Driver arrested after leaping rising drawbridge while under suspected influence of whippits

Makes sense to me. Every bind pig I have been to, which is a detroit traditional venue that serves booze after the 2am cutoff, also had balloons of nitrous and other fun sundries available.

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puremichigan_sm

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This image is an early lead for the best thing I’ll see this week.

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When questioned by authorities, the driver claimed he was “on a mission from god.”

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To be fair, given 2020, that’s a low bar…

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Me too!

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Atomic batteries to power, turbines to speed

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It is, but my totally arbitrary rankings for “best thing I’ll see this week” status require that it’s a thing that’d be amusing outside the apocalyptic timeline as well.

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Maybe the driver is from Florida and was hoping to pull an Evil Knievel and ramp-jump all the way there.

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" Driver arrested after leaping rising drawbridge while under suspected influence of whippits"

Were you imaging dogs in the back seat going, “Do it! Do it, you wussy! Jump that draw bridge! No laws can contain you! WOOOO!!! YESS!!! YES!!! Valhalla set a place for us tonight! Tonight is the first night you are truly alive!!”

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I envisaged a car filled with orbiting mini-greyhounds (brainless beasts - Mom had one) driving the driver to distraction and dysfunction. Wally pissed in his lap! Ned chewed his ear! He had to make the jump.

BTW me mum is from Michigan. Am I contagious? That would explain my life.

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Fix the cigarette lighter.

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Florida is a weird melting pot for the Deep South, cold weather refugees from the North and people from all over the Caribbean (including but certainly not limited to Cuba). Combine that with some fairly decent sunshine laws, Florida Man is gonna be a thing.

My favorite part of the video, though, is when the reporter asks Andre the bridge worker if this was like the Dukes of Hazard and Andre tells him, no, he was thinking of the Blues Brothers.

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I couldn’t pay attention to the story because I was trying to figure out how an Englishman ended up doing local TV journalism in Detroit.

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“You will ride eternal, shiny and chrome!”

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Well, it’s got a cop motor

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I’d say no. But a pair of Daisy Dukes? Possibly.

Indeed. Mr. Tim Pamplin’s accent was just about the last thing I expected to hear over a Detroit newscast.

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Garn! do me a favour!! Brits don’t have "accents"Crikey ! they are the originals, 'Tis the hoi-polloi wot does.

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