I think they key fact regarding the selection here is the employee spoke Russian (suggesting the crook wasn’t particularly skilled with English). After all, the gangster kept upping the bribe until he got a positive response.

Wow. I’ve encountered a Tesla douche that drives a Porsche instead. Not a Mercedes or a BMW or even a Jeep, but a Porsche. LOL

According to NASA, you’re off by a ton regarding Hubble’s original weight, though it apparently now weighs 1.5 tons more than it did at launch.

So you’re telling us what? You are a perv that has sex with tea kettles? Your attempts at hot drinks all taste like shit? If you’re going to insult your own post, why post anything to begin with? Also, there are these things called capital letters and periods. Yes, I know, you’re snickering like certain old MTV…

Huh. I’m from the little bubble on MA’s southern border with CT and the number of people in the region with relatives in Canada is ridiculous (including my own family). Hell, we could get to Vermont’s border with Canada in about 2 1/2 hours. From your statement, I can only conclud the closest you’ve come to being in…

Ahem... “Formula One introduced wheel tethers back in 1998 to prevent errant tires from flying off a crashed car”

Wait! I think I see a mistake. This is a Chrysler we’re talking about. Shouldn’t that be “NAPA leather” rather than “napa leather”? :D

Since he was using the same old insulting nickname, you should have been all like “What the hell, man, you still haven’t graduated 4th grade?”

LOL. You know you’re getting close to the Canadian border when the drug sniffing dog gets called out to hunt for stolen beer.

Wow, you are truly the Ancient One. The MADD presentation got replaced by the DARE presentation during my second year of high school. But either one was better than the week long “This is how you get a boating license” presentation they did while the girls got puberty explained to them.

SROs deserve the response of “I’m sorry, my pet farticles escaped their colon cage.”

Wait.... So you’re not going with your nicksake, a half-track El Camino?

Reminds me of the Bellamore Armored Motor Bank Car, which eventually got so high end, it became a bank branch on wheels. IIRC, one of the variants looked quite a bit like this.

This is commonplace here in NJ. I’ve seen 3 or 4 loose tires over the years. Fortunately no accidents have happened. Here in NJ, I have also seen a tire stampede, where one of those full tire delivery picket trucks loses the entire load at once. That time I needed to replace the hood on my car as well as the…

SpaceX is incapable of launching something like Hubble, which is the size of a bus and substantially more tonnage than they can lift.

Given the load that trailer was carrying, the trailer obviously had a dually setup and this is the outer left tire of the trailer. The driver never noticed because there was still a tire on that side of the trailer holding up the load. The interlocking lugs were probably improperly installed, causing the studs between…

Yep, there are tradeoffs.... and exactly NONE of them have anything to do with the specific act of throwing a part in the trash. You did something so utterly stupid, it defies the general thought processes of most people, let alone logic. It was a perfectly good part. You could have sold it off and offset part of that…

Strangely convenient that one of the teams had a photographer at just the right location to film the car hitting a hollow and losing control. If you didn’t know any better, you might think it was planned.

You left out the part where it is actually illegal in quite a few states. Though, TBH, the punishment for violations really needs to be the smashing of offending car parts on the side of the road instead of issuing of typically 0-point tickets that will never be paid.

I don’t have a garage. I have an attached storage unit. :P