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Claim: Photograph shows small car loaded down with lumber and other building supplies.
Example: [Collected via e-mail, 2000]
Origins: This item is a good example of the pitfalls of allowing pure skepticism to overwhelm ordinary evidence. After we originally put this picture and story up with an "Undetermined" status back in Then we starting hearing from people who were in Waldorf that day (including employees of the Home Depot store where the building materials were purchased and the IHoP restaurant seen in the background of the photo) and actually saw the car. Some of them even took their own pictures of it, such the following: ![]() Then we started finding news stories about the "lumber car," including one from an enterprising reporter who tracked the hapless couple down through their license plates. He wasn't able to elicit any edifying information from them, but his story was accompanied by even more photographs, including a close-up of the snoozing woman in the passenger's seat: ![]() ![]() ![]() Not everything is too weird to be true. Last updated: 21 September 2006 Urban Legends Reference Pages © 1995-2008 by snopes.com. This material may not be reproduced without permission. snopes and the snopes.com logo are registered service marks of snopes.com. Sources:
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