Wow.  Who shit in your Cheerios this morning?

Queue the dealer apologists who have taken on the role of the musk weird nerds but for dealerships.

Why is a reward even necessary?  Just to save someone the trouble of having to subpoena the rental records based off of the license plate?

If your employer told you to become vegan, but you refused and were subsequently fired, would you defend the employer’s right to do that?

What exactly is the conflict of interest here?

Finally, a chicken tax I can get behind.

Today in reading and regurgitating is hard: They don’t make $7 mil per location. That’s the gross per the linked article.

Every single Chick-fil-A I’ve ever been to has a ridiculous amount of traffic.  Even in places where there is a lot of Chick-fil-As.  I don’t get it.  I like their chicken, but I’m not waiting in a large line for it.

Not if you’re sucking down a mochafragilisticexpialicchino and biscotti while taking a meeting and grinding out emails, it isn’t.

I would think the *owners* of the fancy cars would be less than thrilled about having them parked on the street. If I knew a shop was doing that with my car I wouldn’t be taking my car there.

Those wheels and the stupid racing recovery hook tell me everything I need to know about the cars history and its owner, and that’s on top of it already being a 12yr old highly strung German car. 

Jeebus, those fuckin’ wheels! Tells me all I need to know about the seller. The car has been flogged and otherwise mistreated, vape fumes lingering in the upholstery, and 99% chance he wears a flat-billed hat. Massive No Dice!

Your comment reminds me of a something I read a while back.

So I was a cop about 10 years ago. After being in law enforcement a few years, I moved to a small department. After a few months, I witnessed my sergeant violating someone’s 4th amendment rights. I reported it to my chief thinking it was the right thing to do. I was forced out and blacklisted from ever working in law…

You’ve got that the wrong way round. Incidents like this are admirable when they happen, but they’re the exception, not the rule.  Frankly, incidents of corruption are much more common than situations like this.

Counterpoint: this is one of very few stories where a police officer risked their life and definitely saved lives. Add that those stories aren’t likely to be buried.

So which one is Jalopnik going to buy and import as the next staff project car hell? 

“police officers readily do, putting their lives on the line to save others”

It’s not just the “tiny fraction of” bad cops, it’s the overwhelming majority of chips who leap to protect bad cops from the consequences of their actions, and who in doing so, encourage that badness.

Says as much in the quoted statement.