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submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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 1 year ago

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 1 year ago

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

[-] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago

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

[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

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

[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

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

:dick-dastardly:

[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Everyone was on drugs back then

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

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago
[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 year 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 1 year ago
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