Define “Busy Weekend”: A double-header of live racing for you to enjoy! Chad’s in Sacramento at the Western States Championship, McTaggart is in Texas for the Mid-West Pro Mod party at XRP while Lohnes is substituting for a friend at the Funny Car Nationals at Keystone Raceway in Pennsylvania. It’s BangShift in July, which means we’re out and about getting you the content you want! But that doesn’t mean that the news bites don’t stop…in fact, they seem to get weird when we look away for five minutes. Here’s some of the stranger bits that crossed our digital desk, lightly roasted and ready for consumption. It’s Scrapple…enjoy!
1. If I wanted to be teased this much I would’ve gone to a gentleman’s club.
Behold, readers, the steering wheel for the C8 Corvette. With the reveal of the worst secret GM has EVER kept debuting on July 18th, we keep getting tidbits to satisfy…who, exactly? We were critical of this practice when Dodge drip-fed information on the Challenger SRT Demon. Hey, manufacturers: Either show it all off at once, or WAIT UNTIL YOU ARE READY TO SHOW IT, ok?! It’s not that we aren’t looking forward to seeing the rear-engine Corvette, but c’mon…
2. Well, now it’s a party!
Here’s a fun find that officers in Oklahoma recently got to deal with: a stolen Ford, a driver with a suspended license, a felon passenger in possession of a pistol, an open bottle of whiskey in the console, a timber rattlesnake in the backseat, and just in case that wasn’t weird and unsettling enough, a canister of powdered uranium ore.
One question: what kind of Grand Theft Auto bullshit did I just read?!
3. Don’t be a prick. See what I did there?
I love Arizona. It’s not my home state but I consider it where I best fit in. I love the desert climate, I love the gorgeous geography filled with canyons, granite formations, and most of all I love the iconic Saguaro cactus that you’ll find the moment you head south of the Mogollon Rim towards Phoenix. They stand tall, robust and capable of paying back any moronic, potentially drunk Infiniti driver who insists on mowing down one of the protected cacti. The driver is lucky to have avoided any kind of injury after crashing into the Saguaro in Tucson, and for good reason. You see that ring of thick bits in the center of the cactus? Those are the ribs, and they are very stout.
4. Defeated Gladiators
If you were waiting on your new Jeep, Chevrolet or GMC truck to make it’s way out west towards you, we might have some pretty bad news. A Union Pacific train that was hauling carloads of Jeeps and GM trucks left the rails near the Utah-Nevada border and…well, the picture doesn’t say enough? The only bright spot in this scene is that nobody was injured and that some of the vehicles are alright. Not that Gladiator, though. Or the black Jeep on the bottom. Or the train, for that matter…
I think this is the oddest collection of scrapple yet. Keep ’em commin’!
So sad …someone won’t get their $50 g’s + Gladiator when expected! 🙁 🙂 🙂
Plus, if a deadly viper and some radiation aren’t bad enough, in the picture I saw on my local tv channel website, the driver was 6’6” and looked meaner than the snake.
Bryan – mixing peyote and single malt whisky will rot your brain – but also lead to gems like this. Now go sleep off he hangover and normal service will be resumed!
You’re missing my favorite detail of the traffic stop: The guy told the cops the reason he had a timber rattlesnake and (what may or may not be) uranium was that he wanted “to create a super snake.”