Route 66 - Our Morning Current Affairs Show Weather Guy

[anthony]

Our countries leading morning current affairs program is called Sunrise, and shown on channel 7 here in Australia. The weather guy pretty much travels around Australia and the world doing adventures whilst delivering the weather. Basically... one hell of a good job.

At the moment he is in the USA and travelling the entire route 66. This morning he is in Missouri, and this is where us Australians freak out about America... at the local Chevrolet dealer, when you buy a new pickup you get a free gun or free fuel.

He got pulled up by the police just for driving through the town he was in on route 66 because he was not a local. Ummmm.... hello, why would police do that if your town is on a landmark route?

Intriguing, yet scary when you look in. If you live along the route, you can follow him / endup on Australian prime time TV: Link Removed

 

[Jawn]

Anthony that sounds exactly like where I grew up! My older brother got pulled over by the local deputy sheriff in the early 1980's just because he was riding a Harley chopper and was in full Hells Angels/biker garb. He lived in Southern California and had come up on vacation. I was driving past and saw who it was, so I stopped and walked up to the deputy and asked why he had my brother pulled over. He looked at me and said "This is your brother? Sorry, I was just concerned that he wasn't a local (or even resembled a local.....no hard core bikers there) and was off on the side streets of our small town." He then chatted with my brother about the paint job on his bike and passed the word on to the other cops to leave him alone because he was "Rosie's boy". My mother was well known around there, so just saying Rosie was enough for everyone to know who you were talking about.

Of course this cop would not have stopped him on the main road unless he was doing something wrong, but because he was cruising the side streets, he pulled him over. Only to find out that he was looking for my mother's car or his little brother. ;)

Jawn

 

[Deleted member 5760]

I've watched this yesterday and today. I must admit today I was doing other things and wasn't paying too much attention, but I've started semi following it. I do agree about gun laws (or lack thereof) being a tad on the scary side in the US.

 

[Jawn]

Well I fully believe in and support the US 2nd Amendment and I will leave it at that. I do believe that gun control is being able to hit your target! HA! ;)

Hey superjen, does your mood of "I'm Breezy" mean that no one should stand behind you? ROFL! :eek:

 

[Deleted member 5760]

It was always my contention that the 2nd Amendment (ie - right to bear arms) was never intended to give the right to someone a little pissed with their neighbour to then take to the dog (or a person) with a rifle or something of this nature. I absolutely believe the US should have tighter gun laws and frankly, people who hide behind the 2nd Amendment may find it useful to read it again. Hehe.

Yes Jawn, look out. LOL

 

[AdamAnt]

Here we go with the 2nd amendment shootout again....funny, as I turn the table over to dodge bullets, it's Jen's I'm most worried about! HA!

DUUUuuuuuuuuck!

 

[anni]

The extremists on both sides ruin everythingggg. The NRA insists assault rifles were dreamt of fondly by the writers of the Constitution, and the anit-gun lobbyists would leave us unarmed in the face of a heavily armed criminal population. If you take away all the guns, only the criminals WILL have them, and they just plain will, that's all. Who NEEDS an assault rifle. NRA? The right to bear arms does not mean the right to wipe out a small town when a kook gets their hands on one. On the other hand, I live in the woods and should either a bear or some form of human vermin wish to harm me, I have a Thompson Contender which will convince them otherwise. My father, a Lutheran minister, taught me to shoot when I was 8, I think, on the grounds that this is the way the world is, and females should know how.

 

[nie]

He just was by my house! I live a few blocks off of Rt 66 :)

 

[Jawn]

Anni I agree with you completely. I remember in the late '70's when my father gave up his NRA membership because they had gotten too wacko! I really dislike that most gun clubs (shooting ranges) require members to belong to the NRA. I always say/think "Kiss My What?" when they tell me that.

Both my sons know how to shoot and so does my wife. She knew how because her Dad taught her many years before I came into the picture.

Jawn

 

[Nicolette]

I have moved the posts which followed Jawn's comments above to a new thread as it turned out being all about guns and weapons instead of Route 66.

 

[anni]

Whew. I'm the one who made it hard to navigate that but now can remember to ask what I'd BEEN going to say yesterday, so thank you. The whole Route 66 thing is immensely, hugely American since it was this iconic travel/vacation thing from years gone by. What began as sort of tourist traps 'then' have become things which are are uniquely 'Only In America', and really rather dear to our hearts thereby. If I can get it together ( not focusing well ) to follow this guy, it should be worth a look.

 

[Nicolette]

They were talking today about how the Disney movie 'Cars' was derived from Route 66 and some of the people who inspired the characters. Apparently 'Mater' the tow truck exists and the backwards driving came from a guy who can turn his legs backwards (ouch).

Apparently the making of the movie put trade up by 30% in some of the featured areas of the movie (which I enjoy).