Back in the day I bough fish tacos on the beach in Baja for $0.25 each.  I’ll give you $0.25 per acre for your property.  :)

I’m in Canada. We don’t worry about ambulance costs. My last ambulance trip of about 5 miles (that I don’t remember due to meningitis) cost me a $40 co-pay. Staying alive shouldn’t bankrupt people.

Wearing a bulletproof vest while in the commission of a crime implies forethought and planning involving getting into a firefight, hence the additional charges.

For someone without even flight simulator game experience, taxiing is difficult, take-off is more difficult, but if you succeed in the first two, landing will likely kill you.

I would agree IF the flight costs were reasonable. $81K for a 79 mile flight is not reasonable. Knowing “air ambulance bills were high” is not the same as getting a $81 K bill, especially when if she had been covered by Medicare the air ambulance company would only have been allowed to charge $10K. That is a $71K…

I thought the old days of “creative interpretation” of the rules made for some interesting creativity.  However NASCAR changed the rules to basically say “if we don’t expressly permit it, it is illegal”, which shuts that down rather effectively.  I have no use for blatant cheaters.

Regarding the ad contradicting itself, that seems increasingly common.   I recently read an ad proclaiming that the car was mint and worked perfectly, just needed a new transmission.

In about ‘86 I drove one of these for about 2 weeks while my car was in the body shop. For this spec the GLH stands for “Got Less Horsepower”. The most gutless vehicle I’ve ever driven, and to top it off, the fuel mileage on the highway was worse than my parent’s ‘77 Olds 98 Regency with a 403.  I might consider it if…

I don't know about highway dump trucks, but off-road haul trucks will have a body up alarm, a warning light on the dash, and an interlock that does not allow the transmission to upshift if the body is not on the rails.  Some also have a feature that will drop the body if moving in a forward gear over a preset speed.

It came from a human, duh.

Only communist countries have privileges, democracies only have rights. /s

Would you accept this as verification?

I think the other thing that might happen is with insurance companies.  There have always been multiple stories of insurance companies scrapping cars with cosmetic or minor damage to batteries as the OEM would not certify them as safe.   If insurance companies moving forward require that a battery or motor swap be…

Playing war games.

From the police report: “When asked about prior military experience, Deputy Hernandez said he attended West Point, and was an infantry officer and an officer in special forces for the army for a total of ten years. Deputy Hernandez said he had two combat rotations to Afghanistan, but noted as an officer, he was not…

I know this is Trek instead of Wars, but the suspect was not wearing a red shirt.

According to the police report, there was a report that the suspect had a suppressed weapon, which if he had, would not have sounded like a typical gunshot.  They are still incompetent and trigger-happy.

So two cops emptied their clips at a handcuffed person in the back of a cruiser that they thought was firing at them?  Lucky for the person in question, they seem to be hopelessly incompetent at hitting a target.

Official police report at https://www.sheriff-okaloosa.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/IA-2023-031-Final-Report-Jackson.pdf

Why don’t the police subpoena the camera records from his Tesla? Based on all the videos posted to various social media by Tesla owners, there should be multiple camera angles showing the entire incident. Also, I call BS on his not being aware. An impact hard enough to kill the pedestrian and one of her dogs would…