The Toronto Sun reports that Toronto Mayor Rob Ford was about an hour late for a speech to an $89 a plate speech at the Economic Club of Canada because he was stuck in a freight elevator. The Globe and… Read More ›
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Around The World People Ride Subways Without Pants
Yahoo reports that people around the world participated in the 13th Annual “No Pants Subway Ride,” which was organized on the internet and perhaps elsewhere. So if you wanted to see a bunch of people in boxers and other undergarments… Read More ›
Man Sleeps Through Plane-Skidding-Off-Runway Incident
Yahoo reports that a man slept through a plane skidding a bit off the runway at JFK Airport yesterday, on a flight bound from Toronto to New York. From the article: “I was sleeping. I woke up and… A police… Read More ›
Drunk Man Drives Along Train Tracks, Calls Police Saying He Is Lost
The Local reports that an intoxicated man driving in southwestern France phoned the police to let them know he was lost. At the time he had driven approximately two kilometres along train tracks, luckily without any train collision. 3 Other… Read More ›
Urine Detectors Coming To Subway System Elevators… We’re Sure That People Won’t Just Start Urinating In The Free Newspaper Boxes!
CNN reports that Atlanta is installing urine detectors in subway system elevators, which will set off an alarm, and lead to the arrest of elevator-urinators! 3 More Things We’d Like To See Installed In Subway Systems 1. Bathrooms! We bet that may… Read More ›
Funniest Travel News Headline Of 2013?
Sometimes a headline is so good that reading, or in this case viewing the news story could only lead to disappointment. And our new favorite headline comes from King5.com: “TSA agent confiscates sock monkey’s pistol.” We could read on about… Read More ›
Man Wakes Up In Dark, Empty Commercial Airliner, And It’s Not A Zombie Movie!
QMI Agency reports that a man fell asleep on a United Express plane, and woke up in a “cold, pitch-black cabin” in a parked plane in Houston after nobody noticed he was asleep in his seat when the passengers and… Read More ›
If A Basketball Team Bumps You Out Of Your Airline Seat, Will A Referee Call “Traveling?”
The Gainesville Sun reports that Delta bumped all of the passengers off a flight from Gainesville to Atlanta to allow a University of Florida basketball team to fly on the plane instead. Reportedly the passengers noticed something was up when… Read More ›
Amazon Droning On About Drone Delivery
CNBC reports Amazon is experimenting with drones as a potential future delivery method of whatever smaller items you are ordering from Amazon (hopefully not butterflies because that sounds inefficient). 3 Questions That Arise From This Story 1. “But what if… Read More ›
New Plane In Works Could Give You Thrilling Ride To Boring Destinations
Yahoo reports that a new supersonic plane being developed by Boeing and other companies could travel 2,500 miles per hour, almost twice as fast as the Concorde. This could get you from London, England to Sydney, Australia in about four hours,… Read More ›
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