Matt of All Trades blog, like the title suggests, is by a Vermont author and offers offbeat musings on pop culture, media, journalism, humor, weirdness, stupid people, smart people, my life as a journalist, landscaper, photographer, married gay man, dog lover and weather geek and more. It's run by me, Matt Sutkoski, a native Vermonter living in St. Albans, Vt.
A man in the foreground tries to figure out what to do as a dog in the
car drives backwards in circles around a Florida cup-de-sac.
Police eventually stopped the car, and the dog, named Max,
was miraculously not charged with reckless driving.
I do love this report from Florida that came out last month.
A dog decided to go for a drive. Maybe the dog wanted to be a little mavericky, too.
A Port St. Lucie man arrived home one day and left his dog Max temporarily the car while he ran into the house for a minute.
Police said:
"The dog named Max accidentally hit the shifter into reverse causing the car to circle the cul-de-sac, leaving the owner locked out of the car.....As the car circled the cup-de-sac, it struck and damaged a mailbox."
I guess police in Port St. Lucie are pretty mellow and understanding. They entered the code on the key pad of the door and managed to stop the car.
Max, who was not wearing a seat belt, wasn't hurt and wasn't issued a citation, despite the obvious dangerous driving and lack of a seat belt. I guess dogs get a pass, which I can understan.
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The Roselle, Illinois police department took these
evidence photos of a car they stopped because
it was driving down the road with a tree embedded
in the vehicle's grille.
I admit I'm not always the most attentive driver.
I'm good most of the time out on the road, but every once in awhile, I notice a little late that the light has turned red, or the car in front of me has stopped. I always notice in time, so there's been no mishaps.
However, I am an attentive enough driver, I'm sure, that I would notice if there were a 15 foot tall tree embedded in the front of my truck as I cruise down the road.
I mention this because apparently, a woman in Illinois this winter did NOT notice the 15 foot tall tree embedded in the front grill of her 2004 Lincoln as she cruised down the fine roadways of Roselle, Illinois back in January,says the Chicago Tribune.
We all found out about this because theRoselle Police Department,in a pleasant, welcome fit of public outreach, decided to post the incident on their Facebook page recently.
I don't know if Roselle Police caught the emotion of the moment in their Facebook post, but you get the idea: "Stopped for driving with a large tree embedded in the front grille," the report said.
To be fair to Maryann Christy, of Schaumburg, Illlinois, who was driving the treed Lincoln, we don't know if the tree was actually 15 feet tall. "We didn't stand there and measure it, but it was a big tree," Roselle Deputy Chief Roman Tarchala told the Chicago Tribune.
OK, it might have only been 14 feet tall, for all we know. My bad.
A motorist who saw the car being driven with the tree attached called police. It's widely reported that Roselle Police did not have much trouble finding the car and the tree driving throught Roselle and quickly made the traffic stop.
You can see in the helpful Roselle Police dash cam video at the bottom of this post that the officer who stopped Christy and her tree looked rather nonplussed. You can almost see the thought bubble over his head: "I don't make enough money to deal with stuff like this."
I also noticed just before the police car came to a stop that the officer was playing Elton John's "I'm Still Standing" on the radio. Was that a tribute to the tree on the Lincoln?
Christy told police that she struck the tree somewhere in her hometown of Schaumburg, which is right next to Roselle, but didn't know exactly where, the Tribune reports.
"Officers said the woman smelled of alcohol and failed field sobriety tests. She was cited for driving under the influence, police said."
Really?!?
She's due in court April 15.
That would be the perfect time to go out to Illinois to enjoy Christy's court arraignment, and take advantage of the springtime warmth to plant a needed new tree in Schaumburg, Illinois.
There was a terrible hailstorm in Mar del Plata, Argentina recently, the worst in at least 30 years, according to media reports.
As the hail poured down in torrents, we have a video of a guy on his car, flailing on the car roof trying to protect it from the chunks of ice banging down.
I can't imagine he protected the car much. He probably did more damage bouncing around on the car roof than the hail did through denting the car's metal. But at least he tried.
And don't hailstones hurt like hell? Some of them in the video look as if they were the size of golf balls, at least. I got clonked on the head by a nickel sized hailstone a couple summers ago and it kind of stung. And that was one hailstone. Imagine a spray of high-speed golfball sized hail pummeling you?
I like the moment in the video when another guy comes out with a carpet and tries to put it on the car hood to protect it, but Flailing Guy was flailing so much that he was kicking it off. The man with the carpet quickly gave up and gets out of the hail.
On top of all that, this video is going viral and the whole world will see how much of an idiot he looked like in this hailstorm.
Watch for yourself for instruction on how not to protect property the next time it hails.
The video in this post has been up and out there for a good eight months, but it's getting traction, so to speak, as major sites like Huffington Post pick it up.
The video's popularity stems from the fact we all love a good case of schadenfreude. In this case, the driver of a Porsche got impatient waiting in traffic at a construction site. So he zoomed around the queue of cars and hit......a lot of wet cement.
Lots of people like the sense of karma in this.
Reportedly, the guy had to pretty much get the entire undercarriage and break system replaced on the car. Oh well, he can afford it. I would enjoy being a fly on the wall during a conversation with the car insurance company, though.
Watch the video for yourself. The best part is the comments from bystanders.
