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

Monday, July 8, 2013

Politically Correct and Incorrect Way of Exiting a Freeway


Are you ready for some informative videos on how to exit a freeway? If you're still reading this, we guess you are so here goes. The way we see it, there are two main schools of thought – one politically correct, and another that is politically incorrect (and possibly…illegal). Read more »

Watch a London Cyclist Intentionally Cut Off a Lamborghini Aventador


To say some Londoners hate supercar drivers who enjoy revving their V12 engines and sprinting on the city’s streets is an understatement. If you watched the documentary we covered earlier this year, you know how some London residents feel about the so-called "supercar invasion". Read more »

Awesome Honda Ad Reminds Us Just How Vast Their Operation Really Is


You may remember the Water Car Panther, the Jeep-esque amphibious vehicle which was not built by a large company capable of developing its own motor. Their solution? They used a Honda V6 engine, normally used as the basis for an outboard motor, because the Japanese manufacturer has been making those for long and has had hardly any complaints from what we know. Read more »

Russian Cops Crack Down Hard on Drunk Driver


We're not aware of all the details surrounding this video captured on the dash-cams of two police cars, but there's no doubt that these cops weren't fooling around with the driver and occupants of a speeding silver sedan in the Russian city of Novokuznetsk. Read more »

That's a Costly Oops: Aston Martin Rear Ends Bugatti Veyron in Moscow


Jeez; where's a dashboard camera when you really need it? Well, for now, the only piece of evidence we have about this extremely costly accident between an Aston Martin (reportedly a DB9, but we wouldn't be surprised if it's another model) and a Bugatti Veyron is the single photo seen here. Read more »

Cop Smells Marijuana, But Driver Comes In Peace and Doesn't Want to Come Out


We've seen a number of police officers and state troopers perform some questionable or even downright illegal drug checks on drivers and car passengers, but it's not always like that. Take this incident for instance, which was filmed on a mobile device when a cop approached a car with a young man, his wife or girlfriend and their toddler, parked at an Autozone lot in Illinois.

The police officer said he smelled a strong odor of marijuana coming from the the car and asked the driver to come out so he can check the vehicle. The man objected and said the cop was violating his rights. The situation quickly escalates with the officer placing his hand inside the passenger window to open the car in a mild manner, causing the man to freak out and scream "help, help, help, I do not consent, help, help, help I do not consent".

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Saturday, July 6, 2013

Holy Scary Car Crash: Daewoo Comes Flying Into Windshield


Can you imagine taking a relaxed drive on a city road with your family, minding your own business, and all of a sudden, seeing a car flying in from the other way - must be terrifying, right?

It certainly is and it happened to YouTube author Sky Kang from Taiwan last Sunday when a 71-year old driver fell asleep on the wheel of his Formosa Matiz (sold in other parts of the world under many different nameplates including Daewoo, Pontiac, Chevrolet and even FSO).

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Open Source Back To The Future II-Like Hoverboard in the Making for…2015


We’re pretty sure that nobody could argue against the cool factor of ‘hoverboards,’ the magically powered skateboards from the future, which have been blessed with a self-explanatory name, requiring no additional clarification. The idea stems from the 1989 movieBack to the Future II,” which has main character Marty McFly, played by Michael J. Fox, go back and forth in time, from 2015 to the year 1955.

The former year brings us neatly to a very optimistic project from the realm of crowd-funding, because waiting stacked among the many ideas of varying feasibility on Indiegogo, is a page created for a planned hoverboard project, which incidentally is also due in 2015.

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Report Suggests that the Best Cars for Teens Are "Big, Slow and Ugly"


Where I grew up, few youngsters seemed to wait to come of age (in the government’s view) before trying out their skills behind the wheel. There were plenty of deserted roads through forests and fields where this could be accomplished in relative safety (and unbeknownst to the authorities).

By the time most were allowed to get into the driver's seat of an actual car, the basics were no longer a mystery and whatever was still problematic would eventually be ironed out by the driving instructor's professional guidelines, coupled with his or her experience on the job (a very important aspect when choosing who will teach you to drive).

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Driver Hits Two Birds With One Stone, Avoiding Traffic and Annoying his Female Passenger


One of the most annoying things than can happen to you behind the wheel is to carry a back or front passenger seat "driving instructor".

