6/6/07-Dwarf Mechanic Triggers Manhunt

This is no joke. Recently, a woman in Germany witnessed a man throwing what she thought was a small child into the trunk of his car, and driving off. She immediately called the police, who located and stopped the car.

When they approached the car, the driver asked what was wrong, and the police officers confronted him with allegations that he had kidnapped a child, who was in the trunk of his vehicle.

The man opened the trunk to reveal that the person inside was in fact not a child, but a 27 year old dwarf. "Shorty" Mueller was a mechanic at a local auto repair shop, and he had requested that the driver place him in the trunk so he could diagnose a rattle coming from the rear of the car. Apparently he does this all the time.

1 - Hooray for the citizen watching out for our kids. We need more of that.

2 - It's great to hear about a maintenance mechanic who is willing to go the extra mile to fix a problem. It must have been a humbling experience to be a dwarf, and ask someone to toss you into a trunk and drive around with you in there!

3 - Thanks to the police for doing their jobs, but not shooting first and asking questions later. It would have made for a different kind of story if they had.