My 2007 BMW 550i tried to commit suicide on Friday. I changed the music in preparation for a trip over Easter weekend and went back into the house. About 20 minutes later, I heard something that sounded like a tree had fallen somewhere nearby. Looked out the windows, did not see anything and did not worry about it. 10 minutes later my neighbor knocks on my front door. He says "Hi Paul, do you know anyone with a grey BMW?". I say "besides me?". He says "Its down in the woods behind my house." I say "WHAT!!!!!!!?!?!!?!?!?" I put shoes on and go over there. My car is indeed in the woods and has crashed into a tree in reverse. Now to the ghost. To get to where it ended up. it rolled down my driveway which curves to the right, then it jogged left to get into my neighbors drive after crossing the road, then straight down his really steep driveway missing all of the cars, then a hard right in order to miss his shed and woodpile, ran over a dead shrub, then through lots of branches, brambles and woods stuff before hitting a tree with some pretty serious velocity. AMAZING! It had to have made about 5 turns to have pulled this off. How does that happen if the steering wheel is locked? No damage to anything besides my car. Another neighbor out walking her dog sees the whole thing runs down to the car expecting to see someone slumped over the wheel. No one home, doors locked, flashers on. So anyway, I must have knocked it out of gear (manual trans) changing the CD. I never set the brake since I got out of the habit years ago with an Integra that would freeze its parking brake in the winter. We pulled it out of the woods with my neighbor's SUV. Car is in pretty rough shape, rear bumper, trunk caved in, rear window broken, steering wheel crooked, sunroof squeaks (and the cover for it is ....gone?), lots of scrapes from branches, lots of underbody stuff ripped off. It still drives OK. Hopefully not totaled. I really liked this car and don't want to be looking for a replacement. I dropped it off at a local bodyshop Saturday first thing since he said he could store it inside out of the rain. We took the NSX for our trip.
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