There is no one out there on the internet that is better than the old linkbait list than the Daily Beast. Here we go falling for it again.

In their latest list, they poured over fatal accident data from the National Highway Safety Administration to determine what chunks of interstate roads were, statistically, the most dangerous.

Some roads are more dangerous than others—reckless or distracted drivers seem to congregate on certain highway corridors, while poor road maintenance is another common cause of collisions. We crunched the numbers for five years of accident data, courtesy of the NHSA, from nearly 250 stretches of interstate highways to find out which roads are the most deadly, mile-for-mile.

Out of the top 100, Missouri had four.

#85, I-55
In-state miles: 210.45
Fatal accidents: 108
Fatal accidents per mile: 0.51
Total fatalities: 124

#56, I-44
In-state miles: 290.49
Fatal accidents: 190
Fatal accidents per mile: 0.65
Total fatalities: 233

#42, I-70
In-state miles: 251.66
Fatal accidents: 201
Fatal accidents per mile: 0.80
Total fatalities: 226

# 17, I-64
In-state miles: 14.69
Fatal accidents: 16
Fatal accidents per mile: 1.07
Total fatalities: 17

Wait. Only 14.69 miles of Highway 64 is in Missouri? That doesn’t seem right. That would mean that Highway 64 ceases to exist west of 170, but according to Google Maps, 64 goes all the way out to O’Fallon, MO’s Highway K intersection, which would undoubtedly drop its deadly #17 ranking down a few pegs. Sure we could just believe The Daily Beast’s numbers but Google holds all our email for us, so we are siding with them.

Possible data errors aside, none of this surprises us. But that’s a given right? Every other state on this list right now has some blogger going off on how no one in their state can drive, but guess what? No one can drive all that well. It’s one of those lame-ass universal jokes, like that wobbly wheel on your shopping cart, the differences between men and women or how white people be trippin’. It’s lowest common denominator stuff and I’ll be damned if this site turns in to a Rob Schneider movie.

We’d much rather be a cheesy Lifetime movie staring pre-cocaine Yasmine Bleeth. …except replace the words “cheesy Lifetime movie” with “thong”.

via The Daily Beast

“Johnny Londoff, Chevrolet!”

Johnny Londoff, Sr., the long-time car dealer that had one of the catchiest jingles in St. Louis history has died at the age of 86.

Londoff founded the Chevrolet car dealership in Florissant on Dunn Road.   Londoff started the dealership in 1960.   Before that, he owned a dealership in North St. Louis which he had started in 1946.

Londoff was well known for his catchy advertising jingle and his talent for promotion on billboards, radio, TV, and newspapers.

Londoff is survived by his wife of 57 years, Sylvia Londoff, his children Laura, Linda, John Londoff, Jr., and Jacqueline Hope Londoff.

Fear not jingle lovers, the advertising lives on as the dealership is currently in the care of Loondoff’s son…Johnny Londoff, Jr.

Also, and maybe you weren’t aware, but he owned his own building and lot…and now a plot.

via KSDK

For all the awesome things the internet does, one of its greatest powers is always overlooked.  ”What is this power?” you ask so this article will flow the way I want it to…  Well catching people committing crimes when they post a video of them doing it on YouTube like freaking morons!

Kyle O’Brien didn’t know anything had happened to his 2004 Dodge until he saw his car being abused on FOX 2 Tuesday night, “I’m not freaking out about it, but it isn’t that funny,” says OBrien. “I would just think a valet service at a nice hotel would have to have more responsibility.”

Someone calling himself “valet underground” posted dozens of videos on YouTube, showing fancy cars being driven to the extreme in a parking garage about six months to a year ago.

Clearly when you are valet, there are extreme steps you must take to feel like a man before going to home to mom’s house to play World of Warcraft before spanking it to old issues of Teen People.

Now the YouTube account for “valet underground” has been closed and the Hyatt is looking for a new valet company, and that guy’s car got to drive over the speed limit for once so everyone’s a winner!

A copy of the video obtained by Fox2 has been embedded below.  Its like a rap video, but with less chicks but more four-door sedans…really nice family cars.  You know its funny, all those kids rappers have but none of them drive cars that you can easily get a car seat in and out of.

Local legend Dave Sinclair, died today at the age of 81 of gallbladder cancer which has got to be the worst kind of cancer possible since you don’t even need your gallbladder!

We hear that Dave isn’t quite the nice guy he was in the commercials, but we’ll touch on that later.

If you want to read his life story head over to STLToday.com

Ed “You Punks Get Off My Lawn” Willis thinks so, as he stated in his Letter to the Editor:

We can improve the economy, benefit the environment, and save lives, all in one fell swoop. However, this change will require a great deal of courage and a strong sense of responsibility on the part of parents and lawmakers. We must take the car keys away from 16 year olds. The minimum age for a driver’s license should be 18.

I hate to break it to Ed, but based on his arguments, you could just as easily make the logical leap to taking away old people’s licenses earlier than you can to give young people licenses later.  I’m going to take a shot in the dark that he wouldn’t be for that.

Here are Ed’s three main benefits from his “anti 16 year old drivers” plan:

Fewer cars equal fewer accidents equal insurance premiums that need not continue to escalate ruinously.

Fewer American dollars would go to buy oil from countries that don’t like us very much.

The air in cities would be less harmful to our health, and the accumulation of co2 in the atmosphere responsible for climate change would be slowed.

Yup, prying old people from behind the wheel would accomplish those same goals, but lets not stop there!  Here are the 5 other ways we could accomplish this goal for Ed:

1. Make people work from home.

2. One word: Jetpacks

3. Kill everyone born on an odd-numbered day.

4. Have the homeless run us around in rickshaws.

5. Create and begin the use of tube travel.

Something tells us that Ed really is looking for one particular 16 year old to no longer have the right to drive and his reasons aren’t exactly to make the world a better place for me.

Also, we hear that if Ed gets one more dammed frisbee on his lawn, he’s opening a store.

[Editor's Note: I'll leave the "What you talkin' 'bout Willis" jokes to you all in the comments.]