Jon Bon Jovi and a production assistant talked the woman back from the ledge. Screenshot: Associated Press via YouTube American singer-songwriter Jon Bon Jovi and a member of the crew from a video shoot he was working on talked a woman away from the ledge of a bridge earlier this week. The New Jersey singer … Read more
You don’t often hear about disasters befalling the annual luxury gathering that is the Monterey Car Week. However, this year catastrophe struck when a priceless Ford Ghia Probe 1 Concept Car went up in flames leaving the event and now a second multi-million-dollar motor has been destroyed in a fire following the meet. The Kia … Read more
Photo: Brad Kathrins (iStock by Getty Images) While flying planes are hardened to withstand lightning strikes, airports are typically a cluster of free-standing structures on a flat, open plot of land. The ongoing increase in lightning strikes caused by climate change is a direct danger to facilities and people on the ground. The adage that … Read more
Photo: Aubrey Gemignani/NASA (Getty Images) The Boeing Starliner finally plopped down in the New Mexico desert last week after spending three months in orbit. The beleaguered spacecraft suffered technical problems during its rendezvous with the International Space Station. It drastically prolonged the eight-day mission as engineers raced to identify the issue and fix a solution. … Read more
Image: Marko Law, PLLC Two elementary school students were seriously injured while on a field trip to Ford’s test track in Auburn Hills, Michigan. A demonstration driver, in what appears to be a Mustang, lost control of the machine and ran headlong into the guardrail behind which the classroom of students had gathered. Elijah Gibson, … Read more
As it turns out, you can make a Tesla Cybertruck catch on fire and burn to the ground simply by towing it the wrong way. Nope, I’m not joking. It’s right there in the Cybertruck’s owner’s manual under “Instructions for Transporters.” For a truck that is meant to go anywhere and do anything, I feel … Read more
Photo: Ram Cars are safer than they have ever been — at least for the people inside of them. As long as you’re wearing your seatbelt, you should be just fine in a crash. Unfortunately for the people outside the cars, though, that’s not the case. By design, big, heavy trucks and SUVs with tall, … Read more
![Driver Steals Truck Attempting To Tow His Pickup And Smashes Everything In His Path [Update]](https://i.kinja-img.com/image/upload/c_fill,h_675,pg_1,q_80,w_1200/a61b89a04b864e2c119c4e583dab5372.gif "Driver Steals Truck Attempting To Tow His Pickup And Smashes Everything In His Path [Update]")
A lot of drivers on America’s roads are pretty angry, but perhaps nobody is quite as angry as this pickup owner who had their truck towed in New York this weekend. Instead of letting the tow truck drive off with their Chevrolet, the owner instead fought off the tow truck driver, stole their vehicle and … Read more
Some people just aren’t early risers. Our work might suffer a bit when our minds aren’t running at 100 percent. However, some of us drive tractor-trailers for a living, where mistakes are never small. A 62-year-old Virginian is facing reckless driving charges after plowing a raised trailer bed into a highway exit sign last Thursday … Read more
Photo: Bruce Bennett (Getty Images) The federal government banned smoking on all flights 24 years ago, but one passenger didn’t get the memo that the ban also included vaping. On Tuesday, an American Airlines flight from Milwaukee to Dallas-Fort Worth diverted to Oklahoma because of an incident caused by someone in first class openly vaping. … Read more
