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Shockingly that guy survived a multi hundred foot tumble down the steep mountainside and the truck driver turned himself in. He is banged up bad but stable.
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Protocol7 posted:That's actually fair, was running into the same sort of idiots last night when my car was reporting it was 40 degrees out and it was barely snowing. I was an rear end in a top hat started driving really aggressively since I was getting really sick of all of the slow idiots. Same, I have 4wd, good tires, and 20 years of living in Alaska so some snow isn't a big deal to me. I'd complain louder but I'd bet the people driving around on bald tires are the ones who can't afford to miss a day of work and also cannot afford even $75 for chains  fuckin capitalism.
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davebo posted:These fucktards shouldn't be driving in the snow regardless, but did you check to see if it was like most fucktards and are driving around on bald rear end tires they're too poor/lazy to replace that shouldn't be going over 5mph in the snow anyway? This paranoid inconsiderate driving may have inadvertently saved your life. I live in an area that makes it very appealing to just run worn-down summer tires year-round. Very little precipitation all year and maybe a couple of snow days each winter. However, this year we've gotten 22 inches of snow over a month which really hasn't melted away, either. Apparently some sort of record since 1955. People are sliding around all over the place. They are crying and whining that the city isn't getting around to their small residential streets and "we can't leave our driveways!". Ironically, these are the same people that refuse to shovel their own sidewalks and driveways. An acquaintance of my wife quipped that she wasn't going to shovel until the city plowed her road so her and her high-performing V-8 Mustang Convertible could go anywhere. Because it has a V-8 and RWD and lots of power, it is just  incompatible with snow and therefore the city owed it to her to plow her road. Same lady refuses to even get snow out of her loving driveway. I've seen the tires on that Mustang and I am therefore not at all surprised she can't go anywhere. Plus, apparently a throttle pedal only has two modes: off or on. I have been having a blast driving around in all this with proper M+S tires. I really don't get what's so difficult (other than paying for tires, I guess) TotalLossBrain fucked around with this message at 00:42 on Jan 17, 2017 |
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Phanatic posted:"Oh no! This snowplow is moving a little bit slower than my tractor-trailer! Better try to pass this poorly-maneuverable vehicle with my poorly-maneuverable vehicle while going around a curve on a snowy road!" But making a tractor-trailer driver slow down for literally any reason ever could cost them ones of dollars and make them very, very sad (or so I've been told), so clearly that snowplow should have been more considerate about possibly impeding that poor, poor tractor-trailer driver.
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If he was going downhill loaded, I wonder if the trucker might not have been able to slow down. Really, it looked like the truck was in the right lane which was way more clear, I know I have gone around plows if my lane was clear (although never on a highway).
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Powered Descent posted:Tonight we got a dusting of snow and ice, no big deal. Put it in neutral or put the clutch in, you'll slow down faster.
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I drove up to Big Bear, CA on Friday. Being from the Northeast, the whole time I was laughing at how they require chains for 2WD vehicles because it was snowing even though it was 34 degrees out and the roads had been plowed and were at most just slightly damp. I have an AWD soccer mom crossover, so I was fine to go ahead. Some of the locals were not impressed.  I later safely passed this guy when he took a turnout. He had chains on all four wheels. Leaving on Sunday, the roads were now fully clear and dry. But this guy did something.  The whole front of the roof, from the A pillar to the B pillar, was flat. edit - In New Jersey, we have a name for the ignorant unwashed masses who show up down the shore in the summertime, bringing their filth and debris and bad accents - "shoobies". I don't know what you would call these people who drive halfway up the mountain to park on the side of the road and block traffic so they can stand in the snow and leave their trash and broken plastic sleds in the forest. Apparently its a thing. Note the park ranger towing cars all over the place. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZ5vxsIviiY FogHelmut fucked around with this message at 05:10 on Jan 17, 2017 |
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FogHelmut posted:But this guy did something. Looks like he took his tire chains off. 
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Good lord, Big Bear on the weekends is hell for me. All the "flatlands" as the locals affectionately call them just go crazy and park anywhere to get 20 minutes to touching snow, then head back down the mountain.
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FCKGW posted:Good lord, Big Bear on the weekends is hell for me. All the "flatlands" as the locals affectionately call them just go crazy and park anywhere to get 20 minutes to touching snow, then head back down the mountain. I had no idea. I used to spend weekends in the Poconos, where "heavy traffic" was seeing a car driving the opposite way. My in-laws' house where we stayed is within walking distance of the Bear Mountain ski slope, it was horrible. A line of cars up Moonridge from 7:00 am through the day. The house across from us rented by dumbass 22 year olds with WRXs. The clatter of tire chains on the dry asphalt. Not my idea of "getting away from it all."
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Crotch Fruit posted:If he was going downhill loaded, I wonder if the trucker might not have been able to slow down. Really, it looked like the truck was in the right lane which was way more clear, I know I have gone around plows if my lane was clear (although never on a highway). The right lane was clear, but the snow plow was pushing snow up into the air into the right lane. The trucker was blinded by the snow and did not see that the road was turning right, so he went straight while the plow went right and then the fucktardery happened. Trucker is totally at fault for trying to pass a plow on the right in a curvy canyon pass. And he was a long nose pete with straight pipes pulling a flatbed so it's not some rookie Swiftie, he's an owner op that should know better. CannonFodder fucked around with this message at 06:19 on Jan 17, 2017 |
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FogHelmut posted:I don't know what you would call these people who drive halfway up the mountain to park on the side of the road and block traffic so they can stand in the snow and leave their trash and broken plastic sleds in the forest. "Valued Citizens"
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Trickle down economics, they show up and create jobs to clean up the garbage and spend money on overpriced tourist trap food.
