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Geoj posted:Looks like someone needs a lesson in motorcycle awareness. Why weren't you hyper-vigilantly watching your rear view mirrors for speeding motorcycles so you could yield the lane to them immediately regardless of other traffic or road conditions? But unironically.
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revmoo posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jf_vnK62L4Y While he certainly found some idiots, that guy sure drives like a huge rear end in a top hat. He seems a lot more concerned with being right and punishing people than with safety or common decency.
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You're not wrong, but his behavior doesn't really reflect on the actions of the people in the video clips.
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Was going down the main street of my town when some old woman in a minivan pulls out into the left lane right in front of me. I have to brake hard and as I start to pass her she moves right with no indicator and I have to brake harder. I honk and go on my merry way only to see her make the next right into the same drat parking lot she just exited. There was no one in the right lane to begin with and she was doing 15 in a 45 zone. loving tourists.
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sleepy.eyes posted:Was going down the main street of my town when some old woman in a minivan pulls out into the left lane right in front of me. I have to break hard and as I start to pass her she moves right with no indicator and I have to break harder. I honk and go on my merry way only to see her make the next right into the same drat parking lot she just exited. There was no one in the right lane to begin with and she was doing 15 in a 45 zone. loving tourists. The word you are looking for is brake.
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EightBit posted:The word you are looking for is brake. Yeah, autocorrect changed it.
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revmoo posted:You're not wrong, but his behavior doesn't really reflect on the actions of the people in the video clips. I don't hear him using his turn signal much.....
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I was just sitting at an outside table having a drink, and everyone outside watched a guy in a brand new Chevy Tahoe back into a bright yellow concrete post in the parking lot 2 or 3 times. Eventually his passenger got out to help him navigate away from the post and through the 20-foot-wide exit and out into the street. Then it took the driver 30 seconds to figure out how to unlock the door so his navigator could get back in.
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good jovi posted:While he certainly found some idiots, that guy sure drives like a huge rear end in a top hat. He seems a lot more concerned with being right and punishing people than with safety or common decency. From what I saw briefly I don't see how he's an rear end in a top hat. But people called him that a couple times and it's his selective clips so 
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Mar 15, 2015 05:36
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Are there any laws prohibiting the installation of a megaphone. like the ones that cops have on their cruisers, on my civilian vehicle?
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These are the assholes you share a road with. Tooling down I-10 tonight when I see a ridiculously bright light coming towards me in the middle of oncoming traffic. As it gets closer, I see that it's a Jeep, running along in the middle lane (of 5 lanes) with his hi-beams on, his KC super-offroad bumper lights on, and his full-width off-road bright-as-the-loving-sun LED light bar on top on. loving idiot, hopefully his wiring is bad and his Jeep burns to the ground in the near future. I sure wish the police would pull over and ticket people who do that poo poo, it's not like it's hard to spot them.
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The Locator posted:I sure wish the police would pull over and ticket people who do that poo poo, it's not like it's hard to spot them. Pretty sure 99% of cops will pull someone over for blinding other drivers and themselves. They can probably pick and choose which law to do it under too, its super dangerous. I'm amazed it still isn't illegal to roll coal on someone though.
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tuna posted:Pretty sure 99% of cops will pull someone over for blinding other drivers and themselves. Explain all of the HID retrofit kits that obviously go unpunished day in and day out 
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SperginMcBadposter posted:It looks like he's in britland anyways. The right hand lanes are for passing over there. That is what I thought at first, but at the very beginning of the video you can see an oncoming semi to his left, so I'm pretty sure he is in the passing lane. I still think the motorcycle is a dick especially since the right lane appeared wide open, I am just wondering if maybe there was a left exit ahead.
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tuna posted:Pretty sure 99% of cops will pull someone over for blinding other drivers and themselves. They can probably pick and choose which law to do it under too, its super dangerous. I'm amazed it still isn't illegal to roll coal on someone though. I mean it's against EPA emissions regulations, but that's a little hard to enforce in states that don't have inspections. The actual act of it should definitely be assault though.
