Top videos: A rubbish truck disaster, brutal buyer’s remorse and animal rescues
Dramatic footage from the Arlington Heights Police Department in Illinois captures the moment the burning truck exploded in a suburban street.
“We want to thank the Arlington Heights community for their support of our injured first responders. Both officers are recovering at home, and the firefighter has returned to duty,” the department said in a social media post.
It said it thought the explosion might have been caused by uncontrolled combustion in a garbage truck hopper, igniting compressed natural gas tanks.
Tiny lives
Researchers on South Australia’s Granite Island have given the world a rare glimpse into the private lives of the world’s smallest penguins.
Footage captured as part of a study into the parenting behaviours of tiny penguins offers a “fascinating behind-the-scenes glimpse into the unseen world of these vulnerable birds”.
Little penguins typically grow to just 35 centimetres tall and weigh an average of 1.2 kilograms. They live in coastal waters in Tasmania and southern Australia – including on Granite Island, about 100 kilometres south of Adelaide.
Buyer’s remorse
Buying a used car can be fraught, but few customers take their dissatisfaction to the extreme that this Utah man was arrested for.
Hours after Michael Lee Murray, 35, purchased a car from his local Mazda dealership, he returned it – via the front windows.
Court papers filed after his arrest say Murray wanted his money back and to return the vehicle, but was denied a refund.
Murray told police the dealership “sold him a lemon, and they would not give him his money back”, according to the Sandy Police arrest report.
The dealership explained the sales contract was “as is” and there would be no refund.
Shortly after he exited the dealership, Murray got into his vehicle and within minutes drove the vehicle through the front of the building.
Luckily no one was injured.
@photogsteve81 According to Sandy Police, the man bought a car from Tim Dahle Mazda Monday morning the man reportedly discovered mechanical issues and went back to the dealership, hoping to return it. But the dealership told him they would not take it back as it was sold “as is.” The man according to Police threatened to drive through the dealership’s front door if they wouldn’t give him his money back. Then, shortly after 4 p.m., he did exactly that. #investigation #info #storytime #car #cardealership #news
Stay down. Heads down!
Many of us glaze over when the in-flight air crew run us through the airline safety information at the start of every flight.
Luckily, the air crew know the drill.
Video this week shows passengers assuming their crash positions as a Qantas flight was forced to make an emergency landing in Brisbane.
Qantas flight QF1929 left Brisbane Airport bound for Adelaide about 8.20am, but was forced to return due to a mechanical malfunction.
A video captured the terrifying moments passengers braced for touch down as a female flight attendant can be heard chanting “stay down, heads down, stay heads down”, in the background.
As the plane hits the tarmac, the pilot calmly requests the cabin crew to “stand down” and there is a smattering of applause.
Source: X/4BC
Dog rescue
Australia’s unseasonably high temperatures have highlighted the need to make sure children and animals are not left in cars on hot days.
Police on Queensland’s Gold Coast reinforced this last weekend when they were forced to intervene and pull miniature dachshund, Duppy, from a car in Coolangatta.
Police were called by a passerby who noticed Duppy had been left in the backseat of a car with no water for more than an hour on Sunday afternoon.
Officers allege there was also an uncapped syringe in the vehicle. While police were attending to Duppy, the alleged driver of the vehicle returned and was taken into custody.
Oh deer!
Cold weather poses its own problems for animals as shown by this video of a Michigan family rescuing a deer that fell in icy water.
The rescue last week in Cedarville Bay as two brothers, Jeff and Greg Lipple, worked for hours to rescue the shivering animal floating in the frigid water.
After several failed attampts, Greg used a kayak to get close and corner the deer near the edge and Jeff used the rope to pull the animal out.
Syrian celebrations
Ten years of civil war ended for Syria this week as former president Bashar al-Assad fled the country for asylum n Moscow.
Joyful Syrians ransacked Assad’s former palace and stormed the jails to liberate imprisoned loved ones.
Amid the raucous celebrations, few images summed the mood better than footage of Syrian’s taking a ride through the streets while sitting atop a giant statue of Assad’s father Hafez al-Assad.
