Pop Goes The Weasel

 I don't know why this Auto Express story pleased me so much this week.

But it did.

Plane to see the problem

I think this is why you don't have drive-ins at airports.

I wonder what he'll put on his insurance claim?

Something similar to this bloke from 2016 I suppose:

Electric Fires

 

I think we used to have one like that.

But, of course, that isn't what this post is about.

It's strange how the news stories I find to comment on come about.  There were only four in October while I've already done four this month and there are TWO that caught my eye on the BBC News site today.

The first one annoyed me - it is top of the most watched videos at the moment.  Now I realise that it is the job of the news to report on unusual events and, compared with those happening to fossil fuel cars (as Moggy from electric Classic Cars calls them) or piston cars (as Jonny Smith from The Late Brake Show calls them), electric car fires are very rare - even if they can be more spectacular - that rarity isn't mentioned at all.

In fact, given that the Liverpool Arena car Park fire was caused by an old Land-Rover and the Luton Airport Car Park fire was caused by a Range-Rover, then maybe the BBC should look to be covering the next JLR car to catch fire.

Talking of London airport car parks, the other story today didn't annoy me.  It tells of temporarily repurposing a car park at Stansted for a drive-in movie location.

"Airport bosses have stressed that pilots will not be distracted by a large LED screen at a temporary drive-in cinema at its site in Essex."

The whole article goes on about how it will be safe and all checks and authorisations are in place - I'm not sure why the whole article is about that - NOBODY HAS SUGGESTED OTHERWISE!

Do they think that some passing pilot might fancy watching Top Gun? It has been suggested before.

Master Stroke

As recently as Tuesday, I was reminding you all of how much I admire the writing of Car+Driver's Ezra Dyer.

Well, it looks like Hagerty also have a motoring wit in Matt Master.

Not sure why Hagerty (or maybe Facebook) waited until today to introduce me to the author of this article from May last year.

In it, Master so eloquently muses on how the Nissan Qashqai heralded the beginning of the end of the world as we knew it - and I totally agree with him.

Yuk.

OK, maybe we can't blame it for Brexit or Trump - blame The Daily Mail and Rupert Murdoch for those. But we can blame it, and moreover its success with Mail readers, school run Mums and the Chinese, for the demise of fun cars.

The article is well worth 4 minutes of anyone's time.

Judging by the comments at the end, he's managed to upset a lot of Qashqai drivers - some of whom can't even spell Qashqai.

Good.

The Nissan Juke is shit too.

Booty Fool

Another excellent Ezra Dyer piece the other day.

And, like one of his pieces I highlighted back in Feb, it involves Florida Man.

This particular Florida Man has done up his truck to look like a Border Patrol vehicle with a slightly different message on the side.

His says "Booty Patrol".  Amusing enough except the local law enforcement didn't see the funny side and ticketed him.  They got a fair bit of stick for it too - including from Ezra.

I think I may have to disagree for once with the brilliant Ezra here though.

Gabriel Luviano, who according to Scottish Legal News is only 18, was actually charged, not with the wording but instead with having blue lights on the truck - and given that the Police had put out earlier warnings of someone impersonating law enforcement, I wonder if he had been stopping young women in their cars in the hope of seeing whether or not they had nice bottoms or not.

That would make him officially creepy.

And how the hell has he got such a nice truck at the age of 18!

The Police must have been a bit worried of getting a conviction though as Florida Man with a Chevrolet Silverado sporting a backside reference got the last laugh last time.