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ladyfrog makes fun of me too for having gloves and my owners manual and registration in the glovebox why is that so weird.
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Preoptopus posted:You dont have 5000 napkins, tire receipts from 3 sets ago and a 10 year old flashlight with dead batteries? 6 years worth of insurance cards, all of them still in their perforated sheet of paper. Gonna be a long time to filter through those to find the right one if I ever get pulled over.
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sneakyfrog posted:i just have gloves in my glovebox Or, if you're not one of those freak murders with murderer gloves in your glovebox, just pull your fleshlight out of there and jam it on the shifter. Bonus, after driving for a bit, the shifter cools down and the fleshlight gets warm!
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sneakyfrog posted:ladyfrog makes fun of me too for having gloves and my owners manual and registration in the glovebox why is that so weird. This is madness
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Apr 15, 2019 01:07
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xzzy posted:6 years worth of insurance cards, all of them still in their perforated sheet of paper. Gonna be a long time to filter through those to find the right one if I ever get pulled over. And if you are me, you find out that you forgot to put the most recent one in there and all of them are expired.
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Apr 15, 2019 01:21
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xzzy posted:6 years worth of insurance cards, all of them still in their perforated sheet of paper. Gonna be a long time to filter through those to find the right one if I ever get pulled over. lol, glad I'm not the only one. The recent one is still setting on my desk with probably ten expired in the glove box.
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shy boy from chess club posted:This is madness Our house in the middle of our street
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Apr 15, 2019 02:28
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sneakyfrog posted:yeah i have a 1.5 pound billet shift knob that is a trap on days when it gets too hot or cold. need to make it a little hat. I be a balsa 917 on my CAE shifter because of this.
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Elmnt80 posted:And if you are me, you find out that you forgot to put the most recent one in there and all of them are expired. I just put my new one in the zipper pocket and thought to myself, "I should take the old ones out," as I was shoving it into the pile of expired cards.
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Apr 15, 2019 05:43
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xzzy posted:6 years worth of insurance cards, all of them still in their perforated sheet of paper. Gonna be a long time to filter through those to find the right one if I ever get pulled over. my very first ticket was pulling out an old insurance card from the glove box and giving it to the pig. i had my license for a week and just gave him the old one because i couldn't find the newest one. my parents made me pay the fine rather than fight it in court even though the new one was in the glove box at the time.
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Apr 15, 2019 09:18
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When I bought my car last year it came free with a dozen assorted unlabelled CD-R's with unknown Eastern European music on each, and 1 Viagra, still in a blister pack. The way I see it, that's what the £900 was for and the car was free.
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Apr 15, 2019 14:15
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Heh. On our expedition (big SUV for those across the pond) the jack is inside a back cover in the rear. One day I decide I better check to make sure everything is there and there was a wrapped condom. The wife was not amused. The truck had to be the gently caress wagon express.
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Colostomy Bag posted:Heh. On our expedition (big SUV for those across the pond) the jack is inside a back cover in the rear. One day I decide I better check to make sure everything is there and there was a wrapped condom. The wife was not amused.  I would be cleaning the whole car 2 seconds after I found that.Fakeedit: Remember that Top Gear episode with the convertible E30s?
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I forgot what we ended up doing. I think I grabbed it with a pair of pliers and we probably Lysol'ed the whole SOB. Last year I was blowing leaves to my curb and noticed a condom wrapper in the pile. Probably from screwing in the park or something. Another car I bought (twas my 5 speed SHO, RIP you glorious bastard) and for the first time after a few months had to use defrost. Wife was riding shotgun. As the windshield started fogging up the words "eat me!" appeared in front of her. Again she was not amused. I must buy vehicles from horny owners.
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Goober Peas posted:Our house in the middle of our street Mine would be One Step Beyond by Madness.
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DiggityDoink posted:my very first ticket was pulling out an old insurance card from the glove box and giving it to the pig. i had my license for a week and just gave him the old one because i couldn't find the newest one. my parents made me pay the fine rather than fight it in court even though the new one was in the glove box at the time. drat, that's a $490 fine where I live last time I checked. It has possibly gone up. You don't have to 'fight' it in court, either. Just show up with your current insurance card, pay some administrative fee and it's taken care of.
