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A quick-thinking forklift driver ruined an Ohio man's plans to steal a car by lifting the vehicle 20 feet in the air with the suspect still inside. Only when he was trapped up there did they take the time to call the police. It all went down in October at Arlington Auto Wrecking in Akron, Ohio. This was the third incident they had with this guy, but when they got him this time, even the 911 operators were cracking up when an employee called in the situation: “So, he’s still in the car about 20 feet in the air in...

A quick-thinking driver has foiled an alleged car thief by using a forklift to trap her inside the vehicle she was attempting to steal. Brendan Mills came home to find a woman inside his red Volkswagen Polo at his Waterford West property, south of Brisbane on June 5. By sheer good fortune he had left the forklift parked beside the car, with the forks facing towards it. So he immediately jumped into his forklift and hoisted the car up six feet in the air, trapping the alleged car thief inside before calling Queensland police. The alleged car thief was unable...

A FARMER who flipped a car off his land with a forklift has been cleared after arguing he was "defending" his castle. Robert Hooper, 57, was captured using the machine to launch the £16,000 Vauxhall Corsa at his farm in Newbiggin-in-Teesdale, County Durham. Passenger Charlie Burns, 21, who had downed up to seven bottles of beer, was knocked to the ground by the tractor's lifting forks. But Hooper insisted: "I felt threatened and an Englishman's home is his castle, and my castle starts at that front gate." The hill farmer has now been cleared of dangerous driving and criminal damage....

A North Dakota man accused of plotting to use a forklift to flip over President Trump's limo to "kill the president" pleaded guilty on Friday. Gregory Lee Leingang, 42, was charged in federal court regarding his plan that revolved around Trump's visit to Mandan, North Dakota, in September 2017, the Grand Forks Herald reported.

MILFORD, Iowa —A 27-year-old man has lost his job and Iowa unemployment benefits for using a forklift on a malfunctioning vending machine. The Des Moines Register says Robert McKevitt had deposited money in a vending machine last fall, but the candy bar he wanted wouldn't fall. State unemployment records say his banging and rocking the machine didn't work, so McKevitt commandeered a forklift, picked up the machine at least six times and dropped it on the floor at the Polaris Industries' warehouse in Milford. Three candy bars fell. In a ruling released last month, a judge denied McKevitt's claim for...

Robert McKevitt's dollar failed him, so he used a little force (Newser) – It's a story straight out of an episode of Seinfeld, just with an ending both more—and then less—satisfying. Last fall, a man from Spirit Lake, Iowa, decided he wanted to snack on a Twix while working his warehouse job at Polaris Industries. So Robert McKevitt inserted a dollar in the vending machine, punched in the code for the candy, and watched it get stuck midair on the spiral hook. He inserted another dollar in his quest to free it; no luck. He banged and shook the...

PALM SPRINGS — A man died Tuesday after he was crushed by a tortilla oven behind an out-of-business supermarket. The man was part of a three-person crew attempting to load the 3,000-pound commercial oven onto a truck when it fell off a manual forklift, said Palm Springs Lt. Sal Abruscato. "We do not suspect any foul play at all," Abruscato said. "This is a horrible accident." The oven was one of many items auctioned off at the supermarket Monday, he said. The person who bought it hired the crew to deliver it.

ROSS TOWNSHIP (KDKA) — A man is accused of stealing a takeout sandwich and using a stolen forklift as his getaway vehicle. This happened in Ross Township. The suspect is 38-year-old Sean Faulkner of Bloomfield. Police say he stole the forklift from a construction site on Babcock Road near McKnight. Why did he steal it? He wasn’t just tired lugging a case of beer – he was hungry too.

ROSS TOWNSHIP, Pa. -- Police in Ross Township have arrested a man after they said he stole a sandwich from a restaurant and then tried to flee in a forklift parked nearby. Police said Sean Faulkner ordered food from Sieb’s Pub on Babcock Boulevard and ran out the door without paying Sunday. Employee Karie Donatelli told Channel 4 Action News’ Ari Hait that Faulkner “just was very weird. We were very leery of him.” Witnesses told investigators Faulkner then tried to leave in a forklift parked in a nearby lot, police said. “The forklift doesn't travel fast, so I don't...

More than A$1m ($1.07m; £664,000) of wine has been destroyed in a forklift accident in Australia.The 2010 Mollydooker Velvet Glove shiraz sells for A$185 a bottle ($199; £122), the AFP news agency said. Winemaker Sparky Marquis told reporters he was "gut-wrenched" that 462 cases of wine had been smashed while being loaded for export to the United States. "When they opened up the container they said it was like a murder scene," he said. "But it smelled phenomenal." 'Massive loss'

This guy gives his forklift too much pedal as he's backing up and runs into a storage shelf. The next thing you know the whole wharehouse is wiped out.

This happened in Russia, and from what I understand it is supposed to be a warehouse for a vodka bottling company, but I never see any fluids from broken bottles so I question that. Either way, this guy had a very bad day at work. No knowledge if he was hurt or not. If it was me, and it was vodka warehouse, and I was not too injured... Well they may find an empty bottle or two in my lap.

BANGKOK -- A 603-pound (274-kilogram) woman believed to be the heaviest in Thailand left her apartment for the first time in three years Thursday with the help of Bangkok city hall and a forklift. Neighbors of 40-year-old Umnuayporn Tongprapai contacted the Bangkok Metropolitan Authority when they learned she needed medical attention to remove a tumor in her right leg.

Funniest and bloodiest "safety" film ever! 17 megabytes, all in German. No translation necessary!

I know there are a bunch of construction hands out there that might need to take heed to this. There was a fatality out in SC this week when a construction worker was driving a forklift wearing a safety harness and lanyard. He was buckled in with the seat belt as required but his lanyard fell out the forklift and got caught up in the back tire. It pulled him out of the seat with such force it bent the upright of the ROPS canopy.Good safety topic for all those in this industry. Keep thos lanyards close and secured.