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All good. It's really really easy to avoid getting run over by someone in self-defense. Don't get out of your car and try to assault them in a road rage incident.
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The guy was psychotic *and* violent. I would fear for my own safety if he was having an episode anywhere somewhere in my vicinity. Anyway, the mentally ill shouldn't get a free pass for their actions. I hope he faced some sort of ramification.
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Jun 11, 2015 19:20
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InterceptorV8 posted:I bring you the best in this week's THANKS OBAMA programming: I am a new CDL trainer for my company, and I can kinda see the reasoning behind this. To start, the vehicles I drive do not have trailers so they are a lot easier to train than a Class A, and the required hours are company policy so I'm certain CR Enlgand's required hours are different. I spend a minimum of 7 hours with a candidate on a cone course going over cornering, parallel parking and other poo poo grading everything they do before taking a candidate out on the road. The first turn is always a little scary but after that I find people catch extremely quick and I have to do another 17 hours of on the road training. Most of the candidates I train catch on pretty fast in the on the road section and sometimes 17hrs drags on forever. There have been a couple where I have felt a need to add more hours but it's quire rare. To relate this to CR England, I can understand that some candidates might catch on quick enough to not require a trainer full time while they rack up the remaining hours. . . I still think it's a lovely deal simply because piloting 80,000lbs of truck is dangerous. PT6A posted:Especially if they're having a psychotic break. You never know whether someone like that, who's already ripping bits off cars, might decide you're the devil and try to decapitate you and then eat your head. When someone is exhibiting behavior that goes against societal norms we should run them over, especially while they run away, just in case they might be violent.
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Jun 11, 2015 19:51
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Crotch Fruit posted:
There's a big difference between treating the mentally ill with compassion and not protecting one's own life.
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Jun 11, 2015 19:52
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Crotch Fruit posted:When someone is exhibiting behavior that goes against societal norms we should run them over, especially while they run away, just in case they might be violent. The police are already handling this, except they just use guns instead of vehicles (most of the time).
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Jun 11, 2015 19:57
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Safety Dance posted:There's a big difference between treating the mentally ill with compassion and not protecting one's own life. ...or coat of paint, or mirror!
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Jun 11, 2015 20:26
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Crotch Fruit posted:When someone is exhibiting behavior that goes against societal norms we should run them over, especially while they run away, just in case they might be violent. If they're forcibly disassembling a car bit by bit, I'd say they're already violent.
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Jun 11, 2015 20:41
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LOL this thread is so ridiculous (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Jun 11, 2015 20:59
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The Locator posted:The police are already handling this, except they just use guns instead of vehicles (most of the time). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFcEMMZju7U&t=26s
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Jun 11, 2015 23:23
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Well that's all kinds of hosed up. Can't argue it's effective though.
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Jun 11, 2015 23:27
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That specific video was why I added the "most of the time" caveat.  Also, that guy lived.
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Jun 11, 2015 23:33
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nsaP posted:Uh the number on the side of the tire is the max psi, the recommended pressures for the vehicle is usually on a sticker in the door jamb or on the door. Yeah, but temporary-use spares have their rated maximum speeds and distances printed on the sidewall as well.
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Jun 12, 2015 00:13
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Some asshat banging on my window will get shot. It'll save me having to replace the mirror they'll probably try to break.
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Jun 12, 2015 00:50
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I wish they'd do this to the open carry movement.
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Jun 12, 2015 02:21
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CommieGIR posted:I wish they'd do this to the open carry movement. It's been legal to open carry here (AZ) since before I was borne, so I guess I don't understand what this 'movement' is?
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Jun 12, 2015 02:41
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The Locator posted:It's been legal to open carry here (AZ) since before I was borne, so I guess I don't understand what this 'movement' is? Some people like to wear big rifles in restaurants / the airport / public. Places where it's unusual but legal, in order to shock those liberal squares.
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Jun 12, 2015 02:44
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LloydDobler posted:What really kills me about this is how the road rage usually started because they were in a loving hurry. Oh NOW you have time to gently caress around and go pick a fight? You were tailgating/running reds/passing illegally just a god drat second ago! Usually those sort of folks don't truly have a pressing need to be somewhere urgently, they're just Type-A assholes/pissed off/mentally ill and it exhibits as extremely aggressive behavior, both behind the wheel and otherwise. Or sometimes they really were in a hurry, but as soon as someone "wronged" them their explosive temper drove all other thoughts right out of their head.
