Wiener Whistles?

**Cidp24** · 06-29-07, 01:59 PM

MADISON, Wis. (AP) - Is the hot dog a hot car? An Arizona Highway Patrol officer pulled over the Oscar Mayer Wienermobile. The trooper had run a license check on the Wienermobile's YUMMY plates and the report came back as stolen. It seems that the plates had been swiped from the Wienermobile months ago in Missouri but had been replaced. However, the stolen plate report was still listed in a nationwide law enforcement database. But there's no hard feelings. The guys in the Wienermobile handed out wiener whistles to the officers, while the mess was straightened out.

**Buttercup** · 06-29-07, 02:03 PM

Wiener whistles like this?

**CTR man** · 06-30-07, 01:51 AM

http://www.azstarnet.com/metro/189464

Oscar Mayer Wienermobile pulled over by mistake
By Dale Quinn
Arizona Daily Star
Tucson, Arizona | Published: 06.28.2007

Cops everywhere can rest a little easier today — there's no longer a need to be on the lookout for a hot Wienermobile.

Oscar Mayer's super-sized fiberglass hot dog on a bun was pulled
over about 10:30 Wednesday morning on Interstate 10 near the South Sixth Avenue exit.

Blame a few bad keystrokes rather than the munchies for the unscheduled stop.

A bad computer entry mistakenly showed the Wienermobile was sporting a stolen license plate, prompting an officer in an unmarked car to pull the dog over, said Officer Carmen Figueroa, a spokeswoman for the state Department of Public Safety.

A DPS officer in a marked patrol car and another on a motorcycle came by to get a closer look at the unusual stop.

An officer called the police agency that made the computer entry, talked with the Columbia Police Department in Wisconsin and learned the entry should have read that the license plate had been stolen if it was on any vehicle that isn't a giant hot dog.

The Wienermobile — with a Wisconsin license plate reading "YUMMY" — was allowed to go about its business.

The state DPS was changing the computer entry so the Wienermobile and its driver can avoid future entanglements with the law, Figueroa said.

**KaiGywer** · 06-30-07, 03:51 AM

Originally Posted by CTR man

An officer called the police agency that made the computer entry, talked with the Columbia Police Department in Wisconsin and learned the entry should have read that the license plate had been stolen if it was on any vehicle that isn't a giant hot dog.

I just love that part of the quote

**Illiy** · 06-30-07, 03:53 AM

Oh, I'd love to be an Oscar Mayer wiener.
That is what I'd truly like to be.
'Cause if I were an Oscar Mayer wiener,
Everyone would be in love with me.

Oh, I'm glad I'm not an Oscar Mayer wiener.
That is what I'd never want to be.
Cause if I were an Oscar Mayer wiener.
There would soon be nothing left of me!