Car problems seem to happen at the worst possible time.
For Ball State graduate Emily Hollingworth, a former soccer player, it was a dead battery at 11 p.m.
She was about to drive her 2001 Oldsmobile Intrigue home to Fort Wayne from where it parked in the lot near Studebaker West. She was on campus today helping with a soccer camp hosted by Ball State.
Her former teammate Sammy Scaringelli, who drives a 2000 Ford Contour, offered to help jump her car, but then the cables started melting.
"It started smoking, and there were red, firey embers on my car," Hollingworth said.
She said she turned her car off immediately, and so did Scarngelli, but the jumper cables continued smoking.
A man who was walking by stopped and used his shirt to insulate the heat as he unclipped the cables.
By the time University Police and the Muncie Fire Department had arrived, the cables were unplugged and the cars had stopped smoking.
Hollingworth said she had been hanging out with some of her teammates after helping with the camp, and now another teammate is going to give her a ride home to Fort Wayne. She'll have her car towed there tomorrow.
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