Why Was Someone Driving This Burning Pizza Oven Down a Highway?

Is the whole of Australia positively lousy with roving bands of nomadic pizza slingers? Are there actually dozens upon dozens of Mad Max-ian War Boys operating deadly yet delicious pizza rigs all across the Outback? If so, do these meandering lords of dough leave behind a saucy wake of pristine Neapolitan pizza? Or perhaps they are more partial to the relatively obscure sfincione-style slice.

These are just some of the many questions that came to mind after catching word of quite possibly the single greatest find of this century: Some mysterious saint was seriously spotted trailing a wood-burning pizza oven down an Australian highway. Did we already mention the oven was still lit?

Kerri Lacey, an Australian musician and educator, was driving down Westlink M7 motorway in Sydney the other day, when she spotted the wood-burning pizza oven in question being nonchalantly towed behind a car. Doing what any reasonable person would do after spotting the red sauce equivalent of a unicorn, Lacey began to film the scene unfolding.

In the 15-second video—which was posted to the Dashcam Owners Australia Facebook page and has been viewed more than 50,000 times—Lacey can be heard saying the following: "One wonders if this is very safe. A fire… in a pizza oven… on the freeway… with a car. Just a question."

She told AAP Newswire, "I thought I was seeing things or thought it was a trick of the light." Lacey was also sure to state that it was by far, "the strangest thing I have ever seen in my life."

So far, there is no word on who in the hell is behind what is sure to become a massive worldwide phenomenon. That said, we're sure they are a being composed of limitless energy and sheer, unbridled culinary brilliance, the likes of which has never been witnessed before.

We salute you and your ambling ways, clandestine Australian pizza maker.