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Mysterious Fire Truck Found at Desert's Edge The inhabitants included a hitchhiker, a dead owl, a baby skunk, and an elk's head

By  TJ SULLIVAN

Updated 1:48 PM PDT, Wed, Jan 7, 2009

Related Topics: David Lynch

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Park rangers received the call about the mysterious fire truck near Chiriaco Summit shortly after 6 p.m.

 

Attention: David Lynch.

Not sure where to file this snippet of news, but it's just weird enough to be the beginning of a really good-but-strange story.

At the bottom of the front page of Wednesday's San Bernardino County Sun is the report of what appeared to be a 36-foot, red fire truck -- complete with emergency lights, ladder and sirens -- found stopped in the desert darkness at the southern edge of Joshua Tree National Park.

No license plate. No registration. And no soot-stained firefighters. Not even freshly showered ones!

Instead, park rangers discovered a dead animal collection and three living people, one of whom claimed to be a hitchhiker, who, I'm guessing, hadn't seen any other vehicles for weeks before saying "yes" to that ride. (Brings to mind a line from Hunter S. Thompson's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. "We're your friends. We're not like the others, man, really.")

Among the various carrion items were "owls, hawks, an elk's head and a baby skunk," says The Sun.

Seriously, Mr. Lynch, please help us.

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  • Zzyzx Thursday, Jan 8 at 11:55 AM FLAG COMMENT "We can't stop here. This is bat country."
  • EARTHMAN Wednesday, Jan 7 at 8:34 PM FLAG COMMENT Leland is absolutely right. The press fails to give the appropriate level of wierdness to the fact the very people who hijacked and looted the American economy are receiving trillions in bailouts while the American citizens, who make all things possible, are abandoned, involuntarily indebted, and left penniless to starve. NOW THAT'S WIERD! A mysterious firetruck, three unusual people, and assorted dead animals pales in magn ... MORE >
  • Amused Wednesday, Jan 7 at 12:54 PM FLAG COMMENT You mean the INBRED Empire... I'll bet if you lined up all 3 people in the truck, you could count the total # of teeth between them on one hand.
  • Leland Wednesday, Jan 7 at 10:19 AM FLAG COMMENT Once burned, twice shy. Fired from their jobs. Washing their plates. Road trip to Joshua Tree. Get a hitchhiker to drive while I check on the pets.Now that's living on he edge. What's strange about that? Giving 700 billion to those that wreaked the economy. That IS strange.
  • Helena Wednesday, Jan 7 at 10:14 AM FLAG COMMENT Only in the Inland Empire.......thanks for the amusing scenario.

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