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mysteryfan (mysteryfan) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-11-08 09:11:00

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char: superman/clark kent, genre: public service announcement

Superman Saved Me. From Some Hassle!

Reading a comic, came across this PSA.

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	nagaoka 2009-11-08 03:44 pm UTC (link)
	"Hitchhiking is a risky business...and it's against the law in a lot of places." Thus explaining the REAL reason Superman kept a close eye on the kid, pulled the car over, and immediately told the police officer that he had been hitchhiking. Guess this just wasn't one of those places, eh Supes? Don't worry. You'll get 'em next time. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	mysteryfan 2009-11-08 05:43 pm UTC (link)
	Supes is a pre-emptive hero, I guess. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	icon_uk 2009-11-08 07:00 pm UTC (link)
	He had obviously been talking to Dick, who had THIS problem when he went hitchhiking (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	mysteryfan 2009-11-09 12:29 am UTC (link)
	They should've made that story the Justice for All cautionary tale. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	icon_uk 2009-11-09 12:33 am UTC (link)
	Indeed, it would have covered "Hitch-hiking", "Satanism" and "Forgetting your safety word when you're the submissive" in one fell swoop! (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	mysteryfan 2009-11-09 12:37 am UTC (link)
	LOL. All very important life-lessons. And could've included something about 'having really nice hair' while you're at it. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	jlroberson 2009-11-08 04:19 pm UTC (link)
	This is one of the better ones of these. What makes it a little less trivial-seeming than many of these, really, is the long wordless part. (I can easily see this storyboarding a TV ad) (Reply to this)

	stig 2009-11-08 05:04 pm UTC (link)
	Standard hitch-hiking procedure for me is if the guy looks shady, I ask HIM where HE'S going before HE can ask ME - that way I can just pretend he's not going my way and wave him on. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	blakeyrat 2009-11-08 06:18 pm UTC (link)
	I just gun it and go past at 60 MPH. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	liliaeth 2009-11-08 07:39 pm UTC (link)
	Thing is though, that just because someone doesn't look shady, that that doesn't mean they aren't. Some of the most dangerous people in the world, look utterly safe. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	crinosg 2009-11-08 09:36 pm UTC (link)
	I don't hitchhike, but my definition of shadiness is "could I conceivably take this guy in a fight if he gave me trouble"? I mean if you got like 2 feet and a hundred pounds on a guy, and it doesn't look like he has any weapons on him, then you're probably safe hitching a ride from him. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	janegray 2009-11-08 10:33 pm UTC (link)
	my definition of shadiness is "could I conceivably take this guy in a fight if he gave me trouble"? I like the way you think XD (Reply to this) (Parent)

	tpsreports 2009-11-08 08:22 pm UTC (link)
	Neal Adams? (Reply to this) (Thread)

	mysteryfan 2009-11-09 12:27 am UTC (link)
	Credited to Continuity Associates! Co-founded by Adams and Giordano. Lots of big names, it's still in business, etc, etc. :) (Reply to this) (Parent)

	Huh! steverodgers5 2009-11-08 08:37 pm UTC (link)
	Excuse my UK ignorance, But is hitch-hiking really illegal in some US states? I mean how would you find out whether the stae you'd crossed into had something like that? Before you're arrested that is.. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	Re: Huh! galateus 2009-11-08 09:47 pm UTC (link)
	Yeah, it doesn't even seem enforceable on its face. I mean, unless you outright tell a cop you've been hitch-hiking like in the comic. It seems like one of those selectively-enforced laws. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

Re: Huh!

steverodgers5
2009-11-08 11:56 pm UTC (link)

Jeez that's crazy. One of the few times I'm glad I'm currently living in the UK. At least if I hitchike from Scotland to England I'm not likely to be arrested for it! (Well unless that idiot who's running the Scottish Parliament does anything else to annoy the rest of the UK..which isn't entirely impossible!)

And oh yeah..that poor girl. Guess a sassy mouth doesn't get you very far in Jersey!

