2-ton Target ball pulls an 'Indiana Jones' and rolls through parking lot

Somebody's going to pay for this.
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Samantha Scelzo
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The big red balls outside of Target stores are supposed to protect shoppers from runaway cars, but what is there to protect shoppers from runaway balls?

Shopper Eileen Grady's Nissan Rouge was dented by one of the 2-ton boulders when a pickup truck dislodged it, and the rogue ball rolled into the side of her moving car.

In surveillance footage recovered by the parking lot camera of the Paramus, New Jersey store, the red ball is seen being set free after the pickup hits it and it rolls into the parking lot, ramming into Grady's car. The ball continues to roll until one brave hero and his trusty pup stop it and roll it back towards the store with the help of two other shoppers.

The loose ball caused about $3,500 in damage and now Target is refusing to pay up, citing the pickup truck driver as the real culprit.

So these big red balls you let your children jump all over while you begrudgingly drag them to Target? Watch out -- they might just take them for a ride.

[H/T: ABC7]

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Samantha Scelzo

Samantha was a Watercooler Web Culture & Lifestyle intern at Mashable. Follow her on Twitter @samiscelz.

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