Apr 18
Filed under: GPS, Transportation
Okay Britons, here’s your shot at ripping us Americans who’ve had quite a few laughs at the expense of your GPS-loving neighbors. Reportedly, the driver of a charter bus carrying a high school girls’ softball team decided to casually follow the soothing turn-by-turn directions that were being emitted from the nearby GPS unit rather than actually noticing the enormous clearance sign on the overpass ahead. As you can likely guess, the 11-foot, 8-inch-high vehicle plowed right into the 9-foot bridge — which was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982 — though somehow everyone on board escaped without any major injuries. Oddly enough, the driver apparently isn’t alone in chipping away at the landmark, as a local even mentioned that “large trucks hit the bridge every two weeks or so,” but couldn’t resist noting that “this [instance was] by far the worst.”
[Thanks, Raleigh]
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Source: Darren Murph
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Aug 23
Filed under: Laptops
Apparently not willing to wait for those rumored new ultraportable MacBooks, some burglars recently broke into the Apple Store at University Village in Seattle and made off with a number of laptops that had completed servicing, along with an “unknown stock” of refurbished iPhones. According to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, police arrived on the scene Monday morning and found a large hole in the ceiling of a technicians’ room, with the entire office “in disarray.” From the sound of it, it seems that the thieves may have been after more than just the laptops themselves, with at least one of the laptops reportedly “packed with personal information.” No word on any leads just yet, but police say they might contact those who had their laptops stolen as part of the investigation.
[Via Techmeme]
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Source: Donald Melanson
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