Say What???

This sounds a bit bogus to me. I think the driver left it in gear and/or failed to engage the hand brake, then tried to blame the dog.



The reason? While it is possible he left it in neutral, the hand brake would still need to be engaged to keep it from drifting. So the dog would have to not only bump the shift lever into drive but disengage the hand brake.



To shift from Park into Drive the foot brake has to be applied which seems extremely unlikely.



One cannot overlook the possibility that the reporting is totally incompetent and the dog power shifted into a forward gear. Even so the hand brake should have been engaged stalling the engine.



Puppy drives car into Massachusetts pond - SFGate

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CANTON, Mass. (AP) — After going for a walk, a German shepherd puppy owned by a Massachusetts man decided to go for a drive — straight into a pond. John Costello tells WFXT-TV (Puppy hits gas pedal, drives car into Canton pond - Boston News, Weather, Sports | FOX 25 | MyFoxBoston ) that his 12-week-old puppy, Rosie, was so excited Sunday after going for a walk at Bolivar Pond in Canton that she jumped in his running car, hit the gear stick and shifted into drive, before falling onto the gas pedal and sending the car careening into the water. A couple of passers-by saw the commotion and helped Costello rescue Rosie. Nobody was injured, but Costello says the Dodge Neon is a total loss. The 911 call surprised even police. Officer Robert Quirk says he has never heard of a dog driving into a pond.

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