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Protocol7 posted:https://www.krdo.com/news/suspects-identified-in-vehicle-chase-that-led-to-multiple-crashes/1133741863 High speed police chases are bad???
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Protocol7 posted:Well that's what I mean, just let them have the gas. When they start breaking your car or loving up your gas tank, I don't think the anti-siphoning features are really worth it. Yeah. I used to have a friend that described her neighborhood as "the part of town where you leave your car unlocked" because if you locked your doors you'd wake up with a smashed window.
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Oct 20, 2019 09:23
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LloydDobler posted:The meth heads around here don't even try to siphon anymore, the cars all have anti-siphon valves. They just find a high clearance vehicle, punch a hole in the gas tank and put a bucket under it. And if the truck has more gas than their bucket can hold they just leave and let it run out on the ground. The work trucks in my work business park have all been hit like that multiple times. The owners are furious but other than install cameras there's not much they can do. Maybe bolt on some plate to make the thieves move on to a different vehicle or something. Or build parking guards like a wood box that they park on or something. Or just drive cars instead of bro trucks 
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Protocol7 posted:Well that's what I mean, just let them have the gas. When they start breaking your car or loving up your gas tank, I don't think the anti-siphoning features are really worth it. This isn't an issue in areas with fewer meth heads. You're talking about throwing out the baby with the bathwater in service of fixing the wrong end of the problem. And it still requires political action. In any case, it wouldn't surprise me if your particular situation turned out to be just one guy hitting the same lots over and over because "hey, I didn't get caught last time!" Now, I'm not telling you to camp out behind a bush with a baseball bat...
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Oct 20, 2019 15:11
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Ok, I get that gas is expensive and methheads need money for more meth. But who are all these people buying gas by the bucket from methheads?
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Oct 20, 2019 17:03
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They are using it in their own stolen cars.
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Oct 20, 2019 17:06
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KillHour posted:Ok, I get that gas is expensive and methheads need money for more meth. But who are all these people buying gas by the bucket from methheads? Other methheads.
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Oct 20, 2019 17:52
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Blue Footed Booby posted:Other methheads. Methonomics 
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Beach Bum posted:Methonomics Economethcs, with profethor Mike Tython. Everything surrounding it is just so loving frustrating. When you take in to account the harm done all around, and the overall cost of the harm, I don't understand how there isn't any political will to help these people. They're going to cost you $1500 a month no matter what, either on your insurance bill, in medical costs, in damages to your stuff, in enforcement, in punishment. Locally it seems to be the same pool of 50-100 people arrested every few months after running from the cops in a stolen vehicle filled with meth and sawed-off shotguns.
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Powershift posted:Economethcs, with profethor Mike Tython. Plenty of will to help them, but they have to be willing to help themselves first. For thread related content, as of a few months ago, I now have a 3 minute commute. Now that is living the dream. I still see idiots, but 3 minutes of them are a lot better than 45 minutes of them. I am the person you barely share the road with.
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Flint Ironstag posted:For thread related content, as of a few months ago, I now have a 3 minute commute. Now that is living the dream. I still see idiots, but 3 minutes of them are a lot better than 45 minutes of them. I am the person you barely share the road with. I worked with a guy who had a 1 minute and 25 second commute. If he didn't catch the only light on his route green, it became a 2 minute and 15 second commute. To be honest, I did not envy him as being that close to the hellhole where we worked. I feel that negated the advantage. On the subject of commuting, I followed a guy last week and was confident that we used the same route every day. He hit the sweet spots on all 4 sets of railroad tracks we crossed and dodged every chuck hole very smoothly.
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slidebite posted:Might be the rail company footing the cost? Probably sick and tired of shutting the bridge down after every collision and sending engineers to inspect it. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-10-07/montague-street-bridge-crash-bus-driver-jack-aston-wins-appeal/11578402 dee eight posted:I worked with a guy who had a 1 minute and 25 second commute. If he didn't catch the only light on his route green, it became a 2 minute and 15 second commute. To be honest, I did not envy him as being that close to the hellhole where we worked. I feel that negated the advantage. 
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How the gently caress do you look at a bridge at eye-level and go "yeah, I'll fit"?
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PancakeTransmission posted:Still driving to work despite being walking distance, good use of the roads and fuel, car not even warmed up yet I should have said in the first place, but that was his motorcycle commuting time. It was about 2 miles and in a non-pedestrian friendly area.
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Oct 21, 2019 05:22
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KillHour posted:How the gently caress do you look at a bridge at eye-level and go "yeah, I'll fit"? VERY CARFEULLY [sic]
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^^ wrongKillHour posted:How the gently caress do you look at a bridge at eye-level and go "yeah, I'll fit"? very carelessly
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You missed the onion-like layers of my joke. You start with the gross dry outer layer of "looking at something very carefully means looking at it closely" Then you get to the sweet, juicy layer of having to get closer to read the words "VERY CARFUELLY" then another sweet layer of the misspelling of the word CAREFULLY Then a layer refrencing the accident, CARFUELLY, car-fuellly. You crash, gas leaks, fires, it's a whole big thing Then the bitter bitter core of it actually being misspelled CARFEULLY in the original post because I've been drinking, like the bus driver probably was.
