Google Maps Gone Wrong? Street View Car Found Wrecked in India

It's not every day that you stumble upon an abandoned Google StreetView Camera Car in the middle of nowhere. And since you are bound to ask, by 'nowhere' we mean down a rocky hill in the Leh district of northern India.

An unidentified man who sounds like he has an American or a Canadian accent captured a film of the aftermath. The video shows the high standing camera-equipped Opel Astra hatchback(previous generation) facing down the hill with its front smashed up on the rocks.
Another young man in the video is shown throwing rocks on the German model. We don't know if these men discovered the car by accident or if they were actually the drivers.
What we did find is additional photos of the crash on a one Pit Kellers' Flickr account, which you can check out here: Link1, Link2 and Link3.
As always, if any of you happen to have more details surrounding the incident, shoot us an email or head over to the comments area.

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Man Builds Real-Life Working Version of WALL-E for Kids with Cancer

You no doubt remember WALL-E, the love-stricken robot from the successful Pixar movie that bears his name.

Now, some four years after the film hit theaters, WALL-E has come to life, no thanks to the efforts of California robotics enthusiast Mike Senna, who some of you may remember for building a life-sized, working R2-D2 from the Star Wars saga.

Blastr reports that Senna decided to work on WALL-E after he begun taking R2-D2 to events for City of Hope, a pediatric cancer charity, and saw the reactions of the kids to the robot. He says that he then wanted to create something with a little "more emotion".

The California resident estimates that it took him between 3,200 and 3,800 hours to complete the project from scratch working an average of 25 hours a week for more than two years. Did we mention that he paid everything from his own pocket and that he has a regular job?

Senna says that his reward comes from the look on kids' faces when they see the remote-controlled robot come to life.

For more photos of WALL-E, check out Senna's blog here.

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See Anything Wrong with this Picture?

We're all for driving your car to the ground in order to save on the cash but this owner seems to have taken it to the extreme.

Even though the yellow sedan of unknown origins still has a working engine, a driver's seat and four wheels, the rest of the car is in shreds.
The word on YouTube is that the vehicle was filmed on Iraqi roads, though this is something we cannot confirm at the time. Head past the jump to watch the full video and leave your comments.

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Vermont Farmer Goes Berserk After Marijuana Charges and Crushes 7 Police Cars with a Tractor!Vermont Farmer Goes Berserk After Marijuana Charges and Crushes 7 Police Cars with a Tractor!

We've said it before, we'll say it again; just because a significant number of Russian drivers fit their cars with dashboard cameras offering us an omniscient view of what's going on in the country, doesn't mean the rest of the world is immune.

From crazy Brazilian drivers attacking motorcyclists to annoyed Greek motorists tipping over double-parked cars, the world can be a crazy place - the United States included.
On Thursday, August 2, Vermont farmer Roger Pion decided to show his displeasure for being arrested on marijuana charges last month by driving his tractor to the Orleans County Sheriff's Department and flattening down seven cop cars, including five marked cruisers, an unmarked vehicle and van used for transporting prisoners!
Strangely, it wasn't the Orleans County Sheriff's Department that had previously arrested the 34-year-old man but the neighboring agency of Newport.
"It’s more than half our fleet. We have 11 cars," Chief Deputy Sheriff Phil Brooks told theBurlington Free Press adding that the police estimated the damages to be around $250,000 (€203,000).
The 34-year old man is said to have used a big tractor with four six-foot tandem wheels on the back. "It's pretty much the biggest tractor you can get," Police Chief Seth DiSanto told reporters.
After completing the demolition derby, Pion took off and even though the Orleans County Sheriff's Department didn't have any cars available to chase him, the Newport city police soon arrested the man two miles from the crime scene.
State Police Detective Trooper Lyle Decker told the Burlington Free Press that Pion faces several charges including seven counts of felony unlawful mischief and one misdemeanor count of unlawful mischief on suspicion of damaging the cars.
A video of the aftermath at the police station follows below.

