How did a truck crash on top of this Houston freeway sign?

Somehow, the truck's bed's hydraulic arm engaged while driving. Raised up into the air at a nearly 90-degree angle, the empty bed smashed into an overhead beam near the Airline exit, striking a green interstate sign, disengaging itself from the cab of the truck. There the bed sat, seemingly suspended in air, attached to the sign.

Thankfully, the driver wasn't harmed in the late Tuesday afternoon accident.

Houston authorities had to close part of the city's North Freeway while the state cut down the bracing to get the trailer off, leaving hundreds of people stranded in the city's now standard 100-degree heat. The trucking company will have to carry the costs of repairing the damage to the signs, which the state estimates at a cool $100,000.

VIDEO: Watch the NYPD Destroy Confiscated Fireworks

Ever wonder what happens to all of the fireworks that the police confiscate?

If a YouTube video posted by the New York City police department is any indication of universal practice, those fireworks do eventually meet their logical end.

New York City police have confiscated about 5,000 pounds of consumer fireworks in 2011 that together have a value of more than $25,000, according to the video’s description. All buying, selling and use of consumer fireworks in the city is illegal.

Bomb squad technicians “destroyed the confiscated fireworks at the NYPD firing range in the Bronx” on July 1, reads the YouTube caption, which is a fancy way of saying that they piled them up and set them off.

 

OMG..Pastor accused of flashing women

Rick Rogers, who turns 46 today, was senior pastor at Jarrettown United Methodist Church in Dresher, Pennsylvania until Monday, when he stepped down.

That's the day he was arrested by Upper Dublin police and charged with two counts each of indecent exposure, open lewdness, disorderly conduct and harassment, according to court records.

Both incidents involved women with the Dresher School of Music, which rents space at the church on North Limekiln Pike. In February, one of the women passed Rogers in a hall as she went to heat coffee in a microwave. As she returned, she saw Rogers "standing in a doorway ... completely naked from the waist down," according to the criminal complaint. He was "completely exposed" and "posing," the woman said.

On May 18, a music school employee was walking down a hallway after getting a drink of water, when she saw Rogers "standing in the doorway of the men's room ... totally naked from the waist down, with his pants around his ankles, posing with legs apart."

After learning in May of the two complaints against Rogers, the church began investigating, and on June 1 placed him on temporary leave, according to Bishop Peggy Johnson, who oversees about 900 Methodist congregations in Eastern Pennsylvania and the Delaware peninsula.

"We took it very seriously," she said.

The women from the music school waited until July 27 before reporting the incidents to Upper Dublin police, according to the complaint.

Unsecured bail was set at $10,000.

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