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Goddamn, saw a nice one in Tampa today. Clapped out white GMC box truck with Sharpie-d signs reading, "Cubano Empenadas-$2.00", tread on one wheel delaminating, bouncing up and down at ten miles per hour, with a solid "clunk" evey five feet. As I thought to myself, "Don't buy anything off that truck", I noticed the driveshaft smacking the pavement and then the frame, again and again. Guess that explained the sound! I live on a very short street leading to a major road. First turn off the highway going one direction, that kind of thing. Turning left is loving suicide, every couple weeks there'd be a crash and screaming. Imagine a cross-merging area, after going under a bridge, on surface streets with far lower speed limits, and turning left through all that. The city recently put a median up so you can't turn left anymore. Didn't stop the little Hyundai from trying two days ago. They cut the doors off that one. gently caress it, I'm moving soon. It's here: left onto 49th from 95th in the wrong direction
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Nov 29, 2019 19:39
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I'll bet those empenadas are delicious
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Nov 29, 2019 20:32
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madeintaipei posted:I live on a very short street leading to a major road. First turn off the highway going one direction, that kind of thing. Turning left is loving suicide, every couple weeks there'd be a crash and screaming. Imagine a cross-merging area, after going under a bridge, on surface streets with far lower speed limits, and turning left through all that. The city recently put a median up so you can't turn left anymore. Didn't stop the little Hyundai from trying two days ago. They cut the doors off that one. gently caress it, I'm moving soon. It's here: I don't feel like that's all that bad if you're properly careful. What's the speed limit on 49th? Edit: 40mph? Sheit. People just be dumb that's all. You do that turn in two steps, first to the center, then finish the left heading north. Beach Bum fucked around with this message at 21:08 on Nov 29, 2019 |
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Nov 29, 2019 21:05
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Beach Bum posted:I don't feel like that's all that bad if you're properly careful. What's the speed limit on 49th? Edit: 40mph? Sheit. People just be dumb that's all. You do that turn in two steps, first to the center, then finish the left heading north. Limit is 40, everyone goes 50. Zero visibility to the left, mind the fences. It is dumb on dumber. Better option: go around to the light on 94th.
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Nov 29, 2019 21:27
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madeintaipei posted:Limit is 40, everyone goes 50. Zero visibility to the left, mind the fences. It is dumb on dumber. Better option: go around to the light on 94th. Ah yeah if there's no visibility that's a dumb move. I didn't check that part of streetview.
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Nov 29, 2019 21:32
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madeintaipei posted:Goddamn, saw a nice one in Tampa today. Clapped out white GMC box truck with Sharpie-d signs reading, "Cubano Empenadas-$2.00", tread on one wheel delaminating, bouncing up and down at ten miles per hour, with a solid "clunk" evey five feet. As I thought to myself, "Don't buy anything off that truck", I noticed the driveshaft smacking the pavement and then the frame, again and again. Guess that explained the sound! You missed out those things were guaranteed to be amazing.
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Nov 30, 2019 00:54
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Yeah you want the empanadas where they cheap out on the truck repairs, not the one where they cheap out on the food.
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Nov 30, 2019 01:06
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Bonus if he's mechanically inclined, he could've helped fix the truck & got bomb-rear end empanadas for life
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Nov 30, 2019 06:11
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taqueso posted:Yeah you want the empanadas where they cheap out on the truck repairs, not the one where they cheap out on the food. Obligatory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRGMAW1wzQ8
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Nov 30, 2019 12:34
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My sincere hope is that after humanity goes extinct in 200 years, the aliens that come to explore our ruins find this video. It’s like the Rosetta Stone of the human psyche.
