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A fire at a box and supply store in Ohio last night quickly spread to a car collision repair shop next door that also stores vintage automobiles. Firefighters and workers at the garage rushed to save the cars from the intense fire. More »
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Demands to reduce the municipal budget in Findlay, Ohio have led officials to consider consolidating the city's aging vehicle fleet. Proposals apparently include this — a consolidated school bus and salt spreader, you know, to help ease traffic concerns on harsh winter mornings. More »
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Three years ago, a pair of Ohio men saw a Hummer H3 burning at the bottom of an embankment after running off a road. Rushing to the truck, they pulled a woman from the flames. Now they're suing her for damages from the injuries they suffered saving her life. More »
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Among the pressures facing police officiers working the streets of America is the rising number of people legally carrying concealed guns. But when one such licensee was pulled over in Canton, Ohio, an officer threatened to shoot him on the spot. Here's the chilling video. More »
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Brennen Eden, 20, was the driver who survived a horrific 100-mph crash outside Dayton, Ohio, last August that obliterated his Trans Am. After months of rehab and an upcoming appearance on National Geographic's "Indestructibles," Eden says he doesn't react anymore to the stunning footage of his crash. But he doesn't want another Trans Am. More »
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Officers in Lawrence Township, Ohio spent the better part of an afternoon chasing a suspect down a rural highway. The suspect, named Java, was clearly unarmed and maintained a low speed while weaving in and out of traffic. He's a horse, of course of course. More »
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Attention public figures, like Ohio Rep. Robert Mecklenborg. Please make sure both your headlights are working before driving drunk and jacked up on Viagra with a possible 26-year-old stripper in the car, likely unbeknownst to your wife and three children. More »
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A train pulling tankers full of ethanol derailed and exploded in rural Ohio this weekend, sending up a fireball that could be seen 20 miles away. No one was hurt, but the train's conductor is probably never using E85 again. More »
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This video shows Hamilton County, Ohio sheriff's deputies beating and repeatedly tasering a 52-year-old diabetic suffering a low blood-sugar attack. A highway patrolman pulled the deputies off the man, but not before they dislocated his shoulder and elbow. More »
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The only way to stop this reckless teenager terrorizing Ohio in a stolen dump truck last Sunday was to let the teen crash it. Watch the police wait and hope he doesn't take out all their squad cars. More »
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Walter Soplata, owner of the secret backyard Ohio warplane collection, died earlier this month at the age of 87. His family has not said what would happen to his cache, but several of his "saves" will fly again. More »
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Somewhere in northeast Ohio meadow sits massive throng of rusting 1950s military aircraft. Here's the story behind the incredible horde of aircraft, complete with aerial pictures. UPDATE More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5681587&view=rss&microfeed=true "At one time we had a Ford plant, a GM plant, and a Chrysler plant here in Sandusky, Ohio." Now there's Cedar Point. Less plants, less fun? [ChangingGears] More »
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Somewhere in Ohio sits an abandoned Chrysler dealership with old cars parked on the showroom floor, like a prop leftover from a nuclear bomb test. The only evidence of its existence were a set of eerie Flickr photos. Until now. More »
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Police in Ohio say Colondra Hamilton, 36, admitted to driving while using a sex toy while also watching porn on a passenger's laptop. She was arrested and charged with "inappropriate alertness" and illegal window tinting, for which Ohioans are grateful. More »
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Eric German is a 45-year-old "private security officer" who drives a work van, has a mustache, and wears muscle shirts. Is it any shock he broke four bones in a Middletown, Ohio police officer's face after being pulled over? More »
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Brandon Farmer, 24, of Washington Court House, Ohio acted on a friend's bet and jumped onto the back of semi truck stopped at a light. Ten miles later, he phoned police to rescue him. Alcohol was involved. (Thanks Thomas!) [MSNBC] More »
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The devastating tornado that killed seven in Ohio this weekend also mangled this Dodge Viper and what appears to be an SRT10 Dodge Ram. The exposed red valve covers are hard to look at. (Hat tip to John M. Winters) More »
