She wasn’t too dumb to use the emergency release. She didn’t feel she was going to die and didn’t want to risk the damage the software update warning suggested would happen if she opened a door or a window.

Step one by software update - move windows down to allow manual opening to do no damage. This eliminates the need for a warning that the car can be damaged.

A comment so dark a cop just unholstered his weapon upon reading it.

I know what you mean on muscle memory - I was the opposite way. Always wore a seat belt in a car or the infrequent airplane trips and getting on a school bus without one was a bit unnerving. Back then there was no padding - just a hard chromed-steel tubular frame to stop against.

Rival gangs don’t wait.

https://www.chicagocopa.org/case/2024-0003052/

https://www.chicagocopa.org/case/2024-0003052/

Probably cops shooting at each other, yet again.

Fraternal orders don’t have collective bargaining or go on strike. 

It’s ambiguous.

Worked on a machine that had extendable legs. One of the tests was to put a large side load on the machine. In the testing someone screwed up and hit the machine harder than expected and a leg brace broke. Pretty soon it became clear that the intended use of the machine could regularly provide more than enough load to…

The mistake is that gold has a similar density to lead and would have been nearly opaque to an x-ray intended to look through iron and copper.

Are the morons close relatives?

I’d guess, mainly chatting on the phone or texting. The length of the merge is tiny compared to the attention required to f’ around on the phone. So they see it is a couple miles ahead, get a notification and start to read it, and then wake up to where they are.

The barriers are fine for cars this size. The barrier at this location had been crashed into more than a week before and CalTrans had not replaced it leaving a solid concrete spear without significant energy absorption exposed to traffic.

The dose people will get on the trip to Mars may be enough. It won’t be lethal all by itself, but the damage it does won’t help. 

Israel doesn’t see them as hostages. Hostages are held in anticipation they will be released and Israel has no plans to release the captives. They are held captive to extort Palestinians with the threat that Israel will simply capture more of them. 

If they can get Rosanne Barr as the female interest the plan will be complete.

The problem with jailhouse snitching is that there is often a lack of other evidence to support the testimony and the snitcher is often being bribed in order to get them to lie, as in, “We’ll reduce the charges against you if you help us convict someone who is possibly innocent.”

These vertical extensions make the contact more likely and the damage more severe. Fortunately they can pay for this excess damage from their fuel savings.