News of the weird

[juliemac57 at hotmail.com (Julie Macfarlane)]

On Jan. 30, as Angel Eck, 20, drove her Pontiac Sunfire on Interstate 70 
toward Denver, she suddenly could not slow down. The car was locked in 
overdrive and climbed to 100 mph; the ignition would not disengage; and the 
clutch and accelerator were stuck. A half-hour later, two enterprising 
Denver police officers, having been alerted by cell phone and reprising a 
tactic from the old "CHiPs" TV show, slowed the car by allowing it to 
repeatedly bump the rear of their squad car until it came to a stop. A few 
days later, idling in the shop at Green Mountain Auto Service, the car 
jumped gears and pinned a mechanic against an inside wall until a colleague 
set the emergency brake. [Rocky Mountain News, 2-2-04; Denver Post, 2-13-04]


Julie Macfarlane
1981 MKI 2L 16v w 2Y
"For good health : EAT RICE!"
Amsterdam NY

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