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Hey! You have a snake hanging from your car!

Think rush hour is bad enough? What if a three-foot python were part of the drive home? The News & Observer of Raleigh reported Friday that biochemical engineer Marika Suominen-Yeh got the surprise of her life last week when a motorist flagged her down after seeing a snake drop from beneath her minivan.

Jackie Chan Isn't a Fan of 'Rush Hour'

It's the movie that put Jackie Chan in the major leagues in the United States, but the Hong Kong star isn't a fan of his successful action comedy franchise "Rush Hour."

Woman Gives Birth While Stuck in Traffic

A husband helped his wife deliver the couple's baby after they got stuck in rush hour traffic and then got lost on the way to the hospital.

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One writer's journey to understand our peculiar - and very British - passion for railways
Source: the Mail online

You would find it hard to design a nation better suited to modern rail travel than Britain: it is a natural hub-and-spoke country. London is an overwhelmingly dominant power in the land.

Enraged woman bites bus driver
Source: NY Daily News

Excerpt: A veteran MTA bus driver was bitten on the forearm by an out-of-control female passenger Wednesday as he drove his packed M104 bus during rush hour in Manhattan.

Suicidal Trooper Was Rush-Hour Freeway Gunman
Source: WFAA.com

Dallas police have linked an ex-Utah state trooper who attempted suicide after a standoff to the earlier random shooting rampage which killed 2 people.

Shooter sought in Dallas rush-hour killings
Source: CNN

A man in a pickup truck killed two drivers and injured another in four rush-hour shootings near a Dallas freeway on Monday evening, police said. Police are looking for a bald white man in his 40s driving a tan truck who allegedly shot people during rush-hour.

Mexico air crash bomb 'ruled out'
Source: BBC News

The Mexican authorities say they have ruled out a bomb as the cause of a fatal plane crash this week.

NYC Transit planning to experiment with seatless subway cars at rush hour
Source: NY Daily News

It will be standing room only - literally - when NYC Transit runs some subway cars without any seats, hoping to squeeze more riders inside. The agency is planning a pilot program featuring a train with flipup seats in four of 10 cars.

Fridley man dies after Taser jolt
Source: The Minneapolis Star Tribune

Authorities are investigating the death of a 29-year-old Fridley man shot with a Taser by state troopers, who said he had become "uncooperative'' after a rush-hour crash Tuesday evening.

Fist-Fighting on the Freeway
Source: KCCI

Two men fighting in the middle of rush-hour traffic on Interstate 17 in Arizona had motorists slamming on their brakes in disbelief as fists flew and tempers flared, Department of Public Safety officers said.

Nude commuters bring mild excitement to Reading
Source: metro.co.uk

Four cheeky commuters were being hunted by a transport company last night after they boarded a bus naked.

Jackie Chan film 'angers Chinese'
Source: BBC News

Chinese authorities have decided that Jackie Chan's new comedy, Rush Hour 3, is "fundamentally anti-Chinese" and it may not be released there, reports say.

Annals of Transport: There and Back Again
Source: New Yorker

Last year, Midas, the muffler company, in honor of its fiftieth anniversary, gave an award for America's longest commute to an engineer at Cisco Systems, in California, who travels three hundred and seventy-two miles—seven hours—a day, from the Sierra foothills to San Jose  …

X-Men 4 - Starring Jackie Chan
Source: marvel.com

Jackie Chan is a man of many talents. He's been in movies for decades now and shows no signs of slowing down. Check out the video here of Jackie Chan talking to Brett Ratner, director of X-Men: The Last Stand, about his ideas for X-Men 4.

Women stop car, fight in center lane of I-694
Source: The Minneapolis Star Tribune

Two women apparently couldn't wait to settle a dispute, so they stopped the car they were in, got out in the middle of a busy Twin Cities area freeway Wednesday afternoon and began fighting in front of an unwilling audience: rush hour motorists.

Jackie Chan & Jet Li Film First Movie Together
Source: Yahoo! News

Jackie Chan & Jet Li Film First Movie Together ...The first film pairing of kung fu stars Jackie Chan and Jet Li will tell the tale of an American teenager's fantasy journey to ancient China to rescue a mythological monkey king...

In a banal setting at an inconvenient time, will beauty transcend?
Source: The Washington Post

The Washington Post conducted an experiment. They got a world class violinist to perform in a Metro station during rush hour. What do you think happened? (With video)

Spider-Man, Shrek Lead Summer of Sequels
Source: Hollywood.com

LOS ANGELES - Get ready for the summer of sequels.

Chris Tucker, Ratner Acting Like Divas on 'Rush Hour 3' Set
Source: User Submission

TUCKER, RATNER ACTING UP ON 'RUSH HOUR' SET?: Spies claim actor and director are acting like divas.

Roman Polanski to Play Cop in 'Rush Hour 3'
Source: Hollywood.com

HOLLYWOOD - Moviemaker Roman Polanski is set to step out from behind the camera to play a French cop in the latest Rush Hour film. The part marks the Pianist director's first Hollywood acting appearance since he played "man with knife" in 1974's Chinatown.

Chris Tucker - New 'Rush Hour 3'
Source: EUR

ANOTHER 'HOUR' DRAWS NEAR FOR CHRIS TUCKER: Comedian preps for 'Rush Hour 3' with standup tour.

Traffic quiz causes a jam
Source: The Sun Newspaper Online

Well, one way to find out what drivers' problems are is to cause a problem, I suppose... Perhaps a simple "Honk if you hate traffic jams!" sign would have done the trick...

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