A man distracted by a low-flying pelican and dropped cell phone drove his sports car into a marsh near Galveston.  Today the man was hired as a pilot by Northwest Airlines.

A high-pitched tone developed in Europe to drive teenagers out of public places is now being used by teenagers as a ringtone.  ***MARLAR: Proving that there is no sound so annoying that teenagers won't think it is music.

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again -- even if it takes 949 more times! In Seoul, South Korea, 68-year-old Cha Sa-soon FINALLY passed her written exam for a driver's license on her 950th attempt! No kidding. She has taken the test nearly every day since April 2005. The aspiring driver spent more than $4,200 in application fees, but until now had failed to score the minimum 60 out of a possible 100 points. She finally scored an even 60. Of course now she must pass a driving test before getting her license.  ***MARLAR: Other South Korean drivers don’t seem to be too concerned.  They’ve seen her drive and she’s still better than Chicago cabbies.

A South Korean woman earned her driver's license after 950 tries. Way to go squashing cheesy stereotypes, honey! 

Coincidentally, 950 is also the average number of tries for a typical Florida driver.

We know that drinking and driving is a big problem, but what about eating and driving? A man in New Zealand was stopped by the police for driving erratically along a busy road. It turns out that he was attempting to drive and eat Chinese food. With chopsticks in both hands, he was using his knees to steer the car! This type of behavior might not be so uncommon. A new survey says that 8 out of 10 drivers eat while behind the wheel. I do it every day on my way into work.  ***MARLAR: I heard this on the way into work this morning and almost dropped my bowl of Fruit Loops.

No one was seriously injured after a plane hit an SUV and made a crash landing in the street during rush hour traffic in North Las Vegas. A pilot and passenger in a home-built Dragonfly aircraft had just taken off from North Las Vegas Airport when it grazed overhead lines and flew over six lanes of traffic before hitting Candace Porter's SUV. Then the plane crashed landed in the street. The pilot was taken to the hospital with minor injuries, while the roof of Porter's SUV was damaged.  ***MARLAR: Sounds like the driver should’ve been in a Dodge.

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Did you see the forklift accident at Vodka wharehouse in Moscow? click link above.

I think the forlift driver may have been nervous that Sarah Palin might have been watching him from her house.

In November Nicolas Rapp says he will be quitting my job and heading out on one of the last true adventures left on earth: Driving around the world. He'll  spend about a year on the road, starting and finishing in New York. When he can't drive, he'll ship the car by boat, then fly to the next stop to pick it up. The route will be a tough one. He'll cross Central America, then head down South America to Buenos Aires. From there, he'll ship the car to South Africa, then drive north through Africa to Europe. He'll stop in Paris to get some paperwork done, then go east through Eastern Europe, Turkey, Iran, Pakistan, and India. He'll ship the car to Thailand, drive to Laos, Cambodia, Malaysia and Indonesia, and put the car on a final sailing home to the U.S.  ***MARLAR: Some husbands will do anything to get some quiet time away from their wives.

Recently adopted slogan for local drive advocating anti-rape education:  "Know!--know!--a thousand times, know!"