
Just when you think the economy might be taking a turn for the better, leave it too a defective Prius and salmonella poisoning in Pringles to screw it all up.
James Sikes, says that while he was driving around in his 2008 Prius, he reached to loosen the stuck accelerator, but it would not budge. The car continued to speed up while he desperately called emergency dispatchers to try to get it to slow down. Ultimately officers told him to push the brake pedal down and apply the emergency brakes as the car continued to increase speed, topping out near 90 mph. The car then began to slow down before coming to a complete stop 23 minutes later.
After a string of recalls over the last few years, the runaway Prius saga is sure to royally screw over the folks at Toyota. Since the Prius is one of the lamest and most seemingly benign cars, it’s definitely a bad sign that these things could be death machines.
So after making it in record time to your local grocery in the driver’s seat of a runaway Prius, and avoiding certain death, maybe you can pick up a package of Pringles and see if you survive that (people gotta get their kicks somehow). It turns out that Pringles Cheeseburger and “Taco Night” varieties are being recalled after concerns of salmonella contamination. I’m more of a sour cream and onion girl myself, so this won’t really affect me, but if you happen to like either of these types, you might want to reconsider the idea of “once you pop, you can’t stop.”
Via: AP
Via: The Steet