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mystes posted:They probably arrested the kid's parents for child abuse after storming the wrong house and shooting the neighbours
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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:Same reason my realtor told me to offer concessions after the fact rather than reducing the sale price for work that had to be done - it increases the value of their product that they get paid commission on. Sell for $100, pay 10% to real estate agent, spend $10 on repairs, end up with $80. Or Sell for $90, pay agent 10%, end up with $81. New owner pays $10 for repairs. In both cases the buyer pays a total of $100, but in one scenario the agent gets more of your money for absolutely no reason.
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look at the cars doors, where the handles are, how they might open.
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It's possible for the real estate agent to have earned the extra dollar if they're doing the legwork on finding someone competent to do the job at a reasonable price, lining up permits and inspections, etc. Doesn't sound like what OP's agent was up to though lol. But she probably had a $1,500/mo car payment on a 2019 Camry, so who can blame her.
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Real hurthling! posted:look at the cars doors, where the handles are, how they might open. Oh, are they suicide doors? I've never heard therm called "cathedral doors" before. Why are they worse on convertibles than on other cars?
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Tiggum posted:Oh, are they suicide doors? I've never heard therm called "cathedral doors" before.   This is why one might call them that.
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Tiggum posted:Oh, are they suicide doors? I've never heard therm called "cathedral doors" before. Why are they worse on convertibles than on other cars? I’m not a car guy so I don’t have a lot of deep technical knowledge but that’s what I’ve always heard them called in the less than five conversations I’ve ever had about them, perfectly willing to accept that it might be a Utica expression Would they be less bad in a non-convertabile. No. Probably just as bad. That lack of structure is just asking for a t-bone to cut you in half. But also the only pictures of them I’ve ever seen prior to tonight were convertibles. So you’ll maybe forgive me for thinking they were a convertible thing.
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Cathedral doors (which is just a normal door in front of a suicide door) are unsafe for occupants for one of the exact same reason convertibles are unsafe: lack of physical structure/barriers in the event of a crash. When you have cathedral doors on a convertible, you're basically riding an enormous motorcycle. Worst of all worlds.
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gradenko_2000 posted:https://twitter.com/PMurphyWWL/status/1748095428929692106?t=XjAi_XzfnomlSoHb5fNO9g&s=19 my biggest fear while driving is that some dumbass in a truck plows into me crossing a bridge and I go off, this one is very anxiety-inducing
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On a saloon are those called bat wing doors The car gets real quiet and the honky tonk piano fumbles to an awkward halt when I get in
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my bony fealty posted:my biggest fear while driving is that some dumbass in a truck plows into me crossing a bridge and I go off, this one is very anxiety-inducing This happened on the I-295 bridge in Jacksonville when I was briefly living there in 2008/2009 or so. Got a lot of local media coverage for very obvious reasons. Drunk driver just sideswiped her iirc and she went over the bridge More recently, during the 2022 snow storm in Portland, the plows didn’t clear the far right breakdown lane on the I-205 bridge and some guy lost control and hit the piled up snow and it basically acted like a ramp and just launched his car over the side of the bridge Anyway I’m saying f you’re right to be afraid of this, because I can think of two specific times I’ve heard of it happening, and usually in these cases where somebody is afraid of something like this I’ve never actually heard of it happening Also sometimes when I’m crossing bridges and get stuck in traffic I ponder what would happen if an earthquake hit at right this exact moment Bridges man, gently caress em. Man was not meant to cross bodies of water or deep gorges
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HashtagGirlboss posted:This happened on the I-295 bridge in Jacksonville when I was briefly living there in 2008/2009 or so. Got a lot of local media coverage for very obvious reasons. Drunk driver just sideswiped her iirc and she went over the bridge stop building bridges bodies of water were not meant to be crossed wanted to cross anyway for a laugh? we had a tool for that: its called boats
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lobster shirt posted:stop building bridges Boats are just water cars!
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dxt posted:Boats are just water cars! Surely the traditional boat is a water bus E: the canoe is quite naturally the water bicycle.
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Wow yeah a situation where distracted drivers could run over kids on bikes sounds bad.
