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Offbeat News tagged with auto

Woman Passes Driver's Test on 950th Try
Offbeat  (tags: auto, cars, humans, off-beat, unusual, women, world )

Caree
- 15 days ago - msnbc.msn.com
A woman in South Korea who tried to pass the written exam for a driver's license with near-daily attempts since April 2005 has finally succeeded on her 950th time. The South Korean woman must still get past the driving exam to get license.
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Bay Bridge S-Curve Death Highlights Safety Concerns
Offbeat  (tags: auto, wreck, death, police, cars )

Lone
- 15 days ago - sacbee.com
The dramatic fatal crash of a big rig Monday on the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge has spotlighted yet another safety concern on the troubled span.
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Brazilian Man Turns Up Alive at His Own Funeral-As Is Customary in Brazil, the Funeral Was Held the Following Day.
Offbeat  (tags: unusual, off-beat, odd, interesting, bizarre, auto, crime, humor, performance, police, safety, society, news )

Suzybell
- 16 days ago - metro.co.uk
A Brazilian man who was thought to have been killed in a car crash shocked his mourning family when he turned up alive at his funeral. Relatives of bricklayer Ademir Jorge Goncalves, 59, had identified him as the victim of a car crash on Sunday night, pol
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Police: Detroit Man Stole Woman's Car On 1st Date
Offbeat  (tags: unusual, off-beat, odd, bizarre, auto, crime, culture, humans, ethics, safety, society, police, women )

Suzybell
- 86 days ago - kdka.com
Police in Michigan say a first date went from bad to worse when a Detroit man skipped out on the restaurant bill, then stole his date's car.Police say 23-year-old Terrance Dejuan McCoy had dinner with a woman April 24 at Buffalo Wild Wings in the Detroit
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Bridge Smeared With Butter to Stop Suicides
Offbeat  (tags: off-beat, humans, interesting, culture, crime, bizarre, auto, environment, ethics, police, society, safety, unusual, health )

Suzybell
- 87 days ago - metro.co.uk
Chinese workers have covered a giant steel bridge with butter because officials are fed up with traffic jams caused by people who slow down to watch suicide victims leaping to their death. Government officials in Guangzhou in south east China ordered wor
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On GPS, Bob Dylan Might Guide Lost Drivers Home
Offbeat  (tags: business, culture, design, auto, interesting, safety, technology )

Suzybell
- 88 days ago - washingtonpost.com
Bob Dylan: folk-rock legend, poet-spokesman of his generation . . . and GPS voice? Maybe. The enigmatic troubadour said on his satellite radio program that he is negotiating with two car manufacturers to be the voice of their in-car navigation systems.
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Gunman Sought in Road Rage Shooting
Offbeat  (tags: road rage, shooting, crime, police, auto, Gas station )

Lone
- 101 days ago - ajc.com
The driver and passenger of an Infiniti that bumped into a silver Lexus ES300 sedan were shot, one in the chest and the other in the abdomen
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Five Ways Car Dealers Rip Off Soldiers (and Everyone Else)
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Suzybell
- 101 days ago - motherjones.com
THE PHANTOM TRADE: Navy Culinary Specialist Joe Lee thought he'd gotten a sweet deal on a used Mercedes. Then he learned that the Norfolk, Virginia, dealer never paid off the loan on his trade-in, a common scam. It simply sold his old Hyundai and pocketed
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7-Year-Old Boy Starts Car Chase to Avoid Church
Offbeat  (tags: children, bizarre, culture, auto, crime, off-beat, interesting, safety )

Suzybell
- 118 days ago - metro.co.uk
A 7-year-old boy in Utah was so desperate to avoid church that he ended up leading police officers on a car chase after driving off in his father's car. Police dispatchers received reports of a child driving recklessly in a Dodge Intrepid on Sunday morni
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SAfrican Couple Drives 170km With Spitting Cobra in Car
Offbeat  (tags: off-beat, bizarre, environment, safety, unusual, interesting, performance, humans, culture, animals, auto )

Suzybell
- 266 days ago - news.yahoo.com
JOHANNESBURG (AFP) - A couple drove 170 kilometres (100 miles) from South Africa's famous Kruger National Park with a highly venomous spitting cobra in their car, the Beeld newspaper reported on Wednesday.Gordon Parratt, 69, felt the 85-centimetre (33-in
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Car Rolls Off Italian Cliff in Pee Stop
Offbeat  (tags: auto, bizarre, children, humans, off-beat, unusual )

Patricia
- 279 days ago - news.com.au
AN ITALIAN man who stopped his car to answer a call of nature watched in horror as the vehicle - with his wife and children inside - rolled off a cliff.
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Woman Fails Driving Exam 771 Times
Offbeat  (tags: bizarre, auto, funny, performance, unusual, women, odd, custom, culture )

Suzybell
- 293 days ago - metro.co.uk
A woman who has taken the written exam required for a driver's license nearly every day since 2005 has failed again - for the 771st time.The woman is now hoping that attempt number 772 will break her unlucky streak. The driver took her first test in April
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Crane Will Lift Van Off Rock at Colorado Monument
Offbeat  (tags: americans, auto, bizarre, cars, environment, goodnews, interesting, news, photos, pictures, safety, society, technology, unusual )

Kathleen
- 300 days ago - denverpost.com
Colorado National Monument officials say they'll use a crane to remove a van teetering on a rock outcropping at the Western Colorado landmark. The 260-ton crane is expected to pluck the van off the rock on Thursday.
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Car Not Built to Fly, Flies Onto Roof
Offbeat  (tags: bizarre, interesting, performance, unusual, society, world, humans, off-beat, cars, auto, safety )

Suzybell
- 302 days ago - metro.co.uk
Emergency services had to rescue a man from his car after he managed to crash it into a church roof in Limbach-Oberfrohna, Germany, today.
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