If you’re afraid of flying you may want to stay away from the high tech Ukrainian airplanes. Looks like they really do just throw a piece of tape over the problem and call it a day. A passenger on a Ukrainian flight took these pics of the duct tape holding the plane he was on together.

I think I can… I think I can

Subcompact VS horse, from the ass side, they both lost.

This car hit a horse, not really sure how since horses do not just hang out on city streets. But this horse vs car accident looks like it ended badly for all involved since the car that hit the horse is the size of a lunch box with little room left inside for a passenger with the horse in it..

A Compton Dumb ass who caused the largest Metrolink disaster to date by staging a fake suicide to gain the sympathy of his wife is finally tried . It seems that in the past he used fake suicide attempts to get her back. Three years ago he parked his Jeep on the train tracks and ran out of the way. The Jeep derailed the train killing 11 passengers. The train cars wreck is pictured below as it is transported.

His plan did however work, he now has his wife back and probably her sympathy since he is facing Life in Prison on 11 counts of murder.

The Jeep / train wreck from the LA Times - A Compton man willfully caused a deadly commuter train wreck three years ago in an extreme, but apparently successful, attempt to regain the affections of his estranged wife, prosecutors said Monday.

“He needed to do something big to get her attention,” prosecutor Cathryn Brougham said during opening statements in the trial of Juan Manuel Alvarez, who on Jan. 26, 2005, parked his vehicle over railway tracks and fled minutes before it was hit by an oncoming Metrolink train.

The prosecution accused Alvarez of conducting a “pretend suicide” similar to several such acts he had allegedly committed in the past.

“He would use these pretend suicide attempts throughout his life in order to get attention, sympathy and pity,” Brougham said.

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So I have no idea how this expensive car wreck got resolved, but here is the story…

This is from a discussion from a year back, but it’s interesting how this customer got treated after the dealer wrecked his very nice Porsche 996 on a test drive.

This is a discussion on a board started by the owner of the porsche

I brought my ‘03 996 cab to the dealer for minor warranty work. On a road test, the tech got into an accident in my car. The impact was to the front right portion of the car. Headlamp assembly, hood,bumper, fender, door, radiators, wheel well plastics, wires, hoses, etc. It looks like at least $10,000 in repairs. My car has approx. 16,000 miles and was perfect in all ways before the wreck. What should I do???? I would think that it’s not too much for me to ask them to buy my car for at least the market value just before the wreck. What do you think?

Supposedly, the tech driving my car was making a left hand turn against 2 lanes of traffic. From what he said, he was motioned by the driver of the oncoming car closest to him, to make his dangerous turn, and never saw the other car coming in the other lane, which resulted in the accident. The tech was ticketed for the accident

OK, wrecks happen. They just do, but the way a dealership deals with someone is what we are talking about here. I could attempt to wax poetic regarding what jerks they are being but, instead read some of these quotes for yourself, from the owner of the car:

After today’s meeting with 3 of the dealerships manager’s, I don’t feel any better about the situation. I told them what I wanted and they told me what they want to do for me. Basically, repair the car and give it back to me. I absolutely refused that suggestion and demanded to be made “whole”. Apparently, no one in the meeting had any authority to deal with me. I allowed them to get an estimate from their body shop. And am awaiting a phone call back from the “real” GM. I will keep you informed….

But this is when the dealership just get’s stupid.

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Man goes 76 years without an accident just to get into a great one at the age of 93.

Seems that feeling that you gotta try everything al least once, Mr. Higgs took out 2 showroom porches with his little compact car.

Mr Higgs, a retired Pentecostal minister, was parking next to a Porsche showroom when his car shot backwards.

First, his 13-year-old hatchback hit a gleaming red Carrera II which acted as a ramp, causing Mr Higgs’s car to flip over on to a silver Porsche 911 parked alongside.

If you are going to have an accident after 76 years of incident-free motoring, you might as well do it in style - though that was the last thing on Jack Higgs’s mind as he hurtled towards two Porsches.

Staff in the showroom ran outside to be confronted by a scene of wreckage and Mr Higgs hanging upside down by his seatbelt in his overturned car.

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I have seen way too many deer and moose car accidents and I gotta say, the car normally fairs as well as the animal, a wreck. But this story is pretty amazing. It’s hard to believe that this accident was not a car vs. deer, but a motorcycle. Moose and deer usually smash up the car, but, the bike riders were just fine and the bike came out of it in one piece.

These 2 motorcycle riders are so lucky! It’s hard to believe that they did not get hurt. This is really an amazing bike accident.

Here is the story from the driver of the motorcycle:

This from Roy and Heidi with the Colorado High Country Cruisers:

It was a beautiful morning in Southwest Colorado as we heading out of the canyon on highway 145 for highway 92 and the Dallas Divide. Nice ride out of the canyon from Telluride to highway 92 where we turned to head over the Dallas Divide. Made it over the divide and headed downhill to Ridgeway at a nice leisurely pace. Read the rest of this entry »

Clothing Tycoon William Bianchi will not make anyones best dressed lists for this crazy wreck. It seems that following a costume party where Bianchi was dressed as a roman gladiator, he had a fiery run in with another car. Police suspect he may have had a bit too much to drink at his costume party. William also failed to stop after the DUI accident.

It did not take police too long to figure this out. There was a burning car just hit by a roman gladiator dressed up as a drunk driver and a drunk driver dressed as a roman gladiator in a hospital whose face and eye brows looked a bit singed. Police did say that he looked more like Wiley Coyote after a failed, as always, bombing run on the roadrunner than Russel Crowe in Gladiator.

The roman breast plate may have helped protect his drunken ass from the flames. Superman, Bianchi’s buddy, was waiting for him in the hospital lobby. After being questioned for suspicion of DWI / DUI he may have admitted to having a couple drinks.

here is the full William Bianchi drunken car crash / hit and run story from DailyMail

It didn’t take long for police to find clothing tycoon William Bianchi when he fled after crashing his car into a tree while drunk.

For a start he was dressed as a Roman gladiator and was wearing black bodypaint.

The fact that his hair was also badly singed also helped to identify him as a man who had just escaped a burning car.

William Bianchi was found by police in hospital with singed hair ‘looking like Wile E Coyote’

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