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Wienermobile gets pulled over, and fans relish the jokes

Here are the five best burns delivered by social-media hotdoggers.

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Frankly, even the Oscar Mayer Wienermobile has to obey traffic laws. And if the driver doesn't, he or she may end up getting grilled by the cops. And social-media followers will surely relish the many puns and other bad jokes about the giant hot dog-shaped vehicle.

"What really happened on that fateful day with the Oscar Mayer Wienermobile?" the Waukesha County, Wisconsin, Sheriff's office tweeted on Monday. "The driver of the Wienermobile was stopped & given a verbal warning by a @WaukeshaSheriff for not following the Move Over Law (2001 WI Act 15, WI Statute 346.072)."

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Meat company Oscar Mayer owns six 27-foot-long Wienermobiles, and apparently one of them got burned. When the sheriff shared the photo of the pulled-over hot dogger, fans couldn't wait to serve up a pun. Here are the five best we saw.

  1. "Thanks for helping us catsup on these laws; I really relish these kind of posts."  --Scott Ehlke on Facebook
  2. "I guess the weinermobile driver just couldn't cut the mustard that day."  --Ralph Redlin on Facebook
  3. "It's Wisconsin. The Weinermobile is the equivalent of the Queen's glass coach there."  --Karendipitee on Twitter
  4. "Don't drive like a hot dog."  --K Mad on Twitter
  5. "Shoulda been a misdeweiner, just sayin'."  --Patricia Saavedra on Facebook