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windex posted:The best part of that exchange: The green and amber lights are often used by volunteer fire departments who can't run red and/or blues due to state law that excludes them. Volunteer fire departments are often eligible for hand me downs from other PD/Fire, or even new vehicles from manufacturers with special pricing for municipal government organizations. We don't have the same here, so okay. We have in just the last month had a bunch of cases reported of women being followed and pulled over/attempted to pull over by men in unmarked cars with blue/red lights in the window only. Real unmarked cars have lights hidden everywhere.
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Platystemon posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thGmd87FM9I That was fucken awesome
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If the lights/sirens are really on vehicles that are allowed to have them, there will be some record of those vehicles being allowed to have them, and reporting them will have no detrimental effect. However, if it really is someone trying to impersonate cops, you could get a dangerous person off the road.
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PT6A posted:If the lights/sirens are really on vehicles that are allowed to have them, there will be some record of those vehicles being allowed to have them, and reporting them will have no detrimental effect. However, if it really is someone trying to impersonate cops, you could get a dangerous person off the road. Also volunteer firefighters probably aren't going to be making traffic stops in their surplus cruisers. I don't even know if FD has that authority. Maybe fire marshal does, I dunno.
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Aug 25, 2018 13:09
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carry on then posted:Counter point: don't snitch. America's justice system is plagued by systemic racism, abuse of power, and just everyday idiocy, but enabling criminals to victimize the innocent does nothing to solve that.
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Counter-counter point: Holy gently caress you're all being trolled, and even if you're not, with someone that far out on the fringe you don't have the slimmest hope of bringing them to sanity. Leave it alone. Edit: SEE?! Beach Bum fucked around with this message at 16:04 on Aug 25, 2018 |
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Cugel the Clever posted:"Hey guys, I know these criminals impersonating the cops prey on the vulnerable, seeking to either rape people or extort money, but there's literally nothing that could get me to call the godsdamn pigs." More people have died from actual cops than cop impersonators. Never. Call. The. loving. Cops.
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carry on then posted:More people have died from actual cops than cop impersonators. Counterpoint, call the cops.
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carry on then posted:More people have died from actual cops than cop impersonators. Someone keep this post handy for when this moron gets robbed, assaulted, or otherwise has their day hosed up while screaming "CALL 911"
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cakesmith handyman posted:Counterpoint, call the cops. Especially on black people!
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BOOTY-ADE posted:Someone keep this post handy for when this moron gets robbed, assaulted, or otherwise has their day hosed up while screaming "CALL 911" How many antifa have you run over with your car? (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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carry on then posted:How many antifa have you run over with your car?
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Yesterday on my drive to work, I had three different people flip me off after I honked when they were too busy on their phones to see the light go green. Yeah, those of us who want to actually move are the problem.
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This is why I enjoy the GTA games so much. You unequivocally rule traffic, and if anyone threatens your position, you've got a grenade launcher.
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carry on then posted:How many antifa have you run over with your car? Leave.
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cakesmith handyman posted:Counterpoint, call the cops. VVVV: Would you kindly gently caress off? InitialDave fucked around with this message at 22:51 on Aug 25, 2018 |
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Cugel the Clever posted:Here we see the alt-right troll in its natural habitat, purposefully conflating the urgent need for police reform with excusing crime against the vulnerable and then pretending to be a leftist. Run along back to 8chan, please. Ahaha, "accuse your opponents of your own faults" at it's finest. Impersonating a police officer isn't a crime which carries an immediate execution as punishment. If you call the cops on a person and that person is Black, that's the punishment they will receive. Protect the vulnerable in your community. Never call the police.
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BOOTY-ADE posted:Someone keep this post handy for when this moron gets robbed, assaulted, or otherwise has their day hosed up while screaming "CALL 911" feel free to fall off a cliff
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carry on then posted:Ahaha, "accuse your opponents of your own faults" at it's finest. Impersonating a police officer isn't a crime which carries an immediate execution as punishment. If you call the cops on a person and that person is Black, that's the punishment they will receive. Protect the vulnerable in your community. Never call the police. I told you to leave.
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It's me, the person you share the road with. After I hit something (likely a rock or something, I didn't see it until THUNK), which damaged my wheel well, which then got ripped off by my tire in the middle of the road. I'm sorry.
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Did about 300 miles on the autobahn yesterday and I saw less lane hoggers in all that time than I do in any 5 minute segment on the A2 Dartford - Medway segment back home. The hell are we doing wrong back in the U.K.
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Lord Ludikrous posted:The hell are we doing wrong back in the U.K. Centuries of inbreeding would be a good place to start looking.
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Encountered a wrong-way driver on a one-way highway frontage road yesterday. I really need to get a dashcam.
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Powershift posted:Centuries of inbreeding would be a good place to start looking. Can't actually disagree. The autobahn takes no prisoners though, you might think you're hot poo poo getting your rental cmax up to 220kph but when you see the aston coming up behind you at 300kph you'll get back in your own lane sharpish. I enjoyed Germany.
