Wednesday, January 14, 2004

Thunder, Thunder over Bunny Road!

CNN reports that a pair of Belgian desperadoes were recently captured by police despite having a car tricked out with enough gadgetry to satisfy James Bond or Lucas Doolin.

[The car was] reinforced with metal plates to stop bullets. [It} was also equipped with an automated box ready to spring tire traps to slow pursuers. The poachers had fitted a halogen lamp on the outside to blind their prey and shielded the car's number plates with lead sheeting to avoid identification. There was also a device to eject two old bicycles fixed on the back of the car on to the road as an obstacle to any vehicle in hot pursuit....

And the valuable, illicit cargo these daring highwaymen were smuggling? Bootleg liquor? Cocaine? Stolen artwork? Pirated DVD's? Nope. Rabbits.

All together now....

(CHORUS)
And there was (hippity-hop, hippity-hop!) over Thunder Road
(Hippity-hop!) was their engine, and (Hippity-hop!) was their load....

(Real lyrics here.)

With that kind of imagination and mechanical ability, couldn't these guys find anything more, uh, interesting to smuggle?

1 comment:

Felix said...

Carlos Zamora @ 9:35PM | 2004-01-14| permalink

Don't tell Matt--it might give him ideas.

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Felix @ 10:04PM | 2004-01-15| permalink

I don't think he has any interest in rabbits, and I doubt that these guys did anything he hasn't already thought about doing.

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Anon @ 11:09AM | 2004-01-16| permalink

I hear rabbits are hot in the pre-school market.

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