Weird on Wheels: Automotive Oddities in the News, Volume 2

November 28, 10:43 AMAuto Review ExaminerJohn Matras

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Zap, neigbour. Gotcha with my speed gun! Is this a good idea? Drivers around Britain may be facing an army of amateur traffic nannies with radar speed guns if a program cooked up by the Association of Chief Police Officers catches on, setting neighbor against neighbor with grannies in tennis shoes hide in the bushes with hopes of nabbing roadway miscreants. Under the plan, if the same car is "caught" three times (the radar nannies will record the numberplate), drivers can be "targeted for prosecution." So who says vignilantism is dead?

Attacked by python, car fights back. A carpet python (which sounds somewhat naughty to us) wrapped itself around a Australian car's air-conditioner fan and then found itself spun silly for several days, finally to be rescued when the car's owner took the car into Cheaper Car Air-Conditioning for unusual noises, which turned out to be the snake losing its tail millimeter by millimeter.

Pittsburgh parking rage: He stole my parking space so I'll whack you with my hammer. Driver gets into the Christmas spirit in a Westmoreland County mall parking lot.

I'm my own speed bump: New Mexico police didn't have to lay to tire-puncturing strips on the highway as an allegedly drunk driver of a pickup truck ran over himself in an effort to make it easier for police to apprehend him.

Did you miss Weird on Wheels Volume 1? Check it out here.

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