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Albert Gore III’s bold attempt to avoid the shame of Live Earth - you try getting a Prius up to 100 mph; it ain’t easy - has been foiled:
Al Gore’s son was released from the Orange County Jail at 2 p.m. today, after a young man and woman posted his $20,000 bail in cash, sheriff’s spokesman Jim Amormino said.
He’d have gotten away with it, too, if it weren’t for those meddling kids.
UPDATE. Al 3 appears to have beaten his previous personal best ... which still keeps him in the timid zone relative to this site’s readers.
Reports that the couple were Howard Dean’s burglar son and Chelsean Clinton not confirmed.
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 07 05 at 11:15 AM • permalinkSome people may speak ill of President Bush, but you can be sure that he saw just this sort of thing coming. Not only that, he stands ready to protect the blue-blooded sons and daughters of equal opportunity America.
Boy Gore will never suffer a single day in the same prison as wanton misfits like “Scooter” Libby or Paris Hilton.
They paid out $20G in cash? Man, that carbon
indulgencecredit scheme must be lucrative!Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2007 07 05 at 11:44 AM • permalinkGore is an associate publisher of Good, a magazine about philanthropy aimed at young people.
Young Gore publishes “Good Shit” a magazine about good shit.
Hey, what mpg does a Prius get whilst doing the tonne ?
Posted by Harry Bergeron on 2007 07 05 at 11:56 AM • permalinkI met Gore III when he was a kid. Before his accident he played on the same soccer as a neighbor’s kid, and I met him when I went to a game (it was post accident, so he was no longer playing but came by to say hello to everyone).
I used to be involved in local politics and it is tough on the kids. Their parents are never their own and many of them lash out to get attention. One sad case was that the son of the former county executive committeed suicide—his dad was known as a politician who spent every waking hour meeting with citizen groups and probably had no time for his son.
“Al Gore’s Kid” - just read that, poor sonovabitch never had a chance. Driving fast on a bike is fun and easy, it’s freedom - driving fast in a Prius, how tedious and underwhelming.
Posted by -keith in mtn. view on 2007 07 05 at 12:43 PM • permalinkI’ve broken 100 mph in a Ford Escort a long time ago. So I’m willing to believe it can be done in a Prius. But it’s probably a once-in-a-lifetime event.
Elizabeth
Imperial KeeperPosted by Elizabeth Imperial Keeper on 2007 07 05 at 04:20 PM • permalinkMy FZ would only do 132 out on Highway 25 south of Hollister. Took me a while to realize that I was just tail-gun Charlie cop-bait, while the others sped off into the distance.
Posted by -keith in mtn. view on 2007 07 05 at 04:22 PM • permalinkRe #19, that’s a sad tale all around, Room 237, but still useful insight. Thanks for sharing it.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2007 07 05 at 04:49 PM • permalinkMy PB is 135 MPH… for almost ten minutes. On a stretch of deserted desert road in New Mexico aboard a 1998 BMW K1200RS. Yes, that’s a motorcycle. The glint off of an oncoming car’s windshield finally spooked me. It was just a rancher in a pickup, but the NMHP would not have been amused. This particular road is so straight and flat you can see vanishing points in both directions.
Perfect place for felonious speeding.
BTW: After ten minutes at 135 MPH, you feel like you could PUSH the bike faster than 55!
Good, a magazine about philanthropy aimed at young people.
I wondered what that was—I saw an issue in the Barnes and Noble this afternoon. I thought it was a music mag.
Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2007 07 05 at 08:49 PM • permalinkThe shame of sharing the Goracle’s name is going to make this poor sod snap. One day, he’ll show up at one of his old man’s overpriced PowerPoint presentations with a monster truck and flatten every last eco-friendly shitbox in the lot.
Hey, Al the 3rd! You’ll want to name that thing “Big Carbon Footprint.” It should get about 1.3 mpg, emit clouds of noxious fumes, feature genuine polar-bearskin seat covers, be twelve feet tall, and have a “Fuck Gaia” sticker in the back window, right over the gun rack.
Posted by Blue State Sil on 2007 07 05 at 09:51 PM • permalinkAl3 hears that his Pa is leaving town for a tour.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 07 05 at 10:22 PM • permalinkWell, as the owner of a Gaia raping V8 SS ute, I must admit that I might have accidentally, of course, exceeded speed limits on occasion.
I wasn’t carrying drugs in the car though.
But hey, if I was the GoreChillMonster’s kid, I would be taking whatever I could to not remind me of the fact.
All that family time watching ‘An Inconvenient Fraud’ would push anyone, even someone driving a Pious, over the edge.I once averaged over 100mph on a ~35 mile trip from Los Alamos, NM to Santa Fe, NM. Big deal right? It was in a ‘77 Toyota Corolla. It was when the US had a national speed limit of 55mph. Most telling of all, I did not pass a single car on the whole trip.
I don’t think I could do it again without passing somebody. People drive slower on NM freeways now that the speed limit is 75mph.
#43 Lewis
I once averaged over 100mph on a ~35 mile trip from Los Alamos, NM to Santa Fe, NM. Big deal right? It was in a ‘77 Toyota Corolla. It was when the US had a national speed limit of 55mph. Most telling of all, I did not pass a single car on the whole trip.
There’s a 90-mile stretch of California Highway 62 that runs east from 29 Palms to the Colorado River that is also that empty. A factory-stock 1993 Acura Integra GSR can reach 140 mph without the help of gravity.
;^)
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2007 07 06 at 03:51 AM • permalink#33 No, it’s speedometer said 107, so I split the difference. Ah, I liked that car, bought it in 1995 and it finally died in 2001 with 105,000 on it.
Elizabeth
Imperial KeeperPosted by Elizabeth Imperial Keeper on 2007 07 06 at 09:16 AM • permalinkApparently, the sister picked him up from the police station driving a fuel-efficient Maserati.
Posted by andycanuck on 2007 07 06 at 11:03 AM • permalink#50 Texas Bob
My first beer was a Hamms. I was 12, so I didn’t know any better.
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2007 07 06 at 02:01 PM • permalinkOh, my Lord! Are we talking about bad cheap beer now? Try Mickey’s, in the wide-mouth jar. I went out buy the cheapest beer I could find to bait bee and wasp traps, and wound up with this stuff. (Okay, so it’s actually malt liquor…)
The connoisseurs at BeerAdvocate.com have this to say:
overall: 3.3
appearance: 3.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | mouthfeel: 4 | drinkability: 4
[...]“Big odor of sweet corn and hints of malt, pretty straightforward, but still a pretty decent scent for a malt liquor, not very appatizing but not terrible.”
“Off taste of adjunct corn and rice upfront with a decent kick from the carbonation that spreads this flavor throughout the mouth. The carbonation spreads the taste off the beer evenly over the mouth but the flavor ain’t that great so poo. ...”
“If you want the Cadillac of gas station malt liquor look no futher than Mickey’s.”
Posted by Mary in LA on 2007 07 06 at 06:13 PM • permalink“... I went out TO buy…”
Preview’s always *saying* it’s my friend, but I think it’s only interested in my text body.
Posted by Mary in LA on 2007 07 06 at 07:13 PM • permalinkOne day, he’ll show up at one of his old man’s overpriced PowerPoint presentations with a monster truck and flatten every last eco-friendly shitbox in the lot.
You won’t find many. You can tell where Al is bloviating by the crowd of suburban chic SUV’s clogging the parking lot.
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 07 07 at 10:56 PM • permalink
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Your speed is limited only by the voltage, I’d think. Try wiring the batteries in series.