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ROLLING, ROLLING, ROLLING: An industrial-sized spool was seen barreling down highway stopping drivers in their tracks.

Commuters trekking home on Interstate 10 in Texas Thursday night encountered a rather unusual sight — a large industrial spool barreling down the highway.

The loose spool was spotted by drivers in Houston around 11:30 a.m. near Wayside, according to the Houston Chronicle.

The spool was traveling east and eventually stopped spinning on its own.

One driver spotted the strange scene while traveling with her two children. But, she told the outlet, incidents like this are "not really a surprise anymore because it always happens on I-10."

Watch as Uber driver no confused whether to call the police or not

Fiat Chrysler executive Ralph Gilles is a hero after he rammed his Jeep into a burning SUV to save lives

A Fiat Chrysler executive is being hailed as a hero after using his Jeep Wrangler to push a flaming wreck of an SUV away from a car that had passengers stuck inside.

The automaker’s head of design, Ralph Gilles, and his wife Doris were driving home through Addison Township, Mich., on Feb 18 when they came across a two-car accident on a snowy road. According to the Oxford Leader, the driver of a Ford Edge had crossed the center and hit a Ford Fiesta with two people inside of it head-on.

Gilles got out of his Jeep and went to see if he could help while his wife called 911. The driver of the Edge was able to exit his vehicle, and Gilles and he tried to help the driver and passenger out of the Fiesta, but they were stuck inside.

Gilles then went to move his vehicle to the side of the road when a Buick sedan came along and hit the Fiesta, knocking it into the Edge, which caught fire.

Thinking quickly, Gilles drove his Jeep into the Edge and moved it away from the Fiesta before the flames could spread to it.

“I still have no idea where that (thought) came from,” Gilles told the newspaper. “The only thing I can remember thinking (is) I’ve got a Jeep, it’s got a bumper on it, I think I can do this. All I could think about were the two people still inside the other car.”

Ralph Gilles (Fiat Chrysler)

Emergency responders soon arrived on the scene, but it took 22 minutes for them to get the people out of the Fiesta. Unfortunately, the passenger, 57-year-old Misty Considine, died from her injuries the following morning.

Addision Fire Chief Jerry Morawski praised Gilles’ actions.

“That guy did a pretty heroic thing,” Addison Fire Chief Jerry Morawski said after the incident. “I think the guy did a great job ... [If he hadn’t taken action] it could have been worse.”

A Fiat Chrysler statement issued to Fox News added that “we are proud that our employees set an example both inside and outside the company.”

After news of the incident spread across automotive media this weekend, Gilles posted video from the scene on Instagram and took to Twitter to thank his well-wishers, adding that first responders are the “true daily heroes.”

Police say the driver of the Edge, who they did not name, admitted to drinking and voluntarily submitted to a blood draw. He was taken into custody, but released as the investigation continues.

Analysis Reveals That Bitcoin Uses 30 Times More Electricity than Tesla Cars

As Bitcoin’s price has soared, so too has the energy consumption to produce it—to the point that Bitcoin mining now guzzles more electricity than all the electric cars in the world.

In 2018, Bitcoin’s power demand is set to more than triple, consuming as much energy in a year as the entire nation of Argentina, according to a new report by Morgan Stanley.

The bank’s analysts forecast that Bitcoin mining could use up more than 125 terawatt hours of electricity this year, a level electric vehicles globally won’t reach until 2025. Last year, Bitcoin consumed 36 terawatt hours of energy—as much as the country of Qatar, Morgan Stanley estimated in a research note published Wednesday.

By comparison, all the Tesla cars on the road (about 280,000 at the end of 2017, according to company statistics) likely used less than 1.3 terawatt hours of electricity combined for the year, a Fortune analysis found. The analysis assumed each car drove 15,000 miles—roughly the national average—at a rate of 30 kilowatt hours of electricity per 100 miles, based on the median mileage rate for Tesla Model 3 and Model S vehicles, according to figures reported to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

That means it cost 29 times as much energy to produce Bitcoins last year as it did to power all the Tesla cars driving today.

