In the short story, it was a pet octopus, which makes at least marginal sense.

TIL: The closest the Beast has come to proving itself (as far as the public are concerned) was that a deranged person attempted to ram it with a forklift during the Trump era (but didn't get very close.)

“Hello, Mr. Richman? John here. About the brake upgrade to your car... I’m afraid there’ll be a bit of a delay getting it back to you. No, nothing major...”

Exactly my thought - what is their responsibility if customer car is brought in for service and gets stolen from the premises.

There’s going to be a lot more of this zero-tolerance nonsense going forward - DMV staff are probably so afraid of accidentally providing service to an undocumented person that it’s easier to say ‘computer says no’ and hope that the lawsuit isn’t resolved until after you retire.

Incredible. Mark it in your diaries folks - July 2nd 2024 was the first day in modern American history where there was only one single-vehicle accident in the entire USA to report on.

Even the landscapers I see around here are towing a trailer with their equipment in it, presumably because there’s too much of it and it’s too heavy to lift way up into a truck bed anyway.

So, open season to use an AI *complainant* to force a takedown of legitimate content you disagree with?

Maybe a big, hot brass steam regulator valve and a handbrake lever outside the driver’s door.

There’s *no* association between ‘snowflake’ wheel designs and owners who are obsessed with 19th century transmissions and 110-year old engine layouts. None. Put that out of your mind.

I don’t like to brag, but *all* of my cars have unique one-of-one VINs from the factory. Adds a lot of value on the collector market.

I guess he might hope to be confused with MyPillow guy and accidentally pardoned under a second Trump regime.

Typical - selected Cybertruck owners getting free upgrades to the Superleggera lightweight package or the SLR Stirling Moss ‘wiperless’ package, and all they do is complain...

I thought F-150s automatically downshifted when they see a Prius in front of them?

Isn’t the point of having the sensor near the road surface to give you an accurate reading of whether the road surface is at or near freezing? No-one really cares how hot it is when it’s hot, but it really matters when it’s cold.

My guess - the truck saw itself in a reflective surface for the first time and attempted to self-delete.

Well, that one looks a bit shorter than when it was delivered, yes.

I, for one, take a really positive message away from this heart-warming story. *This* is what happens when you try turning off and on again *before* calling the IT Helpdesk and whining at them that you’ve already tried ‘everything’, knowing that you haven’t done a darn thing.

I usually feel very strongly about wearing seatbelts, but if these two happened to coexist with a concrete wall at high speed, I don’t suppose anything of value would be lost.

Could we ever, for once, have a character who *isn’t* a special forces veteran? Maybe someone who worked in the motor pool or was a stock controller in a military food warehouse? Does everyone who retires from the US military now get counselling about how they will immediately be thrown into conflict through no fault…