Category: Road Kill
Aussie glow green in school zone safety project: 40 points for each
Never mind that putting numbers on their backs makes them look like targets from a video game, Australian elementary school children are being “encouraged” to wear florescent green vests because their older brothers and sisters are zoned out on IPODS and mobile phones. The electronic devices are being blamed for distracting teenagers while crossing roads, [...]
Looking for mom, 5-year old drives SUV – but not very far
A five-year old Ohio girl will have a long time living down how she backed her mother’s 1999 Lincoln Navigator across the street in an effort to find her missing mom, and then calling 911 when she apparently didn’t know what to do next. When little Ameleah Kegley arrived home from school, her mother wasn’t [...]
Toyota Land Cruiser not a getaway SUV for Kaddafi
Oh, what a feeling! It appears that Muammar Kaddafi’s last ride—at least while still alive—was in a Toyota Land Cruiser. According to pictures shown in the MailOnline.com, a green Land Cruiser was being displayed on a trailer in a market in Misrata near, as the MailOnline puts it, “where Gaddafi’s body lies in a meat [...]
Driverless car makes backwards circles in Wildwood, NJ (video)
It’s not quite Christine, but in the seaside resort town of Wildwood, New Jersey, a Ford Thunderbird developed a mind of its own and began cutting circles in reversre in the middle of the street with no one at the wheel. The car’s owner and another man were going to change places behind the wheel [...]
Naked car wash lands RI man in hot water
We’d call it an open and closed case of open and gross conduct when a Rhode Island man buffed his pickup in the buff at a North Attleborough, Massachusetts, carwash. Robert E. Bailey was sentenced to a year of probation for being naked at the Economy Car Wash on May 31. According to the Sun [...]
Car crash man: “Reality hits you hard, bro” (video)
A Phoenix driver became rather excited when describing a car accident to a news reporter and, well, there’s no way to describe it as one of the most—if the most—dramatic retelling of an incident that left the driver “kind of shaken up, kind of crazy.” That’s not surprising because, as the driver said, “Reality hits [...]
Cop has sex on hood of car–but is it a crime?
If a cop, in full uniform, has sex on the hood of a car and no one sees it, is it a crime? What if it’s videotaped? We’re too modest to post it here, but an image search on the internet will reveal the New Mexico State Police officer, in uniform–even still wearing his utility [...]
Nashville. A Greyhound bus. Bull semen. I think we have a country song
A Greyhound scattering its load of bull semen on an Interstate highway entrance ramp caused quite stir in Tennessee, shutting down the road and even bringing out the HAZMAT response team. The bull semen, for use in artificial insemination, was in four canisters chilled with liquid nitrogen when they rolled out of a cargo hold [...]
Distracted driving in Pennsylvania: Snake in a car
Are cell phones a distraction when you’re driving down the Interstate? How about having your passenger bitten by a snake? According to the Altoona (Pa.) Mirror, that’s what happened to Amber Thalhouser. She and her passenger, Donald Forshey, were returning from a yard sale where they had purchased a “weed trimmer and a milk crate [...]
Kentucky man lives in the trunk of his car
Think of it as a small motor home. A very small motor home. Without windows. At least that’s what a Kentucky man apparently considered the trunk of his car. George Auge Jr. has attained international notoriety by living in the trunk of his car behind a Louisville Office Depot. Multiple news accounts across the web [...]
