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Crap, I lol'd.

From Saturday.

So.... You're playing the BTTF theme from an Ecto, right? <:-| (blink) Gotta give you credit for always marching to the beat of a different theme.

Ya gotta mix it up somehow, and what better way to mess with drunks who are screaming "play the song!" than to play Alan Silvestri or Huey Lewis?

I still think driving an ectomobile to the theme of Knightrider is probably one of the cooler things I've done.

So, on my way home from work today I was stopped at a red light when a bum approached my truck and told me the spirit of Jesus Christ had possesed him and wanted to know what i was gonna do about it. I paused and he began to disco dance.... The light turned green and I drove off with him giving me not one, but 2 middle fingers and screaming "YA!!! THATS WHAT I THOUGHT!!!!!" ................

You should have told him that you wanted like a sample of his brain tissue. All these stories are getting me pumped to get my ecto finished.

Damn Bonds... Tampa is being over run by homeless people. This guy wasn't carrying a cane by chance, was he?

LMFAO @ both. You guys rock. And here I was thinking when people ask for the theme I'd just play the Elmer Bernstein stuff. Nope, you're way ahead of me with far worse. I love it.


EctoTrk, your story is a sad one but I'm glad it's out there for us to see. The world is full of douchebags but you responded like a class act.

Got another funny one. Me, my fiance and cousin had just entered the casino parking lot when a VERY drunk stumbling man waved us down. He started off telling us he's a doctor and he's glad he found us. His wife was inside the casino with the keys, he can't find her and he just wants to go home. After a short pause my fiance says, "we just got here...". The doctor goes, "um....this isn't security?"

"No sir were the ghostbusters."

"Oh...oh my God." Backs. Away with his hands up and stumbles away.
The BEST part? He's a client where I work and this is totally out of character.

Two great reactions during a 4th of july parade.

"Stormchasers! Catch any storms??"

"Mommy, it's the BATMOBILE!"

I was blowing the cobwebs out of my engine, flooring it on some back roads, when I hear a shout, "Oh shit its the Ghost hunters!"

Then I had one guy stop me and ask if we did birthday parties. I said yes but children cost more. After an awkward pause, I told him I didnt handle booking that he should call our hotline.

And finally, like I said some where else, on one of my backroad runs with no tag, a cop pulls down the road. Hastily I back the ecto up into a friend's yard and sit and wait. The police car slowed to a stop, Im thinking fffff already in trouble before I even get it legal. The two officers took a good long look and sped off. Whew.

Ain't that weird? All these stories where the cops just look, give a thumbs up and take off?

At Con last week we had dozens come over for pics and talk to us about the car. We kept thinking we were going to get written up for blue lights, etc. but nothing happened.

...oh, except for once. We posted signs for Diamond Select on our car and they converged on us in a heartbeat telling us to remove them or be cited. Wow, they only cared when money came into the picture. The law? Not a problem. Advertising for the Minimates line of toys at Comic-Con? Yeah, THAT was the big crime that needed to be addressed. Just f'in weird.


Last Wednesday I finally achieved the ability to post here on this thread with you guys. All I can say is that everyone on the freeway loses their frickin' mind, disregards common sense, grabs a camera, steers with their knees and takes a picture. ....and that picture never shows up on the web. Know why? Because it came out blurry. Maybe they should have kept their hands on the damned wheel?

Out of the hundreds of a-holes who did this to us and almost caused an accident by swerving into other lanes, the scariest was an 18-wheeler in the lane next to us. He's in the slow lane, we're in the next one over. This trucker just had to grab a pic. I'm seated in the back looking out the tailgunner position watching a Michael Bay movie scene happen as this jackhole begins to swerve across two lanes of traffic. Although he regained control and got it back into his lane, I was just sitting there primed to watch this 18-wheeler go sideways across the freeway causing a multi-car pileup. We all took a breath and just watched in silence to see if he'd regain control or not.

Dumbf***. No picture is worth that.

Fully awesome, Bryan!

Tell me more about the cops ordering signs to come down. What was their rationale? What exactly did they say you were doing that they had a problem with? How was this bullshit articulated?

I bet they're all on the take from Diamond Select or something. Cops, rolling in dirty money they got from pushing lime-green license plates...

LOL, if only it were the case then maybe they would have left us alone.

We had already enjoyed 2 previous days of parking in (cough) less than authorized conditions and were 2 hours into our current 3rd day of creative parking. Several officers from different SDPD divisions ( motorcycle, traffic direction, meter maids, etc. ) all came over to talk and get pics. No problem, everything was cool.

I slap on the big Diamond Select sign to the back of the car and...





