The creator, owner, and driver of the 23-foot-long Big Banana Car, Steve Braithwaite, gets to meet a lot of curious cops.
“I would see a police car going the other way and get my documents ready,” Braithwaite told Cowboy State Daily from Seattle on Thursday morning. “I knew they were going to loop around and pull me over.”
After 15 years, more than 250,000 miles and enough roadside conversations to fill a produce aisle, Braithwaite has learned that driving a giant banana attracts attention.
Especially from cops.
“They always find a reason to pull me over,” Braithwaite said.
in this case it was an issue with the license plate, but ultimately he was not given a ticket.
It doesn’t take a big banana; law enforcement officers can always find, or fabricate, a reason to pull someone over.
I can imagine the thought going through an officer's head -- "No one would drive a crazy thing like that without making sure it was street legal. Oh, wait, that's just what the driver wants me to think." Along with "Hey, that's really cool, let me stop it so I can take a closer look."
(needless to type:) cops.. just look at it
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