Wild Video: Runaway Electric Cart Mows Down Coaches At Cowboys Stadium
- Posted on December 18, 2011 at 10:45am by
Mike Opelka
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At least one man was taken to a Dallas-area hospital after a driverless electric cart drove onto the field at Cowboys Stadium, plowing through a small group of coaches being interviewed after winning a high school football championship.
Coach Willie Amendola of Spring Dekaney High School is the man who ends up in the passenger seat after being hit from behind while speaking to reporters.
As you can see in the clip, several people were struck by the runaway cart. The latest reports said only one person needed to be transported to the hospital. Fox News reported that not long after the incident, Coach Amendola was actually seen giving more post-game interviews on the field - with a small streak of blood on his left forearm.
For the record, Spring Dekaney won the Texas State Division 5-A II Championship on Saturday night, beating the defending state champs, Cibolo Steele 34-14.
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Comments (76)
Madmilo
Posted on December 18, 2011 at 2:06pmI bet the guy that stopped it was the one that started it in the first place. If you watch, he comes from the left of the screen. Looks like he was already chasing it. Thats funny I don’t care who you are.
Report Post »Eliasim
Posted on December 18, 2011 at 10:16pmNow that’s bowling, except that bowling pins are more intelligent.
Report Post »Armed Patriot
Posted on December 19, 2011 at 8:31amElectric cars are EVIL. Without a gas or diesel engine they have no heart.
Report Post »KickinBack
Posted on December 19, 2011 at 11:22amChina secretly programmed it (and I‘m sure that’s where it was made) as a terrorist attack. Today it’s your golf cart. Tomorrow, it will be your toaster.
Report Post »HoldingTheLineInTexas
Posted on December 19, 2011 at 8:23pmThe guy that got stuck in the cart then roled off was my high school football coach… Guess he still has some moves for 56.
Report Post »UFOCPrez
Posted on December 20, 2011 at 12:23am@ELIASIM I don’t get your remark. Anyway, I like how the guy in the passenger seat bails out instead of reaching over and pressing on the brake pedal.
Report Post »Whyismynamealwaystaken
Posted on December 18, 2011 at 1:34pmStrange… I think someone will be out of a job soon.
Report Post »oriondma05
Posted on December 18, 2011 at 1:23pm“Somehow a yard marker got jammed against the accelerator”???
yeah, and that tree just came out of no-where.
Report Post »SpankDaMonkey
Posted on December 18, 2011 at 1:14pm.
Report Post »Jerry get your checkbook ready…………
hersey10
Posted on December 18, 2011 at 12:39pmThat’s absolutely hilarious !! No , I’m not sorry for saying it either .
Report Post »Jefferson
Posted on December 18, 2011 at 1:35pmIt’s a new sport called, yard cart bowling.
Looks like he left the 9 pin standing.
I can just see all the responses to come.
Duh….must have been a liberal cart.
Report Post »Duh…the cart must have been Iranian.
(insert stupid answer here)
patriot308
Posted on December 18, 2011 at 5:31pmJEFFERSON
Posted on December 18, 2011 at 1:35pm
It’s a new sport called, yard cart bowling.
Looks like he left the 9 pin standing.
I can just see all the responses to come.
Duh….must have been a liberal cart.
Duh…the cart must have been Iranian.
(insert stupid answer here)
No need…… looks like you covered all the stupid ones already
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on December 18, 2011 at 12:26pmSomeone call the Ghostbusters…no, wait its an electiric car….hmmm, OH CALL OBAMA…uh, never mind…now the golf carts are going mad….must be jealous of the volt.
Report Post »Apple Bite
Posted on December 18, 2011 at 12:35pmNo use calling Obama, he‘ll never take responsibility for anything he’s laid his hands on anyhow.
Maybe it’s just me, but that looks like it may have been deliberate…
Report Post »Dawgonitt
Posted on December 18, 2011 at 12:52pmObama’s responce would be that the electric Cart acted stupidly.
Report Post »Scooder
Posted on December 18, 2011 at 1:24pmObviously we all know who’s fault it really is. That’s right, George W. Bush.
Report Post »KevINtampa
Posted on December 19, 2011 at 2:39amI blame Snowflake.
Four legs good two legs bad.
Report Post »mikiegro
Posted on December 18, 2011 at 12:26pmProbably built at the plant next to the Chevy Volt.
Report Post »apollo18
Posted on December 18, 2011 at 5:54pmOh wait… This just in: NB-C reporting the golf cart has been linked to George Bush in Texas, yes it has been confirmed, Bush did the cart incident here Dallas, the worst incident since 1963. The GOP is completely at-fault. News at the top of the hour! Atty General knows absolutely nothing about it and will not be stepping down as a result.
Report Post »psadie
Posted on December 18, 2011 at 12:03pmThe EPA will now demand a bill on banning golf carts.
