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Yes Ken, I was very lucky. I saw this morning a new pick-up parked on this side of the trash cans. I am so glad he wasn't home then. 
Robert
1982 Westfalia

--- On Thu, 3/5/09, Kenneth Lewis <kdlewis@NORTHSTATE.NET> wrote:

From: Kenneth Lewis <kdlewis@NORTHSTATE.NET>
Subject: Re: Trash can Vanagon stoppers
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Date: Thursday, March 5, 2009, 11:30 AM

I think you cashed out the good Vanagon Karma account.
�know it's a strange title but read on: Tonight there was a loud knocking on the front door-it was my neighbor, who told me my Vanagon was down the street. �It was the 82 with the frozen engine. I walked down to where it stopped expecting the worst because I could see behind it was a nice looking Jeep. �When I got to the rear of the vanagon, it was up against three huge trash containers, the kind thew garbage truck lifts up. Nothing was damaged. How lucky is that!?�The Vanagon rolled backwards about 100 yards down and across the street, if the garbage cans hadnt been there, the van would have crashed into the Jeep. �I remember stories like this have been told before on this list, but without such happy endings. �This is my friend Jack's fault. You don't know Jack- he's not a Vanagon owner, but builds sand rails using Vanagon and Bus transmissions. �He was trying to help me break the seized motor free, and asked if the handbrake was set. It was , I
 said, asking what that has to do with it? Apparently he went up and released the handbrake while I was in the garage, I don't know why. �But that was at six. Sometime in the last 5 hours it rolled backwards. It's very windy tonight- the wind must have helped get it rolling. ��Robert1982 Westfalia