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Newport Beach Film Festival 2011; Dallas International Film Festival 2011; Irish Film Festival Boston 2011, International Film Festival Rotterdam 2011; Göteborg International Film Festival 2011; Torino Film Festival 2010.


1985–86 Edmonton Oilers season

Mark Messier had his automobile troubles too, getting a fine after hitting three parked cars with his Porsche.

1993 Bombay bombings

He and Muquddam parked the explosive filled vehicle at Plaza cinema, Mumbai which resulted in 10 deaths and 37 injuries.

2000 Philippine consulate bombing

However, police investigators theorized that another car parked near the entrance contained the bomb, which was detonated as the ambassador's Mercedes entered his driveway.

2006 Monaco Grand Prix

Schumacher's actions in the qualifying session would serve as ammunition for Schumacher's critics to go along with his actions in the 1994 Australian Grand Prix and the 1997 European Grand Prix, although to this day Schumacher himself denies any of the allegations that he "parked" his Ferrari on purpose to block Fernando Alonso from taking pole position off him.

ArsDigita

A trophy F355 in bright yellow was kept parked outside of the Prospect Street office in Cambridge to entice employees into recruiting.

Bill MacFarland

In a 1963 WHL playoff game in San Francisco, MacFarland was shoved through an open gate and hit his head against a parked Zamboni.

Boeing Skyfox

As of June 2008, the prototype is parked on the flightline at Rogue Valley International (MFR) in Medford, Oregon without engines.

Ciaran Creagh

He has had three plays publicly performed and his first film, PARKED, starring Colm Meaney and Colin Morgan.

Coconut Island Airport

On 16 January 1999, Uzu Air Britten-Norman Islander VH-XFF was operating a passenger and cargo flight from Horn Island,NT with 3 passengers and 1 Pilot, when on final approach the Pilot in command noticed a vehicle was parked on the runway with nobody attending to it.

Colin Winchester

LR"?title=semi-automatic rifle">semi-automatic rifle fitted with a silencer and killed as he parked his police vehicle in the driveway of his house in Deakin, ACT.

Colonia Buenos Aires

The most accepted was based on a 1979 Grand Marquis parked in front of the child care center where the executed youths had been taken.

Conroy Turbo Three

The aircraft ended up parked at Groton-New London Airport in Groton, Connecticut where on February 19, 1984 its cockpit was hit by a wing from a Trans American Lockheed L-100 Hercules.

David Bieber

On December 26, 2003, on the border between the Gipton and Oakwood areas of Leeds, traffic policemen Ian Broadhurst and Neil Roper saw Bieber's stolen BMW car parked at the junction of Grange Park Avenue and Dib Lane, where Bieber had just been into the adjacent post office.

Dorney

A lone gunman, James Hanratty, abducted Valerie Storie and Michael Gregsten in a Morris Minor parked in the cornfield.

Gang de Roubaix

On March 28, the group parked a Peugeot 205, with 4 gas tanks linked to a detonator in the trunk, beside a police precinct in Lille.

Gold Rush Daze

After an anachronistic gag in which an illegally parked horse identifies himself as Seabiscuit, the young prospector is seen stepping into the scene.

Goran Žugić

On Wednesday night, May 31, 2000, past 23:00 CET, Žugić parked his Audi A6 close to his apartment building at 7 Save Kovačevića Boulevard in Podgorica.

Greg Guidry

His charred body was found in a car parked in his garage in Fairview, Tennessee.

Il Capo dei Capi

On June 30, 1963, in the Ciaculli quarter of Palermo, a police officer notices a parked Alfa Giulietta.

It'll Shine When It Shines

For the session, they cut their tracks in the pre-Civil War house that served as their rehearsal space, with Johns and Anderle working from a mobile recording truck parked outside.

It's Raining Again

After having his parked car ticketed for heading the wrong way, he spends a forgettable night at the Pickwick Drive-In movie "Famous Last Words" (reminding viewers about Supertramp's album), seeing himself on the film, watching another couple embrace in the car next to his, and meeting a small child with silver teeth, who points out that his car's left rear wheel is missing.

Kulveer Ranger

In May 2009 while reviewing potential cycle "super highways" with The Lord Adonis and Boris Johnson the group had a 'near-death' experience when a passing lorry's back door 'suddenly flew open, dragged a parked car into the street and smashed into another – just feet from the group'.

