Sometimes, the answer to living in a police state is just to put a muppet in your car.
Posted on 10/28/2008 6:41:32 AM PDT by Maurice Tift
German traffic police have been left looking like proper muppets by a British prankster. An Audi TT with British registration plates has been repeatedly caught speeding on roads in the Bavarian city of Bayreuth. But because continental speed cameras are set up for left-hand drive vehicles, the cameras keep missing the driver’s face.
Instead, they keep capturing clear views of a manic Muppet-like toy which the cheeky Brit has propped up on his passenger seat. But police admit they are even baffled about the identity of the muppet.
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Looks like Animal to me.
If there were gott darn cameras filming me all the time, I’d be a ‘grouch’ to.
Is that Animal? No wonder he’s a maniacal driver. :p
Puppets gone wild.
Lol
That don’t look like an Audi TT to me.........
Now, I’ve got to go out a get a British car so I can freak people out with a giant muppet. :)
Geesh... Just have the Brit's look up the bloody number!!!
A college roommate used to call me ‘Beaker’ because I was a physics student with red hair.
Prepair to buy oil by the case and get another car to use when the Lucas electrics flame out.
"Kannst du mir erklären, wie man an Sesamstraße gelangt?"
I have a old right-hand drive jag.
Bit hard to shift, but I may have to get it out of the garage more.
“Prepair to buy oil by the case and get another car to use when the Lucas electrics flame out.”
Mrs. MWT has a 2005 Jaguar XJ8 supercharged. Best sedan ever owned. Never dropped a drop of oil, never a problem. 150K miles.
Her S-Type before that, similar experience.
The new 4.2 V8 is an amazing beast.
Jag changed dramatically 10 years ago.
LOL! Standard features on all British cars ... oil leaks and electrical fires. I resorted to using hand signals in my '71 Spitfire after blowing out the flames in the steering column sparked by the left turn signal. Right turn was fine ... go figure. And it was a good thing that I could see straight down into the gas tank as the gauge never dipped below 1/2.
Good reporting, huh?
2005? That’s a Forduar. Good old fashioned American engineering must’ve stopped the leaks.
Somebody doesn’t know a TT from their PP................
It is a Forduar. It’s what a Ford would be if they let the engineers build what they wanted and didn’t skimp on materials.
I am a Porsche driver and throw Mrs. MWT’s Jag XJ8 (a big sedan, but all aluminium body) around curves like my 911.
It is candidly amazingly fast and controlble — far superior (in the real world) to similar BMWs or Mercedes.
And, damn, if they are not the best looking cars on the road (after old air-cooled Porsches, mind you).
I didn't mind them. They're radar-triggered still cameras that only catch you when you're speeding. Yes, I was caught a few times. The photos make for good souvenirs. It's the difference between having a cop pull you over and taking a good chunk out of your day (and maybe noticing something else to bust you for) and just getting a bill in the mail.
My main problem is that in the UK the government has a habit of putting them on low-accident roads where the speed limit is set too low -- they're used as a source of revenue. In Germany for the most part they're set to catch speeders where speed is a safety concern. Most people know where the stationary ones are and slow down, so the cameras effectively control the speed. I've only seen the mobile ones at the entrances to construction sites, in front of schools and in other areas where speeding would be more dangerous.
Porsches, Jags. Man, I’m turning green here.
I had the opportunity to drive a 911 back in the late 90s ... what a car!!
A friend of ours in St. Louis had one of the baby Jags, based on a European Ford sedan. It was terrible. The shop repair bill equaled more than half again what they paid for the car in three years.
In the late 90’s you probably drove the 993 variant of the 911.
That was, IMHO, the penultimate Porsche 911.
The water-cooled, Audi-headlighted, things (996 variants) that were called Porsches from 99 until 2007 just didn’t measure up.
The new “998” comes close to the spirit of the real Porsches (like you drove), but not quite.
That would the “X-type” -— a budget jag. Pathetic things; canceled after a few years.
Go buy a 1 or 2 year old real Jag (XJ8 or S-type) off lease. A $90K new car is $30-40K with 10K miles -— new, in other words.
Don’t buy one of the S-types with a 6 cylinder — those are made for Hertz and are P.O.S.
Get the highest end one you can find.
Probably the best luxury new car buy right now.
sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet.
(She had a coupe.)
If you owned them now —— they’d be worth. . . nah, Obama would take them, and give them to cronies.
I saw a low mile ‘66 roadster go for $125,000 recently. There was a nice 67 1/2 Series 1 1/2 coupe in the UP of Michigan a few years ago with 20,000 miles. Should have bought it.
During the coming Obama Depression, I suspect some of these cars will hit the market.
Look for buying opportunities in about two years.
I had an argument with a UK buddy some years ago about whether the Series 1 1/2 car actually existed. The Upper Michigan car was the second one of these I had seen so I knew it was not a “one off” model. It had the gold head three carb engine and the 68 hood (bonnet) with larger radiator and two electric fans. The ‘68 was the first year Jaguar used two Stromberg carburettors vs. three SUs.
Droooool. There are very few works of art on the road, and that’s one of them.
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