A Labrador going for 'walkies' yesterday
The Guild Of Experienced Motorists (a branch of self-aggrandisers not wishing to remain anonymous - since 1932), has once more unleashed the unlikely concept of the airborne baby elephant in its call for a new law to make dogs belt-up in cars.
Mature PHers with an interest in such matters will recognise the airborne baby elephant simile of old. The hackneyed line (in its most drawn out form as lifted from GEM's hot-off-the-press release) is that "if a motorist is travelling at just 30 miles per hour, in the case of impact, an unrestrained average sized dog weighing approximately 50lbs would be projected forward with a force equal to a baby elephant". It's been trotted out blindly for years by campaigners against man's divine right to conduct an automobile with his best friend yapping out of the passenger side window, or chewing the arm rest. The commonly abridged version is available here.
Well, enough is enough! In the interests of truth and clarity, this time we're refusing to let GEM's baby elephant fly overhead without taking a pot-shot. Or at least asking the darned obvious questions...
The AMG dog-chipping accessory
What kind of elephant are we talking about, and why the hell (assuming a 'like for like' comparison) would being twatted on the back of the cranium by 50lb of possibly pre-pubescent pachyderm be any more alarming than a similar incident involving a Labrador? Do these people think we're a bunch of Dumbos?
PS. Our dogs travel unharnessed behind a sturdy metal grille in the editorial AMG C63, so naturally we live in constant fear of being lamped in the back of the head by 25 kilos of chipped Flatcoat. (Not.)
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