(this post by non-MGK author Dan Solomon)
Yesterday in Seattle, a man drove his pickup truck onto his friend’s roof because "he got a wild hair".
I know some of y’all might be quick to judge the man in question because, okay, that’s really stupid, but I want to hang out with him, like, twice a month. I want to go watch cover bands with him and drive thru Taco Cabana at 3am. He’s like a real-life Jim Anchower, and America needs more like him. I bet he’s the most fun uncle ever.
Also, it’s often said that the key to good journalism is detail. The fact that this guy was listening to the Spin Doctors as he drove onto the roof makes me love him entirely. Do you think he was air guitar-ing or playing the drums on the steering wheel as he went? Was it Pocketful of Kryptonite or is he the sort of fan who keeps a copy of 2005’s comeback album, Nice Talking To Me, in the cab at all times?
Also, how is none of this on YouTube? If he’s half as good on camera as he sounds on paper, we need to give him his own reality show.
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Another good detail noted by the journalist:
“It’s a pretty tough truck,” Fitzthum said of the vehicle, which has “Live Your Dreams” written across the hood.
*judges quickly*
I feel stupider just from reading that. Bored rednecks are most entertaining when they end up in the Darwin Awards.
The story’s dateline is May 27, 2000, but dude. It doesn’t matter.
This guy is awesome. Because despite my fancy education and white collar job and generally respectable station in life, I would have done the same damn thing. How could you not?
Okay, the fact that he was wanted on charges of credit card fraud a few days later mitigates his coolness significantly.
Still…you have (a) a big pickup truck, (b) a house to tear down, (c) a garage you’ve reduced to rubble with the aforementioned truck, and (d) a makeshift ramp to the house’s roof created by the rubble. Dude. You’d be stupid not to put the truck on the roof.
Oh, good catch on the dateline, Brad, thanks. I suppose that answers the question about the Spin Doctors.
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Among them was a Kent woman who was driving by and stopped when she spotted the truck on the roof. “It’s bizarre,” said the woman, who declined to give her name. “That man is either nuts, drunk or starved for attention.”
I vote for all of the above.