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(Tacoma News Tribune)		What happens when you take a sheriff's spokesman, 21 drivers, and 10 beat up old emergency vehicles from Tacoma to Mexico? The Twitter version of the Odyssey (thenewstribune.com)		41
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kennedy311		2009-06-16 12:13:24 PM

Southbound and down,
Loaded up and truckin'

kennedy311		2009-06-16 12:16:15 PM

We gonna do what they say can't be done.

ronaprhys		2009-06-16 12:16:58 PM

We gotta a long way to go,
And a short time to get there

kennedy311		2009-06-16 12:17:04 PM

We gotta long way to go,
and a short time to get there

UNHbeta19		2009-06-16 12:17:17 PM

The link should have been titled "article to nowhere" what a long winded way of saying nothing happened

StoneyBologna		2009-06-16 12:17:23 PM

We gotta a long way to go,
And a short time to get there

kennedy311		2009-06-16 12:17:39 PM

I'm southbound,
just watch ol' Bandit run.

Dixie_Wrecked		2009-06-16 12:17:48 PM

Sweet! Free US healthcare from the US on both sides of the border.

Fholes		2009-06-16 12:18:58 PM

from Phoenix, Arizona, all the way to Tacoma
Philadelphia, Atlanta, LA?

kennedy311		2009-06-16 12:19:10 PM

UNHbeta19: Dixie_Wrecked:

Shut up and sing the damn song.

MurphyManifesto		2009-06-16 12:19:34 PM

We gotta a long way to go,
And a short time to get there

/don't think anyone's said it yet

GSD4Ever		2009-06-16 12:19:48 PM

The Cannonball Run?

ronaprhys		2009-06-16 12:19:52 PM

I'd suggest that they fly back, but considering their maintenance record, maybe walking would be a better idea.

dr.zaeus		2009-06-16 12:20:17 PM

Favorite sentence from the article:

"Jose driving fire truck."

ronaprhys		2009-06-16 12:20:30 PM

Fholes: from Phoenix, Arizona, all the way to Tacoma
Philadelphia, Atlanta, LA?

Wrong song.

ronaprhys		2009-06-16 12:21:09 PM

dr.zaeus: Favorite sentence from the article:

"Jose driving fire truck."

What's Hose B doing?

UNHbeta19		2009-06-16 12:23:02 PM

kennedy311: UNHbeta19: Dixie_Wrecked:

Shut up and sing the damn song.

sorry about that! missed the memo :)

kennedy311		2009-06-16 12:23:54 PM

GSD4Ever: The Cannonball Run?

Snowman's "mural trailer" from Smokey and the Bandit (or at least one of them) sat rotting in a lot in my hometown in Tennessee for years.

Teddy Hopper		2009-06-16 12:24:07 PM

An Odessey, huh?
Well, happy Bloomsday to all you literary-dork farkers out there. (I think its today)

/Cysts! on the walls of the lungs
//couldnt even drive through Denver, its so high

ronaprhys		2009-06-16 12:26:44 PM

Paging Captain Chaos!

Persnickety		2009-06-16 12:28:55 PM

NOVanHelsing		2009-06-16 12:30:03 PM

I was thinking "Used Cars" w/Kurt Russel...

Lilmama		2009-06-16 12:32:28 PM

Any word on Baby Langston?

MachoGrande		2009-06-16 12:37:48 PM

//Don't you wish your links were hot like me?

howdyyall9999		2009-06-16 12:38:19 PM

Swamp Feva? Must be one of those new Japanese cars...

/yes, I know it's from 2

GalFriday		2009-06-16 12:38:43 PM

ronaprhys: dr.zaeus: Favorite sentence from the article:

"Jose driving fire truck."

What's Hose B doing?

FTW!!

fernt		2009-06-16 12:42:27 PM

Clown Taints Taste Funny		2009-06-16 12:47:04 PM

"Pato de goma, looks like we got us a convoy..."

(Please excuse my Spanish - used Babelfish)

This expedition fared better than a similar one over in Asia last year - the poor Chinese made it 1/4 mile and someone turned on the siren. Whole convoy spent the next nine hours driving in circles.

Tatsuhiko		2009-06-16 12:53:04 PM

#Sheriff: Oink oink oink oink oink

#Homer: @Sheriff: Nom nom nom nom nom

/Different Odyssey?

madcap72		2009-06-16 01:16:51 PM

So, when these people spend all their money going to another country to give a very small amount of items to people that should have their OWN government take care of them, what are they going to do when they spend all their money and miss a house payment? Will their new friends in Mexico take them in?

UNHbeta19		2009-06-16 01:30:44 PM

Fernt: I forgot about that picture. Makes me laugh every time. Like scare people at work laugh!

orat-on-a-stick		2009-06-16 01:31:24 PM

"Besides taking four patrol cars, a fire truck, an ambulance and four other vehicles, the group is toting medical supplies, soccer equipment, computers and other gear."

So, instead of waiting for them to illegally cross the border, we are sending free stuff to them in their own home town?

Eliminate the middle man is always best.

RY28		2009-06-16 02:17:08 PM

Still don't know what a "twitter" is.

texastag		2009-06-16 02:27:57 PM

Approves.

jth9945		2009-06-16 02:42:50 PM

How does a wrench wrap around a transmission?

soupgoblin		2009-06-16 04:17:50 PM

You mean there are still some Mexicans left in Mexico? I swear I must have 2 million of them living on my block.

ronaprhys		2009-06-16 04:27:34 PM

jth9945: How does a wrench wrap around a transmission?

My guess is that he left it attached to something on the driveshaft. Just a guess, though.

turtleking		2009-06-16 04:42:22 PM

came for the Kurt Russel

/leaving with a bellybutton full of tummybutter

KangTheMad		2009-06-16 10:08:42 PM

I know this has been mentioned before, but I think someone should trek across the US relying on fellow Farkers and Farkettes for transportation and lodging. Ok, you can take a train or two, but you should rely heavily on us.

oldpickupguy		2009-06-16 10:12:40 PM

madcap72: So, when these people spend all their money going to another country to give a very small amount of items to people that should have their OWN government take care of them, what are they going to do when they spend all their money and miss a house payment? Will their new friends in Mexico take them in?

My guess is that you're one selfish, spoiled, bigoted sumbiatch. Am I close?

MurphyManifesto		2009-06-16 11:26:41 PM

KangTheMad: I know this has been mentioned before, but I think someone should trek across the US relying on fellow Farkers and Farkettes for transportation and lodging. Ok, you can take a train or two, but you should rely heavily on us.

I like this idea. It could most definitely be made into a best-seller, if the cards were played right.

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