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8:54 am Wed
Mar 1, 2017
From Jalopnik: "An 18 year-old driving a stolen Toyota Tacoma running from the police in Webster Parish, Louisiana hit a set of spike strips going 115 mph, subsequently barreled off of the road and into a drainage ditch, launched the truck into the air and landed on a car parked at a restaurant."
Idiot in car drives in circles around a supermarket parking while a cop on foot tries to shoot out the car’s tires in the presence of bystanders. I don’t know who’s the bigger idiot here… from r/IdiotsInCars [via IdiotsInCars]
This gentleman really didn’t want to get caught. In hot pursuit by police, he keeps crashing his car, then taking other people’s cars. Eventually he runs out of cars and starts running. He’s stopped trying to scale a fence. Takeaway – don’t drive with your door unlocked. [via] UPDATE: this happened in 2014 in Denver. […]
In 1996, Finland invented, but never adopted, a harpoon device to stop drivers evading police. It latched onto a fleeing car and, if necessary, released tear gas into the car.
Knowledge is power. And a company that knows who its customers are is far more likely to see those customers return. On the web, information gathering often comes in the shape of an online form. Whether it’s a registration, a contest, an order, or just a simple contact, those opportunities to engage with users and […]
It’s impossible for anyone to truly escape the effects our COVID-19 lifestyle changes have made, but if you’re a web developer, there’s a decent chance your work life might be virtually unchanged. Even before the quarantines and work-from-home orders, over 16 percent of web developers were already self-employed. And with a growing number of tech […]
Even though life is emerging following our COVID-19 lockdown, it’s not exactly time to celebrate defeating the insidious virus just yet. CDC officials warn that once a resurgence of the virus hits this winter, it could prove even more disastrous for the U.S. healthcare system than the opening salvo. That would follow the pattern suffered […]
