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Chrysler closing buttloads of dealerships
Chrysler LLC plans to cut roughly a quarter of its 3,200 U.S. dealerships by early next month. Across the country, dealers with strong ties to their communities learned which ones will be eliminated.
Girl, 17, run over by her own SUV during ‘ghost ride’ stunt
A 17-year-old girl had to be airlifted to a local hospital Tuesday evening after she was run over by her own car while trying to “ghost ride,” a car stunt popularized in the East Bay, police said. “Ghost riding” typically entails a car owner walking or dancing alongside or on top of a vehicle that is idling forward without a driver. The stunt has local origins, particularly in the Bay Area rap scene radiating from Oakland and Vallejo. A smattering of ghost-riding-related injuries have been reported throughout the country over the past few years after the stunt was given national exposure through the rap hit “Tell Me When to Go,” a 2006 song performed by Vallejo-based rapper E-40. – from Mercury News
Nikki Catsouras Car Crash Photos
This is a story about a photo—an image so horrific we can’t print it in NEWSWEEK. The picture shows the lifeless body of an 18-year-old Orange County girl named Nikki Catsouras, who was killed in a devastating car crash on Halloween day in 2006. The accident was so gruesome the coroner wouldn’t allow her parents, Christos and Lesli Catsouras, to identify their daughter’s body. But because of two California Highway Patrol officers, a digital camera and e-mail users’ easy access to the “Forward” button, there are now nine photos of the accident scene, taken just moments after Nikki’s death, circulating virally on the Web. In one, her nearly decapitated head is drooping out the shattered window of her father’s Porsche. – from Newsweek
Nikki Catsouras was killed in a horrible car crash on Halloween day of 2006. The 18-year-old Orange County, California, resident had been driving her father’s black Porsche 911 Carrera at speeds of up to 100 miles per hour when she lost control of the vehicle and smashed into a concrete tollbooth. She was killed instantly, and, much to her family’s horror, nine grisly Nikki Catsouras car crash photos found their way onto the Internet and went viral.
A few days after the accident, Nikki’s father, Christos, who is a real estate agent, opened an e-mail that he thought to be a property listing. But that was far form the case. Instead, what he saw his daughter Nikki’s blood-covered face accompanied by the following caption: “Whoohoo Daddy! Hey Daddy, I’m still alive.” – from AC
Nikki, 18, had taken her father’s Porsche without permission and, moving at speeds estimated at 100 mph, was killed when she lost control of the sports car and slammed into a concrete toll booth on the 241 toll road in Lake Forest. Soon, nine images of her nearly decapitated body began appearing on Web sites and in e-mails sent anonymously to her family. Some who posted Web site comments or sent e-mails taunted the family; parents Lesli and Christos and three younger sisters. – from OC
Two California Highway Patrol (CHP) dispatchers, 39 year old Thomas O’Donnell and 30 year old Aaron Reich, leaked pictures of the accident scene and Nikki’s horrific death onto the Internet.
The teen was immortalized in a sub-culture of morbidity and dubbed “Porsche Girl.”
Within days of Nikki’s death, the Catsourases were deluged with emails and text messages accompanying the grisly accident scene photos of their once-living 18 year old daughter. Some of the text messages and emails sent by mysterious cyber bulllies said, “What a waste of a Porsche” , “Whoo-hoo! I’m still alive!”, and “that spoiled rich girl deserved it.”
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Pregnant Woman Fleeing Bear Hit by Car, Is OK. Wait what?
A pregnant woman fleeing a bear in Colorado is hit by a slow-moving car. She is OK but the bear had to be put down.
Car Dropped on Kansas Home
A home builder in once tornado ravaged Greensburg, Kansas shows the strength of a new concrete house by dropping a car on it.
Companies seize cars from dealers’ lots
Hundreds of brand new cars have been seized recently from the lots of car dealerships in the Seattle area and in Texas. Experts say it’s just one symbol of the problems facing the auto industry.
Dead Body Found Inside BMW Ticketed 7 Times
A car found in a Gainesville, Fla. neighborhood with a dead body in the back seat had been ticketed seven times by city parking enforcement. Police say an autopsy helped them identify the man, but it didn’t reveal an obvious cause of death.
Oops. Car Slams Into Church Roof.
Who was driving, Satan? Well, a man was seriously injured in Germany after losing control of his car and ending up in the roof of a church. The car veered up the embankment like it was a ramp, launching the car into the air and into the roof of the church.
The Lotus Exige S 240 Sweet!
Ezra Dyer reviews the nimble, speedy, and exceedingly small new sports car.