I think Chicago could use a few of these. Dubai lays claim to the world’s longest ambulance, holds up to 44 people and has a helicopter landing pad on the roof.

Dubai already has the tallest office building, the tallest residential building and the biggest aquarium in the world and as of this week it can add the longest ambulance to its list of records. The world’s longest ambulance is 18 meters (59 feet) and can hold up to 44 patients at the same time, according to Khalifa bin Darri, head of the Dubai Ambulance Center (DAC).

Projected ’09 new vehicle sales in U.S. the worst in 30 years.

Automakers will sell just 10 million new cars and trucks in the U.S. this year, the worst in at least three decades, respected forecaster J.D. Power and Associates said Thursday as it cut its 2009 prediction by 400,000 vehicles. For the staggering auto industry, “Recovery will not be a quick proposition,” said Gary Dilts, senior vice president of Power’s automotive operations.

Sarah Palin rejects stimulus funds with federal requirement strings attached. Alaska Democrats may try to override her decision.

Gov. Sarah Palin on Thursday became the only governor to turn down federal stimulus money for energy efficiency, a move that legislators called “disappointing” for a state with some of the country’s highest energy costs. In announcing the veto of $28.6 million in funds, Palin said she wouldn’t accept money tied to adoption of building codes by local governments.

252 lb German hooker really rocks the house while on the job. Neighbors claim her sexcapades with clients literally shake the walls, damage property.

Neighbours of an 18-stone prostitute in the German capital Berlin are trying to force her out of business saying she is a “one woman demolition job” when at work. They complained of crystal glasses falling from shelves, paintings from walls and ornaments from mantelpieces whenever Ilnes Lorbach, 36, was entertaining men in her apartment in the upmarket Charlottenburg district of the city.

Porno videos slam youtube. One uploader says attack is payback for the video hosting site deleting content.

Video-sharing website YouTube has removed hundreds of pornographic videos which were uploaded in what is believed to be a planned attack. The material was uploaded under names of famous teenage celebrities such as Hannah Montana and Jonas Brothers. Many started with footage of children’s videos before groups of adults performing graphic sex acts appeared on screen.

Texas mayor quits, moves to Mexico to be with his male lover who had been in this country illegally.

J.W. Lown, the mayor of San Angelo in West Texas, recently narrated a video touting his town as a great place to live. Then he left to pursue another passion. Mr. Lown resigned this week — less than a month after winning a fourth two-year term in a landslide — saying he was leaving to carry on a relationship with a Mexican man who had been living illegally in the U.S.

New Zealand toddler buys $20,000 earth moving “digger” with winning bid on online auction site while parents were napping.

Pipi Quinland made the winning bid on the Kobelco digger with a few mouse clicks at the auction site TradeMe while her parents slept, the Rodney Times newspaper reported in northern New Zealand. “The first I knew about it was when I came down and opened up the computer,” said Pipi’s mother, Sarah Quinlan.

Ohio cop busted for running car theft scam, using police computers improperly.

A Dayton police officer is facing 22 charges after being accused of taking part in an alleged car theft scheme. Officer Phillip Brooks Sr. is charged with seven counts of forgery, eight counts of tampering with records, three counts of unauthorized use of the police LEADS system, two counts of grand theft of a motor vehicle, two counts of attempted grand theft of a motor vehicle, and one count of theft in office greater than $5,000.

Man sentenced to 100 years in prison for poisoning his kid’s soup. He was hoping to sue soup maker.

A Georgia man is sentenced to 100 years in prison for poisoning his children to extort money from Campbell’s Soup Co. William Cunningham was sentenced Thursday after a jury found him guilty on seven counts of aggravated assault for forcing the children in 2006 to eat soup laced with prescription drugs and lighter fluid.

Pregnant teen allegedly pays man to beat her up in hopes of having a miscarriage.

Police in eastern Utah say a pregnant teenager asked a man to beat her up so she would miscarry. The teenager suffered severe bruising around her stomach. The unborn child appears to be OK, but doctors won’t know for sure until it is born, said Naples police Chief Mark J. Watkins. Both the pregnant teenager and the man have been arrested for suspicion of attempted murder against the unborn child.

