Flyover Folks Sideline Coronavirus Bureaucrats To Enjoy Classic Car Show

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The Federalist

The classic car show was noisy, random, and unsupervised by busybodies — the perfect opportunity to flip a giant community middle finger to liberal scolds and meddling bureaucrats everywhere.

J.C. Bourque

September 19, 2020

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The Show Must Go On

So Jim gave up trying to get a permit two days before the event. And what happened?

The owners of more than 100 of those classic cars and trucks, hot rods, and crazy hybrids arrived at the site anyway, joined by several food trucks and other vendors, who spontaneously arranged themselves into semi-concise rows without the crucial assistance of either caution-tape cues or bureaucratic oversight, and held the show anyway.

There was a higher-than-usual proportion of white hair and oxygen bottles in the crowd, and maybe one in 100 attendees wore masks. Spectators wandered about in random directions, closely passing one another, mingling in non-distancing groups, shaking hands, and breathing without official sanction. One kid had a runny nose.

Two policemen, wearing masks, strolled the show chatting with car owners and visitors who were neither wearing masks nor distancing. They seemed disinclined to arrest anyone. Jim gave them each a trophy.

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The show was noisy, random, unsupervised by busybodies, and provided the perfect opportunity to recklessly burn fossil fuel and disturb the peace while sporting MAGA paraphernalia. In other words, it was an opportunity to flip a giant community middle finger to liberal scolds and meddling bureaucrats everywhere.