RUNNING-OUT-OF-GAS DISASTER STORIES

RUNNING-OUT-OF-GAS DISASTER STORIES

LAS VEGAS (Wireless Flash) -- How would you like to run out of gas and have your car stolen while you were trying to get fuel for it? That's what happened to the winner of a contest held by Pennzoil's Rescue Remedy to determine the most disastrous running-out-of-gas story in America. Winner Don Norman says his out-of-gas VW Beetle was stranded outside of Las Vegas when he went to find a gas station -- but his car was stolen by the time he got back. Luckily, Norman had plopped his last dollar into a slot machine and won $1500 while he was getting the gas, so he was able to buy a used car to get him back on the road again. Runners-up in the "gas-tly" contest include a woman who was 9-months pregnant and had to push her car to the nearest gas station and a man who ran out of gas while rushing his wife to the hospital.