Odd / Tags / Truck

ODD / NEWS Thu Jun 7, 2007 @ 8:13am neoform

CNN -- A man was taken on a wild ride when his wheelchair became lodged in the grille of a semitrailer and was accidentally pushed down a highway for four miles at about 50 mph, authorities said. The 21-year-old man, whose name was not released, was unharmed.. Read More

ODD / NEWS Tue Apr 24, 2007 @ 1:45pm neoform

Yahoo News -- A north Idaho man accused of ramming his truck into his estranged wife's home Monday after unsuccessfully demanding that she bring him a cigarette has been arrested, police said. No one was injured. Eric D. Marienau, 48, of Sandpoint, was jailed for in.. Read More

ODD / NEWS Mon Mar 19, 2007 @ 8:11pm neoform

Yahoo News -- Cars have been Larry Woody's life for more than 30 years. He fixed them, he raced them, he restored them. But five years ago on Interstate 5 a truck blew across the median and drove over his tiny Toyota Celica. He almost died, and he was blinded. But W.. Read More

ODD / NEWS Wed Mar 14, 2007 @ 8:37am neoform

ABC News -- A man told police not to blame him for crashing his truck into a light post it was that unicorn behind the wheel. Prosecutor Ingrid Rosenquist said Phillip C. Holliday Jr. initially denied driving the truck involved in the March 7 crash in Billings. He to.. Read More

ODD / NEWS Sat Mar 10, 2007 @ 1:33am neoform

Reuters -- A 43-year-old German decided to settle his imminent divorce by chainsawing a family home in two and making off with his half in a forklift truck. Police in the eastern town of Sonneberg said on Friday the trained mason measured the single-storey summer.. Read More

ODD / NEWS Tue Feb 19, 2008 @ 8:22am neoform

Yahoo News -- A 1987 truck that was being traded in by an Auburn couple on a 2007 model was destroyed by fire in Durham as it was being driven to the dealership. Marie Cooper was traveling behind her husband in their other truck Saturday afternoon when she smelled s.. Read More

ODD / NEWS Fri Dec 14, 2007 @ 8:14am neoform

SF Gate -- A tow truck driver upset over a recent ticket tried to tow a police cruiser, authorities said. The 32-year-old man was arrested after he hooked his truck to the marked police vehicle while an officer was responding to a domestic disturbance call, polic.. Read More

ODD / NEWS Mon Sep 10, 2007 @ 9:52am neoform

ABC News -- A repossession crew got a surprise when a 4-year-old boy leaped out of the sport-utility vehicle they were towing away. Fashawn Parker, of Naperville, was sitting in the back seat of a Ford Excursion that was parked outside of a house on Thursday when.. Read More

ODD / NEWS Tue Sep 4, 2007 @ 3:54pm neoform

Yahoo News -- Three commercial truck drivers put on the brakes to help police stop a man who led authorities on a high-speed chase for more than 50 miles. The truckers pulled alongside each other and slowed to about 5 mph, forming a rolling roadblock. The fleeing dr.. Read More

ODD / NEWS Thu Jun 7, 2007 @ 3:46pm neoform

FOX News -- Why did the 21-year-old cross the road? An unidentified man in a wheelchair crossing a Michigan highway became stuck in a semitrailer's grille and pushed for miles before the unknowing driver was pulled over, police said on Thursday. The young man e.. Read More

ODD / NEWS Wed Apr 18, 2007 @ 10:51pm neoform

Yahoo News -- A semi driver whose truck rolled on its side, dumping a load of specialty sunflower seeds, says it happened when he tried to check on a couple of doughnuts. Merv Bontrager of Milo said he looked away briefly from an off-ramp on which he was driving Tue.. Read More

ODD / NEWS Fri Mar 16, 2007 @ 1:48am neoform

USA Today -- Chicken fat, chicken parts, used frying grease and other yucky gunk sucked out of restaurant grease traps clogged a major traffic artery Tuesday, a day after a leaky truck left a nasty trail on an Interstate 20 bridge. The stinky, slippery spill was fi.. Read More