Well, um, she's dead.
Like you, I've never known a manual to lurch forward too much when you let out the clutch while it's idling/in gear. It makes one hell of an unpleasant shudder, though.
It doesn't make sense at all, I agree. A) the car is obviously dead, so no acceleration. B), the car is still probably in gear (unless she shifted it into neutral) so the car isn't going anywhere even if it's on a hill. C) if you find yourself uncontrollably rolling down a steep hill, why wouldn't you apply the brake or the handbrake?
That's one hell of an epic fail. The only reason I had it in my clipboard is because I was wondering how she mananged to reproduce before removing herself from the gene pool.
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