"If driven carefully, please report stolen” is a jocular bumper sticker saying on many vehicles. “Seen on back of white van: ‘If driven carefully, please report as stolen’” was posted on Twitter by Andy Mabbett on June 17, 2008.
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Andy Mabbett
@pigsonthewing
Seen on back of white van: “If driven carefully, please report as stolen”
6:18 AM - 17 Jun 2008
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Paul Burke
@PABBYuk
Spotted scraped in the muck on the back of a wagon earlier: “If driven carefully, please report stolen”. It made me chuckle anyway.
1:45 PM - 4 Nov 2011
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Baba Adriel
@Eghnosaint
If driven carefully
Please report stolen.
11:59 AM - 18 Apr 2017
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Liana Morris
@love_candymost
This Jeep has a bumper sticker that says if driven carefully please report stolen. I need it 😂
12:02 PM - 6 Oct 2017
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Mike Adams
@_MikeAdams
Banged up boy racer Skoda with the bumper sticker ‘if driven carefully please report stolen’ 🤢🤢 thats absolute plenty
5:23 PM - 12 Mar 2018
Above, a 1934 plaque from the Big Apple Night Club at West 135th Street and Seventh Avenue in Harlem. Discarded as trash in 2006. Now a Popeyes fast food restaurant on Google Maps.
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Above, Big Apple Corner at 54th Street and Broadway in Manhattan. Google Maps.
Above, John J. Fitz Gerald, from the Aug. 15, 1931, Binghamton (NY) Press, pg. 14.
Listen to Robert Emmerich introduce "The Big Apple," a hit song from 1937. Music written by Bob and performed by Tommy Dorsey's Clambake Seven with Bob on piano. Lyrics written by Buddy Bernier and sung by Edythe Wright. Audio provided by Dorothy Emmerich.
Also listen to a 1937 "The Big Apple" song by Ozzie Nelson and his Orchestra. See a 1929 photo of John J. Fitz Gerald and a 1931 photo of John J. Fitz Gerald.
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