College student Dillon Pearce probably did not set out to be a jerk of almost cosmic proportions when he head to McDonald's on Monday. And yet, according to police, he ended up intentionally running over four ducklings. In his Hummer.
The worst-selling automotive brand in America? The Hummer, as you probably guessed. Sales are down 40 percent through June, although it's unclear if that's because the public has come to realize what an idiot you look like driving one, or because filling up a Hummer with a tank of gas now costs about six million dollars. [Baltimore Sun]
Hummer salesmen—those poor global warming-enabling souls! Because of outrageous gas prices and a faltering economy, fewer egomaniacs are ponying up for the gas-guzzlers, especially the top-of-the-line H2, which gets a not exactly Honda Civic-esque 10 miles to the gallon. All this has left the Manhattan Hummer showroom on 11th Avenue sadly deserted of late. "I haven't sold an H3 in a long time," laments salesman Leonard Blotz. And we thought mortgage bond traders had it bad. Although judging from what we've seen emerging from the Lincoln Tunnel as of late, we're going to guess Blotz's colleagues in Mahwah aren't nearly as depressed.
An operative on the Fox lot just dropped us a few pictures of the Earth Day celebration he was beckoned to on his lunch break touting his proud, environmentally responsible employer's efforts to "go green." Apparently, the notice about today's event didn't reach the owner of this Hummer parked in front of an executive office building, as he had yet to joy-ride his defiant monument to fuel-inefficient luxury through the festival, crushing its eco-pansy booths about hybrid vehicles and conservation beneath its tires at the time these photos were taken.
