In retrospect it is funny to laugh at but it scared the crap out of me at the time:

I was going to a dealer for a part (I forget what) and all the parking spots were full. I decided to part at the end of the building (near the nice shiney new stangs). To this point everything is OK. Till I get excted about going in and getting a part. When it is a quick trip in the winter i like to leave the X running and use the keypad on the door to get back in, so I locked the doors and started to walk away. Yep, you guessed it, it started to roll. I cought it out of the corner of my eye and it took a minute to register, but it seemed as though someone forgot to put it in PARK! I ran for the door and punched the code faster than I thought possible (typicaly I have to do it a couple times) as I am walking fast along side of it. I jump in and hit the breaks only a few inches from a nice orange new stang. Whew! Embaresed I decided to save my dignity and just drive away from the onlooking crooks, er salesmen...

To this day I am still jumpy if it slips just a little from park, like on a hill.

You didn't put it in all the way?

I do that alot. One time I was in 4-low and it didn't go all the way, and I got out and it ran away from me!

wow, close one, glad your ok, and the x is doin fine

Just when the guys from Stang forum thought they were getting a new member.


Close one.....damn

I remember doing that once. I think it was at a forth of july carnavle last summer. I got out and utangled my keys from the selector, accidentally putting it in nutral. I don;t know how i managed it but it was all locked and everything when i started to walk away. I turned around and saw it rolling backwards. i ran up to it just as it was about to hit another car. Because there was no time, i stopped it the only way i could... with my foot. i ended up with a very twisted and swallen anke, but no scratches on my truck. :rolleyes:

OUCH!

sounds like me unabonked with some of the silly stuff i do. man forget bodily harm, save the other thing from breaking, no matter what!!

Originally posted by taxxman2k
In retrospect it is funny to laugh at but it scared the crap out of me at the time:

Whew! Embaresed I decided to save my dignity and just drive away from the onlooking crooks, er salesmen...


don't be embaresed - we crook's, er salesmen, get a good laugh out of you people at least once a month, and it's alot more common than you might think, on avg we have three damaged units a month, we'll usually see one out of three happen (and it's almost always a customer - window shopping from behind their wheel)

Glad to see someone comented on the crooks statement. Just a joke. Not a profession I could do.

I figured there had to be more incidents. You need to compile the security footage!