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> A nice story about cops… This is not a nice story about cops.

x______________ 4mo ago
> A police officer marched up to the banana and delivered the news. > "'The reason I pulled you over, that light back there, you peeled out.'" > For a moment, Braithwaite didn't know if he was being serious or not. > "He said it so straight-faced," Braithwaite recalled. "And I'm like, 'Oh yeah.'" > The banana jokes, he said, are "never-ending." > Fortunately, so are the laughs. ..Are we discussing the same article? > Braithwaite recently drove the banana into Mexico, where he was pulled over five times in three days. > Every encounter was friendly, he says. This is a great international story about cops! > Now he's thinking much bigger. > His goal is to drive the Big Banana Car through Central America; somehow get it shipped across oceans and eventually circle the globe. > "I just want to keep going," he said. > He's calling the adventure "The World Needs More Whimsy Grand Tour." > A sign mounted to the back of the vehicle carries the slogan. > "The world is dangerously low on whimsy," says the man hoping to make a difference. That last paragraph hits it out of the park.
- ceejayoz 4mo ago
  > For a moment, Braithwaite didn't know if he was being serious or not. This is not a good story about cops. This is a good story about a guy, that includes cops as part of its plot. It's like those "kid sells his toys to fund parents' cancer treatment" stories local news does as a feel-good segment. Great kid! Shitty system!
  - x______________ 4mo ago
    > For a moment, x______________ didn't know if he was being serious or not. I'm still inclined to think that an /s is coming up in later replies. A bad story about cops and a banana motorist is that the motorist is dead, incarcerated or has a bounty on his head and is traveling around the world to ..evade.. his notoriety. Cops on the road, who drive alone in their car, are entitled to a bit of fun.. or as Braithwaite put it, "more whimsy"! Don't they? Help me understand..
    - ceejayoz 4mo ago
      > Cops on the road, who drive alone in their car, are entitled to a bit of fun… No, cops are not entitled to Fourth Amendment violations as fun. Turn on the radio or something. I am entitled to fun, too. That doesn't mean I get to pick kicking you in the shin as my fun.
      - x______________ 4mo ago
        > There's no 4th amendment outside of the usa. He got pulled over 5 times in Mexico, and is doing world tour, also no 4th there. You and that other op dude need better arguments.
    - handoflixue 4mo ago
      It is not whimsical when the other party can legally kill you for non-compliance, no.
    - lostlogin 4mo ago
      > entitled Exactly the right word.
- quickthrowman 4mo ago
  > This is a great international story about cops! It certainly isn’t, the police have no right to pull him over, they’re violating his 4th amendment rights. Unless he has committed a moving violation or they suspect him of committing a crime, there’s no cause to stop a motorist. It’s a good story about a man who hasn’t let police acting illegally prevent him from driving his banana car.
  - x______________ 4mo ago
    There's no 4th amendment outside of the usa. He got pulled over 5 times in Mexico, and is doing world tour, also no 4th there. You and that other op dude need better arguments.

> A police officer marched up to the banana and delivered the news. > "'The reason I pulled you over, that light back there, you peeled out.'" > For a moment, Braithwaite didn't know if he was being serious or not. > "He said it so straight-faced," Braithwaite recalled. "And I'm like, 'Oh yeah.'" > The banana jokes, he said, are "never-ending." > Fortunately, so are the laughs. ..Are we discussing the same article? > Braithwaite recently drove the banana into Mexico, where he was pulled over five times in three days. > Every encounter was friendly, he says. This is a great international story about cops! > Now he's thinking much bigger. > His goal is to drive the Big Banana Car through Central America; somehow get it shipped across oceans and eventually circle the globe. > "I just want to keep going," he said. > He's calling the adventure "The World Needs More Whimsy Grand Tour." > A sign mounted to the back of the vehicle carries the slogan. > "The world is dangerously low on whimsy," says the man hoping to make a difference. That last paragraph hits it out of the park.

ceejayoz 4mo ago
> For a moment, Braithwaite didn't know if he was being serious or not. This is not a good story about cops. This is a good story about a guy, that includes cops as part of its plot. It's like those "kid sells his toys to fund parents' cancer treatment" stories local news does as a feel-good segment. Great kid! Shitty system!
- x______________ 4mo ago
  > For a moment, x______________ didn't know if he was being serious or not. I'm still inclined to think that an /s is coming up in later replies. A bad story about cops and a banana motorist is that the motorist is dead, incarcerated or has a bounty on his head and is traveling around the world to ..evade.. his notoriety. Cops on the road, who drive alone in their car, are entitled to a bit of fun.. or as Braithwaite put it, "more whimsy"! Don't they? Help me understand..
  - ceejayoz 4mo ago
    > Cops on the road, who drive alone in their car, are entitled to a bit of fun… No, cops are not entitled to Fourth Amendment violations as fun. Turn on the radio or something. I am entitled to fun, too. That doesn't mean I get to pick kicking you in the shin as my fun.
    - x______________ 4mo ago
      > There's no 4th amendment outside of the usa. He got pulled over 5 times in Mexico, and is doing world tour, also no 4th there. You and that other op dude need better arguments.
  - handoflixue 4mo ago
    It is not whimsical when the other party can legally kill you for non-compliance, no.
  - lostlogin 4mo ago
    > entitled Exactly the right word.
quickthrowman 4mo ago
> This is a great international story about cops! It certainly isn’t, the police have no right to pull him over, they’re violating his 4th amendment rights. Unless he has committed a moving violation or they suspect him of committing a crime, there’s no cause to stop a motorist. It’s a good story about a man who hasn’t let police acting illegally prevent him from driving his banana car.
- x______________ 4mo ago
  There's no 4th amendment outside of the usa. He got pulled over 5 times in Mexico, and is doing world tour, also no 4th there. You and that other op dude need better arguments.