...within 30 seconds two immediately show up at the back door. I've seen this behavior only once before when I was a kid and interested in marine biology. The instructor put a drop of blood in the water to attract a shark. So anyways, these officers appear with blinding speed and were actually very polite.

They said "We can't have you out here doing any kind of advertising without a vendor's license so if you don't have one, take them down. We're trying to be the "good guys" about this. There's other officers out there that wouldn't warn, they'd go right to writing a citation so... Just take 'em down and we're cool."

I was happy to oblige. I just thought it was ironic that THIS is what the major concern was. Even the police who I expect to enforce evenly are ultimately only concerned with one thing. Money. Revenue.


I was so mad that I went back into the convention center and stabbed some guy in line next to me in the eye with a pen.

I see, that actually makes a lot of sense when you take into account the amount of ordinance and vendor license red tape that surrounds something like ComicCon. If you threw up those signs at any other time of year I'd bet they'd be cool with it, but during SDCC when companies are putting advertising on every surface of the city, there has to be tons of regulation.

I loved California... for the two weeks that I was there. . . .

I have my Ford Explorer set up as a Storm chasing rig. It looks nothing like the ecto-1( blue paint , lots of antennas, and amber strobes). Me and another storm chaser were in a parade and half way through the route I hear a kid yell "GHOTBUSTERS!"
That kinda made my day seeing as i'm a GB fan.

LOL, I guess it shows the staying power of some movies, eh?

I agree with gb4rver I can't wait for my van to be finished! I just love these stories!

These are all great stories! I needed a laugh so bad. Thanks to all of you!

Yesterday afternoon I was sitting in the back of the ecto with the rear door open (that's right, ladies) harnessing my ass load of wires. I hear a honk, and look up. There's a lady in minivan. She motions for me to come to her, which I do, because I'm always down with explaining to people why I have the car. I walk over to her and she rolls down the window and says right before she floors it, "You're going to hell!"


I'm left standing in the road itching my head. Does not computer.

LOL! Dent, I think that must be a new craze going around. Had a similar thing happen to me at a Cold Stone. Me and my friend were just standing around eating our delicious treats outside when this woman walks up to us and says "Jesus loves you and he's coming back." As she walks away I reply "But... I'm Jewish." She spins around, puts her finger in my chest and kindly tells me "Then I'm sorry, but you're going to burn in hell... what about you? (looking at my friend)" "Oh, I'm Puerto Rican." "That's just as bad!" And then she storms off back in the direction she was walking.

Funny stuff. We laughed about it for a good hour.

Well in all honesty, yes I'm pretty sure you are going to hell. I know I will. I've already been assured that I'll spend eternity as the valet who has to park everyone's damned cars and then hike back to the valet stand. But that aside, I'm sorry to hear that. Here you come all friendly and optimistic and open-minded to talk to someone and this is what she does? she shouts something mean and drives off? Eeeeeeew, how "brave" of her. I wonder if she does that to a group of Hell's Angels as well?


Zeta, that is just plain f'ed up. I got nuthin'. It's just plain f'ed up. Your response was awesome. Well played.


People around here would never know it by my habitual case of Tourette's syndrome and routine encouragement for children to play with matches, but I'm fairly religious. Not enough in the eyes of my pastor but enough that I'm considered "one of you people" by the atheists. I don't believe because I was born into it, it actually has more to do with dying once and being sucked back into my body but that's a story for another time. Just the same, my point is that as I read over the bible and my favorite book ( the bible for dummies ) I can see just how much of it was written AFTER Jesus and how much of it has the opinions of men being purported as the will of God. Basically, I'm saying there's a lot of lessons in there that teach hate and intolerance when the core message being taught from the start was "would you idiots all stop fighting and just get along?!"

So every time I have to see the Westboro f***tards act up or other people like this spout off at any of you, I just have to shake my heads and wonder if humanity is getting the big picture or dwelling in the minutiae of individual lessons that are really just part of a larger whole. I'm thinking these things typically happen on a Sunday about the same time church lets out. Someone leaves church all pumped full of Godly goodness having just heard a sermon about how people today are worshipping their TV instead of their God ( and ain't it the truth ) but then they channel it into the wrong thing. Instead of leading by example, they persecute others.

You know who else is going to be in hell working at that Valet stand with me? That nutter in the minivan who was shouting at Dent. Has she ever got a surprise coming and it has something to do with being humble, not a jerk.

Anyone ever drive in a ecto mobile drunk?

Hell, I'm always scared driving Ecto sober.

Boomer, don't you drive yours all the time?

You had to have driven it buzzed before. lol