Report Post »Cause4Liberty
Posted on December 18, 2011 at 12:19pmWhat a wimp. He didnt even try to stop it, he just looks and jumps off the cart. LoL
Report Post »Just A Private
Posted on December 19, 2011 at 1:20pmI thought it was kind cowardly how he just rolled himself off the cart. “Who cares where the cart goes from here as long as I am safe”
Report Post »TANK3584
Posted on December 18, 2011 at 12:02pmSome crazy lib will blame Bush for it……
Report Post »crackerone
Posted on December 18, 2011 at 12:14pmB O drove the electric cart into the ditch!
Report Post »NOBAMA201258
Posted on December 18, 2011 at 1:27pmIt wasn’t Bush, given the lack of direction,it is clearly a Demo-cart! sorry,couldn’t help it
Report Post »REB182
Posted on December 18, 2011 at 12:02pmIn bowling that would be a strike…Glad nobody was seriously injured.
Report Post »Unix
Posted on December 18, 2011 at 11:57amFlag – clipping, unessecary roughness, 15 yards from the spot of the mow down…the crowd cheers! Play on MacBeth…
Report Post »AB5r
Posted on December 18, 2011 at 11:57amSome freak liberal in government will use this as their excuse to add some sort of government regulation requiring some sort of emergency shut off or some other bizarre requirement on either the manufacturers or users of electric golf carts. They are relentless and never let any incident or situation escape their grasp.
Report Post »TeaBill
Posted on December 18, 2011 at 11:45amGot To Love Those Electric Vehicles, they have a mind of their own. You know, because you and I can’t think for ourselves.
We let others to the heavy thinking and end up burning fossil fuel to produce electricity to charge our batteries to MSA (Move !@#$ Around).
Brilliance!
Report Post »recoveringneocon
Posted on December 18, 2011 at 11:44am@Coach Willie Amendola of Spring Dekaney High School
Report Post »Daddy, why did you jump out of the cart and not try to take control of it and stop it? How would you like that question from your children or kids on the team?
Lesterp
Posted on December 18, 2011 at 11:40amThe most hits Dallas has had all year!
Report Post »woodcellar
Posted on December 18, 2011 at 11:22amEvery car should make some noise so you can hear it coming. Help keep you from getting mow down.
Report Post »flatdaddio
Posted on December 18, 2011 at 11:31amhow about people not be so stupid when throwing thing into them….
Report Post »Robert Hawk
Posted on December 18, 2011 at 11:15amAny one notice how the stiff orange absorption pad was placed at the bottom of the seat frame and over the accelerator? If you know golf cars, you know that that pad is covering the foreword reverse lever and is holding down the accelerator, and covering the brake. That means this act was deliberate and pre-planned. It might have been a joke gone bad, however it was deliberate.
Golf cars no matter if they are electric or gas, by nature are automatically off when they are at rest. It takes activation of the peddle to make the golf car systems activate (turn on). That is a design feature on all golf cars. This one was deliberately over ridden by the orange safety device you see on the floorboard.
Report Post »Scaz
Posted on December 18, 2011 at 11:48amAsolutely! Being a golfer I’ve had a little experience with golf carts. You have to force that pedal down to not only accelerate, but to engage the engine in the first place. An orange cone just landing on it won’t do it unless it weighs the same as a concrete block. Definitely looks like a prank gone horribly wrong.
Report Post »arc_angel
Posted on December 18, 2011 at 12:12pmLook at the 13 second mark on the video. The position of ‘two cones’ (or whatever you want to call them), have very obviously been positioned to hold the accelerator pedal down. I guarantee this was done on purpose, as will come out in a follow up story. Very cute to the @$$ hole(s) that did this. Must have been a slow day at the asylum.
Report Post »Lesbian Packing Hollow Points
Posted on December 18, 2011 at 11:13amSkynet hacked its speed controller.
Report Post »Detroit paperboy
Posted on December 18, 2011 at 11:07amThank goodness it wasnt a Chevy Volt, there woulda been mass casualties, fires and explosions just like in a bad Steven Segall movie…..
Report Post »COFemale
Posted on December 18, 2011 at 11:04amJust like a Liberal with a mind of its own, doesn’t matter who they hurt, as long as they can plow through to make their point.
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on December 18, 2011 at 11:03amGhosts!
Report Post »Jeopao
Posted on December 18, 2011 at 11:02amBest run on that field in a long time….
Report Post »YepImaConservative
Posted on December 18, 2011 at 10:57amI wonder if Sam Hurd (ex-Cowboys reciever) had anything to do with drugs being in the system of the cart. Carts need their drugs too, just like the players. Sam Hurd is behind this… lol.
Report Post »JimmyP
Posted on December 18, 2011 at 10:52amAnd boom goes the dynamite! Did it burst into flames?
Report Post »freeweever
Posted on December 18, 2011 at 10:48amThe cart is in cahoots with the Occupy Football protesters, man they are upping the ante here ha. The coaches didn’t even see him. Damn Occupiers.
Report Post »TXPilot
Posted on December 18, 2011 at 10:58amSee, yet another reason not to own an electric car
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