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WCVB TV/DT

Nick Hogan’s Car Flipped Around, Back End Hit A Palm Tree

CLEARWATER, Fla. — Hulk Hogan’s son Nick was seriously injured in a car crash Sunday night.

Police said a Toyota Supra driven by Nick Bollea was traveling at a high rate of speed earlier Sunday evening. Bollea, which is Hogan’s real name, lost control and hit a raised median. The car flipped around, and the back end hit a palm tree.

Bollea and an unidentified male passenger were extricated from the car by paramedics. Then they were airlifted to a St. Petersburg hospital. Police described the injuries of both men as serious.

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Internationa Herald Tribune
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Associated Press

KAHULUI, Hawaii: Loaded with people paying a discount fare of just $5 (€3.65), the $95 million (€70 million) Hawaii Superferry made its maiden run Sunday with a rushed launch for a three-hour voyage to Maui — the first passenger ferry service between the islands.

Legal problems threatened to beach the giant catamaran like one of the whales that environmentalists fear it will run over, so the company moved up the debut by two days.

More than 500 passengers and crew, and 150 cars, were aboard when the four-deck, blue-and-white vessel emblazoned with manta rays pulled away from the dock to a chorus of cheers.

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Trendhunter Magazine

What better way to spruce up your vehicle than to personalize it with your favorite cartoon character?

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The Indianapolis Star
By Christopher Lloyd

After 57 years of showing movies under the stars, the Clermont Deluxe Drive-In Theatre will go dark this weekend.

Sunday will be the last chance to catch a flick — your choice of a double bill of “Underdog” and “Shrek the Third” or “The Simpsons Movie” and “The Bourne Ultimatum” — at the Clermont.

In June, racing entrepreneur Bill Simpson received zoning change approval from the Hendricks County Commissioners to turn the 20-acre theater site into a motor sports business park.

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WCVB TV/DT

2005 Mercedes Up For Bid

BOSTON — Red Sox slugger David Ortiz is offering Sox fans a piece of team history: the 2005 Mercedes he bought as a gift to himself to celebrate the Red Sox World Series win in 2004.

Big Papi has put the car up for sale on eBay and is offering to deliver the car himself to the winner at Fenway Park.

The car is a 2005 Mercedes-Benz, SL-Class, SL65 AMG.

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Guardian Unlimited
Martin Foster in Tokyo

A Japanese man continued to drive his motorcycle for over a mile after losing his right leg below the knee when he hit the central reservation on a motorway in Hamamatsu, south-west of Tokyo.

Kazuo Osada, 54, described as a company worker, crashed when he failed to negotiate a bend, and was unaware his right leg had been severed below the knee apparently because his attention was focused on the strong pain he felt from the crash, police said.

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Orlando Sentinel
Sarah Langbein

Ronald Tridico’s dream went off the road Friday — and so did his $400,000 Lamborghini.

Just two days after shelling out a chunk of change, his brand-new yellow sports car flew around a curve on State Road 429 and crashed. The Florida Highway Patrol says Tridico was speeding when he took the curve and lost control. He overcorrected and skidded 1,200 feet before the crash.

The 39-year-old Windermere resident told troopers that another vehicle had cut him off. But judging by the skid marks, authorities didn’t believe him.

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Wired Blog Network
Autopia
By Marty Jerome

The Nazis wanted everyone to believe that they invented it (not true). American libertarian drivers would have you believe it’s safer than U.S. freeways (likewise false). The German Autobahn opened on August 6, 1932, a small spit of about 12.5 miles between Cologne and Bonn. Since then, it has been one of the most important testing grounds for automakers in the world. It’s not just for the lack of speed limits that this infamous highway is known.

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The Commercial Appeal
By Ansley Haman
Scripps Howard News Service

Excitement lurks along an 11-mile stretch of U.S. 129 that ties Tennessee to North Carolina

DEALS GAP, N.C — Kevin Tillinghast lifted the remains of his rearview mirror from beneath the scratched, red sport bike.

The broken metal became the Indiana man’s offering to the “Dragon,” a spiny section of Southern road named for its resemblance to the back of the mythical monster.

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Rocky Mountain News
By Alan Gathright

A Castle Rock man died outside a movie complex yesterday when he hooked a cable from his neck to a concrete pillar, then sped off in his car.

Nobody reported the 57-year-old man’s suicide outside the Castle Rock Stadium 12 movie theater until a construction worker spotted the car in an adjacent field and made the horrific find about 2 p.m., Castle Rock police spokeswoman Karen McGrath said this morning.

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The Seattle Times
By Christina Siderius

Fed up with backups and endless brake lights, some drivers are zipping through the HOV lane with a secret: That person in their passenger seat isn’t actually breathing.

Last week Trooper Tony Brock pulled over a Black Diamond man for cruising in the Highway 167 carpool lane with a dolled-up mannequin as his fellow rider.

It wasn’t the first time Brock had seen drivers resorting to creative schemes to bypass rush-hour gridlock.

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The Seattle Times
By Nicole Tsong

BOTHELL — As one of 12 kids, Jayne Vitulli didn’t grow up with a dollhouse. But she has recently acquired the adult version — a vintage trailer named Miss Cutie Pie. And dolling it up has played a central role in her recovery from the loss of a beloved brother and from her own breast-cancer treatments.

Last spring, almost a year after her brother died, Vitulli decided she needed a project.

She chose a trailer, inspired by her four sisters who each have one, and in particular by older sister Marian Burns’ 1950s-era Bellwood “canned ham” trailer.

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