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If you thought the flaming bicycle was a road menace—it gets worse. This amateur vid captures an idiotic driver (though impressive multitasker) somehow reading a paperback, Kindle, and phone, all at the same time. On the highway. The setup is almost deserves technical plaudit, if it weren't so shockingly risky—a giant book wedged behind the steering wheel, a Kindle in one hand, and what looks like a smartphone of some kind in the other hand.
Driver Reading a Book, Kindle, and Phone at the Same Time Is a Distracted Super-Moron
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I'm Either In Wonderland Or Someone Flipped This Cafe Sideways
I Wish I Were a Kid Again So I Could Go to This Psychedelic School
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Either our nation's obesity problem is just as bad as they say, or Costco knows something we don't, because the aircraft carrier-scaled big box store is now offering enough (horrifying) food to last you a year for a cool $800. The monstrous, 5,011 serving package, courtesy of food outfitter Shelf Reliance (hey, at least we'll have kept our senses of humor during doomsday!) claims their end days buffet contains "only top-of-the-line products," "developed with everyday menu planning in mind." Which makes sense, of course, because the only thing worse than knowing that the entire eastern seaboard has been leveled by nukes or a horde of flesh-feasting space titans is repetitive bunker fare— dehydrated fish skin AGAIN, mom? Possibly more disconcerting than the notion of a year underground eating food from Costco is the fact that the package isn't just marketed for emergencies, but for "long-term food storage supply."
Costco Will Sell You an Apocalyptic Year's Worth of Disgusting Food for $800
MONTREAL Police have been swamped with calls from the public in the hunt for the return of 30 autographed National Hockey League jerseys stolen from Pat Burns’ widow hours after the former NHL coach’s funeral Monday. “Everyone wearing a hockey jersey has become suspicious in Montreal, even someone behind the wheel of a car with a hockey jersey on,” said Constable Olivier Lapointe of the level of outrage. “We got a report that a homeless person had a hockey jersey on and this was reported as suspicious.”
Pat Burns memorabilia could be worth $30,000 on black...
/:16 Chances are slim you'll end up trapped in a sinking car, but let's say you were. Would you know what to do when the door doesn't open? How to break through a window? Canadian TV host Rick Mercer finds out. The six-minute video above details a few of the most important things you might need to know if you ever need to find your way out of a submerged car.
How to Escape from a Sinking Car
Tricking an Internet Conman Into Sculpting You a Wooden Commodore 64
Internet spamsters are often nigh-artistic with the fraudulent tales they weave—an exiled prince! Hidden treasure!—but scamming them can be even more creative. The Atlantic's Alexis Madrigal tells one revenge story of a conman duped into carving wooden sculptures. When anti-spam hero Mike Berry received an obviously false email promise of African millions, he resisted the urge to roll his eyes and delete—and instead strung the criminal into an unwitting career in art.
Staff, students and parents will no doubt be alarmed to learn of a firearms deal that transpired inside Downsview Secondary School - even if it was nine months ago. But Toronto Police say they can take some comfort in knowing it was thanks to a School Resource Officer that the three teens allegedly involved in the gun sale have been arrested. "It's obviously concerning and people shouldn't have to tolerate something like this," Const. Tony Vella said Friday of the alleged gun deal.
Gun deal went down in school, police say | Toronto & GTA | News | Toronto Sun
A penny might not get you much these days, but HSBC seems to think it can. HSBC Financial Corp. sent Shehzad Khan, a 41-year-old convenience store retailer a cheque for one-cent in the mail, which Khan finds a little perplexing. "It costs more for the postage," he said. "I don't check my mail too often, maybe once a week. When I opened it, I thought someone had mailed me money, but when I saw it, it was nothing."
Penny for his thoughts man mailed one-cent refund | Toronto & GTA | News | Toronto Sun
How Google Maps Led to An Accidental Invasion
Recently a Nicaraguan military commander invaded a Costa Rican territory and ordered troops to take down a Costa Rican flag and replace it with Nicaragua's. He went through all this trouble because of an error on Google Maps. A Nicaraguan military commander recently invaded Costa Rican territory, and ordered troops to take down a Costa Rican flag and replace it with Nicaragua's.
It's not pretty, but this hole in the ground is the sign of an expert drug smuggler. It's part of a 600-yard tunnel under the California-Mexico border and it connects a warehouse in Tijuana with one in San Diego. Now while some might think that a smuggling tunnel like this is little more than a plot device in Weeds , it seems it's not terribly uncommon—in fact, about 125 have been discovered since the 1990s.
Sophisticated Smuggling Tunnel Containing Rail System, Oxygen Pumps, And 30 Tons of Marijuana Discovered
It's like a tradition. Last year's idiot was 18-year-old James Miller . This year's idiot: 19-year-old Nebraskan Matthew Nieveen, who was arrested on Halloween for driving with a BAC twice the legal limit. While wearing a breathalyzer costume. It was Nieveen's second DUI offense, though presumably the first wasn't nearly as ironic. The Lincoln Journal Star reports:
Another Halloween, Another Dude in a Breathalyzer Costume Busted For Drunk Driving
Actor killed after being mistaken for real gunman | Weird | News | Toronto Sun
A night watchmen in the Philippines claims he was just doing his job when he shot and killed an actor on a movie set Saturday night. Police said Eddie Cuizon, 52, a watchman in Cebu, fatally shot Filipino actor Kirk Abella, 32, who was sporting a mask and a fake gun for a film shoot. Abella was working on the set of "Going Somewhere," a film by British director Alan Lyddiard. He was riding away on a motorcycle for the closing scene when he was shot. The Filipino newspaper Diario reports Cuizon, 52, told police he was responding to calls from concerned citizens about armed men on motorcycles. He said he spotted two men on motorcycles and took off after them.Nissan recalls 2 million vehicles for ignition...
TOKYO - Nissan is recalling 2.14 million vehicles in the U.S., Japan, Europe and Asia, including the popular March and Mycra subcompacts, for an ignition problem that may stall the engine — its third-largest recall ever. No accidents have been reported that are suspected of being caused by the defect, according to Yokohama-based Nissan Motor Co. A problem was found in an ignition-system part called the relay for vehicles produced from August 2003 through July 2006, including small cars like the March, Cube and Note, and about a dozen other models, such as the Tiida sedan, Titan pickup and Infiniti QX56 luxury model.TORONTO - Beaches resident Carm Rizza was driving her 12-year-old when she pressed her brakes and nothing happened. She is one of a half-dozen victims who had the brake lines of their vehicles cut overnight. "My first thought was 'Did my husband pull my seat back?', because as soon as I pressed down, nothing happened," she told the Sun this morning. Rizza, a 39-year-old mother of four, said she immediately pulled her parking brake. If she had not, she said, she would have rolled out into traffic on busy Queen St.