An elderly woman probably thought she was doing the right thing by leaving her two small dogs inside her car, with the air conditioning and engine running, while she made a quick shopping trip to the Walmart in Wayne, W.Va., yesterday afternoon.
But somehow the dogs managed to put the car in gear and crashed into the exterior of the store. (Maybe they were hoping to pick up a few toys in the pet department.)
An employee on a break told WSAZ that when she saw the car rolling toward her and the store, she thought the driver might be pranking her — until she saw a dog behind the wheel.
After the crash, one of the dogs was able to roll a window down, perhaps to bark for help.
Thankfully both dogs are fine (and were not cited for driving without a license). There was only minor damage to the car and store.
The dog mom, who is in her late 70s, was able to drive her dogs home after the accident — and I’m guessing that’s probably where she’ll leave them the next time she makes a Walmart run.
At least one dog in Malakoff, Texas, seemed pretty unfazed after a tornado swept through the town Tuesday.
As a KYTX news crew was surveying the damage during a live broadcast, they came across a Labrador Retriever sitting in the driver’s seat of a lawn mower, appearing ready to take care of the lawn.
“Look at that dog!” said reporter Andrea Martinez, giggling as the camera zoomed in on the pooch.
“While reporting on storms in Malakoff, I spotted a pup ready to start the clean-up!” she wrote on Twitter.
Apparently taking the driver’s seat is becoming trendy for Labs. Last weekend, as his dog dad shopped at a mini-market, a Lab was behind the wheel of their semi-trailer as it careened across a street and into a tree and parked car. Fortunately no one was hurt.
As for the mower-driving Lab, KYTX had an update on its Facebook page Tuesday: “He charges $30/hour for his lawn service.”
As his dog dad shopped at a Kwik Trip market in Mankato, Minn., yesterday afternoon, a Labrador Retriever apparently decided to take their semi-trailer truck for a little spin.
He jumped into the driver’s seat and may have somehow put the truck, which was parked across the street from the store, into gear. It lurched forward, crossed the street, took down a tree and came to a stop after crashing into a parked car just a few feet away from a gas station’s fuel dispensers.
“In my career here, I’ve not had an accident reported like this one,” Daniel Schisel, of the Mankato Police Department, told FOX9.
David Stegora was pumping gas when the dog went for a drive.
“I heard the tree snap and I thought somebody decided to turn around, but then it just kept going forward,” he told the Mankato Free Press.
Marie Brace was in the Kwik Trip parking lot and took the photo above of the aftermath, with the dog still at the wheel of the truck.
She told FOX9 the dog seem unfazed. “The dog kept coming to the [driver’s side] window, then jumping down, then coming back,” she said.
Fortunately, no one, including the four-legged driver, was hurt. The dog dad was not issued a citation, but the Minnesota State Patrol removed his truck from service.
It may have been a mechanical problem that was responsible for the wild ride rather than the dog putting the truck into gear.
“EVERY trucker is in habit of setting the parking brake on his semi when parked,” wrote Russell Hibbs in a comment on the Mankato Free Press story. “This parking brake restricts air from his truck and trailer brakes, allowing them to spring out against the drums.
“In order for a dog to shove the truck into gear it HAS to be idling at the correct RPMs in order for it to go into gear. Now, even if the dog did accidentally throw it in gear, the truck would stall out because of lack of movement. There is NO way in hell this can or would happen.”
No matter the cause, it’s a sure bet this dog will be kept restrained the next time his dog dad leaves the cab for a short break.
“Driving Miss Daisy?” Nope, this is “Miss Daisy Driving.”
Daisy, who looks like a West Highland Terrier mix, likes to give her young buddy Oliver a lift in a little red car. A video of the two is going viral, with more than 240,000 views as of this morning.
“Yes, the car is a remote-controlled car which I use to accelerate and stop (neither of them can reach the pedals… Haha),” writes their mom, Jessica Wolf, in the description of the video she posted on YouTube Sept. 30.
In response to doubters, Wolf wrote, “For your information, there is nothing fake about this video. The driver can override the remote by turning the wheel themselves. Daisy loves to stand on the car and move the wheel herself. If you notice, she mostly pushes to the left so the car drives to the left most of the time. So I sometimes will help move the wheel to the right in order to let her move it again to the left herself… and to help them avoid from hitting anything if it is needed.
“Yes, she is really steering it. Hope you enjoy!”
Whether or not you’re convinced it’s Daisy who’s really doing the driving, the video is definitely enjoyable.
A 4-year-old Border Collie mix named Don apparently thought his dog license gave him permission to operate a vehicle.
This morning, as he always does, Don accompanied his dog dad, Tom Hamilton, in a small tractor on Hamilton’s farm in Kirkton, Scotland. Don waited in the passenger seat while Hamilton checked on a lamb in a field.
Suddenly the tractor, with Don still in it, took off. Hamilton watched in horror as it tore through a fence, went down an embankment and ended up in the northbound lane of the busy M74 highway.
Scotland Traffic, which provides transportation information, sent out a tweet warning of a traffic delay “due to dog taking control of tractor… nope, not joking.”
The tractor came to a stop when it crashed into a barrier, cracking the windshield but, amazingly, causing no harm to Don.
“Route is clear from earlier incident and dog is fine,” Scotland Traffic tweeted. “Has to be the weirdest thing we have ever reported!”
Hamilton told BBC Scotland he was relieved Don wasn’t hurt and didn’t cause any accidents.
“It was a fright,” he said. “I don’t know how he got across [the busy road] without hitting something, or somebody hitting it.”
What led to Mr. Don’s wild ride? “I had not put the brake on the tractor,” Hamilton told STV News. “Don was fine and did not bark during the incident.”
“#FeelingSheepish #BarkingMad,” Scotland Traffic tweeted later today.
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