Looks like the parking attendant at work f'd with my car. Triple A came and he did the usual stuff but what fixed it was when he disconnected and reconnected the battery. We think they somehow triggered the alarm and disabled the car. Though they never mentioned that the alarm went off and that they pushed the car out of the way so another car that i was blocking could leave.

Is there a kill switch of some sort on this car?

Come to think of it my Expedition had two separate incidents dealing with the alarm with the same parking attendant.

So I take back what i said about pushing the car off the cliff, and perhaps push the attendant off the cliff instead.

Oh and from now on, disconnecting battery is my first troubleshooting step... sound like a Windows pc... ;-)