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VIDEO: @311.945 MPH..the World's Fastest Motorcycle

For the first time, a driver of an open-cockpit motorcycle has gone faster than 300 mph, thanks to a turbocharged Hayabusa engine and titanium guts. Bill Warner passed the mark Sunday, beating his own best of 278.6 mph like it was a broken Vespa.

Using an abandoned runway at a former Air Force base in Maine, Warner pushed his turbocharged Hayabusa to a new world record of 311.945 mph for a vehicle with two wheels and an open cockpit. While the bodywork has been shaped for aerodynamics, the Hayabusa's frame is mostly stock. The 1299cc engine grabs power from a massive Garrett turbocharger and has no cooling system; it runs for 25 seconds, then shuts down. At 300 mph, the tires are moving at twice their speed rating.

Warner told the Bangor Daily News that getting to 311 mph wasn't nearly as hard as slowing down; he didn't mention that his front fender broke near the fastest point of his run. "It was a little scary."

May the world never see whatever exists that can scare Bill Warner a lot.

VIDEO: A parallel parking job you have to see to believe

This accidental parking job has to be seen to be believed. Watch as the driver manages to flip and roll his Porsche into a series of open spots to create his very own parallel spot. It's just a shame he was actually trying to keep it on the road.

Despite the acrobatics and massive crash, the driver still manages to get out of the Porsche Cayman and examines his handy work as if it were a fender scratch.

300 Acre Marijuana Plantation Found in Mexico

TIJUANA, Mexico -- Hundreds of Mexican soldiers have finished burning thousands of plants at a massive marijuana plantation discovered last week in Baja California.

The Mexican government has called the 300-acre (120 hectare) marijuana field the biggest such plantation ever found in the country.

The field had escaped detection for several months in part because it was covered by shade cloth.

The Defense Department said Monday that 472 soldiers pulled up all the plants. They burned them in giant bonfires at the clandestine plantation south of the town of San Quintin.

The army says the plantation was capable of producing about 120 tons of marijuana worth about 1.8 billion pesos ($160 million).

Virginia man set house on fire while cremating dog

A Dale City man tried to cremate his deceased dog on Wednesday, but ended up setting his house on fire. Charles Harris' house on Kingston Road suffered extensive damage from the fire, smoke, and the water to put the fire out. It's is unlivable for now.

Neighbors say Harris' dog, Thor, a Rottweiler, died last Friday. But when he tried to get an agency to pick up Thor and dispose of his body, they all said he had to bring the dog in himself and his car is too small. Officials say that at about 9 a.m. on Wednesday, Harris piled wood around Thor's body and then poured on gasoline, but the fire jumped from the dog to the house, and went up the back of the house to the roof.

So, nearly a week after his death, Thor was still lying there, under a big blue tarp in Harris' scorched backyard. A neighbor, Hugo Schiattareggia says he offered Harris his wagon to move Thor, but got no response.

"I'll just be glad when the dog's gone and the smell's gone," he said. "Now I've got death and fire smell in the air." Charles Harris was cited for illegal outside burning. And Thursday afternoon, animal control finally came and took Thor away.

Swiss man launches kamikaze attack on his mother's house

A Swiss man has died after piloting a rented plane into the home of his estranged mother. Minutes before the attack, he phoned her from the cockpit to say: 'Are you home? I am just going to drop by!'

Then Konrad Schmidt, 47, banked the twin-engined aircraft over his mother's home and flew past it three times before flying at top speed into the house in Oberhallau. Schmidt's body was later found in the rubble of the house. His mother Rosemary, 68, only survived because she was in the basement at the time of the suicide attack, and is being treated for shock.

Eyewitnesses told police there was 'no possibility' of an accident. One said: 'He had all these flypasts. He was lining himself up. And then he did it. It was like seeing a mini re-run of 9/11.' Neighbors helped rescue Rosemary from the burning shell of her house, which will now have to be demolished.

She told police of the air-to-ground phone call from the aircraft shortly before the attack yesterday. Her son had rented the aircraft earlier in the day from an airfield 45 minutes away. Jobless Schmidt had a long-running feud with his mother, according to neighbours. One said, 'They had a lot of heavy issues over a lot of things.'