Driver Rescued from Burning Vintage Car

A video posted to YouTube on Monday shows a group of bystanders pulling a driver from a vintage car that caught fire in Sherman Oaks, California.

The video was posted by YouTube user melaphoria, who provided these details: "A vintage Ford Model A was rear-ended in front of my apartment while waiting at a red light. Upon impact the car exploded and ended up on the opposite side of the street. A few good Samaritans rescued the driver while he lies unconscious in the burning vehicle."



User name: melaphoria
Location: Sherman Oaks, California
Date uploaded: August 16
Event date: August 15
Views: 973
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Zebras Escape, Run Through Calif. Neighborhood

Two zebras escaped from an animal training facility outside Sacramento, California on Saturday and trotted through the streets of Carmichael for about five hours before being captured. The Sacramento Bee reports: "Bystanders helped corral one after it was hit by a car, suffering only a superficial cut. The second was found in an apartment complex's pool." Both animals were later transported to a ranch in Oregon.



User name: phore
Location: Carmichael, California
Date uploaded: August 14
Event date: August 14
Views: 1,641
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User name: rednecksrawesome
Location: Carmichael, California
Date uploaded: August 14
Event date: August 14
Views: 1,544
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Car Bomb Hits Colombian Capital

A bomb exploded outside the Caracol Radio station in Bogota, Colombia, injuring six people and blowing out the windows of surrounding windows. Bogota's police chief tells the AP the bomb may have been the work of leftist guerrillas who have been fighting the government for decades.



User name: tobymuse
Location: Bogota, Colombia
Date uploaded: August 12
Views: 1
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Raging Flood Waters Destroy Pakistan Homes

New videos posted to YouTube show violent flood waters in Pakistan washing away homes and inundating towns with millions of gallons of water. Pakistan's government now estimates 14 million people have been affected by the disaster.



User name: lover7717
Location: Kalam, Pakistan
Date uploaded: August 11
Views: 60
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User name: lover7717
Location: Kalam, Pakistan
Date uploaded: August 11
Views: 104
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User name: amjadlatifmemon
Location: Rohri, Pakistan
Date uploaded: August 11
Views: 130
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Fights, Chaos as 30,000 Line Up for Housing Applications

A chaotic crowd of 30,000 people showed up to receive Section 8 housing applications in East Point, Georgia, three times the number officials were expecting. TheAtlanta Journal-Constitution reports this is the first time since 2002 that space in government-subsidized apartments has been available. The paper reports people began pushing and shoving when they were told to line up in a different place, and 62 people needed medical attention. Fights also reportedly erupted when some tried to break the line.



User name: kiko2114
Location: East Point, Georgia
Date uploaded: August 11
Event date: August 11
Views: 3
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Record Flooding Swamps Ames, Iowa

Ames, Iowa's Skunk River and Squaw Creek are expected to crest at all-time highs today, breaking records set in 1993. The city has been hit with three nights of storms, which left Iowa State's Hilton Coliseum under five feet of water.



User name: delugeia
Location: Ames, Iowa
Date uploaded: August 11
Event date: August 11
Views: 5
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User name: TheNabsta
Location: Ames, Iowa
Date uploaded: August 11
Event date: August 11
Views: 247
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User name: nei1y
Location: Ames, Iowa
Date uploaded: August 11
Views: 274
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Wildfires Suffocating Russian Capital

A record heat wave in Russia may kill as many as 15,000 people and shave $15 billion off the country's GDP, Bloomberg reports. For several weeks now Russian citizens have been posting videos to YouTube that show the thick smoke covering their skies.



User name: mirmax2k8
Location: Moscow, Russia
Date uploaded: August 9
Views: 11
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User name: dmitrek
Location: Moscow, Russia
Date uploaded: August 9
Views: 74
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User name: moosth2
Location: Moscow, Russia
Date uploaded: August 9
Views: 34
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Players Target President Obama in Carnival Game

A carnival operator in Allentown, Pennsylvania has removed a target-shooting game that featured a likeness of President Obama, but video clips posted to YouTube reveal similar games exist at other carnivals. The clip below shows a New Jersey seaside carnival game using figures resembling President Obama, Osama bin Laden, a Boston Red Sox player, Michael Jackson and Saddam Hussein.

UPDATE: A bag has now been placed over the President Obama figure, according to Chris Barrett, who shot these videos.



User name: chrisbarrett
Location: Seaside Heights, New Jersey
Date uploaded: August 10
Views: 103
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User name: chrisbarrett
Location: Seaside Heights, New Jersey
Date uploaded: August 8
Event date: August 7
Views: 27,808
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Sarah Palin, Protester Face Off

A cell-phone video clip captured an exchange between Sarah Palin and a protester who hung a sign reading "PALIN WORST GOVERNOR EVER" at a business at the Homer, Alaska harbor dock. A transcript of the conversation can be found here.



User name: MOOREUPNORTH
Location: Homer, Alaska
Date uploaded: August 8
Views: 433,689
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Pakistan Flood Victims Move to Roadside Tent Cities

Flood victims in Pakistan who have lost their homes apparently are relocating to tents set up along highways. The tents can be seen along a stretch of road between Islamabad and Peshawar in a video uploaded to YouTube by DELTApak, whose other videos document the destruction caused by the flooding outside Peshawar.



User name: DELTApak
Location: northwest Pakistan
Date uploaded: August 6
Views: 2
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User name: DELTApak
Location: Nowshera, Pakistan
Date uploaded: August 6
Views: 13
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Thai Elephant Hospital Treats Landmine Victims

The AP reports an elephant hospital in Thailand is treating a new patient today: a 22-year old female elephant whose foot was severely injured when she stepped on a landmine. The hospital, called Friends of Asian Elephant, has reportedly treated at least 12 other elephants wounded by landmines buried along Thailand's northern frontier, where the Myanmar government is battling ethnic minority rebels. Some of FAE's patients can be seen in videos uploaded to YouTube.



User name: soraidasalwala
Location: Lampang, Thailand
Date uploaded: July 21
Views: 12
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User name: WindyBorman
Location: Lampang, Thailand
Date uploaded: April 2
Views: 442
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14-Year Old Launches Solo Sailing Voyage

Fourteen-year old sailor Laura Dekker left her home in the Netherlands today in an attempt to become the youngest person to sail solo around the world. As the BBC reports, Dekker, who was born on a yacht, plans to spend the next two years circumnavigating the world on her 26-foot boat, Guppy.



User name: omima23a
Location: Den Osse, Netherlands
Date uploaded: August 4
Event date: August 4
Views: 363
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