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In-Car Karaoke? Who Knew?

We love to sing along while driving, we admit it. We also enjoy partaking in the proletarian art of karaoke now and then (Texas residents, we highly recommend keeping an eye on Karaoke Underground's schedule). However, we have never considered installing a karaoke machine in our motor vehicle. Apparently, however, this has become a problem in the Kingdom of Thailand. In addition to considering a hands-free-only cell-phone mandate, Thai authorities are also looking at banning in-car DVD systems as well as vehicle-borne karaoke devices. As long as they don't take away our pad phed tofu and mango & sticky rice. Or ban smoking in cars.

Karaoke, televisions in cars face ban [Bangkok Post]

Related:
Brits Support Smoking Ban in Private Cars [Internal]

11:00 PM on Wed Jul 11 2007
By Davey G. Johnson
528 views, 4 comments

Latest by iamthor: I Smell clickable link gremlins! more »

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Cutlass Attack!

Gideon Hosein of Halls Trace, Hard Bargain, Trinidad and Tobago is facing bail of TT$150,000 (about 24,000 USD) after attacking seven cars with a freaking cutlass in some kind of sword-wielding Southern Carribean rampage that caused TT$100,000 in damage to the vehicles. Didn't somebody tell the hapless sod that International Talk Like a Pirate Day isn't until September 19th? – Davey G. Johnson More »

7:45 PM on Fri Jun 29 2007
By Davey G. Johnson
1,076 views, 6 comments

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Spanish Bombs: Cops Play 'Hide the Nightstick' in Cars, Public Incensed

Residents of the Spanish burg of Santiago del Teide are in a tizzy over law-enforcement agents making with the sexual action in patrol cars while on duty. Apparently, these officers enjoy the protection of the mayor, while other cops feel left out on the cold; reprimanded and punished for arriving late for work. According to the regional independent police union, there's little chance of change, as the mayor's got plenty of family in town, which means many votes in the upcoming elections. If Tom of Finland were still alive, we're sure he'd be on a plane for Spain right now — even in the rain. – Davey G. Johnson More »

6:00 PM on Mon Apr 9 2007
By Davey G. Johnson
698 views, 2 comments

Latest by lascauxcaveman: Ups for getting the Clash and "My Fair Lady" refs into the same post. more »

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Don't Be A Dummy: Woman Run Over By Own Car

Safety belts might make your woman seem so far away from you, but they may also save your woman's life. According to reports, a woman driving in Anaheim late Wednesday was hit by a truck and ejected from her car (we assume she wasn't wearing a safety belt). That's not exactly news since it happens something like ten times a day. What makes this accident worse was that she was then apparently flattened by the car as it spun out of control. As you might imagine, said woman isn't in great shape. Take a lesson from the dummies in the picture, buckle up! – Matt Hardigree More »

2:30 PM on Fri Mar 30 2007
By Matt Hardigree
611 views, 7 comments

Latest by dculberson: Her estate will probably sue the auto maker for not having the car automatically buckle her in. more »

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British Workmen Push Woman's Car, Woman Pushes Back

Have you ever found a parking ticket on your car and suspected that it was actually moved by a mysterious force? That's apparently what happened when Lisa Williams, of Wolverhampton, found her little blue Opel parked across the double yellow lines. It turns out, road workers not only picked up her car and set it down illegally (not in a good way, like the lovable Foo Fighters above), they also dented it in the process. The workers have been forced to compensate the woman and apologize for their mistake. Proof once again that you should never mess with a Wolverhamptonian. – Matt Hardigree More »

7:00 PM on Thu Mar 15 2007
By Matt Hardigree
481 views, 6 comments

Latest by Collins1990: You really shouldn't mess with a "Wolverhamptonian". I've been there, it's a dump and everyone puts the crappest aftermarket stuff on their cars - most people would pop you for as much as walking near their cars more »

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Bloooargh! Chicken Fat Spill Hoses Louisiana Freeway

Generally, your traffic-snarling freeway spills are on the ho-hum side, news-wise, but not when the stuff fouling the roadway is great big gobs of greasy grimy beaks-and-feathers-fortified chicken fat hoovered up from the overflow trough at an especially grotacious Louisiana poultry-gutting facility. It seems that a truck operated by the Dixie Hydro-Vac Specialist company sprang a leak on I-20 and proceeded to spew forth the contents of its tank onto the roadway. The stench was described as being "overpowering." Rain turned the cleanup into a sodden nightmare of stinking schmaltz, of course. – Murilee Martin More »

4:30 PM on Wed Mar 14 2007
By Murilee Martin
357 views, 3 comments

Latest by dculberson: Good old Columbus, Ohio had a poop truck turn over and cover at least one vehicle in hu-man fe-ces. We were famous for a day: it even made it on Howard Stern. more »

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Unicorn Was Driving, Claims Schnockered Montana Driver

Phillip C. Holliday Jr, looking straight down the barrel of his sixth DUI conviction, is alibi'd up tighter than a popcorn fart, and that's air tight. See, the unicorn was driving when he ran the red light and smacked into a light pole. No word on the unicorn's Breathalyzer score. – Murilee Martin More »

