June 11, 2026

KITT from Knight Rider gets a ticket in NYC

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The car from Knight RIder got a ticket in New York City!

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Caalaroga Shark Media. Hey there, Johnny Mack with five good

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news stories. This first one is fun. There's a museum

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in Illinois, the Volo Museum. It's well known for a

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collection of famous movie and TV cars. In their collection

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is a nineteen eighty two Pontiac Firebird trans Am, a

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replica of Kit, you know, the car from Night Rider.

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The car has a California novelty plate that reads nights Now.

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Here's the thing. The museum recently got a piece of

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mail from New York City a speeding ticket. Apparently Kit

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had been caught on a traffic camera doing thirty six

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miles per hour and a twenty five mile per hour

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zone on Ocean Parkway in New York City. New York

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City's Autosystem sent the ticket to the Volo Museum. The

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fine was fifty dollars. Here's the thing. The actual car

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hasn't been driven on a public road and over a decade.

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It's in a museum. Jim is the museum's marketing director,

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and said, we're famous for our large movie and teav

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car collection, so at first we thought it was a joke.

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We then looked it up on the official New York

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City website and it was indeed legit. But he said

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of the plate that got flagged, it's a novelty plate.

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We sell these in our gift shop. Meanwhile, in New

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York City, someone else was driving around with the same

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novelty plate in the traffic camera system tracked it back

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to the museum. The New York City Dot has acknowledged

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the ticket was issued in error and it would be dismissed.

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A Canadian university has made history by turning hundreds of

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people into dinosaurs for a day. The University of Calgary

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grabbed six hundred and eighty two people dressed in dinosaur

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costumes to celebrate at sixtieth anniversary. That set a new

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Guinness World record for largest gathering of people dressed as dinosaurs.

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I feel like we could beat that one if we tried.

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The previous record was four hundred and sixty eight people

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dressed as dinosaurs. That was set last year in Florida.

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University President Ed McCauley said, the old record is extinct.

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I see what you did there. These schools sports teams

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are known as the dinos. So six p't eighty two?

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Should we go for that one? Maybe? Officials in British

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Columbia are not too happy with a prank. A hollowed

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out Volkswagen Beetle was suspended from her rock face. The

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bright red car, painted with a Canadian flag and a

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large E on top, appeared last March, hanging in a

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spot that wasn't designed for parking. The local Ministry of

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Environment and Parks says the stunt created a safety risk

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the car's position above power lines and Highway ninety nine,

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raising concerns that if it were to fall, it could

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create problems. Group of engineering students from the University of

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BC has taken credit for the stunt. Officials say the

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car will be removed safely. In Oakland, one person smash

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car window is someone else's jewelry line. Local artisan Sidney

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Jones has figured out a way to turn the Bay

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Area's annoying break in problem into something beautiful. She collects

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shattered safety glass from car windows and melts it down

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to create jade green Floro style earrings sold through her

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shop Odd Commodities. The material works in her favor. Car

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window safety glasses designed to shatter into small still on chunks,

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and when he did, it transforms into textured, almost gemstone

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like pieces. That's become the backbone of her street revival collection.

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Where does she get the glass? She shows up herself

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with a broom and dustpan. When her neighbors report a

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break in, people now actively contact her to come collect

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the glass. Officers from the Laguna Beach Police Department responded

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to report so someone camping out and drinking next to

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a home. The police investigated the possible trespasser. It turned

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out it was a mannekin. The suspect was decked out

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in full disguise, hoodie, sunglasses, fake beard to blanket. It

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was another prank. It's a prank episode of five Good

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News Stories. Officers approached then realized they were dealing with

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a plastic overachiever. The police reminds pranks are fine, but

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anything that triggers emergency calls crosses the line pretty quickly.

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That don't prank the PDE and those are your five

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Good News stories for today. Have a great day.