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An expensive-looking front loader gives its all. It does not go gently …but keeps up the good fight astonishingly long after its parts begin to fly off. This would make a decent ad for the make and model, much better than the washing machine destroyed previously. You have to start feeling sorry for the little machine that just kept going and going and going. -via The Daily What
Update: The original video, uploaded last fall by Aussie50, has more information:
Concrete counterweights and good spare parts were removed from this before doing this test
Kudos to Photonicinduction for inspiring/encouraging me to perfect the washing machine kill cycle!
and if you have any doubts about what went in around the 3:40 mark, it was a motor from a similar machine, not a cat or dog like some idiots are claiming!…. sicko’s!
Thanks, Croccydile!
It’s especially good when something like this happens. The scam artists in the BMW backed up and caused the “accident,” but anyone coming in afterward would assume that the front car was rear-ended. Notice the moment when our driver points out that all this is being recorded. -via reddit
Brian and Cece McCarthy of Pleasanton, California, were vacationing with their son Dylan at Lake Tahoe when thier car was stolen. They woke to suspicious sounds in the night, and saw from the window of their cabin that there was a bear in their car!
After the black bear climbed completely inside the car it apparently couldn’t get out. In its struggle, the bear hit the gear shift and the car rolled away for a wild, albeit short, ride down the McCarthy’s driveway, over several boulders, only stopping when it slammed into a neighbor’s front porch.
“All of the sudden we look out the window again and the car is gone, the bear is down the driveway – we have this steep driveway coming out of our cabin – he’s down the driveway across the street,” said Cece McCarthy.
The car was ripped open on impact, and the bear escaped. The Prius was a total loss, and a sheriff’s deputy wrote the incident down as “a bear burglary.” Link -via Arbroath
Oops! It’s a first -an accident caused by a Google driverless Prius. It apparently drove into another Prius near Google’s headquarters in Mountain View, California. Updates say that the wreck involved three Priuses and two Honda Accords! The question is: who gets the ticket? Link -via The Daily What
During the championship at Magny-Cours, two motorcycles become entangled, apparently by their accelerators. Or maybe they just like each other. -via The Daily What
Joe Diffie had a song called “Third Rock from the Sun” about an unbelievable chain of events. A traffic accident in New Zealand is almost as strange. A motorist was traveling near the town of Kaponga Friday night when he hit a cow, killing it.
The animal was thrown over the top of the car, peeling back the bonnet and shattering the windscreen. The car smashed into a pole which caused a power surge to race along the wires into the farmer’s house.
The same surge blew up the cowshed meter board and set it on fire. However, it melted a water line directly above which extinguished the blaze.
The driver was not seriously injured. Link -via Fark
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Charlotte Carrington of Sawston, Cambridgeshire, England took her driver’s license test test for the third time and passed. The 19-year-old’s car was totaled within an hour. The kicker is -she wasn’t driving it! The car was parked on the road in front of her home.
“I heard a bang and I looked out and the lamppost was lying on the floor but it had snapped in half. It had slid down the side of my car.
“It damaged the back of the roof and it smashed a window and scratched the frame.”
She said the grass cutter, an employee of firm CGM (Commercial Grounds Maintenance and Garden Services for Norfolk Suffolk and Cambridgeshire), had driven into the lamppost causing it to fall.
Miss Carrington, a student, said the car, which is 11-years-old, had just passed its MOT, adding: “I bought it myself out of my savings.
“I was really angry. We had to ring the number on the lamppost as wires were hanging out and it was still sparking.”
Insurance will cover the cost of the car, which was worth less than the repair bill. Link -via Arbroath
Croatian rescue workers were taken by surprise when a service vehicle dispatched to assist them with a train wreck lost control and crashed in nearby the original wreck! What a near miss …
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