I missed that, which is a pity as it's a fruitful story and I must have slipped up as it looks quite a-peeling. Certainly I clicked on this story as it stood out from the bunch.
actionfromafar 3 hours ago [-]
What's a fruitful story for you can get berry triggering for a botanist.
So many comments in the previous thread and no one mentions the banana car from Bloodhound Gang - Foxtrot Uniform Charlie Kilo video.
netsharc 6 hours ago [-]
Author profile: "Before getting into news, she spent a handful of years teaching college writing at Montana State University."
Holy shit, apparently college writing nowadays is one sentence per paragraph, 3rd grade/Buzzfeed-style.
InsideOutSanta 2 hours ago [-]
She's obviously following the publication's style guidelines. Look at other articles. There's absolutely no need to attack people in a discussion about an article about a fricken banana car.
kube-system 17 minutes ago [-]
Newspapers are invariably written to a grade school reading level for accessibility.
autogn0me 2 hours ago [-]
Response dangerously lacks whimsy
dapperdrake 27 minutes ago [-]
Most of the whimsy vitamins are between the skin and the banana.
2OEH8eoCRo0 1 hours ago [-]
So 100s of cops have done their jobs?
saghm 47 minutes ago [-]
> "For the first eight or nine years I was the most pulled-over man in America," he said. "It was constant."
> Often officers simply wanted photographs.
> Other times they invented reasons to start a conversation.
> His favorite stop happened in a small mountain town in West Virginia.
> A traffic light turned red. Braithwaite stopped. The light turned green and he made a leisurely turn through the intersection.
> A few moments later, flashing lights appeared behind him.
> 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.'"
Their job is to take advantage of their authority to have fun at the expense of the time of citizens?
williamdclt 10 minutes ago [-]
I'll happily live in a world where this is the extent of police authority abuse.
tomalbrc 8 minutes ago [-]
If only.
4chandaily 18 minutes ago [-]
More like 100s of cops have abused their authority to harass a middle aged artist.
At even just 10 minutes a stop, that is over 30 hours of this poor man's life he has spent staring at the berries and cherries just because some entitled cop thought he deserved a photo op.
petcat 1 minutes ago [-]
> harass a middle aged artist
This man is driving a homemade banana car across the continent specifically because he wants the attention it garners. It's the whole point.
kube-system 24 minutes ago [-]
The police can only stop a driver if they believe they have committed a primary traffic offense.
sidewndr46 26 seconds ago [-]
No? Not even close. If the police "smell weed" they can stop you. If the police believe you have active warrants they can stop you. If the police believe you have committed a criminal act of any kind, they may stop you
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Holy shit, apparently college writing nowadays is one sentence per paragraph, 3rd grade/Buzzfeed-style.
> Often officers simply wanted photographs.
> Other times they invented reasons to start a conversation.
> His favorite stop happened in a small mountain town in West Virginia.
> A traffic light turned red. Braithwaite stopped. The light turned green and he made a leisurely turn through the intersection.
> A few moments later, flashing lights appeared behind him.
> 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.'"
Their job is to take advantage of their authority to have fun at the expense of the time of citizens?
At even just 10 minutes a stop, that is over 30 hours of this poor man's life he has spent staring at the berries and cherries just because some entitled cop thought he deserved a photo op.
This man is driving a homemade banana car across the continent specifically because he wants the attention it garners. It's the whole point.