To further elude revenue agents and the police, bootleggers tricked out their cars with features that seem to be straight out of a spy movie or a Looney Tunes cartoon—devices that with a press of the button could release smoke screens, oil slicks and even bucket loads of tacks to puncture the tires of their pursuers.

Motherfuckers were just dropping anvils on each other and places big crates labeled “TNT” to blow shit up back then

if you didn’t paint TNT in big letters on the crates back then the child laborers would smoke next to them and explode

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See, I genuinely don’t know whether you’re joking or not.

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Exploding cigars is one of my favorites since the feds actually tried that on Castro.

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That was actually based on a true story

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smoke screens, oil slicks and even bucket loads of tacks to puncture the tires of their pursuers.

:dick-dastardly:

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Many of the jokes such as phrases like “What’s up Doc?” were pop culture references.

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