Highway Hazards

Can You Get Carbon Monoxide Poisoning from Sitting in a Snowed-In Car?

• 14 February 2019

Be sure to clear the exhaust pipe before running your car after a snowstorm.

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Can You Get Carbon Monoxide Poisoning from Sitting in a Snowed-In Car?

Were Car Headrests Designed as Emergency Escape Tools?

• 15 April 2016

Car headrests were designed for resting heads. Any other use is incidental to their intended...

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Were Car Headrests Designed as Emergency Escape Tools?

Is Cell Phone Use at Gas Pumps Dangerous?

• 10 April 2001

Rumor holds that the use of cellular phones poses a danger of touching off explosions...

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Is Cell Phone Use at Gas Pumps Dangerous?

Carjacking Irony A driver foils an attempted carjacking by ignoring a 'body' lying on the road, then...

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Carjacking Irony

Pink Lady Did an artist secretly paint a 60-foot-high image of a naked woman above a tunnel...

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Pink Lady

Spunkball Are teens throwing lit gas-soaked rags into cars as a new way to amuse themselves?

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Spunkball

Slim Jim Deaths Are police officers dying in airbag accidents caused by trying to open locked car doors...

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Slim Jim Deaths

Static Electricity and Gas Pump Fires

• 25 June 2002

Is static electricity a suspected cause of a reported increase in gas station refueling fires?

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Static Electricity and Gas Pump Fires

Sig Alert Origin Are Los Angeles' 'sig alerts' so named for an acronym for 'stay in garage'?

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Sig Alert Origin

Slasher Under the Car Do thieves hid under people's cars to slash their ankles?

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Slasher Under the Car

Flashing Headlights Gang Initiation

• 30 November 1998

A warning about gang members driving around with their headlights off, then killing anyone who...

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Flashing Headlights Gang Initiation