“Ah, crap. I’m an idiot! Man, I left my drivers license at home. Can I just sign these now and I’ll bring by my license tomorrow? Ah, good. Thanks.”

As if selling Chrysler products wasn't enough of a scam already...

Dealerships ultimately will be the reason if Genesis fails because their vehicles are pretty great.

I vote for a vac-formed plastic shell over a Harbor Freight Predator:)

But you get the documentation and the prices first. It’s a thing called transparency. And following the law.

If these violations of the public trust had been committed in say... Chicago, you would want the perpetrators pilloried on the nightly news.

It’s a... backup engine.

They wanted to be sure the vendors had more cash for the family and weren’t wasting it on little people.

Alot of Batmobiles are dual engined, but it’s usually a normal piston engine combo’d with a straight up afterburning jet turbine. You can guess what the latter’s for, so assuming this Batmobile’s being comic accurate, then yes I guess it’s just for more power?

I hadn’t noticed it until I started writing this blog, but there are scenes in the trailers where you can see exhaust coming from the front of the car as well as the back. This thing canonically has two engines, for some reason. Maybe it can run everything from just the front one, and the rear is for adding power?…

I personally love this Batmobile, but I find it really strange that the engine is just...open. No protection whatsoever. Some goons find this in a backalley while Batman’s away doing whatever, and it wouldn’t take much to make sure he’s down a car. 

I worked for a bank and we had that policy, got given a $100 gift card to a restaurant and turned it in, the manager took his wife out for dinner. The next one I kept my mouth shyt

In the 80s I managed a McDs had a office who always ordered a 1/4 w/cheese plain, it got screwed up 50% of the time, he would not even take a get it free next time card- called a B.O.G.- because that was against department policy. I finally got him to take a occasional comped meal if he came in off duty, We also…

Really, I work for a large government contractor and I’m allowed to take gifts up to $25.

“I declare this cake...delicious!”

When I worked in the grocery store in college, I was getting tons of free goodies from vendors: caps, coolers cassettes (hey this was the 1980s, these guys were too cheap to spring for CDs), jackets, you name it. But when I moved to Walmart, the freebies were over. Wally’s policy stated back then that you could not…

A project manager at my work had to declare a cake given to us by a supplier to celebrate a project being completed.

Thanks to civil service stuff, DC is the only place where the waiter won’t bat an eye when you ask to split a check 14 ways.

Yet here I am, refusing even a free cup of coffee from vendors, for fear of optics.

This is an interesting story from the “Ha ha, look at this dumb ol’ hillbilly cop” point of view, and it’s about cars so that’s cool. But it’s sadly mundane as far as American government abuse goes. It’s actually quaintly innocent compared to what the big dogs in Washington get away with daily. Like the flurry of…