You Can Keep The Wire
A truck entered an automatic car wash with a large spool of wire still in the bed, and the spinning brushes quickly turned it into complete chaos. pic.twitter.com/DrVstYIkMa
— Clown World ™ 🤡 (@ClownWorld) March 2, 2026
Update, via the comments:
The, um, incident, since you ask, occurred in Goldsboro, North Carolina:
“I needed to put up more fence for my cattle, so I purchased this reel of high tensile wire the night before, and the next day I went up town to take care of some business at the bank,” Corbett said. “I decided to run through the car wash ‘real quick’ and didn’t think about that wire.”
“I went to the car wash and the guys checked my truck out for safety. I went through and that’s when all hell broke loose,” he said. “It wrapped up half of the fence in just a matter of seconds and beat the hell out of that car behind me. It sounded like a war zone,” he added.
I’m guessing those neglected Christmas lights and self-tangling steam-iron cables don’t look so bad right now.
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Lawyers in 3… 2…
The claims adjustor is going to dine out on this one for a while.
It really “irks” me when lazy idiots can’t even wait for the vehicle in front of them to leave the car wash before driving in. When that happens, I take my sweet time in the blow dry area.
Also, how did that driver not see something was seriously wrong?
“That looks strange. It’s probably nothing.”
Don’t get me started on the idiot driving the pickup.
OCD overload.
The, um, incident occurred in Goldsboro, North Carolina:
Again – busy, busy lawyers.
Yes, those self-tangling Christmas lights are looking pretty good right now.
We can probably file this under “A Metaphor for Just About Anything” and then refer back to “the carwash incident with the high-tensile wire” rather frequently.
[ Tries not to think about the uncannily self-tangling power cables of steam irons. ]
Is it art?
[ Post updated. ]
Well, it compares pretty favourably with, say, this. Or any of the other offerings we’ve stared at in wearied bewilderment over the years.
If it’s one of those conveyor belt-style automatic car washes, they put one car in right after another.
I took my car for a wash on Saturday when it got up to 50, and the line was horrendous, even for a conveyor belt scheme. I can’t imagine what it would have been like if some asshole decided to park in the drying area.
There was also a state trooper who had pulled somebody over in the parking lot outside the manual part of the car wash, in the back where you couldn’t see it from the road….
I’m no authority on the subject, but a hand-wash service seems the better option. Even discounting a hundred or so metres of high-tensile fencing wire going rogue.
Wearied bewilderment? How dare you snidely demean uplifting works such as this that fill the visceral void that is our workaday world:
I’m trying to figure out who this is on because once I owned a pickup truck and took it to the car wash often. I had a tonneau cover over the bed that had metal beams that snapped into the metal rails that supported the bed cover. The fabric cover then snapped into the rail atop the bed.
The brushes would beat and shake the metal beams out of place and I’d have to reset them. Eventually I replaced that cover with one that used Velcro to seal the cover to the bed and had the support beams sewn into the cover. That worked much better.
The point I’m making is those roller brushes will beat the crap out of anything not solidly bolted to your car. I had a Ford Mustang where a brush broke off a big trim piece located between the tail lights, and my current Dodge Challenger lost a loose door handle due to the side spinning brushes. In both cases the car wash crew found the pieces and returned them to me.I made DAMNED sure the broken pieces were reattached solidly.
If it isn’t already it should be a rule that if you have a pickup and the bed isn’t covered, you empty the bed before entering the wash.
But you can bet your butt that’s a new rule at this wash now.
If that car wash is like the ones around here, the vehicle’s pulled along by a sort of conveyor belt. There’s no tailgating, no lollygagging about.
Hand-wash services around here are largely limited to weekend fund-raising efforts.
Well, up something.
[ Makes note to give generous tip next time we go to the (hand) car wash. ]
“I’m no authority on the subject, but a hand-wash service seems the better option. Even discounting a hundred or so metres of high-tensile fencing wire going rogue.”
David,
For a while in the 1990s and 2000s automated “Brushless” Car Washes that didn’t use rotating brushes sprung up as an alternative way to wash your car. (The wash used robotic arms to spray water, soap, and a cleaning rinse of water to clean your car) It seems, at least where I live (In the Midwest US), they are harder to find than the rotating brush car washes.
Hereabouts, the majority of car washes are hand-wash. More than one with a rather stern-looking East-European proprietrix.
