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Super cool article, love how the driver got bored of car shows and wanted to do something different. Article doesn't appear to mention any of the engine or chassis specifics?! Reminds me of Dumb and Dumber when the cops say they're following a "1985 Sheepdog, sir"
That thing is so cool and I've seen it in the wild a few times.
How does this work with registration? Like what would they put for make and model for the car? I imagine there has to be a way to add custom cars to it.
> The truck beneath the banana has now traveled more than 250,000 miles.
It is also possible to register a vehicle built from scratch, but this typically requires a lot more paperwork to do.
I saw this very banana car while I was having brunch Sunday morning in Ballard Seattle!
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> "For the first eight or nine years I was the most pulled-over man in America," he said. "It was constant." > Often officers simply wanted photographs. > Other times they invented reasons to start a conversation. > His favorite stop happened in a small mountain town in West Virginia. > A traffic light turned red. Braithwaite stopped. The light turned green and he made a leisurely turn through the intersection. > A f…
I'll happily live in a world where this is the extent of police authority abuse.
The prioritization of a respect for authority over a respect for the rule of law is notoriously problematic in small town america in very real ways.
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Not saying I enjoy it. Not saying that I’d drive a giant banana either. But if I saw a police car, pull over a giant banana, I would think it was hilarious. That’s the definition of whimsy.
Being pulled over is a command under threat of violence, by an agent of the state empowered to use deadly force, who is mostly insulated from the consequences of poor judgement or abuses of power. Being pulled over by cops cannot be whimsical.
It’s especially funny because the owner of the vehicle has zero problems and none of you have evidence of abuse of power but oh no, you’ve all made up your minds and ACAB.
It’s embarrassing you have all decided to stop thinking.
He should keep a log book for his police encounters, categorized by ticket with every cop putting their name and number into it so he can show the cops how often they waste everybody's time...