Wow. I always wonder how these things happen. Usually when I do find a report, one vessel lost steering and the other couldn’t move fast enough. looks like Fitz was t-boned while stationary or moving slowly, and with the shape of the bow on Crystal, she’s probably hurt bad below the waterline too...

Things like that have always fascinated me. I love a good hinge/door trick. I feel sorry in a way for people younger than me that have never gotten to marvel at the wonder of a two-way or clamshell tailgate on a big station wagon. As a kid it just fascinated me. As a teen I LOVED big wagons, in no small part because…

Hey I found a video of it. Youtube...is there nothing it can’t do?

This is a really weird question...I’m easily impressed by little details that are nearly invisible, just because they work so seamlessly, as well as being literally not in plain view. Back when I still worked in a shop, I was really impressed one day when I opened the door on an SC400 carefully as I got out, because…

Still my all-time favorite sandrail jump:

If you drive it long enough, you’ll also get to master using a rod or a broom handle to pry the shift linkages back into place...a bit of fun that comes when they get worn some. :)

Unloaded, you can start a big diesel moving in just about any gear. Running bobtail or empty I’d start in 3rd or 4th and skip gears to the top...just use 3-5-7-10 or whatever.

Hi! Truck driver here...I’m sure it’s been covered already...but the average stick driver couldn’t get a big truck into the next gear if they tried all day, without the proper technique. Big truck manuals are not synchronized, have a device called a clutch brake (aids in getting into gear from a stop), and require…

They can and will, true. But the objective is shoot to kill. Rule #1 of guns. Don’t point it at anything alive that you don’t intend/aren’t prepared to kill. Just because you don’t always hit that mark doesn’t mean it wasn’t the original objective. Ideally, you ONLY fire if killing is the last option. Now, if in the…

Some areas have “good samaritan” laws that say a person is immune from being sued for taking what they thought was reasonable action to prevent death or serious injury to another person. Some areas don’t. If a cop is working in one that does not, and is not specifically trained in CPR, the working paradigm is hands…

Nope, probably not. You can thank litigation-happy people for that. Cop tries CPR, person dies anyway, some idiot relative says “well he’s not an EMT, he shouldn’t do CPR, so it’s his fault my [whatever relative] died.” Then they get a $2 settlement from the city, a cop can’t find a job as a cop anymore...nope. I…

Most of the stuff inside cars is as fire-resistant as they can make it reasonably, but once it goes beyond threshold, it burns like holy hell. I tried to burn the old fabric seats from my Lumina when I bought the leather ones from the boneyard...I dumped diesel on them figuring it would do the trick, but repeatedly it…

No. Pretty sure I made that clear when I said I’ve never been on a subway :) The person taking this video was standing somewhere...somewhere I’d rather be than cooped up in an aluminium coffin with strangers.

That’s ok. A couple dozen vacations and a few celebrity concerts and parties on my dime later, they’ll loosen up. Oh wait. That was the last guy...my bad.

You’re a better man than me, Stef. I too like to feel a little air under my tires when the opportunity presents (and I know a few places around here...), but more than a foot or two, and I’m out. Unless it has wings and is intended to fly.

Pbbbft. Russians. Not even a consideration. Remember? “The 80's called, they want their foreign policy back” (Obama to Romney, about putting emphasis on Russia)...

I love this kind of thing, where a conclusion is made without the other pertinent piece of information. That being how were the people being pulled over rated, in terms of their politeness and respect towards the officer? People give what they get, most often. You do, they do, so what. Show me the whole picture before…

When I was younger I lived in a ground level apartment on the back side corner of a flat building, off the alley. There was a telephone pole right at the corner, outside my door. People didn’t hit it, but did tend to snare the support cable from time to time. One night there was the sound of someone gassing it around…

I want one. No, two.

“I noticed that the emergency window-break hammers where missing, so if the worst came to the worst and we did get stranded (or worse) there would be literally no way of escape.”