Policy & Safety

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A Wrecked Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT Hid a Real Demon 170 Engine, a Kill Switch, and a Bent Steering Column 491211d696d1839f5c7b6436e32719d3

A Wrecked Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT Hid a Real Demon 170 Engine, a Kill Switch, and a Bent Steering Column

Shawn Henry September 6, 2026 0
Khal_SRT has crawled through enough wrecked Mopars to know a yellow engine block doesn’t belong under the...
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A New Mexico Security Guard’s Fake Traffic Stop Was Illegal Twice Over — Before Police Ever Showed Up Long-exposure highway light trails at night, evoking red and blue emergency lighting

A New Mexico Security Guard’s Fake Traffic Stop Was Illegal Twice Over — Before Police Ever Showed Up

Shawn Henry September 5, 2026 0
Picture merging onto Interstate 40 outside Albuquerque and catching lights in your mirror, blue up front, red...
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A 1966 Corvette’s Brakes Quit Mid-Showoff, Leaving Its Owner a Choice Between a Fence, a Lake, or His Own House Screenshot 2026-09-02 at 4.22.37 PM

A 1966 Corvette’s Brakes Quit Mid-Showoff, Leaving Its Owner a Choice Between a Fence, a Lake, or His Own House

John Lloyd September 5, 2026 0
The car was a 1966 Chevrolet Corvette convertible, pulled out of a basement garage after sitting untouched...
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The Dirty Duck Hit 213 MPH At The Lake Of The Ozarks Shootout, Flipped End-Over-End, And Both Guys Walked Away a person riding a jet ski on a body of water

The Dirty Duck Hit 213 MPH At The Lake Of The Ozarks Shootout, Flipped End-Over-End, And Both Guys Walked Away

John Lloyd September 5, 2026 0
The Lake of the Ozarks Shootout has been billed for years as the largest powerboat event in...
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153 Million Driver’s Licenses Leaked in a Breach Tied to the Company That Scans IDs at Hertz Counters Hand holding car key fob outside a rental vehicle

153 Million Driver’s Licenses Leaked in a Breach Tied to the Company That Scans IDs at Hertz Counters

John Lloyd September 4, 2026 0
Handing your license across a rental counter is such a routine part of picking up a car...
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A Wichita Dealer Billed a Customer to Fix a Transmission It Never Touched and Sat on His Title for 500 Days. Now It’s Closed. a close up of a machine with many gears

A Wichita Dealer Billed a Customer to Fix a Transmission It Never Touched and Sat on His Title for 500 Days. Now It’s Closed.

Shawn Henry September 4, 2026 0
In September of 2024, a man walked into Sunset Auto Sales on South Broadway in Wichita and...
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Durango Police Are Dropping Flock’s License Plate Cameras for Axon – And Tightening the Leash on Your Data A solar panel powers a security camera

Durango Police Are Dropping Flock’s License Plate Cameras for Axon – And Tightening the Leash on Your Data

EL Puckett September 4, 2026 0
Durango’s police department is done cutting checks to Flock Safety. Chief Brice Current told the city council...
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A CDL School Told Inspectors Its Classroom Was Inside a School Bus. That’s How Bad Trucking Fraud Has Gotten. Blue semi-truck approaching on a highway from a car's perspective

A CDL School Told Inspectors Its Classroom Was Inside a School Bus. That’s How Bad Trucking Fraud Has Gotten.

John Lloyd August 31, 2026 0
Federal investigators sent 175 people into 40 states this summer to check on truck driving schools, and...
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Ford Let a Timing Belt Rot in Motor Oil for a Decade — Now 135,000 Owners Are One Warning Light From a Dead Engine gray and black ford emblem

Ford Let a Timing Belt Rot in Motor Oil for a Decade — Now 135,000 Owners Are One Warning Light From a Dead Engine

John Lloyd August 31, 2026 0
A driver on a highway outside Wilmington, Delaware wasn’t doing anything unusual. Just merging into traffic. Then...
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