Meet the Jigsaw Kid, the only one in the world.

A GIRL dubbed the Jigsaw Kid due to her jumbled-up organs has amazed medics by defying the odds against her survival. Brave Bethany Jordan was born with five spleens, a hole in her heart, a diseased and back-to-front liver, two left lungs and her stomach on the wrong side.

Pelosi refuses to answer reporters’ questions about her CIA statements at today’s press conference. Democrats can get away with this crap Republicans can’t.

In her first public comments since accusing the CIA of lying to Congress about Bush-era interrogation methods, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Friday she stood by her statement. Then she refused to make any more remarks, attempting to tamp down a story that she fueled last week that Republicans now want her to prove.

Judge sentences man to jail for having gun on school property then tells him he might NOT have had charges brought had he actually USED the firearm.

A Williamson County judge sentenced a Fairview man to 20 days in jail for handling a gun on school property — and said the man might have been better off if he’d pulled the trigger. On Thursday, Tracy C. Clark, 37, told Circuit Court Judge James G. Martin III, that he’d gotten into a verbal altercation at Westwood Elementary School on Jan. 30, 2006 after his 9-year-old son’s basketball game. Clark said the father of rival player came to his truck and held a knife as if threatening to stab him.

Connecticut State Senate votes to abolish death penalty. Bill headed for Governor’s desk.

Following a round-the-clock debate, the state Senate voted early Friday morning to abolish the state’s death penalty and replace it with life in prison without the possibility of release. The 19-17 vote came shortly after 4 a.m., following nearly 11 hours of discussion. It marked the final legislative approval of the death penalty repeal and the first time the General Assembly has passed such legislation.

Quote of the day.

A wise and frugal government, which shall leave men free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned – this is the sum of good government.

-Thomas Jefferson

Colorado Democrats To Diane Feinstein: No Gitmo terrorists in our state thank you very much.

Colorado’s tandem of rookie Democratic senators aren’t exactly embracing Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s suggestion that Gitmo detainees be shipped to a Supemax federal prison in Florence, Colo. Michael Bennet: “I strongly support the Senate’s decision to withhold funding for the transfer of the detainees until the Administration comes up with a plan for the closure of the Guantanamo Bay detention facility.

It’s game on. Former pro hoops player suing GM for dropping the Saturn brand thus rendering his dealership worthless.

A Saturn dealership co-owned by former Detroit Piston Bob Sura has launched the first of an expected flood of lawsuits against General Motors Corp., arguing the automaker’s plan to eliminate the brand rendered his franchise “worthless.” The lawsuit, filed Friday in U.S. District Court in Florida, accuses GM of violating state franchise laws and stripping Saturn of any value by announcing the brand will be sold or eliminated later this year.

$50K reward offered for mysteriously missing computer hard drive containing Clinton presidential era information. I doubt Hillary needs the money that bad so we’ll probably never see the thing again.

The U.S. National Archives on Wednesday said it is offering a $50,000 reward for information leading to the recovery of a missing hard drive that contains personal information of former Clinton administration staff and visitors. The small portable hard drive was being kept as a backup, the National Archives explained in a question-and-answer document (PDF) on its Web site.

Look! The good little new Democrat Arlen Specter has Liar Pelosi’s back, claims CIA often misleading with information provided to Congress.

Sen. Arlen Specter (D-Pa.) took the opportunity Wednesday to defend House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), who has come under fire in recent weeks over a controversy surrounding when she was told of the use of enhanced interrogation techniques being used by the CIA. “The CIA has a very bad record when it comes to — I was about to say ‘candid’; that’s too mild — to honesty,” Specter, a former chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said in a lunch address to the American Law Institute.

This kind of political correctness can literally make you sick to your stomach.

Get out your bleach and launder those reusable fabric grocery bags after each use. You’re not clogging up landfill with plastic throw-aways, but your environmental conscientiousness could make you sick.

Check it out, here’s yet another group that WASN’T on any of Napolitano’s terrorist threat memos.

