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Incredible Crash Footage: Cars Fly Violently Down an Icy Pittsburgh Hill

We’ve shown a couple winter crash videos already this season, but none as violent as this one. Watch as multiple cars whip down an icy hill in Pittsburgh yesterday. One Suburban actually twirls and spins multiple times before crashing into a parked car, while another flies down the hill and ends up jumping the curb and landing in someone’s yard.

The footage may be the most incredible winter crash footage you’ll ever see:

(H/T: Jalopnik)

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  • AmericanborninCanada
    Posted on January 19, 2011 at 11:02am

    you‘d think if it’s too slippery to walk, you shouldn’t be driving. Why are they even driving?

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    • RabiaDiluvio
      Posted on January 19, 2011 at 11:19am

      Not everyone realized how bad it was. It is entirely possible to get into your car on a well-salted street and start driving and not realize until you are skidding down one of these nice slopes we have here.

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    • Highland
      Posted on January 19, 2011 at 12:33pm

      RabiaDiluvio is right. I live near Pittsburgh and it was a deceptively dangerous bit of ice we were dealing with. Even if main roads were okay, a lot of side streets were treacherous.

      Highland  
  • bbr48
    Posted on January 19, 2011 at 11:01am

    Geeezzzzze. Hope everyone was okay. Some of them were going really fast too. Yikes!

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  • eyestoseeearstohear
    Posted on January 19, 2011 at 11:00am

    The # 1 JOB of anyone driving a vehicle – IS TO FOCUS ON DRIVING, OTHER VEHICLES, OTHER DRIVERS, PEDESTRIANS, CONDITIONS, OBSTACLES AND RULES OF THE ROAD – if they want to get to their destination, safely!

    And, that’s IF everyone else is DOING THE SAME!

    People who Eat, Drink, Talk or Text on the Phone, take eyes off the road for EXTENDED periods of time, READ or REACH off or below center of the Steering Wheel, Speed or Impeed the flow, take Risky Chances or ANYTHING that pre-occupies attention or focus on the surroundings ARE THE ONE’S WHO CAUSE ACCIDENTS.

    THOSE WHO DON’T DO THESE THINGS –
    KILL & INJURE EVERYONE ELSE – AND CLAIM ” THEY DON’T KNOW WHAT HAPPENED BECAUSE IT ALL HAPPENED SO FAST”.

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  • RefoundHonor
    Posted on January 19, 2011 at 10:37am

    How the hell you do people turn everything into politics. It really is pathetic. Get a grip.

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    • Xcori8r
      Posted on January 19, 2011 at 11:33am

      Just think about it for a moment.. That hill didn’t appear yesterday because of unforeseen tectonic activity. It has to be a known icing hazard and for the amount of money the streets people get nowadays it should be monitored and attended to better than it was.

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    • Xcori8r
      Posted on January 19, 2011 at 11:51am

      You know, I thought about it a little more.. Pittsburgh has an awful lot of horizontally challenged topography and it’s probably impossible to protect all of the people all of the time.

      I should not have injected politics into the discussion. It was not the governments fault.

      It was the governments fault that I should have even thought for a moment that it was the governments fault.

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    • BetsyRoss1513
      Posted on January 19, 2011 at 2:27pm

      xcori8tr—- hahaha! that’s funny.

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  • Lucifers Hammer
    Posted on January 19, 2011 at 10:23am

    So Pittsburgh, how’s that government working out for you? Doing their job of keeping streets open and safe to travel on? Or are they spending your heard earned tax dollars paying fat pigs to stay home and watch TV, paying corrupt union pensions and benefits, building things no one really needs?

    Downsize Government Everywhere! Be Free!

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    • RabiaDiluvio
      Posted on January 19, 2011 at 11:05am

      This was not government–we are used to snow and ice here and we have very very hilly terrain (those who have never been to Pittsburgh are sometimes shocked at the hills). We unfortunately had a very severe ice storm yesterday morning in the wee hours and it left a sheet of glare ice on all the streets. The road crews are great, but they can’t be on every side street at the same time.

      So, the government didn’t make the freezing rain and they actually do a good job of allocating resources for ice/snow removal. It is a rare thing for me to praise govt. for doing something right, but there you go.

