This car's all wet

A Windsor, Ontario student driver will never forget his first driving lesson. [Postmedia News]  He put the car in reverse but instead of pressing the brake his foot depressed the accelerator and the car roared backwards through a wooden fence into a private swimming pool.

No humans were harmed but the car drowned.

If only it had floated the company could have used the car's floatation ability as a selling point.

West Coast Wackies

If you've ever wondered why our west coast people are considered somewhat wacky, here are two stories from Vancouver [courtesy the Montreal Gazette]:

A driver charged with impaired driving after his car was stopped for weaving on a freeway claimed his attention was not compromised by the 10 beers and double cocktail he'd consumed but rather because his wife was enjoying a new vibrator.

In a hopefully unrelated story, the RCMP have new orders to check inside cars that appear to have been abandoned. This followed the revelation that a dead man sat in his car on the Trans-Canada Highway (presumably on the shoulder) for 3 days despite the car being noticed and flagged by local police and the Mounties. Seems no-one looked inside the vehicle.

Just goes to show that on the West Coast cars can be hazardous to your health.