Showing posts with label Offbeat News. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Offbeat News. Show all posts

Saturday, October 13, 2012

Toyota Tundra Pick-Up Tows Endeavour Space Shuttle to the California Science Center


Its official designation was the OV-105, but the world came to know it as the Endeavour Space Shuttle. It was built from spare parts to replace the Challenger, which tragically disintegrated a mere 73 minutes after launch from the Kennedy Space Center on January 28, 1986.

Along with the Discovery and Atlantis, which took part in the STS (Space Transportation system) missions, and the Enterprise that was used for initial testing, the Endeavour is (after a second tragedy struck in 2003 when Columbia exploded on re-entry) what remains of the U.S. Space Shuttle program, which was terminated last year after three decades and 135 missions.

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Here's Why You Shouldn’t Give a Truck Driver the Finger…


We've already shown you the painful consequences of flipping off a Russian driving instructor, so how about we see what happens when you perform the same gesture to a truck driver in the world's largest country that covers more than an eighth of the Earth's inhabited land area?

The incident begins with an obnoxious driver of an older Audi A6 sedan illegally and dangerously overtaking a truck and then being a -insert whatever word works for you here- constantly slamming on the brakes.

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LFA Turned Pink for Breast Cancer Awareness; Lexus Asks if You Like the Color


True, we have seen sports and luxury cars go pink before, sometimes for noble purposes and other times for vanity, but a limited run supercar in this flushing shade is bound to capture our attention, which is what its inventors intended in the first place. Read more »

Top Gear Promotes New Limited Edition Lego Stig Keyring with Stop-Motion Ad


Some say Top Gear is the coolest TV show on planet Earth bar none and the best thing to happen to humanity since sliced bread.

Some also say that JC (Jeremy Clarkson's initials) is an overrated, grossly overpaid and obnoxious bloke who has insulted almost every ethnicity and minority one can think of, and then some, but in spite of all this, he has made a fortune out of being… well, obnoxious (and, obviously, very smart).

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Porsche Cayenne Driver Thinks he has a Real 4x4 and Tries to Speed Through the Water…


We will admit that the Porsche Cayenne is pretty good at a lot of things but a real, capable off-roader or "4x4" it is not.

Nevertheless, we believe that even the Cayenne could have navigated through this flooded underpass if the driver had taken a more cautious approach entering at a low speed instead of slamming the pedal to the metal disturbing the water in front of him.

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Friday, October 12, 2012

The Dark Knight Suffers the Consequences of Apple's iPhone 5 Map Flop


What could be more frustrating for Batman than his archenemy, the psychopathic clown, The Joker?

Well, how about trying to navigate through the dark streets of Gotham city on the Batpod, all while using the Apple iPhone 5's botched maps service app to reach and save the life of his beloved Rachel?

Naturally, this never happened in the movie but some creative folks over at YouTube made a funny parody of Apple's iPhone 5 map debacle using scenes from the 2008 Hollywood blockbuster "The Dark Knight".

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Thursday, October 11, 2012

Driver Passes Car Through the Eye of a Needle


Here's one incident that could have easily led to a horrific crash with multiple fatalities, but which, thanks to a little bit of luck and a cool-headed reaction from the driver of the car with the dashboard camera, was luckily evaded.

The driver of a white Lada Samara hatchback grossly underestimated the speeding capabilities of his car and foolishly attempted to overtake a bus on a two lane (one for each direction) road.

The camera-equipped vehicle passed right in between the Lada and the Samara without touching any of the two.

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Ukrainian Driver and Passenger See Nothing, Hear Nothing, Know Nothing after Crash…


If you were to begin viewing this video from the 20-second mark and on, you would be excused to think that the driver and his passenger simply parked their beaten up Lada Riva Estate (VAZ-2107) in the middle of the road and left to go on to their work or wherever else they were heading to.

Watch the clip from the start, though, and you will be surprised to learn that a couple of seconds earlier, they had just smashed into the black Toyota Land Cruiser you see sitting behind the Lada!

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Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG Black Edition Prototype Burns to the Ground on the 'Ring


What could have been a follow up on Monday's news on the sighting of another prototype of Mercedes-Benz's SLS AMG Black Series Edition took a…toastier twist today as the German firm's test car ended up on a guardrail while running on the Nürburgring race track and burned to the ground.

There's not a lot of information about the incident at this time, though, we do know that both the driver and his passenger abandoned the vehicle uninjured before it was engulfed in flames.

The bits and pieces of the SLS AMG Black Series Edition that are scatted on the ground along with the positioning of the car suggest that drive may have lost control smashing into the guardrail with the Gullwing coupe's rear end.

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Highway Bump in the Behinds Overturns Daewoo Matiz in South Korea


We guess someone wasn't paying attention to the road, which is kind of scary if you think about it, as this accident that was caught on camera could happen to anyone.

