Meanwhile In Russia
Month: February 2013
Russian Extreme Game Show – “The Interception”
“The Interception” is a Russian extreme game show, popular in 1997-1998. The presenter was Nikolay Fomenko and the main prize was a Daewoo Espero. The game involves two players, so-called “hijackers”, each in his car, accompanied by assistants, “the navigators”. Each car is equipped with a Lo Jack. The goal of the hijackers is to avoid getting arrested as long as possible. Their adversaries are “the hunters”, driving six Ford Crown Victoria Police Interceptors of the patrol service special battalion and they are leaded by a commanding officer. The pursuit…
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Car gets ‘stuck’ at 125mph: Frank Lecerf goes on 150-mile ride
A driver who was trapped in a car travelling at 125mph with a jammed accelerator and no brakes said: ‘It was as if my life was flashing before me’. Disabled Frank Lecerf, 36, had been driving to a local hypermarket when his specially-adapted Renault Laguna developed the nightmare fault. Suddenly the car began accelerating on its own as he drove sedately along a 60mph dual carriageway close to his home in Pont-de-Metz, near Amiens, in northern France. Without any pressure on the accelerator at all, the Laguna started to increase…
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