When your local police group throws a party, it is hard not to go, you know? We did it last year, as fairly new residents of the town and took a little guy, not yet three. When I asked the 3 1/2 year old if he wanted to go to this year's Smash & Crash he said...wait for it...YAYYYYYYYYYY! Of course then he promptly yelled into the phone that we had to make sure to put stuff in our ears because it was going to be LOUD. Yessireebob.
I hear that the cars used for Destruction Derby's are getting to be harder to find these days and once they go from pristine to crumpled tissue, I can see why. The newer cars would not stand a chance, with their plastic and such.
Yes, today was the 36th annual Hangtown Police and Firemen Destruction Derby, all for fun and charity. Seriously, it was so much noisy and rowdy fun that I would not want to miss it. I put on my cowgirl hat and bundled the family off to the fairgrounds for what is just too much of a good thing.
Notice the earplugs...
Here is the parade of Pristine Cars, whether seriously pristine or just sort of ironed and chained together to LOOK that way.
I especially liked the Family Guy station wagon, it lost the Beauty Contest, which meant that the driver did NOT have to go face down in a mud puddle.
The heats begin with vehicles roaring backward into each other, trying to knock out motors and stay alive themselves. The one in the center with the Pink wheels was a rockin' woman cop from the East Bay Parks Department. She kicked butt.
This is my favorite kind of stuff. It's like hockey without the missing teeth.
Survive it all and you are $1000 richer with your muddy compatriots left to cart away their wrecks. What a great way to hoot and holler and wreck stuff for charity. Don't you wish that you were here? Cops, gotta love 'em. I am just all tuckered out from all of that smashing and crashing. Thanks for the fun!
What a fun day!!!!
Posted by: Knit Witch | August 17, 2009 at 07:56 AM
So did the woman with the pink wheels win??
Posted by: Caroline | August 17, 2009 at 11:18 AM
Nah, she ran her car even after the tires were torn off! I just think that her engine finally gave up the ghost but she was as aggressive as the boys, to be sure. The guy who won last year did it again. His car started out in great shape with a beautiful red paint job with U2 on the sides. By the end, it was not quite a Mad Max car but CLOSE.
Posted by: Lisa S | August 17, 2009 at 11:29 AM
omg! when did tht adorable baby become that handsome young man!!!!!!
Posted by: vanessa | September 04, 2009 at 04:46 AM
Crazy, isn¹t it? The Schnickle is the funniest being. He loves to sing ³Hit
Me With Your Best Grammy, Fiah awaaaaayyyyyy². 3 is a great age...too bad he
fell down and popped out that front tooth because he looks like he is
5...being really tall aids in that perception, too.
Your baby must be getting so big, too!
Posted by: Lisa Souza | September 04, 2009 at 08:00 AM