Wienermobile wipes out!!!!!!!!!

[Guest Guest]

Famed vehicle spins, crashes on snow-covered Pa. highway; 'hotdoggers' OK

 

MANSFIELD, Pa. -- Let's be frank: motor vehicle accidents aren't much fun for anyone. But when a 27-foot-long tube-steak spins out on a snow-covered highway, it's bound to generate some grins.

 

That's what happened Sunday to an Oscar Mayer Wienermobile on Route 15 about two miles south of Mansfield (at least it didn't roll over). The growler contained two "hotdoggers" -- driver Emily Volpini, 22, of Lexington, Ky., and Caylen Goudie, 22, of Hinsdale, Ill. Although they didn't relish the experience, they weren't hurt, investigating state Trooper Rex Johnson said.

 

"Hotdoggers" are goodwill ambassadors for Kraft Foods and Oscar Mayer. There are 12 of them in the country -- two for each of the six Wienermobiles. They spend a year on the job traveling around the country. Part of their job is to recruit their replacements.

 

On Friday and Saturday, Volpini and Goudie and the iconic frankfurter were at Syracuse University, fulfilling the promise to the winner of "A Weekend with the Wienermobile" contest. Sunday morning, the women and the wiener on wheels headed south toward Penn State, where they will try to recruit candidates for the 2008-09 hotdoggers from a stable of Nittany Lion hopefuls.

 

Mother Nature intervened, though briefly, at 12:20 p.m., putting the plastic porksicle on the median and out of service. "We thought we had come out of the blizzard," Goudie said. "We thought we were through it. Then we hit a patch of ice. The Wienermobile weighs 7,000 pounds, so usually ice and snow isn't much of a problem. It was this time."

 

Stuck, Volpini called 911 dispatchers in Wellsboro. Though skeptical at first, they notified state police at Mansfield. As passersby called in the crash on cell phones, the dispatchers became convinced that the barkburger was indeed in hot water.

 

Police contacted Dave Kurzejewski of Costy's Truck and Auto Mart, and he showed up in short order with a heavy four-wheel-drive vehicle and some chains. Johnson, the trooper, grilled the women briefly and concluded that a routine and sober spinout was all he had on his plate. Kurzejewski hooked up and Emily fired up the highway hot dog, and a few well-timed tugs later, the Wienermobile was back on the highway.

 

For Kurzejewski, veteran of hundreds of tows over the years, Sunday's experience was a new one. "I've pulled out a lot of vehicles," he said. "But that's the first wiener I've ever pulled out."

 

It was a first for the women, too. They left none the wurst for wear. "Usually we try to keep from scratching our buns," Goudie said. "But sometimes, things go wrong."

 

 

[Guest BC Voice of Reason]

"But that's the first wiener I've ever pulled out." It was a first for the women, too.

 

I'll never forget I was driving to school on route 17 about 15 years ago, and from out of nowhere one of the Wienermobiles flew by me like I was standing still. He had to be going 100 MPH.

[Billy the Kid]

 

I'll never forget I was driving to school on route 17 about 15 years ago, and from out of nowhere one of the Wienermobiles flew by me like I was standing still. He had to be going 100 MPH.

 

That same exact thing happened to me on 17 a bunch of years ago, I remember thinking what the hell, I didn't think that thing could go that fast!

 

[Madned]

That same exact thing happened to me on 17 a bunch of years ago, I remember thinking what the hell, I didn't think that thing could go that fast!

 

 

I know this must have brought a tear to the eye of a guy I use to work with. He was so cheap he could squeeze a nickle into a quarter. He ate hot dogs and he liked the ones with the red dye #2. He used old printing ink from a local printing company that was filled with benzine in a waste oil burner to heat his house. I tried to drop a few hints that he could be poisoning his family with benzine but I think the years of consuming the cheap hot dogs affected his brain. He said the used ink smelled sweet!!

 

[Guest BC Voice of Reason]

That same exact thing happened to me on 17 a bunch of years ago, I remember thinking what the hell, I didn't think that thing could go that fast!

 

That's pretty funny. Sounds like it could have very well been the same day. I was in Chautauqua county and he was heading east toward Binghamton. At the rate he was going he probably got there in two hours. I laughed the rest of the way to school. When I got there I told everybody, but I think most of them thought I was making it up.

[Billy the Kid]

That's pretty funny. Sounds like it could have very well been the same day. I was in Chautauqua county and he was heading east toward Binghamton. At the rate he was going he probably got there in two hours. I laughed the rest of the way to school. When I got there I told everybody, but I think most of them thought I was making it up.

 

I was on my way back from Hancock, I was a salesman back then and had the Delaware County area. I just remember that stupid thing hauling butt down 17 East toward Binghamton somewhere between Deposit and Damascus.

 

[Guest Guest]

Can you imagine the 911 call?

 

911, how can I help you?

 

My Wiener slid and now we are stuck, send help!