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Christopher

Portland, OR

November 2002

APR 19, 2005 01:09 PM

CULTURE: Convoy In The Before Time; In the Long, Long Ago

Whats your favorite post-apocalyptic world? Akira? Escape from New York?

Mad Max?

What happens when fans of Mad Max take a hint from Star Wars-fans and head to a Mad Max movie marathon?

The most awesome convoy ever.

Eleven "Mad Max" fans were arrested after alarming motorists as they made their way to a movie marathon in a theatrical convoy in which they surrounded a tanker truck armed with fake machine guns.

As the group was headed to San Antonio from nearby Boerne Saturday morning, police received several calls from motorists who reported a "militia" surrounding a tanker truck, a police report states.

Police charged nine people with obstruction of a highway and two others with possession of prohibited knives in addition to obstruction of a highway.

One of the organizers of the convoy, Chris Fenner, said the arrests were unfair. He said he didn't know why anyone would have confused the costumed crew recreating a scene from "Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior" set in a post-apocalyptic wasteland with a real threat.

Whats next? I say a motorcycle chase through the streets of Neo-Tokyo.

AbsintheOfMalice

Tucson, AZ

April 2004

APR 19, 2005 06:11 PM

Boy, people in Texas get easily upset. Here in Jersey, no one would notice. It is pretty much the normal commute.

zenFish

Vancouver, BC

August 2004

APR 19, 2005 06:16 PM

no photos? boooo.

Amusing, maybe they should have gotten that cleared somehow?

Makko

Winter Haven, FL

February 2005

APR 19, 2005 06:34 PM

That's too funny!!! I wounder who the Iatolla of rocknrolla was?

Redmetal

Seattle, WA

January 2005

APR 19, 2005 06:58 PM

akria? I love that movie.

oh you mean, Akira! I love that movie, really .

That's funny stuff though, although I don't know why anyone would want to get arrested reenacting mad max 2. Ah well. Some people...

MagnaDolce

Portland, ME

January 2004

APR 19, 2005 07:23 PM

Those guys are awsome. I should have been invited. they are in my neck o' the woods.
But you know, max wouldn't have succumb to adversity so easily...
I wonder if they had a little person to complete "MASTER BLASTER!"
Oh wait... Master Blaster was only in thunderdome...

[Edited on Apr 19, 2005 7:24PM]

alpha_hazard

Fort Collins, CO

April 2004

APR 19, 2005 07:24 PM

damnit, I wanted pictures!

theseeman

Asheville, NC

December 2002

APR 19, 2005 07:34 PM

"I'll drive the truck"

Andvari

Calgary, AB

April 2005

APR 19, 2005 07:39 PM

This was a problem in TEXAS?? Now there is nowhere to have fun.

Solaris

SUICIDEGIRL

British Columbia, Canada

APR 19, 2005 07:40 PM

i too am very disappointed with the lack of photographic evidence.

jedichris27

Highland, CA

January 2005

APR 19, 2005 07:47 PM

That is great. With gas prices so high, I could see that happening for real here pretty soon.

Cruorem_Angelus

Littleton, CO

June 2004

APR 19, 2005 07:51 PM

I got arrested in 1996 after doing the same thing for the Star Wars Special Eddition release. Seemed the cops diddn't appreciate several stuck AT-ATs under the Hwy 29 overpass in Rib Mountain, WI.

obiwanknieval

Ypsilanti, MI

February 2005

APR 19, 2005 07:51 PM

Yeah they could totally do that in Detroit on 94 and no one would bat an eye .

ketaminekitty

Grand Rapids, MI

October 2004

APR 19, 2005 08:01 PM

that shoulda been me.

Cruorem_Angelus

Littleton, CO

June 2004

APR 19, 2005 08:09 PM

here is colorado people would just assumethey were headed up to go off roading.

theseeman

Asheville, NC

December 2002

APR 19, 2005 08:20 PM

Cruorem_Angelus said:
I got arrested in 1996 after doing the same thing for the Star Wars Special Eddition release. Seemed the cops diddn't appreciate several stuck AT-ATs under the Hwy 29 overpass in Rib Mountain, WI.

