We're fully aware that some of our UK readers have pretty well decided that the average American wears a baseball cap, Harley-Davidson sweatshirt, jeans and cowboy boots and walks the mean streets of the Land of the Free with a hunting rifle while swigging from a bottle of hard liquor.

Nothing, of course, could be further from the truth, as this snap (http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=526+7th+st+rapid+city+SD&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=30.957823,55.810547&ie=UTF8&layer=c&cbll=44.081111,-103.228935&panoid=OIikWPUbD8lJlNK5z_JcyQ&ll=44.089018,-103.234298&spn=0,359.986782&z=16&iwloc=addr&cbp=12,299.5219409656954,,1,19.751088912619732) from Google's Street View shows:

Splendid. Doubtless our US friend is on his way to a fellow NRA member's trailer park home to watch the baseball while washing down pork rinds (http://www.porkrind.com/porkrind.htm) with a coupla six-packs, as is the local custom. ®

Bootnote

Thanks to Travis Winship for the tip-off.

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