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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.


1 posted on 06/22/2007 10:15:09 AM PDT by lowbridge
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To: lowbridge

Sounds like it almost worked, too! Charlie better watch his back! LOL!


2 posted on 06/22/2007 10:17:46 AM PDT by Hegemony Cricket (Don't mistake timid driving for defensive driving.)
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To: lowbridge; patton

bad doggie :(


3 posted on 06/22/2007 10:22:08 AM PDT by leda (19yrs ... only 4,981yrs to go ;))
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To: leda

Well, that tops when our dog ate the siding off of the house.


4 posted on 06/22/2007 10:24:50 AM PDT by patton (19yrs ... only 4,981yrs to go ;))
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To: patton

yeah, our dog isn’t a real high achiever, is she?


5 posted on 06/22/2007 10:30:31 AM PDT by leda (19yrs ... only 4,981yrs to go ;))
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To: lowbridge
At least Charlie had enough sense to jump out of the car, unlike the eternally optimistic Toonces:

6 posted on 06/22/2007 11:23:42 AM PDT by snarks_when_bored
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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.

7 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)
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To: All
Charlie:


8 posted on 06/22/2007 5:32:14 PM PDT by lowbridge ("The mainstream media IS the Democratic Party." - Rush Limbaugh)
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To: Chief Engineer; Delphinium; EternalVigilance; Keyes2000mt; Sir_Ed; Knitting A Conundrum; ...
The FR Idaho Ping List
FReepmail GOP_Raider to be on or off this list

9 posted on 06/22/2007 5:36:09 PM PDT by GOP_Raider (FReepmail me to join the FR Idaho Ping List.)
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To: GOP_Raider

Hey. It’s a lab. They love to swim. Ol’ Charlie just figured Impalas do too...


10 posted on 06/22/2007 5:54:11 PM PDT by EternalVigilance ("You will have your bipartisanship." - Fred Thompson, May 4, 2007)
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To: lowbridge
"My car just went boom,

Okay, who has the picture from the SCTV farm report?

11 posted on 06/22/2007 6:19:50 PM PDT by Disambiguator
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To: HairOfTheDog

Ping :~)


12 posted on 06/22/2007 6:24:48 PM PDT by kanawa (Don't go where you're looking, look where you're going.)
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To: lowbridge; sinkspur; 88keys; DugwayDuke; Severa; the OlLine Rebel; naturalman1975; Abathar; ...
Bad dog! (unlike the good dogs in my previous ping!)

Ping!


Other articles with keyword "DOGGIEPING" since 12/29/04

13 posted on 06/22/2007 6:32:56 PM PDT by HairOfTheDog
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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!!


14 posted on 06/22/2007 7:12:55 PM PDT by chicagolady (Mexican Elite say: EXPORT Poverty Let the American Taxpayer foot the bill !)
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To: HairOfTheDog

BAD MASTER!!!


15 posted on 06/22/2007 7:14:11 PM PDT by chicagolady (Mexican Elite say: EXPORT Poverty Let the American Taxpayer foot the bill !)
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To: chicagolady

Heh...


16 posted on 06/22/2007 7:14:46 PM PDT by HairOfTheDog
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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 . . . .

17 posted on 06/22/2007 7:21:03 PM PDT by AnAmericanMother ((Ministrix of Ye Chase, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment)))
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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.
18 posted on 06/22/2007 8:37:08 PM PDT by Delphinium
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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.
19 posted on 06/22/2007 8:39:16 PM PDT by Delphinium
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To: lowbridge

Ewing knew he was in the Twilight Zone when the wrecker driver showed up.

20 posted on 06/22/2007 8:48:36 PM PDT by DeFault User
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