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Four-Year-Old Leaps From Repo'd Excursion
A Repo Man's life is always intense, but a line of some sort gets crossed when he reeps a car with the owner's kid still inside. Four-year-old Fashawn Parker, of Naperville, IL, was in the Excursion when the crew from Helping Hand Acceptance rolled up with a tow truck. The kid figured he'd better get out, so he jumped out of the truck when the tow driver slowed for a construction zone; fortunately, he wasn't badly hurt. [WBBM]
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Broken! Ford Recalls Additional 1.2 Million Vehicles Due To Fire Risk
The hits just keep on coming today for FoMoCo. First it was the hiring of the M&A guy we talked about this morning in the Morning Shift for the Jaguar fire-sale job, then FoMoCo had to restate its earnings to the tune of an additional $120 million or so. Now FoMoCo's got one more entr e on its problematic plate, and it's an extra helping of recalls. The Dearborn, MI-based automaker's added an extra 1.2 million vehicles to the recall it began last year over a faulty speed control deactivation system, a system with a history of acting as a firestarter unless a fused wiring harness is added to the speed control deactivation switch. Last years recall and this new one bring the grand total to six million vehicles recalled due to the electrical bug, with this new group including F-Series pickups, Excursions, Explorers and Mountaineers. That's a hella lot of recalls. More »
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Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes Use Decoy Ford Excursions To Leave Hospital
As f'ed up as we all might think Tom Cruise is, you almost have to sympathize with the guy for having to go to such lengths to seemingly escape the public eye he's been clamoring for since Taps. That said, check out this crazy shit that Tom Cruise just did. He and Katie, with baby Suri in tow, hopped into a black Ford Excursion after leaving the hospital. But a total of three Excursions then headed for three different locations including a Scientology center. Does Tom really think he is the guy from those Mission:Impossible movies? That kid is going to be super messed up as a teenager/adult. The name Suri will be the least of her problems. More »
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