Nope - then they go into containers, get shipped to stripper facilities, and the precious metal cores get removed and ground up as industrial waste for export. The ones making the biggest problems are organizations that deal in thousands at a time. They don’t sell to scrapyards.

Change the CAFE requirement by 2% to allow for the extra weight. Beyond that the automakers don’t care if everyone has the same requirement.

I think the solution is to redesign catalytic convertors so they weigh 200 pounds. Use inch-thick steel and bolt it directly to the body. That’s about the same as one US passenger, so it’s not too big a problem unless a thief is trying to drag it from beneath a car and make a fast getaway. Plus - it will never…

Remember quaaludes? They are a complex drug that only a few companies had the facilities to produce. For a long time there were groups buying finished pills, wrapped and boxed. Then the makers got requests for them as loose pills. Later they were asked for just the powder. This was because various drug enforcement…

Yup - no one wants the housing, just the precious metals applied to the ceramic core.

This is the LAPD’s effort to convert (pun) the theft of a catalytic converters into “It’s Your Fault For Not Marking It” and to allow insurance companies to use that lack of marking as a means to deny the theft claim - as if one had left te driver’s door open, engine running, and a blinking sign, “Steal Me!,” on the…

Digging a hole is cheap. This hole needs to be 6 feet deep to match US highway standards of 16 foot clearance. That puts it about 2-4 feet below the neighboring river, at least on this particular day. As the river rises so does the water table. This road is built on top of a filled canal, for an idea of where water…

Found the remains. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLKq4070AiE

The have about a dozen signs before that point already, including at least one with blinking lights.

Show one town that is completely cut off by low bridges from bus traffic. You have obviously read entire books dedicated to this.

4 people died and a judge let the bus driver go “Because it was just an accident” after the driver went by 13 warning signs before hitting the bridge.

Similar limits as former 11'8" bridge - except that has a turn-off directly before the bridge.

Are you interested in the number of these that existed before there were suburbs and were in place before long-distance trucking existed? When a lot of the rural areas still used horse-drawn wagons?

The preferable plan is to eliminate drivers who will be similarly incompetent everywhere else. It isn’t possible to put up enough signs.

Entrapment is an attempt at a legal defense to indicate that but for the actions of law enforcement the person involved would not have taken the actions they did.

I’d say - in bear country - don’t ever have food inside the car. Put groceries on a roof rack or one of those trailer hitch boxes or get a trailer. I bet a couple of loose french fries are detectable, so not even eating in a car.

I don’t know - it appears that 99% of K-9 officers are making the remaining 1% look bad.

Pretty fancy way to say “ran out of gasoline.”

May I point out that a buyer is likely a worse person than the seller, as noted in the “friend” of the US Supreme Court with a fascination for Nazi ephemera and memorabilia.

I had a brand new car involved in a crash because Ford failed to properly install an axle seal. Car passed safety inspection on the pick-a-wheel approved method. Thanks Missouri. FU Ford.