Bike messengers beware.
The peasants just need to get out of the way.
Calling Rolls Royce...
Better some good old blunt force trauma than a skewerin. LOL
It’s a hood ornament...in order to impale a pedestrian wouldn’t that require the pedestrian to also be hit by the car?
Sounds like a solution to the excess population.
I say, have you any grey poupon?
Although I creamed one pretty good a few years ago, I generally try to avoid pedestrians. My Scion xB has no hood ornament but the guy still spent a few months in the hospital.
I guess this puts the Kibosh on my razor Blades on the bumper idea to deter pesky panhandlers.
>>I wonder what they would do with the gunsight ornaments on the old Buicks or the Peirce Arrows from the 20’s and 30’s<< When I first read the headline I thought it was a reprint of some 60’s article. Use google images to check out the hood ornaments on 50’s and early 60’s american cars. Lots and LOTS of pointy rockets and stuff.
They got rid of them for exactly this reason. It was actually big news at the time.
A side note is that the same thinking that allowed people to believe that this was no big deal also aided the thinking behind letting Pintos explode when rear ended. That is, it was a foregone conclusion that these things were only a problem if you were in an accident - and that was using the product beyond its design limitations, so there was no “responsibility” for the outcome.
Bike messengers beware.
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Bentley hood ornament
Do they come standard with cleanup crews that follow them around?