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Driver slams brand new car into showroom wall
There are car accidents, and then there are totally avoidable, seriously unfortunate car accidents. A comedian has shared an example of an accident that falls into the latter category on Instagram.
The actor, Sunil Grover, shared a clip which showed a driver ramming his brand new Kia Carnival minivan into a showroom wall minutes after delivery.
The video is not a new one. It went viral on social media in June this year after it was uploaded on YouTube.
In the original clip, a dealership employee was seen explaining something to the driver. The car, with a couple of people sitting inside, then started moving. However, the driver immediately appeared to have lost control of the vehicle, ramming it straight into a wall.
The car hit the wall a couple of times more as the driver tried to reverse, leading some to speculate that he did not know how to control automatic cars.
— ndtv.com
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Message in bottle floats from Canada to Ireland in 13 years
A message in a bottle launched by visitors to Newfoundland’s Bell Island was found washed up on an Irish beach nearly 13 years later, after apparently crossing the Atlantic Ocean.
Kate Gay said she was walking a Dingle Peninsula beach this week when she spotted the wine bottle with a sheet of paper inside.
Gay showed the bottle to members of Creative Ireland NeartnaMacharaí during a meeting at her house that evening, and they broke the bottle open.
The note, written by a couple named Brad and Anita, was dated Sept. 12, 2012. The letter described the couple’s day trip to Bell Island.
There was a phone number on the letter, but there was no answer when group members tried to call.
The Maharees Heritage and Conservation group posted photos of the bottleto social media on Monday, and within an hour group members were messaging with Anita.
Group member Martha Farrell said Anita reported that she and Brad had married in 2016 and are still together to this day. -upi.com
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Woman earns world record for collection of 15,485 egg cups
A Spanish woman who has been collecting egg cups for over 50 years earned a Guinness World Record when her collection was tallied at 15,485 items.
María José Fuster recruited two witnesses to help her tally her collection at a community center in her hometown of Campo, Spain.
Fuster’s collection includes multiple patterns, colors, designs and even novelty cups bearing the images of characters including Superman, Betty Boop and Garfield.
Fuster maintains two blogs related to her hobby — one to catalog each piece, and one to list the names of the people who have donated egg cups to her collection.
Some of her most prized egg cups, about 1,143 of them, are currently on display at a local museum.
-upi.com
