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Nightflame posted:first roadrager i've had ... (only been licensed afew years) I threw one of those window-breaking emergency hammer things at some rear end in a top hat's truck who was throwing beer cans at my car and brake checking me on the freeway and smashed out his windshield at 90mph. Does that make me a crazy road rager? disclaimer: I was 16
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HEY VAPER posted:I threw one of those window-breaking emergency hammer things at some rear end in a top hat's truck who was throwing beer cans at my car and brake checking me on the freeway and smashed out his windshield at 90mph. Does that make me a crazy road rager? Yes.
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Also, that story is pretty unlikely because those hammers don't work on windshields. It doing anything more than cracking the windshield is pretty unlikely, and I'd bet good money it wouldn't do anything approaching "smash (it) out". So you're just a fantasy road rager.
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Krakkles posted:Also, that story is pretty unlikely because those hammers don't work on windshields. It was really dark and the guy pulled over right away, I have no clue if it actually blew his windshield up but it certainly got him to stop brake checking me and throwing beer cans at my car. Maybe it just cracked his windshield or made a loud noise and scared him or something, I didn't stop to find out.
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Regarding unsecured loads, I remember my buddy drove from a wine store to his house with around $2000 of wine (in boxes, at least) just left to slide around the bed of his pickup as it wanted. Nothing happened, but I couldn't help but wonder why the gently caress he didn't just put it on the rear seat like a normal goddamn person would (it was expensive wine, there were only two or three cases, and it was a Tundra with a huge rear seat), or perhaps try to secure it somehow, or at least try and drive a bit smoother than he did. I think a lot of this retarded behaviour comes about from the, "well, it worked last time just fine!" school of thinking.
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HEY VAPER posted:It was really dark and the guy pulled over right away, I have no clue if it actually blew his windshield up but it certainly got him to stop brake checking me and throwing beer cans at my car. Maybe it just cracked his windshield or made a loud noise and scared him or something, I didn't stop to find out. so wait, were you in front of him (threw poo poo on his windshield) or was he in front of you (threw poo poo at you and brake checked you)? Because otherwise I need you to tell me how to build a wormhole generator. kastein fucked around with this message at 06:15 on Feb 18, 2015 |
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Do pigeons count as people we share a road with? On my way to Top Gear Live on Saturday and not 5 miles from my house a pigeon flies headlong into my car and destroys my front grille. Of course there's no hard shoulder so I have to drive another couple of miles with the thing wedged in there like a redneck hood ornament, dumping clouds of feathers and pigeon poo poo over me and anyone unlucky enough to get behind me. Luckily there's no serious damage but now BMW get to gently caress me in the rear end for a foot-long piece of plastic all because pigeons are retarded.
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Feb 18, 2015 14:44
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92-year-old man crashes into 10 cars: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azDu3ysu-I8
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Uthor posted:92-year-old man crashes into 10 cars: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azDu3ysu-I8 Grandpa don't give a gently caress. 
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Krakkles posted:God drat it. I got a call from his insurance company this morning that they're accepting full responsibility. I feel much better now!
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Three inches of ice fell on the Carolinas Monday night. The state shut down Tuesday. Today, however, people are out in droves. I took a 15-minute drive and saw no fewer than 20 tank commanders. It's above freezing and the ice is melting, they just only chipped it off tiny sections of windshield. I saw over a dozen hood- and roof-sized plates of inch-thick ice flip up off cars and smash into the street at 45-55mph. The roads were littered with these debris piles, too. To make it even better, the county put down about four inches of salt along major roads. It was an absolute chore avoiding those roads today.
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babyeatingpsychopath posted:Three inches of ice fell on the Carolinas Monday night. The state shut down Tuesday. Today, however, people are out in droves. I took a 15-minute drive and saw no fewer than 20 tank commanders. It's above freezing and the ice is melting, they just only chipped it off tiny sections of windshield. I saw over a dozen hood- and roof-sized plates of inch-thick ice flip up off cars and smash into the street at 45-55mph. The roads were littered with these debris piles, too. People are so loving stupid, it amazes me.
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Now you southern folk know what all us northerners are talking about every time it snows. You've seen our hell, man. 
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I'll admit, I'm often bad at this whole clearing the whole roof thing, but I at least make sure that anything that remains is either less than dollar sized, powder, or will require a jackhammer to remove.
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Krakkles posted:In a rare turn of events, I have an update with good news on this story!
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Cage posted:Nice! How bad was the damage? Gonna fix it up?
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 Not sure how it is attached. Gom Jabbar fucked around with this message at 03:23 on Feb 19, 2015 |
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Feb 18, 2015 20:39
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They tied it around the metal part that the trunk latch hangs onto.
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Your image? Badly.
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Gom Jabbar posted:
How what is attached? Oh hey, there's a trailer over there.
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In my fantasy universe, there's some kind of idiotic gooseneck hitch in the trunk of that car. I know there isn't, but it is nice to dream.
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ratbert90 posted:They tied it around the metal part that the trunk latch hangs onto. Please be lying. I'm hoping they spent money on some fancy hitch that bolts into the spare tire well if that's a thing that exists.
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Feb 19, 2015 00:24
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Yes, a redneck hauling around a four wheeler with a car spent money to get a proper trailer hitch in his sedan. 
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Bumming Your Scene posted:Please be lying. I'm hoping they spent money on some fancy hitch that bolts into the spare tire well if that's a thing that exists. lmbo look at this guy thinking that anything like whats in the picture is done properly.
