This story happened a while ago in Brisbane, and even though it sounds like
an Alfred Hitchcock tale, it's true.John Bradford, a Sydney University
student, was on the side of the road hitchhiking on a very dark night and in
the midst of a storm.The night was rolling on and no car went by.The
storm was so strong he could hardly see a few feet ahead of him. Suddenly
he saw a car slowly coming towards him and stopped.John, desperate for
shelter and without thinking about it, got in the car and closed the door,
just to realize there was nobody behind the wheel and the engine wasn't on!
The car tarted moving slowly.John looked at the road and saw a curve
approaching.Scared, he started to pray, begging for his life.Then, just
before he hit the curve, a hand appeared through the window and turned the
wheel. John, paralyzed with terror, watched how the hand repeatedly came
through the window but never harmed him.Shortly thereafter John saw the
lights of a pub down the road so, gathering strength, jumped out of the car
and ran to it.Wet and out of breath, he rushed inside and started telling
everybody about the horrible experience he had just had.A silence
enveloped the pub when everybody realized he was crying and wasn't drunk.
Suddenly two other people walked into the same pub.They, like John, were
also wet and out of breath. Looking around and seeing John Bradford sobbing
at the bar, one said to the other, 'Look, Bruce there's that idiot that got
in the car while we were pushing it.'
