NASCAR Driver Forced To Drop Out Of Competition After His Race Car Was Stolen

NASCAR driver Travis Kvapil discovered Friday morning that the trailer containing his race car was stolen from the parking lot of his hotel room in Morrow, Georgia.


Kvapil and his Team Xtreme Racing were scheduled to compete in the Sprint Cup Series this Saturday in Atlanta, and had until 5:45 p.m. on Friday to register the vehicle. Team Xtreme owner, John Cohen, told USA Today Sports that they hope to enter the Sprint Cup next week.

Team Xtreme tweeted this from its account the day before the theft.

Morrow Police Sgt. Larry Oglesby told BuzzFeed News that at 5:52 a.m., Team Xtreme crew manager Peter Sospenzo called authorities to report the stolen vehicle.


The Nascar team was staying at the Drury Inn in Morrow, and the trailer was in the parking lot.
Oglesby said the stolen truck connected to the trailer was a black Ford truck with New Jersey license plates.

Kvapil has since taken to social media to spread the word about the crime.

The trailer was white and unmarked. Oglesby said that normally, such vehicles contain lawn equipment and can easily be sold for cash.


“Because it wasn’t marked, they’re probably thinking it’s easy pickings,” he added.

Kvapil expressed a similar theory on Twitter.

Law enforcement officials say the combined value of the trailer and the race car, equipment, and two motors inside falls somewhere between $350,000–400,000.


Oglesby added that the Morrow Police Department has been in communication with Team Xtreme as well as multiple news outlets to spread the word about the theft, and hopes to return the trailer and race car to their rightful owners.
BuzzFeed News has reached out to Team Xtreme for comment.
Tamerra Griffin is a reporter for BuzzFeed News and is based in New York.
Contact Tamerra Griffin at tamerra.griffin@buzzfeed.com
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Here’s Steph Curry Dominating A Basketball Game Back In 8th Grade



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This will likely shock you, but Steph Curry‘s incredible basketball talent didn’t just show up right before Davidson’s incredible 2008 NCAA Tournament run.
And I can prove it, with the help of footage of him dominating back in eighth grade.
Sure, the competition isn’t the greatest–even with his NBA dad, Dell, putting forth minimal effort. But you do see flashes of the younger Curry’s game at work. There’s the sharpshooting from distance, the fancy dribbling and snazzy passes we’ve all come to love.
Led by Curry, this ragamuffin group of seventh- and eighth-graders crushed their Toronto competition.
“He was this tiny little guy, but when we put him on the court he was just unbelievable. He was scoring 40 points, 50 points a game, no problem,” gushed James Lackey, the history teacher who coached the Saints during their out-of-nowhere undefeated season of 2001-02. “No one even came close to us that year.”
 Pretty damn impressive considering the relative sloppiness on display from his teammates here.
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Meet The Woman Who Sent Her Online Boyfriend $1.4 MILLION Without Ever Meeting Him

In a preview for an upcoming episode of Dr. Phil, a woman named Sarah, who is having the daylights catfished and scammed out of her, decided that the great Dr. Phil was the only person possible who could finally unite her with her online boyfriend, Chris Olsen. You see, according to Sarah, her and Chris haven’t met because he’s is having a rough go of it. He’s one hell of a online lover, writing her notes and poems and feeding her need to be loved, but he’s down on his luck and stuck in Africa. He’s so down, in fa
ct, that Sarah has had to send him over 1.4 million in the 17 months since they’ve been “dating” just to help him out.
If you’re thinking you smell bullshit, you’re not alone. But you’re also not with Sarah, because she believes Chris is a real person who really needs this money to save his life. “I have questioned several times whether or not this is a scam. I am 95% certain that Chris is telling me the truth, that this is all legit,” Sarah said during the preview clip above.
Yeah, and I am 95% certain you’re a fucking dolt, lady. Just painfully dumb.
Shit.
$1.4 MILLION!
My only question for Sarah is: how did you get so much money to begin with? You know, being a complete fucking idiot and all.
I don’t know about you, but I might just need to tune into Dr. Phil for the first time ever to see how this all plays out.
[H/T: Jezebel]
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