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Duo unknowingly drives onto interstate with buzzed man on trunk

MEMPHIS, Tenn. – It’s a story almost too strange to be true.

A inebriated man passes out and goes for a rail on the trunk of a stranger’s car down a busy Memphis interstate, and neither the toasted man nor the driver knew it.

It’s amazing this man didn’t fall off the car and get run over.

He is fortunate to say the least. The man crawled up on the back of the car with a trunk that’s only about fourteen inches broad.

He was evidently curled up and passed out. Gratefully an MPD officer spotted him, but not before he went on a rail that he doesn’t recall; a rail the driver will never leave behind.

“There’s no way to describe it. It’s unbelievable,” said Carl Webb.

Carl and his wifey were leaving Barbecue Fest Thursday night in downtown Memphis.

They had backed their car into a parking space at Carolina and Riverside.

“We came down the aisle, walked right to the car, opened it up on both sides then we got in the car.”

It was dark out and Carl’s sunshade was stuck up, so he couldn’t see what was on his trunk.

«The officer came up and he said, ‘Mr. are you aware there’s a assets on your trunk?`, and that did not register. He goes, ‘Mr. I’m not messing with you. There’s a bod on your trunk.` So I got out. We walked around and sure enough there he was still draping on, still unconscious, just lounging there.»

Carl had driven fourteen miles with the uninvited and unaware passenger sleeping on his 14-inch-wide trunk.

“I have no explanation other than that little lip right there saved his life.”

The officer had to wake the boy up. Carl said the man was so tipsy, he embarked to stumble into traffic and the officer grabbed him.

Carl told us he’s just grateful for the officer’s good police work.

«Good job man, good job. It was just outstanding,» Carl said.

Carl also has a message for the man who ended up on his trunk.

“I hope he takes a good look at where he put himself and the hazard that he had open up to himself. It would’ve been death.”

The man was put in the cruiser, but there’s no word on his identity or if he was charged with anything.

We reached out to MPD to attempt and talk with the officer involved, but we haven’t heard back.

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