iPad Steering Wheel Mount

Not that I find it frustrating enough that this year alone I've been in multiple serious near-accidents with morons who reply to text messages while driving a car/truck/SUV, but now I come across this genius (term never used more sarcastically) who thinks it's a "great enhancement to safety" to utilize a device that encourages web browsing and other complex multimedia usage literally from the steering wheel of your automobile.

I already thought that the iPad was an amazing example of the fact that proper marketing and use of brand can make certain people buy anything... but this concept not only takes the maybe out of the iPad user's potential stupid factor, but it brings that stupidity to galactic levels. 

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Stupidity on the Roads

It seems the roads were a little less sane everywhere in the past week. Over in jolly old England, we've got this fellow who was recently arrested for inventing and driving around a motor scooter with an "anti-tailgating flamethrower".

Here's the arrest story:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/7528253/Flame-thrower-scooter-owner-arrested.html

Meanwhile, here in the US, it seems drunk drivers are getting more political. A few days ago, a Nashville man named Harry Weisiger decided to cuss out and ram a car carrying a school teacher and his small daughter, apparently because Harry didn't like the teacher's Obama-Biden bumper sticker.

I really hope this incident doesn't give car insurance companies and accident lawyers any crazy ideas about charging people extra fees based on their political stance.

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Not by a Priest

Apparently, a trio of horny women in Zimbabwe are running a bizarre catch-and-release program for hot young guys, or at least that would explain what happened to an 18 year old man at an African shopping center last week. According to reports, the guy was running errands for his employer last Tuesday, when he pulled into a space in the parking lot of the shopping center. Then, three women pulled up next to him and forced him into their cream colored Toyota Corrolla. The women whisked him off to a local Roman Catholic church where they locked him in a room and left. One of the three returned hours later and allegedly forced him to have sex with her. After which, she audaciously called his employer's wife to tell them not to worry about where the young man was. Early the next morning, the three women forced the young man back into the Corrolla and released him at a completely different shopping center. The man reported the kidnapping and non-consensual sex to local police and an investigation is ongoing.

At this point, I am tempted to make up some kind of tasteless joke about the sexual assault of a young male in a Catholic church not being perpetrated by a homosexual priest for once, but since Zimbabwe has one of the harshest AIDS epidemics on Earth, I find this story scary enough to make such a joke doubly tasteless. :(

http://www.zimdiaspora.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2243:sex-starved-women-rape-a-man-in-church&catid=38:travel-tips&Itemid=18
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Hate by Post-it

On Wednesday morning, a Jewish California man in the town of Rancho Penasquitos woke up and found his daughter's car tagged with hundreds of Post-it notes. The writing on the post-its included things like "Jesus loves you,""secret admirer," "pigs are cool and so are you," "chicken" and as seen in the picture, the notes found on the hood spelled out "have fun" in large blocky letters. The local police have written this incident off as a teenage prank, but the Rancho Penasquitos man referred to it as a hate crime; and in the man's defense, Rancho Penasquitos does have a recent history of religious intolerance. Just last year, the town made the news when vandals tore into a local high school at least three times, smashing windows, drawing swastikas and even defecating on school grounds.

http://www.10news.com/news/21589915/detail.html#

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