The driver was delivering suspicious items like trash bags, zip ties, and a hatchet to a motel room.
The hostage was also arrested after being rescued due to an outstanding warrant.
Saturday, November 01, 2025
Standing ovation for a DoorDash driver who alerted police to a hostage situation in Texas
amusement park rides on wheels that I haven't posted before
the Flip-Flap Railway was the first looping roller coaster in the United States.
Auto Race, Kennywood. (I've never heard of Kennywood)
After multiple lawsuits, General Motors sent Corvette owners of certain model 2015 to 2019 corvettes a letter saying they would pay the repair and replacement costs for the defective wheels, but, GM told one owner that it’s now out of their hands, and paying the claims is totally the responsibility of a third-party company.
the new factory built Super Stock Charger, the 2025 Hustle Stuff Drag Pack. 50 have been built for NHRA Sportsman racers for Factory Stock Showdown competition.
The added carbon hood, doors, front fascia, and hatch makes the Hustle Stuff 100 pounds lighter than the previous Challenger Drag Pack.
A team of nine 2nd year apprentices at Porsche turned a Boxster S into a camera car as part of a project in 2017 to meet the requirements of filming and photographing Porsches at the company’s Experience Center in Germany when Porsche’s older car could no longer keep up with its newer, faster cars
In a news release on Thursday, State Farm said its latest rate cut would bring down premiums for its customers by an average of 10%.
The rates would take effect on Jan. 2 for new policies and March 14 for renewal policies.
Florida law requires auto insurers to return excess profits if their underwriting gains exceed anticipated underwriting profit, plus 5% of earned premium, over three years.
The company announced the latest round of cuts a week after Gov. Ron DeSantis convened a news conference
The Muppets have never had a broadway show until now, they've been around for 50 years... and they're doing it with a taxi!
Rob Lake Magic With Special Guests the Muppets will be performing at the Broadhurst Theatre through Jan. 18.
makes me think about convertible taxis... I don't believe I've ever seen one
Why a taxi? Because they had one in the movie Muppets Take Manhattan according to one movie poster
It's not a barnfind... Jim knows damn good and well his Porsche 356 is in the garage, where it's been for for a while. He intends to give the 356 to one of his sons, the other gets a Mercedes
Jim bought it before his Air Force adventures, then he was a pilot for United
aircooled, at airports, with airplanes (thank you Steve!) in the history of world aviation to fly during the polar night
the Follow Me car at Tempelhof Airport, Berlin, in 1954
So, here's the research:
Eielson was not only his friend but also one of his flight mentors, whom Harold Gillam seemed to idolize. Gillam's desire was so sincere and ardent, and his persistence so resolute, that he was eventually assigned a Stearman C2B and allowed to participate in the search.
Now it was the turn of the Soviet pilots and sailors to show heroism. It was primarily through their efforts, amidst a series of terrifying snowstorms and incredible frosts reaching -50°C, that they managed to saw and dig through two-meter-thick layers of compacted snow crust over an area the size of a football field and, at the cost of numerous frostbites, to find the bodies of the fallen aviators.
About a 100 years ago (will anyone look us up in 100 years to learn who we were?) he was a young pilot in the search for missing Alaskan rescue expedition pilot, Colonel Carl Eielson in 1929
He was the 1st pilot in the history of world aviation to fly during the polar night, but he didn't have a pilots license, they weren't so adamant about licenses of any kind in 1929/1930
January 26, 1930, at 9:30 a.m., Gillam took off and headed for Alaska, and shortly after noon, returned with the sad news and pieces of the crashed plane's skin. "As we all suspected, the wrecked plane was found just a stone's throw from the hut of the Russian trappers, who were the first to report hearing the sound of an engine,"
The rescuers' attention was drawn to the glint of the sun on the tip of a wing—the only thing protruding from the snow. The wrecked plane's interior was intact, but the cockpit had been completely torn away.
Now it was the turn of the Soviet pilots and sailors to show heroism. It was primarily through their efforts, amidst a series of terrifying snowstorms and incredible frosts reaching -50°C, that they managed to saw and dig through two-meter-thick layers of compacted snow crust over an area the size of a football field and, at the cost of numerous frostbites, to find the bodies of the fallen aviators.
Everything about the events of that ice epic is astounding. But the most astonishing thing is that, Harold Gillam, who was not yet a pilot, dared to fly during the polar night. At the time, he didn't have a pilot's license and had only 40 hours of flight time. His courage is astounding, and his heroic life deserves a detailed account.
Harold Gillam was born in 1903 in Illinois, and his family later moved to Nebraska, where he grew up. At 16, Harold ran away from home and enlisted in the U.S. Navy. The destroyer on which he served patrolled the Pacific Ocean.
Harold Gillam was born in 1903 in Illinois, and his family later moved to Nebraska, where he grew up. At 16, Harold ran away from home and enlisted in the U.S. Navy. The destroyer on which he served patrolled the Pacific Ocean.
