The Pioneer

They found him crumpled and shaking in the small space between the glovebox and the door. The passenger side. He was clutching an unfolded cigarette package and what seemed to be a wiring harness. The former turned out to be a mass of indecipherable calculations, written in blood, apparently with the tip of a short fourteen millimetre phillips head screw. The last section consisting of the phrase 'It's not my fault' seventeen point six times, after which the writing implement has begun to rip chunks from the cardboard.

The wiring harness stretched out of the car, and a good seventy six metres along the road, tracing a path through the twisted steel and plastic that used to be the car. What struck the investigators was the sheer velocity of debris from the incident, the demister switch escutcheon was found three blocks from it, in a fish pond. Parts of the engine and chassis, weighing tens of thousands of grams, were found in upper story bedrooms of both houses directly opposite the site, with estimated temperatures of around three hundred and fifty degrees centigrade.

The strangest fact was, all damage appeared to have been directly caused by the subject himself, though the circumstances still remains a little unclear. We surmised that he had begun with tools, screwdrivers and the like. Breaking the car windows, removing the wiring, destroying all escutcheons, louver switches and vent bay assemblies. At some point this escalated to a more physical level and the subject began to destroying the car with himself, or destroying himself with the car, again it is hard to judge. This ended with the tearing off of the roof, apparently through sheer force of will, despite destroying much of the spinal cord and almost all upper torso muscle and skeleture.

What destroyed the engine was less clear, any kind of explosion that has been suggested so far to account for the blast speed and temperature have been dismissed because of one significant anomaly. We thought that a blast this size should have completely destroyed the firewall and in turn the cabin itself. A very least it should have destroyed the battery and wiring in the engine bay.

Analysis of the wreckage found one part of the car was still technically intact, most of its wiring being inside the cabin. The battery was charged, a current path still connected. All wiring as it should be. It did not actually function at all, but the technicians assured us that it would. It wasn't the fault of the subject's initial work, nor that of the incident itself, apparently one day a chinese man brought a kitten to work, in his hat...