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xergm posted:Encountered a wrong-way driver on a one-way highway frontage road yesterday. driving home (40ish miles) from a friend's NYE party at 2 AM last year and the overhead sign immediately after getting on the freeway was flashing "wrong way driver". I couldn't get off that freeway fast enough. just stayed on the surface streets the whole way home and listened to podcasts.
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Plot twist: you were the wrong-way driver, because you were drunk on NYE just kidding, drunk driving is a terrible thing and I would never accuse anyone of it
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Some shithead in a security van running an extremely stale red. https://youtu.be/x8awe4tc-Dc
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The one time I was able to drive the Autobahn I had rented an Alpha... Giulia, I think. When I went to pick it up they didn't have one despite my reservation (never actually gotten the car I've reserved in Europe) so I got a Golf. It was fun as hell to thrash it anyway, but by the time I finally got up to speed some Mercedes or something would come roaring up and I'd have to move over for it. Every. Single. Time. It was a bit frustrating. Still, Autobahn. Only plates I saw that didn't move over seemed to be French.
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tuna posted:Some shithead in a security van running an extremely stale red. I had a semi do this today. It's so common around here that I don't go through an intersection without checking first, and then I gun it just to be safe.
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Never fully commit to acceleration on the green without checking left-right-left. It has saved my rear end multiple times and is a constantly repeated mantra to the kid I'm teaching to drive.
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tuna posted:Some shithead in a security van running an extremely stale red. Send that bullshit to his employer. Dunno if they can ID him, but any marked vehicles doing extremely dumb poo poo like that should get called out.
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Coming home from my night shift this morning on I-35 through the Austin Construction Zone where there's no shoulders of any kind anywhere, just temporary concrete barriers to give the workers/their equipment some breathing room. I'm on the outside lane since my exit is coming up and I see two cars coming down the on-ramp (and when I say "coming down" I mean the access road is a good 10 meters above highway). There's no weave lanes here, and as mentioned no shoulder to drive off of, so these guys have to merge with me in tiny, cramped space the construction zone left. Me: "Okay there's just enough room for me to be polite and tap the breaks to calmly slip between the two cars with minimal interferance. No biggie." Idiot in front: "OH GOD I'M MERGING ONTO A HIGHWAY, BETTER SLOW THE gently caress DOWN SO THIS GUY CAN PASS ME!" Me: "Err...why is the guy in front not in front of me." Idiot in Front: "gently caress RUNNING OUT OF LANE, GOTTA SLOW DOWN BEFORE I RAM INTO THE CONCRETE BARRIERS!"  I realized what he was doing before it was too late but it is a highway and you are allowed to accelerate and gain speed to merge with a major interstate highway.
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Alkydere posted:
God, the people who don't know how to accelerate onto the highway. So many times I'm by an on-ramp with a car ahead of me on it, and my options are be a dick and speed up to pass them, or ease up on the gas a bit and let them in front of me. I ease up to start allowing them room and 75% of the time they either: 1. Do nothing, just maintain their pace, requiring me to slow down more, then don't get all the way to highway speed until they are in the lane. 2. Slow down themselves, leaving me the same choice I had before I eased up, which is speed up and pass them or ease up more to let them over. Both piss me off because now I feel like an rear end for slowing down on the highway, even though if they'd paid attention they could have figured poo poo out and got us both back up to speed quickly. There have been a few occasions where I decide gently caress it and just hit the gas and pass them because gently caress that poo poo.
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This is my wife you share the road with. I'm like, 99% sure she was texting and then curbed her car. Which blew out her tire sidewall. All of those flaps in the top left are, in fact, flaps that reveal some rather sizeable holes in her tire. Her spare tire has a slow leak in it, too. I put it on, noticed it went flat, and after about 40 PSI it started making a very loud hissing sound and drops about 1 PSI per minute. Guess this isn't getting replaced today 
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Protocol7 posted:Her spare tire has a slow leak in it, too. I put it on, noticed it went flat, and after about 40 PSI it started making a very loud hissing sound and drops about 1 PSI per minute. Guess this isn't getting replaced today
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Protocol7 posted:I'm like, 99% sure she was texting and then curbed her car. Which blew out her tire sidewall. All of those flaps in the top left are, in fact, flaps that reveal some rather sizeable holes in her tire. I am guessing she has zero shame about being a dangerous driver who will likely maim someone in the future.
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InitialDave posted:Can't help but feel this would have been an appropriate moment for someone to learn how to change their own wheels... Yeah point understood, but hell it does get interesting with this simple stuff such as a tire change. Wheel welded on, etc. I'll never forget changing my tire with a bumper jack on a '72 Olds Delta 88 on a freeway...while doing it on the freeway side when I was 16 or 17.
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Colostomy Bag posted:Yeah point understood, but hell it does get interesting with this simple stuff such as a tire change. Wheel welded on, etc.
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