@J. Henry Waugh: I gotta back BDD on this and add that if you manage to put a Trader Joe's in the same strip mall as a Home Depot, the parking lot would be reduced to smoldering pile of pick-ups and Subarus.

Between this, the Dream Cruise and those tricycles they've been running through non-car areas, it's just a matter of time before someone uses Google Maps to do an updated version of the opening title sequence for "Police Squad!"

I'm calling dibs on a spot by the 18th green at Dubsdread.

It was interesting that when the late ROK President Roh drove to Pyongyang it was in a column of Benzes, rather than something ROK-made. I wonder if that was to put him on equal footing with Kim.

The episode of "From the Earth to the Moon" that showed the development of the lunar module was an awesome bit of space-Jalopnikness.

@Orr's crabapples: Dude, you have no idea. There's a rumor that the Kimster rounded up the best basketball players in North Korea (I know, I know) on no notice with no explanation, brought them to the palace, split them into two teams and made them play for the amusement of Jong Un and his brother with each brother…

There's nothing quite like the look of disappointment you get from your wife when she walks in to see you and your three year old son surfing failblog for clips of a sk8r hanging from the end of a handrail by his nutsack, both of you laughing like loons.

@Macker12: I'm thinking the end of "Murder on the Orient Express" except with a Louisville Slugger.

@asenna: I was thinking along the same lines, but more of a Mitsu 3000GT (or really, Dodge Stealth) front end/Hyundai Tiburon back end thing.

As a Trib subscriber, I'm OK with this.

@Ash78: I remember reading something years ago that was an excerpt from an article in the 30s. The author was lamenting the demise of the hand throttle. I think he was talking about how it was safer because you could keep one foot hovering over the brake as you came off the clutch when starting from a dead stop. Or…

@Mr.HandsomePrettyFace: Chances are, the car owners will all file claims with their respective insurance companies. The insurance companies will mostly pool together and go after whoever looks liable for the collapse. It's called subrogation.

A.J. Foyt? Michael Andretti? Richard Petty? Especially if the latter starts a Pixar's "Cars" curse rumor.

@Miscellanea's brakes are squealing: Same here. My 40 minute 5:30 AM commute doesn't happen without a secure place for coffee.

@Miscellanea's brakes are squealing: My dad's '86 Caravan (shudder) actually had a decent one. Spring loaded magazine style that was easy to use and (most importantly) didn't rattle. Or at least didn't rattle enough to be heard over everything else that rattled and squeaked.

Time for Ozzie Guillen Mad-Libs:

Am I the only one who can't read "try not to die" without hearing Brock Samson in my head? It's as insidious as reading "Good news, everyone!"

@Muscles Marinara: It's called "not turning ever"

I have a friend who works for a company that does tests on ballistic materials. They have what amounts to an indoor shooting range. Whichever gun they're using to test the material is actually in an adjacent room mounted on a stand firing through a gunport at the target (in case of straight-back ricochet. They have…

@LucilleMcGillicuddy: Funny. I think the closest comparison to this is white supremacist organizations which are by-definition full of white anti-social types. There have been successful prosecutions of those organizations (usually civil cases where the standard of proof is lower) when one of their members has gone…