Here’s a new one for rail travel: police don’t need to worry about their guns.
An Amtrak officer is suing the railroad, claiming it’s liable for a woman who grabbed his gun and shot him in the foot.
James Bullard, working at Philadelphia’s 30th Street Station last March, got in line at McDonald’s (he wasn’t even on the train). While there, he tried to remove a disruptive woman from the restaurant. She grabbed his gun and shot him in the foot.
You might think he’d sue McDonald’s. But Bullard is claiming that he had a worn-out gun holster and that Amtrak failed to provide a new one when he requested it. Perhaps he has a case.
Sounds like a nice idea. An amphibious bus that can travel on water and roads. Sadly (or comically if you prefer) it was grounded, less than an hour after it got wet.
The $1.5 million Dutch-made “amfibus” was being demonstrated for service between Renfrew and Yoker when things went pear shaped. Mechanics are hoping to have it swimming again by tomorrow.
In theory, it runs like a normal bus on land, but uses two water jets to carry 50 passengers at speeds up to eight knots in the water.
Cruise ships are still plying the waters beside Haiti. You don’t want to let a little earthquake suffering ruin your trip, do you? Indulge at the buffet, splash in the surf and happily ignore the tens of thousands without food, water, medical care or shelter. Sure the cruise lines could cancel a few cruises and help with humanitarian relief efforts, but what’s a cruise line company going to do with a bunch of great PR and a clear conscience? Naturally, they need to focus on the core business of pummeling local cultures into oblivion (via tourist invasion), overfeeding sunburned passengers and secretly dumping as much waste into the ocean as they can get away with.
Rail companies in the UK revealed a treasure of bizarre things found on trains in 2009.
Mobile phones and clothes were the most common items left behind, and only 20% claim their belongings, but the more fascinating items include: a bag containing a dead octopus in Edinburgh, half a shotgun along with ammunition, a cat, a wheelchair and two clarinets and two violins were handed in on the same day.
Have your cake and eat it too… then sue that you didn’t get enough.
The details aren’t all out yet, but that seems to be what happened with Terence and Cynthia Milner, who sued after their £59,000 cruise on the maiden voyage of the Queen Victoria didn’t live up to expectations — according to The Telegraph. Sure they were upgraded to a penthouse suite after complaining about sleepless nights. But stormy conditions and mouth ulcers were apparently also the fault of the cruise line.
They jumped off the ship in Honolulu and stayed at a luxury resort then caught a lift on the QE2 ship rather than continue on to Southampton as originally planned.
They got a refund of £48,240 refund, but then sued for “loss of enjoyment” and received £22,000 damages. Cunard is challenging the decision in a London court.
Over 100 buses a day make the 4+ hour crossing from the touristy Red-Sea town Hurgada to Luxor. They travel in a giant tourist convoy with a military escort.
Over 100 tourists are trapped by ice off the northeastern end of the Antarctic Peninsula aboard Kapitan Khlebnikov, a Russian ice-breaker cruise ship.
It has been stuck for four days, but there’s no immediate threat to anyone onboard and they are expected to break free once the wind direction changes. If all goes well the ship may be able to return to Ushaia just a few days behind schedule.
The passengers paid roughly $17,000 for a tour that included seeing emperor penguins on Snow Hill island.
AP reports that a Yamile Campuzano-Martine lost control of her pickup truck at Tampa International Airport and crashed into a 1500-gallon saltwater aquarium, emptying it and killing nearly all the fish in the process (including one rare specimen worth $5000).
She was charged with careless driving, failure to use a child restraint device (her six-year-old was on her lap at the time) and failure to provide a driver’s license.
The fish tank was reportedly worth $50,000 to $100,000.
All cars in Sweden need to get tested for emissions and basic road worthiness by the State-owned Motor Vehicle Inspection Company (Bilprovningen), including this $434,000 Ferrari F40.
When the Swedish inspection driver got behind the wheel, it seems he wasn’t used to driving a Ferrari. He lost control and the vehicle lurched into a fence in the test area, crumpling the front end. The driver was okay, but understandably shaken from visions of insurance forms that awaited him.
The “collector’s item” Ferrari had been recently imported into Sweden by Von Braun Sports Cars. “It is not an easy vehicle to handle, if you are not used to it,” Torbjörn von Braun, CEO of Von Braun Sports Cars, told The Local (Sweden’s English-language newspaper).
According to Swedish TT news service, a man decided to sleep off a hangover by taking a nap on the railroad tracks outside of the Swedish town of Borås. He was woken by a train as it hit him in the head. However, the man only sustained minor injuries. In fact, he went back to sleep after the train passed. The train’s driver feared the worst and rang the police. When the police arrived, they found a sleeping man with a head wound on the side of the tracks. “He had woken up when the train came, raised his head and hit it on a metal object on the train. Then he went back to sleep,” police officer Sven Persson told TT.
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