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The more I read about the 20s-50s, the more I'm convinced Looney Toons wasn't exaggerating that much. (www.history.com)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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To further elude revenue agents and the police, bootleggers tricked out their cars with features that seem to be straight out of a spy movie or a Looney Tunes cartoon—devices that with a press of the button could release smoke screens, oil slicks and even bucket loads of tacks to puncture the tires of their pursuers.

Motherfuckers were just dropping anvils on each other and places big crates labeled "TNT" to blow shit up back then

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 5 months ago (1 children)

if you didn't paint TNT in big letters on the crates back then the child laborers would smoke next to them and explode

[–] [email protected] 22 points 5 months ago

See, I genuinely don't know whether you're joking or not.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Exploding cigars is one of my favorites since the feds actually tried that on Castro.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago

Many of the jokes such as phrases like "What's up Doc?" were pop culture references.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago

smoke screens, oil slicks and even bucket loads of tacks to puncture the tires of their pursuers.

:dick-dastardly:

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Everyone was on drugs back then

Even baby food was loaded up with opium to keep the baby quiet

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

RETVRN

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

Well the revenue man wanted grand daddy bad

Headed up the holler with everything he had

Before my time but I've been told

He never came back from copperhead road

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Arcade Game: Spy Hunter (1983 Midway)