It would have served him right.
It would have served him right.
Appleseed wrote: I think the man was stuck inside the dog. That would account for some of the confusion.
Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.
Groucho Marx
"Man arrived at 8 a.m. and checked on the dog around 11:55." Huffington Post, 4th line down. That's 4 hours the dog was in the car, unattended.I'm not a big PETA or ASPCA advocate, but punching this guy in the face would have been satisfying.Also surprised noone at Waffle House objected to the guy neglecting his dog for four hours. Oh yeah, I own a Corvette, but instead of going out for a drive, or taking Fluffy to a park, I'd rather sit on my butt inside a Waffle House.
Yippee, page 13! only eleventy flavin more pages to go -
huh, Port Author Texas. I have been to that Waffle House casing boats.
13 pages. Yahoooooooooo
In on 13.
... what was this thread about anyway
So, a man walks into a Waffle House. ...
And orders coffee
Man this whole thing is like an r.kelly song.
"I'm trapped in a corvette, just can't open this corvette, this handle won't work".
He couldn’t call for help because he left his phone in the Waffle House
Whatever could go wrong did go wrong. 
Wally wrote: I'd rather be Stuck in a closet with Vanna White
Haha I forgot about that one. 
In reply to fasted58:
When your number is up, it's up.
How much battery power does the OnStar emergency button need?
Flight Service wrote: In reply to fasted58: When your number is up, it's up.
Absolutely. I'm surprised mine hasn't come up with some of the stupid E36 M3 I did when I was young.
I'm still having some problems wrapping my head around some of the details. He left the dog in the car for four hours and then he was in the car for four more hours before he was found?
Man, as tragic as this all is, now I know why TVR never would have made it selling cars here. Anyone remember the Top Gear clip where Clarkson offers a twenty to anyone who can figure out how to get into the Tuscan and start it in less than a minute? And then nobody can figure out how to get out? Makes the Vette seem downright obvious by comparison. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sCuvWlheco
Re: the thread subject, I also wonder what kind of shape the dog was in when he got out there after the first four hours. Add in the fact that both the Waffle House employees and EMS apparently wasted a bunch of time trying to open the car before just breaking the damn window and you end up with a really confusing, sad story where almost every player involved is equally to blame.
SlickDizzy wrote: Add in the fact that both the Waffle House employees and EMS apparently wasted a bunch of time trying to open the car before just breaking the damn window and you end up with a really confusing, sad story where almost every player involved is equally to blame.
The 'almost' being the only one completely NOT to blame, which would be the dog.
Datsun1500 wrote: So the Corvette has a manual release lever, and it's a bad design. BMW is getting suedBecause they didn't have a manual release lever....
So someone was right 10 pages ago that wherever there is a bad design somewhere the Germans have made it worse.
Think about this. The police, EMTs, and firefighters were all involved. This may be two groups of people or three depending on how things work in Port Arthur. Either way the first group of people that arrived did nothing, they waited for the next group of people to get there. Firefighters "eventually" broke a window. That makes me believe they had to discuss and think about it for a while.
ncjay wrote: Think about this. The police, EMTs, and firefighters were all involved. This may be two groups of people or three depending on how things work in Port Arthur. Either way the first group of people that arrived did nothing, they waited for the next group of people to get there. Firefighters "eventually" broke a window. That makes me believe they had to discuss and think about it for a while.
See, THIS is what worries me more than the stupid release lever or the intelligence of the old man. Why was that not the first thought anyone had when responding? I hope we don't live in a society so litigious that emergency services are basically picking locks to avoid property damage before breaking a damn window and saving someone.
In reply to SlickDizzy: You're assumption of litigation is probably right. Had he been ok this thread would have been "Overzealous govt workers damage prized Corvette."
Sorry to hear the guy died. I have a good many war stories about people 'getting locked inside because the battery went dead' going back to the 1980's. The most memorable was the woman who beat a hole in the windshield with one of those Coast Guard coffee mugs (she was retired CG). This was a Buick with the manual lock button which slides, could not find a thing wrong with it. It's a completely manual override, uses a rod.
Door locks don't kill people. People kill people.
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