Red: Holy macaroni. Rex Morgan, M.D. just got pulled over for speeding. Rover: That should come as no surprise. Doctors often drive fancy sports cars. Red: He was in a golf cart.
Not even close to 115. The comic strip started in 1948, and if you figure he was 30 then, he’d only be 91 now.
Unless he was like Doogie Hauser, in which case he’s only 75 or so.
Usually Red takes a visit to the Veterans Cemetary on Memorial Day. I think he has an uncle there. Jimmy?
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And besides, Rex Morgan is on a cruise right now. He just solved some flu epidemic and is now harboring an illegal alien in his stateroom.
Morgan, Utah (Standard-Examiner) - The golf cart a 26-year-old man used to elude Morgan County Sheriff’s deputies for a day was no ordinary scooter. “Normally, golf carts can’t jump irrigation ditches,” Sheriff’s Sgt. Scott Peay said.
Peay and another deputy gave chase when they saw the golf cart spinning donuts, doing wheelies, and generally tearing up the grounds at Morgan City Park at about 11 p.m. Aug. 16. “I lit them up with a spotlight and everybody fled,” Peay said. Three people were in the golf cart and two on foot, all heading in separate directions. “We concentrated on the cart.”
The short chase over a period of less than five minutes led through parking lots and lawns, to State Street in downtown Morgan city, and finally to an alfalfa field where the cart - with only a driver on board by then - got away. Peay believes the cart, obviously powered by more than the usual electric motor such carts use, was fitted with a car engine.
“It wasn’t any faster than us, but in the alfalfa field it was jumping irrigation ditches,” Peay said. “We couldn’t get through the ditches.” But the officers recognized the driver as Trev Dawson, of Morgan city, someone they’d arrested before on minor charges, and pulled his booking mug. He was arrested the next day at his grandmother’s house.
The cart wasn’t Dawson’s, but he was among those who tinkered with it to give it its extra horsepower, Peay said. It has since disappeared, he said. “No one would disclose who owned it. It’s probably sitting in someone’s barn now.”
bald over 15 years ago
well as long as rex morgan m.d. has been around .. he must be at least 115 by now.
COWBOY7 over 15 years ago
You said it bald, that’s why he can only drive a golf cart.
farren over 15 years ago
Not even close to 115. The comic strip started in 1948, and if you figure he was 30 then, he’d only be 91 now. Unless he was like Doogie Hauser, in which case he’s only 75 or so.
Durak Premium Member over 15 years ago
Usually Red takes a visit to the Veterans Cemetary on Memorial Day. I think he has an uncle there. Jimmy? — And besides, Rex Morgan is on a cruise right now. He just solved some flu epidemic and is now harboring an illegal alien in his stateroom.
serenasakitty over 15 years ago
Anyway, how can you speed in a golf cart?
bonduranth over 15 years ago
Morgan, Utah (Standard-Examiner) - The golf cart a 26-year-old man used to elude Morgan County Sheriff’s deputies for a day was no ordinary scooter. “Normally, golf carts can’t jump irrigation ditches,” Sheriff’s Sgt. Scott Peay said.
Peay and another deputy gave chase when they saw the golf cart spinning donuts, doing wheelies, and generally tearing up the grounds at Morgan City Park at about 11 p.m. Aug. 16. “I lit them up with a spotlight and everybody fled,” Peay said. Three people were in the golf cart and two on foot, all heading in separate directions. “We concentrated on the cart.”
The short chase over a period of less than five minutes led through parking lots and lawns, to State Street in downtown Morgan city, and finally to an alfalfa field where the cart - with only a driver on board by then - got away. Peay believes the cart, obviously powered by more than the usual electric motor such carts use, was fitted with a car engine.
“It wasn’t any faster than us, but in the alfalfa field it was jumping irrigation ditches,” Peay said. “We couldn’t get through the ditches.” But the officers recognized the driver as Trev Dawson, of Morgan city, someone they’d arrested before on minor charges, and pulled his booking mug. He was arrested the next day at his grandmother’s house.
The cart wasn’t Dawson’s, but he was among those who tinkered with it to give it its extra horsepower, Peay said. It has since disappeared, he said. “No one would disclose who owned it. It’s probably sitting in someone’s barn now.”