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The Dark Knight Suffers the Consequences of Apple's iPhone 5 Map Flop

What could be more frustrating for Batman than his archenemy, the psychopathic clown, The Joker?

Well, how about trying to navigate through the dark streets of Gotham city on the Batpod, all while using the Apple iPhone 5's botched maps service app to reach and save the life of his beloved Rachel?

Naturally, this never happened in the movie but some creative folks over at YouTube made a funny parody of Apple's iPhone 5 map debacle using scenes from the 2008 Hollywood blockbuster "The Dark Knight".

If we told you that, a rider who was not wearing any protective gear other than a helmet, lost control of his motorcycle at highway speeds and came down tumbling across the road, suffered only some minor scratches, we doubt that you would believe us.

Even more so, if you watch the scary and somewhat unexplainable accident (at least from this angle and distance) as it happened through the helmet-mounted camera of a fellow biker coming from behind.

The footage shown in the video that follows after the break begins with a crowd of people looking at a young man revving the engine of a sports motorcycle.

Like most of you, our first thought upon observing the opening seconds of the clip, was that we were about to watch some high quality hoonery on two-wheels. Oh, how terribly wrong we were…

Name the first French supercar that comes to mind – did anything pop up without looking at Wikipedia? We thought so.

France's automakers may be quite able at creating successful compact models, but success in premium segments has so far, eluded them - and a supercar is definitely out of the question.

This hasn't stopped their designers from sharpening their pencils on extravagant concepts that grace auto shows all over the world. With the latest event taking place in Paris, something exciting was definitely on the menu.

For the past 10 years, the city of St. Louis plays host to the annual Streetfighterz Ride of the Century (ROC) festival.

The 2012 edition of the ROC gathering took place last weekend with hundreds if not thousands of riders traveling to Missouri to attend the event.

At some point, the bikers hit the highway in large groups and the Missouri Highway Patrol got involved and started following the bikers, many of whom were recording the ride.

In the first clip, which was said to be shot by multiple people from many angles, we see two cop cars driving alongside a group of motorcyclists. At the 2:10 mark, some of the riders break off and cut through the grass to make a run for it as patrol cars had partially blocked the road in front.

The public outside of Europe may not generally know it, but Peugeot has a long history in the motorcycle segment having introduced its first bike back towards the end of the 1800s and continues to do so today offering 14 different models including scooters, multi-gear bikes and mopeds with engine capacities from 50cc to 500cc (0.5-liters).

At next week's 2012 Paris Motor Show, the French company will present a new prototype three-wheeler named the Onyx Concept Scooter, and yes, as you may have guessed already, it was inspired by the 680HP diesel-electric Onyx Hybrid Supercar Concept.

If you are going to speed on a road that you shouldn't in the first place, you ought to at least pay twice the attention to things like, oh say, vehicles that are in front of you and stop lights.

That's a lesson learned the hard way by the motorcyclist featured here and who imprinted his helmet on the rear window of a Porsche Cayenne in Russia.

Running across any road when and where you are not supposed to can be dangerous, but doing so during a race is just asking for trouble. Still, how much blame can you put on a kid that's just doing...what kids do?

We don't know where this young boy's parents where during this episode or why there was a superbike race (or at least that's what is being claimed by the video poster) on a street in Nicaragua without any protective measures, but we can say that this was an extremely close call.

Most of the times, it’s the bad apples and their reckless actions that hog the limelight on the internet, so for a change, here's a dashcam video that records the actions of a kind hearted driver, or to be precise, a scooter rider.

The young woman riding on the scooter with her young child sitting at the front (both wearing their safety helmets), was waiting for the green light in front of a pedestrian crossing when she saw an old man trying to cross the street.

What begins as another one of those dishonest attempts to fool a road user into thinking (or at least not being able to prove otherwise of his or her innocence) that the driver or rider is to blame for a pedestrian accident and which have been caught on camera, takes a very strange twist.

This incident reportedly occurred on the roads of Honk Kong where we see a motorcycle rider zipping through traffic before he slows down to allow a pedestrian wearing a construction worker's yellow hard hat (you can't say he wasn't being careful for his well-being…) to cross the street.

It’s no secret that motorcycle accidents can be far more serious than car-related crashes given that the rider is completely exposed. Just how much more serious can be seen in the video footage recorded on a Ducati motorcycle-mounted camera.

Before you proceed, however, we would like to warn you that some viewers may find the video distressing.

No need to explain why speeding between vehicles stuck in traffic with a motorcycle, especially when its pouring rain, is a recipe for disaster.

On the other hand, perhaps we do since some riders insist upon placing themselves in danger like this motorcyclist, who was kind enough to share his painful story as it was recorded by his helmet-mounted camera.

Falling asleep or not paying attention when you are handling any kind of motorized vehicle can be dangerous, but doing so on a scooter bike and not wearing a protective helmet on your head can prove deadly.