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Colostomy Bag posted:Another car I bought (twas my 5 speed SHO, RIP you glorious bastard) and for the first time after a few months had to use defrost. Wife was riding shotgun. As the windshield started fogging up the words "eat me!" appeared in front of her. Again she was not amused. I must buy vehicles from horny owners. Reminds me that I think I saw (and heard) an SHO last night. It was getting dark, so difficult to see details, but definitely a first-gen Taurus, and it was definitely a manual making rorty V6 noises. Definitely a non-stock exhaust.
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dpack_1 posted:When I bought my car last year it came free with a dozen assorted unlabelled CD-R's with unknown Eastern European music on each, and 1 Viagra, still in a blister pack. The way I see it, that's what the £900 was for and the car was free. My family's station wagon was broken into and ransacked at a hotel once, but nothing was stolen. They did, however, leave a Brooks & Dunn cassette tape under the seat.
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Colostomy Bag posted:Heh. On our expedition (big SUV for those across the pond) the jack is inside a back cover in the rear. One day I decide I better check to make sure everything is there and there was a wrapped condom. The wife was not amused. SEXpedition.
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wesleywillis posted:SEXpedition. Add the S before the badge and watch the level of amusement on the wife.
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TotalLossBrain posted:drat, that's a $490 fine where I live last time I checked. It has possibly gone up. You don't have to 'fight' it in court, either. Just show up with your current insurance card, pay some administrative fee and it's taken care of. We all know it's a bullshit charge though right? When they run plates here in the UK it's all connected to the DVLA database that also tells them if the car is taxed, insured and MOT'd, we don't need to carry any proof of that poo poo, just our license. Surely in the land of the free you have a similar way for the cops to just run a check on the car and find out all the details of it? Giving someone a fine for not having a piece of paper on them identifying certain facts about their person doesn't sound very free at all.
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The last time I was pulled over, the cop didn't ask for insurance. I've heard that Texas has switched to a database, but that proved it.
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wesleywillis posted:SEXpedition. lol. I'll have to bring that up in a conversation.
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dpack_1 posted:We all know it's a bullshit charge though right? When they run plates here in the UK it's all connected to the DVLA database that also tells them if the car is taxed, insured and MOT'd, we don't need to carry any proof of that poo poo, just our license. Their freedom comes from not being in a government controlled centralised database. And also half the States being too broke to even consider administering one. If they could somehow partner with Amazon or Google to get it done though, they'd be all over that poo poo.
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Dirt Road Junglist posted:My family's station wagon was broken into and ransacked at a hotel once, but nothing was stolen. Someone broke into my car, went through my CDs, and left them all behind. They did take my gum and my duct-taped discman though (it was 2005) Glad they didn't notice my toolbox!
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dpack_1 posted:Surely in the land of the free you have a similar way for the cops to just run a check on the car and find out all the details of it? Giving someone a fine for not having a piece of paper on them identifying certain facts about their person doesn't sound very free at all.
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Jonny Nox posted:Someone broke into my car, went through my CDs, and left them all behind. I left my garage door open one night* and someone waltzed in and stole some stuff. They took a box full of power tools and a box full of sockets and ratchets. Problem for the thief is he grabbed the box of broken Black and Decker power tools and the box of mismatched Craftsman and lower quality ratchets and sockets. They completely ignored the Makita and Bosch stuff as well as the brand new Gearwrench sets I had just bought to replace the old stuff with. I went out onto the driveway when I realized what they took and yelled out "THANK YOU!" * In the summer the door sensor is in the sun and it doesn't always complete the closing so if you go inside too soon you might miss it opening back up again.
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Dirt Road Junglist posted:My family's station wagon was broken into and ransacked at a hotel once, but nothing was stolen. Those monsters
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They are bored and/or looking for cigarettes or other paraphernalia you might have. The thing that pissed me off the most was they didn't have the courtesy to shut the glove box and it drained my battery. Besides having everything strewn throughout the interior.
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About a year ago my dad's friend had his truck broken into on a fishing trip. They took a couple CDs, a bugout/survival bag worth about $350, and my dad's sun mask. They left $8k in top of the line fish finders and thousands in high end rod/reel setups sitting on the deck of the boat behind it.
