Hear my prayer.

What could possibly go wrong?

Via Instapundit;

However you slice it, cars just aren’t that big a part of an ostensible CO2 problem. Personal cars sit idle 95% of the time. Planes, trains, ships, trucks, buses and other commercial vehicles account for well over half the emissions associated with the transport sector globally. And the transport sector itself accounts for only 14% of all emissions.
 
Now for the knee-jerk response from groups like Union of Concerned Scientists: Yes, but road-vehicle emissions are a significant share of total emissions in the U.S. and Europe.
 
This is a perfect example of the politics of the meaningless gesture, the dominant motif in climate policy. The planet doesn’t care where the emissions happen. The U.S. and Europe could ban driving altogether and it wouldn’t make a sizable difference.

That’s not why they want to ban driving.

Well, we are the Roadkill Diaries: “Alaska has been the only state where virtually every piece of large roadkill is eaten.”

Where the foxes caper unmolested, the government packs your school lunch, and the Radio Shack Luftwaffe holds a nation in its icy grip.

Thousands of passengers remain stranded at Gatwick as police continue their search for the operator of a drone that has caused the airport to shut down.
 
Flights were brought to a standstill after a drone was seen over the airfield on Wednesday.
 
[…]
 
Sussex Police has been locked in a game of cat and mouse with the drone since the airport shutdown began.
 

Despite dozens of sightings, the device, which detectives believe to have been “adapted and developed” to cause deliberate disruption, has not been found.
 

Det Ch Supt Jason Tingley said police were re-evaluating plans for armed officers to shoot the drone down after other methods failed.

Three days in, and no one has called for a pigeon hunter.

Financial Post;

[Montreal city buses are] so simple when it comes to controls, readers of the Montreal Gazette recently learned, that they don’t have fuel gauges. Drivers are supposed to keep track of their mileage (which implies there’s a mileage indicator, at least) and calculate when they need gas. Welcome to the 14th century! Let’s see, the sun has fallen back down to tree level: Time to feed the yak. When do you figure fuel gauges became standard on cars? 1935 maybe?
 
Unfortunately, it appears Montreal bus drivers aren’t such great calculators. At least a bus a day runs out of gas and has to be towed back to the garage, where it joins the one-third — one-third! — of the fleet that on an average day is waiting for repairs.

h/t Joe

Blasting a come-git-me card into space… what could possibly go wrong?

“…the woman who took cell phone video of the man in action, knew something was wrong.”

BART officials said they have never had an issue like the incident on Monday afternoon when a man brandished not one but two chainsaws as he rode a train, all while muttering threats to other passengers.

Do tell.