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NC: Surveillance video captures semi crashing into gas station, pumps erupting

[I can't imbed the video because of its format so click on the link above to see it happen.]

 

really not much to this story... but d'oh!!!

Indiana: Semi unsuccessfully tries to make u-turn, blocks traffic for an hour

 

Chicago: School Bus Driver Charged With DUI on Elementary School Route

An elementary school bus driver is accused of driving drunk Friday along her West Chicago route.

Jill Beebe, 42, was charged with one count of Aggravated DUI, a class 4 felony.

According to the DuPage County State's Attorney's Office, Beebe picked up her bus in St. Charles Friday morning and began picking up and dropping off children.

A Pioneer Elementary School employee alerted her principal after smelling alcohol on the driver's breath.

West Chicago Police met Beebe at her next stop and administered field sobriety tests and took her into custody.

Not surprisingly, parents and area residents are furious.

"You've got kids in the car, you've got to be responsible for that," parent Jose Hugado said.

"I think they should go to jail," Walter Jaskula said. "Not just a slap on the hand."

Beebe was being held on a $100,000 bond.
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GPS nearly leads trucker over a cliff and into Utah canyon

HERRIMAN — Police and engineers with heavy equipment saved a loaded semitrailer from potential disaster Monday at the top of Butterfield Canyon.

Police say the truck driver was headed to drop off fence parts at the mouth of the canyon for the Bureau of Land Management's wild horse and burro program.

Apparently, his GPS told him to keep going.

"Ultimately got to the point where he just couldn't turn around," Unified Police Lt. Justin Hoyal said.

He called for help about 1 p.m., Hoyal said.

"He got near the top of the canyon where he came within inches of his semitruck being right on the edge of going off a couple hundred foot drop-off," he said.

Rescue crews offloaded two-thirds of the cargo. Salt Lake County took up a front-end loader to lift the trailer around the hairpin turns. Crews then assisted the semi to the top, where the driver was able to turn around and start heading down the canyon.

"The roads become very windy and very, very narrow," Hoyal said. "It's hard for a car to turn around, let alone a semi."

Six hours after he first got stuck, the driver was able to unload the fence materials at the mouth of the canyon.
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Hamster Drives A Semi, Courtesy Of Volvo

No, really.

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