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Idaho Canine Drives Owner's Car Into River
AP/Fox News ^
| June 22, 2007
Posted on 06/22/2007 10:15:07 AM PDT by lowbridge
Charlie the black lab is in trouble after driving his owner's car into the Pend Oreille River.
Owner Mark Ewing had just returned home from picking up a pizza Wednesday evening. As he walked to his home, Charlie jumped into the car through an open window, and apparently knocked the vehicle into gear.
"He somehow got the car into neutral," Ewing said. "My car just went boom, down an incline and into the drink."
Ewing could only watch as his Chevy Impala sank into the river. No dummy, Charlie jumped out of the window as the car went downhill.
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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Local News; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: canine; dog; doggieping; idaho
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In the dogs defense, for some reason the brakes wouldn't work.
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posted on
06/22/2007 10:15:09 AM PDT
by
lowbridge
To: lowbridge
Sounds like it almost worked, too! Charlie better watch his back! LOL!
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posted on
06/22/2007 10:17:46 AM PDT
by
Hegemony Cricket
(Don't mistake timid driving for defensive driving.)
To: lowbridge; patton
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posted on
06/22/2007 10:22:08 AM PDT
by
leda
(19yrs ... only 4,981yrs to go ;))
To: leda
Well, that tops when our dog ate the siding off of the house.
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posted on
06/22/2007 10:24:50 AM PDT
by
patton
(19yrs ... only 4,981yrs to go ;))
To: patton
yeah, our dog isn’t a real high achiever, is she?
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posted on
06/22/2007 10:30:31 AM PDT
by
leda
(19yrs ... only 4,981yrs to go ;))
To: lowbridge
At least Charlie had enough sense to jump out of the car, unlike the eternally optimistic Toonces:
![](http://www.geocities.com/eled4373/myspace/toonces.jpg)
To: lowbridge
Before the driver dove into the water to hook the car up to his truck, he asked Ewing to hold his dentures.
"My car's in the drink, I've got dentures in my hand and this guy Keith from Clyde's Towing goes swimming," Ewing noted.
Sable, ID marked off the short list of places to move.
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posted on
06/22/2007 1:32:14 PM PDT
by
lainie
("You don't have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body." - C. S. Lewis)
To: All
Charlie:
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posted on
06/22/2007 5:32:14 PM PDT
by
lowbridge
("The mainstream media IS the Democratic Party." - Rush Limbaugh)
To: Chief Engineer; Delphinium; EternalVigilance; Keyes2000mt; Sir_Ed; Knitting A Conundrum; ...
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posted on
06/22/2007 5:36:09 PM PDT
by
GOP_Raider
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To: GOP_Raider
Hey. It’s a lab. They love to swim. Ol’ Charlie just figured Impalas do too...
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posted on
06/22/2007 5:54:11 PM PDT
by
EternalVigilance
("You will have your bipartisanship." - Fred Thompson, May 4, 2007)
To: lowbridge
"My car just went boom, Okay, who has the picture from the SCTV farm report?
To: HairOfTheDog
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posted on
06/22/2007 6:24:48 PM PDT
by
kanawa
(Don't go where you're looking, look where you're going.)
To: lowbridge; sinkspur; 88keys; DugwayDuke; Severa; the OlLine Rebel; naturalman1975; Abathar; ...
To: HairOfTheDog
The little doggie was mad because his master did not get the xtra large family size pizza with everything on it that Charlie was waiting for.
When Charlie saw it was just a personal pan pizza, he freaked out!!
It was the owners fault!!
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posted on
06/22/2007 7:12:55 PM PDT
by
chicagolady
(Mexican Elite say: EXPORT Poverty Let the American Taxpayer foot the bill !)
To: HairOfTheDog
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posted on
06/22/2007 7:14:11 PM PDT
by
chicagolady
(Mexican Elite say: EXPORT Poverty Let the American Taxpayer foot the bill !)
To: chicagolady
To: EternalVigilance
Labs do love to swim.
My new Lab pup just went retrieving in the water for the very first time, at our retrieving club training day. She's been paddling in the ocean and around the edges of lakes before, but when our club president heaved a bumper in the lake for her, she never hesitated.
She's a little splashy, and she doesn't like to give the bumper up, but she nails it every time and comes straight back. Not bad for a little 10 month old buzz saw on wheels . . . .
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posted on
06/22/2007 7:21:03 PM PDT
by
AnAmericanMother
((Ministrix of Ye Chase, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment)))
To: lowbridge
So funny!
but I do worry about that sort of thing happening. I don't like the kids to be in the car when I am not there because we live right above the river too.
To: AnAmericanMother
Our lab loved to dive into the middle opf the river and retrieve anything we threw done there for him.
He died last spring and going to the river without him just isn't the same.
To: lowbridge
![](http://gallery.sunnyfortuna.com/albums/userpics/10001/thumb_autorama%20dog%20driver.jpg)
Ewing knew he was in the Twilight Zone when the wrecker driver showed up.
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