OK, so on top of all my stupid scheduling I may just have gone out last night to a family do and spent a little longer there than necessary.. and ended up out there till 3am.. so I rode home..

In the fog.

That's one of the things I like about this time of year, when it's getting a little colder and we get those amazing early morning fogs. It was a mid-April morning fog like this half a lifetime ago that turned a disaster of a pre-dawn shoot into something amazing. It was April morning fogs a while back that I used to ride 20km home in at 3am in a period of about 3 months when it seemed like everything was possible.

But enough schmaltz.

It's just as well I wasn't being chased down by some besuited bogan redneck in their ALL! NEW! TOYOTA HILUX AUV! GET IN OR GET FUCKED OUT OF THE WAY!

http://hilux.toyota.com.au/TWR/vehicle/homepage/0,4218,1001_324,00.html

As fluffy has pointed out in blog-land today, and others have pointed out on various email lists in the last few days, it's one of the most horrendous and irresponsible ad campaigns of late..

So a couple of things have happened.

I've decided to start my own tool manufacturing company, following along Toyota's marketing strategy. Our first range will be called the "Action Utility Toolset". See, it's absolutely fine to market in this way, because it's entirely legal to kill people, as long as you do it on the road.

But particularly if you're Eugene McGee.

You can run people over and kill them, if you're him. And get away with it. You can even admit you did it, and still get away with it.

Sorry, what was that name?

Oh, just EUGENE MCGEE.

Eugene McGee?

Yep, Eugene McGee. That's the one.

See, he didn't "cause death by dangerous driving".. overtaking people without looking at what's in front of them isn't dangerous at all. No, not at all. Particularly if you've had a few drinks beforehand. I mean that's a valid legal defence, isn't it? Apparently it is for Eugene McGee.

Anyway, as you may have guessed by the above, I humbly submit that we start a good old Googlebombin'. Because there's no page around about him at the moment, it should be easy... interesting however that he wrote a piece for the SA Police Journal about speeding, and exercising care on the roads in the course of executing police duties in 2000..

But back to the bombin':

The URL for your linkage.

http://www.lyricstop.com/g/gettingawaywithmurder-paparoach.html

Or the HTML if you can't be arsed

<a href="http://www.lyricstop.com/g/gettingawaywithmurder-paparoach.html">Eugene McGee</a>

Hmm.. Angry days indeed.

Back onto the AUV thing for a second, I sent Toyota an email about their campaign (below). I don't really expect a response. I also emailed the TAC to see if they've spoken to Toyota about it at all.