Ok now we realy need some pictures of that shit.

funnyman

Cherry Hill, NJ

December 2004

APR 19, 2005 08:21 PM

Cruorem_Angelus said:
I got arrested in 1996 after doing the same thing for the Star Wars Special Eddition release. Seemed the cops diddn't appreciate several stuck AT-ATs under the Hwy 29 overpass in Rib Mountain, WI.

wow, i would kill to see pics of this one. mad max pales in comparison to a stuck walker on an interstate cruorem, you have any pics of this maneuver? if so, send 'em my way!

CaffeineHeadache

Santa Ana, CA

October 2003

APR 19, 2005 08:43 PM

EVERY MAJOR CITY!

Cigarette

Cleveland, OH

April 2004

APR 19, 2005 08:52 PM

Cruorem_Angelus said:
I got arrested in 1996 after doing the same thing for the Star Wars Special Eddition release. Seemed the cops diddn't appreciate several stuck AT-ATs under the Hwy 29 overpass in Rib Mountain, WI.

That's nothin'. You should've seen the uproar when I put my Death Star into orbit.

Renfield7

Westminster, MD

December 2004

APR 19, 2005 09:30 PM

Cigarette said:

Cruorem_Angelus said:
I got arrested in 1996 after doing the same thing for the Star Wars Special Eddition release. Seemed the cops diddn't appreciate several stuck AT-ATs under the Hwy 29 overpass in Rib Mountain, WI.

That's nothin'. You should've seen the uproar when I put my Death Star into orbit.

Pfff. I made a real live Rancor out of two frozen Mastodons and the brain of a recently deceased Flying Elvis. Then I set it loose in Tokyo.

But yeah, your Death Star was still cool.

The Mad Max thing sounds like something that one of my friends would get himself arrested for.

Andvari

Calgary, AB

April 2005

APR 19, 2005 09:33 PM

Cigarette said:

Cruorem_Angelus said:
I got arrested in 1996 after doing the same thing for the Star Wars Special Eddition release. Seemed the cops diddn't appreciate several stuck AT-ATs under the Hwy 29 overpass in Rib Mountain, WI.

That's nothin'. You should've seen the uproar when I put my Death Star into orbit.

Yeah I remember that, they sent up a puny little squadron of X-wings to deal with it.

Isadore

HOPEFUL

Mesa, AZ

APR 19, 2005 11:58 PM

I'll bet the guy who owns the yellow muscle car in Mad Max style here in Phoenix would love to be a part of that!! I saw the car with full- oversized front bumper on the I-10 a few weeks ago!

dem_z

United Kingdom

June 2004

APR 20, 2005 03:07 AM

When I viewed the story there was also an ad for "Vanpool",

this image really confused me for a bit. "Huh, they don't look anything like mad-max?"

abracadabra

Seattle, WA

April 2004

APR 20, 2005 04:19 AM

my favorite post-apocolyptic world will be the U.S. in 2008 after we have elected a new prez.... (assuming we get that far)

edit to add..."happy holidays"

[Edited on Apr 20, 2005 4:21AM]

Cruorem_Angelus

Littleton, CO

June 2004

APR 20, 2005 05:28 AM

Cruorem_Angelus said:
I got arrested in 1996 after doing the same thing for the Star Wars Special Eddition release. Seemed the cops diddn't appreciate several stuck AT-ATs under the Hwy 29 overpass in Rib Mountain, WI.

wow, i would kill to see pics of this one. !

The headline in the Wausau Daily Harrold read "Imperial Walkers Going Nowhere"

nullCigarette said:
That's nothin'. You should've seen the uproar when I put my Death Star into orbit.

I remember that. My girlfriend and I were out for a walk under the stars and she said "wow, look at that moon." I said "that's no moon, that's a space station".

[Edited on Apr 20, 2005 5:33AM]

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