Entombed in a thick shell of ice for more than two days, a Hamburg, New York, vehicle was finally rescued by knights in shining armor Wednesday afternoon.

OK, so they were tow truck drivers in heavy, highlighter-colored jackets, but for one guy who parked his car in the wrong spot at a bar, they were the heroes he deserved.

Armed with 350 pounds of calcium flake to quickly melt the ice off Justin Yelen's 2010 Mitsubishi Lancer, the tow truck took just minutes to undo a 24-year-old's mistake – leaving a car parked in the path of Lake Erie's frozen sea spray while he and his friends watched football inside Hoak's Lakeshore restaurant on Sunday afternoon.

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Mother Nature's icy grip on the vehicle was three or four inches thick, and the spectacle alone made it a viral sensation. Yelen told ABC News he didn't think much of his mistake until he woke up Monday morning and saw a Facebook video of his frozen car that had already gotten more than 10 million views.

Dozens of people stopped in the Hoak's Lakeshore parking lot to document the natural wonder in the days that followed. Mike Seidel, meteorologist for The Weather Channel, was on hand to witness the car crew's successful attempt to melt the ice and tug the car away from its frigid restraints using their tow truck.

“Twenty years of doing this, I’ve never seen an adventure of that magnitude ,” Lenny Lwanenko, of Lake Erie Towing, told WIVB.com. “I was excited to get the call.”

Finally freed from the public humiliation it has endured for several days, the Mitsubishi Lancer was taken to a body shop to thaw out and get repaired, according to WIVB.com.

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