First day on the job…
Not cheerful young women in bikinis, raising money for charity?
Don’t make me fetch the hamster urine.
Well, you’d think.
Needless to say, there are memes.
@Ted S., Catskill Mtns, NY, USA
I thought about that. It might be one of those. There seems to be a track briefly visible in the lower right.
I’ve only seen one of those where I live. I haven’t used it in a long time. There was still separation between the cars, though. I’m pretty sure the car in front would be at the end before the next one got pulled in. There’s practically no separation here, which really is just asking for trouble.
I can’t find it, though I admittedly didn’t search that hard. There a prank topless carwash where a guy pulls up and a bunch of, shall we say, plus-size guys proceed to wash his car and do their best Tawny Kitaen on the car.
Band name.
Speaking of band names, there’s a band called <a href=”https://meo44.bandcamp.com/”>Missouri Executive Order 44</a>, which takes its name from an <a href=”https://www.google.com/search?q=Mormon+Extermination+Order”>unsavory event in Missouri history</a>.
Take 2. I guess it doesn’t like straight HTML Barkeep, you may delete the erroneous comment at your leisure, should you so desire. [ Puts 50 cents on the bar ]
Speaking of band names, there’s a band called Missouri Executive Order 44, which takes its name from an unsavory event in Missouri history.
Or we could leave it there. For shaming purposes.
This seems appropriate.
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Carwash near me that I frequent has belts that grip tires on both sides and pull the car along. Great, right? Twice I have been there when the front car stopped at the exit (after being ejected by the rollers) and the next car was pushed into them. Crash! Bozo. Cars inside stuck for quite a while. I think the spray-only type are not so common any more because they don’t quite do the job. Maybe. Hand wash more expensive.
As foretold.
IIRC Scott Adams said something true but offensive to the left. For this he got an obit headline worse than an head of state who ordered the deaths of 30,000. Sounds fair..oh, wait.
The Left can’t help themselves aligning with Hamas, who murdered and raped thousands and started a war, with the ayatollahs who gunned down tens of thousands and exported terror, with Maduro, who imprisoned all his opposition and killed we don’t even know how many and ruined his country, etc. Just a charming bunch. When they tell you who their friends are, believe them.
190 years.
Entirely correct.
“You have things that we need. We have things that you need.”
Well, a lot of coffee shops are insufferable…and their clientele.
Proving, yet again, public schools treat kids as cultivated crops. Are we learing yet?
But on the upside, they do have a “restorative justice co-ordinator.”
So there’s that.
They call it hybristophilia, a term coined by good old John Money, who also invented the concept of gender identity.
It’s no accident; they have been actual allies since 1979.
As she said in the video, the Revolution in Iran was not a spontaneous rebellion against tyranny but a joint effort by Leftists and Islamists to subjugate a nation.
From the beginning, the Mullahs have been funding terrorist groups that harass Israel while working toward a nuke to vaporize it.
The hard Left in the west has been down with this effort because they were instrumental in installing the Mullahs. I can’t help but wonder what Carter’s actual role was. He feigned ineptitude and helplessness, but what if he was just plain complicit?
For this reason, there’s no mystery to the Obama/Biden fanaticism in getting their Iran Deal, and their sending literal palettes of cash to Iran. They want the Mullahs to take out Israel.
This is also why they support Hamas: they’re not just being reflexive knuckleheads, they’re supporting their actual allies. They’re genuinely upset that the Mullahs were killed, because they were carrying out many Leftist goals in the Middle East.
So objecting to the military action in Iran isn’t primarily about objecting to Trump — it’s about objecting to the destruction of their primary weapon against Israel. And it’s about the destruction of their web of plots and projects and intrigue, by which the Iranian problem was deliberately allowed to fester for decades.
In his latest Substack, Glenn “Instapundit” Reynolds says:
Ironically, the elites and beltway denizens are so contemptuous of Trump that he’s completely shut them out. Their usual advice — based on self interest rather than effectiveness — has no caché, assuming they deign to speak to him at all.
I did vote for this. I really did.
Academia, baby, where fatuous word games are currency.
Additional memes. Which seem to be the new, go-to medium for moral outrage and civilisational dismay.
Via Julia.
I R not Smart.
Laughed, not sorry.
Further down Lola gives an anatomy lesson.
While we are on the subject, the other day we saw the need for “trans” to flee the horrors of Kansas, the struggle is real, according to this sufferer of androgenetic alopecia.