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Yes - it happened, also on the Mexico/US border, this has a guy as a car seat but leads with woman in a dashboard: http://www.snopes.com/photos/automobiles/dashboard.asp


I wonder how is it possible to find someone hidden in a dashboard? Were it dogs that found her?


I'm paraphrasing the news report because it's been a few years, but:

The border patrol agent became suspicious when the driver opened the glove box to retrieve his registration and a hand reached out from within the box to give it to him.


Sometimes, one can be too helpful.


This is the BBC 3 part of the site rather than BBC News, so it's meant for a younger audience.


>This is the BBC 3 part of the site rather than BBC News, so it's meant for a younger audience.

Maybe, but I still don't understand why the younger should be fed with crappy "dramatization".

And younger as they might be they should know how a bottle of wine is made and need not an illustration of it (that continues making little sense).


Headline is a bit misleading. Was hoping for a photo of chaos.


Thanks for posting this - I use the BBC site from the UK and wouldn't have seen it otherwise as it's on the .com site. Also interesting to see the comments about the reporter's Chinese.


I thought the same and then was less impressed realising he was Australian.


UK Readers may find this page interesting giving info on our energy sources. I didn't realise we use less energy now than we did in 1998. http://visual.ons.gov.uk/uk-energy-how-much-what-type-and-wh...



Another interesting site shows current uk grid demand and generation from different types of power: http://gridwatch.co.uk


This site has been completely revamped, the graphs look a lot clearer.

I guess this is down to the inclusion of solar power which was cursory a few years back. Do they now aggregate all of the roof top solar and add that in?

Snooping around Glastonbury and my great Aunt's old town I've noticed a number of Solar farms in the countryside:

http://www.wessexsolarenergy.co.uk


Also interesting to watch the Romanian grid live:

http://www.transelectrica.ro/widget/web/tel/sen-harta/-/hart...

hmm, wind is quite slow today, normally blows about 1.5gw. biomass is a nice surprise.


This is such good news.


I can't see how the economics of this would make it viable.


We used to have a milkman delivery but it seemed crazy to do this while going past much cheaper milk in the supermarket or even the corner shop.


At least in London people are saying these apps are adding to road traffic and congestion, so the extra pollution (by other traffic being stuck also) might be harming health and causing early deaths to balance out any lives saved by stopping drunk drivers.


But that's because in London, Uber competes against public transport. That's not the case for many US cities (New York is an exception).

Even though as a London resident, I've never heard that argument. Most Ubers are either new petrol or even hybrid. Black cabs are (mostly old) diesel.


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