Demobilized in 1923, Gillam found himself ashore without a profession or a job – the United States was gripped by the first "post-war depression." He got a job as a worker in a construction company operating in Alaska.
Harold Gillam was attractive to charming young women and after a few years in construction, he started his own road construction business in Fairbanks. One day, fate brought him to the local airfield, where he found both his calling and his love. Harold fell in love with airplanes and a female pilot—the charming Marvel Crosson, sister of the famous aviator Joe Crosson.
In August 1929, fate dealt Gillam a terrible blow. His beloved died while participating in the Santa Monica-Cleveland Women's Air Derby.
But their primary missions were servicing mineral extraction and processing facilities, so essential to the war-oriented American industry. Gillam was under contract to the Morrison-Knudsen construction company, then one of the most sought-after contractors.
On the morning of January 5, 1943, he was preparing to pick up cargo and passengers at Boeing Airfield in Seattle and fly them to Anchorage. He chose the new Annette Island military base, under construction southwest of Ketchikan, as a refueling stop en route.
And engine failed, they crashed, heading in the wrong direction, location unknown, and weren't found for 33 days, in February, in Alaska.
Gillam tried to snowshoe out for help, fell through river ice, and while trying to dry out his clothes, died of hypothermia in his sleep.
His son lived in Fairbanks the vast majority of his life and enjoyed a career in local politics spanning approximately 30 years. Gillam served as mayor of both the city of Fairbanks (1972–1978) and the surrounding Fairbanks North Star Borough (1966–1968), the only person to have done so. He was also the youngest borough mayor for over a half century.
I am sure that if we could take that wall apart, we'd find a super magnet set on "repulsion mode" is the reason these cars seem to be able to avoid hitting it by inches at that speed
there's a change of location at 2:17, and the cars race at the camera... very cool to see
incredible photos, taken by Alfred Buckham, a daredevil airplane pilot, in 1927 - standing in his plane. His death-defying images are the subject of a major new exhibition, Alfred Buckham: Daredevil Photographer, at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery in Edinburgh.
There was no holding on: arms, he recommended, needed to be kept clear of the fuselage to prevent the vibrations from spoiling the image. "It's not easy to tumble out of an aeroplane unless you really want to, and on considerably more than a thousand flights I have used a safety belt only once," he pronounced in January 1927.
"I always stand up to make an exposure and, taking the precaution to tie my right leg to the seat [with a scarf or a piece of rope], I am free to move rapidly, and easily, in any desired direction; and loop the loop; and indulge in other such delights, with perfect safety."
Against the odds, he lived to be 76. The challenges he faced along the way – the crashes and close calls – he viewed with a veteran's pragmatism and a dash of nostalgia. "Such unpleasing circumstances are mostly forgotten, or only serve to add spice to the remembrance," he told the New York Times Magazine in 1930. "Ah! One was a rare daredevil in those days!"
the legend of the Cart Without Oxen stands out as Costa Rica’s distinctly spooky story
a ghostly ox cart that roams country roads in the dead of night, its wooden wheels creaking with a rhythmic traca, taca, tarata. No oxen pull it, no driver guides it, and no hooves pound the ground. Instead, it carries a faded casket holding a condemned soul, a punishment for greed and theft centuries ago.
The story traces back to the early 1700s, when San José was a fledgling village in a rugged wilderness. Residents sought to build a church, the heart of any community at the time, and turned to the wooded hills of Cuesta de Moras – now the site of the National Museum – for timber. They felled trees during the waning moon to avoid sap flow, leaving the logs overnight.
A man from nearby Escazú, known for his laziness and dishonesty, saw his chance. He stole the wood under cover of darkness and used it to construct a house, a stable, a mill, a bench, and a new ox cart. But the theft did not go unnoticed. San José’s patron saint, St. Joseph – a former carpenter with divine oversight – intervened. The thief fell ill, died, and faced eternal judgment: to wander forever in his stolen cart, now self-propelled and silent except for its eerie rumble.
A man from nearby Escazú, known for his laziness and dishonesty, saw his chance. He stole the wood under cover of darkness and used it to construct a house, a stable, a mill, a bench, and a new ox cart. But the theft did not go unnoticed. San José’s patron saint, St. Joseph – a former carpenter with divine oversight – intervened. The thief fell ill, died, and faced eternal judgment: to wander forever in his stolen cart, now self-propelled and silent except for its eerie rumble.
three things... never take a photo with a pole sticking out of the top of your car
3rd, factory 440 Newport, with air conditioning, all the drag race level heavy duty Mopar parts that are easy to repair, replace, or upgrade
the 5th annual Pumpkin Head Ride ( aka the annual Headless Horseless Pumpkin Ride ) was back for more spooky on spokes in Marin County (North of San Fran, the California coast) on Oct 30th
the charming pencil sketches of Paul Chenard
I have featured his work several times https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/search?q=paul+chenard