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	Re: Huh! mysteryfan 2009-11-09 12:17 am UTC (link)
	That poor girl was in 1946. So... 64 years ago. And even within states, you're reminded not to pick up hitchhikers, say, around prisons. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	Re: Huh! mysteryfan 2009-11-09 12:07 am UTC (link)
	Hmm. Your selectively-enforced law link is from a story from 1946. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: Huh! steverodgers5 2009-11-09 08:38 pm UTC (link)
	Hmm..Maybe it is a law then that isn't being enforced anymore? After all, this Supes PSA does look pretty dated.. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	Re: Huh! icon_uk 2009-11-08 10:15 pm UTC (link)
	That would be seen as YOUR problem, not the polices, and it would be a risk you'd run. You'd be expected to make yourself aware of any state laws that you were travelling through, just as you would in any foreign country you were visiting. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Hah! steverodgers5 2009-11-08 11:58 pm UTC (link)
	Well, so much for it being the UNITED states of America eh? ;) (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: Hah! mysteryfan 2009-11-09 12:15 am UTC (link)
	The U.S. has always been pretty big on state's rights. Laws vary that way. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	Re: Huh! jlbarnett 2009-11-08 11:56 pm UTC (link)
	If you're walking along the side of a major road, such as an interstate, they'd probably stop and find out what you were doing. This has an added bonus of getting you a ride if you were walking away from a broken down car and needed help. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	You know what it reminds me of.. steverodgers5 2009-11-09 12:03 am UTC (link)
	After learning about this today, I keep thinking of the original First Blood movie, where Brian Dennehy attempts to run Stallone out of town, for the simple crime of seemingly passing through. It always seemed a little unlikely when I saw it as a kid. But after finding all this out, it's not seeming so unlikely now.. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: You know what it reminds me of.. jlbarnett 2009-11-09 12:07 am UTC (link)
	the one thing I thought was strange about that was it seemed to me that it seemed the guy walks into town and he turns around and takes him back the way he came. Seems to me taking him to the other end of town and depositing him would be a more effective way of getting rid of him. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Heh! steverodgers5 2009-11-09 08:34 pm UTC (link)
	LOL! That would have been more sensible. But I guess it would have been a very short movie then.. ;) (Reply to this) (Parent)

	Re: You know what it reminds me of.. mysteryfan 2009-11-09 03:18 am UTC (link)
	Well--you know--First Blood. And lots of movies about Macon County or Sheriff Buford T. Pusser. Or many, many Westerns. It's an easy story device: Get out of town/Get out of town before sundown/Keep so and so out of town. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	wonderwomanhero 2009-11-08 09:50 pm UTC (link)
	Oh god. The hitchhiker better have hoped the guy picking him up wasn't gonna date rape him. (Reply to this)

icon_uk
2009-11-09 12:41 am UTC (link)

I'm reminded of a scene in "Untold Legend of the Batman" where Bruce Wayne is at law school and when he discovers that the law says if a joyrider changes their mind and wants to get out of a car being drive by another joyrider, and it's runs someone over before s/he can be let out, then the one who wanted to get out is just as liable for the death as the one driving. It's at that point that Bruce realises the true difference between the Law and Justice and knows he can't serve the former at the expense of the latter.

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psychop_rex
2009-11-09 07:01 am UTC (link)

Hitchhiking! It's so DANGEROUS!
Maybe it's just my northern Californian upbringing, but I've never thought of hitchhiking as a particularly dangerous pursuit, as long as you take normal precautions. My dad travelled a lot back in his youth, and he often speaks fondly of how he'd hitchhike from place to place, usually hitching rides with vaguely hippyish, make love not war-types like himself. (Of course, this may have been because they were largely the people who would stop for him, but still.) Also, I went to high school in a little coastal town, and I used to hear a lot of my fellow students who lived around there (I didn't; I carpooled from further inland) talk about how they'd hitchhike over to the next town to go see a movie or something, then hitchhike back. I never heard any particular horror stories involving that.

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	halloweenjack 2009-11-09 05:40 pm UTC (link)
	PSA Superman obviously hasn't seen Superman II. (Reply to this)