A Butler, Mo., car dealer said he is offering customers the choice of free gas or a free gun with a car purchase — and most customers are choosing the gun.
Walter Moore, a representative from Max Motors, said the dealership is offering customers the choice of $250 in free gas or a free semi-automatic handgun…
Moore said most customers are opting for the handgun, which customers receive in the form of a certificate until they pass a background check.
“Right now we’re running 80 percent toward the gun,” Moore said.
Uh, I wonder which choice our readers would make?
Gun of course. Then you can hold up the gas station.
Chances are, the gun would be worth more than the gas, so I’d take the gun and resell it (legally, mind you). Eventually all the proceeds from that would end up in the tank anyway.
However, the next purchase I make for a 3/4 wheeled vehicle will not involve a gas consuming vehicle. It has less to do with the environment than it does with the simple economics of the pocketbook.
Speaking of which, is there any better way for the country to change it’s dependence on oil than to make it financially prohibitive to continue to consume oil at such a rate? It’s starting to make financial sense for various industries to spend the money to develop alternatives. $10 says McDonalds is at the forfront of using veggie oil refineries. They’ve already got everything but the equipment on site, and lord knows they have enough locations to make roll-out about as easy as anyone.
I’ll take the gun too.
The British franchisees are doing something bright about Mickey D’s used cooking oil. Not so certain the red-white-and-blue variety will ever get it together:
http://www.dvorak.org/blog/?p=12336
Got a gun, I’ll take the gas!
Give a man a tank of gas and he’ll drive for a few days. Give him a gun and he’ll be able to drive for a life-time.
Whatever… but when these jack off community college twits produce these dumb shit stories for the 6 O’Clock Auto Accident Round Up Hour (formerly known dubiously as “the News”), they should at least examine the statements made by people in the story.
The car dealer claims, “we got… …carjackings…” Show me a guy who got “carjacked” and I’ll show you what we call, an anomaly. The redneck guys says, “everybody needs guns”. Ask him why!
Crime is down. The only thing up is gas prices and fear. And fear isn’t helping us.
With gas, I can only go so far before it runs out.
With a gun, I can get all the gas I would need to go as far as I needed.
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Simple answer.
With a gun, you get free gas and a cash rebate. Well, until the police catch you, then you won’t need either the gun or the gas.
I already have a gun so I’ll take the free gas.
Gun. It is probably worth more.
Doesn’t say what caliber of car is offered by the dealer.
#13 – Your wife says hi.
#15 Hey! What do you mean? His wife’s with me, and she said to tell him to STFU.
Back on topic, it’s too bad they don’t actually hand the gun on the spot. Then we’d have everything you need for a drive by shooting with one-stop shopping. That saves gas.
Actually, I don’t really have a problem with this. I just see it as the marketing equivalent of a non-sequitur.
Why not offer free squid with the car? Or, a free lawn mower? Or, a free toaster? It just looks silly to me.
OTFLO & MM, let me know when you guys are done with James’ wife. This dog looks like he’s ready for a change …
http://cagematch.dvorak.org/index.php/topic,4509.0.html
>>This dog looks like he’s ready for a change …
Man, that is one good-looking dog, Scottie. I’d adopt him in a Noo Yawk Minnit.
#18 – MM,
Me too. We could use a pack of them roaming Central Park to thin the herd a bit.
I wouldn’t buy from someone that would only give me 62.5 gallons of gas or a lousy .25 semi-auto that probably at best cost 100 bucks.
I’ll pass thanks.
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I would take the gun. A handgun costs around $250-400 take it from someone who is actually shopping for a new one. It’s a bad shot of the pistol, but I think it is this one
http://tinyurl.com/69y4jh
Now if this were Texas, the answer to #1, etc’s statement “Gun of course. Then you can hold up the gas station.”:
(Station owner), “Sorry, son. I gave you the gun, and now you can have my bullets”. Which, of course, would be the last thing you hear.
#21 – spot on.
Gun. It makes a great fathers day present, and June is just around the corner.
Mustard, are you and James Hill one and the same? Y’all need a Black Flag suppository to kill that bug up your ass.
[To everyone: The idea of the comments section is to comment on the posts, not the other commenters. – ed.]
Gee, thanks!
The next time the issue of gun control comes up, and it will, we can refer back to this as a reminder that people don’t buy them for protection. A sizable number buy them to hold up gas stations.
Not only is the gun good for free gas.It will also keep the reepo man away.
I would have to take the gun. $250 worth of gas will not even cover 2 months of gas for me.
With the latest trend where gas is ten cents a gallon cheaper if you pay cash, then the gun would be the best choice, as many gas stations are now loaded with huge amounts of cash in small bills.
Were Bonny and Clyde around today, it’s sure they wouldn’t fool around with heavily guarded banks, but would work on the lone person in the neighborhood gas station. Better rewards, less risk. Common sense.
Notice how I’m worshiped by the children. Please continue.
#16-it’s not his fault dude, the mother and the wife look a lot alike in the dark.