Can a woman lift a car if her baby is stuck underneath it?

[MrsBugi]

Has this ever actually happened or is it just an urban myth?

I can't seem to find anything online confirming/denying this feat.

Can anyone else?

 

[MmmSkyscraper]

HULK LIFT PUNY CAR!

 

[chrisms]

Depends if she wants the baby or not.

 

[Shawn]

I doubt it.

 

[ChaoZ]

All signs point to no.

 

[OVerLoRDI]

Doesn't seem likely, I highly doubt any human is capable of squating down and lifting up a car. Okay maybe insanely ripped body builders lifting volkswagen bugs from the 60s or something but no way a chick could.

 

[HomeBrewerDude]

it depends on whether or not the baby is hwere the jack needs to go.

 

[Kelvrick]

Adrenaline makes people do crazy things, but iono.

 

[BlancoNino]

Wilt Chamberlain can lift up cars. Michael Jordan can't. Wilt > Michael.

 

[MmmSkyscraper]

BBC News

Sounds like she used the visor as a lever although the wording sucks

 

[xcript]

It happened in The Incredible Hulk so it must be possible.

 

[iamaelephant]

No.

 

[akshatp]

Only if the baby helps push?

 

[compuwiz1]

OP, u still an idiot.

Of course you can lift a car. Just pay attention to CrissAngel.

 

[dennilfloss]

http://www.straightdope.com/columns/060120.html
http://www.straightdope.com/columns/060217.html

 

[Xyo II]

The world record deadlift is 1003lbs- and that's a lot tougher than lifting half of a car. But a normal mom? I don't know......

 

[intogamer]

Originally posted by: Xyo II
The world record deadlift is 1003lbs- and that's a lot tougher than lifting half of a car. But a normal mom? I don't know......

Deadlift as in Dead? :Q

 

[SonnyDaze]

Originally posted by: compuwiz1
OP, u still an idiot.

Of course you can lift a car. Just pay attention to CrissAngel.

That's levitate not lift.

 

[Zysoclaplem]

Hey if you can't lift the car, you should never have had the baby.

 

[pontifex]

why is the baby under the car in the 1st place? also, babies are small, why would you need to lift the car, just pull it out from under...

 

[Juice Box]

....chances are, if a baby is under a car in such a fashion that it needs to be LIFTED to free it.....I think that baby is going to be dead

 

[BD2003]

A mother's love can break the laws of physics, didnt you know?

Joan Harvey, a chartered psychologist at the University of Newcastle said: "What happens in an emergency is that all your physiology gets into gear and you can do things that are really quite superhuman.

Translation: Joan Harvey, who is not a real doctor, and clearly doesn't know what she is talking about, from the University of Newcastle said: "What happens in an emergency is that you become so human, that you are literally, no longer human. A normally functioning human sympathetic nervous system you say? Whats that? Whoa I'm on the news...I'm just gonna say something crazy...wooooooeeee!"

 

[loic2003]

Sounds like a job for mythbusters if I ever heard one....

 

[purbeast0]

only if the woman's name is Ahnold

 

[lyssword]

Originally posted by: Juice Box
....chances are, if a baby is under a car in such a fashion that it needs to be LIFTED to free it.....I think that baby is going to be dead

true