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We got it. The better joke is carlessly, which you're going to be after you hit it.
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KillHour posted:We got it. The better joke is carlessly, which you're going to be after you hit it. Well, they can't all be hits, some have to be under the bar. Otherwise it's not a bridge it's a speed bump E: literal representation of what was being discussed 
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slidebite posted:Might be the rail company footing the cost? Probably sick and tired of shutting the bridge down after every collision and sending engineers to inspect it. I drove down the high level bridge in a dodge dually with the stock from suspension at 170k once. https://goo.gl/maps/5TGHuH1rG5AcfBhQ7 it suuuuuuuucked e: this is 300 feet away from where that truck hit.  They say every time a truck gets stuck in it, a sign post gets its sign. Powershift fucked around with this message at 08:39 on Oct 21, 2019 |
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Drove past a guy this afternoon who had his drivers door secured with a pair of ratchet straps that led from the roof racks to somewhere under the floor. I thought it went the whole way around the car but it was just the drivers door.
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Wouldn't it be cheaper and easier to just duct tape it shut? Hell, pull out the drill and just screw both parts together?
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um excuse me posted:My guess is theyll just use thinner beams and increase the number of them, raising the bridge and not having to grade the tracks. The videos show they only ever needed, what, an extra foot? I suspect it will be a combination, thinner beams and a very slight increase in grade. Should be easy to pick up a foot or two that way. I'm also guessing that there's damage to the bridge that needs to be repaired, so the railroad is opting to fix the cause of the problem instead of slapping a band-aid repair on it. This project is moving way too fast to be planned maintenance.
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PremiumSupport posted:I suspect it will be a combination, thinner beams and a very slight increase in grade. Should be easy to pick up a foot or two that way. Lifting the tracks is actually not that hard*, you just need to dump ballast and pull the tracks up through it. Granted, at a 0.5% grade you'd need over 1,000' of taper on each side of the bridge to get a 5'-0" rise, which would affect any other bridges and grade crossings within the limits of that taper... *Compared to undercutting track to add clearance under bridges and through tunnels.
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NoWake posted:Lifting the tracks is actually not that hard*, you just need to dump ballast and pull the tracks up through it. Granted, at a 0.5% grade you'd need over 1,000' of taper on each side of the bridge to get a 5'-0" rise, which would affect any other bridges and grade crossings within the limits of that taper... Yeah, you can basically do it overnight. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIbZqqLra9k`
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It's that time again.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CF9hJmf6JA
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Ah, my monthly reminder to buy a dashcam and to never visit Australia.
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PremiumSupport posted:I suspect it will be a combination, thinner beams and a very slight increase in grade. Should be easy to pick up a foot or two that way. "fix" It's a better band-aid than anything they've done before, but still nowhere near actually addressing the problem, which is that the bridge is lower than 90% of commercial vehicles.
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Living in the Phoenix area, it's not shocking at all to see that this occurred on the west side of town. https://twitter.com/azfamily/status/1187109739408183296
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ProjektorBoy posted:Living in the Phoenix area, it's not shocking at all to see that this occurred on the west side of town. That also almost happened because people kept turning left in front of the family. There does not appear to be a protected left there, so they're all being assholes as well, and stranded them in the intersection, increasing their danger. That douchebaggery is less bad than the red light runner, but gently caress people who don't yield to peds.
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nm posted:That also almost happened because people kept turning left in front of the family. There does not appear to be a protected left there, so they're all being assholes as well, and stranded them in the intersection, increasing their danger. Yeah, I get honked at frequently for waving pedestrians through, when they pause even though they have the right of way. Screw the honkers, walking to get anywhere takes long enough as it is.
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My philosophy has been that basically basically holding the road open for peds.
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So who had the right of way?
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So I recently started a new job, and had been advised by multiple parties that the person I was replacing was a complete moron. His work related idiocy is enough for an effort post on its own, but over the last couple of days I’ve learned a great deal about his car related idiocy. I only have to work alongside him for five days but these are probably the longest five days of my life. I’m going to bullet point it so I don’t make a massive wall of text.
It’s a shame really because on a personal level he is a really nice dude but just really, really stupid. My personal hope is that his engine grenades itself before he can hurt himself or someone else. Unfortunately I feel it is going to take a very unpleasant wake up call before he sorts himself out, but I also fear he is one of those people who is simply incapable of learning from his mistakes. The utter gently caress up he has made of the inventory management system seems to support the latter.
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Dick Trauma posted:So who had the right of way? Go home Dasher, you're drunk
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CannonFodder posted:Go home Dasher, you're drunk I mean, at least he's trying to catch a ride instead of driving.
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If that came through the side window, it would ruin your day/life. Bonus points for not being a doe.
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Colostomy Bag posted:If that came through the side window, it would ruin your day/life. Bonus points for not being a doe. For a split second that was the cheapest car on the road, because it was under a buck 
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CannonFodder posted:Go home Dasher, you're drunk Just trying to get home with on of those rideshares he's heard so much about.
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Lord Ludikrous posted:head basket My e39 must have one of these, it would explain so much.
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