Stopping Traffic

I'm all about expressing yourself through music, art, or whatever the heck else your petrol loving heart desires. But when you do it at the expense of others by inconveniencing them, costing them time, and money then you need to be punished by the swift arm of the law. Imagine you're on the way to the airport, you're on time and ready to catch your $1200 flight to start your European vacation and a group of hoodlums pulls their box truck across 3 lanes of LA traffic and hop up on the roof to subject you to their heinous music. That's exactly what happened just a few days ago, and even though I hate to even post the video for fear that even that will give them a few hits on their you tube video, but you must see the stupidity yourself. Also, just to squelch your expectations, it's not catchy and it's pretty poorly written as well.

Mercedes Prototype Spotted

Driving on the 405 North through Long Beach I spotted a Mercedes SUV prototype with a single driver and at least 2 dummies riding along in the car. From what I saw it looked a lot like this ML prototype expected to be out in 2011.

I was suprised by how stealthy the exhaust is, but you can spot it underneath just barely. The shape of the grill leads me to believe they are also testing their active cruise control which they're calling "Distronic". Mercedes has certainly gone very mini van with the direction of the ML, making it quite unfortunate looking.

Here are some crappy cell phone pics...