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A customer at a Shell gas station in Shelton, Connecticut was just a few seconds away from being crushed by the collapse of a canopy overburdened by snow. And they're not alone, as this video clearly shows numerous people passing under the structure just moments before it collapsed. More »
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An elderly women in Ohio lost control of her van, knocking a gas pump onto an unsuspecting customer. The man was saved by quick-acting bystanders, but we're reconsidering our don't taser old women rule. [Today] More »
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At 2301 E. Colvin Street in Syracuse, New York, a once defunct gas station has been covered in colorful fabric panels by the International Fiber Collaborative. Why? Um, to draw attention to the problem of 1700 abandoned gas stations. That's a problem? Aren't there something like 150,000 gas stations in the US? Anyway, Jennifer Marsh is the visual artist behind this whole thing and was the collector of the thousands of unique panels made around the world that came together to cover the station. If you're in the Syracuse area over the next couple of months, swing by and, uh, look at it for a second? [International Fiber Collaborative via Treehugger] More »
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When Daddy hands his giggly teenage daughter the keys to a Shelby Mustang, how is she supposed to know how to keep it running? As we've seen, ads from the late-60s/early-70s era don't exactly take women seriously, and this one continues that hallowed American tradition. Say, how much would that GT350 be worth at Barrett-Jackson? More »
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I can only guess what issues Wes Anderson has with his father, but I'm fairly sure the senior Anderson has nothing on this delinquent dad from Auckland, New Zealand. With his two year-old girl in the car, he drove into a local gas station and attempted to pump gas. Nothing strange there. But, allegedly, he was so drunk (four times the legal limit) that he fell asleep midstream next to the car. When he woke up 40 minutes later, the bad dad was in police custody and his car was being hooked up to a tow truck. Let's all just be thankful that this story ended with incarceration and not immolation. – Matt Hardigree More »
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