Toyota owners had been contacting the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration about unintended acceleration issues for years, but one tragedy put the spotlight on Toyota’s problems. Last August, California police officer Mark Saylor and three family members died when the family’s 2009 Lexus ES 350 rental flipped and caught fire after a trapped floor mat reportedly caused the vehicle to speed out of control. A month later Toyota, officially recalled 3.8 million vehicles for floor mat issues and by February 2010 over eight million vehicles were recalled for unintended acceleration issues worldwide. Automotive News now reports that Toyota has settled with the family of Mark Saylor for an undisclosed financial sum just over a year after the accident. Toyota reportedly declined to offer any insight into the agreement, and there’s a good chance we’ll never know how much money the company paid to settle the case out of court. Toyota is likely years away from putting all of its legal troubles in the rearview mirror, though. The spate of recalls generated numerous other lawsuits and several previously decided court cases were re-opened after the automaker’s troubles became front-page headlines. Source: Automotive News
NFL Star Behind $10,000 in Rent!
DeShaun Foster, an ex running back for the Carolina Panthers, owes his landlord $10,000 in rent for his Hollywood apartment! But in a statement to TMZ, his rep said there’s no furniture in it, and the lease was agreed to upon the condition the apartment be fully furnished. In legal documents filed this week obtained by the press, his landlord said Foster signed the lease but hasn’t even paid the first month’s rent. Let’s see how this pans out… Posted by: @MarisaMendez
Blown-Out BP Oil Well Finally Killed at Bottom of Gulf
BP’s blown-out oil well in the Gulf of Mexico has finally been killed once and for all, five months after an explosion sank a drilling rig and led to the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history. Retired Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen, the federal government’s point man on the disaster, said Sunday BP’s well “is effectively dead.”
Wale Reacts to Kid Cudi
Wale subliminally addressed his issues with Cudi in the past on his track “Numbers One†saying,
“Maybe it’s on me or brother it’s on you/ Or maybe it’s they fault that we ain’t holla since June/F*ck it we on the move/None of us tryna lose/I am outta this world and you are a ‘Man on The Moon’.â€
Today, Wale reacts to Cudi’s Complex interview by simply tweeting, “niggas letting that liquid cocaine get to them…..lets go then”
Yet another rap beef! Posted by @iBLONDEgenius
I think Kid Cudi & Wale may NOT be seeing eye to eye!! -Funk Flex
Next months Complex magazine covers Kid Cudi aka Mr. Rager. During his interview, he takes some serious shots at his 2009 XXL Freshman classmate, Wale. More after the jump…
Oprah pays audience taxes for trip to Australia giveaway on show
Get mercilessly mocked for a financially based oversight once, shame on you. Twice? Forget about it. Which is why Oprah Winfrey took the lessons learned from Cargate—when each “lucky” member of her studio audience who received a Pontiac got the unexpected bonus of having to pay $7,000 in gift tax—and assured her Australia-bound fans that the trip will be absolutely, positively, 100 percent free of charge.
