I’m not even a NASCAR fan but really, there aren’t all that many NASCAR races held at that track, so it’s not as if there was a huge amount of opportunity for people to notice it. Yes, someone put it there and it’s troubling for sure. But I do expect it was almost entirely overlooked until noticed when Wallace’s crew…

In fact, all rope starts out this way.

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

Here’s my take.  It’s unfortunate that Bubba Wallace got assigned to the one stall where one guy was bored and tied a noose.

If it were me, I would be looking to the righteous guidance of the Chevy 454 SS, a street machine truck that looked low and mean and didn’t mess around with much else.

The root did cover it

Phelps also said Tuesday night NASCAR is still investigating how the garage pull rope was made to look like a noose. NASCAR checked every other garage stall and none had been shaped like a noose.

None of the other door pulls had loops at all. The question remains whether someone was trying to visually represent a noose (I know of multiple teenage edgelords when I was in high school that would tie a “hangman’s knot” and as a matter of course get it completely fucking wrong but the intent was apparent) or if…

This was covered by The Root yesterday: https://www.theroot.com/fbi-finds-no-hate-crime-committed-in-bubba-wallaces-gar-1844140270.

Based on the international goodwill that NASCAR is building in response to the issues with Bubba Wallace, perhaps that would be a net positive for HD. They NEED to change their target demographic, nothing like something drastic like a global pandemic followed by major social justice upheaval to slip in a little…

If Harley is gonna dump all its racist dealers, then it isn’t going to have a dealer network left.

Ha - when he said feared the “potential for hacking” I almost spit out my coffee.  Hotwiring a mechanical ignition switch is the de facto OG hacking.

one less thing to keep in your pocket i guess. also some of the key fobs for these luxury cars are MAD expensive $600+ might as well use your phone one less piece of expensive gadgetry that something bad could happen to. 

I am not an early adopter nor a luddite, proximity keys were just right for me, got one the first time and I did not want to go back after one day. I don’t want to jab a piece of metal at a keyhole in the rainy dark with an armful of stuff, or fumble for a fob to press a button before I get to it, and I don’t want to…

I guarantee I can pick his mechanical locks, and all I’ve done to learn is watch a few hours of YouTube. People have been opening/starting cars since the first lock.  Locks, electronic or not only set the level of investment a thief has to make. 

I am, in fact, an IT consultant/engineer. I simply don’t give a shit. I pay LOTS of money for very good insurance. If my shit gets stolen, I get new shit. I didn’t even have KEYS for my house in Maine for the first decade I owned it, we literally never locked the place. When your house has glass windows, locks only…

I have zero desire for any car where I have to fuck around with putting physical keys in locks. I have my Luddite tendencies when it comes to cars, but keys are very much not one of them. I have touch code locks on my HOUSES too. Physical keys are relics of bygone days.

The new Citroën Ami’s left and right doors are the same part for cost-cutting reasons.

Jason, Jason, Jason, How could you forget the incredibly popular Zündapp Janus? I believe that had pretty much the same door front and rear door, or at-least the same basic shell.

“Reliability is very important to me”