Hero for Hire: Diver offers to recover vehicles lost from capsized container ship
Azores, Portugal — There are few moments in life where you get to feel like the 80s action hero who is being called in for one last mission—no one has the skills and precision that you do—but instead everyone calls you stupid and thinks you’re trying to scam them. It’s tough being a hero. As […]
Like a Glove: Dump truck wedged vertically under Ottawa overpass on Wednesday
Ottawa, Ontario — A dump truck driver did a pretty big oopsy on Highway 417 near Ottawa on Wednesday, somehow getting themselves wedged vertically under an overpass and baffling bypassers in the process. Ottawa’s OPP detachment was called to the scene near the Vanier Parkway on Wednesday morning to discover a dump truck in a […]
Just Learned Photoshop: Alberta driver pulled over with printed-out license plate
Edmonton, Alberta — Fashion, technology, fathers—these are all things that come and go in life. But what never leaves? Human will and ingenuity. An Edmonton, Alta. driver was pulled over by police early in March, initially for having a tinted license plate cover that they were using to obscure the truly dastardly deception. What was […]
War is Shell: Turtle flies through windshield, hitting Florida woman
Lake Mary, Florida — Reports from central Florida are showing that a minor turtle insurrection is in full swing, with the first shots of the conflict being fired by the turtles near Port Orange. An innocent human woman and her human mother were driving along I-95 Wednesday morning when all of a sudden they came […]
Spring Broke: Gatineau driver pulled over trying to tow boat with tiny Toyota Echo
Gatineau, Québec — Some people believe that miracles happen all over the world, every day; a mother lifts a car to save their child; a lost dog returns home after 20 years—a driver in Gatineau tows a pontoon boat with a Toyota Echo. But alas, there was no miracle in Gatineau on Tuesday when police […]
Truckwrecks: Recovery team called to pull half-frozen Silverado out of river north of Fort McMurray
Fort Chipewyan, Alberta — In the latest edition of Collision Repair’s ongoing segment, “Will that truck fall through the ice?”; the answer was once again, yes. This time, the Saskatchewan-based Big Ice removal service was called in to Fort Chipewyan, north of Fort McMurray, to pull a partially sunk Chevrolet Silverado out of a fast-moving […]
