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But is it airtight?

"We had to repaint our house, and to do that we had to remove the stairs in the backyard. My dad whipped this up so we could still use the door."

"Copy that, Bicycle, you're clear for takeoff on runway two-niner."

No, wheely.

Not bad, but his head isn't covered. He needs to find a very tiny tire.

~Not-"Not-So-Handy Andy" Jack

Are you trying to ford the river with your Ford? I think I got dysentery just from looking at this.

"I've got the most brilliant idea! Instead of people driving on wheels, why don't we just make the roads themselves out of tires! Brilliant!"

Not to worry Fixers, the Historical Thursday post is working out a couple of kink as its writer recovers from the Vancouver riots. It'll be up within an hour!

From the submitter:

In the down & out, post apocalyptic city of East St. Louis Illinois, anything metallic that is not welded in place is fair game for scrappers, including man-hole covers. The city, being without the financial means to replace the missing covers, inserts used tires in their place to alert drivers of the open holes littering the streets.