Glenn Beck totals rental SUV after daughter’s wedding

Yahoo ^ | 10/10/12 | Dylan Stableford

[DFG]

Glenn Beck wrecked a rental at his daughter's wedding over the weekend.

"So my rental car got totaled this weekend ... at my daughter's wedding," the outspoken talk-show host wrote on Twitter.

On his radio show on Tuesday, Beck described the ordeal, saying after the ceremony he parked the rental SUV—a Ford Explorer—along a rain-soaked hill in the Finger Lakes area of New York, and forgot to put on the parking brake. Beck and his wife had already gotten out of the car when it began to slide, eventually flipping over, he said.

[bmwcyle]

Do you think Glenn was excited that day? /sarcasm

[Izzy Dunne]

gotten out of the car when it began to slide

Sorry, that's hard to believe.

You get out of the car, and then it starts to SLIDE?

So... having the parking brake on is not going to help if the dang thing is SLIDING...

[treetopsandroofs]

I’m guessing this will be NBC’s biggest “news” in Late Night “comedy” tonight.

[rawhide]

[xzins]

Sounds like a story that could be true, but I’d be more inclined to worry about an alcohol-based accident. Recidivism is common.

[jsanders2001]

Cover story...lol. Ok Beck fess up and take it like a man. You drank too much champagne at the wedding and rolled the vehicle. Big whoop...lol

[cicero2k]

Glenn portrayed as " the 48-year-old conservative lightning rod".

Do they portray Maher-Letterman-Louis CK as " lightening rods" for their apparent cause?

[Charles Martel]

Yes, “sliding” seems unlikely - absent a steep, ice-covered slope. The only way I see something like this occurring is by leaving the shifter in *neutral*, allowing the car to roll.

[wardaddy]

I agree...maybe he forgot to put it in park is my guess

I do that in my pick up on occasion

[Ahithophel]

Thanks for the visual and helping make this site the place to go for “the rest of the story”

[Izzy Dunne]

“Rolling” I can believe. “Sliding”... well, as an old country boy, I know horse poop when I hear it.

[Izzy Dunne]

I do that in my pick up on occasion

And I'll bet you that not once, NOT EVEN ONE TIME did your truck slide away...

[Angry_White_Man_Syndrome]

I'm sure what it did was roll not slide. It is common for automatic transmissions to hold temporarily on an incline but if the car is jarred in the slightest the transmission will not hold. I have had this happen before. I parked and forgot to set the brake. As I close the door the car started to roll. Thankfully it didn’t go too far before hitting a high curb and stopping.

[Grampa Dave]

What a pant load.

This sounds like what a drunk liberal would say besides blaming Bush if they caused an accident like this.

Bush’s fault is probably as good of an excuse as any!

[backwoods-engineer]

Sounds like a story that could be true, but I’d be more inclined to worry about an alcohol-based accident. Recidivism is common.

Stop the slander.

Beck hasn't had a drink in over 10 years.

The car SLID not ROLLED on its axle. It was a rain-slick slope.

[PLD]

For one thing he did not park the rental car his security guard parked it..and it was not at the ceremony it was when they got back to their hotel..

Maybe if some would watch his show on Dish channel 212 they could hear the truth..

[Angry_White_Man_Syndrome]

Are you on the prosecutions team in the Zimmerman case?

[PhiloBedo]

He was just materializing Barry’s analogy of how the Democrats handled the economy.

[trisham]

I’ve done that. We lived on a hill at our old house. One day I pulled up and stopped in front of the house in my SUV, jumped out, started to close the door and the SUV started moving backward. I leapt back in, hit the brake and put the vehicle in park. I was lucky.