On Mon, 15 Mar 2010 21:40:32 -0500, Dean Hoffman
wrote:

http://tinyurl.com/yeruhj7

The article is from Forbes. The author is critical of the press
that swallowed the story hook, line, and sinker. He says he found
several flaws that a newsman should've found.

As told in the article from Forbes, where it says he was afraid to
shift to neutral, afraid to turn off the car, if it's a hoax as it
sounds, how did the driver think he would get away with it?

Maybe he didn't. I can easily imagine Toyota paying him 10, 20, 50G to
be a bogus complainer, to make all the other complainers seem more
likely to be bogus.