Billy Joe Hobert's muscle car
I've always been told the Washington Huskies quarterback vandalized his own Camaro, but upon further review, it's possible that is an urban myth.
Any time I read about some sort of hoax that involves property damage I think of one person: Billy Joe Hobert.
Or more specifically, I think about his sports car, which I’ve referred to as a Trans-Am, but turns out to be a Camaro. Before I tell that story, let me show you what cued this memory most recently:
A normal person would see this and think of the deepening political divide that has made this possible or what it says about the state of our country that adherents to the two main political parties spend so much time arguing on the Internet over who actually perpetrates politial violence.
I’m a long way from being a normal person, though. So I think of Billy Joe Hobert’s Trans-Am which actually turned out to be a Camaro. This was a car that Billy Joe purchased — in part — with the proceeds of a $50,000 loan he took out from a rocket scientist in Idaho. Seriously. The dude was a rocket scientist. People will call him a businessman, but he was a rocket scientist in my book. His name was Charles Rice and he was a nuclear engineer and he loaned the swashbuckling Hobert $50,000 with no schedule for repayment.
And Billy Joe Hobert did with that $50,000 exactly what you would expect someone named Billy Joe to do with $50,000. He bought a muscle car and put a kick-ass stereo in that muscle car. He also bought some guns with the money.