Elena Gorgan
7,934 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.
Ambulance Crew Record Themselves Talking About Beating Patient With Extinguisher
16 May 2019, 15:36 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / You’d expect the staffers who work on an ambulance to show a bit more empathy and consideration for the patients they help transport, but this wasn’t the case here. Two crew members on a G4S ambulance in Kent, U.K., accidentally lef...
Bill Murray Once Stole a Prop Police Car With Chloe Sevigny, Adam Driver
16 May 2019, 15:13 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / This is probably an anecdote that would get a lesser famous person in trouble with the law but it will probably lead to nothing in the case of the trio starring in this year’s Cannes opener “The Dead Don’t Die.” The film,...
Man Hangs Out The Window of Speeding Car, Fighting The Driver
16 May 2019, 14:41 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / A couple from Colorado Springs, Colorado, were witness to a strange and potentially dangerous incident on the road, as another motorist was driving his car at high speeds while another man was hanging out the passenger-side window. They even ca...
Woman, Daughter Jump Out of Moving Car During Terrifying Lyft Ride
16 May 2019, 14:17 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / One woman from Duncanville, Texas, says she followed all safety procedures when she got into her most recent – and probably last – Lyft ride she had ordered on the app. Stefanie Brown tells NBC5 DFW that she ordered the ride for her...
Drunk 12-Year-Old Steals Grandpa’s Car, Leads Police on High-Speed Chase
16 May 2019, 14:01 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / A 12-year-old girl from New Mexico took partying to a literally new level, when she and 3 of her (minor) friends stole her grandpa’s car and they went out and got drunk. While driving around. We’ve all done some pretty stupid stuff ...
Woman Pushes Elderly Man Off Bus, is Arrested For Murder
16 May 2019, 13:24 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / A vile gesture may land a woman in prison on murder charges, after the man she pushed off a bus died from his injuries. The incident actually occurred on March 21, 2019, but the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department is only making it public ...
Las Vegas Woman Falsely Reports Car And Child Stolen
16 May 2019, 13:18 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / A Las Vegas woman found out the hard way why it’s never a good idea to call 911 and falsely report (made-up) crimes, after she called to say her car and her 4-week baby had gone missing. The report went out earlier this week, after Shavon...
The Human Car Wash is a Real Thing And Can be Yours For $5,100
16 May 2019, 12:14 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / If you ever looked at your car while at the car wash and thought “gee, I wish that were me!,” you’re in luck: a human car wash actually exists and can be yours for $5,100. Bear with us. Finish engineer Matti Paaso spent 3 year...
Southwest Discriminates Against Severely Disabled Passengers, Wants Them Gone
16 May 2019, 11:12 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / An Austin, Texas man is blasting Southwest Airlines for refusing to accommodate him on a flight despite the fact that he was willing to provide both the equipment and the trained personnel for it to happen. In a lengthy post on Facebook, Jon Mo...
Cop Pulls up in Front of Black Man’s House, Tries to Take Him in For no Reason
16 May 2019, 10:02 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / A Houston cop driving through a residential neighborhood pulled up in front of a man’s house and proceeded to take him in, even though he wasn’t doing anything wrong. The only thing Clarence Evans was “guilty” of was bei...
Professional Wrestler Body-Slams Man For Taking His Parking Spot
15 May 2019, 15:25 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / You know parking is bad when you put your wrestling skills to use on another motorist, in a totally unscripted (and very unsafe) real-life situation. It happened last weekend in Japan, in the parking lot of a supermarket in Chigasaki City, the K...
Tiger Woods Sued For Employee’s Fatal Drunk Driving Crash
15 May 2019, 15:07 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Golfing champ Tiger Woods is being sued by the family of one of his employees at his restaurant in Jupiter, Florida, The Woods, who died in a drunk driving crash last year. The family of Nicholas Immesberger claims that the 24-year-old staffer ...
Driver Spots UFO in Nashville, Immediately Freaks Out
15 May 2019, 14:07 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / One female driver who swears she spotted an actual UFO as she was driving home from Nashville had the worst reaction to it, immediately freaking out, sobbing and crying as she tried to get her husband on the phone. She also filmed the entire th...
Florida Driver is Legally Allowed to Have Obscene Sticker on His Chevy Truck
15 May 2019, 13:58 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / One Florida man can now legally boast about “eat[ing] a*s” on his truck, after he threatened to challenge the charges leveled against him by the Columbia County Sheriff's Office earlier this month. Dillon Shane Webb, 23, was pu...
Oklahoma Man Arrested For Roadtripping With Dead Wife in The Passenger Seat
15 May 2019, 13:25 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / One man from Sand Springs, Oklahoma, would not let anything ruin his roadtrip – not even the death of his wife of 8 years, Linda. So, when she died unexpectedly in a hotel in Texas (or so he told the police when he got caught), instead of...
4YO Boy Calls Police After Being Left in Hot Car With 6 Other Toddlers
15 May 2019, 12:43 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / A 4-year-old boy from Waldorf, Maryland, is being hailed a (little) hero after he called the cops on the woman who was supposed to be taking care of him, but instead left him and 6 other toddlers inside a hot car. The woman, whose identity hasn...
Farmer Saws Off His Own Leg After Becoming Stuck in Farming Equipment
15 May 2019, 12:04 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Kurt Kaser from Pender, Nebraska, has been working as a grain farmer for 40 years and he could do most of his chores with his eyes closed. That’s what he relied on the day of his accident. Well, that and his farming equipment. It was the l...
63YO Woman Bludgeoned to Death With Bird Scooter in California
15 May 2019, 11:17 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / A 63-year-old woman was bludgeoned to death with a Bird electric scooter in a shocking and very violent attack in Long Beach, California, the Long Beach Police Department confirms for CBS Los Angeles. The woman, identified as Rosa Manjarrez De ...
Stranded Driver Makes Sure She Gets Her Daily Steps
13 May 2019, 16:48 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / There aren’t many things you can do when you’re stranded in traffic: you can catch up with your reading, scroll through social media, do some work on your laptop, and other boring stuff. A select few do awesome dance routines or, as...
New Mexico Woman Pulled Over by Cops, Says “I Don’t Think So” And Drives Off
13 May 2019, 15:53 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / A 41-year-old woman from Las Cruces, New Mexico, gave police a very hard time when she refused to pull over and get out of her car when summoned. “I don’t think so,” she yelled as she drove off. It all happened after an office...