It seems that Michael Robert Dacre the guy behind the Jetpod flying taxi has recently died during a test flight for one of his latest prototypes. Reports say that the Jetpod prototype made it into the air only to come crashing down to the ground in a fiery inferno.

There’s no telling if this will effectively halt the production of the Jetpod flying taxi (which was supposed to go into production sometime next year) but we have to say this is quite the tradegy. Let’s just hope that everyone else at Acven will recuperate after said tragedy and continue working on the Jetpod flying taxi.

via thestar

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Now here is an unforunate and ironic story — Apparantly a NY resident by the name of George Morales died in his minivan while parked under the Brookly-Queens Expressway. His death expectedly took place in the beginning of May as the man’s daughter, Jennifer Morales, reported him missing around that time.

Now, this is sad and all but the ironic part is despite housing a dead man, NYPD officers wrote him parking tickets until he was found when the car was going to be towed.

Unless this man was laying down in the back, how could an NYPD officer have not seen a dead body sitting in the drivers seat? The world may never know.

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