It didn’t exactly fail. At the time Prohibition was introduced there were a tremendous number of hole-in-the-wall bars that saw a large business in capturing clients on their way home from work. They were eliminated by Prohibition. While speak-easy joints cropped up, it wasn’t nearly the number, and the end of…

It doesn’t matter if nothing is visible. What mainly matters is an out-of-state plate or a car that hasn’t regularly parked on the thieves route. In the investigation the thieves regularly broke rear passenger windows solely to get to the seat releases on SUVs so they could look under the cover. They would leave items…

It’s a bullet shaped lump of metal. What it was intended for isn’t a guide to what it is good for now. 

Trying to keep airport employees from gaining a trophy. 

Cops are the worst tacticians. Remember how they cut down a child in his pajamas trying to see what all the flashing lights were about while every one of them yelled a different order at the same time from more than 100 feet away? Blasted to pieces by sniper fire over a false report. Or the time a police sniper shot…

They were there to make sure the second attempt to repo the truck was a success as evidenced by the truck being repo’d as the owner was bleeding to death seeing his truck taken just before he died. They enforced a civil action with gunfire. 

It’s slightly related as this equipment is being pressed harder than it would be if Russia had any alternative. Plus the factories for parts might be engaged in building other things.

No idea - but does the Rivian have a mode where letting off the accelerator pedal at a stop causes the vehicle to hold position until the accelerator pedal is pushed? If so, he may have (thoughtless, mindless, absent mindlessly) feathered his foot over the accelerator in anticipation of going, but accidentally tapped…

I see the victim was from Cuba, where the chances of getting shot approach zero, and only here a year, hence the lack of awareness that anyone would shoot for any reason.

Probably stolen from a responsible gun owner who kept it in their glovebox, for safety. But we don’t treat responsible gun owners as if they are responsible for actually retaining firearms. If a pharmacy loses track of a couple of opioid pills there’s an investigation and a chance for the pharmacist to lose their…

The Asian workers were brought to the US over a small amount of time looking for work; they were not chained into the bottoms of ships. Most were from China. As a result they retained a common language, common cultural background, and family ties to reach to for support for a period of a decade of forced labor, over…

“When the bodies were discovered, the car was still on, but the engine wasn’t running.”

Paperwork - at least to the extent I see no reference at all to parts manufacturing, just falsification and forgery of part certifications. 

Want a shoveled out spot? Get a shovel and shovel out your own. 

14 year old me would have peeled that phone loose and taken it with me if it didn’t get fumbled down the toilet.

Yes - but Biden didn’t flatten the box -and- put it in the wrong bin!

Found the slave holder.

John Brown was an abolitionist trying to get the slaves to fight for their freedom. Putting effort behind it he killed several of those running forced labor camps. His were essentially the first shots fired in the US Civil war that killed a lot more slave holders. 

There is a difference between movie magic and a company normalizing stupid behavior.

Since a car (or any mass) doubles in kinetic energy for every 50% increase in speed, it takes little imagination to see that giving everyone else more time to take effective evasive actions and not have their vehicle obliterated at 1/2 the energy is an improved condition.