Obviously a Snail is behind the wheel. He wants everyone in Ohio to shout “LOOK AT THAT S CAR GO!!!”
/I’ll see myself out.
damn someone beat me to the bad dad joke =(
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My parents minivan had a roof cargo pod by that name (S-Cargo). It wasn’t very well made, as it flew off in traffic.
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Trading Places: “Look at that S car go!”
ETA: found the clip.
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Also happened in “Johnny Dangerously”, with a getaway car covered in multiple layers of shelf paper.
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Fun fact, European fuel economy is measured in liters per 100 km, which works out to a unit of area in a mass-length-time (MLT) dimensional analysis.
L/KM = Vol/Length = L^3/L = L^2. Length squared is area.
Which means that Americans measure fuel economy in inverse area. Acres^-1 is pretty American as far as units go.
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Several someones but I am LOVING the fact that this same awful/awesome joke occurred to four people.
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Perhaps assumptions got in the way of finding her?
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Other than the odd red ‘S’ on the side, this is a strategy used by Cannonballers to evade police on their trips across the US. Drive at night. Flat black or black car. Dark tinted windows. Removal of all make/model info. No or obscured plates. It makes it hard for the police to see the vehicle and if they do see it, they can’t provide a good description to dispatch.
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If this happened in Los Angeles, the car would have been going at 160 mph; there would have been four helicopters of LAPD and media coverage in on the chase; and 20 miles of freeway on/off ramps would have been shut down.
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And at least 3 innocent bystanders would have been shot by cops by now.
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I recall seeing a black and whiite film (might have been laurel and hardy) where the characters use a tire as a template to paint their car in police livery. The gag is that they end up with a car that’s the exact inverse of the cop cars.
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A little late now, but the COVID lockdown would have been a good time to bring back the “Cannonball Run” (the actual race the movie was based on.)
I mean, fewer cars on the road, go nuts y’all.
[ETA: apparently it WAS going on all this time.]
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Yep. Bad enough that I limited myself to restrained obliqueness.
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Some billionaire who doesn’t give a damn about fighting crime, but loves the cool gadgets.
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Didn’t traffic fatalities increase? Because folks really did “go nuts”? Back in the first days of lockdown in March of last year, I went into the empty office to grab stuff from my desk to make the home office more usable, and the interstate was empty. It was so surreal, and difficult to resist the urge to just go really fast.
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No, it’s an elderly Speed who hasn’t bothered to wash the Mach 5 in a while. The “S” on the side is actually a “5”.
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