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    • Power Of One
      Posted on January 19, 2011 at 12:07pm

      Rabiadiluvio – I admire you trying to inject some rationality into this thread, as have others, but even us conservatives have our share of loons that turn every situation into a way to blame/accuse those they don’t agree with politically – so when we get up in arms about people saying mean things about conservatives, be careful because apparently for a lot of us it’s like the pot calling the kettle black.

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  • Hoosier Daddy
    Posted on January 19, 2011 at 10:18am

    Ice + steep hill + gravity = big smiles on the faces of body shop owners. It’s hard for me to blame the drivers because it appears that once they crested the hill and realized they were on ice, it was just too late. Also, the guy videotaping could probably have done little to stop the carnage (pun really intended). Did you see the pedestrians trying to walk (skate) on that stuff? It would take half a day to get to the top of that hill.

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  • MikeinIdaho
    Posted on January 19, 2011 at 10:16am

    It’s that doggone Global Warming again! Or maybe Bush caused all this.
    Glad no one was injured.

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  • eyestoseeearstohear
    Posted on January 19, 2011 at 10:16am

    Did these people ” HIT THE GAS? HAHAHAHAHA

    Seriously…..what IDIOT would TRY to drive UP OR DOWN A HILL OF ICE?

    And, NOTICE…how a car or two just slide down and when hitting a parked vehicle, came to a rest – while ANOTHER vehicle went into DONUTS AND SPINS AND CRASHED INTO PARKED CARS, KNOCKING THEM INTO OTHER CARS.

    I laugh BECAUSE OF THE IGNORANCE IT TAKES TO DO THINGS LIKE THIS.
    And, I wouldn‘t be surprised if they didn’t have wife and kids loaded in these cars –

    TO THOSE WHO DON’T ALREADY KNOW -

    YOU’RE GONNA HAVE A HELLOFA TIME DRIVING IN SNOW…SO GOOD LUCK WITH THAT!
    ON ICE – YOU HAVE NO CONTROL!

    UP HILL ON ICE – A WASTE OF TIME.

    DOWN HILL ON ICE – HOLD ON TO YOUR BUTT…..YOU’RE IN FREE FALL!

    BEST SOLUTION:
    STAY AT HOME – AND TRY NOT TO SET YOURSELF ON FIRE TO KEEP WARM.

    Who would have THOUGHT that you needed to TELL PEOPLE NOT TO ATTEMPT DRIVING ON ICE?
    The BEST RACE CAR DRIVERS WOULDN’T EVEN ATTEMPT THIS…..WHAT IDIOTS!

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    • eyestoseeearstohear
      Posted on January 19, 2011 at 10:27am

      OMG…..

      This FULL FOOTAGE WASN’T SHOWN ON TV….

      SOMEONE REALLY DID HAVE KIDS IN THE CAR WITH THEM -

      Do I REALLY NEED to say it again?
      OK….I will.

      IDIOTS, IDIOTS, IDIOTS!

      ALSO – they were POPPING OVER THAT HILL LIKE JACK RABBITS….
      What the HECK where they thinking?

      Sorry….BUT THIS IS HILLARIOUS!
      I am glad no one appears to be hurt – BUT MY GOODNESS!

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    • dontbotherme
      Posted on January 19, 2011 at 7:19pm

      Eyestosee… – Wow. Making fun of people caught in something out of their control. Not sure where you live, but as one who has lived in the mountains of Utah, you often times do not know that a road is icy till it’s too late. I now live in southern Illinois (sad, but true) & we get a lot of black ice. You don‘t know it’s there till you are out of control.

      I don’t see stupid people here. I see people in trouble.

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  • DVT
    Posted on January 19, 2011 at 10:13am

    hope noone got hurt…especially the kids!

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  • WBOB
    Posted on January 19, 2011 at 10:06am

    Let Toonces the Cat take the wheel

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  • N37BU6
    Posted on January 19, 2011 at 10:05am

    Man… Amber Lamps sure gets around, doesn’t she?

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  • Desert Dog
    Posted on January 19, 2011 at 10:04am

    Looks like a good idea for a new Six Flags or Disney ride!

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  • mikemanners11
    Posted on January 19, 2011 at 10:02am

    They ALL went to The Ted Kennedy School of Driving……

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  • jedi.kep
    Posted on January 19, 2011 at 10:02am

    Hey Camera man! Instead of worrying about your next youtube video, why don’t you get your butt to the top of that hill and stop any more cars from going over it!!!!????