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It was me, I was the person you share the road with. Turning left onto a one way street I scared an old woman crossing the street. I knew I wasn't going to run her down but she sure didn't know that. She scurried across with all haste and waved to me in apology. Sorry lady.
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So the company I'm working for now has a specific thing in their handbook that says that if you work on a claim and write a car off as a total you can't then buy the car. It's amazing how much more clever people are when they are gaming a system then when they're creating the system.
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Eifert Posting posted:So the company I'm working for now has a specific thing in their handbook that says that if you work on a claim and write a car off as a total you can't then buy the car. What about family members?
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big crush on Chad OMG posted:That clause is pretty standard and it extends to buying salvage yourself or close family typically. You can buy salvage but usually just best to avoid anything coming from a vendor you may use. I bolded his mistake. 
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Platystemon posted:I bolded his mistake. I love this. Eventually he would have got busted because tows for semis cost a mint and someone would have figured out something was amiss. So easy to verify. "Hey Bobs Auto Shop, was that truck towed in?" "No their driver drove it in yesterday" Repeat a few times and you've pretty much concluded that investigation. I will say that inside fraud is pretty rare because it's difficult and there is so much consumer fraud attempted that there is a pretty rigorous process to investigate.
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sleepy.eyes posted:It was me, I was the person you share the road with. Turning left onto a one way street I scared an old woman crossing the street. I knew I wasn't going to run her down but she sure didn't know that. She scurried across with all haste and waved to me in apology. Sorry lady. You monster! Edit: Is this the thread equivalent to "humble brags" in the Bad With Money thread?
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These are the Prius drivers you share your light-industrial zoning with: http://www.wthr.com/article/car-crashes-into-northwest-indianapolis-building-one-critically-injured
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So I have found a way to get more adrenaline pumping through my body than car racing ever did, and at the same time make myself truly appreciate how relatively normal the drivers in the Phoenix area really are. I drove my car into Tijuana last weekend.
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Last night I was on the highway, got into the left lane to pass one of the only two other cars ahead of me that I could see. As I started to pass the second car a few seconds later he cut me off, laid on his brakes, and flipped me off with both hands. What. Why. I wasn't even going that much faster, they were doing like 55 in a 50 (I really hate that so many of our highways are 50MPH here, what the gently caress. These are two or three lanes each way with either jersey barriers or full grass medians between them, not like a one lane each way "highway"), and I was at 65ish toodling past. I guess I should have been doing 100 so he couldn't have seen me to change lanes before I was long gone.
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big crush on Chad OMG posted:The problem was there was no tow, and after investigating they determined he used his SSN as the tax ID for the tow company he made. Welcome to jail.
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Anyone have any deets on whether police would actually care if you called about a driver like that and provided a plate number? Do they visit the owner or not? I imagine it would differ by location but would be surprised if police followed up on that anywhere.
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Michael Scott posted:Anyone have any deets on whether police would actually care if you called about a driver like that and provided a plate number? Do they visit the owner or not? I imagine it would differ by location but would be surprised if police followed up on that anywhere. At the very least, the police might become interested if the same vehicle you described gets into a wreck in the immediate future, which doesn’t seem too unlikely.
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No, but you see, he drives a SMART. He's saving the planet. He's taking up less space. He's SMARTer than you. Your rules don't apply to him. I loving hate smart car drivers. They're like Prius drivers with 70% more smugness.
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I've seen a million prius drivers on the road but haven't noticed any being douches.
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There is, I assume, an employee at a shopping complex near me, who drives one of those little micro-cars, and somehow even with it being the size of a golf cart, he still can't park it between the god damned lines of the parking space. It wasn't once I noticed this, but every single day. Just how the gently caress do you manage that?
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Javid posted:There is, I assume, an employee at a shopping complex near me, who drives one of those little micro-cars, and somehow even with it being the size of a golf cart, he still can't park it between the god damned lines of the parking space. It wasn't once I noticed this, but every single day. Just how the gently caress do you manage that? Some people do that deliberately to keep other cars far enough away not to ding them when they open the doors. As long as it's not prime parking spaces I don't really mind.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ei154mqsxY Nearly got him.
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Javid posted:There is, I assume, an employee at a shopping complex near me, who drives one of those little micro-cars, and somehow even with it being the size of a golf cart, he still can't park it between the god damned lines of the parking space. It wasn't once I noticed this, but every single day. Just how the gently caress do you manage that? Pick it up and move it.
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Actually don't because touching someone's car is an unforgivable sin and goons will explain why in exhaustive detail.
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Disgruntled Bovine posted:No, but you see, he drives a SMART. maybe you shouldn't be so mad at what someone chooses to drive
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It's okay to hate Smart cars and people that purchase them because they are expensive and have literally no redeeming qualities whatsoever, whereas even I can admit that a Prius is probably the right car for some people. And if you're in a situation where they are often a very good choice, there's car2go (which I assume exists in some form in every city worth a gently caress if it's in Calgary of all places).
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They don't care about the car, it's a rant about the idiot driving it.
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Just put the chibicar into the cart corral.
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PT6A posted:It's okay to hate Smart cars and people that purchase them because they are expensive and have literally no redeeming qualities whatsoever, whereas even I can admit that a Prius is probably the right car for some people. And if you're in a situation where they are often a very good choice, there's car2go (which I assume exists in some form in every city worth a gently caress if it's in Calgary of all places). cool but why give a poo poo also i had to look up car2go and they're in 7 US cities. 7.
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