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Jun 12, 2015 04:29
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Safety Dance posted:Some people like to wear big rifles in restaurants / the airport / public. Places where it's unusual but legal, in order to shock those liberal squares. Yea, ok. Those people are kind of dumb and what they do is very counter-productive.
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Jun 12, 2015 05:06
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These are the people you share a storage unit with. TD;DR: Guy arrives at his storage unit in another county at the same time two other gentlemen are liberating his belongings in broad daylight. Guy pulls a gun and orders the thieves to get on the ground. One runs away so the obvious thing to do is shoot (in the head) the guy left behind, who I guess was still in the driver's seat. Now the shooter contends that the guy he murdered was possibly maybe gonna sorta back up over his ladyfriend about fifty feet behind the truck. The last link above goes to a really lovely in-jail interview with the dipshit. He's a III%-er, btw. I'm pretty sure it'll turn out that he and the thieves were somehow involved in meth/guns/stolen merch together. 
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Jun 12, 2015 05:12
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Re: diffusing road ragers - I've found the most effective method is start video recording them with your phone. Just start recording and don't do anything but sit there deadpan with your phone in hand. Works every time.
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Jun 12, 2015 05:51
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Safety Dance posted:Some people like to wear big rifles in restaurants / the airport / public. Places where it's unusual but legal, in order to shock those liberal squares. Big rifles? I tried open carrying that Mosin you sold me, but it kept getting stuck in doorframes and poo poo. Couldn't even get into the Chipotle.
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Jun 12, 2015 06:19
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Geoj posted:Re: diffusing road ragers - I've found the most effective method is start video recording them with your phone. Just start recording and don't do anything but sit there deadpan with your phone in hand. Works every time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rym5unx0ZCo
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Last night, I heard a loud screech and several large bangs. It sounded like the trash truck picking up the dumpster, but then I heard someone scream. I ran outside to see what happened. A dude in a Nissan Armada hit three trees spaced about 40' apart. He clipped the first tree, took a gouge out of the second tree, then hit the third tree and came to a stop. At some point in this crash he rolled. The front end was destroyed, the right front fender was gone, and the right front wheel and hub were somewhere in the parking lot of the business park across from my condo complex. His girlfriend was following him in her car, not sure what was going on there. The driver jumped right out of the car and ran through the parking lot into the condo complex. I started following him to make sure he wasn't going to go die somewhere, but he started running. I guess he lives in one of the buildings here, and he went up into a condo to get something, then ran back to his car. 911 had been called, but before the cops got there, he was taking all of his stuff out of his car and putting it in his girlfriend's trunk. The cops came in about 5-6 minutes after calling 911, its difficult to pull them off of ticket writing duty I guess. I couldn't hear what the guy was saying to the cops from across the street, but I made out something like he said he made a left out of our complex and lost control. Which is bullshit, because the first tree he hit was beyond the intersection. Not sure if any tickets were given out, but the car was on the wrecker within an hour, and the guy was allowed to walk home.
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Jun 12, 2015 12:45
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Geoj posted:Re: diffusing road ragers - I've found the most effective method is start video recording them with your phone. Just start recording and don't do anything but sit there deadpan with your phone in hand. Works every time. I'd imagine that in some cases it would just make the road rager more angry. On another note, reversible lanes aka suicide lanes - a lot better in theory than in practice, given that most of the time the road is super busy and people don't know precisely where they're going so there's a lot of unintentional derping about. Pixelated Dragon fucked around with this message at 17:17 on Jun 12, 2015 |
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Jun 12, 2015 15:03
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Pham Nuwen posted:Big rifles? I tried open carrying that Mosin you sold me, but it kept getting stuck in doorframes and poo poo. Couldn't even get into the Chipotle. That's why the Soviets made the bayonet removable. It was SOP to unfix the bayonet in vehicles or Quick Service Restaurants.
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Jun 12, 2015 15:21
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The correct answer is to use the drive-through. So this morning, I had the unique pleasure of driving behind someone who had the most unusual relationship with the speed limit. In a highway 70kph zone, they did 45. In a residential 60kph zone, they did maybe a low 100. In a hospital 40kph zone, they did 70. In a freeway 50kph zone, they did 20. It's like the dude is afraid of speed unless he's guaranteed it will kill him.
