14 local cyclists were involved in an ugly pile up in Washington DC this morning, when a visiting cyclist stopped at a red light at the junction of K Street and 19th St, NW. “It shouldn’t be allowed” protested Melvin Freeman, a Foggy Bottom resi…
A man who is known to have lung cancer caused by more than 60 years of smoking cigarettes, has been contacted by his local council, who asked if he might be amenable to letting them have some of his tar to fix the potholes in the city's roads. Dav...
In the interest of not becoming unthinking, unfeeling, and inescapably conventional. thirty-four-year-old Nate Black of Nashville, Tennessee, opted to take a more scenic, out-of-the-way route to his workplace, thinking that the less-traveled road mig...
Charles "Chick" Engals, life long Spring City, PA native left his home last week after telling his wife that he would return, she said, in an hour or so. After asking him where he was going, his response to her was, as always, that he was going to...
Sir David Dimpleby, the famous naturist has appealed to drivers to take care when round shaped spikey animals cross the road and to try to avoid driving over them. According to a survey among drivers, most people think that hedgehogs are flat animals...
Fuel experts revealed on Sunday night a shocking new report which stated that petrol stations across the country had been diluting the petrol they were selling with the food spread Marmite. An unknown source from an unnamed oil company defended...
Having spent millions ensuring every sign and leaflet in Wales is in both Welsh and English, thus ensuring the survival of the language, the Welsh are now to redo all road signs with miles on, and replace them with fathoms. "We don't like the mile...
BOISE, Idaho - Idaho has become the first state in the union to pass a new road kill bill. According to state Senator Brogan F. Candlefish [D-Pocatello], the bill registered as Idaho Road Kill Bill 001 states that anyone who runs over any type of...
The Isle of Wight Council have announced plans to finally solve the problems with the A3054 Queens Road between Ryde and Newport. "Since the bad winter of 1963," said Councillor David Pugh, "we've suffered with pot holes on this busy main road. We...
One of London's poshest streets, Savile Row, is to be renamed to Tailor Street in a bid to distance itself from Jimmy Savile. "We don't know for certain just what Jimmy Savile has done or not done," said Boris Johnson, Mayor of London, who is orga...
In a bid to help the blind and partially sighted, a new scheme of Street Braille is to be rolled out across the UK after a successful trial in Stockport. Over the coming weeks, bumps will appear on pavements across Britain's streets informing the...
There was travel chaos today, as the M40 was closed after someone dumped a lorry load of mini Bounty bars on the northbound carriageway. Over five tonnes of the coconut filled chocolatey treat were left on the motorway between 3:30 and 4:15am this...
A new development on Britain's roads is causing concern in Whitehall. A truck has gone missing 'somewhere in the Midlands' after falling down a hole in the road. Passers by looked in shocked horror as the truck carrying a load of furniture plunge...
Britain's many, many HGV drivers have today made a heartfelt appeal to the public to end the constant discrimination against their profession. "It's not on", said Steve Bloke, a member of pro-haulage organization, The Wagons Are The Solution, "peo...
A third of motorists are happy with the state of Britain's roads, a survey has revealed. The figure of 32 per cent is down from 64 per cent who were happy with the roads when the survey began in 2008. Carried out by the Institute of Civil Engin...
The building of the new Aberdeen bypass could be delayed by up to two years because of a legal challenge, it has been claimed . Road Sense, the campaign group set up to oppose the proposed road on environmental grounds, said it had instructed lawy...
Britain's busiest road is not the M25, or indeed, any road in London, it is the A628 in Mottram, Greater Manchester. The road that connects Manchester to Yorkshire via the Woodhead and Snake passes funnels tens of thousands of cars a day from the M67...
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