I heard the newswoman say "the driver was not sighted". That may be the problem right there.

FTA: "The driver was not cited but police are asking the DMV to re-evaluate her driving skills."

You know that if she were 18 instead of 81, she'd get a ticket, not pointed at the nearest farmer's market.

Is she blaming NISSAN and vowing to buy a Cadillac now?

Peaceboy: I heard the newswoman say "the driver was not sighted". That may be the problem right there.

+1 would read again.

Snarfangel: FTA: "The driver was not cited but police are asking the DMV to re-evaluate her driving skills."

You know that if she were 18 instead of 81, she'd get a ticket, not pointed at the nearest farmer's market.

Young people are too dumb and apathetic to make the government work for us. Old people have AARP.

Got pictures not unlike this from a friend late last year. Only the driver blew a .28--which in itself merits a golf clap. Best one is of him on the wire staring out of the window of his SUV with a 'wait...what?' expression.

how does something like this happen?

I'm disappointed. She didn't manage to park on the power lines at all--just the support wires. Parking on the power lines would be a feat worthy of some admiration and the Hero tag if accomplished outside of a cartoon.

I'm afraid this story is a leaner, not a ringer.

bostonbakedbeans: how does something like this happen?

Physics

She didn't do a bad job parking. Just press down onto the emergency brake and the job is finished.

Honest officer, I have no idea what you're talking about!"

OK, submitter, you found her out. She really didn't accidentally depress the wrong pedal; she is fulfilling a life-long fantasy of being an attention whore on Fark.

No Farmer's markets around?

Here lies Eddie Drake
Stepped on the gas
Instead of the brake

fark you, article author.

From TFA, the car is just on the support line for the pole, not on the power lines.

ice cream headache: OK, submitter, you found her out. She really didn't accidentally depress the wrong pedal; she is fulfilling a life-long fantasy of being an attention whore on Fark.

I just think it's funny that whenever you see a news article about an old person doing something stupid with a car, you'll also see the two words "wrong pedal" or "gas instead of brake".

But if it's a young person that farks up, they were speeding.

If I told her once, I told her a thousand times; don't start the handjob until the car is in park. biatch made me spill my beer.

Classic. Fail.

I think Subbys point was that anybody who might have the possibility of mistaking the gas for the brake has no right to be behind the wheel.

In addition, we constantly hear this excuse from old people.
Never do we hear this excuse from anyone under 60.

TAKE AWAY THE DAMN KEYS.

The worst part is that there are an amazing number of people over 60 out there who think that THEY are not a danger because THEY are still capable and focused.
The worst part of THAT is that they're not lying. They're just that delusional.

Your vision isn't good. Your hearing isn't good. Your reactions are crap. Your ability to maintain focus is below the minimum requirement for safe vehicle operation.

When you hit 50 you should be required to re-test every single year. If you get in an accident that is determined to be your fault, you lose you license permanently. If you fail your test ONCE you lose your license permanently.
I am so tired of all these old people driving around trying to kill me.

/Why yes, I did have some old bastard go straight while he was in the right turn only lane today; I had to go into oncoming traffic and go between two oncoming cars just to avoid him smashing into the side of my bike.
//No... he didn't notice! EVER.
///He even denied then entire incident when I followed him to a gas station and screamed in his face.

bobfo rapples: Classic. Fail.

How the hell?

I just cut myself on a magazine perfume sample while I was vigorously rubbing it on myself.

the voices in your head: bobfo rapples: Classic. Fail.

How the hell?

old people have magic powers. and purple hair.

kona: I call shenanigans.

buzzvert
That's hot.

not impressed.

A 36-year-old man saved during a daring rescue from a car that was hanging from wires between the sixth and seventh floors of a parking garage in Buckhead Wednesday night has been charged with DUI and damage to property, Atlanta Police said.

That's how someone totalled my old Volvo wagon several years ago. They were trying to parallel park in front of my car, got spooked by another vehicle coming around the corner, and slammed down on their accelerator instead of the brakes. Rocketed backwards tearing the front of my car off, then went over a sidewalk and into a ditch. The aristocrats!

SlothB77
It's the water bottle that really makes that picture.

They've tried to stop them, but the seniors get up so early in the morning - They get everything done before everyone else is even awake. Seeing how early they get up, I don't see how anyone can stop them. We... like to sleep in.

bobfo rapples: Classic. Fail.

Coming off a parking garage or something I get it... but how the hell do people end up like that, and like the lady in the story? I mean the wrong gas pedal doesn't make your car hover 60 ft into the air to make it drop on a power line.

The driver was not cited but police are asking the DMV to re-evaluate her driving skills.

I agree with half of this. Cite her, then make her retest, including the actual driving portion.

kona

My God...that's what happened to Turbo Teen!

Age is not the only factor here. She is just a bad driver!

There's a difference between an excuse and an explanation, Smitty

horonto: Age is not the only factor here. She is just a bad driver!

I agree. Women can't drive.

/double points if she's old.
//X100 if she's asian

Otto_E_Rodika

Sadly, everyone but you fails, because the image sat there for an hour before you noticed anything.

My mother thinks she should be allowed to drive. She's 79, has severe Alzheimer's, has a memory retention span of about 30 seconds--sometimes less.

She gets furious that I won't give her the keys. Threatens to "sell the damn thing" if she's not allowed to practice driving. She "*was a basket case, but now she's better*."

Every farking day. Over and over and over.

I am so sick of old people who are crazy. I am steeped in them.

It's farking hard to put someone in the nursing home. Right now, I am expected to find someone to issue me a bond equal to 125% of my mother's estate so that I can be conservator. The lawyer actually suggested I ask a family member to do it. I laughed and told he he clearly is unacquainted with my family.

There will be not one red cent left to her estate after the nursing home gets done. Right now, I am spending a lot on a sitter, and I still have to watch her myself at night and on weekends. When / if I get her put in a nursing home, it will be $6000 a month, plus meds. Since there will be not one red cent left, no one is interested in helping me a bit.

I'd like to slit my wrists. I fantasize about just not going home from work. Alzheimer's sucks, and my mother is a nasty, mean, confused old woman.

/Ice floes, man.

*gives atomic-age a hug*

SpongeJamie - NoPants: Otto_E_Rodika

Sadly, everyone but you fails, because the image sat there for an hour before you noticed anything.

Maybe they're like me, and ignore 99% of the unfunny FAIL macros

My mother in law once drove my brother in law's sweet Jaguar through a garage door, across a garage bay, through a cinder block wall and a fence. This was at the gas station he worked at. Her excuse? "The gas pedal got stuck." My question was "Why was the car in drive when you needed to be going backwards?" Never got an answer to that one. She wasn't even that old at the time, maybe 50. Car was a write off and the garage now has a nice drive though bay. This happened about ten years ago and I get nervous every time she borrows my wife's truck.

My dad drove until he was physically unable to walk to the car, and he didn't have an at-fault accident in my lifetime..

Except for that condom thing, but he got a vasectomy right after. Quite proud of that one.. No younger sibs for me.

"The driver was not cited but police are asking the DMV to re-evaluate her driving skills."

What is the point? I submit that she has done all the work for them. Take her license away before she kills someone with that bigass Caddy.

Old broad has some nice bling on that Caddy.