Evil cans... Always making people do suff...
Posted on 12/29/2005 8:37:14 PM PST by presidio9
car crashed into the front of the Waldo post office after an aerosol can rolled under the car's brake pedal, leaving the driver unable to stop.
The driver, Dorothy Faye Porchia, 48, of Magnolia, was unhurt but the front of the post office caved in, Waldo police chief Tom Mockbee said.
The car jumped a sidewalk before running into the building Wednesday.
"My can of deoderant I keep to make the car smell good fell off the seat and rolled under the brake," Porchia said. "I mashed the brake but it wouldn't go down."
Porchia said she used to live in Waldo and still gets her mail at the Waldo post office.
The damage did not force the post office to close.
"It's lucky this didn't happen before Christmas when we were really busy," postal clerk Cindy Green said.
The building was constructed in 2000 and is still structurally sound, officials said.
"I really hate what I did to the post office, but I couldn't help it," Porchia said.
bull. I tried that excuse (except it was a coke can) when I was 17. my Dad saw through the BS instantly.
Evil cans... Always making people do suff...
I can think of a number of ways to make a car smell better, but spraying deodorant was not one of them!
Uhh...ever hear of those little trees people hang in their cars, lady?
Dontcha just love a woman who keeps her aerosol deodorant in the car to keep the stink down ?
Where's Waldo?
LOL. It probably isn't the car that needs it...
Bathing regularly and not farting in your car are two ways to keep it smelling fresh.
Ha.
Years ago I worked at a Datsun dealership. Later on they changed their name to Nissan.
Anyway, the 300ZX turbo had just come out and the early ones had problems with oil cooled (?) turbos. IIRC, you were supposed to let the car run a while before shutting it down. That would allow the oil to circulate and cool down. Otherwise if you just shut the car off the oil would boil off and the turbo bearings would seize.
We had replaced the turbo and I was in the process of buttoning things up and road testing it and pulled the lever to slide the seat back as I was leaving the lot. The young lady that owned the car had a can of pepper spray rolling around and it somehow got jammed in the seat slider and punctured.
I learned real quick that you don’t want to punch a little can of cap spray in a confined space (though it was probably 20 minutes before I figured out what was going on – didn’t know WTF was happening for quite a while). I thought an ammonia tanker had derailed on the way to the paper mill or something. Hard to breathe, eyes burning, nose stinging, etc.
It’s also just another reason companies like Southwestern Bell used to prohibit *any* loose items in the cab of their work vehicles (though they were more concerned with loose items flying around in case of a wreck).
Seriously – they prohibited loose clipboards, flashlights, pens, paper pads, lunch boxes, thermoses – everything. Sounds like overkill but there’s a reason for it.
Put that Porchia in neutral.
Was there any statement from her husband/cousin?
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