Bacon Drives Dog To Crash Owner’s Pickup And Camper: Video

OWENSBORO, KY — Elvis didn't just leave a parking lot in Kentucky. He smelled bacon grease and went after it in a big, big way, going on a joyride that ended when he crashed a pickup truck into the car of an elderly gentleman who was just minding his own business. Before he dashed into an Owensboro grocery store to pick up some last-minute camping supplies, Paul Shearn even warned the ornery dog not to get into any trouble that would “get the cops called on us.”

Elvis is an actual dog, a 3-year-old black lab with a rap sheet. He once ate hundreds of dollars out of Shearn’s wallet — cash he and his new wife collected during the traditional dollar dance at their wedding reception.

So Shearn wasn’t that surprised Owensboro police ended up chasing Elvis, who smelled the bacon grease seasoning a cast iron skillet that Shearn planned to use on the camping trip. Shearn had left the skillet sitting on the dashboard and Elvis, intent on licking it clean, accidentally knocked the pickup into gear.

Off the dog went in the pickup — which, significantly, was pulling a camping trailer. The pickup traveled down the street a ways until he smashed into the rear fender of David Adams’ car.

“I even kind of stood there telling him don't do anything stupid, don't get the cops called on us, because I left it running with the air conditioner on for him, and I come out and see that he hit a car,” Shearn told television station WEHT.

As he left the Meijer store, Shearn surveyed the street and wondered two things: What was the police presence all about and why had the driver of the car parked so close to his truck? Then it came to him: His truck wasn’t parked where he’d left it.

Adams was shook up, but later, “we both couldn’t help but keep laughing about it,” Shearn said.

On Facebook, where Shearn posted a video documenting that his dog had “driven” his truck, Adams said he “was like, what is going on?” when he saw the truck heading toward him.

Elvis was unscathed and unashamed — “just kind of whatever,” Shearn said.

People flat-out love Shearn’s fun Facebook post and are unabashed in their affection for the adventurous pooch — and, of course, bacon.

“Oh Elvis,” one person wrote. “Bless his heart. He just smelled something amazing.”

“That is sooooo something my dog would do,” another commented. “Except he would do it out of spite.”

Why Shearn had a skillet of bacon grease on his dashboard was the topic of great speculation. Adams said he wondered, too, because it was his car that was hit.

“My thought was he was headed on a bear hunt” and would use it for self-defense, someone joked.

“I’m just speculating, but I assumed it was to show that the dog wasn’t overheating as bacon grease would melt if it got dangerously hot in the truck,” another person guessed.

Shearn settled it, saying he was seasoning the old cast iron skillet that had belonged to his great-grandparents.

And not that he’s burned by it or anything, but …

“I didn’t get any bacon grease,” Shearn told WEHT. ”I’m a little bit hurt about that.”

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