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Faith in GPS sends Mercedes downstream - Engadget

Faith in GPS sends Mercedes downstream Posted Mar 27th 2007 10:14AM by Donald Melanson Filed under: GPS, Transportation So far, over-dependence on GPS devices has resulted in more inconvenience than actual danger, but things took a turn for the worse earlier this month when a U.K. woman sent her £96k Mercedes SL500 flying into a river, trusting the car's optimistic GPS guidance instead of the road signs warning of impending doom. Matters were made worse as the river was swollen from recent heavy rains, which caused the vehicle to be swept some 200 meters downstream before the woman was able to escape. While she emerged unscathed, the car unfortunately wasn't quite so lucky, remaining stuck in the river for a week after the incident and now believed to be a complete write-off.

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Second Bizarre Accident Strikes New York Woman

NEW YORK (Oct. 13) - A woman whose apartment was burned in the high- rise crash of New York Yankees pitcher Cory Lidle's plane was the victim of another frightening, bizarre and high-profile Manhattan accident years earlier, when a lamppost knocked over by a parade float seriously injured her.

Kathleen Caronna and her family were unhurt in Wednesday's crash, which killed Lidle and his flight instructor, Tyler Stanger. But the engine of the Cirrus SR20 landed in her bedroom, which went up in flames minutes before she would arrived home, her relatives told the Daily News in Friday's editions.  [ MORE ]

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Evangelist drowns trying to walk on water

Pastor reportedly told congregation he could repeat miracle of Jesus

An evangelist who tried replicating Jesus' miracle of walking on water has reportedly drowned off the western coast of Africa.

Pastor Franck Kabele, 35, told his congregation he could repeat the biblical miracle, and he attempted it from a beach in Gabon's capital of Libreville.   [ FULL STORY ]

Beekeeper Brings 20,000 Wasps Into Home

German Beekeeper Brings Honeycombs and 20,000 Wasps Into His Home

BERLIN Jul 31, 2006 (AP)— A German beekeeper attracted more than 20,000 wasps into his home when he brought his honeycombs indoors, but managed to escape injury, police said Sunday.  [ MORE ]

Waitress Gets Own ID When Carding Patron

Ohio Bar Waitress Asks for ID, Gets Her Stolen Driver's License Back

WESTLAKE, Ohio Jul 31, 2006 (AP)— A bar waitress checking to see if a woman was legally old enough to drink was handed her own stolen driver's license, which was reported missing weeks earlier, police said.

"The odds of this waitress recovering her own license defy calculation," police Capt. Guy Turner said Monday.

InfoWorld Tech Watch | InfoWorld | Glitch sends Google stock tumbling | July 31, 2006 03:17 PM | By Mike Barton

Link: InfoWorld Tech Watch | InfoWorld | Glitch sends Google stock tumbling | July 31, 2006 03:17 PM | By Mike Barton.

Glitch sends Google stock tumbling Filed under: Search The Nasdaq is looking into an incident that sent Google's stock plummeting by $350 a share last week, The New York Sun reported Monday. The report said: The incident, which some Street pros contend is a blunder of major proportions by Nasdaq, surprisingly managed to escape the eyes of the financial press and was never reported even though the decline -- an astonishing drop of nearly $350 a share in a mere 10 minutes -- was the greatest ever in the history of the stock market in after-hours trading -- and undoubtedly in regular trading, as well. Here's what happened. On Thursday, trading in Google wrapped up the day at $387.12 a share at the usual closing time of 4 p.m. A minute after the close, Google announced its second-quarter results: better than expected earnings, but decelerating revenue growth from the prior quarter. At 4:02 p.m., in after-hours trading, Google's shares got creamed, initially tumbling to as low as $364, down more than $23 a share from its close, but then rallying back to $391, for a gain of nearly $14. At about the $391 price point, an order originated on Instinet-ATS (a Nasdaq company) that triggered trades between 4:10%2