Yes, they’re just doing their jobs, but it still wouldn’t hurt erring on the side of understanding, especially when a live report for KTLA is being shot. However, for the LAPD, nobody’s above the law, even reporters and journalists.
Certainly, it’s not something that you see on a daily basis so when a live report for KTLA on the "best road trip cars" gets interrupted by an LAPD officer handing out parking tickets to all the parked cars like they were flyers for a weekend carnival, it’s certainly something worth watching and having a few laughs at. That’s the LAPD, folks! Y’all should know better than to mess with these officers-on-duty.
If there ever was a good time to give birth, doing it while driving a Chevy Cobalt on your way to the hospital isn’t one of them. Unfortunately for Amanda McBride, that’s exactly what happened to her when she began having contractions while she was at work. McBride immediately ran to her car and drove home to pick up her boyfriend - he couldn’t drive because of seizures so she had to sit behind the wheel the whole time - so they could go to the hospital. Halfway from their house to the hospital, though, McBride’s water broke, which forced the couple to deliver the baby right then and there.
The good news is that the baby boy - they named him Joseph - survived the whole ordeal and is now in good condition at the hospital. We’re glad the couple made it out and lived to tell the story of their unbelievable birth-giving episode, although it probably would have been cool if they named their baby boy Cobalt. Or maybe not.
What is even cooler about this whole ordeal is that Chevrolet got wind of this unique and slightly traumatic experience and has given the family a year supply of diapers, two child safety seats, a stroller, and many other of the necessities required to care for a baby (bottles, formula, toys, etc.).
Good job, Chevrolet! Delivering a baby is hard work on its own, but having to do it while behind the wheel of your car is just downright ridiculous. We are sure Momma Amanda is very grateful for your kind gifts.
We don’t encourage such drastic measures because we figure that there are far better - and less dangerous - ways to quell an argument with your wife. This man apparently had enough of his wife’s ’constant yapping’ and decided to do something about it. No, he didn’t hit her, although compared to what he did, covering her mouth with her hands would have been a good way to go. He didn’t do that either. Instead, he decided to jump out of the car his wife was driving. Seriously. He went action star on his wife.
Unfortunately, him jumping out of the car was no stunt because the man ended up in critical, but stable condition after being airlifted to the Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Like we said, there are far better and less dangerous ways to quell an argument. You know, like maybe, cooler heads prevailing? That usually works, like, most of the time.
Imagine what the boys from Top Gear must be feeling now that they’ve realized that the Bugatti Veyron they used in one of their previous episodes belonged to a criminal. None too pleased, we reckon.
The man in question, Koroush Pour has been sent to prison for two years for a number of crimes, not the least of which includes multiple frauds using the company he founded, Swift Hire, which is based in the UK. It turns out, Pour has spent the last few years, using the identities of his customers to buy new cars and, at the same time, selling cars he owed hundreds of thousands of dollars on. If that’s not enough, the Iranian immigrant even pretended to be a member of the Kuwaiti Royal Family! Talk about ballsy, eh?
Pour was eventually apprehended when he was tagged for stealing over $700,000 from a local UK bank and - the worst of it, as far as we’re concerned - $175,000 from two recently-retired nurses. The former is a pretty common theft, but stealing from two retired nurses? That’s an all-time low in our books. For his punishment, Koroush Pour will be sent to prison for the next two years where he can practice his art of swindling in a more dangerous marketplace.
Here’s something you might want to know in the event you find yourself renting a car in the future.
The Today Show ran a rather shocking investigative piece on the cleanliness - or lack thereof - of rental cars. The results of which would make even the rottenest of scums look like polished silver.
Okay, that may be an exaggeration, but we assure you, the Today Show’s piece is far from exaggerated. What they did was go to Miami - one of the biggest rental car markets in the US - and rented a number of cars ranging from sedans to minivans to SUVs. They then sent these cars to a lab where their microbiologists went through the painstaking, detailed job of swabbing every imaginable surface - from the steering wheel, to the door handles, to the power windows, and even the GPS unit.
The results of the findings can be described in one matter-of-fact statement the voice-over made that sent shivers down our bodies: "Some of the cars that we sent were so contaminated they had as much bacteria as a public restroom."
Yuck.
So, are you ready for the disgusting truth? Click on the video and see for yourself.
