Beloved brass dog that sat on a car bonnet for 50 years… until elf ‘n’ Safety got a sniff

 

1. The last hood ornaments I saw here in the U.S. were spring loaded to help protect the pedestrians in case of a collision.

   Posted by harleycowboy58       08/05/2009  at  07:27 AM  



2. I remember those but it never dawned on me that they were spring loaded for that reason.
   I did wonder about them at the time tho as I thought they were odd. Back in 1949 we had a Plymouth. The hood thing was kinda pointy and was of course a ship hood ornament.
   No spring anything back then.

   Posted by peiper       08/05/2009  at  08:43 AM  



3. Nanny State Blues. You ask them to take care of you--and the are. Boy, are they ever.

   Posted by cbullitt       08/05/2009  at  08:48 AM  



4. what harm is a little dog going to add to your injuries when you get hit by a car? I would think it would be minimal at best..
   yeah I have 1 of the old airplane hood ornaments, not sure what kinda car it came from, found in old house.. used to use it as a wall decoration, nothing spring loaded about it, and not light either…

   Posted by Infinity       08/05/2009  at  09:19 AM  



5. it’s not like he was Boss hog with his Longhorn horns hood ornament

   Posted by Infinity       08/05/2009  at  09:21 AM  



6. I am speechless - this is just so stupid (and isn’t it a HS/Frat hazing stunt to snatch those oh, so safety conscious spring loaded hood ‘ornaments’? Or I guess I should say, used to be, since I rarely see any now days - except of course the Mercedes Chicken foot).

   As was said - anything done to a pedestrian by this little thingy won’t matter after the two feet or so of car metal hits ‘em first.

   What a bunch of pathetic, stupid and intolerant babies.

   Like an old geezer on Monday night (at the local Reps ‘Town Hall’ meeting) who has no problem with Uncle Obama managing healthcare for all (illegals first) - but almost swallowed his tongue when I asked how he felt about ‘warrant less wiretaps under GWB’.

   It isn’t about safety, it isn’t about health - it is about Power and Control.

   Makes me want to cast a model of the late Riggs dog and mount him front and center - just in tribute to the vapid stupidity of the Nanny State Brigade (coming to a city or town near you).

   Posted by wardmama4       08/05/2009  at  10:16 AM  



7. Supposedly those fixed hood ornaments tear your flesh up. So while you’re lying on the street mostly smashed and broken from getting hit, you’ll also bleed out. So it does make a very small bit of sense.

   On the other hand, it should not be all that hard to retrofit a couple of springs to the old doggy’s bolts. Unless of course the Brit specs call for a break-away event after X amount of force.

   Yes, almost all those old cars had hard mounted ornaments. Are they now illegal? Do you have to take them off to take your old DeSoto for a drive?

   It does seem like a bit of silly. A “All knives used in stabbings must have Teflon coated blades” kind of rule. What’s The Point?

   Posted by Drew458       08/05/2009  at  10:25 AM  



8. also by its position it looks like anybody possibly hurt by it would have bigger problems with the windshield as opposed to it, since it looks like it’s at the far rear of the Bonnet/Hood of his car..

   Posted by Infinity       08/05/2009  at  05:21 PM  



9. How about the leaping cat on older Jags? they actually point forward and in 40 years in the motor trade I have never heard of one wounding a ped! a really, really dumb copper suggested mine was “dangerous leading edges” in cop talk, so I offered to hand myself in if he busts his boss for his (bit of bluff there) he backed down at that point.
   I am sure we are all certain that the brit authorities have lost the plot and are only good for soylent green, and Im not certain about that.

   Posted by Chris Edwards       08/05/2009  at  05:23 PM  



10. Now as a Brit and one that loves my land, its crap like this that makes me wish I could get the hell out to some place where freedom still means something.

    Posted by fidothedog       08/05/2009  at  05:50 PM  



11. Wardmama:

    > It isn’t about safety, it isn’t about health - it is about Power and Control.

    You got THAT right!

    > The object is screwed firmly onto the bonnet and is similar to the iconic Rolls Royce figurine.

    So do Rolls Royce owners have to get rid of theirs?  If not, isn’t this a blatent selective application of these regs?

    As to Mr. Smith’s specific predicament:  Mount Colonel on the dash just inside the window with a sign that says:  “Caged, angry, and dangerous.”

    Posted by Argentium G. Tiger       08/06/2009  at  07:08 AM  



12. Nanny State Giant Government Tit Blues. You ask them to let you suck on it to take care of you--and they are. Boy, are they ever.

    There, fixed that for ya!

    Posted by Macker       08/06/2009  at  09:41 AM  



13. Sorry to say but RR were the first I ever saw who spring loaded the motif, at least in the early 70s, later on if you moved the spirit of ecstacy it powered down into the rad shell (probably more anti-theft than pro pedesterian)

    Posted by Chris Edwards       08/06/2009  at  05:36 PM  

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