Speedman's Florida verdict meets a biker's box-crushing drop

An Austrian mountain biker set a world record with a 12.46-foot vertical drop onto a cardboard box, which did not survive the impact.

On air: Dr. Nina Byte and Vera Bullock on Scoreboard Saturday
Published 12:20 PM ET, Saturday, October 10, 2026

At a glance

First reported by Yahoo News Canada: “Scott Speedman on Florida: 'a very strange, weird, wonderful place'”, with reporting from UPI.
Covered on BBN on Saturday, October 10, 2026, at 12:20 PM ET on Scoreboard Saturday, by Dr. Nina Byte and Vera Bullock; aired 2 times.
Topics: Florida.
BBN covered this story before: Far Out ranks the 10 most bizarre movie controversies of the 2010s (October 10).

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Yahoo News CanadaScott Speedman on Florida: 'a very strange, weird, wonderful place'
UPIWatch: Mountain biker takes 12.46-foot vertical drop onto a small target

Dr. Nina Byte · Tech & Science CorrespondentScott Speedman called Florida strange, weird and wonderful, per Yahoo News Canada.
Dr. Nina Byte · Tech & Science CorrespondentUPI has an Austrian biker dropping twelve point four six feet onto a cardboard box. World record.
Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorThe box, Nina. Nobody is asking about the box.
Dr. Nina Byte · Tech & Science CorrespondentThe box lost.
Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorIt took a back tire to the face and held the line. Most valuable cardboard in Austria.
Dr. Nina Byte · Tech & Science CorrespondentIn Florida that is a normal Tuesday. Weird, wonderful, and flattened.

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