Montana: Is The Water Bottle Tire Trick Fact Or Fiction?

Have You Heard About The Water Bottle Tire Trick?

I'm of a certain age in which I grew up in both an analog and digital world.

When the internet first started becoming a household thing, my parents told me, "You can't believe everything you read on the internet," so should we believe in the water bottle tire trick in Montana?

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What Is The Water Bottle Tire Trick?

If you are asking yourself what this "trick" is all about, first let me congratulate you on not being constantly online like I am.

Second, the idea behind this is that if you notice a water bottle in your wheel well, you could be a potential kidnapping or carjacking victim.

Supposedly, if you miss the water bottle and then roll over it with your tire, the noise will make you get out to check what happened, and that's when you'll be attacked, kidnapped, or have your car stolen.

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Is the Water Bottle Trick Real?

What's funny about this "trick" is how it's changed over time. It used to actually be a trick or a hack (which didn't work by the way), but then morphed into something nefarious.

According to Snopes, the latest version of this online story about criminals attacking you by using a water bottle in your wheel well has been deemed false, due to them not being able to find any criminal reports of this being done.

While my parents were right about not believing everything on the internet, they were wrong about the following myths.