A woman ran over an inner-spring coil mattress on the highway, and decided not to worry — and kept on driving. It caught on the undercarriage of her Ford.
The ensuing jumble finally whipped around enough to tear a hole in the fuel tank.
The subsequent lack of fuel is what finally brought her vehicle to its knees.
She had managed to drive 30 miles, with a 60 pound tangle of metal “stuff” wrapped around her drive shaft.
She had it towed to her Ford dealership, and complained that the vehicle had a ‘sort of a noise’ when she was driving at high speeds.