The young woman featured in this dashcam video, reportedly from Russia, appears to have dozed off for a second or two on the bike and veered off her lane.

Styrofoam may be as light as a feather but try dealing with a board coming your way on the highway...while riding on a motorcycle and it's a completely different story, as a group of bikers found out earlier this week.

This incident, which was recorded by one of the riders equipped with a GoPro helmet camera, took place in McAllen, Texas.

"Thanks to some idiots who didnt tie down their box of styro foam it flew out of a trailer and hit 1 guy he fell and the rider behind him clipped his bike and fell aswell," said one of the bikers, nicknamed "Astat4" on YouTube.

Clearly, there was more to this little puddle than meets the eye - and that's something that this Russian motorcyclist had to find out the hard way.

At the 30-second mark, you will see a biker approaching from a side road on the right.

Instead of veering onto the main road, he (or she, we can't say with certainty) decides to cut through the traffic by going straight into what initially appears to be a puddle and some grass.

Common sense says that if you must perform a motorcycle wheelie, you should at least avoid placing yourself or any other person in danger, which means stay away from public roads and places.

While this rider showed complete disregard about the safety of the people standing on the road only a short distance in front of him, he got what he deserved when the wheelie he tried to pull off went sour and he crashed down from the bike.

Talking to yourself is never a good sign, even more so if talking suddenly turns into yelling all while you are speeding on the road on a motorcycle.

Equipped with a helmet-mounted camera, the Brazilian rider of what is said to be a Honda Hornet, starts his ride in a fairly normal manner - well, aside from the interesting conversation he's having with himself and the occasional "oh" whenever he sees a girl on the road.

However, at around 2 minutes and 20 seconds into the clip, he drives behind a white Ferrari 430, which he quickly passes once the green light turned on. And here’s when all hell breaks loose.

A young man from Portland went all Chris Hanson on a person who allegedly stole his bicycle tracking down and filming the perpetrator.

About a week after the theft, the owner found the bike listed for sale on Craigslist about 160 miles away in Seattle, Washington. He contacted the seller under the alias of Simon Jackson (we'll call him that from now on since we don't have his real name) and set up a meeting to buy the bike in Seattle.

Along with a couple of friends and equipped with a video recorder, Jackson confronted the seller of the bike who was sitting at a Starbucks with a young girl.

The mystery behind the teaser pictures and videos of the Audi Sport-themed RS5 Coupe and Ducati Multistrada 1200S was solved today with an official announcement from the two brands.

As it turns out, it was all done to celebrate the acquisition of the Ducati brand from Audi earlier this year as well as to promote their participation at this weekend's 2012 Pikes Peak International Hill Climb in Colorado and to announce a new competition.

Ah, Russia, how you brighten up our otherwise tedious online activities on an everyday basis…

While there is no fighting, jumping (well, scratch that...) spiting, gun pulling or motor vehicle crashing to be seen in this video, something tells us that you will find it equally outlandish, perhaps even amusing as other dash-cam videos from the land of Vodka, spies and bitter winters.

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The Dark Knight Suffers the Consequences of Apple's iPhone 5 Map Flop

You Won't Believe it at First, But the Rider Made it Out Almost Unhurt in this Incident

This Biker May Have You Questioning Charles Darwin's Theory of Natural Selection…

Peugeot Unveils Onyx Hybrid Concepts in 680HP Supercar and…Three-Wheel Scooter Flavors

Motorcyclist Gathering at St. Louis' Ride of the Century Doesn't Sit Well with the Cops

Peugeot Onyx Supercar Gets Scooter Concept Sibling, will Also Debut in Paris

You May Want to Slow Down Next Time…

Let's Just Hope that the Organizers of this Race Learned their Lesson…

This Scooter Mom's Act of Kindness Should Serve as a Lesson to us All

Pitiful Insurance Scam has an Unexpected Outcome [Updated]

This Ghastly Motorcycle Accident Will Leave You in Shivers…

The Key for a Perfect Knock Down on the Road is Timing

This is What Happens When You Fall Asleep on a Motorcycle

Oh, the Horror…Airborne Styrofoam Causes Multiple Motorcycles to Crash Down on Texas Highway

Deceiving Puddle Turns Out to be a Motorcycle-Swallowing Mud Hole

Motorcycle Wheelie Ends in Pain and Destruction

Honda Biker Goes Nuts After Passing a Ferrari 430 Scuderia in Brazil

Guy Tracks Down Alleged Thief on Craigslist and Retrieves His Stolen Bike [NSFW]

Audi RS5 and Ducati Multistrada 1200S Meet at Pikes Peak to Celebrate Partnership and New Competition

What the Blip? This is Really, Really Weird Even for Russian Standards [NSFW]

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