Flaming Squirrel Blows Up a Camry

[HeilSvenska]

Flaming squirrel ignites car in Bayonne by N. Clark Judd Thursday October 18, 2007, 7:29 PM A kamikaze squirrel fell from the sky and detonated a Bayonne woman's car yesterday, police said today. Lindsey Millar, 23, and her brother, Tony, 22, were both home Wednesday at about 12:45 p.m. when Lindsey's car suddenly started burning outside their 42nd Street home. Tony Millar said firefighters told them it was the work of a buck-toothed saboteur that had been gnawing on overhead power lines connected to a transformer directly above the 2006 Toyota Camry. "The squirrel chewed through the wire, was set on fire, fell down directly to where the car was," Tony Millar said. "The squirrel, on fire, slid into the engine compartment and blew up the car. "They're always coming around here, chewing through the garbage," he added. Tony Millar says his sister was fully insured. "It's something to laugh about once she has a new car," he said. "It's not funny yet." Police said there were no injuries -- except for the squirrel, that is, which is dead. The Millars' home is decorated for Halloween, complete with a tiny plastic tombstone on their front lawn. Tony Millar said the family will consider dedicating the tombstone to the squirrel, who was not named. -The Jersey Journal

[79TA]

How did the flaming squirrel just "slide into the engine bay." Toyota has quality issues but they don't have massive panel gaps like that. It almost sounds like insurance fraud or perhaps someone (possibly the squirrel) demonstrating how they felt about the soulless '06 Camry.

[HeilSvenska]

^
I was thinking that the Camry spontaneously caught on fire by itself and Toyota paid the owners to blame it on a poor squirrel for its lack of reliability.

[79TA]

http://www.autospies.com/news/Toyota...bustion-10091/

possible?

[HeilSvenska]

Originally Posted by insane Sounds odd enough. I'd love it if people actually posted a link to the source as well shen posting a story?!

I see that we have a non-believer at our midst. Tsk tsk tsk.

http://www.nj.com/hudsoncountynow/in...tes_car_i.html

[79TA]

Perhaps Japanese cars do combust more easily than other cars . . .

http://jalopnik.com/cars/news/nissan...ent-319546.php

[nthfinity]

Again, such posts don't belong in "Car Chat" unless the post is specifically about a car, cars in general... not what happened to a car from non-car related things.