There's A Reason They Call Them "Hotdoggers"

There's so much to become unsettled about in this story:

Oscar Mayer Weinermobile Gets Stuck In Snowbank

First of all, isn't the Weinermobile a beloved American icon? Is it at all seemly that it has to plow through blackened highway snow to get around? Don't you think that the Weinermobile deserves to spend the winter months in Florida or Arizona?

The big story here, I think, is that the 2 pilots of the vehicle were both 22 years old. Does Mr. Mayer know about this? Where are your investigative reporters now?  I know a lot of 22-year-olds and I wouldn't trust them to safely drive a golf ball, let alone drive a 7 thousand pound Weinermobile around. In the snow yet.

And where are the parents of the Weinermobile pilots? Didn't they have anything to say when these two girls announced that they'd be spending a year driving the thing around, looking for their own replacements? I know this sounds curmudgeonly, but really, it's a very competitive marketplace these days and "hotdogger" on a resume is not going to get them very far. This is parental neglect. (I know that technically, people are classified as adults, but let's talk again after you are the parent of a regular 22-year-old, let alone the type of 22-year old who thinks "hotdog pilot" on winter roads is a sound idea.

From a free beer and party invitations in every town  prespective, I'm sure its a gold mine.

Comments

[Mr. Bingley]

“I’ve pulled out a lot of vehicles,” he said. “But that’s the first wiener I’ve ever pulled out.”

Hahahahaha!

An instant classic.

[pops]

ooooooooooo where's the parents!

Now do this one - YOU KIDS GET OFF MY LAWN!

[Karan]

some people are such dicks

[daughter]

in new zealand, the weinermobile drives on the other side of the road.

[Rixr]

How is the weeneymobile even street legal?

[toxiclabrat]

How many miles an hour does this rubber necker get? Must be tough on turns...

[Teresa]

At 22 both my kids were on their own. Of course they also were not driving Weiner Mobiles, although my daughter worked for a car rental company and did LOTS of driving around picking up customers... wonder which would be considered "worse" in this instance. Heh.

[joated]

I live just a short distance from where this occurred. On the day it happened there were winds of 25-30 mph blowing through the area and the road had as lick coat of ice/snow from one of the daily squalls. I'm sure the Weinermobile was simply spun around by those winds.

(And at 22 my one of my kids had been to Iraq and back..safely..with the Marines. The other had graduated college and was on her own. So stop being a fuddy-duddy.)

[dogette]

I saw a weinermobile on a public street recently.

It changed my life.