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    • chips1
      Posted on January 19, 2011 at 2:48pm

      Obummer wants the government to handle everything. Remember? Now you complain that people didn’t take care of themselves. Your a lib nutcase. The police are here to take a report after things stabilize. If an officer arrived to prevent anymore damage and was hurt in the process, the department would have fought in court to limit the medical costs and the officer would be left to fend for himself. It happened at ground zero and the government drug their feet until many already died from the medical problems incurred while trying to save lives. If you don’t believe this, just go to a court hearing and watch the tap dancing by the lawyers to avoid responsibility. If you act to help another person, your one your own. Wait till obummercare hits you in the face. Bet you vote for a conservative next time.

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    • texasrancher55
      Posted on January 20, 2011 at 6:12pm

      Oh PLEASE!!! We put out barricades and block low water crossings with police cars, and people drive AROUND all of it and drive off into the water. Then they are shocked that their car has drowned out and they can’t drive out. Then they want others to wade out in the fast running water to save their butts. You can’t save some people from themselves. Did you see how fast some of them were driving!!! How about a little accountability here!

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  • MistaB
    Posted on January 19, 2011 at 10:02am

    Why didn’t the Pittsburgh highway department union put salt on those roads.

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    • RabiaDiluvio
      Posted on January 19, 2011 at 11:06am

      They did, but this is obviously a little side road and the road crews can’t be everywhere at once.

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    • TheBMT
      Posted on January 19, 2011 at 12:08pm

      yea it happens with the side roads. I usually don’t get my road plowed for snow until the day after lol. Just a lesson learned, if its icy out, don’t even attempt those hills.

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  • nzkiwi
    Posted on January 19, 2011 at 10:01am

    I know how those guys feel. I was driving on a country road in Oklahoma one day that had a light dusting of snow on it. Didn’t realise that there was ice underneath until I realised that I was no longer in control of the vehicle. Took my foot off the gas and made the smallest movements on the wheel possible. It end ok but I think I held my breath for about a minute before I told myself to breathe. (60 mph). VERY scary.

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  • NickDeringer
    Posted on January 19, 2011 at 10:01am

    What? No dead bodies? No severed heads? No entrails strewn across the road like Christmas lights?

    Slipping….

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  • alcarfl
    Posted on January 19, 2011 at 10:00am

    Is dat just wet? I don’t know. Mash da gas and stand on da brakes. Whoa, dat’s ice!

     
  • ltb
    Posted on January 19, 2011 at 10:00am

    When I see these videos, I‘m always wondering why the idiot who was filming them didn’t get off of his butt and run to the top of the hill to stop people from going down until police could put up a barricade.

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    • Cemoto78
      Posted on January 19, 2011 at 10:11am

      Probably he understands how stupid people are and would just ignore him and drive on. If you want to experience how dumbed down our society has become, just go to the nearest airport and watch the passengers go through the TSA lines. It is truly an amazing experience.

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    • GrumpyCat
      Posted on January 19, 2011 at 10:18am

      Look closer at the perspective, he’s already a *long* distance away. There are those on the scene having trouble standing such as the guy with the orange cone so if he could down his hill and to the top of the other hill there are plenty already on the scene who are aware of the situation. And listen to the sound track, while he‘s filming he’s calling for ambulance and emergency crew. I find no fault in his actions, or inaction.

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    • savethenation
      Posted on January 19, 2011 at 11:06am

      Probably because he could’ve had a car slam into him, is my guess! People are jerks on the road and don’t stop being jerks when ice or snow is covering the roads. I don’t blame him!!!

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    • USAMama
      Posted on January 19, 2011 at 11:12am

      I don’t think I would try to run up that hill, just sayin’! Did you see the guy trying to put a cone out, he was sliding everywhere! I may call 911 and tell the police to do something, but I wouldn’t walk anywhere near those cars!

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    • RabiaDiluvio
      Posted on January 19, 2011 at 11:28am

      Calling 911 as he was doing is the most he should have done. There is no reason to add another potential injury to the pile.