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Armacham posted:I mean it's against EPA emissions regulations, but that's a little hard to enforce in states that don't have inspections. The actual act of it should definitely be assault though. Even in some states with inspections. We have inspections in Texas but diesels are exempt from emissions testing.
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Pham Nuwen posted:I was just sitting at an outside table having a drink, and everyone outside watched a guy in a brand new Chevy Tahoe back into a bright yellow concrete post in the parking lot 2 or 3 times. Eventually his passenger got out to help him navigate away from the post and through the 20-foot-wide exit and out into the street. Then it took the driver 30 seconds to figure out how to unlock the door so his navigator could get back in. I'd say once a week I see someone who is driving a vehicle much larger than their ability allows for playing pinball in a parking lot. Of course the natural reaction to this in Texas is "why don't they make the parking spots and lot bigger!' and not 'hmm maybe we should stop driving vehicles with their own zip code'
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The Locator posted:These are the assholes you share a road with. At night I often drive in the middle lane because it means more time to see and avoid kamikaze deer. I completely agree on the lightbar and hopes of wiring burning the jeep to the ground however. EPA violations are a several thousand dollar fine, if you want to get something done start informing the local police of this. I forget if it requires an EPA officer to cite them or if regular cops can, though. I am not really sure how it fits the definition of assault. I hate brotruckers but using overly broad definitions and making more laws when it is already against multiple unenforced laws is not the way to solve the problem, it is the way to give the police more broad laws to gently caress with everyone with whenever they want. Like, say, civil asset forfeiture, that went real well didn't it?
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kastein posted:EPA violations are a several thousand dollar fine, if you want to get something done start informing the local police of this. I forget if it requires an EPA officer to cite them or if regular cops can, though. I think the problem with the EPA stuff though is that old diesel trucks still smoke under acceleration, however they still pass inspection regardless because they were exempt in those years from emissions testing. So the fact is that an old truck with a poor state of tune is still legal to drive, so by extension claiming you see smoke isn't a strong enough reason to suspect a violation. I'm no lawyer but I bet it would be hard to prove a problem exists without a list of trucks that are permitted to shoot smoke out their stacks vs. trucks that are not, as well as a requirement for how much smoke is "excessive" versus not, etc. etc. Do you time the output of the black smoke, or do you define it by volume? It'd be a tough law to enforce unless you put some very specific measures on the books, and the way the republicans vilify the EPA nowadays I doubt they'll be able to push any meaningful laws through for the next 25 years. Honestly I think the only way to stop this poo poo is to make it horribly embarrassing to have your truck shoot smoke out like that, but I have no idea how. The South Park thing is kind of funny, but even the "Fags" episode about Harley riders obviously didn't curtail the loud pipes save lives crew.
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The epa has bigger poo poo to worry about and has been downsized to the point of ineffectiveness, so I don't think they're going to do much about some guy's smoke tune. I do recall a company that makes the tuning box things getting in trouble.
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jamal posted:The epa has bigger poo poo to worry about and has been downsized to the point of ineffectiveness, so I don't think they're going to do much about some guy's smoke tune. I do recall a company that makes the tuning box things getting in trouble. Wasn't there one that was hit with massive fines recently for that, and tunes to kill of all EGR and poo poo? Like in the tens of tousands region. I need to get my EGR/DPF deleted. Between the oil consumption and the hollow DPFs, not only does the van smoke like gently caress in Regen, it sometimes pops and shoots flames out the side.
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gently caress the EPA. gently caress CARB. Only buy vintage iron, and scare people with it. My old diesel always smoked more on biodiesel than standard diesel anyway.
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InterceptorV8 posted:gently caress the EPA. So you enjoy smog and lung disease?
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Foxtrot_13 posted:So you enjoy smog and lung disease? Yeah, I do. Anything to kill off city people faster.
