Posted on 04/16/2008 2:17:19 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd
Old skool baby...old skool. ;)
Not a big deal. I would imagine most of us have done goofy things like this before.
The kids were stuck between a rock and a hard place. If the boy had squeezed into the passenger seat with his brother’s friend, they would have both gotten tickets for not wearing seat belts.
I had 11 in my Ford Escort when I was a teenager! Yes, 2 in the trunk with the tailgate open.
You beat my family, the best we could do was eight in a two-door ‘61 Dodge Lancer (slightly smaller than a Dodge Dart)
If he did it willingly, I guess he wasn’t forced.
Okay, WOAI makes these two look bad, and maybe they are. But c’mon, it’s a load of political correctness at work, too. Hell, I’ve ridden in a trunk when I was a kid. Several times. For fun. And about a zillion kids in the 50s and 60s snuck into drive-ins that way.
Nowadays here in California, you cant’ ride in the back of a pickup anymore. Who hasn’t done that? The country is being ruined bit by bit by these nosy damned nanny-staters.
No, the dog would probably be allowed to take a taxi home.
Well, being in the trunk of a car is arguably safer than riding in the back of a pickup truck while sitting on the bed rail... something I did many times in my youth.
/johnny
Yeah, I had no problem bringing home my 52 inch HDTV in the back of my 1990 F250 Laredo.
I was taking a sip of tea when I read your post, and did a spit take just shy of my keyboard.
Still giggling.
The very sight of that makes my back hurt. Way back in the 1980s, my very first job was at an audio/video repair shop. I was the secretary, but when I was there alone, I had to help customers load their equipment. I was amazed at how many of them had just had surgery and couldn’t lift anything! In a pinch, I could manage an ordinary 25 inch CRT TV by myself, but the cabinet TVs were impossible to move without a second person.
Candidates for 2008 Darwin Award.
Not only did my dad let a whole slew of kids (and our dog) ride in the back of the p/u, when we begged he would drive fast enough on the gravel road to get the damn thing to fish-tail. Better than 6 Flags Over Texas.
How did you get a picture of my ol' daddy's TV set?
Believe it or not, my dad, who is 83 years young, has a set that looks almost exactly like that.
Still works, and has a pretty darn good picture.
Should have, I guess, since it's only used to watch Bob Barker on the "Price is Right", the "Lawrence Welk Show" on PBS, and to check out the weather forecast once in a while.
And oh, yeah! For a Braves game, if it's not on too late.
Only person in a city of 50-60 thousand that has basic, and I do mean BASIC cable, to which he subscribed to for $3.95 a month about two years before I went into the service, in 1969.
Oh gee - I think we had that tv set. My little brother bought it from his best friend’s dad with $20 of his paper route money. It was our first color set. Meeeeemmmmmmriessssss.... LOL!
Do you remember how long it took to warm up and for the picture to go full screen? And did you ever have to hit the top of it, to get it to on?
A TV like that (post 12) usually has another TV on top of it.
As Jeff Foxworthy says.. “You might be a redneck if you have a working TV on top of a non-working TV.”
I heard that!
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