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    • 8jrts
      Posted on January 19, 2011 at 11:30am

      I don’t blame the guy for not going out there and getting run over…people are stupid. If you can‘t keep your feet from slipping out from under you because it’s so icy, why would you think your car will stop going down a steep icy hill???

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    • ltb
      Posted on January 19, 2011 at 11:40am

      To those of you who are saying the person videoing this did nothing wrong: You are part of the problem that has caused America to slide into the ditch. This little episode of someone taking a video to put on Youtube, instead of getting off of his butt and doing something to help, is indicative of a lazy, self-serving, self-absorbed society. Oh, and RabiaDiluvio, calling 911 should be the very least someone does when he witnesses something like this.

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    • missionarydad
      Posted on January 19, 2011 at 12:01pm

      Good point but what had me even more concerned was the people getting out with the little kids should have been hurrying to get them away from danger in case another car came along and took them out. If they had been my kids I would have been moving like someone was shooting at them.

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    • RabiaDiluvio
      Posted on January 19, 2011 at 12:57pm

      LTB you are a fool if you think that, bro. If the street is that icy, the police and emergency personnel would be the FIRST to tell you not to try to get out there and climb that hill to warn the cars away. If you live at the corner and can simply stand out there with raised hand and ask people to stop, that’s one thing, but when you have a sheet of glare ice on the road like we did yesterday morning, you don‘t just crawl uphill while cars are skating toward you and pray you don’t get hit or break something along the way.

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    • BetsyRoss1513
      Posted on January 19, 2011 at 2:24pm

      I’m not sure he was in a position to do so – how do you walk UP an icy hill? Not me. The guy who gets out of his car and gets into the middle of the road? STupid. That’s asking for hurt.

      In the end, I really don’t know if I wanna move to Pittsburgh after all…..

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    • airdrummer
      Posted on January 20, 2011 at 9:49am

      > run to the top of the hill???

      i’d like 2 c u run 2 the top of the hill…in case u hadn’t noticed, the guy moving the traffic cone was having a hard time staying on his feet, let alone running up an ice-coated hill…

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  • psst
    Posted on January 19, 2011 at 9:56am

    We have all seen this footage on TV.This is globalony warming at it’s finest.
    Blaze posts a lot of trivial stuff.
    This is not about winter putting cars in it’s cross-hair, but place something like this story on Blaze.
    Hawaii Gov can’t find Husseins LFBC.
    http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=252833
    But then Beck may not approve.

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    • Highland
      Posted on January 19, 2011 at 11:36am

      Why does Al Gore hate Pittsburgh? We could use a little global warming, but NOOOO, he wants the little children of the Burgh to freeze to death and is keeping all that warmth to himself and his chakra.

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    • Showtime
      Posted on January 19, 2011 at 2:55pm

      Why does it surprise anyone that the long form can’t be found in Hawaii? Obama’s grandmother said she was in the delivery room of the hospital in Kenya when Jr. was born. The Ambassador to Kenya said that it was common knowledge that obama was born in Kenya. Obama, Sr., was a British subject, thereby making obama a British subject.

      Google “Constittion of Kenya + Citizenship” and read when Obama Jr. became a citizen of the Republic of Kenya. Geez–what does it take to convince people we have a usurper at the Resolute Desk?!

      Showtime  
  • Patriot
    Posted on January 19, 2011 at 9:56am

    wheeeeeeeeeeeeee

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  • EyeofthePatriot
    Posted on January 19, 2011 at 9:55am

    Wow, that is incredible stuff!

    I’m glad most everyone seemed to be OK… I wonder if the Pittsburgh Union road crews went on a “strike-back” on their cut-wages and decided not to ice THIS street. Crazy stuff.

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    • Enuff Zenuff
      Posted on January 19, 2011 at 12:00pm

      Let’s Re-Name the road “Progressive Drive” because it’s a slippery slope that leads to destruction.

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    • Showtime
      Posted on January 19, 2011 at 2:47pm

      @Enuff Zenuff
      Good one! Really good!

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  • Muslim in Chief
    Posted on January 19, 2011 at 9:54am

    Ooooops…!

    Obama Bin Lying  
    • snowleopard3200 {cat folk art}
      Posted on January 19, 2011 at 10:04am

      Guess that would be a big ooops!

