In a move that has streets activists applauding the LAPD, Twitter is being used to spread the word about a hit and run on La Cienega that left a valet in a coma. Ben Zelman was working as valet at Koi restaurant on La Cienega Blvd last week Wednesday when he was run over by an older model yellow Volkswagen black top convertible. more ›

What a crazy story! Via the LA Times: "When U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents at the Port of Los Angeles opened a shipping container bound for the Netherlands, they discovered a 1965 Volkswagen bus stolen in Washington state 35 years ago." more ›

This curious bit of info came to us via our tipline, and may merit the curious (or the foolish) to check it out: "Volkswagen made a car so bad, that Jennifer Boswell wants to take it out to a field and charge a dollar swing. Fortunately, NPR's famous Car Talk radio Tapert* [sic] brothers convinced Jennifer on air not to kill her car, but instead give away her green 2001 beetle to the most deserving stranger." more ›