“When is the last time you saw someone waiting in line three days in advance to order a car?”

“Frankly, I would hope any officer who’s pulled somebody over would take that opportunity to educate them on the laws they’ve broken rather than just billing them”

Jesus, I want to punch this guy in the face for how many times he says shit like “There’s no roadmap for this kind of project” (you mean aside from the literal book Converse engineering wrote, the forums dedicated to V8 volvo conversions, etc?) and “we wanted to do something really unique” (you mean aside from the…

Check out that stylin’ 2009 Garmin Foretrex 401...

Is that a Foretrex? Good lord.

Ummmmm, yeah, they don’t to shoot people just for taking photos. You watch too many movies.

You’re a fucking idiot.

Re: stop-light-piece-flash guy:

As has been discussed numerous times here in the comments: the pre-refresh W211 platform is shit, and that includes the E55 AMG.

Exactly. I have never seen so much bitching and moaning from a single job as I do from bartenders. Happens on reddit regularly. Greet them the wrong way. Order a difficult to make drink. Stand in the wrong place. Bitch bitch bitch bitch. These people rake in tax-free income and all they can do is complain.

Why is everyone giving the pilot blowjobs? These winds must have exceeded the plane’s crosswind rating, in which case, the question is: why weren’t they paying attention to the weather (ie why did they fly to an airport they couldn’t land at)?

I wondered the same at first, but airport beacons are not the fast/jittery/random. They’re very distinct, clear pulses. There’s also no sign of runway lighting, etc.

The pre-w211 refresh cars are abhorrent. Spend some time reading on the E55 forums and you’ll see the various nightmares.

Everyone thinks this is a great idea, and then the people seriously considering it check into the maintenance issues and find that the E55 was pretty unreliable, mostly because of the shit w211 platform it’s based on. The forums for E55 owners are full of various problems. These cars were still very much from the…

*forehead slap* Duh! Of course. The gear. Thank you!

Then he moved out to Tokyo, got a girlfriend, and he invited me out to Bali last year. I said yes. We did acid and fell in love.”

Department policies or procedures cannot override civil rights nor state law. If the police department requires names etc from people who are not suspected of a crime (as is obviously the case here), then that’s their tough luck, not yours.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_and_…

220 knots max cruise seems pretty underwhelming for such a powerful engine. For comparison: a Mooney 20J will do a 170kt cruise with 200hp. You’d think another 250hp would get you more than 50 knots, but yes, I realize resistance is a function of velocity squared yadda yadda.

The FAA report should be interesting - I wonder if the pilot truly couldn’t glide out to a suitable spot to land, or if he just yanked the ‘chute. Shortly after takeoff is certainly the worst time for failure...but also seems to indicate a lack of proper preflight. $50 says there wasn’t a proper run-up check.