A news byte is making the rounds today about a man who drove through city hall in Wichita, Kansas early last year. He recently was sentenced to 10 years in prison.
(Please note that the security cams are motion activated: they only record when something on screen is moving. So the dramatic near-misses on the video are actually between 10-20 minutes apart if you check the timestamp at the bottom of the screen)
Allen, if you haven't already seen this, have I got a treat for you...
So, tire maker Dunlop decided, as corporations do, to do some kind of crazy promotional stunt to get media attention. Apparently they concluded that the best way to show that their tires would hold to the road and not burst under pressure was to build a giant vertical loop and drive a little car through it like some kind of giant Hot-Wheels playset.
The video on the website is pretty amazing. I'm guessing there was some pretty serious physics involved, as well as some serious bravery/stupidity (physics + stupidity = ???). Love it.
People who work in movie theatres may be stressed to the nines in 2009.
On June 19th, $9.99 comes out. A stop-motion film about easy answers, the meaning of life, and what an angel would sound like with the voice of Geoffrey Rush.
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