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		Just in time for Halloween, a parked SUV with nobody in it mysteriously flips upside down. "It rolled on its own" (desmoinesregister.com)		66
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jehovahs witness protection		2011-10-09 01:50:42 PM

What was really weird was how the Ford became a Chevy.

VictoryCabal		2011-10-09 02:22:49 PM

jehovahs witness protection: What was really weird was how the Ford became a Chevy.

Huh?

*looks at picture* *reads TFA* *blinks* *blinks again*

Nice work, Des Moines Register.

Toshiro Mifune's Letter Opener		2011-10-09 03:35:55 PM

And there...

... on the handle...

... WAS A HOOK!!!

DarkJohnson		2011-10-09 03:46:04 PM

The 911 call is coming from INSIDE THE CAR!!!

DarkJohnson		2011-10-09 03:56:08 PM

/case closed

ByOwlLight		2011-10-09 04:40:12 PM

Toshiro Mifune's Letter Opener: And there...

... on the handle...

... WAS A HOOK!!!

Ahhh!

Foreground My Ass		2011-10-09 04:42:20 PM

WTP 2		2011-10-09 04:45:25 PM

OCCUPANTS ARE PEOPLE IN THE VEHICLE!!!!!!

if i can"t trust the words how do i trust the article!!!???

swahnhennessy		2011-10-09 04:48:25 PM

I read the article and came away knowing no more than I did from the Fark headline. Informative.

kayoteq		2011-10-09 04:49:27 PM

Des Moines Register. You ask news. We have questions. We ask news questions. Of news, we ask you questions. Our news is questionable.

Tony_Pepperoni		2011-10-09 04:51:45 PM

Rolling down a hill and hitting the curb would flip a car. Duh?

Benjimin_Dover		2011-10-09 04:52:51 PM

jehovahs witness protection: What was really weird was how the Ford became a Chevy.

Perhaps it wanted to dress up a real SUV for Halloween?

ongbok		2011-10-09 04:55:15 PM

Wants to believe.

wm734		2011-10-09 04:55:51 PM

I'm guessing alchohol and several hours till the morning and calling the cops or the freind that dropped it off was the drunk guy. "hey I just rolled the truck can you come say you were driving?"

MAYORBOB		2011-10-09 04:56:01 PM

It probably was the work of a gang of rogue land shark carjackers. Those bull sharks are notoriously unable to steer properly.

Sounds like either the driver, passenger or the reporter was on meth.

Toshiro Mifune's Letter Opener		2011-10-09 05:01:23 PM

ByOwlLight: Ahhh!

DUN DUN DUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUN! (pops, not the Countdown)

Trance750		2011-10-09 05:01:47 PM

Maybe the car wanted to kill itself, because it was in Iowa

Spirit Hammer		2011-10-09 05:05:21 PM

Deal said his friend, who owns the vehicle, had just dropped him off when it started to roll down the inclined street. He said he thought it might have been because the vehicle wasn't shifted into park.

"Nobody was even in it," Deal said, adding that he and his friend left the vehicle before it flipped.

So they saw it rolling, and left?
Or does being dropped off, not mean exiting the vehicle?

dragonchild		2011-10-09 05:05:39 PM

It's an SUV. Them things roll better than mouse shiat.

dragonchild		2011-10-09 05:07:57 PM

Toshiro Mifune's Letter Opener: DUN DUN DUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUN!

WHAA?

One Bad Apple		2011-10-09 05:14:30 PM

Was the SUV pale green by any chance ?

Toshiro Mifune's Letter Opener		2011-10-09 05:17:16 PM

dragonchild: WHAA?

HAHAHAHA

That *is* quality music!

Petulant Dwarf		2011-10-09 05:18:24 PM

Can you say "Insurance Fraud"?

Radak		2011-10-09 05:21:52 PM

Tony_Pepperoni: Rolling down a hill and hitting the curb would flip a car. Duh?

Momentum. What does it meeeeean?

dragonchild		2011-10-09 05:25:10 PM

One Bad Apple: Was the SUV pale green by any chance ?

Mint green, and driven by two yoots.

Natas Nwaps		2011-10-09 05:30:12 PM

One Bad Apple: Was the SUV pale green by any chance ?

Dr. Suess would be so proud of you...

PsiChi		2011-10-09 05:34:38 PM

Bad CARma.

/No, really.

