biggest waste of tax dollars I've heard of lately, the NASA moon buggy mk2

It that a Hang Ten Dart on the left? With Keystones no less!

It's been a magazine cover car, and featured on Top Gear, Season 16 episode 7 I think.

Why is it such a waste of money? At the cost of getting a pound of matter into space, just launching it off the planet, is very high. But the bottom line? No one is going back to the moon, this 8000 pound moneypit wouldn't drive well because it weighs so damn much, with such small tires, and the moon has light dust soil that looks to be a foot or so deep(from the 1972 lunar rover videos). How much did it cost? Four and a half million dollars. That was a stupid waste of money.

Baltimore Maryland stoplight cameras grossly inaccurate and ripping off residents. City didn't bother releasing this info, the newspaper did

a secret audit from 2012 of the traffic cameras in Baltimore, MD should heat things up a bit. In an audit of the city's 83speed cameras, The Baltimore Sun is reporting that 13 had a double digit error rate, which helps account for a system-wide error rate of 10 percent. Of course, the secret part of this secret audit was that the findings were never released to the public.

City officials originally said that the cameras had an error rate of less than a quarter of a percent, but the audit found that most were not only off, they were way off – three specific locations in the city had error rates that varied from 35 to 58 percent. As the article points out, a total of 700,000 tickets were issued in fiscal year 2012 averaging $40, and a 10 percent error rate would mean that close to $2.8 million in fines were collected erroneously.

http://www.autoblog.com/2014/01/24/audit-finds-baltimore-speed-cameras-wrong-2-8m-video/

guy installed his own battery... won't start. Duh.

found on https://www.facebook.com/GaugeMagazine

WTF is the deal in Queensland Australia with cops needing to give a biker a dressing down for riding a bike while wearing a vest? 6 cops needed to stand around and ask stupid questions without writing a ticket or making charges

Thanks George for letting me know!

What a waste of time, Aussie tax payers dollars, etc. Readers, this is the most foolish cop pull over I've ever seen. Two cops had to ask him the same questions about his vest, his bike, his job, etc

They act like they are confronting Chopper Reed after a murder, instead, they have Joe Businessman refueling!

I wish I could drop in, ride a harley, while wearing a clever Mickey Mouse MC vest. Just to spin the the hell up.

most irresponsible crazy driving I've seen in a week... I'm shocked this tow truck driver didn't kill anyone while racing other tow truck drivers to the scene

found on http://www.carthrottle.com/crazy-koreans-street-racing-tow-trucks-is-the-most-shocking-thing-youve-never-seen/

stupid ignorant son of a bitch dumb bastard "Safety car" drivers

bottom video found on http://garage1975.blogspot.com.br/2014/01/safety-car-fails.html

You ever feel some people just need a hard slap against the back of their head to reset, so they can go on and live the rest of their days making smart decisions for a change?

a few people think this is the right thing to do with muscle cars. Try to teach them not to, please

light blue top with a moon roof? Uggg. I can't see what the mural is about... could be smurfs, I don't know. It's a 68 Road Runner though

this GTX might be considered worse, that's carpet or cloth under the hood, t tops, and a roll bar.

Found on https://www.facebook.com/groups/dcsboc/

The crazy car business stories.. are excellent, here's just one from Michael Satterfield of Gentlemen Racer.com

Your tax dollars at work:

I was working as the Internet Sales Manager for the dealer group that included Ford, Lincoln, Mercury, and Kia when a phone call came in from a local state assemblywoman’s office. The staffer was frantic and looking for a Lincoln Towncar Signature L. These had been discontinued from regular production at the time but had been available for special fleet orders, but production was done so they were few and far between. The staffer told me that he needed two Black on Black Towncars. One for the local office and one for the Sacramento office. I put him on hold and did a search find that there were none within 500 miles and with Southern California being the hub of the automotive industry and the largest market if we did not have it, no one did.

So I google the assemblywoman’s name and find countless bills, speeches, and articles on her green legislation, hybrid car bills, and other general tree huggery. I pick the phone back up and tell the staffer “good news I have the cars you are looking for in stock. Black on Black Ford Escape Hybrids”…. Complete silence on the other end. “Well seeing as the assemblywoman is so concerned about the environment that she keeps passing laws regulating the cars we should drive and the types of cars we should have in California, I thought she would like a car that gets double the gas mileage of a Towncar, and costs about $15,000 less” the staffer flies off the handle. “She cannot be seen in something like that she needs a prestigious car for entertaining dignitaries… if you are not willing to help us we will go to someone that will” At that point I was just laughing a the idea of a state assembly member “entertaining dignitaries”. They wanted to spend almost $100,000 for two Towncars so some hack can be driven around in by a staffer like she was the president….they did find them from a dealer in Nevada that orders them for the casinos…your tax dollars at work.

the others are just as good, and can be read at http://www.thegentlemanracer.com/2014/01/crazy-car-business-stories.html