accident

A New Zealand woman found herself in a sticky situation after mistaking a tube of superglue for her coldsore cream and accidentally gluing her mouth shut. The anonymous woman was apparently reaching for her lip balm in the middle of the night and didn’t bother turning the light on,...

A truck driver who won a $360,000, 640-horsepower Lamborghini Murcielago Roadster in a convenience store contest crashed the vehicle within six hours of it coming into his possession. After winning the convertible in a contest run by Maverik convenience stores, 34-year-old David Dopp indicated that he intended to sell...

A Sunday exotic car club meet ended in tears in Japan on Sunday when 13 of its members were involved in a 14-car pile-up. The accident caused significant damage to eight Ferraris, three Mercedes-Benzes, a Lamborghini and minor damage to a Prius, whose driver was presumably not in the...

A terrifying helicopter crash was caught on live TV in New Zealand and luckily the pilot walked away almost unscathed. Greg Gibbler, a pilot of 20 years, was putting a Christmas tree on top of a seven story building when things went catastrophically wrong. Raising the Telecom Christmas Tree...

Xiao Lee of China wanted nothing more than to surprise his girlfriend, Wang Xue, on her birthday by giving her an expensive necklace.  Lee’s plan was to hide said necklace in Xue’s birthday muffin, then sit back and watch her face light up in delight when she discovered her...

Amos Wayne Richards is a 64-year-old gentleman from Concord, North Carolina, who thought he’d hike the Little Blue John Canyon in Utah after seeing it featured in the Oscar nominated film 127 Hours. That’s all fine and dandy.  I mean really, who amongst us hasn’t been inspired by a book,...

People who watched a motorcyclist rear-end a van in Victorville, California were thinking the worst when they couldn’t find the driver anywhere near his crashed bike. No one guessed he was inside the van he hit. It’s an accident police are calling a “non-injury collision with a twist.” The...

A 24-year-old kitesurfer died on a wet and windy day after being blown onto hard land. The young man, who has not been named was “overwhelmed by the force of the wind while he was kitesurfing at sea” on a beach in Saint-Jean-de-Luz on France’s southwest Atlantic coast. In...

A 52-year-old man was preparing for a hike in Blewett Pass when he decided to move his 40-caliber Smith & Wesson from its safe, but uncomfortable holster to his unsafe but comfortable back pocket – it was a big mistake. Darrel Elam’s pistol accidentally discharged. The bullet shot down...