Despite having shared and watched hundreds of Russian dash-cam videos, our knowledge of the language is extremely limited, so we have no idea what the female passenger of this clip is saying – bilingual readers are more than welcome to translate in the comments, though, to be frank, it does sound like the universally understood nag-talk…

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Friday, July 5, 2013

Texas Cops Perform…Body Cavity Search on Two Bikini-Clad Women During Traffic Stop


Only days after a story of a Florida cop, who asked a young mother to shake her bra during a routine traffic stop, surfaced in the news, another similar incident came to light today. This time, two women in bikinis were subjected to full…body cavity searches on the side of Highway 288 in Texas.

In the dash-cam footage from the patrol car, we see State Trooper Nathaniel Turner pulling over Brandy Hamilton and Alexandria Randle for speeding.

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Thursday, July 4, 2013

Ohio Interstate Cops Get Flack for Bogus Drugs Checkpoint


Drug checkpoints are illegal in the US, as per the law, so therefore what Ohio police officers did on the I-271 is illicit. What they did is put up signs announcing a drug checkpoint up ahead, but there was really no such thing.

All the police did was put up the signs, and hope that it would make some people act suspiciously, and it would be those citizens that they would actually pull over and search, or threaten to search in the hopes that bluffing will make them confess.

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This is Possibly The First Recorded Crash of a New VW Golf GTI Mk7


Even though there's always going to be a first time for car crashes, we sincerely doubt anyone in their right mind wants to have the distinction of being the number one when it comes to any kind of accident.

Nevertheless, sometimes, you just can't avoid it, as was the case of a duo of journalists trying out the new Volkswagen Golf GTI Mk7 during the hot hatchback's launch event in Cape Town, South Africa.

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This is How You Swiftly Break Up a Road Rage Fight in Russia


We've watched more road-rage fights in Russia and the surrounding countries from  dash-board cameras than we care to remember, but we think this one stands out from the crowd for one very simple reason: the incident was killed before it started getting violent.

Confused? Give us a minute to explain, if you haven’t already made the jump across the break to watch the video.

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Wednesday, July 3, 2013

OMG! Seriously? A New Jersey Girl's Annoying Tornado Experience [NSFW]


Seriously...now; how many OMGs – that's "Oh my God" in text language for the uninitiated- can you fit in a video that's about a minute and some spare seconds long? Well, one young girl from New Jersey named "Ashley Castore" managed to jam in about 20 OMGs, though, to be completely frank, we kind of lost track when she went into rap mode in the middle of the video. Read more »

Are These Ukrainian Drivers Lucky, Talented or Stupid?


When it comes to road incidents that play out well, it's often the result of luck of the moment, talent behind the wheel or a combination of the two. In regards to the following incident that occurred in Ukraine and which was captured on a dash-cam of one of the involved drivers, we would say it's the latter. Read more »

Ferrari Issues Bizarre Statement Telling Employees to Send Same Email Only to 3 People


If not always, most of the times, internal memos are just that; internal, and when they come out in the open for all to see, we tend to call it a leak. The reason why we're saying all this is a press statement from Ferrari today titled "Ferrari: less email and more dialogue between co-workers".

You can read the statement in full right below the break, but in a nutshell, it informs us that all Ferrari employees "will be talking to their colleagues more" from now on because the company has set much firmer limits to the number of emails sent inside the company and in particular, the same message can only be directed to three people.

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Tuesday, July 2, 2013

Watch Four Stooges Cross the Pikes Peak Course Moments Before Loeb’s Peugeot Flew By


Being a spectator at a rally or hill climb event is not a hard thing to do. As a basic rule, you just have to listen to your survival instincts and everything will be all right. Needless to say, of all the stupid actions a spectator can do, crossing the course or standing on the road at the wrong time is the most dangerous. Read more »

Jay Leno Has Fun In New and Old Cop Cars


Little boys’ fascination with police cars does make genuine sense, but not necessarily because they believe in upholding the law or anything noble like that. I think it has to do with all of the gadgets they get, and their cool look all painted up with their specific liveries, as well as the fact that they can be driven quickly legally. Read more »

Flooded Russian Underpass Looks Fun...From the Outside


I don't know about you, but If I drove my car up to a road crossing under a bridge and it was flooded with knee-height water, I would just stop, turn around and take my time-losses on the street.

Of course, you could do as these Russian drivers did when they were confronted with the aforementioned scenario and roll the dice on whether you'll be fishing for your front bumper, pushing your car or being lucky and making it across the artificial river dry and in one piece.

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