9:08 AM on Wed Mar 14 2007
By Murilee Martin
1,259 views, 11 comments

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Gatwick Valet Parking Nightmare

D'oh. This one makes our squidgy bits hurt. (Note that we have no idea what "squidgy bits" are, but it seemed an appropriately British thing to say.) Apparently, flying motorists who handed their keys over to valets at Pink Meet and Greet under the assumption that their vehicles would be kept in a secure compound are arriving home to a quagmire being handled by the British Airports Authority. After an expos aired on the BBC accusing Pink employees of dumping cars in locations like supermarket parking lots and building sites, as well as racing customers' vehicles, the company shut down and handed off a box of keys with very little information to BAA officials who are now trying to track down the machines and return them to their owners. Not exactly cricket, is it, chaps? – Davey G. Johnson More »

8:15 PM on Mon Mar 5 2007
By Davey G. Johnson
574 views, 3 comments

Latest by Tomsk: Ah, hooning other peoples' rides on the DL for fun and profit. Too bad those blokes had to learn about the only rule the hard way: Don't get caught. more »

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What I Am, What I Want, I'm Only After Death! Psycho Babysitter

From the WTF? File comes this tale from Louisiana of a babysitter who dangled children, ages two and three, in front of oncoming traffic. Apparently, 25-year-old Michelle L. Tyler, charged with the care of the two girls, held the tykes out in front of passing cars; once she realized that no motorist wants a toddler-cake on his or her windshield, she attempted to ignite the kids' clothing with a cigarette lighter. Taken into custody, she then tried to kick the windows out of the police cruiser. She had recently gone off of some unspecified medication. Next time, Michelle, might we recommend that you dangle yourself in front of traffic instead of innocent children? Fackin' feck. We've got the jibblies big-time. – Davey G. Johnson More »

5:30 PM on Mon Mar 5 2007
By Davey G. Johnson
334 views, 6 comments

Latest by caramelchick: Also i wanted to let people know i do know how to spell i was trying to rush because i was at work when I typed this so I had some typing errors. more »

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Apparent Spike in Chrysler LH Platform Vehicle Resale Values

POW! He was decapitated. They found his head over by the snowcone concession. A few days after that, I open up the mail and there's a pamphlet in there, from Pueblo, Colorado. And it's addressed to Bill Jr.
Apparently, other things are afoot in Pueblo, as well. To wit, Nicole Uribe, Irene Lerma and her husband Jose-Juan Lerma are being held on $50,000 bail after Uribe offered the Lermas a five-month-old child in exchange for the down payment on a Dodge Intrepid. God, if that kid ever finds out his mom only thought him worth part of an obsolete '90s Dodge sedan, self-esteem issues are gonna dog him for the rest of his life. If it were us, we might feel compelled to change our name to "Cab Forward" later in life. – Davey G. Johnson More »

10:45 PM on Tue Feb 27 2007
By Davey G. Johnson
462 views, 8 comments

Latest by Silly McFakeypants: Only partially related, but I recently witnessed the driver of a Chrysler Concord, freshly painted in some kind of sparkly purple, exiting the car through huge scissor doors. It was also sporting what looked like knock-off 18" Spreewell's. I would more »

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Stop Snitchin': Zipcar Taggers Rat Out Taggers

Five graffiti artists, including three from Europe, were busted in Boston this weekend for "conspiracy to tag" subway cars and various other public items in the run up to a massive underground naked graffiti party. This wouldn't be particularly newsworthy except for the fact that this international group of taggers were running around in a Zipcar. Though covered in paint, they claimed they were just looking for a place to eat in the middle of the night. Unfortunately for them, the GPS device in the Zipcar was on the hapless and clueless lawbreakers brought with them and police were able to trace the group to several incidents of graffiti. Fortunately for them, the cops didn't freak out and shut down the city at the sight of unsolicited public art this time. Let this be a lesson: if you're going to rent a car for a crime spree... Enterprise will pick you up and won't follow your every move. Zipcar makes a great choice because of its affordability...and really...has nothing to do with this obviously gadget-heavy story. – Matt Hardigree More »

1:01 PM on Mon Feb 12 2007
By Ray Wert
597 views, 2 comments

Latest by n/a: maybe its a bugwhacker on wheels. more »

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Spyker C8 Spyder Gets Spiked In Belgium!

