Archive for 'Brainless' Category
Cop handcuffs doctor on way to baby delivery
29 March 2005Maybe I see more of this because I noticed it the first time and it just pops up on my radar. A doctor riding his motorcycle on the way to the hospital to deliver a baby is stopped by a traffic cop.
Dr. Anthony Chidiac was driving his motorcycle 35 mph in a 25 mph [...]
Naked women and traffic cops
27 March 2005Got your attention, didn’t it? Now I have nothing against traffic cops, for the overwhelming majority who do great work, stories like this just make them look bad. But explain to me why a stop on suspicion of drunk driving led these two cops to confiscate the woman’s cell phone, search it for photos [...]
911 says “Too Bad”
24 March 2005A Connecticut caller to 911 trying to get help for an injured motorcyclist gets the response of “Yeah, too bad” and then they hang up! The call was routed to the State Police barracks and was answered by Trooper Robert Peasley. Thinking they got a wrong number the caller tried again and the next trooper [...]
Plastic models under attack by lawyers
4 February 2005There’s a pretty good chance you built a few plastic models when you were growing up. I know I did. I had cars, airplanes, tanks, all sorts of things, it just seems to be part of the process for those of us who eventually turned into motorheads. Well, military models are under attack and it’s [...]
Thought so
8 October 2004Renault is investigating that runaway car and so far it seems perfectly normal. Hmm… what a surprise. What they need is a CSI team like on TV. “Could I see your shoes?”
OK, just call me skeptical
6 October 2004…but I have a hard time believing this one. A driver in France said his car just accelerated to 120mph and would not slow down no matter what he did. A magnetic key wouldn’t shut off the engine. After 125 miles it finally slowed down. Now, suppose he just floored it and cooked up this [...]
Liar, liar…
24 September 2004So now we find out that was a Honda RC51 supposedly going 205mph. Most tests of that bike put the top speed around 170mph so this bike must have had one helluva lot of engine mods plus some very slippery body work - or some less than perfect speed measurement and Dan Rather reporting.
Hmm…
23 September 2004There’s some controversy about the possibility of that 205mph Honda on the street. As noted below, it was timed with a stopwatch which introduces human error and since the trooper was in an airplane going slower than the motorcycle, his viewing angle would change which increases the error and streetbikes in the real world simply [...]
