The Red Monkey

In a PopularMechanics.com exclusive, Jamie Hyneman breaks down his team’s most recent eye-popping experiment: rolling out a Ferrari, Harley, ATV, compact car and hand-built go-kart to the track, and pitting each against its electric-propulsion counterpart. The bottom line? Well read the article for that!

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According to Slightly Stoopid’s Management, Silverback, the crew was detained at the American/ Canadian border on their way to their Fargo show in North Dakota.

The tour bus was pulled over and guided by drug sniffing dogs Border Patrol agents ordered everyone off of the tour bus and proceeded to search the bus where they found some marijuana and magic shrooms and lots of paraphernalia. If you are surprised by this then you have not been paying attention to their lyrics.

At this point the officer then asked what was in the trailer. The crew came clean and admitted they had several hand blown pipes that had not been used. All the items were confiscated and Kyle McDonald and Miles Doughtry were free to go with a rather large fine instead of facing felony charges.

Follow this link for the original article from Silverback Management.

Last week Jalopnik brought you the story of Ken Imhoff, who followed his dream by building his very own Lamborghini in his basement. Over the last week Jalopnik has been working with Mr. Imhoff to put together a story that will not only do justice to his car, but to his vision and persistence.

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Jalopnik has some great coverage of the Paris auto show and has a round up posted on their front page. Click on the pic to go to their site and check out their pictures. They even have a section devoted to the booth babes.