I got got.
A picture of the Wienermobile on the shoulder of a snowy highway went around again this week, this time thanks to the police department of Lodi, Wisconsin (pop. 3,000; home of Susie the Duck):
I thought it was current. I went on a dive into other Wienermobile hijinks in the state of Wisconsin, like the time the Wienermobile crashed into the garage of a home in Mount Pleasant (pop. 27,000; not the home of Susie the Duck). I became worried that Wisconsin—famous for eating meat in casings—couldn’t handle the Wienermobile. But no, the picture isn’t current. It’s from 2008, and it’s from Pennyslvania.
Something I love about the Wienermobile (I love a LOT of things about the Wienermobile) is how pictures of it often resemble pictures of Bigfoot. Take this one, taken from WPXI and accompanying a news story headlined Hot dog! Wienermobile spotted in Pittsburgh ahead of local Christmas parade appearance:
I suppose this is the way the Wienermobile must be. If the Wienermobile posed, it would lose its magic. Also, everyone would believe in it. We can’t have everyone believing in the Wienermobile. If we all knew it was real, that alternate version of The Polar Express where the train is a bunch of Wienermobiles and Christmas is the Fourth of July would lose its magic.
