WATCH: Catastrophic Wheel Failure on Hwy 407, Ontario Captured by Mini Cooper REAR Dashcam

Extra points and five stars for having a rear dashcam!! Good thing the highway wasn't busy at the time. We always drive by the odd car with wobbly-looking wheels on the highway and always wondered what would happen if the wheel came off in transit. Now we know...

Sat, Nov 19, 2016. 8:20am On the Westbound 407 ETR in Ontario Canada. Have the family in the Mini Cooper, heading to London, when we come up behind this SUV. 

I notice from way back that the hazards are on, so I expect to see the skinny spare tire on it. As we pull up on the left to pass it, I notice the wheel wobble moments before some bits (lug nuts and bolts) fly off, I fixate on the bits, not sure if he just ran over some rocks or gravel and see them bouncing on the road. I follow the bits with my eyes and one slams into my car (seen in the slow-mo bit at the end) 

My wife is watching the whole thing, as we pass him, the sparks are flying and we could hear the grinding. Then the wheel separates from the truck, and crosses all the lanes and bounces into the centre median. Luckily it stayed in there and rolled along for some time, and did not bounce over the barrier and into oncoming traffic (I followed it in my rear view as long as I could)

Mini Cooper Dashcam

The guy certainly knew something was wrong with his truck, as he had his hazard lights flashing. He took a risk to continue driving in my opinion, as people have been killed in Ontario by fly-away wheels. He is just lucky that no one was hurt by that thing. 

I have ran a dashcam for a number of years now, and just a couple of weeks ago put my motorbike away for the season so thought I would mount it's dashcam in my Mini Cooper as a rear facing cam. Good idea, I am going to get a dedicated rear facing dashcam for my car now, half the crazy crap that happens out there on the road happens behind you.

Young Woman Gets Bodied by a Police Horse After Slapping It | Kingston, Ontario

Well, we guess that's what you get for sneaking up on a horse and slapping him on the ass...

Kingston Police said the horse was actually slapped three times during Queen's homecoming. Two men and a woman were charged in connection with the slaps, police said. No one was injured.
Don't slap a police horse on the behind.
That's the lesson a young student learned in Kingston, Ont., this week, after getting hoofed by an annoyed horse for her mischievous antics.
A brief video of the incident has gone viral online, in which a girl wearing a Queen's University sweater can be seen pulling the stunt during a homecoming event. - ctvnews

The first couple months of the fall semester set the perfect environment for ignorant post-secondary students who are living away from their parents for the first time to make bad life choices. And this weekend, some students at Queen's University homecoming have given the internet a special, precious gift: A video of a young woman slapping a police horse's ass and promptly getting kicked by the animal.
In the video, a blonde woman wearing a red-striped, dark-coloured polo runs up to two police horses holding human officers, slaps the horse, gets kicked and falls down face-first. Then, a pal runs up to the woman as she runs away holding her face.

mindblowin

Disappointing news from #QueensHomecoming. Our new horse, Murney, was slapped 3X tonight. No injuries. 2 men & 1 woman charged criminally. pic.twitter.com/AuGst7a80H

— Kingston Police (@kingstonpolice) October 16, 2016

ONTARIO: Drunk Shuts Down Entire Toronto-bound Lanes on Burlington Skyway Bridge

Update: (Thursday, March 17, 2016)

Almost 2 years later…

• Skyway driver acquitted on impaired charges. An Ontario court justice has formally acquitted a Brampton dump truck driver of two charges relating to the Skyway Bridge crash.

TPS Dollar Wine Dance

This Toronto Police officer has sure got the moves! He was captured dancing at the Beaches Jazz Festival in Toronto, ON. When he hears music, he has to start dancing he told the news. Good for him!

Daniel Brown

Canadian Reverent and Superhuman, Kevin Fast, Pulls Airbus A320-200 in Thailand

Talk about amazing strength! Rev. Kevin Fast from Cobourg, Ontario, Canada, successfully pulled a giant Airbus A320-200 weighing 55 tons at Don-Muang Airport in Bangkok, Thailand, June 27, 2014.

He once successfully pulled a giant Globemaster airplane weighing 416,000 lb – the weight of more than 50 African elephants – for 29 ft across the runway at an airbase in Trenton, Canada, in 2009.

Kevin Fast pulls the Airbus A320-200 weighing 55 tons at Don-Muang Airport in Bangkok, Thailand, June 27, 2014. Kevin Fast, who is recorded as a Superhuman guaranteed by many world records such as Guinness World Record, Ripley’s Record and World Records set in Canada, USA, Italy and China, got the Stan Lee’s Superhumans with the heaviest truck pulled weighing 140 tons in 2013. (Xinhua / Rachen Sageamsak)