Granted, the Daewoo Matiz (did you know that its design was based on a rejected concept for a Fiat 500 by Italdesign Giugiaro named the Lucciola?) is a small car but not small enough not to notice on the road, especially in broad daylight…

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Wednesday, October 10, 2012

Oh, Russia: How Not to Stop When a Police Officer Pulls You Over


If there was ever a driver more eager to stop upon being signaled by police officers on foot, it would be the person sitting behind the wheel of this black-colored Lada Niva (some of you may also know the rugged 4x4 as the VAZ-2121).

The Niva was traveling on the road when all of a sudden; two Russian traffic cops came out of the woods and walked inside the first lane to signal the driver to stop.

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Tuesday, October 9, 2012

Lamborghini Murcielago Owner Keeps Revving Smoking Engine, or so we're Led to Believe…


Even if you are inexperienced or not mechanically inclined, we doubt that any sane person would keep pressing on the pedal of an expensive Italian supercar with a smoking (in the literal sense) V12 engine, which is what we are allegedly seeing in this video.

What makes us skeptical about the clip is not only the comical stupidity of the Lamborghini Murcielago's driver and helpers, but also the fact that the Italian model is dressed in "Vodka" decals and that the user who uploaded the video on YouTube is called…"Ultrapremiumvodka" – viral, anyone?

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Chevy Dealer has Man Arrested After Mistakenly Offering Him a Really Good Deal…


We all know what happens if an auto dealer manages to talk you into a bad sale, but what's the scenario when a customer walks out of a showroom with a truly good deal?

Well, it depends, but in the case of Danny Sawyer, the 40-year-old man was arrested and placed in jail for four hours before being released on bond!

Sawyer's strange story begins when he traded his 2008 Saturn Vue for a black 2012 Chevrolet Traverse on May 7 at Priority Chevrolet of Chesapeake, Va. The next day, however, he changed his mind and returned to the dealership to exchange the black Traverse for a blue-colored example of the same car.

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Former City Councilman in Smart ForTwo T-Bones a Ford Crown Vic Interceptor


A red light camera caught an accident between a 2008 Smart ForTwo mini and a Ford Crown Victoria Police Interceptor that occurred on September 12, 2012, in Palm Coast City, Florida.

The footage shows a Flagler County Sheriff’s Ford cruiser driven by Deputy Darrell Butler, 26, making its way through the traffic with the car's emergency lights activated.

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Crazy Russian Pooch Just Has to Pass Through the Road


We've seen countless pedestrians and vehicle drivers in Russia caught on camera while pulling some crazy stunts on the roads, now it is time to put the spotlight on man's best friend.

An extremely energetic dog was snagged on film running across a busy road bumping into a Mazda sedan, which thankfully, had saw it coming and slowed down enough to avoid a head-on collision with the pup that got up immediately and started running on the sidewalk again.

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Monday, October 8, 2012

Surprise, Surprise…Meth Lab Signs on Classic Ford Truck were No Joke


If there was ever a facepalm moment, this would be it – no question. In the early morning hours of Friday, a Memphis police officer stopped an old Ford pickup truck on a routine patrol for driving with antique-issue license plates.

The reason why the driver was pulled over is that this type of plates are issued for automobiles that are considered classics or of historic value and allow owners to drive them only during weekends and special occasions. However, that wasn't the only violation that the cops discovered…

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How to Write a Cursive T the Fun Way with a Scion FR-S


An owner of the Scion FR-S has found a new use for the Japanese brand's rear-wheel drive sports coupe: that of a burnout…pen. Confused?

Well, here's how the driver of the FR-S featured in this video and who we come to know under his YouTube channel alias "esobofh", explains his actions in the clip's description:

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Let's Count How Many Times this Russian Driver Got Lucky


There's lucky, there's really lucky and then there's this driver, reportedly from Russia, which shouldn’t come to as a surprise to anyone.

What makes this incident so special is that driver avoided not, one, not two but three vehicles including a large truck without even a scratch to his (or her) car.

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Ferrari Navigator Pissed Off at FXX Driver and he Shows it


Sitting behind the wheel of a special Ferrari doesn't necessarily mean that you are actually going to be treated like royalty.

Case in point, Ferrari's exclusive FXX program that kicked off in 2005. For a paltry $1.8 million, 29 handpicked special clients could enter the program, which included a track-only racer based on the Enzo that's powered by a 6.2-litre V12 producing 848Hp (860PS) at 9,500rpm in Evoluzione trim.

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Friday, October 5, 2012

The Racy Girls of the 2012 Paris Motor Show on Film


The supercar and sports car spotters over at the YouTube channel Marchettino have an eye for anything powerful and exotic rolling on four wheels. You may be happy to know that they are not too shabby when it comes to girls as well.

The same can probably be said for the folks running the Shmee150 YouTube Channel. Both were on hand at the 2012 Paris Motor Show to record some of the most eye-catching models at the automakers' booths.

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