The vehicle was parked on the top of a hill on 25th street and the dogs’ owner, identified simply as "Scott," left his pets for 15 minutes while he went inside a home. Scott recalled that when he returned, “I got around to the front of the house where the truck was, and it's like not there, I was like, 'Did I get towed?' and I just thought, ‘No it didn't.’"
The truck was nowhere near where Scott parked it. After the dogs set the truck in gear it traveled down the hill, across a busy intersection at Riverside Drive near a pedestrian bridge, over a jogging path, and eventually hit a cement culvert that stopped it on the bank of the Arkansas River. Fortunately, the motoring mutts were able to avoid cars and pedestrians along their 3-block voyage and they emerged uninjured. The same could not be said for Scott’s vehicle, which took a tow truck 2-hours to pull from the riverbank.
