The Portland International Auto Show isn’t exactly known as a hotbed of industry activity or product reveals. Nonetheless, there is often some attractive hardware on display, including, this year, at least one privately-owned Lamborghini Gallardo. Unfortunately, that Gallardo won’t be making the show. It caught fire.

Why, you ask? How? The answer is surprisingly stupid.

Fire marshals at the show, quite reasonably, won’t let any car enter the building with more than a quarter-tank of fuel. The Gallardo attempted to enter with an undisclosed greater amount, however, and was refused. Makes good sense so far.

That’s when the story gets stupid. Instead of figuring a way to extract the fuel from the tank, taking it for a quick 50-mile spin, or just swapping it for another Gallardo, the display staff decided it’d be a good idea to just sit in the car and rev it to redline in neutral. Not so good for the car, but, in a pinch, excusable–perhaps.

The person behind the wheel soon grew tired of the limiter-popping, however, and decided to automate the process with a piece of wood lodged between the seat and the gas pedal.

Yes, a piece of wood. After sitting idle at full song for several minutes, the completely predictable, inevitable, and foreseeable occurred: it overheated and caught fire. It was immediately loaded on a truck and removed from the scene.

Chalk up another win for idiots, another loss for exotic sports cars. [Sigh].

story from motorauthority.com

The last reaction is hilarious because the little girl is like holy chit mang!

Oh the joys of Black Friday! If you like shopping, *goes into song* it’s the most, wonderful tiiiiiime, of the yearrrr! ahem. I think not! If you were in Walmart in LA and looking for an Xbox 360, you could have experienced the joy of pepper spray in yo face!!

In Los Angeles, authorities were reviewing security tapes to track down a Hispanic woman in her 30s who pepper-sprayed a crowd at a Walmart as customers swarmed for Xboxes on sale late Thursday, Los Angeles police Sergeant J. Valle said.

“They were opening a package to try to get some Xboxes from a crate and this lady pepper-sprayed a whole bunch of people in order to gain an advantage over the Xboxes,” Sgt. Valle said.

Firefighters treated and released up to 20 people injured in the incident at a Walmart in Northridge, California, authorities said. It was not known whether the woman actually purchased the Xboxes, Sgt. Valle said.

A fire department spokesman told the Los Angeles Times that 20 people were treated for injuries from the incident, many complaining of burning in their throats and skin and eye irritations.

“People started screaming, pulling and pushing each other, and then the whole area filled up with pepper spray,” Alejandra Seminario told the Times.

“I did not want to get involved. I was too scared. I just stayed in the toy aisle.”

- National Post

A colleague showed me this video for Wheel of Fortune, and I couldn’t believe it!

Came across this ridiculous video, and it made me chuckle. You have to be in the mood to enjoy it though…

I think it’s awesome when we have masked vigilantes, much like our Phoenix Jones here in the Northwest. However, I’m not so sure about this batman. I mean, his costume isn’t very elaborate, and he’s got pit stains… o_O Would you be intimidated by this guy if you were a criminal?? It kinda reminds me of the video clip Read about how he got arrested below.

DETROIT — A man dressed as Batman was arrested on Wednesday after police in a small Michigan town found him hanging off the side of a building and carrying concealed weapons including a baton and a can of chemical irritant spray.

Police in Petoskey, in northwest Michigan, received a call reporting that a man dressed as Batman, a comic book hero and the subject of a number of blockbuster movies, was on the roof of a building in the center of the town of about 6,000 people.

Officers found Mark Wayne Williams, 31, hanging off the western wall of the building. They pulled him back onto the roof and found he was carrying the baton, spray and a pair of lead-lined gloves.

Williams was charged with several counts of carrying concealed weapons, one count of carrying a gas-ejecting weapon and another count of creating a disturbance, said John Calabrese, public safety chief in Petoskey.

“He really didn’t offer us any explanation,” Calabrese said when asked why Williams was in costume. “Our officers did not interrogate him at any length.”

Calabrese said it was not the first time Williams has appeared in public in costume. A few years ago, he caught the attention of police by dressing as the Crow, a figure from a graphic novel.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42998822/ns/us_news-weird_news/?gt1=43001

Hide ya kids, hide ya wife! Looks like our ‘Bed Intruder’ star, Antoine Dodson, has had a run-in with the law. Antoine was arrested for marijuana possession early this morning when police popped in his home around 2:30am. Looks like we’ll need a remix soon – Hide ya wife, hide ya weed!

There are certain qualities celebrities have that makes them, them. I see Justin Bieber’s hair as being one of those qualities that makes him truly, him. Before it was the Bieber look, it was pretty much considered an Emo look, right?? err minus the eyeliner

Now that he’s gotten a haircut, there is no Bieber look anymore! Is there?? Cuz now he’s got an Ellen DeGeneres look.

So now, what’s what?? Is there an emo look? Or a Bieber look anymore?? Who knows, who cares.