A Carrie Collision
An American university student accidentally treated first responders to a real-life horror show last weekend.
On Oct. 25 Sidney Wolfe, a West Virginia university student, attended a haunted house event where she was promoting her upcoming role in a musical adaptation of Stephen King’s Carrie. On her way home from the event, still dressed in her full Carrie getup, Wolfe’s car struck a deer.
“If anyone wants to know how my weekend went I totalled my car while dressed up as Carrie and everyone who was a first responder thought I was dead haha I’m so sorry,” Wolfe wrote in a now-viral tweet.
Wolfe also attached images of her car and costume after the accident. She also said she was approached by several officers as they arrived at the scene, most of them expressing genuine concern for her well-being.
“The second round of cops that came in weren’t in on the makeup and said, ‘Are we just gonna ignore that blood is dripping down her face and she needs medical assistance?’” Wolfe told a local news source.
Save for a slight bruise on her leg, Wolfe was uninjured by the accident.
Crazy Coco
An emotional support dog visiting Albany, N.Y. with her owner had quite the unexpected road trip when she skirted away from her owner’s side during the visit.
Coco, a three-year-old Shibu Inu was hit by a car, surviving the impact but getting stuck in the vehicle’s front grill. She was then taken for a 24-kilometre, 45-minute journey before the driver realized what had happened.
Coco’s owner Kathleen Hamilton wrote about the incident on a GoFundMe page she set up for her dog’s upcoming surgeries. The pooch suffered a broken right hip and right leg from her journey as a stowaway.
“My service dog dug a hole in the backyard and got out under the fence,” wrote Hamilton. “She got hit by a car that broke her right hip and her right leg. I was told by police that she ‘was stuck in the grill of somebody’s car’ and was taken 15 miles to the pet hospital, where she now needs surgery.”
As of Oct. 31, $2,270 had been raised by 55 donors.
After her surgeries, Coco will be as good as new—and perhaps she’ll have a newfound taste for adventure.
Spiteful Seller
After being “jerked around” while trying to sell his 1970 Dodge Charger, a man decided to crush it at the scrapyard to send a message.
“1970 Charger 500 I’m bringing to the scrapyard today because I’m tired of being jerked around,” the owner posted in a video on Oct. 28, with a photo of a worn but still solid black Dodge with a white driver’s side door.
“Yes! Beautiful!” he says he watches the forks come down on the vehicle’s roof. “Everybody wants to be a car guy until you have to do car guy stuff.”
According to local news sources, the man had the car for six months and had originally purchased it for US$4,200. It was priced at $8,200 and listed for sale for six months. The man said it was in good condition, “not missing a single thing inside, out, underneath, under the hood,” with a fender tag, VIN tag and a clean title. He lowered the asking price several times but continued to be plagued by “no-showers” and “flakers.”
“If people would just show up like they said that they would, and keep their word like a man, then they literally could’ve named their price and owned a car,” he said. “But people simply just jerked me around and wouldn’t show up.”
While the owner claims the vehicle was in good condition, it is unclear whether it was still drivable.
“I’m gonna sleep good tonight!” said the owner.
