A mouthy lady driver has been shamed into deleting her entire Twitter account, after police began investigating her proud claim to have knocked a cyclist off his bike in Norwich. Read More >>

Alan McWilliams, a 41-year-old dad of three, is believed to have died after a game of Russian roulette served him up with the bad, unlucky ending. Read More >>

Among items on the short list of "things that shouldn't be stored in an oven," live ammunition ranks near the top—just below live babies and petrol. That's because, as Myth Busters has taught us and one Florida woman learned this week, live ammo and high temperatures make for an explosive combination. Read More >>

The chaps on the original Top Gear sure have done some barmy stuff. From making insane cars, to totally unwarranted (but awesome nonetheless) races, but not even their antics top this. Top Gear Korea was racing a Cobra helicopter with a Corvette when things went seriously, seriously wrong, as this recently-unearthed footage shows. Read More >>

Technology is supposed to make our lives better: our meat easier to chew, our water easier to carry, our ox carts easier to move. But all too often we weak, squishy, meat sacks of the human variety find ourselves on the wrong side of innovation. Read More >>

Brian Reynolds, a 40-year-old inhabitant of Lynn, Massachusetts, improvised a method of stopping his truck when the brakes failed. He stuck his foot out of the door and tried to stop it that way, as if he was riding a bike rather than driving a few tons of American metal. Read More >>

This video shows the moment a Ferrari driver spun out on a race track, before miraculously saving himself, and his posh red car, in a rather worrying high-speed incident. Read More >>

If you've taken so much as one psychology course, you've probably heard of Phineas Gage, the man who survived having a railroad tie driven through his skull. It sounds like a one-of-a-kind thing, but a Brazilian construction worker just survived a similar injury. Read More >>

Simple satnav instructions like "turn left" and "carry on, you're doing very well" are easy enough for us to comprehend while driving, but anything more complex and we lose focus, start to swerve around the road and our little brains simply can't cope with the flood of data. Read More >>

We've all felt tired to the point of being loopy, but most of the time, we're not in the cockpit of a 767, confusing a planet for another plane and sending ours into a nosedive. Read More >>

A series of unfortunate events: a confused helicopter pilot accidentally gives a signal that he's been hijacked. British RAF fighters are scrambled so quickly to shoot the thing down, they go supersonic. Brits down below fear explosions and earthquakes. Boom. Read More >>

The US Navy has published photos of the aftermath of the F/A-18D crash. They clearly show the damage on the apartments that got hit, along with the foam-covered grounds. It's amazing how lucky the residents and the pilots were. Read More >>

Father Martin McVeigh was giving a talk to 26 parents and one 8-year-old kid when computer disaster struck: he connected his USB drive into a PC to start his Powerpoint presentation. But instead of the word of God, a hardcore gay porn slideshow started, thanks to Windows' autoplay. Read More >>

Don't underestimate a hill of beans. They may not amount to much on their own but in sufficiently large mounds, they can crush a man—to death. Read More >>

That thing you're worried is going to happen to you ever single time you walk down the sidewalk while texting? It just happened. To someone else! Laugh away. Read More >>