Yeah but on the flip side, this is Jalopnik. Any time there are politics involved, rights of opinion/speech only apply to 1 side of the argument. Everyone else is racist / bigot / supremacist / bad because they share the other opinion.

Is Jalopnik about cars or politics? The guy still has a right to not disagree with what other people say (I think?).

Oh, wow, another asshole enthusiast with zero self-awareness or common decency who flaunts his weird hobby in the faces of his neighbors. And now I’m supposed to feel sympathy for his selfish ass?!?

He’s got a lovely looking driveway that should hold it just fine.

He’s got a big property. No need to street park this. He can’t be driving it that much because it would tear up the road surface and they’d DEFINITELY not have that. Just park that shit on the lawn.

What’s with all these articles blasting HOAs and siding with people who just create problems for their neighborhoods?

Was just about to post this. All that weight on those treads have to make mincemeat of city roads.

Could the HOA take the angle that the tank is damaging the pavement? How much damage will driving it on the road do to the road?

This. All of this.

YMMV. I work on cars and home projects all the time and have never heard from my HOA. The next neighborhood over doesn’t have one and their values are down roughly 10-15% of our neighborhoods. They can be a pain, but they have some benefits if you’re into that kind of neighborhood.

Current VP of our HOA here, guy across the street is the Pres. He just finished putting a Turbo in his Miata last year, just finished a engine swap in a 84 pick up, still has a boat that needs rewiring. Truly all we have done over the past 2 years was remind people that if they get a shed the exterior siding has to…

Yeah, I bet the guy living next door to this wouldn’t mind an HOA.

there are actually people who think HOA are good? seems like the fascists have been here longer than we thought.

What was it doing there? Probably flying a route that was pre-coordinated and deconflicted with local aviation authorities.

Why the hell is someone flying a drone at 500 feet would be the better reaction

I believe in freedom of speech and this protest IS speech. On the other hand, making your boss look bad in public by protesting while on the clock is never a winning move either.

It was a shitty thing to do and has no bearing on the disposition of the car.

Unpopular opinion: Its completely filled with sand and saltwater up to the doors and below the high tide line so its completely fucked. There is no saving it and the backhoe that may eventually come dig it out is not going to be gentle to try and preserve it. Adding a squished roof to its problems is kinda irrelevant.

I don’t take his comment as sexist at all. It sounds more like that if someone doesn’t agree with you then it’s sexist/racist/or you fill in the blank.

It’s kind of amusing, all this ‘don’t compare her to Danica’ stuff. Much as the original article referred to was lazy, shitty journalism, this article itself treats Landauer very similarly to Danica - she is a mid-field at best driver, getting far more attention/promotion/media coverage than her results could ever…