NEWS BRIEFS
Tragedy As 4 Helicopters Crash Covering Earlier Crash Of 2 Helicopters

Dual tragedies struck the city of Phoenix, AZ earlier today as total of 6 news choppers crashed in two separate fiery crashes. First, 2 news helicopters crashed while covering a high speed police chase near central Phoenix. Firefighters and ambulances rushed to the scene, but were unprepared for what happened next.

“I saw the first fireball and the helicopters go down,” said Juan Perez, who lives with 13 other families in a single bedroom apartment near Phoenix Central Park. “Then about four other news choppers started circling the wreckage. You could see they were jockeying for position.”

Observers say overeager pilots and cameramen inched dangerously close to each other for a better view of the crash when four additional helicopters simultaneously collided, raining flaming debris onto the already wreckage strewn park.

A local station manager was nearly speechless over the tragedy. “What words are there to express the pain and anguish when a senseless tragedy like this ruins a ratings bonanza like a high speed chase?” he said. “I only hope that we can find solace when the overnights come out.”

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Dobson Snubs Thompson: "I Don’t Think He’s A Christian"

James Dobson, the founder of Focus on the Family, publicly questioned Fred Thompson’s Christianity, saying “Everyone knows he’s conservative and has come out strongly for the things that the pro-family movement stands for, [but] I don’t think he’s a Christian; at least that’s my impression.”

Mark Corallo, a spokesman for Thompson, called the charge ludicrous, and more importantly beside the point, as “the real question in this race is whether Jesus is a Fredist.”

He said that Thompson would be making a public statement to counter the charge later in the day, after he finished attending “Wednesday Services,” which the spokesman explained involved Thompson throttling a filthy war protester with his left hand while he panfried some porkchops for lunch with his right.

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Chavez Says Castro "Almost Jogging", Depending On Slope Of Cliff

Venuezuelan President Hugo Chavez said Wednesday that his friend, ailing Cuban dictator Fidel Castro has been walking, “almost jogging”, in recent days.

Despite widely-reported rumors of failing health, the 80-year old strongman’s doctors have devised a regimen of vigorous physical therapy involving variously sloped terrain that Castro “can scale down incredibly quickly”, depending on the percentage grade.

“Fidel seems to really love the steep ones,” said one doctor. “We can’t keep up with him. Almost as soon as we let go, he’s bounding down energetically with his arms and leg flailing and tumbling. Eventually we catch up, finding him sprawled out, quietly meditating at the foot of the slope, his arms and legs twisted behind his back. He’s eternally youthful.”

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Quinnipiac Poll Finds "Quinnapeeack" Most Popular Spelling

The latest Quinnipiac poll of Connecticut residents finds spelling challenger Quinnapeeack two points ahead of Kwinnapeiak among voters, 48-46. Quinnipiac, the actual spelling of the poll, is preferred among just 6% of respondants.

It is believed the contentious spelling of Iraq is driving the surprising results, as bitter divisions as to whether to call the nascent democracy, which may or may not be in a state of civil war, Irak, Irack, or Eyerach have split the Connecticut electorate and created an unexpected three- way race.

The poll also asked opinions on the Lieberman- Lamont matchup, but those results were largely boring, it being like at least two months until the election, which means that the poll is virtually meaningless.

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Filthy Jews Flood Streets Of Kiryat Shemona

Hundreds of filthy Jews wandered around the streets of Kiryat Shemona on Thursday, after a Ketusha rocket fired by Hizb’Allah struck a laundry detergent factory, setting it ablaze.

A Hizb’Allah spokesman said the strike was “just vengeance” for the continued attacks by Israel which have “killed no one but innocent civilians excersizing their 2nd Amendment rights, destroyed baby formula and medicine factories that I’m afraid are too dangerous for you to enter and inspect, and damaged playgrounds where our children play in spider holes and underground bunkers.”

When asked if Hezb’Allah would be ridiculing their Israeli enemies as “filthy Jews” after striking their supply of laundry detergent, he responded: “I don’t get it. What is that?”