The FBI is advising law enforcement officers across the country that a Texas cell of Los Zetas — an increasingly powerful arm of the Mexican Gulf Cartel drug trafficking syndicate — has acquired a secluded ranch where it trains its members to “neutralize” competitors in the United States. In order to ensure its share of the lucrative illegal drug trade, the cartel’s members reportedly are operating north of the border to collect debts and spy on competitors.

Bank muffs money transfer, gives couple $10 million instead of $10,000. The folks haven’t been seen since the screw up.

A New Zealand couple are reportedly on the run after $NZ10 million – instead of $NZ10,000 – was mistakenly deposited in their bank account. The couple, who ran a Rotorua service station, were understood to have applied for a $NZ10,000 overdraft from Westpac but instead had the larger amount mistakenly paid into their account.

Democrat Senator slams brakes on bill honoring Ronald Reagan’s 100th birthday.

Republicans are trying to pass legislation in the next few weeks to kick off the commemoration of the 100th anniversary of Ronald Reagan’s birth, and the only hurdle appears to be Sen. Russ Feingold (D-Wis.), who is refusing to let the Senate vote on the bill. Feingold’s decision to block passage of a bipartisan commission to celebrate the former president’s 100th birthday has nothing to do with antagonism toward the conservative icon. But he does want to use the momentum behind the bill to drive legislation of his own.

Obama increasingly distressed over the continuing stream of stupid spilling from the mouth of the idiot he chose for vice president.

President Obama is so “distracted by his vice president’s indiscipline” that he has been forced to rebuke privately Vice President Joe Biden, according to a new book by Newsweek journalist Richard Wolffe, who interviewed Obama a dozen times. “He can’t keep his mouth shut,” Wolffe quotes a “senior Obama aide” as saying of the gaffe-prone Biden in “Renegade: The Making of a President,” set for release June 2.

Democrats on their knees begging for Obama to bail out minority owned broadcasting companies. If people aren’t listening or watching now there is a reason for it so these funds, if when provided will be nothing but more spreading the wealth around.

High-ranking House Democrats are urging the Treasury Department to prop up minority-owned broadcasters suffering from a lack of capital and lost advertising revenue amid the economic slump. House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-S.C.) is leading an effort to convince Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner to take “decisive action” by extending credit to this sector of the broadcasting industry.

Hundreds of landowners swindled out of their properties in Texas.

Hundreds of Texas landowners may be forced to battle in court to get their own properties back after investigators announced the landowners may have been victims of a massive fraud. Authorities believe one or more people executed fraudulent sales of the properties in question by forging sales documents and submitting fake buyers, WFAA-TV reported.

Spiderman 3 actress found dead. Apparent suicide by hanging.

One of Britain’s most promising young stars has been found dead in an apparent suicide in Paris just days before her 29th birthday. Stunning starlet Lucy Gordon — who appeared in Spiderman 3 and other big budget Hollywood films — was found dead by her boyfriend in her central Paris apartment yesterday.

Sad news. The U.K. sets record for number of women having multiple abortions. There has got to be a better way to not have babies than using this procedure as a method of “contraception.”

Repeat abortions have reached a record high, figures released today reveal. One third of women who had an abortion last year were on their second, third or even eighth termination, new figures show. The statistics will fuel the debate over whether some women are using abortion as a form of contraception.

Where is PETA when you really need them? Wind farm “noises” are killing goats in Taiwan.

A large number of goats in Taiwan may have died of exhaustion because of noise from a wind farm. A farmer on an outlying island told the BBC he had lost more than 400 animals after eight giant wind turbines were installed close to his grazing land.

Vegas cop killed in traffic crash was going 109 mph on city street without displaying emergency lights or using his siren.

Police say an officer killed when his patrol car crashed on the way to an emergency call was going 109 miles per hour on a city street with his lights and siren off. Clark County Sheriff Doug Gillespie said Wednesday results of the investigation of Officer James Manor’s death will probably change charges against 45-year-old Calvin Darling.

Quote of the day.

I don’t know whether it’s the finest public housing in America or the crown jewel of the American penal system.

–Bill Clinton, speaking of the White House