people well to spend at least a little time living in a city where it's a no brainer to lock your car (and turn off the ignition and take keys, obviously). I lock my car even if I'm just going around to the other side to fill up with gas.

   Anything can happen. Lather, rinse, repeat.

6. birdie1
   February 20th, 2009 at 11:01 pm

   i have a habit of that myself. sometimes in the morning i cant find my keys and find them in my truck.

7. Josh
   February 20th, 2009 at 11:01 pm

   There is a reason you should take your keys with you. It forces you to put the vehicle in park to remove them.

   I say you should be given a $50 ticket for leaving the keys of your vehicle in your car if you park in a parking spot without anyone in the vehicle and you are not around it.

8. LisaL
   February 21st, 2009 at 12:09 am

   What an idiot. I mean the truck starts reversing while the guy is still freakin getting out of it and he still didn't think anything was wrong? Geeze.... He better be glad that no one got hurt.

9. VonSkippy
   February 21st, 2009 at 12:35 am

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

   I blame God for making such a moron.

10. shecky
    February 21st, 2009 at 1:49 am

    The truck did that on purpose to teach the moron a lesson.

11. Courageous Grace
    February 21st, 2009 at 1:50 am

    In Arlington, TX (and many other cities, I'm sure) it is illegal to leave your keys in the ignition when you leave your car unattended. That way, when your car gets stolen, YOU get a fine for your stupidity and the cops *might* find your car.

    I knew a guy when I was in college who was a kleptomaniac. Let's call him "Fred". He was in a parking lot one day and saw a guy get out of his fancy new car with the engine running. The dumbass goes into a dry-cleaning shop and watches while Fred jumps into the car and drives it off. Of course Fred does get arrested for auto theft but the dumbass who left the engine running got a $500 fine.

12. DaveL
    February 21st, 2009 at 2:01 am

    Nothing neat about this and it's already saturated the net. Sorry, but I gotta say that this place just turning into another link dump.

13. Alicia
    February 21st, 2009 at 2:03 am

    I'm astounded that the comments so far are so kind. He left his keys in the ignition, and the car in gear? Wha? How old is he?

14. The El Bee En
    February 21st, 2009 at 2:20 am

    If you've ever had a car actually stolen from a parking lot it's like you can't really understand what happened to it. "I left it here, I think, now...it's...gone!"
    I HATE when that happens!

15. SenorMysterioso
    February 21st, 2009 at 2:29 am

    parking brake ftw

16. Dale
    February 21st, 2009 at 4:01 am

    Do American cars not have a handbrake???

17. seekshelter
    February 21st, 2009 at 9:42 am

    ive seen my dad jump into someones truck to stop it from rolling into the street...oddly enough...it was also in front of a 7-11...

18. LaraAtHome
    February 21st, 2009 at 10:18 am

    If you follow the link, it says that the parking brake was on when the truck was found. It's being checked by a mechanic. It's also a manual transmission, so it's not that he didn't put the truck in park. Leaving the keys had nothing to do with it, although he's certainly foolish to have done that.

19. ted
    February 21st, 2009 at 10:20 am

    I couldn't be bothered. It was more interesting two years ago when it was the dog who moved the truck.

20. Polx
    February 21st, 2009 at 11:12 am

    So he leaves an automatic in reverse with the keys in and the doors unlocked and the engine running?

    SO it drove away?

    I am not that familiar with the useless and lazy world of Aurtomatics but the capacity for it to drive away on it's own is bizarre.

21. Jen Diggity
    February 21st, 2009 at 1:06 pm

    My next-door neighbor once pulled into her driveway and got out of her Suburban to unlock her gate. She left the vehicle running and with her 2 year old in the truck...out of his car seat. He knocked the shifter into reverse and the truck did some sort of bizarre half-loop (the steering wheel was juuust right): out her driveway, into the street, and then u-turned into MY driveway and backed into the side of my awesome truck that I loved SO much and totaled it.

    And we live on a street that used to have semis and heavy equipment running up and down it all the time, not to mention the people in regular cars who often speed. I was sad to see my truck so hurt, but geesh it could have been MUCH worse.

22. Oomi
    February 21st, 2009 at 4:51 pm

    Cocaine is a helluva drug.

23. Badjuk
    February 21st, 2009 at 5:40 pm

    Sorry but... only in USA.

24. Wok
    February 21st, 2009 at 7:15 pm

    @ oomi, awesome

25. renderanything
    February 21st, 2009 at 7:53 pm

    Polx and Josh, it looks like it was probably a manual trans equipped little Ranger and he didn't set the E-brake, just left it in neutral.
    The parking spot was on a slight grade, so the truck started rolling back on it's own with the help of gravity.

26. renderanything
    February 21st, 2009 at 8:37 pm

    I should have read the article first. Like Lara said, he left the parking brake on, and claims he left the trans in 1st, but that would have killed the engine when he let his foot off the clutch. Sounds like his e-brake is improperly adjusted, or if it has rear drum brakes, then they are pretty worn and the self-adjusters haven't kept up with the wear.

27. nihil
    February 21st, 2009 at 9:15 pm

    I had a friend who owned a manual trans car and would leave it it first and be fine except once it did not go so well. He parked, got out and the car was on just a slight enough incline that it rolled away across the street....into the lot of a car dealership. Then his car, sans driver, hit another car on the lot. The police got a good chuckle out of trying to fill out an accident report involving two cars and no drivers.

28. MaiQ
    February 21st, 2009 at 10:01 pm

    Transformers? haha

29. tt
    February 22nd, 2009 at 6:43 am

    i don't get it.. if the truck is just kinda rolling away, shouldn't it roll straight? it went straight then fully turned.. so it's stolen??

30. Skipweasel
    February 22nd, 2009 at 3:38 pm

    tt:- If he left the wheel turned it'll roll in a curve, of course. And what's more, the castoring of the wheels won't work going backwards - in fact they'll swing more towards the side they're already facing.

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