(Photos: WEAR-3, Florida) In the Back To The Future franchise, Doc Brown and Marty McFly use a DeLorean DMC-12 on steroids to travel through time. In the movie, it looked awesome and sounded good…especially since the sounds of the weaker-than-weak PRV V6 were dubbed over with the noise of a Porsche 928. Ah, movie magic. In real life a DeLorean would need quite some time to hit 88 miles an hour, but one Nashville man decided that all he needed for time travel was a more powerful car…say, a Dodge Challenger. Yes, this happened, and no, we are not making this up. The unidentified driver told Pensacola, Florida police that he was attempting to travel though time when he drove his Challenger through Advanced Tax Services, which took out a structural wall that was connected to Pensacola Caskets. Luckily, both businesses were closed and unoccupied. Advanced Tax Services and Pensacola Caskets have been forced to move to different locations, as the impact of nearly two tons of muscle car have rendered the office building unsafe and in danger of coming down.
The driver was taken to a hospital for treatment and evaluation, but as of press time has not been formally charged with a crime. Then again, put yourself in the position of the police officer for a second and ask yourself: just how in the hell am I going to fill out the paperwork on this doozy?
(Thanks to Fred Timmons for the tip!)
Skipping tax day the hard way! At least they sold caskets next door… how convenient!
Are you guys in a time warp?
Is it April 1st?
Weeeeell – I guess LSD and driving cars through buildings isn’t the smartest mixture but when you’ve got to go!.
I’ll go back to arguing with my left knee about obscure French existentialists now,,,,
Have they checked his birth certificate to make sure he wasn’t really born in the year 2031? Maybe he just forgot the first rule of time travel in a moving vehicle: Make sure you aren’t traveling to an area occupied by a solid object in your destination time.
Maybe the driver thought that Advanced Tax Services and Pensacola Caskets was his “Vanishing Point”.
Ha ha ha!
Well done – he didn’t see that coming as well I bet!
WHAT AN IDIOT!!!! Everybody knows you need to use a 86′ New Yorker for this purpose. The lack of aerodynamics causes enough wind friction to create a ripple in the time space continuum. If they were used more frequently in land racing, i’m sure we’d see this more often. New Yorker’s would be disappearing left and right!
Ricardo Montlebon, Take me to Fantasy Island!!!!
I preferred the 69 Pontiac Bonneville
At least it was a new Challenger.
“Gonna get back in time”.
His new time vortex commitment- a court appearance.
“Now,I beg your pardon but I’m getting mine”.
He crashed with certainty.
DEATH and TAXES!
I have to agree there!
Maybe he wanted to travel back in time to avoid death and taxes!
In some states your family gets taxed when you die? Really!!!
He never got to 88mph…. Or the flux capacitor was not working properly – there’s a lot of things that he could of done wrong.
Meh. Needs Moar gigawatts.
I preferred the 69 Pontiac Bonneville