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The Ohio Supreme Court ruled police officers can issue tickets based on visual estimates of a motorist's speed. If you live in Ohio and pissed off a cop recently we recommend fixing that. (H/T to Sean!) [Dispatch.com] More »
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An Ohio woman won $8,000 on a lottery TV show and then went to a bar to celebrate. Walking home from the bar she was struck by a car and killed. No joke here, it's just really sad. [WJW-TV] More »
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Remember the heavily customized Ohio Dakota we saw a couple weeks back? One of our readers photographed it a year ago, at an earlier stage in its development. More »
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The Dodge Dakota is a fine truck, but it lacks… something. How about a black-and-orange paint job and the entire galaxy of J.C. Whitney hood scoops? Oakland resident W1ngnut spotted this truck while visiting Ohio. More »
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An Ohio appeals court has ruled that tickets can't be issued based on a car looking or sounding like it's speeding. The decision comes after real American hero Daniel Freitag fought a ticket issued because his Lincoln Navigator sounded fast. More »
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18-year-old James Miller, of Cincinnati was pulled over on suspicion of drunk driving. Convenient for the officer as Miller had brought his own breathalyzer in the form of his Halloween costume. "Blow here" indeed. Oh, the irony. [NBC4] 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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The 19th race in 24 Hours Of LeMons history took place last weekend, and we finally had our first-ever Nissan winner! Right behind it- well, in some cases way behind it- were 121 other vehicles. More »
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The most cars ever in a 24 Hours Of LeMons race (130), three former LeMons winners, and a cold rainy Ohio day all made for a very long day of Cheat Detection. More »
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You see these bogus "Worst Cities In America" lists all the time, and usually the accompanying photo shows a vacant lot covered with weeds and broken Olde English 800 40-dog bottles, with a gutted '85 Cutlass or '79 Corolla in the foreground and a bullet-riddled abandoned apartment building in the background. This shot of Youngstown, Ohio, follows the script pretty much to the letter… except for the car, which happens to be a Lancia Scorpion! More »
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Safe happens. Two Ohio men were injured Tuesday when the Jaguar XJ12 they were racing against another vehicle "at more than 100mph" crashed into the brick storefront of Safe Auto Insurance of Whitehall, Ohio. It's not currently known, but is thought unlikely, that the men were insured through Safe Insurance. [Via The Columbus Dispatch] More »
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The race is about to start and unless I can find another dust- and dirt-free area to live-blog from with an outlet, y'all may not be hearing from me for a little while. But I did get out next to the dirt track a few minutes ago, and there's not much more to say other than...damn, those are fifty-five pretty pictures of some pretty drivin' on dirt. Enjoy, and check out the rest of our Prelude to the Dream coverage. – Ray Wert More »
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A bill introduced in the Ohio state legislature yesterday by Democratic Rep. Michael DeBose and Republican Sen. Kevin Coughlin would require bright green license plates on the vehicles of all convicted habitual and child-related sex offenders, to make it easier for vigilantes concerned citizens to string up identify such individuals. Nuh uh, says the ACLU. Any suggestions as to what logo might be used on these special plates? – Murilee Martin More »
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We're gearing up here in Detroit for a pretty big winter storm. According to our boy in second city, Matt Hardigree (more on him later), they've already gotten "a lot [of snow], and it's blowing around." The Matt-man and I are both counting our blessings that it's only snow and not record-breaking cold. If it had been, at least one of us could have ended up like this poor sap in Columbus, Ohio who saw his purple Honda frozen to the street due to a double-tap of trouble — a parking next to a water main break and sub-zero temperatures. Although really, he's getting it lucky — 'round these parts if a man's parking a purple Honda in the wrong place, it won't get covered — it'll get filled — with water. Nothing like water, ice and pressure damage all at once. Check out the gallery below — we're going to go batten down the hatches or something. – Ray Wert More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=236306&view=rss&microfeed=true A group of engineering students from the University of Toledo slapped together an auto-park system that's KISS-simple. Get the nose into the spot, lower the hydraulic dolly, and bingo-bango, A Bruce-like parking job in a mere Corolla! – Davey G. Johnson More »