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Feb 19, 2015 00:32
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This seems strangely appropriate after many of the recent 'winter' posts in this thread. Ignore the meme, it's all about the photo. Stolen from George Takai's FB page: 
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Gom Jabbar posted:
In case the subtle hints from other posters haven't sunk in, fix your loving image. Do this: code:code:
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Looked fine on my tablet when I posted it. Oh well.
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I timg just to be safe when I phone post. Also when I post regularly, because my monitor is so huge that I forget what resolution peasants run.
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NO gently caress YOU DAD posted:Do pigeons count as people we share a road with? On my way to Top Gear Live on Saturday and not 5 miles from my house a pigeon flies headlong into my car and destroys my front grille. Of course there's no hard shoulder so I have to drive another couple of miles with the thing wedged in there like a redneck hood ornament, dumping clouds of feathers and pigeon poo poo over me and anyone unlucky enough to get behind me. I'm going to straight up quote from one of my old stories: my rear end posted:So my buddy picked up a Z31 300ZX for free from a farmer’s field. After he was done driving it home, we started to pull it apart to give it a solid cleaning which is when we realized the entire car is massive rust holes. The floorpans were basically held together only with carpet and the firewall, with massive 3-4 inch holes running alongside the frame rails on each side.
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Why the gently caress do people do this? I see this regularly.
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The Locator posted:This seems strangely appropriate after many of the recent 'winter' posts in this thread. Ignore the meme, it's all about the photo. Hey, at least the windows are uncovered. Much better than the tank commander bullshit I see on the one or two days it snows down here in Dallas.
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nitrogen posted:Hey, at least the windows are uncovered. Much better than the tank commander bullshit I see on the one or two days it snows down here in Dallas. Until he touches the brakes and it all slides onto the hood. Or, well, it likely won't get that fast, but :P I'm hoping someone did that for the photo-op, then finished cleaning it.
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The Locator posted:This seems strangely appropriate after many of the recent 'winter' posts in this thread. Ignore the meme, it's all about the photo. This bug driver uses ONE WEIRD TRICK to get heat in the winter! ACVW nerds HATE him! the cooling air intakes on the rear deck are completely covered
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Siochain posted:Until he touches the brakes and it all slides onto the hood. Or, well, it likely won't get that fast, but :P Probably couldn't stop even if it did get moving, with all that extra weight any attempt to stop quickly would instantly set the drums on fire and render them completely useless.
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Bumming Your Scene posted:Why the gently caress do people do this? I see this regularly. I don't know, but I do giggle when traffic is flowing properly (slower traffic on the right) and the red car gets jammed up in the right lane and ends up back behind the blue car before passing on the left like they're supposed to.
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gently caress you gently caress you gently caress you gently caress you what the gently caress gently caress you you gently caress. So I'm getting on the highway this morning after stopping at Home Depot. The on-ramp is decently long and two lanes, bottom of the ramp is at a four way intersection with a red light that I turned right at, I can get up to about 75 in my little hatchback before we hit the highway without trying. I'm half-way up it at about 60-65 and still accelerating when a Brodozer comes up behind me, passes me on the right, then cuts me off with about 2' to spare and stands on his brakes. I get on the highway, move to the far left lane, he comes flying up around me again and does it again. I slow, move to the right lane, HE MOVES OVER AGAIN AND STANDS ON HIS BRAKES AGAIN. Just loving repeats it every time I move out from behind him (Because gently caress if I'm sitting behind him) and then after about eight times decides he's going to go do it to someone else in a sedan instead so I took the opportunity to get around a semi, one of like three vehicles around us, and disappear.... well... move up to the next cluster of traffic at any rate. My exit was coming up in a half mile at this point. I've never seen this pickup before, he was coming from the opposite direction and just happened to get a left turn arrow a few seconds after I was up the on-ramp so there was nothing I could have done to make him rage other than "being there." What a morning to forget to plug my dash cam in and leave my cell phone at home on my desk charging. Didn't even think to write his plate down, ugh.
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Uthor posted:I don't know, but I do giggle when traffic is flowing properly (slower traffic on the right) and the red car gets jammed up in the right lane and ends up back behind the blue car before passing on the left like they're supposed to. I see this pretty much every day, and laugh every time. Tuesday night on the way home was a really special one though - I'm putting along in the high speed lane (next to the car-pool lane) in stop and go traffic. Guy forces his way in front of me from the lane to my right, then jumps into the car-pool lane (he was alone in his Altima), then cuts in front of the guy ahead of me, then continues to make moves like this, using every single lane on I-10 (5 lanes wide at this point). 20 minutes later, still in stop and go traffic, I can still see him doing the same thing, in my rear-view mirror about 10-12 cars back. If it wasn't for how many near-collisions idiots like this cause, I'd think it was nothing but pure entertainment for me as I watch them slowly creep backwards relative to me as I slowly just follow the guy ahead of me and listen to music.
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Bumming Your Scene posted:Why the gently caress do people do this? I see this regularly. I'll second the "I see this daily in Phoenix". I think it's something to do with 4+ lane freeways combined with the fact that the average driver literally cannot see or comprehend anything but the bumper in front of them.
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Bumming Your Scene posted:Why the gently caress do people do this? I see this regularly. I watched an 18 wheeler pull that maneuver. But it was on a 3 lane stretch of highway, the right lane being exit only, of course the left lane was completely empty. I was leaving tons of space between me and the next group of cars, traffic was moving fast, but that wasn't good enough. The trucker chose to accelerate up to the very end of the exit only lane and then with no turn signal he just swerved straight at the other cars, it was a "1, 2, 3 go!" maneuver. We need autonomous cars, the new age of 21 year old fresh CDL getting hosed in the rear end by dispatch commercial drivers can not be trusted with 80,000lb battering rams.
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