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Napoli intersection shows Italian drivers are nuts [VIDEO]

Doug Lansky — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 22:28:41 +0000

The Titanic Awards survey found that Italians are the world’s worst drivers. Not sure that’s quite accurate. Most are very talented drivers; they just drive as if the traffic laws are suggestions.

Raunchy Russian airline commercial lowers the bar yet again

Doug Lansky — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 11:51:25 +0000

Just when you thought airline ads couldn’t get much lower than Spirit Air’s “Check Out The Oil On Our Beaches,” comes this: the closest a commercial airplane comes to making a porn film. The Russian airline advert has flight attendants strip to bikinis and wash the plane with all the subtlety of a James Bond opening number or MTV rap video. Halfway through, the director seems to forget they were even washing a plane and just has the flight attendants wash themselves. Perhaps they were trying promote personal hygiene. Or maybe they ran out of time and had to return the aircraft.

Titanic author interview

Doug Lansky — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 11:02:25 +0000

Here’s a little propaganda video from the publisher. Got the Phineas J. Fogg author set up (a spinning globe and pipe were missing) and I was told to yak about the “creativity” of bad travel. Did my best, but not sure I pulled it off.

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Ultimate Travel Fail Compilation Video

Doug Lansky — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 21:57:50 +0000

editing by Tim Shisler

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Worst mode of transport: Great White Shark

Doug Lansky — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 14:19:31 +0000

This Discovery Channel diver decides to hitch a ride on the dorsal fin of a great white (about 2:30 min into the clip). Wonder if travel insurance covers for this.

Worst place to stop to tie your shoe or stop and do anything

Doug Lansky — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 15:03:03 +0000

Tokyo crosswalk from hell

TAP brings smallest flash mob to Lisbon airport

Doug Lansky — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 08:53:29 +0000

Winter sliding…. Ryainair plane slips off the runway in Glasgow

Doug Lansky — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 21:00:16 +0000

Japan makes talking toilet, travelers don’t quite rejoice

Doug Lansky — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 12:06:55 +0000

Don’t suppose it’s any weirder than K.I.T.T, the talking car. And you don’t have to suffer through David Hasselhoff’s singing.

If you don’t speak Japanese, it’s hard to know what it’s saying. What the hell would a toilet say if it could speak?

Worst Tasering of Traveler

Doug Lansky — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 13:20:56 +0000

Somehow a commission found that four Canadian police acted lawfully when they Tasered a nervous Polish traveler at the Vancouver airport, which resulted in his death minutes later. Robert Dziekanski, 40, died in late 2007 and an amateur video of the violent (see below) arrest zipped around the internets.

The report by the Commission for Public Complaints Against the Royal Canadian Mounted Police said the police officers “failed to adopt a measured, coordinated and appropriate response.” It also stated that the senior officer “failed to take charge.”

Dziekanski was an anxious first-time flyer, spoke only Polish and had just landed in Vancouver and couldn’t find his mother, who he’d been searching for for 10 hours in the baggage area. What’s the police response to such a predicament? Taser him to death, what else.

Hard to imagine what this commission was thinking. These officers should clearly not be allowed to wear police badges and they idiot who tasered him should be looking at a manslaughter charge.

Watch the video and see for yourself. (violence starts about 5min into the video)