Ansible Adams		2011-10-09 05:35:49 PM

I think they were ghost riding, and no one wanted to admit to it. I suspect the police knew this as well, but had to proof so declined to comment.

peart2112		2011-10-09 05:36:08 PM

You farkers are slipping. The best suv flip (new window)

NBSV		2011-10-09 05:36:44 PM

I like how the article kept trying to make it seem like it just suddenly lifted up, turned over, and came down on the roof. There is a difference in the rolling down the hill and the rolling after hitting te curb.

jamspoon		2011-10-09 05:37:53 PM

The Ford Bronco prefers kipping on its back

ScottMpls		2011-10-09 05:41:03 PM

He said he thought it might have been because the vehicle wasn't shifted into park.

How's the Ph.D. in the Obvious working out for you?

sweet-daddy-2		2011-10-09 05:55:24 PM

Must have been a gremlin.

bikerbob		2011-10-09 05:55:57 PM

Did you notice that this car was a complete rust bucket. Almost the whole body is rusted through. It looks like an Earl Shieb paint job over Bondo. I smell an insurance job or at minimum a drunk driver or both.

Cthulhu_is_my_homeboy		2011-10-09 06:02:53 PM

Petulant Dwarf: Can you say "Insurance Fraud"?

Shiatty car develops problem that will cost more to fix than the value of said shiatmobile; shiatty car mysteriously rolls down a hill and totals the shiat out of itself; insurance company rules it an act of god and has to pay out for a new shiatmobile.

At least, that's probably what the shiathead owner was thinking. He probably shouldn't have admitted it wasn't left in park.

/Shiat.

breadman		2011-10-09 06:02:56 PM

Whoever wrote that "article" was clearly drunk or high at the time. Nothing about it is mysterious, they didn't put it in park and it rolled DOWN THE STREET and then hit something and flipped over and landed in someone's driveway.

How could the "occupants" be mystified when there was nobody in it?

How could the editor still have a job?

I have so many questions.

Guidette Frankentits		2011-10-09 06:07:05 PM

Deal said his friend, who owns the vehicle, had just dropped him off when it started to roll down the inclined street.

wat

Guidette Frankentits		2011-10-09 06:13:45 PM

wm734: I'm guessing alchohol and several hours till the morning and calling the cops or the freind that dropped it off was the drunk guy. "hey I just rolled the truck can you come say you were driving?"

This or it's insurance fraud or drunken insurance fraud

Gyrfalcon		2011-10-09 06:16:59 PM

And here I was hoping it had been sitting parked at the curb and spontaneously leaped into the air, landing on its roof.

I am so disappointed.

diaphoresis		2011-10-09 06:21:42 PM

Police at the scene declined to comment.

I'd rather put on a tinfoil hat and call in a UFO sighting than comment on THAT scene.

/Insurance scam? I'm sure the insurance company will have PLENTY to comment on

Get Lost		2011-10-09 06:29:42 PM

Interesting article, but will give it a total failing grade for not getting to the point of the accident, which would be, 'duuuuurrrr vehicle roll down hill and then flipped as it did a right turn Clyde'.

/Or that gang of 6 year olds took it for a joyride.

Oznog		2011-10-09 06:33:45 PM

William of Ockham has some sort of rule- well, more of a guideline, really- about what constitutes good judgment on these theories.

Oznog		2011-10-09 06:37:15 PM

The SUV did not roll over- THE WORLD ROLLED OVER AROUND IT!!

QT_3.14159		2011-10-09 06:42:12 PM

I once saw an oncoming suv:

1) drift off the right side of the road
2) go into the ditch on the side of the road
3) then up the other side of the ditch
4) go into a roll back towards the road
5) land back on its tires
6) coast down the hill about 500 yds
7) drift back off the right side of the road
8) crash into a tree

I think it was ghosts.... or maybe the teenage girl driving it...

The funny thing was that when the police got there they had a hell of time understanding what happened. They could tell the vehicle had rolled, but there was no debris near the car. We finally got them to understand that the car had actually rolled way up the hill... though I swear he didn't believe us until he found the girls purse up there.

/css

CygnusDarius		2011-10-09 06:45:36 PM

Faeries. It was faeries.

/I didn't want to say it was faeries
//But it's faeries

Mini Ditka		2011-10-09 06:50:44 PM

peart2112: You farkers are slipping. The best suv flip (new window)

It's funny because it's a woman.

AlienNarrr!		2011-10-09 07:01:10 PM

Toshiro Mifune's Letter Opener: dragonchild: WHAA?

HAHAHAHA

That *is* quality music!

Buwahhh haaahahahahaha!!!!
*high five*
Best part of this thread! No wonder you are favorited!

fusillade762		2011-10-09 07:13:39 PM

Toshiro Mifune's Letter Opener: And there...

... on the handle...

... WAS A HOOK!!!

DarkJohnson: The 911 call is coming from INSIDE THE CAR!!!

That wasn't the dog licking your hand...