The nice one Wienermobile de Oscar Mayer It’s a car with a huge sausage attached to the roof. This advertising vehicle is not exactly aerodynamic, so if it has an accident it can end up overturning. That’s exactly what happened this week to one of the six that make up its fleet: the MINI Wienermobile.
Looking at the images, it reminds me of famoso sketch de Tim Robinson en Netflix “I Think you Should Leave”: It’s like it’s come true. But instead of busting a store He collided with another car and ended up overturned in the middle of the highwayFortunately, the driver of the sausage car and the occupants were not injured.
Despite the sausage on the roof, it has proven to be safe in the event of an accident
It is MINI “sausagemobile”to translate it somehow into Spanish, was the last to arrive in the Oscar Mayer fleet and is quite a bit smaller than the traditional one. It measures 4.5 m long and 2.5 m high, instead of the 8.2 m of the rest, more of a camper van type and whose cabin is the sausage itself.
The Wienermobile is dedicated to touring the USA with the Hotdoggers at the controls: a highly coveted position according to Oscar Mayerwhich only 1% of applicants get. And no, they are not hot dogs walkers like the one in the Robinson sketch, fortunately for them. In any case, he is not badly paid: his annual salary is 35,600 dollars.
The accident took place on I-294 near Roosevelt Road in Chicago, Illinois. It was about 11 a.m. when collided with a Hyundai: the Hotdogger was unable to steer the Wienermobile and ended up lying on its side. Authorities have not reported any injuries, so it is understood that the occupants of the sausage car and those in the Hyundai escaped unscathed.
But until they got him out of there, by crane, The right lane of this highway in that section was closed for more than an hour.In any case, there were no major problems, although the Hotdogger probably got a big scare when the car overturned on the driver’s side.
“We are grateful that everyone involved is safe and there have been no injuries. We are providing ongoing support to our Hotdoggers and appreciate the support we have received from local authorities. Road safety is our top priority,” said Oscar Mayer. According to Chicago Suntimes.
The MINI Wienermobile got the worst of it: : the car was left without a front bumper after the crash and had a broken headlight, in addition to the entire bodywork being scratched on the side on which it overturned.
Hittin the hotdog highways! pic.twitter.com/qlh6MBcS08
— WIENERMOBILE (@Wienermobile) October 5, 2022
Wienermobiles have been advertising the famous sausage brand since 1936although they don’t hand out sausages or hot dogs. Instead, they hand out whistles in the shape of this iconic car, and quite a few: they can carry up to 11,000 inside. Although it is understood that this MINI, being smaller, carries less.
Hotdoggers cover about 20,000 miles each year delivering these whistles. There are some who They have even shared their experience by writing a book.This is the case of Dave Ihlenfeld, a comedy screenwriter who has worked on ‘Family Guy’ and ‘Malcolm in the Middle’, who published an autobiography entitled ‘Dog Days: A Year in the Oscar Mayer Wienermobile’.
Despite the title of the book, he remembers that job fondly: “It was the best job I’ve ever had. Everything has gone downhill since the Wienermobile.” The incident on Monday has remained an anecdote and perhaps one day this Hotdogger will also tell it in a book. Or perhaps in a monologue emulating good old Robinson.
Source: www.motorpasion.com
