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Is This School Bus Driver Fearless or Just an Idiot?

Matt Cherette · 01/23/11 09:58PM

Don't try this at home! Actually, don't try it anywhere—ever. Anyway, here's a four-minute video of a Nicaraguan school bus driver literally fording a raging river. Twice! (The bus is full, by the way.) Brave? Idiot? Brave idiot?

Watch Sanitation Workers Destroy a Ford Explorer in Brooklyn Today

Matt Cherette · 12/27/10 06:13PM

Here's some amateur video that was taken today in New York City's Brooklyn Heights neighborhood. Watch as sanitation workers attempt to free a snowbound front loader—and destroy a nearby Ford Explorer in the process. 2010's blizzard claims another!

A Collection of Russian Truck Driver Badassery

Matt Cherette · 12/02/10 02:34PM

In Soviet Russia, trucks don't drive around water—they drive through water! Or so it appears in this predictably insane video, featuring nearly three minutes of Russian truck drivers—and their vehicles of choice—plowing through seemingly unmaneuverable roadways. Watch inside.

This Mitsubishi Has a Case of the Mondays

Matt Cherette · 11/29/10 01:54PM

It's the Monday after a holiday. Naturally, everybody is a bit off. Sort of like this Mitsubishi 3G Eclipse, which—after some freezing rain in Minnesota last week—tried (and failed) to park on a nearly flat driveway. Watch inside.

Watch a Car Try, and Fail Miserably, to Park

Matt Cherette · 11/18/10 05:40PM

At first sight, there doesn't seem to be anything remarkable about this—just some surveillance footage of a car about to park in front of a shop. But wait! Because instead of parking... well, watch and see what happens.

Drunk Woman Interviewed Moments After Crashing Into a School Bus

Matt Cherette · 11/15/10 03:34PM

On Friday, Elizabeth Crull was arrested for DUI after crashing her car into a school bus in Orlando, Florida. Moments after the crash, Crull gave an... enlightening (read: still drunk) interview to a local news crew. Watch—and laugh—inside.

This Guy Is Really Into Car Crashes

Matt Cherette · 10/25/10 01:40PM

Here's a fan-recorded video from the Last Chance Heat 2 at Ipswich World Final 2010 race, featuring several cars crashing into each other. The crashes don't make the video entertaining, though—the guy's insanely excited voiceover does (NSFW language).

Two Weeks Early, the Cars 2 Teaser Trailer Is Here

Matt Cherette · 10/20/10 01:58PM

It wasn't supposed to come out for two weeks, but it's here! And by "it," I mean the teaser trailer for Cars 2, Disney-Pixar's sequel to the 2006 hit (set to be released on July 24, 2011). Watch inside.

Watch 13 Trucks Crash Into the Same Trestle

Matt Cherette · 08/30/10 12:49PM

In Durham, NC, there exists a dangerous 11'8" trestle. Why is it dangerous? Well, because—in a one-year period—13 different trucks slammed into it (forcing the installation of an emergency crash beam). Video of each crash is inside.