That still doesn't solve the issue of how they became homeless in the first part. Mental health and addiction are a huge part of the homeless problem, and until we take solving those issues seriously, free housing isn't going to solve much.

“I will turn this store around right now if you kids don’t settle down!”

I’m not sure that anyone I knew actually played with these, just collected them in giant stacks and carried them around.

*ragrets

If you could ever get that engine to apply all of its effort through those rear tires, this thing would do a backflip.

Some people can’t have multiple cars. Some people take on vacation a year and choose for that to be spent overlanding. The same rigs you see out on the toughest trails still go to work during the week and stop at the mall for pants. You track your sports car 90% of the time? You bitch that people drive around in their…

Nothing really tacky about this. If it had big ass 22" rims and stretched mud tires I’d agree but this is completely functional so not really seeing the problem

He's a fast hombre, that Manuel

It is a jungle out there.

I usually have to pay extra for that.

I would probably walk right by that and think nothing of it because, get this, it’s just a pull rope. I’ve seen plenty of very similar knots used for pull ropes on garage doors, trailer doors, pull-down attic steps, etc. and I’m pretty sure none of those knots were tied with any ill intent. They’re good for dragging…

Geuss I’ll just copy what I wrote on Oppo:

Man, finally seeing a picture of it, with some context, really makes me wonder why this blew up like it did.

Is it tied in a way that looks like a hangmans noose? Absolutely.

But this wouldn’t look out of place in any of the factories or warehouses I’ve ever worked in, or in my own garage. It looks like a door pull…

And here we are, making racial slurs in 2020 against white people. 

Yeah, I think I’m just about done being told how racist I am by this website. Goodbye jalopnik, I'll be over on thedrive.

And I suppose that you'll say the loops on the ends of rope swings worldwide are also racist.

So question.... when is a loop a noose, or a noose not a noose? or are we just going to call any tied loop a noose.... if the loop doesn’t tighten its not a noose... which this one was concluded not to close so its not a noose. Even in the off road community loops like these are commonplace to loop around a tree stump…

Thanks for your valuable contribution to the conversation.

I blame the affiliation with Bass Pro Shops for teaching crews how to tie no-slip knots, which are common for attaching fishing lures

Thanks so much for all the kind words Stef here’s a picture of the car as it sits now without the orange