News of the Weird

[rjtremor at core.com (Matt H.)]

It's the spirit of Christine, and it's in a compact car. Wow, she must be desperate... hee hee. Wonder if she still plays oldies on the radio when she goes on a murderous rampage.

~Matt

>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]