# What was up with the lights on this truck? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 1, 2025, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-up-with-the-lights-on-this-truck/1025277 "2025-12-01T01:59:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 8
**Author:** ![Al128](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/al128/32/16541_2.png) [@Al128](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Al128)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2025, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-up-with-the-lights-on-this-truck/1025277/141 "2025-12-09T16:41:40Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > The other day I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How an elephant got in my pajamas I have no idea. which begs the millión dollar Q, for @LSLGuy : Is that an elephant in your pyjamas or are you just happy to see me? ---
**Author:** ![Al128](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/al128/32/16541_2.png) [@Al128](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Al128)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2025, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-up-with-the-lights-on-this-truck/1025277/142 "2025-12-09T16:43:15Z")
> [@Spiderman](#): > > What if Groucho Marx saddles the mustang & rides it? > What if Groucho Marx is a zombie who saddles the mustang & rides it? 😲 c’mon … you should easily be able to work an airplane or a treadmil in there, somewhere … ;o) ---
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2025, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-up-with-the-lights-on-this-truck/1025277/143 "2025-12-09T16:44:31Z")
What if Groucho Marx’s zombie loads a mustang (on a treadmill) into the back of a cargo plane! ---
**Author:** ![Al128](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/al128/32/16541_2.png) [@Al128](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Al128)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2025, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-up-with-the-lights-on-this-truck/1025277/144 "2025-12-09T16:46:38Z")
european or african? ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2025, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-up-with-the-lights-on-this-truck/1025277/145 "2025-12-09T16:48:03Z")
Monty Python references? C’mon guys, I just made a time travel joke. This is clearly a situation where you should be making Doctor Who references. ---
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2025, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-up-with-the-lights-on-this-truck/1025277/146 "2025-12-09T16:48:13Z")
Neither, it’s a Mustang; Detroit, 'Merica! ---
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2025, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-up-with-the-lights-on-this-truck/1025277/147 "2025-12-09T16:49:22Z")
> [@Al128](#): > > european or african? Neither, it’s a Mustang; Detroit, 'Merica! > [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > This is clearly a situation where you should be making Doctor Who references. Who? ---
**Author:** ![dirtball](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dirtball/32/18772_2.png) [@dirtball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dirtball)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2025, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-up-with-the-lights-on-this-truck/1025277/148 "2025-12-09T17:04:06Z")
> [@Spiderman](#): > > > [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > > > This is clearly a situation where you should be making Doctor Who references. > > Who? He’s on first. ---
**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2025, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-up-with-the-lights-on-this-truck/1025277/149 "2025-12-10T01:11:44Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > Normal headlights, as you note, will freeze a deer in place. But the additional underglow lights produce an even more extreme reaction and cause the deer to be displaced in time. The deer will pop out of existence at the location of the vehicle and then reappear several minutes later. > > Scientists have been documenting this behavior and theorize it is a symbiotic adaptation that has evolved between deer and pickup trucks to allow them to both exist in the same environment without causing each other damage. That’s a common mistake among the studious, you’re confusing the headlight/underglow combination with the Oscillation Overthruster, as seen in the historical video footage. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/8jK3RW6rSCM/maxresdefault.jpg "Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai (1/11) Movie CLIP - Inter-Dimensional Ford (1984) HD") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jK3RW6rSCM&t=84) ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2025, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-up-with-the-lights-on-this-truck/1025277/150 "2025-12-10T01:43:29Z")
Best part is, if the deer isn’t time shifted and you have an impact you also have instant fresh roast venison. Yumm! ---
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2025, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-up-with-the-lights-on-this-truck/1025277/151 "2025-12-10T04:06:20Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > you also have instant fresh roast veniso It’s not roasted, it’s grilled 😉 ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2025, 12:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-up-with-the-lights-on-this-truck/1025277/152 "2025-12-10T12:00:12Z")
I was thinking of the flames out the car’s back. But you’re right that it gets grilled first. 🙂 Grilled _and_ blackened; why not both? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-up-with-the-lights-on-this-truck/1025277.md?page=7)