No, this not a scene from the latest Transformers but an unfortunate accident in Queens, New York. A 16 ton salt spreading truck broke through the wall of a third storey Sanitation Department repair shop after a mistake by driver Robert Legall. Mr. Legall, who has worked at the Sanitation Department for 10 years, screamed for help as he dangled in his vehicle in mid-air but thankfully managed to escape unharmed.

Mr Doherty added: ‘[Legall] was lucky he didn’t go though that front windshield. Holding onto the steering wheel saved his life. We’re all very fortunate. That’s the story of today. Everyone is alive.’

Dell Smith, 36, who works at a nearby company, said: ‘The driver looked like he was really in shock. They had to bust out the driver’s side window and lift him out. He looked unconscious, and he was a big guy too. I’m glad he made it out alive.’

Slowing down the laws of physics!

Have a great weekend everyone!

Lin Hu, a cab driver from Xian, China, is lucky to be alive after his taxi was crushed under the weight of pallets of instant noodles. The student meal of choice was being transported by an overloaded truck that careened around a corner towards Mr Hu.

‘It was swaying from side to side and could hardly steer. There was nothing I could do to keep out of its way,’ said the 43-year-old.

‘I’m lucky to have walked away from the accident but my cab is a write off.’

Amazingly, Mr Hu emerged from his yellow and green taxi without a single scratch and has stated he will pursue the offending transport firm for damages.

When Lu Chen from China smashed the front of his truck windscreen he took matters into his own hands. Rather than call road recovery Lu got back into his truck and sat in his drivers seat surrounded by twisted metal so that he could repair it for a cheaper rate.

The 38 year old was caught by local police after his slow speed had caused traffic to back up behind him. After what must have been a very convincing speech to the police, Lu was allowed to carry on to with one proviso – that he purchased a pair of goggles so that he could drive at the proper speed!

“I didn’t want to slow other drivers down but I wasn’t going to be ripped off either,” Chen told police.

When your next delivery is late it’s safe to assume this is why.

Have a great weekend everybody!

Arturas Zuokas is not your run of the mill Mayor. Whilst most Mayor’s busy themselves with opening local shops, Mayor Zuokas has made it his personal duty to rid his streets of illegally parked cars in the country’s capital Vilnius.

Disgruntled members of the Mayor’s office complained of receiving hundreds of complaints from cyclists, stating that the cars were blocking their bike lanes. Mayor Zuokos’s logical solution was to drive over an illegally parked luxury Mercedes Benz with an armoured tank!

“If you have a car and a lot of money, it doesn’t mean you can park whenever you want. There has been an increasing number of such incidents lately, and with this action I want to remind, that behaving with a lack of respect to other people is wrong,”

Whilst we hope Boris Johnson doesn’t follow suit, who can deny the spectacle of Boris roaming the streets of London in a tank?

Europe’s 80’s inspirational hit The Final Countdown is the perfect soundtrack to this unfortunate error!

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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?!