Your battery CAN be completely dead and you will still be able to start you car by push starting it. If anyone has a 5th gen. civic (or one of the other cars Honda decided not to put a warning chime for the lights in) then you probably know that dead batteries are common. I use this method all the time because it's a hell of a lot quicker than finding somebody else to give you a jump.

My battery died on me and I waited 3 days to replace it. I just push started the car when I needed to go anywhere. Guess what? No problems!

 

For those who are smoking something other than a cigarette, pipe or cigar...

I present the following piece of HARD EVIDENCE that your batterey can be completely dead and you can still push start it.

My cousin had a ford windstar or aerostar (or whatever the hell they called their mini-van). when the battery reached the end of it's lifetime, aka "dead as a doornail", he didn't have the $ to replace it right then. So he just took the damn thing out, shorted the terminal clamps, and proceeded to pop-start the van for the next 3 years. Since he lives out in the country where there are hills everywhere and where nobody parks RIGHT in front or behind you, it works fine.

You may continue to argue with your logic and knowledge, but it HAS been done whether it makes sense or not...

Hey, it's 1:30AM, I have an excuse to ramble on endlessly...