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The union representing Ohio's state troopers has taken to pounding tables and calling out, "Thus, for the Albigensians!" Or, er, they're calling for fire-suppression systems on all of their patrol Crown Victorias, after a cruiser collided with a civilian vehicle and the roller's gas tank ruptured, leading to a fire that killed two officers and the driver of the truck they ran into. While the state has purchased two Vics with fire-suppression systems for evaluation purposes, the rest of the nigh-on thousand cars the law-enforcement agency uses daily go without active anti-flamb protection. A spokeswoman from Ford maintains that the vehicles are safe and that given the circumstances of the accident, the outcome wasn't unreasonable. The union, understandably, thinks otherwise. – Davey G. Johnson More »
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Only in Ohio, the ass-end of the United States, would a car dealership decide it'd be a good idea to run an advertising campaign declaring "a jihad on the automotive market" and that "burqa"-wearing sales representatives would be selling vehicles that can "comfortably seat 12 jihadists in the back." That's right, Dennis Mitsubishi , a Columbus, OH dealership's gone crazy, and we ain't just talkin' about the pricing — they've gone and declared a holy war on all that is reasonable with a radio spot they'll be airing on suburban Columbus stations. In addition to the above quotes, the ad also claims "Our prices are lower than the evildoers' every day. Just ask the pope!" and that "Friday is fatwa Friday, with free rubber swords for the kiddies." Wow. We're totally speechless — except we think we're gonna let the Department of Homeland Security know we think we've just found the location of the next terrorist strike. More »
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Toyota has a (sorta) new ad campaign we just saw while watching the Sunday morning talk shows touting Toyota and its investment here in the United States. The automaker from the land of the rising sun is all hard up on the ten assembly plants its got over on our shores. Somehow it kinda tweaked us the wrong way...especially considering Ford, GM and Chrysler have shuttered 3 times that many plants in the past seven years. And what have we gotten in return? Ten assembly plants. Well, before folks begin saying things like "Buy Toyota, it's the American thing to do", we wanted to provide a visual "nip" from the boys and girls at the General as a rebuttal to that budding notion. We kinda think the billboard speaks for itself, but the RenCen's got more to say — it's only one of three billboards... More »
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Judge Michael Cicconetti (as the source article tells us, his surname is pronounced "chih-kuh-NEH'-tee") has decreed that in lieu of jail time, twenty-year-old Joshua Breeding and 19-year-old Christopher Lyons can shoot up their own vehicles with paintball guns and then clean them up. The pair were caught after splattering another man's vehicle. They'll also have to do forty hours' hard time painting Habitat for Humanity homes and issue an apology to their victim. Oh, the humility! More »
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Home of the New Bomb Turks, Alex P. Keaton, and, er, um, uh, not much else we can think of, Columbus, OH has added one more sterling addition to its roster of notable thingy-dingys. Yes, it's the Volvamino, a parts-hauler for a local Volvo mechanic. Reader Benjamin snapped and sent this in, and in appreciation for his submission of this one-of-a-kind Volvo, we wish him massive and diverse amounts of sweet, sweet vulva. Preferably in assorted Caminos. More »
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This item originally attracted our attention because on Google News, it read: "At least eight people have been hospitalized after a car went into the crowd at the Madison Regatta peed boat race Sunday." We were gonna make a "peed boat" joke, but the story itself was sufficiently mind-boggling to post straight. Apparently, an 18-year-old kid was driving at a high rate of speed when he lost control, hurtled through the crowd assembled to watch the hydroplane races and on into the Ohio River. Eleven people, including the driver of the wayward car, were injured. Stay safe this 4th, kids. And watch out for idiots on the road. [Reader Charles points out our pre-holiday stupidity. This happened in Ohio, not Wisconsin. D'oh. Oh wait. It didn't happen in Ohio. It happened in Indiana. Thanks to the Midwest for busting our coastal balls on it.] More »
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A man who's most likely seen an amount of faces numbering in the hundreds of thousands and if they had a brain in their heads, rocked them all, a.k.a. Andy Wendler, sent over a bit from the Toledo blade regarding the shutdown of America's oldest continuously-operation auto plant, Jeep Parkway. With the expansion of the also-Toledoan Stickney factory, as well as the Toledo North facility, the former Overland plant is due to shut down this week. It built Second-War-era Jeeps, 155mm shells and rockets, but over the last few years it's used for basic Wrangler construction before the vehicles were sent over to Stickney for final assembly. In fact, Stickney's new role is to be determined, although it'll remain open for the forseeable future. More »
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