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This post was preemptively plagiarized from Scrappleface.

New Hybrid Vehicle Seats 0

By a4g
Point Five Staff Writer @ 6:03 am
Technology Meets Enlightened Lifestyle Changes in Honda’s Bold New Vehicle.
CAPTION:
At last, fuel-efficiency reaches its logical conclusion in the new Gaia.

Honda’s new ultra- efficient hybrid vehicle was unveiled at the Tokyo Auto Show on Thursday, posting the best- ever fuel mileage for a car in its class, an eye- popping 195 mpg (82 kpl). The car achieves the truly amazing number by a combination of unconventional materials, a powerplant that combines a hyper-efficient 1.2L 4-cyl engine with with a high-output barium-titanate ultracapacitor, and a cabin that seats zero.

The Honda Gaia is expected to be released sometime in mid-2009 and is being touted as the first car that is “a love letter to Mother Earth.”

“We tried to throw out every tired ‘conventional’ expectation of an automobile and really start fresh from the tires up,” said Larry Jacobs of Honda Motor Corporation. He said that this meant re-asking the most basic questions like:

  • Does a reverse gear really help you get where you want to be, or just where you’ve already been?
  • Don’t brakes just get in the way of what cars are for: going?
  • Aren’t cabbage leaves way lighter than steel plates?
  • Couldn’t we make our car more efficient by cutting out the 347lb weight of some corpulent, grease- sweating lardpump American who should probably be doing a little more bike riding and a little less midnight driving to Taco Bell for “Fourth Meal?

Sadly, outdated DOT regulations wouldn’t allow the designers to eliminate the reverse gear or the brakes or replace the body panels with coleslaw, but it turned out there was nothing stopping them from jettisoning the superfluous driver and passengers from their monument to environmental consciousness.

Designers also boasted that the 1/2 cubic foot storage compartment in back will be increased to a whopping 3/4 cuft in the production version.

“Never before has a car been designed that first and foremost serves the environment we live in,” said Jacobs. “You want to save the planet? You’re going to need a Gaia. You want to kill polar bears—- or actually go somewhere—-

then get some big gas- guzzling SUV.”

Although Toyota’s spokespeople wouldn’t admit it, the Honda unveiling proved a real embarrassment for Honda’s largest competitor. It was clear from hastily- made changes to Toyota’s lavish trade- show booth that they, too, had intended a high profile roll-out at the show. But clearly they had been let down by their designers. [Production delays in Toyota’s troublesome ultra- hybrid have been the subject of many previous reports on Point Five, where we were the first to reveal spy pictures of the sleek, efficient design, which consisted of two shoulder straps and a cardboard box with wheels Sharpied on the side.]

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8 Comments

  1. Doug

    That’s funny. Can it hold a rabbit?


  2. Ottoman

    As to me I would never drive this car!


  3. Van Lease Dude

    That was a very witty article attacking the crazyness of the green machine which often jumps backwards to go forwards


  4. Semenax

    There is now way this car should be compared to the Chevy Volt.

    Being that the Volt plugs in, under ideal normal everyday commutes of less than 40 miles you will never have to put gas in it.

    It is a completely different concept.

    A vehicle that does not have to depend on fossils fuels at all is the ultimate solution to our current foreign oil dilemma.

    Even at the heftier price, byt the 3rd year of production, the volt will out sell both of these hybrid models combined.


  5. 10 ways to save gas

    10 ways to save gas…

    I found your site in a search and I like it…I gave it a fave for you, I’ll be checking back…..


  6. Ninjai Gang

    I say this car rocks! At least car manufacturers are being more enviro conscious. Thanks to Honda! ..btw you have a great site!..cool article..continue the good work!


  7. Used Honda Parts

    Wow. That pic looks very futuristic. I love the design of the newer hybrid cars.


  8. CarViews

    Seats “0″ AND gets 195 miles per gallon? Heck yeah! Where do I sign up? Pretty funny stuff. Thanks for the amusement!


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