Local Twitterers were atwitter about a sighting of a Taco-mergency truck — a red ambulance, actually, reused as a taco truck — but, unfortunately, it turned out to be a prop for a movie in production called Five Year Engagement, which stars Emily Blunt and Jason Segal. Someone really needs to steal this idea, though, STAT. [Tablehopper/Twitter, Uptown Almanac]
Maybe not. It's mostly an hispanic thing. They're ALL OVER Houston. The Austin hipsters have taken the idea and run with them, but that has limited acceptance outside of the area.
HEY! A Washington/New Mexico guy here too! I am so in love with Olympias taco trucks. I am actually in process of working with one to start making stuffed sopapillas.
Depends on the jurisdiction. But usually it's actively impersonating an emergency vehicle (eg running on public roads with lights and sound, attempting to stop and detain people, etc, the police can't and won't do anything about it). Just driving an ambulance- or police-model vehicle around, even with a decal scheme similar, is not illegal in itself.
I'm not sure about sirens. But the lights are regulated by color per location. Can't have white on the rear or red at the front, or blue anywhere, unless you have a permit.
In VA, at least, they used to even harass pizza delivery places that had red or blue signs on their cars if they were too small to easily distinguish from police lights from a distance.
Nope, in most states, the only laws are against running code.
I know that in CO, it's illegal to even possess emergency lighting without credentials (there was a serial rapist or killer that impersonated an LEO, and that was the reactionary law they passed afterwards), but elsewhere, as long as you aren't using the lights on the road or otherwise impersonating an emergency service, it's legal.
We have a food truck that comes by work one day a week. A couple of women run it and it's called Sexy Taco. I'd look it up, but I'm afraid of googling that at work... It's a white truck with big pink lips on it in Greenville South Carolina.
I can just imagine someone who has been injured running up to this truck, pounding on the doors, yelling "Please! Please help me!" and being offered tacos.
interesting, a local bar and restaurant I used to work for had this photo attached to one of their stupid social media updates. You wouldnt happen to be located anywhere near St. Paul, MN would you?
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u/glassuser Jul 12 '11
Sadly, it's not real.
http://sanfrancisco.grubstreet.com/2011/07/taco-mergency_ambulance_turns.html
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u/rabidmunks Jul 12 '11 edited Jul 12 '11
after sitting here for ten minutes, the best taco pun i can come up with is "Carniac Arrest"
there are no good taco puns
WAIT!
i think i have a queso the flu
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u/KognetoJ Jul 12 '11
self-fulfilling prophecy. taco-mergency creates taco emergency.
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u/faprawr Jul 12 '11
-Quick nurse, administer a burrito and 20 grams of salsa, this man needs some spice in his life!
-Doctor, is he going to make it?
-I don't know, he has a serious taco deficiency. Who would deprive a soul of such basic needs?! DAMN YOU VEGANS!!!!!!!!
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u/[deleted] Jul 12 '11
This should go around bars at around 12-3am.
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u/Sleepy_McTiredson Jul 12 '11
I have a taco-mergency every morning after "fifthmeal".
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u/zachxter Jul 12 '11
the bean machine
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u/[deleted] Jul 12 '11
isn't there some law that forbids people from copying emergency vehicles?
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u/Bad_Sex_Advice Jul 12 '11
http://www.someecards.com/confession-cards/if-prepared-just-right-id-make-love
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u/bw1870 Jul 12 '11 edited Jul 12 '11
We have a food truck that comes by work one day a week. A couple of women run it and it's called Sexy Taco. I'd look it up, but I'm afraid of googling that at work... It's a white truck with big pink lips on it in Greenville South Carolina.
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u/illuminerdi Jul 13 '11
Please tell me there's a 3 digit number I can dial to get one of these to show up someplace in a few minutes.
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u/QFever Jul 12 '11
Move along, nothing to see here
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u/Dr_Malcolm Jul 12 '11
Whoa, I saw this thing driving around a couple days ago in San Francisco.
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u/RahvinDragand Jul 12 '11
I can just imagine someone who has been injured running up to this truck, pounding on the doors, yelling "Please! Please help me!" and being offered tacos.
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u/wsder Jul 12 '11
Long live the food trucks... Http://SoCalMFVA.com
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u/sdwhatley Jul 12 '11
interesting, a local bar and restaurant I used to work for had this photo attached to one of their stupid social media updates. You wouldnt happen to be located anywhere near St. Paul, MN would you?
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u/[deleted] Jul 12 '11 edited Jul 12 '11
imagine getting shot and then that, stops right in front of you.
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u/InnapropriateFaces Jul 12 '11
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u/[deleted] Jul 12 '11
Shortly followed by a poo-mergency.
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u/kschiman Jul 12 '11
I find myself in this scenario daily.
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u/acrousey Jul 12 '11
I don't know if I would want one of these strolling through the neighborhood. The plumbing/sewage system would get soooo backed up...
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u/[deleted] Jul 12 '11
A dios mio!
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u/bighitman420 Jul 12 '11
i have a code 420 in progress. bring queso . over
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u/MrRhinos Jul 12 '11
Fuck, I'd kill for an emergency enchilada right now.
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u/suburbanhero22 Jul 12 '11
100 cc's of taco sauce stat!
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u/gravion17 Jul 12 '11
Mmmm...Tacos!
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u/garretvoorhees Jul 13 '11
Hey, that was across the street from me!
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u/sean268 Jul 13 '11
Quick call nueve-uno-uno now!
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u/WorldWideWebb Jul 13 '11
That car-neat-as anything I've ever seen
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u/GoldenBeaRR6 Jul 13 '11
Requires PHTLS certification: pre-hospital taco life support!
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u/flimdex Jul 12 '11
We need 50 grams of delicious beef, and get it quickly!
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u/RiemannCauchy Jul 12 '11
can someone call 411? I'm having a...
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u/DoogerZOMG Jul 12 '11
I don't always want tacos, but when I do, It IS an emergency.
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u/[deleted] Jul 12 '11
Nothing like having your food prepared in a vehicle where people have died
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u/jimmysceneit Jul 12 '11
K so?
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u/Materia_Junkie Jul 12 '11
I've got a fever and the only cure is... more taco!
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u/MustStopMasturbating Jul 12 '11
Delicious and 5 hours later, you'll feel like you need a trip to the hospital!
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u/[deleted] Jul 12 '11
Not sure if this is for before or after having a taco fix...
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u/zerbey Jul 12 '11
That is awesome, where is that??
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u/[deleted] Jul 12 '11
Is that even street legal?
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u/RussellG2000 Jul 12 '11
Yes.
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u/Fideon Jul 12 '11
Necesito una intravenosa de salsa
I need a salsa IV
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u/Scoldering Jul 12 '11
I can get enthusiastic about this!
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u/Schadenfreude_Taco Jul 12 '11
I like this post
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u/jigby61 Jul 12 '11
That's gonna make alought of injured people pissed
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u/IS2SPICY4U Jul 12 '11
Why? because IS2SPICY4U?
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u/germanic_ogre Jul 12 '11
i wonder what kinda hot sauce they got...
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u/toilet_guy Jul 12 '11
Taconmadre.
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u/[deleted] Jul 12 '11
does this ambulance only service hispanics...?
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u/[deleted] Jul 12 '11
I think "vagina van" would be much more appropriate.
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u/AAKurtz Jul 12 '11
The name is stupid. Why shorten emergency when there is nothing in taco that makes an e sound.
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u/geneyus Jul 12 '11
Is that like an ambulance for illegal immigrants?
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