Accusation makes us ask: What is a sway bar?
Posted on March 28th, 2008 – 1:56 PMBy Michael Rand
From ESPN.com:
Jack Roush said on Friday that a Toyota team stole a sway bar made specifically for Roush Fenway Racing from one of his Sprint Cup teams last season at Dover.
“A theft did occur,” the co-owner of Roush Fenway said during practice at Martinsville Speedway. “The part was recovered. … We are still considering what if any legal action to seek.”
One of the options is having a restraining order taken out to guarantee the team in question does not duplicate the bar, which has been determined legal by NASCAR, for a competitive advantage.
“It’s lawyer time,” Roush said.
Wooooo-weeeeeeeee! We’re gonna get the law after you, son! You steal our sway bar, you get the sway horns. Understand? Rubbin’ is racin’! Yah!
11 Responses to "Accusation makes us ask: What is a sway bar?"
“It’s country lawyer who spouts folksy aphorisms time,” Roush said.
NASCAR’d.
I tried to sway the bar into giving me free drinks but that didn’t work either.
I’ll be here all week.
A search through legal cases in an, um, prominent legal research database with regional operating headquarters in a “south of the river suburb”, reveals a patent case involving sway bars on a carriage to be towed by a horse or oxen in 1869.
Just thought you’d like to know.
Rand’s post-quote commentary is a lot more fun to read if you imagine Howard Dean saying it. Yah!
Snob.
Matt: I assume the case hinged on the testimony of a handlebar-mustachioed blacksmith who was accused by the prosecution of being in the moleskin trouser pocket of Big Pomade.
“It’s lawyerin’ time!” Roush/Thing said.
/Fantastic Fourifyed
+1, David.
Yup. One of these days the story will be told as a sequel to this.
C’mon Randball, don’t tell me you’ve never been in a sway bar before. Call me…
Isn’t sway bar the new joint downtown Mpls in the basement of the Lumber Exchange?
