I gave a rude gesture to a religious man

[ForrestGump]

The f***er who drives this offensive piece of crap:



The truck was decorated a bit differently on this side, though, though, prominently displaying a color picture of two men kissing on the top left and including a "Save Wal Mart" panel at lower left. South Dakota plates. Some gray-haired looney-toons at the wheel. The thing that really tickled me was the "stop the insanity" mesage atop the truck, my suggestion to gathered locals and tourists being that perhaps he could stop the insanity by driving the thing off the edge of a high cliff or, at least, getting off the Strip.

Yes, the idiot drove this thing down the Las Vegas Strip, his presence catching my eye and prompting me to check out the doofusmobile and walk around it (the Strip was, as is its wont, gridlocked and my inspection was safe, at least physically). I could not believe my eyes. What the hell was that thing doing in Las Vegas? I'd seen a picture of the thing posted here on DU before, at some point, but to see it rolling down the Strip, of all places, larger than life...well, that must have been almost as surreal as the experience of tourists seeing a dude dressed as Elvis vigorously rendering the one-digit salute to the vehicle and its deranged occupant.

I'm not given to displaying that particular hand gesture but, in this case, it was a necessity. And it's arguably better than doing what I really wanted to do, which was to begin kicking the hell out of his truck's doors, kick his mirrors off, and reach in through his open window and drag his body out for a good session of old-fashioned pummeling. Tough love, I guess, but I'm more a bleeding knuckle liberal than a bleeding heart one, anyway...

F***er.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

1. You showed a considerable amount of restraint.

If I were you, I would have been tempted to give the tourists the much better show of seeing Elvis beat the crap out of a 'phobe and his truck.

[ForrestGump]

3. That WOULD have been a Most Excellent show,

but I might've dirtied my jumpsuit. :hi:

[Fleshdancer]

2. When in doubt....

just point and laugh. :)

[ForrestGump]

4. Actually, there were already a few people pointing and laughing.

But enough about my love life.... :o

[Oeditpus Rex]

5. You could've stuck your head in the window

and started crooning "Love me tender, love me sweet..."

:rofl:

[xchrom]

6. hurts your eyes -- don't it?

when the Pride Parade was on here in S.F. this year -- some evangelicals held some youth thing here at the same time -- the purpose was to create a difficult scene -- and to a small extent it worked.

and the year before -- other evengelicals came here to protest abortion -- and that was uglier.

it's so aggravating that they come to certain places where you think you are safe -- it's like they hunt you.

[Bassic]

7. Incredible.

Some fuckwits have way too much money and way too much time on their hands. What the fuck does he think, that everybodyis just going to become a Freeptard just because his truck looks dumb? :banghead:

[buddhamama]

8. ugghhh !

i am not a violent person but i must admit it is not easy for me to control myself in the face of such ugliness.

an ass kicking by Elvis would have been comical. :)

thanks Forrest, for being offended and outraged. :hug: :loveya:

[johnnie]

9. I would have loved to have seen that

Elvis flipping off a crackpot. I miss all the good stuff. x(