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RSS Bot@lemmy.bestiver.seMB to Hacker News@lemmy.bestiver.seEnglish · 11 days ago

Giant Banana Pulled over in Montana Driver Says Cops Have Stopped Him 100s Times

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Giant Banana Pulled over in Montana Driver Says Cops Have Stopped Him 100s Times

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Giant Banana Pulled Over in Montana: Driver Says Cops Have Stopped Him 100s Of Times
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For 15 years, Steve Braithwaite has driven a 23-foot banana across the country and, on Wednesday, just like hundreds of times before, he was pulled over…

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  • Pommes_für_dein_Balg@feddit.org
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    Often officers simply wanted photographs.
    Other times they invented reasons to start a conversation.

    Exercising your power over people, disrupting their day and putting them in a stressful and possibly dangerous situation, just to satisfy your own curiosity, is a dick move.

    • ChicoSuave@lemmy.world
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      Have you met cops?

      • agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works
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        Right? Using your authority to do nothing but satisfy your curiosity about a banana car is best case scenario

    • MrKoyun@lemmy.world
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      Mandatory ACAB

    • x00z@lemmy.world
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      If you would do that in the workplace it would be harassment. Isn’t the public the workplace of the police though?

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    Probably doesn’t help that hes dressed like he stole it.

    • Ecco the dolphin@lemmy.ml
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      I think the fact he isn’t dressed in a gorilla suit (or as Donkey Kong) is a missed opportunity

      • KingKong33@lemmy.ml
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        You’re not wrong.

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    Montana Banana is good, but it would be better if he was based in Alabama.

    • BarrelAgedBoredom@lemmy.zip
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      Alabanana

    • agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works
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      Better yet, Savannah, GA.

      • bigbangdangler@reddthat.com
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        Oooh hadn’t considered that. Good call.

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    Slippery little guy.

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      When the traffic stop was over he peeled out

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    banana for scale

  • Muad'Dibber@lemmygrad.ml
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    I love the idea of seeing this quote without any context:

    Braithwaite figures he may have spent the better part of a decade as one of the most frequently pulled-over drivers in America.

    Not for speeding, but simply because he was driving a giant banana.

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    I see the appeal.

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    https://youtu.be/JZpxaiNV_sM

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