Europe’s 80’s inspirational hit The Final Countdown is the perfect soundtrack to this unfortunate error!
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Offensive bumper ornament on trial
Drivers can be slapped with a fine for any number of violations but breaking obscenity laws is one that most of us would expect. Not so for Virgina Tice from South Carolina who is awaiting a ruling for displaying a pair of “comedy plastic testicles” from the rear bumper of her truck.
Police officer Franco Fuda who originally ticketed Ms Tice apparently decided to some investigating of his own: “I went to (a) few websites that said, excuse the expression, ‘show your nuts,'” he said. “I didn’t see anywhere it said support your local proctologist or farmer.”
Ms Tice’s attorney, Scott Bischoff, had this to say, “She’s such a sweet lady and she just says ‘I don’t want to pay the fine.’ We’ll let a jury decide whether this is really criminal behaviour. I don’t want to take away from the importance of free speech, but it’s really comical,” he said.
Guilty or not guilty?!
Aerodynamic lorries
Given its unavoidable size and weight, a fully sized lorry is not exactly the most aerodynamic of vehicles. Much like how winglets for planes reduce wind resistance, the “TrailerTail” by ATDynamics is attached at the back of the lorry, making the lorry more aerodynamic.
Comprised of an unassuming plastic composite and metal tubing, the TrailerTail reportedly reduces fuel consumption by 6 percent! Could we see more and more lorries sporting drag reducing modifications in the future?
The future of logistics!
One day this will be the standard procedure for international deliveries!
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Facebook catches fraudster
After making a fraudulent claim for £1million as a result of a road collision, ex-lorry driver, Graham Loveday was embarrassingly caught red handed after posting photos on Facebook. Mr Loveday claimed that he was unable to return to his job in the transport industry after his collision, stating “going into a car fills me with dread.” However the lure of a holiday in Italy meant Mr Loveday gave up his wheelchair to drive the 2000 mile journey with his wife.
Insurance firm Acromas’s lawyer told a judge: “He told a solicitor he had travelled by plane and was taken in a wheelchair.”
Judge Sir Anthony May said: “Mr Loveday had given a bit of a show of staggering from his seat to give evidence and pretending not to remember things.”
Mr. Loveday was found guilty for lying 14 times in court papers and sentenced for nine months of jail time.
Swimming with the sat nav
An Austrian woman has proven that some of us might just be a little too dependant on the sat nav when it comes to driving. Typing in Lake Grundlsee into her sat nav, Petra Lang, took the directions to the lake all too literally.
After driving through undergrowth Ms Lang finally made it to the lake, albeit head first. “She insisted the sat nav system was to blame,” one rescuer explained. “She said she typed in that she wanted to go to the lake – but got closer than she intended.”
Luckily Ms Lang was able to escape and fire fighters removed the van from the lake.
Batman tests his new van
Batman had a hard time adjusting to his new job as a courier…
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The truck of milk and honey
All manner of substances and animals have spilled from trucks and vans on roads, whether its pigs, paint or horses. However, the worst has just happened in Idaho, USA, when a truck crashed on a motorway and released 14 million bees into the wild.
The bees swarmed to create a massive black cloud and a slick of honey spilled onto the road, taking a day to remove. The loss of bees equates to a loss of around $400,000 as each bee is said to be worth 3 cents.
Fire Chief Kenny Strandberg worried about another problem, “I am worried about the bears coming down now — the grizzly bears,” he said.
How UPS actually works
If you ever saw UPS “Sorry you were out” cards when you just popped out for few minutes then this was what happened.
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Biggest fraud in US postal history
$16 million, that’s the amount of money which Neal Lim, a businessman in Houston, USA was requested to pay in what prosecutors called the biggest postage fraud in history.
Millions of stamps have been printed under Lim’s fraud scheme
Mr. Lim, 50, was convicted in February of using counterfeit postage meter machines during the last 4 years to defraud the Post Office. Lim owned one of the biggest mail sorting businesses in Houston: Gulf Coast Presort and the Mail Processing Center.
Prosecutors said: “Profits from Lim’s scheme represent the largest counterfeit postage loss in the history of the U.S. Postal Service and the greatest breach of security features of postage meter machines.”