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Meanwhile in Russia #11: Butt-Close J-Turn, Accident Waiting to Happen, Scream and Bimmer Alert

Our daily roundup of Russian road madnessbegins with the driver of a Lada Classic sedan performing the so-called J-Turn maneuver, which calls for a 180-degree turn while in reverse. Somehow, we don't remember pedestrians being part of the stunt…

A slow moving tractor pulling a tanker-like trailer without any lights or reflectors at night is an accident just waiting to happen and guess what; it did but it wasn't the tractor that received the bad news.
Quick quiz: What is more terrifying and surely more annoying than a relatively minor car crash? We will give a couple of hints; it walks on two feet and stars in the third video clip.
We don't know why, but there's an increasing number of Russian drivers in BMWs crossing lanes and smashing into motorcycles, as seen in this clip as well as in the fourth video of today's countdown.

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That's One Way to Show a Girl a Good Time

One thing we can tell you for sure about this video is that the young man you see sitting in front of the young lady at the back of the electric bus wasn't driving - at least not the trolley…

What these two youngsters were doing with the paper bags in their hands is also another mystery (perhaps not if you have a vivid imagination…), but then again, so is just about everything we see on Russian dashcams.

Hop over the break to check out the short video.

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A drunken degenerate returning from a party at the SUV "Prado"

If you happen to be intoxicated, it's never a good idea to step inside a car and take a seat behind the wheel, since all sorts of things can go wrong.

As for this gentlemen who was allegedly buzzed off the wagon after a late night party in theRussian town of Yasnogorsk, we'll just tell you that despite his alcohol-induced groove, he did manage to get his Toyota Land Cruiser Prado SUV off the grass.

To see where that landed him, hop over the break for the video.

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You Know it’s a Bad Time to Take a Picture When…

When it comes to most forms of motor racing, speed is everything, be that on the track or in the pit area, meaning there is no room for fooling around and wasting time.

That said, standing in front of a car during a pit stop to take touristy pictures while drivers swap places and the pit crew is scrambling to perform a multi-service operation as swiftly and efficiently as possible, is something you should avoid.

Yet, a lady was caught on camera doing precisely that at the recent Indianapolis Grand AM.

YouTube poster 'f1fanindy' notes: "After the pit boss gave fair warning...a lady walks right out in front of the pit crew...look what happens next."

A short clip of the incident follows below.

Thanks go to Greg for the tip! 

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Too Fast for his Own Good Mercedes-Benz CL Driver Smashes into Four Cars

No intelligent system in the world can help a foolish driver without a drop of common sense to avoid getting into an accident.

A too fast, too furious motorist behind the wheel of a Mercedes-Benz CL went on to unleash some of the many ponies hiding under the hood of the German coupe on a fairly tight city road and overtake a car in front of him.

The result? After crashing into an oncomingLexus RX crossover, the Mercedes was pushed onto an Audi A8 sedan (judging by the chrome strip on the bumper), a black saloon (possibly a Skoda) before completing the strike with an SUV.

We could be wrong, but the license plates on the cars and the music background suggest that this video was shot in Russia.

Hat tip to Ray!

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Meanwhile in Russia: Passing Through the Eye of the Needle x 2, Timber! and Motorcycle Fail

For our time-waster of the day, we bring you four videos from the land that never ceases to amaze.

While traveling on his lane on the freeway, the protagonist of our first clip was suddenly confronted with an Audi Q5 that was trying to overtake a large truck carrying timber. Fortunately, he was able to squeeze in between the two vehicles and save his head.

Our next driver tried to make a legal but reckless pass of several vehicles at the same time that was Land Cruiser was heading his (or her) way. While avoiding a deadly head-on collision, the driver wasn't able to control the car that tumbled over on the side of the road.

In the next video, not only did the tree cutting crews neglects to secure their surroundings, but they also managed to drop the tree on the side of the road…

And last but not least, we have a motorcycle rider who somehow managed to trip on his bike and fall right in front of an oncoming car the driver of which, was luckily alert, swerving and avoiding a collision that would have likely turned fatal for the biker.

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