Two women in Clydebank, Scotland, were injured by a complete MADMAN this week in a vicious drive-by potato and/or cole slaw attack.

Alright, so you might find your path occasionally blocked by a cow, but is it a shaggy cow? No, it is not, because the Scottish Highlands are a magical place.

You know a rally stage is insanely fast when the codriver has to tell his driver to "be brave."

The Northern Constabulary was the territorial police force responsible for Northern Scotland from 1975 until this year. It was the agency responsibly for covering the largest geographical area in the UK, equivalent to the size of Belgium, but was one of the smallest in terms of officers, with about 715 personnel.

You can crash a helicopter or you can make a controlled landing. The distinction was made clear by an Ec225 Super Puma pilot in the North Sea Thursday when oil pressure problems forced him to set his bird down in the drink.

Even though we firmly believe Americans drive on the correct side of the road with the steering wheel where it belongs, like most sane people when driving abroad we conform to the traffic laws of the rest of the world.

Going 300 MPH is never an easy task but it becomes especially difficult when you are located a continent away from the only place you can test and tune your 1 liter turbocharged streamliner.

The first self-service junkyard I ever experienced was an Oakland outfit called U-Pull-It. Its logo featured a Q*bert-esque alien raygunning parts and the whole outfit was housed in a roofless abandoned factory building. This U-Pull-it in Scotland isn't like that.

This is Down On The Street Bonus Edition, where we check out interesting street-parked cars in places other than the Island That Rust Forgot. Battles sends us some good stuff from Scotland and other exotic lands, and he's back today!

This amphibious bus is part of a proposed plan to improve public transport in the Scottish city of Glasgow. It's currently undergoing "sea" trials on the River Clyde. It has encountered problems, but it has not sunk. Yet.

After a week of heavy rainfall in the UK, storms are once again closing roads throughout Cumbria, Scotland and Wales. So much so, even British road health and safety teams apparently couldn't quite keep on message. [Reuters]

A Scottish hairdresser has been banned from Scottish roads for life after getting busted for traveling 166 MPH on public roads on a Suzuki GSX-R — a Scottish record. Does hairdresser mean something different there? [BBC]