[x______________]

> A police officer marched up to the banana and delivered the news.

> "'The reason I pulled you over, that light back there, you peeled out.'"

> For a moment, Braithwaite didn't know if he was being serious or not.

> "He said it so straight-faced," Braithwaite recalled. "And I'm like, 'Oh yeah.'"

> The banana jokes, he said, are "never-ending."

> Fortunately, so are the laughs.

..Are we discussing the same article?

> Braithwaite recently drove the banana into Mexico, where he was pulled over five times in three days.

> Every encounter was friendly, he says.

This is a great international story about cops!

> Now he's thinking much bigger.

> His goal is to drive the Big Banana Car through Central America; somehow get it shipped across oceans and eventually circle the globe.

> "I just want to keep going," he said.

> He's calling the adventure "The World Needs More Whimsy Grand Tour."

> A sign mounted to the back of the vehicle carries the slogan.

> "The world is dangerously low on whimsy," says the man hoping to make a difference.

That last paragraph hits it out of the park.

[ceejayoz]

> For a moment, Braithwaite didn't know if he was being serious or not.

This is not a good story about cops. This is a good story about a guy, that includes cops as part of its plot.

It's like those "kid sells his toys to fund parents' cancer treatment" stories local news does as a feel-good segment. Great kid! Shitty system!

[x______________]

> For a moment, x______________ didn't know if he was being serious or not.

I'm still inclined to think that an /s is coming up in later replies. A bad story about cops and a banana motorist is that the motorist is dead, incarcerated or has a bounty on his head and is traveling around the world to ..evade.. his notoriety.

Cops on the road, who drive alone in their car, are entitled to a bit of fun.. or as Braithwaite put it, "more whimsy"!

Don't they? Help me understand..

[ceejayoz]

> Cops on the road, who drive alone in their car, are entitled to a bit of fun…

No, cops are not entitled to Fourth Amendment violations as fun. Turn on the radio or something.

I am entitled to fun, too. That doesn't mean I get to pick kicking you in the shin as my fun.

[handoflixue]

It is not whimsical when the other party can legally kill you for non-compliance, no.

[lostlogin]

> entitled

Exactly the right word.

[quickthrowman]

> This is a great international story about cops!

It certainly isn’t, the police have no right to pull him over, they’re violating his 4th amendment rights. Unless he has committed a moving violation or they suspect him of committing a crime, there’s no cause to stop a motorist.

It’s a good story about a man who hasn’t let police acting illegally prevent him from driving his banana car.

[x______________]

There's no 4th amendment outside of the usa. He got pulled over 5 times in Mexico, and is doing world tour, also no 4th there.

You and that other op dude need better arguments.