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Truck with dog at wheel backs through traffic unharmed

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  • Charles McCowan left Boxer, Max, in truck parked in front of convenience store
  • Both were gone when he came out; police found them in parking lot across street
  • Surveillance video shows Max knocked the truck out of gear
  • It rolled across street without being hit by traffic, stopped on other side
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AZUSA, California (AP) -- Doggone it, my truck's gone!

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Can Boxers drive? One in California knocked a truck out of gear and rolled across a street full of traffic unharmed.

Police said Charles McCowan parked his pickup in front of a mini-mart Wednesday, leaving his 80-pound Boxer named Max in the passenger seat.

When he came out, the truck and Max were gone.

McCowan called police, assuming the truck had been stolen.

When officers arrived, they found the pickup across the street in a fast-food parking lot but had no idea how it got there.

In security video shown Thursday on KCAL-TV, the truck can be seen rolling backward out of the store lot and across the street, threading its way through traffic and out of view.

Police said that after McCowan left the truck, Max knocked the vehicle out of gear and sent it rolling backward.

Both the dog and the truck emerged without a scratch. E-mail to a friend E-mail to a friend

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