      Wonder if old Al Gore was out playing with his toys again in the ice and snow that he claims is so rapidly disappearing.

      http://www.artinphoenix.com/gallery/grimm

      Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}  
    • DashRipRock
      Posted on January 19, 2011 at 10:17am

      Well now we know how Bills really get passed in Washington.

       
    • @leftfighter
      Posted on January 19, 2011 at 10:19am

      “Cars fly violently?” Really?

      The kind of violence evident in this headline will undoubtedly cause some unhinged looney to crash his car into some congressperson.

      This hateful, violent rhetoric on The Blaze has got to stop!

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    • Creestof
      Posted on January 19, 2011 at 10:22am

      They should play this before voting on any bill…call it the “Slippery slope” wake up call.

       
    • DashRipRock
      Posted on January 19, 2011 at 10:26am

      @leftfighter

      If you look real closely around the 33 second mark you will see a Sarah Palin target flash real fast on the Prius.

       
    • snowleopard3200 {cat folk art}
      Posted on January 19, 2011 at 10:27am

      @leftfighter

      Does this now mean someone on the left will be calling for a ban on all right-wing cars (not drivers) to be banned as lethal weapons? Where will the outrage for banning the ‘dangerous cars’ come from among those dingbats of the progressives and the liberals?

      Or they just might claim Joe Biden was let out of the White House to play in the snow for a time with his toys.

      Note: any and all sarcasm in the post are directed solely at the progressives and the administration who remain as clueless as ever.

      Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}  
    • ottodiedacktick
      Posted on January 19, 2011 at 11:02am

      Why didn’t anyone run up the hill to tell the warn the drivers: THE CARS ARE COMING! Where’s Paul Revere when you need him?

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    • GhostOfJefferson
      Posted on January 19, 2011 at 11:31am

      I’ve taken the liberty of adjusting the headline to be more sensitive.

      Incredible Crash Footage: Cars Fly In An Inspirational Manner Down an Icy Pittsburgh Hill

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    • White Devil
      Posted on January 19, 2011 at 12:30pm

      “snowleopard3200 {cat folk art}” For the love of God, please stop breaking the Blaze rules and stop posting your personal/commercial web site on here. I’m sick and tired of reporting you.

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    • BMartin1776
      Posted on January 19, 2011 at 1:51pm

      When it LIGHTLY rains in CA it looks like this! Then again it looks like this all the time ppl are clueless how to drive!

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    • Showtime
      Posted on January 19, 2011 at 2:45pm

      @ WHITE DEVIL –
      Get a grip, would you? Ever heard of Freedom of Speech? Snow is not being obscene. CHILL!

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    • My Sacred Honor
      Posted on January 19, 2011 at 2:51pm

      Reckon they didn’t get the word that the Eagles game was cancelled?
      (YES I know this was in Pittsburg…)

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    • avenger
      Posted on January 19, 2011 at 4:30pm

      what part of icy roads these twits do not comprehend….

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    • happyboy
      Posted on January 19, 2011 at 5:35pm

      ANOTHER BLACK PAINT CHIP LEAD-EATER RUN CITY THAT DID NOT BUY ROAD SALT.

      Blacks would rather spend tax money on giveaways than on road salt to keep streets safe. These Blacks should not be allowed to run anything anymore. Let them just sit around on lawn chairs.

       
    • Ookspay
      Posted on January 19, 2011 at 5:43pm

      @White Devil “snowleopard3200 {cat folk art}” For the love of God, please stop breaking the Blaze rules and stop posting your personal/commercial web site on here. I’m sick and tired of reporting you.”
      Relax Satan Boy, The Blaze doesn’t seem to care why should you. This is exactly what’s wrong with society today, everybody wants to tell everyone else what to do ALL THE TIME. Learn to ignore things that are no big deal, save your anger and indignation for the real problems. Unless of course you’re the Dream Police, then go ahead…

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    • Jarski
      Posted on January 19, 2011 at 6:03pm

      You can see it here
      http://news.yahoo.com/video/weather-15749664/camera-captures-cars-knocking-into-each-other-on-icy-pittsburgh-road-23891815

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    • tower7femacamp
      Posted on January 19, 2011 at 6:18pm

      @White Devil if you don‘t like snowleopards art then for God’s sake don’t look at it !!!!

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    • jacklane
      Posted on January 19, 2011 at 8:27pm

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJgm5UaIcp4

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