STRANGE BUT TRUE: Bird-Brained Driver Sinks Bugatti
The Bugatti Veyron is the fastest and most expensive production car on earth, but apparently, it’s no match for pelicans. On Nov. 11, 34-year-old Andy House of Lufkin, Texas, was driving a million-dollar 2006 Bugatti Veyron EB, one of 15 in the U.S., alongside a lake when he says a low-flying pelican startled him and
STRANGE BUT TRUE: Driver Fined After Following Trusty GPS to Cliff
A man in West Yorkshire, England, put a bit too much trust in his TomTom GPS, faithfully following its directions up a narrow dirt path and to the edge of a cliff. He said he didn’t realize he was in danger until running into a fence, Bizarrenews.org reported. Robert Jones, 43, was driving a BMW
Thanks for the Lessons: Learning to Drive
My daughter is learning to drive. I now know the true meaning of fear. Don’t get me wrong, she’s not a terrible driver. She’s just 16 and easily distracted. Something piques her interest (an extra cool car, someone she thinks she knows or a fire truck pulling up to her favorite movie theater), and our
A Reluctant Informer and the Hardest Hit
An Oregon body shop technician’s keen eye and decades of repair experience played a vital role in the apprehension of a driver responsible for the hit-and-run death of a 12-year-old girl. But it was more than knowledge of the job. It was his first-hand knowledge of knowing what it was like to lose a child.
ycle Time and Punishment: Their Cross-Country Sales Trek had taken a Short Recess
The sign ahead said, “Welcome to Judgment: Population 801.” It was crooked, like the tower in Pisa, and the white background was badly rusted. Weeds, like tangled wires at Christmas, wrapped tightly around the metal stem of the sign. Pete Simpson, who was driving, wondered if the population hadn’t changed at all since the sign