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Nov 30, 2019 19:27
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Getting T-boned less than a mile from my house would have been a nifty way to end a 1,100 mile road trip. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYDNkIRqQZk e: How did you get out here, lil guy?  +  at :20https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sI7-389cUss&t=20s NoWake fucked around with this message at 06:41 on Dec 1, 2019 |
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Dec 1, 2019 04:41
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NoWake posted:Getting T-boned less than a mile from my house would have been a nifty way to end a 1,100 mile road trip. Second viewing: I still don 
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Dec 1, 2019 16:54
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Just made the trip home from the parents, aside from the flatbed that cut me off to "hang out in the left lane and pass no one" the only real egregious driving I saw was this guy in a little Yaris or something similar. We were in the usual traffic rectangle holding pattern from a person in the left lane lead not passing trucks, or anyone for that matter. So we're in the left lane and he was riding my bumper. Then backed off. Came back again, then drifted over and rode the divide for a while. Maybe it was just the fierce, blustery wind and he was having trouble correcting? Nope, he was just a dumb gently caress. I saw him veer into the right lane behind a semi and then try to use the end of a rapidly terminating merging lane to go right around him. Which uh, did not work. I was bracing for carnage
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Dec 1, 2019 22:42
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Just drove from Boston to Syracuse in white-out snow and passed about a dozen multi-car collisions, over half involved invicible Subaru Outbacks that had SOMEHOW fishtailed into other vehicles.
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Dec 2, 2019 02:06
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Ornamental Dingbat posted:Just drove from Boston to Syracuse in white-out snow and passed about a dozen multi-car collisions, over half involved invicible Subaru Outbacks that had SOMEHOW fishtailed into other vehicles. Outbacks (and legacy wagons) in particular are notable for lift off oversteer. It was notable enough in the 2005ish model that CR had trouble recommending them without optional stability control. (I personally enjoy that "feature" but people caught unaware won't)
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Dec 2, 2019 03:02
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Dude alternately tailgated my van and dropped back 200-400m every couple minutes for about 45 minutes on a straight, flat, boring rural Australian road with no other traffic and no impediment whatsoever to passing while my cruise was set to the speed limit the whole time. He'd sit about a meter off the bumper for maybe 60 seconds, I'd move over and wave him by, he'd do the exasperated "throw my hands in the air" gesture and back off before gradually creeping up again. He eventually blew past me 40 or 50km/h faster with his hand on the horn and his finger out the window which he could have done at practically any time in the previous three quarters of an hour. Can't stress enough how straight, flat, and empty the road was. 3 cars from the other direction in that whole time, and there's one short (maybe a mile) stretch where there's some bends with double lines and you can't pass.
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Dec 2, 2019 10:00
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I shared the road with a dingus like that yesterday, but it was on a four lane road with light traffic and they could have easily passed at any time without crossing a yellow line at all. But instead they'd tailgate about a meter off the person in front of them and just sit there, riding the brakes constantly. If the car in front of them got out of the way (I intentionally changed lanes to get them out from behind me) they'd floor it until they caught up to the next car and tailgate them. 
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Dec 2, 2019 14:48
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Brolander posted:Just made the trip home from the parents, Here is a screenshot of Google maps that I took Sunday afternoon. That horrible red line on I-95 was still red five hours later. Note that the blue location dot is not on I-95.  That picture does not include the detour taken in Georgia, nor the detour taken between Charlotte and Spartanburg. It doesn't have the messes in NC and Virginia or the mess all along the beltway from DC to NYC. Atlanta? More mess than usual. Again, for some reason everything goes pear shaped on the roads on Sunday.
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Dec 3, 2019 20:29
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CannonFodder posted:Again, for some reason everything goes pear shaped on the roads on Sunday. This is the main reason we did thanksgiving in NC instead of OH this year. I did not want to spend 20-24 hours on the road with a toddler who wants to do anything but sit still.
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Dec 3, 2019 21:09
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 That Jeep was in the left turn lane, whoever was driving the silver sedan sure hosed up. None of the occupants of any of the cars were badly hurt, somehow.
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Dec 3, 2019 22:00
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CannonFodder posted:Again, for some reason everything goes pear shaped on the roads on Sunday. For the last 15 years I have flatly refused to travel on the Sunday after Thanksgiving (or, if I can at all avoid it, the Wednesday before). "Yeah, we'll come in Tuesday night and leave on Saturday, it's cool. No, trust me, we aren't going to do anything different."
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Dec 3, 2019 22:22
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sleepy.eyes posted:
Body style & rims are possibly Mercury Grand Marquis....so likely some old fart that shouldn't have a car or license
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Dec 3, 2019 23:11
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sleepy.eyes posted:
So the Jeep was to the right of the silver Accord, something scared the Jeep so it rolled over to its left on top of the Accord, and then the Mercury drove the wrong way into the Jeep? WTF happened here? the answer is "Florida"
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Dec 4, 2019 18:21
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Well rolling over is what Jeeps do best so that part makes sense. Best I got is it was in neutral when it got hit and was shoved on top of the honda.
