My uncle is a stuntman. Some of the best advice he gave to me: "Mistakes happen when you get comfortable with your equipment."

A friend of mine had a kid a couple months back. I asked him how the drive was, if it was anything like the stereotype. Apparently, in the average case, it's a pretty average drive. They even stopped for snacks on the way. When the gas station attendant asked what he was doing out on the road at 2AM, he casually…

Total speculation here, but it looked like the kind of thing they put around manhole covers to keep people from stumbling over/into them. Maybe there is a drainage pipe obscured by the grass, and the steel tubing is to keep people from stumbling over it? (Or, at least, until the grass grew in.)

The tax on trucks is the only one left.

I would expect the car to have tie-downs underneath, on the chassis, to hold it down for transport. Especially because the recovery hook is only on one side, but if the car was being secured to a flat bed, it should be strapped down on both sides.

Looks like it needed some help getting pulled out of whatever ditch it ended up in.

Doesn't Photoshop have that magic fill tool now? Just resize your canvas and see what it fills in. It might be awesome, it might be terrible, it might be terribly awesome.

You need to start toasting, then move the toaster into the freezer a few times to charge up the KIRS. That'll store up enough thermal energy. Just don't store too much before pressing the KIRS button or you'll end up with charcoal instead of toast; also I don't think any commodity toaster comes with an…

Better lucky than good.

Or you're doing paperwork while communicating with dispatch over the radio?

That's the entrance building to Auschwitz II / Birkenau, in Poland. It's a short walk from Auschwitz I (a former Polish army base constructed of quite beautiful brick buildings— the history and the scenery are shocking), with the famous Arbeit Macht Frei sign.

It might have been on the title when they signed it over. Have fun on the CA DMV page. I did try to find it for you but couldn't figure out the requirements for signing a title over for a private sale. Plus, with a faked title, they could have just told her "this is how it's done, write your address here" and that's…

You could probably get a couple of those for cheap out of a S.F. area junkyard in a couple months for your very own ride if you were so inclined. Might need a good cleaning.

I learned to drive in a big SUV, too. It makes it easy to park anything anywhere, and I've never had an issue with driving even the biggest U-Haul you can rent. There are upsides.

The driver is probably in shock and doesn't know what to do or how to react.

He's lucky they didn't cite him for failure to properly secure cargo. He could have seriously injured himself or the dog; instead, they just need baths.

A neighbor when I was growing up had a Ford van. Every weekend, he had the hood propped open and was doing something underneath it (or the van itself). He's the one that taught me what Ford stood for— Fix Or Repair Daily.

All the cab companies that I see using them run them on natural gas. The cost hovers around (the equivalent of) $1.85 per gallon of gas, which makes them great vehicles compared to other cabs. I imagine if you were paying $4/gallon for your fuel, you might start to reconsider.

Sounds equal parts amazing and terrifying, like all the best things in life.