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March 31, 2009
Prototype Tested for New Government Car
You would think this guy would get a break for driving a vehicle that looks like the eco-cars GM will be producing when it's run by the government:
A Ohio man has been charged with drunken driving after crashing a makeshift motorized bar stool he had rigged together, authorities said.
Police in Newark, located 30 miles east of Columbus, said when they responded to a report of a crash with injuries on March 4 at about 5:40 p.m., they found a man who had wrecked a bar stool powered by a deconstructed lawn mower.
Kile Wygle, 28, who was hospitalized with minor injuries, was charged with operating a vehicle while intoxicated after he told an officer that he had chugged down 15 beers. …
Wygle told police his motorized stool can go at a top speed of 38 mph.
Isn't 38 mph about the same top speed as a Smart Car? Chairman Zero is probably interviewing Wygle now for the empty top slot at GM. When his vehicle is mass produced and subsidized, they'll call it the Kennedy.
On a tip from Wiggins.
Posted by Van Helsing at March 31, 2009 9:51 AM
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Hey, I like it! Gonna have to get me one of those! [Not].
Only problem I can see with the new Obama Motors (or Government Motors, if you prefer) BarStoolMobile, coming soon to a dealer near you, is all those bees, wasps and hornets in your teeth; otherwise, looks like the prototype of the 21st Century "automobile" under this "Inmates Running the Asylum" government we now have.
Posted by: jc14 at March 31, 2009 11:48 AM
It probably gets 100 miles to the gallon!
Posted by: Anonymous at March 31, 2009 11:49 AM
Jc,
You forgot one thing. Once universal healthcare is enforced we won't have any teeth left anyway. :)
Posted by: Farmer Ted at March 31, 2009 11:50 AM
Shouldn't the "Kennedy" also have a periscope?
Posted by: JustAl at March 31, 2009 12:06 PM
any relation to George Jones?
Posted by: JamesJ at March 31, 2009 12:22 PM
The "Kennedy" ROFLMAO!
The luxury model has an ejector stool beside the driver. cement shoes optional.
Posted by: Anonymous at March 31, 2009 12:26 PM
Just have a accedent in that thig and its the pearly gates
Posted by: SPURWING PLOVER at March 31, 2009 1:01 PM
EDSBS article was much funnier :\
Posted by: I'm A Lasagna Hog at March 31, 2009 1:59 PM
Off-Topic but of importance:
It's a job where you want a strong defender of America's sovereignty. But that's not Koh. He's a fan of "transnational legal process," arguing that the distinctions between US and international law should vanish.
What would this look like in a practical sense? Well, California voters have overruled their courts, which had imposed same-sex marriage on the state. Koh would like to see such matters go up the chain through federal courts -- which, in turn, should look to the rest of the world. If Canada, the European Human Rights Commission and the United Nations all say gay marriage should be legal -- well, then, it should be legal in California too, regardless of what the state's voters and elected representatives might say.
SNIP
Koh has called America's focus on the War on Terror "obsessive." In 2004, he listed countries that flagrantly disregard international law -- "most prominently, North Korea, Iraq, and our own country, the United States of America," which he branded "the axis of disobedience.[...]
Posted by: SK at March 31, 2009 2:18 PM
This noble machine should not be called the "Kennedy"
For one thing the name does not take into account the obvious fact that young women could escape from it when it goes over a bridge.
I would suggest calling it the "Hopenchangenvagen"
That's more appropriate to the design of BO's aspirations for the folks as well as for this stunning vehicle.
Posted by: Fiberal at March 31, 2009 2:41 PM
Don't laugh, we'll all be driving one of those once Obama's economic plans start "working."
Posted by: Judith M. at March 31, 2009 3:31 PM
George Jones would be proud. My SMART could outrun that thing easily.
Posted by: Viking04 at March 31, 2009 6:48 PM
Only 15 beers?...lightweight.
Posted by: CharlieDontSurf at March 31, 2009 7:21 PM
