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The Associated Press

TUCSON, Ariz. — Arizona state police thought they had a hot one on Interstate 10 - that Oscar Meyer Weinermobile cruising through Tucson. Instead, they ended up with some - er - mustard on their face.
The famed Weinermobile, which travels across the nation promoting Kraft Foods' Oscar Meyer brand, was spotted by a state Department of Public Safety officer Wednesday morning on I-10, said officer Carmen Figueroa, a DPS spokeswoman.
The officer, in an unmarked car, ran a computer check and the license plate came back as stolen.
On came the lights, and the dog was nabbed. Other officers headed for the scene as backup.
But after some checks with the Columbia Police Department in Wisconsin, which had registered the warning on the "YUMMY" plate on the traveling ad, the officers backed off.
Wisconsin police had intended to make a note on the computer log that the plate only belonged on the traveling hot dog and that it was stolen if on any other vehicle, Figueroa said. Somehow the distinction didn't translate well, and the state DPS is now changing the computer entry.

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Posted by: Cinderella

Cops Hot Dog It, Chase Wienermobile






MADISON, Wis. (AP) - Oh, I wish I were an Oscar Mayer ... car thief? An Arizona Highway Patrol officer who ran the Wienermobile's plates as the vehicle traveled for a promotion briefly thought the giant hot dog on wheels was, well, hot.
The Wienermobile was on the road for a promotion in which contestants sing the Oscar Mayer jingle for a shot at appearing in a commercial and winning "American Idol" tickets.
The 27-foot-long, 11-foot-tall vehicle was in a construction zone in downtown Tucson Wednesday, slowing traffic. Officer Korey Lankow caught up to it and ran its "Y-U-M-M-Y" license plate to make sure it was street legal.
The plate came back as stolen. Lankow pulled over the Wienermobile, and two more officers arrived to help.
It turns out someone had indeed stolen the "Y-U-M-M-Y" plate off the Wienermobile in Columbia, Mo., back in February. Oscar Mayer officials reported the theft to police there, company spokeswoman Syd Lindner said. The company got a replacement YUMMY plate that same month and notified police in Missouri, Lindner said.
But the plate still came back as stolen Wednesday, with no note that it was OK if found on Wienermobile itself. A message left with the Columbia Police Department seeking to clear up the discrepancy wasn't returned.
Jeff Kendell, 23, of Salt Lake City, was a passenger - or "hot dogger" in Oscar Mayer lingo - in the rolling wiener. Not missing a beat, Kendell handed out wiener whistles to the officers, who took a peek inside the Wienermobile and snapped pictures with digital cameras.
Arizona Highway Patrol spokesman Quent Mehr said Lankow is hearing plenty about it from his buddies. "The officer, he's just like, 'I don't believe this is happening,'" Mehr said.


http://apnews.myway.com/article/20070629/D8Q27E980.html

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Posted by: CJIS

Cops hot dog it, chase Wienermobile

(news.yahoo.com)
MADISON, Wis. - Oh, I wish I were an Oscar Mayer ... car thief? An Arizona Highway Patrol officer who ran the Wienermobile's plates as the vehicle traveled for a promotion briefly thought the giant hot dog on wheels was, well, hot.

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