Elena Gorgan
8,139 ARTICLES
Personal motto:
“Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.” - Henry Ford
She has covered automotive and mobility topics like cars and bicycles, ranging from the regular and all the way to celebrity culture, film, and music.
More than anything, Elena loves to tell stories about unusual or very special projects, but you can also count on her if you’re looking for the perfect e-bike.
Her work has been published on Softpedia News, InOut Star and, since 2018, autoevolution.
Delta Airlines Passenger Gets Gun Past TSA, Flies it From Atlanta to Japan
16 Jan 2019, 13:03 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / A man flying Delta Airlines managed to get a loaded gun past TSA, taking it from an airport in Atlanta (the busiest airport in the U.S.) to Japan. He declared it upon landing, the Huffington Post reports. Since December 22, TSA staff have been ...
2 Women Twerk on The Roof of Speeding SUV on St. Louis Highway
16 Jan 2019, 12:01 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / When you must twerk, personal safety seems to be of no consequence – at least to 2 women, another female passenger and the driver of a GMC Yukon XL riding down a busy St. Louis highway. Jackie Friedhoff was on her way from work when she n...
Pilot Tries to Climb Into The Cockpit Through Passenger Window Before Takeoff
16 Jan 2019, 11:01 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Here’s something you don’t see or don’t wish to see every day: a pilot tried to get on board a plane at London’s Heathrow airport by climbing in through the window. And yes, it was all caught on camera. The incident, acc...
Charlie Sheen is Still Winning in New Ultra Tune Commercial
14 Jan 2019, 18:23 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / This feels like 2011 all over again, because Charlie Sheen is still living the good life, still having buxom ladiez fall down at his feet – almost literally so. This is, in fact, a new ad for Ultra Tune, an Australian automotive servicing...
Motorists Pull Man on Fire From Burning Camaro, Save His Life
14 Jan 2019, 16:00 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / It was a very close call for a 70-year-old driver from Silverdale, Washington. He was in his 2000 white Chevrolet Camaro when he decided to smoke a cigarette – and everything else went to hell from there. Jerry David Lewis tells the Kitsa...
Drunk Dude Steals Audi on a Dare, Nearly Hits Pedestrians, Crashes Into Van
14 Jan 2019, 15:19 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Forget about whatever dare you ever did and feel ashamed of. One dude from Madison, Wisconsin, has all of us beat after stealing a car on a dare, right from under its owner’s nose, and nearly causing a tragedy. The Madison Police Departme...
Heartless Car Thief Returns Stolen Car, Keeps The Cat That Was Inside
14 Jan 2019, 14:04 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / A very picky car thief returned one of the vehicles he stole after news of it made national headlines, but chose to keep the cat that was inside it at the time he lifted it. Emma Harris, a woman from Portland, Oregon, went to the mall on Friday...
Iowa Car Wash Hit by “Butt Crack Bandits” Burglarized Again
14 Jan 2019, 13:49 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / If there’s one car wash owner who wishes he’d be more famous, that’s probably Jason Mettler, who owns a car wash in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. If he were more famous, burglars would have known he didn’t keep any money inside. M...
Loyal Customer Gives McDonald’s Employee a 2009 Pontiac GS For Free
14 Jan 2019, 13:04 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / One woman from Hutchinson, Kansas, got the surprise of a lifetime the other day, when her manager and one of her loyal customers called her out to the parking lot and she was presented with a new car. As a gift, free of charge. Vicki Anderson&r...
Florida Man Chews up Seat of Police Cruiser During Wild Cocaine Arrest
14 Jan 2019, 12:48 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / This is what you might call not going down without a fight. A 37-year-old Florida man made sure to put up one heck of a fight when he was pulled over for the tinted windows on his BMW and it was revealed he was drug trafficking. According to a ...
17-Year-Old Girl Predictably Crashes While Doing The Bird Box Challenge
14 Jan 2019, 12:07 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Well, it was only a matter of time. With the Bird Box Challenge taking over social media in the final days of 2018, it didn’t take long for someone to actually attempt to drive a car on a public road while blindfolded. Yes, that person is...
Here’s How One Dalmatian Can Put a $180,000 RV Into Water, Total It
14 Jan 2019, 10:47 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Dog owners will overlook most of their pets’ misdeeds, but chances are few other men could have found it in their heart to forgive poor Bodi, a 2-year-old Dalmatian who sent his human’s very expensive RV into a lake. It was all a mis...
Man Crashes Chevrolet Into Motel Building After Dispute With Clerk
11 Jan 2019, 15:57 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / A 62-year-old man staying at a motel in El Cajon, California didn’t just drunk-drive: he drunk-drove and then used the car as a weapon, by smashing it into the motel building he was staying at, looking to injure one of the clerks. This so...
Man Crashes His Pontiac G8 Doing Donuts in Empty Parking Lot
11 Jan 2019, 15:20 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / A 40-year-old man from Ohio can kiss goodbye both the title of dad of the year and of driver of the year after crashing his car while doing donuts in an empty – but snowy – parking lot. The man, whose identity has not been made publi...
Vigilantes Catch Gasoline Thief in Mexico, Brand Him With Hot Iron
11 Jan 2019, 15:04 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Mexico continues to face a drastic gasoline shortage: the latest report from Reuters notes that queues at gas stations in Mexico City still stretch for miles and that Pemex / Petroleos Mexicanos pipelines are still being illegally tapped – an...
Humanoid Robot ARISA Starts Second Trial Run at Tokyo Subway Stations
11 Jan 2019, 14:30 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Fly to Tokyo this time of the year or next year in the summer, when the Olympic Games kick off, and you will get to “meet” the 6-foot humanoid robot ARISA, which was designed especially to offer assistance to subway riders. ARISA fi...
Drunk Driver Flees Cops, Doesn’t See Rising Bollard, Goes Airborne
11 Jan 2019, 13:39 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / One drunk driver in Roeselare, Belgium, learned a couple of very important life lessons as 2018 was drawing to a close – number one being that you should never drink and drive, not if you value your life and your car. Local police have re...
Hovershoes Jetson Motokicks Debut at CES 2019
11 Jan 2019, 13:16 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Because walking is so passé and the future of urban mobility seems to be electric, Jetson has created the Motokicks, a pair of hovershoes that can carry you as fast as 7mph for about 3 hours on a single charge. Motokicks debuted at this ...
British Police Looking For Thug Who Stole The Lights Off a Police Cruiser
11 Jan 2019, 12:41 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / File this under “oh, no, they didn’t.” Police in Sutherland, UK, are looking for a man who ripped and stole the blue lights off a police cruiser, and then casually walked away with them. The other day, the British Transport Pol...
Woman Claims DUI Arrest Was Caused by Her Nibbling on Her Coat
11 Jan 2019, 12:09 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Here’s a novel defense for a DUI charge: one woman from Berwick, Pennsylvania who got caught driving while intoxicated just tried to argue that the breathalyzer returned a skewed result because she’d been nibbling on her coat before pol...