Post by: spinr on July 27, 2006, 01:13:08 AM
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Are you a woman going solo? Try a blow-up man
Tue Jul 25, 8:53 AM ET
He fits in a car's glove box, appears at a flick of a switch and when a woman has finished using him, she can just pull the plug and he deflates.
He's the "Buddy on Demand," a blow-up man launched on Tuesday with the aim of making solo female motorists feel less nervous about driving at night.
According to research by the inflatable friend's creator, insurer Sheilas' Wheels, 82 percent of women feel safer with someone sitting in the car beside them and nearly a half don't like driving alone in the dark.
"We're not saying that an inflatable man is the only answer but we do hope it will give women extra confidence and make journeys in the dark less fearful," said Jacky Brown, the spokeswoman for Sheilas' Wheels.
Tue Jul 25, 8:53 AM ET
He fits in a car's glove box, appears at a flick of a switch and when a woman has finished using him, she can just pull the plug and he deflates.
He's the "Buddy on Demand," a blow-up man launched on Tuesday with the aim of making solo female motorists feel less nervous about driving at night.
According to research by the inflatable friend's creator, insurer Sheilas' Wheels, 82 percent of women feel safer with someone sitting in the car beside them and nearly a half don't like driving alone in the dark.
"We're not saying that an inflatable man is the only answer but we do hope it will give women extra confidence and make journeys in the dark less fearful," said Jacky Brown, the spokeswoman for Sheilas' Wheels.
They can't really expect that thing to fool anybody, can they? The only way it would stop an evil-doer is if he got the giggling-fits from it and fell to the ground in hilarity.
Man... those crazy Europeans; what's next?
Post by: Harold Tuttle on July 27, 2006, 02:44:41 AM
One day it deflated in his car in the parking garage
and someone called the ploice about the passed out person in the locked vehicle
Post by: Perd Hapley on July 27, 2006, 03:01:19 AM
Post by: Harold Tuttle on July 27, 2006, 06:06:33 AM
Post by: grampster on July 27, 2006, 08:33:18 AM
I HAVE TWO COMPANIONS IN MY CAR.
SMITH AND WESSON!
Post by: Perd Hapley on July 27, 2006, 09:11:53 AM
Quote from: Harold Tuttle
or Men in Black II
Post by: Harold Tuttle on July 27, 2006, 09:48:20 AM
Post by: Azrael256 on July 27, 2006, 04:27:58 PM
Post by: esheato on July 27, 2006, 05:32:02 PM
Ed
Post by: 280plus on July 28, 2006, 12:51:56 AM
Post by: uvakat on July 28, 2006, 03:47:16 AM
Post by: spinr on July 28, 2006, 05:08:58 AM
Quote from: 280plus
Wouldn't a trunk monkey work just as well?
It would work infinitely better. Remember the auto theft clip?The T. Monkey would allow the 'jacker to assume a false sense of security, then bash him on the head with the tire iron and dump his ass off the nearest bridge.
Awesome!
I would so buy a Trunk Monkey if they were available.
Oh yeah... man, just think of the possibilities. I'd turn my Trunk Monkey loose on Congress, and those idiots of the Westboro Baptist Church. That'd be cool!
Post by: 280plus on July 28, 2006, 09:12:35 AM
Post by: Preacherman on July 28, 2006, 09:40:22 AM
How about the Trunk Gorilla?
Post by: Matthew Carberry on July 28, 2006, 10:10:19 AM
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How about the Trunk Gorilla?
Trunk Gorilla rides wherever it wants too. 
Post by: spinr on July 28, 2006, 04:24:00 PM
Phelps Jr.
Them militant bitches is skeery...
Post by: 280plus on July 28, 2006, 07:28:09 PM
Post by: meinbruder on July 28, 2006, 07:29:46 PM
Quote from: Harold Tuttle
a saleman at my old company had a inflatable dood that he deployed for HOV traveling
One day it deflated in his car in the parking garage
and someone called the ploice about the passed out person in the locked vehicle
I recall a story out of Southern Kalifonia a few years ago. A guy is driving in the carpool lanes, with a blond woman in the passenger seat, a CHP motor not too far behind. The woman slowly leans over and lands face first in his lap. He pushes her back in the seat and the slow lean over starts again. This time he pushes her roughly upright. You guessed it, the slow collapse begins a third time. Now the driver grabs the woman by the neck and slams her head against the window forcing her to lean away from him.One day it deflated in his car in the parking garage
and someone called the ploice about the passed out person in the locked vehicle
At this point the CHP officer lights up and stops the driver for assaulting the intoxicated passenger. Imagine everyones surprise to find an inflatable woman in the passenger seat with a slow leak in the neck. I vaguely recall its a three hundred dollar ticket to be alone in a diamond lane.
Mike
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