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This may come as a huge surprise, but thieves aren't smart people. They're gonna grab whatever's shiny or is easy to run away with. They aren't going to check ebay for prices either.
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dpack_1 posted:We all know it's a bullshit charge though right? When they run plates here in the UK it's all connected to the DVLA database that also tells them if the car is taxed, insured and MOT'd, we don't need to carry any proof of that poo poo, just our license. Of course it's bullshit, here you are supposed to have the license, what would pass for registration, insurance, and id. The cops sure as hell can look everything up instantly in the database but they can still gently caress your day up if you're missing one, or all, of these. Thankfully most of the time they won't if you're not an rear end in a top hat or obvious criminal (i.e. dark-skinned). I was once pulled over missing the insurance card and the cop told me to just have it on me the next time, and another time I left the wallet with everything in it in the office. That one let me search for it for a few minutes before telling me to get lost (caught driving through a short one-way shortcut, no less). Thankfully I was never pulled over during the week or so when my insurance was actually expired, that would've been legitimately lovely 
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dpack_1 posted:We all know it's a bullshit charge though right? When they run plates here in the UK it's all connected to the DVLA database that also tells them if the car is taxed, insured and MOT'd, we don't need to carry any proof of that poo poo, just our license. Yeeeeaaaaah. It's cute how you think that one states police will share information with another states police, or Federal law enforcement, without a large stick applied. Finger Prince posted:Their freedom comes from not being in a government controlled centralised database. And also half the States being too broke to even consider administering one. If they could somehow partner with Amazon or Google to get it done though, they'd be all over that poo poo. And that. I'm sure that there an amazing number of cop cars that still don't have anything more sophisticated than the two-way radio in them.
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O no the goddamn gubbament knows where I live and also that my car is properly insured gently caress what to doooooo
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Once upon a time I straight up forgot to put my license plate sticker on. I drove around for 11 months unaware, and never got pulled over. Then one night I was at a gas station getting a snack and a patrol car fueling up ran my plates. Dude walked over and was all "your registration is up to date but your sticker is expired, should get that fixed." I think technically he could have given me a ticket but I guess he was in a good mood or something? My tag for the upcoming year showed up like a week later.
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xzzy posted:Once upon a time I straight up forgot to put my license plate sticker on. I drove around for 11 months unaware, and never got pulled over. I worked with a dude who would just put a piece of colored tape over the number every year and used a sharpie to update it. He rolled like this for a few months each year until he had the extra cash to pay for hiw registration update. I don't know why he didn't just save up, it was the same thing for 3 years.
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I remember several years ago Wisconsin made proof of insurance mandatory or something like that and everyone was making a huge deal out of it. So of course I pulled my expired card out of my wallet and forgot to put my new one in and got popped doing like 15 over, and I started to panic when I couldn't find it. The cop just asked me who my insurance provider was, and sent me on my way without really caring all that much. Also, putting gloves in the glove box is weird. Gloves are for when it's cold, why would I want to put cold gloves that have been sitting in my cold car all night on my cold hands? 
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Indiana made insurance a requirement for scooters and mopeds, effectively loving over all the DUIers who skirted the law.
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xzzy posted:This may come as a huge surprise, but thieves aren't smart people. A few years ago some thieves hit my condo parking lot and stole an expensive set of power tools out of my neighbour's work van and then hit my dilapidated Subaru (because I had bought it the day before and didn't know how to work the power locks). Out of my car, they only stole a little tiny squeeze bottle of lock de-icer. I don't think you can even get high off that stuff. The next week they came back - except my neighbour wasn't sleeping then, and hosed up one of them super bad with a baseball bat. You can imagine how pleased the cops were at vigilante justice. Seat Safety Switch fucked around with this message at 21:43 on Apr 16, 2019 |
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Rhyno posted:Indiana made insurance a requirement for scooters and mopeds, effectively loving over all the DUIers who skirted the law. Definitely cut them down. Been awhile since I've seen one. Couple years ago I was standing in line at the liquor store. Basically a blizzard outside. In walks a guy with the biggest parka I've ever seen. Made the Michelin man look svelte. He buys a case beer. Straps it to his scooter under his feet. Was probably nicely chilled by the time he made it home.
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