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giving the game away that nothing would happen to the driver running over the kids
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drivers are dangerous, therefore we simply have to arrest children and not the drivers
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The Maroon Hawk posted:drivers are dangerous, therefore we simply have to arrest children and not the drivers gun brain and car brain are often co-morbid
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gradenko_2000 posted:https://twitter.com/PMurphyWWL/status/1748095428929692106?t=XjAi_XzfnomlSoHb5fNO9g&s=19 absolutely nothing society can do about this except plead with drivers to not cause death and mayhem
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ran a red light this morning, a victimless crime
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Second Hand Meat Mouth posted:ran a red light this morning, a victimless crime how many children and elderly did you plow through
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gradenko_2000 posted:https://twitter.com/PMurphyWWL/status/1748095428929692106?t=XjAi_XzfnomlSoHb5fNO9g&s=19 always a loving truck
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HashtagGirlboss posted:This happened on the I-295 bridge in Jacksonville when I was briefly living there in 2008/2009 or so. Got a lot of local media coverage for very obvious reasons. Drunk driver just sideswiped her iirc and she went over the bridge There was an article about a month ago in the local paper about a guy who ran off the road (texting I assume), landed under the bridge perfectly invisible to drivers, was pinned in his truck for a week and only lived because some fisherman were scouting out spots and happened upon him. Nightmarish stuff.
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eSports Chaebol posted:if you report an unshoveled sidewalk in NYC it appears the rate at which action is taken on your report vs parking violations is in the neighborhood of 50,000%
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gradenko_2000 posted:https://twitter.com/FairfieldPolice/status/1748516656584822792?t=w-Wg0EVfIUo5GkFjuDXDNg&s=19 I don’t like the implication that panicked and distracted drivers are not necessarily bad drivers. Anyway, arrest houses, because a panic, distracted driver could go right through the wall and end up in a child’s bedroom. Rochallor posted:There was an article about a month ago in the local paper about a guy who ran off the road (texting I assume), landed under the bridge perfectly invisible to drivers, was pinned in his truck for a week and only lived because some fisherman were scouting out spots and happened upon him. Nightmarish stuff. Tillie Tooter did it first.
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386-SX 25Mhz VGA posted:always a loving truck
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386-SX 25Mhz VGA posted:always a loving truck https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfQK6AcJxI8
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Some cars at least will vibrate the steering wheel and/or beep to warn you if you're backing up into something. I don't know if they'll actually stop on their own in that situation because you don't usually need emergency braking at low speeds, but maybe they should if people are that dumb.
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mystes posted:Some cars at least will vibrate the steering wheel and/or beep to warn you if you're backing up into something. I don't know if they'll actually stop on their own in that situation because you don't usually need emergency braking at low speeds, but maybe they should if people are that dumb. Any car with a modern backup camera will beat at you but none of them will auto break because sometimes the driver is doing it intentionally like bumping a garbage bin you don’t care to move, or backing through some kind of sheeting or intentionally running over someone who had the audacity to give you the finger when you drove through the crosswalk on a red light Oh nevermind I guess some do. That would annoy me a lot because I’ll be damned if I want to move my neighbors recycle bin six inches HashtagGirlboss has issued a correction as of 00:37 on Jan 21, 2024 |
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yes, some cars do auto brake in reverse. many cedar branches have been spared a grazing by my prius. ive seen an acura do it, too
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lol people get so mad when you even give them a "thumbs down" for doing stupid poo poo.
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lobster shirt posted:stop building bridges that's the problem, man is midas and everything we touch turns to cars (poo poo) there's a type of cargo boat, called roll on roll off, frequently used for ferry work. they were invented to ship cars cheaply by having the cars drive directly onto and off the boat. the slang for them in the industry is roll on roll over, because they end up being a little more top heavy and have a lot of extra dangers if the precautions needed for sailing with a bunch of cargo that wants to roll around aren't taken seriously. el faro is one of the more infamous recent examples. the ferry that rolled over and killed like 200 high school students in south korea was also a roll on roll off cargo ship converted to ferry passengers. basically el problemo es cars as well as el capitalism
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DR FRASIER KRANG posted:lol people get so mad when you even give them a "thumbs down" for doing stupid poo poo. Haha yeah it is a surreal experience I'm not swearing at you, I'm not calling you a fat loving piece of poo poo or anything A simple gesture lmao
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One time I had to travel for work, and the car rental place was all out of worker drone shitboxes. The only thing they had was a GM Denali Yukon XL, which was a loving nightmare to maneuver. It wouldn’t fit in the parking garage, and the hotel management told to park it in the handicap spot. The only way to get that piece of poo poo out of the blind turn of the hotel’s exit was to carefully inch my way through a bike lane into a right turn, and while doing so an old guy on a bicycle in the lane slowed down and veered around me while giving me the most emphatic middle finger I’ve ever witnessed for a good 10 seconds, like just an incredible display of gently caress you, he was holding up that finger like Rafiki presenting baby Simba to the kingdom, that finger nerve-stapled his hatred deep into my neuronal circuitry next to the memory of taking my first dump and watching Goku go SSJ when I was a kid if the rental place pulls that poo poo again I’m just going to walk, but I will never forget the badassery and justice of that man 386-SX 25Mhz VGA has issued a correction as of 04:31 on Jan 21, 2024 |
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