Nobrainer’s Think Tank

Be careful sledding!

Powerthirst

and Powerthirst 2

The crime:

The outcome:

The owner of the one of the cars that was hit is a staff member at Extreme. On Wednesday, he saw a car in the fitness club’s parking lot that matched the description of the one seen in the surveillance video and called police.

Investigators arrived at the scene and interviewed a suspect who is a member of the gym.

Tripta Kaushal, a Richmond Hill resident, has been charged with failing to remain at the scene of an accident.

Or as Fark puts it, “It takes a moron to park on top of a car, then drive away. It takes a special kind of moron to go back and park there the next day”

It isn’t uncommon for me to hear people rave about the British TV show Top Gear, the “award winning car show.” But in the few times I have watched clips, I have failed to see what the fuss is about. What I have typically seen is a show where they go out of their way to be unimportantly correct. For example, this clip [thanks Fark]where it’s claimed that “Prius More Enviromentally Damaging Than BMW M3.”

In the clip, they compare fuel economy of a Prius driven at top speed with that of an M3 that followed it around. The test isn’t remotely fair and leaves false impressions. But eventually they get to the bottom line that “[i]t isn’t what you drive that matters, it’s how you drive it.” They cleared up false impressions by lying. The real bottom line, of course, is that it’s both what you drive and how you drive it that matters. Smart as dipsticks those Top Gear hosts.

Having recently moved, I am reminded of George Carlin and how much stuff — but most definitely not shit — I have.

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