Dirtiest Car Write-In: Woman crashes because garbage jams accelerator pedal
We thought we'd found the filthiest car when we gave away a vacuum last spring, but apparently, Ann Biglan of Massachusetts wasn't going to be passed over again this year. Training hard to win the Dyson, Biglan had crammed her Ford Focus with nearly enough crap to fill a 10-yard dumpster. Perhaps the car was struck by lightning and the decaying organic matter came alive, Johnny Five style. While cruising along in Yarmouth, Massachusetts -- on fairly provincial Cape Cod -- the detritus rebelled. The accelerator and brake pedals were rendered useless as the Focus-turned-refuse-bin rocketed out of a Post Office parking lot, across a freeway careening into a Ford Explorer, backing over a sidewalk and finally coming to rest by smashing a flowerpot in a gas station parking lot. While charged with several violations by the local constabulary, we know that Biglan was just trying to get into top form for this spring's competition. Some athletes are tempted into illegal doping, and true AutoBloggers may also go to extremes, but let this be a lesson to you, dear reader. No Dyson is worth the danger of having your own personal Swamp Thing take over your car and smash it into stuff. Clean that thing up!
Thanks for the tip, Tim!
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Howard Kerr 3:06PM (2/13/2007)
Well, let's hope the main reason why this lady's car was so dirty INSIDE is that she refuses to toss any litter out the window. That said, considering the oldest Focuses (Foci ?) are ONLY 7 years old, did this lady EVER clean the inside of her car?
The picture is kind of fuzzy....it almost looks likes an explosion at a Beanee Baby factory.
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Bryan 3:26PM (2/13/2007)
THIS is why American cars get trashed and seem to not last so long..thats absolutely ridiculous. I am a neat freak, I would have been in total insanity mode if that mess was in my truck!! On the other hand, at least no one was hurt, and I bet it would have been just as funny to see as the old lady who ran into the building I used to work in. Poor thing was scared to death but it was halarious she hit the accelerator pedal in a gas station parking lot, went through the bushes, and ran into the concrete wall. She thought she had hit the brake. Oh well, her perfect late 90's BMW has a scratch now!
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Mike G 3:55PM (2/13/2007)
Holy lame-a-licious.
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TVs Hasselhoff 3:56PM (2/13/2007)
You don't normally think about it, but over time, all those condom wrappers really do pile up.
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DriftPunch 3:59PM (2/13/2007)
She's got to be a Hoarder and quite mental... It's a bit distrubing to see in reality. The only one I've ever run across was an old lady who seemed to desire to 'mother' everything she took into her home. She treated inanimate objects as children, so throwing something out brought on separation anxiety.
Cut and paste from the net, reasons people hoard:
-Items are perceived as valuable
-Items provide a source of security
-Fear of forgetting or losing items
-Constant need to collect and keep things
-Obtaining love not found from people
-Fear others will obtain their personal information
-Physical limitations and frailty
-Inability to organize
-Self neglect
-Stressful life events
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Josiah 8:26AM (2/14/2007)
Cape Cod represent.
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fizzandpop 5:43PM (2/13/2007)
If that's the state of her car, imagine what "downstairs" looks like?
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bland moves 5:50PM (2/13/2007)
#6 yuck!!!
I bet her house is scary too.
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Non-Bizarro Adam 7:47PM (2/13/2007)
#4 and #6, congrats, I had never snorted vodka tonic up my nose before, but you two have managed to give me the pleasant "my brain is on fire" sensation twice in 15 seconds. Thanks.
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Fernando 12:00PM (2/14/2007)
Juan Carlos, is that your car?
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Brandon 8:56PM (2/13/2007)
This is the first time I can say "Ford interiors look like crap" without getting someone arguing with me. LOL
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Waltzon 11:08PM (2/13/2007)
Adam-- you officially made my whole night. Thanks!
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Tommy 12:11AM (2/14/2007)
immagine how much fuel she has wasted carting all that trash around... such a waste of money.
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Tim UF 1:45AM (2/14/2007)
Adam, that has to be one of the best responses to another comment i have EVER read. Thats good stuff.
And... she may have been wasting fuel hauling that stuff around, but, better in her car than a land fill. and imagine if she had gotten a littering fine for each little chunk of crap in her car instead of just hoarding it all. Theres literally hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of fines in there!
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John 2:06PM (2/14/2007)
It's a good thing everything she impacted was while going in reverse. Could you imagine what that would have been like if the airbags inflated!
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Justin 8:36AM (2/15/2007)
Sometimes i hate America.
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Sharon 6:37AM (2/21/2007)
omg,I took one look at that car and thought "wow she would get along great with my husband"! I would bust my butt trying to keep his vehicle clean and mine at the same time,I got to the point,no more,if he wants to drive in all that trash,then its on him,dont expect me to get in the vehicle,and no I dont allow him to drive the new one,I have standards!
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JEANNE 6:52AM (2/21/2007)
''OMG'' THERES NO WORD TO DESCRIBE THIS FILTH.
LAZYYYYYYYY PEOPLE,
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Sceptical Su 6:59AM (2/21/2007)
Pretty clean looking garbage, eh? Looks like she just let all her junk mail accumulate in her car...actually looks fairly deliberate. Most true filth-mobiles have empty cups and/or soda cans, food wrappers, etc. Nothing looks sticky or dirty. Glad nobody was hurt with this faker just trying to win a free Dyson.
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BAILEY 7:26AM (2/21/2007)
HEY,...wait a minute! SOOO SHE'S the one who stole my reese's peanut butter cup! & there's my nail clippers too!
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