NASCAR Legend Makes Surprise Cameo in Sheriff's Office Lip Sync-Battle Video
What happens when Bill Elliott, who made a good living for a lot of years driving fast in NASCAR, meets the last people in the world you want to see when you’re on the highway driving fast?
You get this delightful video, produced by the folks at the Dawson County Sheriff’s Office in Elliott’s hometown of Dawsonville, Georgia.
We begin with a couple of officers lip-syncing Junior Brown’s “Highway Patrol,” a paean to the aforementioned ruin-your-day guys just waiting to give out a ticket when all you want to do is make an eight-hour drive in four on a lonesome highway.
Cut to a couple of cops in a patrol car on the side of a road, one of them changing the lip sync to “Radar Love” by Golden Earring and getting cuddly with that friend of the speed trap, the radar gun, clocking cars like major-league fastballs.
The officer with the radar gun sells it so well that his partner is clearly trying to keep from falling apart laughing, which just makes it even better.
Finally, we see the radar gun clock a car at 100, and you can see what happens next coming down Broadway with its doors open.
Elliott makes an appearance, and he’s lip-syncing “I Can’t Drive 55” by Sammy Hagar.
And as the cops pull him over, we get an appearance by NASCAR historian Gordon Pirkle for good measure.
But wait, there’s more — if you thought they were going to stop there, you need to brush up on your Great Southern Songbook, because no police chase video is complete without an homage to “Smokey and the Bandit.”
That’s right, Elliott leads the cops on a high-speed chase over a closed course with what the video says at the end are “trained or professional drivers” as the song switches to “Eastbound and Down” from Jerry Reed.
This also gives the entire sheriff’s department a chance to get in on the fun, from the dispatch crews on the phones to the desk cops working in the office.
At the end, they even throw in a reference to the second “Smokey and the Bandit” film.
One of the cops, firearm in hand, turns to his partner and says, “Junior! Why didn’t you have your gun loaded?”
And the other cop, right on cue, says, “When I put bullets in it, Daddy, it gets too heavy.”
It’s a thoroughly satisfying musical journey through law enforcement and a fun way for the local cops to reach out to the community with a little help from “Awesome Bill from Dawsonville.”
And short of a Gators-Bulldogs football game, it’s the most Southern thing you’ll see all year.
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