'American Pie' singer fined for speeding in Maine

[struggle4progress]

The Associated Press
Published January 25, 2013

... McLean's lawyer says he was driving 43 mph in an area that has a limit of 15 mph when school zone warning lights are flashing and 45 mph when they're not. He argued that the lights were off, but police said in Rockland District Court on Thursday that they were on. A judge lowered the fine from $515 to $400, and McLean immediately paid up ...

http://www.theolympian.com/2013/01/25/2398357/american-pie-singer-fined-for.html

[zonkers]

1. was he wearing a pink carnation and driving a pick up truck?

[struggle4progress]

2. Dunno. But I am sorry to report he was driving a Chrysler, not a Chevy

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/01/25/170276852/don-mclean-fined-for-speeding-no-chevy-or-levee-involved

[Festivito]

3. Naw, just out of luck the day the school lights died.

[Grantuspeace]

4. In a hurry to get his chevy to the levy before it went dry. n/t

[undeterred]

5. Best Lyrics Ever!

Songwriter: MCLEAN, DON

One, two, three, four!

Fortune has me well in hand, armies 'wait at my command
My gold lies in a foreign land buried deep beneath the sand
The angels guide my ev'ry tread, my enemies are sick or dead
But all the victories I've led haven't brought you to my bed

CHORUS:
You see, everybody loves me, baby, what's the matter with you?
Won'tcha tell me what did I do to offend you?

Now the purest race I've bred for thee to live in my democracy
And the highest human pedigree awaits the first-born boy baby
And my face on ev'ry coin engraved, the anarchists are all enslaved
My own flag is forever waved by the grateful people I have saved

CHORUS:
You see, everybody loves me, baby, what's the matter with you?
Won'tcha tell me what did I do to offend you?

Now, no land is beyond my claim when land is seized in the people's name
By evil men who rob and maim, if war is hell, I'm not to blame!
Why, you can't blame me, I'm Heaven's child, I'm the second son of Mary mild
And I'm twice removed from Oscar Wilde, but he didn't mind, why, he just smiled

Yes, and the ocean parts when I walk through, and the clouds dissolve and the sky turns blue
I'm held in very great value by everyone I meet but you
'cause I've used my talents as I could, I've done some bad, I've done some good
I did a whole lot better than they thought I would so, c'mon and treat me like you should!

Because everybody loves me, baby, what's the matter with you?
Tell me what did I do to offend you?

Everybody loves me, baby, what's the matter with you?
Tell me what did I do to offend you?

Yeah, everybody loves me, baby, what's the matter with you?
Tell me what did I do to offend you?


(Possibly written about the US involvement in Vietnam)

[pipi_k]

6. He wasn't going

to wait for the music to die, dammit!

He was going to be proactive and squash it flat into a stinky patch of roadkill.