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Foxtrot_13 posted:So you enjoy smog and lung disease? Silly liebral, let me show you this study from a couple of scientists who just happen to be on the payroll of ExxonMobil that is at odds with 99.9% of peer-reviewed studies on the topic...
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Hey! I love my urban blight!
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Am I the only person here who wants dense, integrated urban communities with safe and reliable mass transit at all hours so I can keep my sports car and drive it on pristine rural roads without having to keep a beater truck to drive to work every day?
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fakeaccount posted:Are there any laws prohibiting the installation of a megaphone. like the ones that cops have on their cruisers, on my civilian vehicle? Maybe. That sort of thing is regulated by your state, not the feds. You'll have to research your state statutes on the subject. It's legal where I live, FWIW.
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fakeaccount posted:Are there any laws prohibiting the installation of a megaphone. like the ones that cops have on their cruisers, on my civilian vehicle? 
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There are no laws prohibiting installation (I have a siren package on my beetle solely for the loud, truck-like horn), but if they can somehow construe that you were impersonating an officer (using the siren, or using the pa in traffic), you get to become a felon.
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Geirskogul posted:There are no laws prohibiting installation (I have a siren package on my beetle solely for the loud, truck-like horn), but if they can somehow construe that you were impersonating an officer (using the siren, or using the pa in traffic), you get to become a felon. Well, I wouldn't testify in court that a police office would NEVER scream "GET THE gently caress OUT OF THE ROAD, YOU STUPID oval office," at an inhumanly loud volume, but if that's illegal, lock me up right now.
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fakeaccount posted:Well, I wouldn't testify in court that a police office would NEVER scream "GET THE gently caress OUT OF THE ROAD, YOU STUPID oval office," at an inhumanly loud volume, but if that's illegal, lock me up right now. Just yell that out the window like a normal person, geez... I've done that by accident before. There's two sets of lights right by my building that, if you accelerate quickly when the first turns green, then and only then will you and the person behind you make the second lights without having to wait. I've surprised pedestrians around that area more than once when the person ahead of me has accelerated slowly, like a stupid oval office.
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kastein posted:At night I often drive in the middle lane because it means more time to see and avoid kamikaze deer. I had no issue at all with the lane he was in. I-10 in Phoenix is a giant freeway, and the 'middle' lane is #3 of 5, and all of them have traffic in them. The lights were the only issue I had.
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People do get pulled over for coal rolling. This guy got pulled over by a mounted police officer, at that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2I0dDzPyrtE
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ijustam posted:People do get pulled over for coal rolling. This guy got pulled over by a mounted police officer, at that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2I0dDzPyrtE  pulled over by a horse. What a oval office.What annoys me along with the fact that they try and push black smoke into convertibles/cyclists/pedestrians on purpose, is the fact that the only time they can do that is by flooring it in really slow traffic. Even without a coal tune, if you're sharply accelerating and stopping in bumper to bumper traffic in a small town street you're driving like a oval office to begin with.
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thelightguy posted:Am I the only person here who wants dense, integrated urban communities with safe and reliable mass transit at all hours so I can keep my sports car and drive it on pristine rural roads without having to keep a beater truck to drive to work every day? Yes.
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thelightguy posted:Am I the only person here who wants dense, integrated urban communities with safe and reliable mass transit at all hours so I can keep my sports car and drive it on pristine rural roads without having to keep a beater truck to drive to work every day? No, I'd like that too. Better transit means fewer assholes on the road, and I think that's something we can all get behind.
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Mass transit is communism, though. Why should poor people get around on my dime? 
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ijustam posted:People do get pulled over for coal rolling. This guy got pulled over by a mounted police officer, at that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2I0dDzPyrtE And he has a stack cam. What a douche.
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ijustam posted:Mass transit is communism, though. Why should poor people get around on my dime? I love it when rich people block the construction of bus stops in their communities. As if they wouldn't benefit from their underpaid housekeepers and servants being able to take the bus to work. Nope, have to make sure poor people don't shop at "the rich people mall".
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