And yet again, even if it was illegally parked, which isn’t stated definitively in the BBC piece, it was illegally crushed. One of these is remarkably more abusive than the other.

If this guy was in San Francisco, the city would have sold his car off at auction and spent the proceeds on handouts for bums. Then the city would fine the owner for the cost of towing, storage, and disposal.

Also no US municipality would be able to get a car marked as abandoned and crushed inside of three days.

Did you miss the fact that, despite having an up-to-date registration, they made no attempts to locate him before crushing it?

Holy shit. I mean, seriously, that’s epic levels of bureaucratic evil.

Technical Weld Specialist be reading the back of the package

Happens in the St Louis area from time to time. Poor black resident near Ferguson (since you all know that name) had the flu. Stayed in bed three or days, comes out and his driveway gate has a cut lock... and his truck is missing. The city had an ordinance against “abandon vehicles” which it defined as immobile for…

It’s his own fault. If he lived in the US, he wouldn’t have had health insurance so he couldn’t have had surgery. Problem solved.

A shocking combination of efficiency and incompetence. The latter I expect from government, the former is extremely rare and usually welcome.

*wherewithal

dealers will arrange to have a “Technical Weld Specialist” come to make the weld repair

Does the technician get to affix a little sticker of a fighter jet to the outside of his toolbox now?

NEVER say not having microtractions isnt a good thing.

No not that one.

I don’t see any good news here. They got robbed, didn’t get any support from Valve and were forced to put their game for free. Now, somehow they need to convince people to pay for it, when they didn’t had a microtransaction process planned in the first place.

If this was a real MMO, Emilie would show up to the dungeon run 45 minutes late, with no consumables (I thought the guild provided flasks!), and not remembering that she’d swapped specs for PVPing until after you pulled the first boss.

Why would I do that when I can just run Windows?

Why is everyone calling this the “October Update” when it’s a fucking “Upgrade”

“Hi.”
“We’ve Updated your computer”
“All your files are right where you’ve left them”

This is why I went to the registry and manually turned off automatic updates.