A Florida neighborhood got a rude awakening in the early hours of June 9th when a Ford F-150 pickup truck did something that trucks, by all reasonable expectations, should not do: it drove through a wall and parked itself on top of a sleeping man’s bed. The crash occurred around 12:30 a.m. when a 54-year-old Sarasota man behind the wheel of the F-150 ran a stop sign on Tournament Boulevard, left the roadway, and plowed into a home on Country Club Way near the Manatee-Sarasota county line.
Inside that home, a 62-year-old man was doing what most reasonable people do at half past midnight: sleeping.
The truck did not merely nick a corner of the house. It went completely through the exterior wall and came to rest inside the homeowner’s bedroom, pinning the resident beneath the vehicle. For anyone keeping score at home, that is a full truck, inside a bedroom, on top of a person. Neighbor Robert Bohn rushed over after the crash woke him and found exactly that scene, with the driver still sitting in the cab and his neighbor trapped underneath…