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Dec 4, 2019 18:29
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VacaGrande posted:So the Jeep was to the right of the silver Accord, something scared the Jeep so it rolled over to its left on top of the Accord, and then the Mercury drove the wrong way into the Jeep? WTF happened here? Basically, what xzzy said, but neutral not necessarily required, + a few details.
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Dec 4, 2019 18:48
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The Jeep sacrificed itself & jumped in front of the Buick to save the Accord, a noble gesture
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Dec 5, 2019 02:25
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BOOTY-ADE posted:Body style & rims are possibly Mercury Grand Marquis....so likely some old fart that shouldn't have a car or license I saw something similar happen once. A Porsche Cayenne driver drove straight into the left turn lane of incoming traffic for no apparent reason. Humans are stupid.
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Dec 5, 2019 03:38
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Another brilliant parking job in front of my building.   This was a parallel parking spot. They were over the curb and half the car was left in the road.
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Dec 6, 2019 00:48
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Let's play "drunk or old person or someone who desperately needs to speak with the manager?"
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Dec 6, 2019 01:01
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I'm gonna go with drunk based on the banged up bumper and visibly low tread on that tire.. they're clearly complete idiots so drunk driving is definitely in the cards.
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Dec 6, 2019 01:14
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taqueso posted:Let's play "drunk or old person or someone who desperately needs to speak with the manager?" They're not mutually exclusive.
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Dec 6, 2019 02:03
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CannonFodder posted:Sunday after Thanksgiving is the worst driving day. Wednesday before Thanksgiving is called the busiest travel day, and the roads are very busy, but the traffic keeps moving. On Sunday something switches and collisions happen all over the place. We did the Sunday before down, then back from Orlando to Raleigh on Friday and it was gloriously clear and quiet both ways. toplitzin fucked around with this message at 03:15 on Dec 6, 2019 |
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Dec 9, 2019 14:51
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The #fuckford hashtag, while I don't necessarily disagree with, is a nice touch. Yeah, your car's a piece of poo poo, but I'm guessing this isn't Ford's fault...
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Dec 9, 2019 15:01
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I gotta imagine breaking down on the Skyway was not a fun experience for everyone involved.
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Dec 9, 2019 15:11
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Colostomy Bag posted:I gotta imagine breaking down on the Skyway was not a fun experience for everyone involved. I think they fine you for breakdowns on the Skyway. Yeah though, just hope your poo poo breaks on the hump or at the exteme ends of the bridge. I wonder if you get charged toll for a vehicle on a tow truck?
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Dec 9, 2019 15:39
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madeintaipei posted:I think they fine you for breakdowns on the Skyway. Yeah though, just hope your poo poo breaks on the hump or at the exteme ends of the bridge. If it's got an EZ-pass, absolutely. I keep the electrostatic bag it came with in the glove box, just in case something like this happens. There was an issue early on where people would start up an EZ-pass account & rack up a huge amount of tolls before they even had a chance to install the transponder. Turns out, the tolling agency was sending out activated transponders just plain in the box, shipping them ground, and it would ping at every toll gantry the delivery truck passed through. Now realize, your account gets charged for the class of vehicle you're driving, not the class you've registered. If your transponder pings while riding in the back of a 5-axle semi truck, that's the rate you'll be charged. My Golf has been confused for a semi once, not sure how it happened, but the toll hit my account for like $35 instead of a $5.35 like usual. Took a few weeks to clear up, really annoying.
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Dec 9, 2019 16:28
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Illinois calls theirs i-pass but it's the exact same thing as EZ-pass (and all the tollbooths in the state accept both).  Probably something Jesse White came up with.
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Dec 9, 2019 16:34
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NoWake posted:If it's got an EZ-pass, absolutely. I keep the electrostatic bag it came with in the glove box, just in case something like this happens. Looool, hadn't heard about the second paragraph. gently caress the toll authority. Imagine how bad it'll get when there are toll lanes on 75, 275, and I-4. I just have the card-style sticker, what can I do? Two patches of copper mesh held together through the windshield with magnets?
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Dec 9, 2019 16:35
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