The only time a Pinto can be called "hot"

[Nurian]

This is an old story. Back when I was the tender age of 10. I'm not sure if it belongs here, but I can't think of where else to put it (no suggestions, please :P).

Anyway, I'm with my parents and brother in a local Wal-Mart when an announcement comes over the paging system:
"Would the owner of a blue Pinto please come to the customer service desk, please? Would the owner of a blue Pinto please come to the customer service desk? You're car is on fire."
Everyone stops and looks at the speakers for a second, not believing. One guy in the vicinity said, "That's a hell of a way to tell someone!" We all laugh.

The kicker:

Behind me I heard someone say, "Wait, Dad, didn't we park next to a blue Pinto?"
"Shi-" I catch a glimpse of a middle age guy and his teenage son bolting for the front.

[Toujin]

I thought stuff like this only happened on TV!

[Broomjockey]

I'm not sure if it belongs here, but I can't think of where else to put it

*raises finger* How abo-

(no suggestions, please :P).

Never mind...

That's funny though. "Shi-" and runs off. Not the owner, just potential collateral damage. "Gotta save the car! Run boy!"

[IT Grunt]

I guess that one could literally be called 'the barbeque that seats 4'.

[Pagan]

"Would the owner of a blue Pinto please come to the customer service desk, please? Would the owner of a blue Pinto please come to the customer service desk? You're car is on fire."

So someone apparently looked at the back bumper too hard....

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

So someone apparently looked at the back bumper too hard....

I was thinking a bird's feather or a leaf fell on it.

[Ironclad Alibi]

I was thinking a bird's feather or a leaf fell on it.

Even a butterfly can do a lot of damage. (Click on The Butterfly Effect.)

[Becks]

No one ever suspects...










...the BUTTERFLY!!!!!!!

[Bella_Vixen]

Becks, that was completely unexpected!

[SG15Z]

*raises finger* How abo-


Never mind...

OK Brooms now I'm curious, what were you about to say? Come on please, I'll give you a cookie!





Wow a Pinto on fire! That's actually not an unheard of phrase. After all it's not that hard to set a Pinto on fire. I personally am going with the butterfly theory!

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

Reminds me of when my neighbor's boat caught on fire. When we got the phone call at about 2 am, we were originally told their garage was on fire and my dad was running around trying to locate the keys to his truck, which was parked pretty much next to it.

But as it turned out, it was their boat, parked on the street, that was on fire. Some punk kids had been walking by and decided to stuff some leaves and paper inside and light it on fire. By the time the fire department got there, the tree the boat was parked under was on fire and the neighbor's Jeep Cherokee close to starting on fire as well. They had it parked right in front of the boat.

And then the neighbors left the burned-out hulk sitting in front of their house for about a week to stink up the neighborhood.

[Primer]

So someone apparently looked at the back bumper too hard....

I drove a blue Pinto back in the late '70s-early-'80s. I yielded for an ambulance at a very busy intersection and got rear-ended by a dump truck who was trying to beat the ambulance through the intersection. He bashed in my tailgate, but missed ALL my tail lights. A week later, I had it up on a lift for something else, and saw how close he came to my gas tank. I almost fainted right there. Had a vehicle with a regular height bumper hit me, I *would* have exploded!

[PepperElf]

hell i saw that on the road one day, coming home from college (my first stint there)... some car was pulled over to the left, and yep starting to burn

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

Years ago, we had a car burn up in our parking lot. People said they saw it smoking as it drove into the lot, then it went up.

And Yours Truly got recruited to clean up the broken glass and debris that was left after the car was towed away. Some of it was rubber that had melted and bonded to the pavement.

[Pagan]

Wow a Pinto on fire! That's actually not an unheard of phrase.

You know, that's kind of redundant now that I think about it.

Although I did see one the other day that wasn't on fire. Now that was unusual!