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Thieves Steal Sheep From Moving Truck – Watch more Funny Videos

As this video demonstrates, sheep theft from moving vehicles is a huge problem in other parts of the world. Sheep transport drivers should beware of roving bandits piloting motorcycles with sidecars, and pay close attention when driving up steep grades. If someone can run faster than you’re driving, your sheep aren’t safe. Sheep theft is a preventable crime if you follow these few simple rules:

- Dump trucks are for hauling dirt and gravel, not livestock.
- If you have to use a dump truck, be sure to use a locking cargo cover.
- Use wheel bearing grease on the tailgate bars and top to prevent boarding.
- Don’t allow motorcycles with sidecars, pickup truck or convertibles to tailgate your truck.

Once taken, sheep are virtually impossible to recover since Lojack doesn’t offer a sheep locator service. Some are stolen for wool, some are stolen for meat and still others are stolen for, um, companionship. Or starring roles in Austrian films that can’t be imported to the United States.

Source: Break.com

Let’s say you had a death wish, but wanted to tie your demise to your beloved Segway Human Transporter. You could ride one off a cliff at your country estate, but that’s already been done. Besides, you want to go out in a blaze of glory, and you just can’t do that on a stock Segway. What if you built a hot rod Segway, complete with wheel technology straight out of the 1700s? That should get the job done.

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After pondering it for awhile, Meredith had finally come to grips with the realization that her new “extended range vehicle” may not be such a good idea after all.

Source: ThatWillBuffOut.com

Felix Baumgartner. Photo: Red Bull

On paper, it sounded like a simple enough concept. Felix Baumgartner, sponsored by Red Bull, would pilot a balloon called “stratos” to an altitude of 120,000 feet. One there, he’d step out of the basket and free fall to a reasonable altitude, breaking the speed of sound on the way down. The list of things that could go wrong was extensive, and none of them seemed like a particularly pleasant way to die. Brain hemorrhage, anyone? How about hypoxia?

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Epic Truck Service Fail!!!

I spent a lot of years working at the family garage, and the one thing I was always paranoid about was a hydraulic lift failure. I always made sure the safety catch was out and checked the position of the car on the lift regularly, especially if I was hammering or trying to break a rusted bolt loose. We were also careful enough to not service full size trucks on the single ram lift, but some of the full size cars of the sixties and seventies were probably pushing the same weight. In all the years I worked there, we never really had a close call on the lift, and we never had the kind of epic fail seen here.

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Rotor Burns Until It Explodes – Watch more Funny Videos

Where do I even start with this video? There are so many things that could have ended badly, but fortunately for the guys in the video, nothing went seriously wrong. Until the cast iron rotor exploded, that is, sending red hot shrapnel in all directions and very nearly beheading the cameraman. How would you like to explain to your boss, who owns the garage, why there are chunks of scorched brake rotor embedded in the walls?

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100 km/h on the wheel

How much vodka would it take before you thought that riding a tire on a snowy Russian road at 62 miles per hour was a good idea? For me, that would be “a whole bunch”, and I’d probably be face down in the snow before it was time to saddle up. We don’t get snow in northern FL, and it’s been a good, long time since I had the opportunity to play with cars on snow and ice. Do I miss it? About as much as I’d miss a soul crushing, Russian vodka induced hangover.

Photo: Coming Through

I’m not really afraid of dying, but I am concerned about dying in an epically stupid manner. I go to great lengths to avoid being killed by other people’s stupidity, and I generally think twice about doing something that would put my own life in danger. First, I ask myself, “is it necessary?, usually followed by “is it fun?”. If the answer is “yes” to both questions, then I proceed with caution.

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I’ve seen many many things in my 38 years here in the Big Apple. I’ve seen blackouts, terrorist attacks, muggings, beatings, bitch-slappings as well as a host of other man made mayhem. One thing however that I didn’t expect though was a tornado ripping through my neighborhood of Flushing, Queens. This past Thursday evening at 5:31 pm I was sitting on my couch playing a little Forza Motorsports III on my XBOX 360 when all of a sudden it started to rain. The rain started calmly enough but then after about 3 minutes it started to get pretty hairy, so hairy in fact that I actually removed myself from the sofa and went to the window to check out what was going on outside.
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This video is proof positive that vehicular debauchery was very much in style back in the day. Back then it was apparent that classic hoonage consisted of quite a few solid objects and the will to do bodily harm to oneself, something the drivers of today try and avoid. I think whats most amazing though are the actual stunts themselves. We see guys running through brick walls, jumping from car to car, as well as running into fire barricades with a packed house in attendance. I suppose for back then that that was cutting edge stuff, but do that today and you’d simply be considered a schmuck. I suppose I shouldn’t bitch though as these guys are the true forefathers of the modern stuntman and events like the X-Games. It just goes to show you how everything, even trying to kill yourself in an automobile has evolved over the years.

Source: Cardomain.com