After yesterday's bird-on-Porsche incident and the falling ice ball we thought we were done with our weekly fill of hoontastic epic car smashes. Then Jalopnik reader Sacha brought to our attention the demise of one of only three Spyker Spyder's in Belgium last week. Here's what happened:
"On the highway near Wilrijk (belgium), a Spyker C8 Spyder run of the highway. The driver of the car was an employee of garage Beerens in Antwerp (Belgium) that was instructed to deliver the car in Brussels for the upcoming car show. He reacted saturday in The Last New as follows: "Probably I turned too brusquely at my steering wheel."
Umm, yeah — we'd have to agree that you probably turned to "brusquely" on the steering wheel. Other "appropriate" comments to explain what happened would have been "probably I may have been drunk while driving" or "probably I'm not the smartest person on earth" or finally, "probably I can't handle 4.2 second 0-60 400 hp Audi V8 engine." Full gallery below of what may be the first reported Spyker C8 Spyder crash. [Hat tip to Sacha!] – Ray Wert More »

11:06 AM on Tue Jan 30 2007
By Ray Wert
8,439 views, 11 comments

Latest by jonathanswaley: such a watse. i bet the car is now vehicle salvage and most of the car parts are damaged and need replacing. Why cant people who ca afford new cars not look after them, if i could afford one it would more »

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Ice? Ice, Baby


Sunday afternoon. A great time to take a look at your rides. Check the oil. Change a tire. Apply some wax. All good stuff until a chunk of ice screaming down out of the sky breaks up the party. A five-pound ice cube recently chose Andres Javage's 2000 Ford Mustang as its target, and hit with such tremendous force that it collapsed the roof, blew out the rear window, and caused the car to jump three feet into the air. An incredulous neighbor came over and took the big chunk into the freezer. The FAA is looking into if the chunk came from an airplane. While noted authorities and geniuses are pretty sure where blocks of blue ice falling from the sky come from, they are less lucid when it comes to origins of clear ice descending from the heavens. – Mike Bumbeck More »

12:36 PM on Mon Jan 29 2007
By Mike Bumbeck
621 views, 18 comments

Latest by rg: Wow...even god doesn't like Ford anymore! more »

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Verdict In Porsche Boxster Versus Bird: Nobody's A Winner At 155 MPH

We can't verify the speed Carscoop's claiming this Porsche Boxster was going when it hit a bird traveling the opposite direction, but considering the level of damage it caused, we'd have to say they probably aren't too far off. All we know is that's more damage than even the bird turd kit can fix, so 155 mph sounds like it could be the right velocity to do this to either a laden or unladen swallow. Gallery's below and is not for the squeamish or the weak-of-stomach. We're going to go vomit now. – Ray Wert More »

11:21 AM on Mon Jan 29 2007
By Ray Wert
2,593 views, 21 comments

Latest by rg: It is interesting how there's bird gore all over the drivers headreast, where the drivers head usually is. Seems like it would have happened too fast to...duck! more »

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Wax On, Wax Off

Lawsuits and drama within the automotive aftermarket industry continue with allegations of religious discrimination versus good old fashioned slacking over at Irvine, California based Meguiars. On one side is Meguiars, who claim former employee Atticus O. Firey got the axe after alleged poor attendance at the office, and a generally abrasive management style. On the other side is Firey, who maintains he was broomed from the company after 10 years of employment for his lack of enthusiasm for the Christian way. Car crazy company President Barry Meguiar allegedly told Firey that he was "robbing this company of the blessing of God by not being on your knees and on fire for Jesus." We're going to keep our eyes peeled for lightning bolts and plagues of locusts while applying wax or tire dressing of any kind. – Mike Bumbeck More »

12:36 PM on Fri Jan 26 2007
By Mike Bumbeck
517 views, 10 comments

Latest by Mischif: Close Tag Didn't work. Now it should. more »

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Weeding Out Good Used Cars: New Mexico Man Finds 22 Pounds Of Pot In Newly-Purchased Used Car

The town of Hobbs, NM better be getting ready for some visitors. I'm expecting stoners from across the country to converge on used car lots across the sleepy little New Mexico city with a population of just over 28,000 because of what one resident found in his most recent used car purchase — $28,000 worth of mary jane stored under the back seat. My assumption is that hash-heads looking to get their smoke on will be looking for an opportunity of their own to snag a car with 20 bricks, or 22 pounds, of pot under the back seat. – Ray Wert More »

3:51 PM on Fri Nov 24 2006
By Ray Wert
574 views, 9 comments

Latest by bob9: Frost Face, I could move that. Wert could help, we live in Detroit. more »

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See, Flying Cars Do Exist! Honda Accord Flies 150 Feet Into Side Of NY House

We've been telling folks for years flying cars existed —but who knew proof would come to us from the sleepy little town of Coram, NY? That's where this morning the owner of a Honda Accord took a 150 foot jump off a dirt hill and flew into the the side of a two-story house. So maybe it's not so much proof of flying cars — but it sure as hell is entertaining. Although normally we prefer our entertainment without death and dismemberment. [Hat tip to Steven!] More »

2:30 PM on Wed Sep 13 2006
By Ray Wert
493 views, 17 comments

Latest by Anakinskyel: i hope his family didnt like that car. more »

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The Brilliance of the Magistrate: Blind Man to Require 'Extensive Driving Test'

We reported last week that Iraq-to-UK immigrant Omar Aziz had been arrested for being dangerous and defective behind the wheel. It seems that Aziz showed up in court wearing an "offensive" t-shirt (How could Aziz have known that? He can't see!) and was summarily handed a 12-week suspended sentence and ordered to take an "extended driving test" if he ever decides to apply for a license. Wha' happen'? [Thanks to Phil for the update.] More »

3:00 PM on Mon Sep 11 2006
By Davey G. Johnson
175 views, 1 comment

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