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Seat Safety Switch posted:The correct answer is to use the drive-through. Clearly the cops are only looking for people speeding on the highways, never residential streets. Kinda makes sense, all my speeding tickets have been on highways. What I hate is when driving across Kansas and similar states, the speed limit is a consistent 65mph but every 30 miles there is a small town where the limit will drop to 20-40mph. I always find myself being tailgated as I go through town by the same people who refuse to drive the limit on the open highway. As for open carry. . . The poo poo hole state of Kansas finally did something right by not requiring a permit to carry concealed. It sucks but I have to admit too many people freak out, especially when they see a cocked  and locked 1911.
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Crotch Fruit posted:Clearly the cops are only looking for people speeding on the highways, never residential streets. Kinda makes sense, all my speeding tickets have been on highways. Based on the dumbfucks in my CCH class who barely managed to pass, this new law scares the poo poo out of me. GG Kansas.  "can I shoot a guy if he's outside stealing my mower from my shed?" "no, because you are not in direct harm. Call the police" "what if he's black?"
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Jun 12, 2015 16:46
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"I'm sorry sir you can only shoot people for no reason if they have the same last name as yourself. I've studied the law extensively so you can trust me that it's true."
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Jun 12, 2015 16:49
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xzzy posted:"I'm sorry sir you can only shoot people for no reason if they have the same last name as yourself. I've studied the law extensively so you can trust me that it's true." Well yeah, "I was cleaning it and it just went off!" works a lot better if the incident occurs at home.
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Jun 12, 2015 22:19
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Pham Nuwen posted:Well yeah, "I was cleaning it and it just went off!" works a lot better if the incident occurs at home. I use this excuse when I shower.
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Count Freebasie posted:I use this excuse when I shower. "It's my dick and I can wash it as fast as I want!"
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Jun 13, 2015 02:05
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Pham Nuwen posted:"It's my dick and I can wash it as fast as I want!" You'll probably want to use something a little nicer than cosmoline as lube, though.
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Jun 13, 2015 02:17
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Safety Dance posted:You'll probably want to use something a little nicer than cosmoline as lube, though. Lucas Oil Stabilizer for high mileage machinery.
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 The other day, I was heading back home from my mechanics shop and had to go through a notorious intersection. This time, the driver took the cake. I never saw someone so stupid push their way through 3 lanes of on coming traffic. Let me explain. The intersection of Juanita Drive and 98th has a Michaels craft store on the corner. The eastbound intersection also has 3 lanes; a left turn, a straight and right turn only lane. Because of these three lanes, soccer moms have a huge problem getting to the craft store. They will generally block a lane while trying to leave and make a left turn for instance. This genius decided that they she did not want to go around and back again to travel westbound down Juanita Drive. So she pulled out directly in front of me and headed straight down the eastbound right turn lane in the westward direction. I made it all the way till I could not legally drive anymore and just sat there with my horn on as she continued to drive towards me giving me the Kirkland Wave. If you don't know what that is, its the generic "gently caress you, I'm going" wave. gently caress these people.
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Geoj posted:Re: diffusing road ragers - I've found the most effective method is start video recording them with your phone. Just start recording and don't do anything but sit there deadpan with your phone in hand. Works every time. My advice would always be to lock your doors, look for an escape route and peel the gently caress out as soon as its safe to do so. It's not worth keeping yourself in danger just to film someone who'll at most face a small fine.
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NO gently caress YOU DAD posted:My advice would always be to lock your doors And invest in bullet-proof windows.
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Jun 13, 2015 14:28
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Staying fresh staying cool! With Mentos fresh and full of life! Fresh goes better! Mentos Freshmints!
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Jun 13, 2015 17:19
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NO gently caress YOU DAD posted:People around here would just see that as escalating the situation - they're already entitled to attack you for questioning their perfect driving, so filming them doing so is just undermining their authority further. Except if/when the police get involved all the road rager has to do is deny everything and the cop will just shrug and say he can't tell who did what and leave it at that - including any damage done to your car. gently caress, if you're going to base everything you do on how a temporarily-insane person may react what's to say looking for an escape route and peeling the gently caress out won't be viewed as escalating the situation as well? Also where did I say you should stop and just sit there recording until the raging person grows bored and leaves or kills you? Protip: it is possible to both record someone melting down and attempt to flee simultaneously! Geoj fucked around with this message at 17:45 on Jun 13, 2015 |
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wayfinder posted:Staying fresh staying cool! With Mentos fresh and full of life! Haha this is awesome. Love the creative, dangerous problem solving.
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