“That’s freaking insane,” wrote one person, going by the username Frank99, who posted a similar calculation on Tesla’s online discussion forum.

Global energy consumption for all electric cars was about 6 terawatt hours in 2016.

The reason Bitcoin mining consumes so much electricity is that producing each new Bitcoin requires solving a complex mathematical puzzle, through a cryptographic process performed by high-powered computers. The mining computations serve to verify Bitcoin transactions on a digital ledger known as the blockchain, ensuring security; they also have the downside of being extremely energy intensive. (Most other cryptocurrencies are believed to require much less energy to mine.)

Morgan Stanley estimates that it costs $3,000 to $7,000 to produce one Bitcoin, including both energy and hardware expenses. The price of a single Bitcoin was about $13,500 Thursday afternoon, down from a high of nearly $20,000 last month.

“That said, mining is very profitable at today’s bitcoin price, and if cryptocurrencies continue to appreciate we expect global mining power consumption to increase,” the Morgan Stanley analysts wrote in their research note.

Still, the analysts did not find any correlation between the Bitcoin price and electricity costs—suggesting that cryptocurrency investors who buy Bitcoin are not factoring in how much it actually takes to produce it. This also means that while cryptocurrency prices are unusually volatile and sensitive to even minor news events, Bitcoin’s price is unlikely to be vulnerable to energy price fluctuations.

“We do not see cryptocurrency values being driven by electricity costs in the near term,” the Morgan Stanley analysts continued. “2017 shows that cryptocurrency pricing appears not to be fully based on fundamentals.”

The bankers, however, did offer an idea for how energy companies could use cryptocurrency to juice their own stock prices: “Perhaps global utilities should start accepting Bitcoins for payments,” the analysts concluded.

3 Instantly killed and 4 injured after car hits bear on Colorado highway

Three people were killed and four seriously injured Friday morning when a car careened off a major highway after it struck a bear.

Seven people were in the Chevrolet SUV that slid across the center median, crossing over lanes of traffic before it flew off Interstate 70 about 3:30 a.m. near Rifle, Colorado, the Colorado State Patrol said.

The people who were killed Friday morning after they were ejected from a car include Kimberly Hernandez, 7, and Eugenio Hernandez Altamirano, 63, who died at the scene, authorities told KDVR TV. Brizeyda Hernandez, 15, was taken to Grand River Hospital in nearby Rifle, Colorado and then flown to Children's Hospital in Denver, where she died, KDVR reported.

The Colorado State Patrol says four other people in the car suffered serious injuries. They are a 9-year-old boy from New Castle, Colorado; a 62-year-old woman from Carbondale, Colorado; the 36-year-old male driver from New Castle; and a 32-year-old female passenger.

None of the seven people in the car are believed to have been wearing seat belts or sitting in a child safety seat at the time of the crash, the State Patrol said.

The bear was killed in the crash and taken by the Department of Wildlife, the State Patrol said.

Drugs, alcohol, and the speed of the vehicle were not considered factors in the crash, the State Patrol said. The case is under investigation.

Watch Angry Women Ram Their SUVs into Each Other In A Wild Road Rage Quarrel

A road rage brawl among a group of women turned into a demolition derby that destroyed a fire hydrant and left bystanders shaking their heads.

The wild scene in south Los Angeles was caught on tape by shocked witnesses and the video has been watched millions of times in recent days.

In the video, a woman in a white SUV repeatedly smashes into another woman's silver BMW SUV after at least four women were seen fighting.

The drivers of the vehicles spoke to KABC in Los Angeles. Both accused the other of starting the fight.

Both of the SUVs were left badly damaged.

The LAPD said the incident is being investigated. Crews arrived shortly thereafter to fix the broken hydrant, which was shooting water high into the air.

Watch the report above and another clip below.

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