Lake St. Moritz

English cricketer David Gower parked his rental car on the ice in January 1990; overnight it broke through the ice and sank.

Liars Academy

The van was parked in front of their house in the nice Roland Park, Baltimore neighborhood.

Mary Bamber

During the winter of 1906-7, Mary was on the rota of women who made soup to sell at a farthing a bowl from a Clarion caravan parked by St. George's Hall on Lime Street.

Mazda MX-3

The MX-3 has made several cameos in movies and TV shows to include The Italian Job(twice), Dumb and Dumber, I Robot (with a Kit on, parked in an alley), The Fast and the Furious, 2 Fast 2 Furious (John Walsh’s MX-3), Analyze That, Cellular (film), Postal (film), John Doe (TV series) and Session 9.

Mobile billboard

Another trend is to use smaller but more distinctive looking mini mobile billboards often based on the Daihatsu Midget from Japan as it is a very rare and unusual looking vehicle in Europe and the USA, these one-seater vehicles have a very short wheelbase so they can be parked side on so the large advertising panels on the side are facing the traffic flow, this and the fact that they are such unusual looking vehicles makes them very effective advertising tools.

Mohamed Atta's Nissan

According to parking receipts found in the car, it arrived at the Portland International Jetport at 5:40am on September 11, and was parked on the first level.

Mount Royal Station

Luminaries using the B&O's station over the years include U.S. Presidents Woodrow Wilson, Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Dwight D. Eisenhower, along with Western showman "Buffalo Bill" Cody, singer Enrico Caruso, and celebrated conductor Arturo Toscanini, whose private Pullman car was parked on a siding during his appearances at the nearby Lyric Theatre.

New York City Fire Department Ladder Company 3

At the time of the collapse, the truck was parked on West Street and damaged beyond repair by the collapse of the Twin Towers.

Oberon Old and New

A staging that parked an aeroplane on the roof of Glasgow's Theatre Royal on the opening night only seemed to sink the already preposterous plot further into the mire, although Burgess was so taken with the music that he went on to arrange the overture to Oberon for guitar quartet.

Parnasala

The demon king "Ravana" parked his Pushpaka on the hillock on the opposite side of the river and abducted her.

Raymond Edmunds

On 16 March 1985, Edmunds was arrested on unrelated charges of indecent exposure while parked in his station wagon in Albury, New South Wales.

Schweizer SGS 1-24

The 1-24 was substantially damaged on 25 May 1996 at landing at the Mountain Valley Airport, Tehachapi, California when it collided with two other parked gliders.

Shamsi Airfield

In February 2009, The Times (London) claimed that it had obtained Google Earth images from 2006 that showed Predator drones parked outside a hangar at the end of the runway at Shamsi.

Shimon Attie

His photographs Almstadtstrasse 43, Berlin (1930). (car parked in front of Hebrew bookstore) (1991) and Mulackstrasse 37, Berlin (1932). (children and tower) (1991) are owned by the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

Shirley Finn

Finn's body was found in a parked car on Labouchere Road, next to the South Perth Golf Course.

Son Hoyoung

According to the police, at 4:36 am, Son Ho Young parked his car at a parking lot near Onnuri Community Church, Seoul and attempted to commit suicide in the same method as his girlfriend by lighting butane gas inside his car.

South Dakota v. Opperman

Opperman's car was found illegally parked on a street in Vermillion, South Dakota, in the early morning hours of December 10, 1973.

Steamroller

Steam rollers have had an influence on popular music, for example, the group Buffalo Springfield named themselves after (the manufacturer of) a steam roller parked outside the house.

Susie the Little Blue Coupe

She is seen in a parking lot parked between a pair of light cycles from Tron and Herbie The Love Bug.

The Carrier

The Carrier was parked in Earth orbit some time in the past and remained dormant until it was discovered by Jenny Sparks of The Authority and used as their base of operations from 1999 onwards.

Transbrasil

In 1953 Omar Fontana, one of the sons of the founder of Sadia Attilio Fontana noticed a Douglas DC-3 that remained parked at Joaçaba Airport, near Concórdia, the whole weekend.

WSYR-FM

For several years, the WSYR-FM call signs had been parked on the current WPHR-FM (FM 94.7) in Gifford, Florida.


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