As the entire sports world is well aware of, three UT Vols football players were arrested late last night (early this morning) for attempted (un)armed robbery with a pellet gun.  One fact that many people are over looking is the fact that the trio, along with a female, made their get-away in a 2010 Toyota Prius ... a car While we applaud their efforts to help save the environment, the car has to go. Truth be told, they should have been charged for using a Prius as a get-away vehicle.

Put yourself in their shoes.  You are running around Knoxville's "Strip" at 1:45am ... you decide to jack someone up while your buddy is in a business owned by your University's number one booster ... don't you wish you could be in something a little flashier?  Something that would draw a little less attention?

We have taken it upon ourselves to find five other vehicles that would have aided in the get-away.

Why not?  At least it's orange.  A car this color should easily blend in less than a mile from Neyland Stadium.  It is roomy, has enough space for at least two or three HDTV's.  There is also more than enough space to hide a pellet gun, some black hoodies, a marijuana grinder, and a bag of leafy green.

This car could have been the Janzen Jackson get-away car.  Of the three, Jackson is the one I feel sorry for.  Imagine being inside a store and when you come out, your team mates are jacking up two guys parked next to them.  If this Jeep Commando had been available, Jackson wouldn't have needed a ride back to his room.  (note:  of the three, Jackson is the one that put himself in the 'wrong place at the wrong time'.  Jackson had already been suspended ... at any time did he ever think, ya know, I really shouldn't be out at 1:45am a couple of days before a game ... Bueller?

Here you go.  Why could they have not used Dale Jr's race car?  No one would have EVER found them, especially if it had been a raceday Sunday and the car was on the track in the garage.

Instead of a Prius, which is made by a foreign business, why not support America and at least make your get away in an American made GM EV-1?  Sure, it might not be as  flashy, doesn't have the room as the Prius, but at least an American worker could have viewed the car on television and said "Ya know, at least they used an American car".  Just sayin'.

Roomy, open air vehicle suitable for chucking pellet guns, hoodies, illegal weed onto the road side ... evidence elimination.  Sure, it might not be stylin' and profilin', but at least it has a mean little old lady sitting up top with a REAL shotgun with real live bullets instead of having a Barney Fife Peace Maker.

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