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Powershift posted:It's enforced when they want a reason to stop the person like if the driver is black or the passenger is black or the vehicle is the type of vehicle a black person would drive or the name it's registered to sounds black. I used to work with a guy who went to college in the D.C. area. He was driving home from his job in the wee hours of the morning in his college‐budget Cadillac. A cop pulls him over, sees a white face, and waves him on. This happened multiple times while he held that job. My coworker was pretty racist himself, but he did at least see what was going on there and think it was hosed‐up. e: Bad snype, but getting shot by racist cops rates decently on the occupational hazard scale, I’d wager.
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The real problem here is Americans calling "Rockets" the same thing as "Smarties". 
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Sockington posted:The real problem here is Americans calling "Rockets" the same thing as "Smarties". And today I learn that SweeTarts and Smarties are not the same thing
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 one of them is even the same color as the festive plate!
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Memento posted:Correct me if I'm wrong, but once a crane goes down like that the entire boom arm is toast, right? I wish I still had the tape of that 
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EKDS5k posted:Well in theory it could be repaired to spec, but good luck finding an inspector willing to sign off on a crane that fell over like that. Safer to just scrap it and replace it.
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axolotl farmer posted:Ow ow oof An arse hurting chair vs. a chair hurting arse. No-one wins.
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Oh hey I guess there's a second way to lose the Game of Thrones
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axolotl farmer posted:Ow ow oof That's a good way to gently caress up your crack.
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Phanatic posted:That's a good way to gently caress up your crack.
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Enourmo posted:Wait til you find out about the plethora of trucks driving down busy surface streets with their "off-road only" 10 gajillion lumun LED bars lit up like a miniature sun. Which cops happily drive by on their way to nab someone doing 46 in a 45. Just saw this Saturday night in Phila. A Dodge Bro-rider with an enormous LED rig mounted in, or under, the front bumper (I couldn't really get a close look because I value my night-vison & retinas). Wouldn't have been so bad maybe if it was. I don't know, pointed down towards the pavement. But no.
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Sigourney Cheevos posted:http://www.wdrb.com/story/35137408/woman-who-damaged-historic-paoli-bridge-with-semi-truck-sentenced-to-jail-time It's conscience, not conscious.  I hope it was at least the reporter getting it wrong rather than the judge.
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PainterofCrap posted:Just saw this Saturday night in Phila. A Dodge Bro-rider with an enormous LED rig mounted in, or under, the front bumper (I couldn't really get a close look because I value my night-vison & retinas). Wouldn't have been so bad maybe if it was. I don't know, pointed down towards the pavement. But no. I find that even when they try and aim them down, the "overspray" is still brighter and more painful to see, even peripherally, than standard high beams. Almost like the designers didn't give a gently caress about useful light patterns or optics, and just tossed on as many LEDs as they could cram on a PCB for cheap.
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Peetown Manning posted:Lol 180 days in jail because the stupid loving thing was "historic"
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MF_James posted:lightning scary, at least I think that was lightning hitting whatever that is, kind of looks like a chimney but it seems unlikely that a chimney would turn into a lightning rod, or the tree. it's her umbrella
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Efexeye posted:it's her umbrella Really? Jesus it looks farther back to me, though I am still half asleep since I got maybe an hour of sleep last night.
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Efexeye posted:it's her umbrella It hit in the background.
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Vanagoon posted:They couldn't rebuild it if someone were to come along and melt it into slag with some thermite. It’s really hard to do that though, if you can believe The Monkey Wrench Gang.
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Lurking Haro posted:It hit in the background. Yeah, I think so too. Which still makes her pretty drat lucky anyway, though. I've witnessed lightning striking a tree about 70 or 80 feet from where I was standing, and if there's anything that will make you lose bladder control, that would be it. I was standing, barefoot, on the concrete garage floor, when I felt (like for a fraction of a second) my feet tingling, and then, pow. The shock wave was really impressive, and it was very hot. The portion of the tree below where the bolt hit it immediately began to steam. Didn't kill the tree though, it's still out there growing just fine.
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BlankIsBeautiful posted:Yeah, I think so too. Which still makes her pretty drat lucky anyway, though. I've witnessed lightning striking a tree about 70 or 80 feet from where I was standing, and if there's anything that will make you lose bladder control, that would be it. I was standing, barefoot, on the concrete garage floor, when I felt (like for a fraction of a second) my feet tingling, and then, pow. The shock wave was really impressive, and it was very hot. The portion of the tree below where the bolt hit it immediately began to steam. Didn't kill the tree though, it's still out there growing just fine. Had lightning strike a pole outside my house about 30-40' away from where I was sitting, didn't feel anything but when it hit all I saw was light for a good few seconds and I couldn't hear poo poo for about a minute.
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I had lightning strike the transformer down the street from my house earlier this year, and the weirdest thing was that all the power cut out about 2 seconds before the flash. Must have been something about the charge differential that led to the strike.
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Mierenneuker posted:Did I just watch someone fry?! Stabilized link thanks to 'ibru' on Reddit: https://streamable.com/5u6od Appears to be the tree.
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Enourmo posted:I'll take busted brakelights over the 10 million morons around here who burn out one low beam, and rather than pay $5 for an easily-replaced bulb, drive around with their loving high beams on so they don't get a ticket. this is me, but both my lowbeams are burned out and have been for like 6-8 months at least I recently talked a state trooper into not giving me a speeding ticket or ticket for the lights or looking for proof of insurance. mostly I think he just wanted to go loving home and be done with his shift Enourmo posted:Wait til you find out about the plethora of trucks driving down busy surface streets with their "off-road only" 10 gajillion lumun LED bars lit up like a miniature sun. Which cops happily drive by on their way to nab someone doing 46 in a 45. this, this poo poo I cannot endure
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Sigourney Cheevos posted:Stabilized link thanks to 'ibru' on Reddit: https://streamable.com/5u6od I was mainly trying to make a pun on a common phrase there, but thank you for the assurance  Also, that looks pretty neat stabilized.
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SniperWoreConverse posted:this is me, but both my lowbeams are burned out and have been for like 6-8 months at least You're a moron that blinds people because you're a lazy gently caress
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axolotl farmer posted:Ow ow oof Time for the classic. 
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Kennel posted:Time for the classic. Rectum? drat near killed... oh. Shoot.
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Sagebrush posted:I had lightning strike the transformer down the street from my house earlier this year, and the weirdest thing was that all the power cut out about 2 seconds before the flash. Must have been something about the charge differential that led to the strike. I had lovely a LG phone that would reboot when lightning struck close enough while I was driving.
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spankmeister posted:You're a moron that blinds people because you're a lazy gently caress
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Mierenneuker posted:Did I just watch someone fry?! Over ninety percent of lighting strike victims survive, even if it did hit her!
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MausoleumExtremist posted:I had lovely a LG phone that would reboot when lightning struck close enough while I was driving. Do... do you regularly drive through lightning storms?
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