Dog Drives Off As Owner Watches Hockey

[wildflower]

I posted this over in LBN, and dolo amber suggested I post it here...

I was warned that some character named Matcom may have beaten me to it :) but so far I don't see it posted here.

http://abcnews.go.com/wire/US/ap20040916_1252.html

Dog Drives Off As Owner Watches Hockey

WHITEHORSE, Yukon Territory Sept. 16, 2004 — An exuberant dog left in a truck while the owner watched Canada win the World Cup of Hockey managed to throw the vehicle into gear and coast down a city hill.
A man out for a walk called police after seeing the vehicle coast by with a black Labrador retriever behind the wheel.


Police arrived to find the truck in the middle of a road, blocking traffic, with the dog still at the wheel. No one was injured and there was no damage.

Going door to door, police managed to track down the owner.

"Subsequent investigation indicates that the dog was celebrating the Canadian victory in the world hockey game and knocked the truck into gear, causing it to roll down the hill," Whitehorse Royal Canadian Mounted Police said Wednesday in a firmly tongue-in-cheek news release.

[havocmom]

1. Those damned joy-riding black labs...

two of them here in town (population around 340) have done the same thing. Don't think it was due to hockey celebrations though. Dogs around here seem to be football fans, Green Bay all the way! Dogs love Cheeseheads.

Friends don't let friends drive drunk. The dog is man's best friend. maybe it's a designated driver thing?

[Maple]

2. Only in Canada

would you get a police report like that...I luv it!

[KamaAina]

3. My boss's yellow Lab is named Stanley

you KNOW he's gotta be a hockey fan!

Perhaps he could serve as the labor mediator, though his bark is worse than his bite... :evilgrin:

[Maple]

4. NICE PUN!!

;)

[hlthe2b]

5. this all but happened to me years ago when my lab & brittany spaniel

knocked the gear into neutral in my Dad's pickup truck I'd driven to the nearby 711. The clerk looked up just as the truck was starting to roll backwards. Thank God it was relatively flat but they sailed across a street before stopping on their own. Damned lucky we were!

[UrbScotty]

6. One benefit of a lockout. (nt)

[dolo amber]

7. Man, you can't make stuff like that up

That's just begging for a movie deal...:7