Meanwhile, one of the Hall brothers can skateboard down it in a giant teddy bear costume. LA, you confuse me.

Aw crap, I just saw your clever usage of Stalin after I did mine. Ushankas off to you.

It’s MIR-aculous that they didn’t start Stalin’ the engine too.

I’m not defending the trucker here, but I’m curious if sign height plays a role. I get that they are used to looking down at normal height road signs, but I wonder if sometimes it wouldn’t hurt to put truck specific ones up high. Maybe they would jump out more at them? Any truckers or road engineers have any…

Good questions. I’d have to imagine they have to put some amount of route planning in since bridge and overpass heights are something that need to be considered too. Maybe he took an unplanned detour?

You might want to get on with an insurance company who just classifies it as a Golf instead. I have a ‘16 R and I recall noticing that when I was looking for insurance. The companies that just classify it as a Golf were definitely cheaper than the ones that classified it as an R. They may have updated that though…

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Jesus Christ, who shit in your Wheaties? Please read AND comprehend what I actually wrote and the literal facts I cited to make the argument that performing a maneuver like that with a semi-truck driver that is unaware is really dangerous and could lead to a fatality. Maybe it wouldn’t lead to a decapitation as I…

Came here to say this. I don’t think it’s “stolen” per se, but heavily lifted from for sure. I remember seeing Carpool the first time when Sir Patrick Stewart was on it. I remember watching Comedians in Cars and thinking “Haven’t I seen this before?”

The greater point of performing this slowdown maneuver without alerting the semi truck driver being waaaayy more dangerous than it sounds remains. So sure, nitpick away?

Also, it wasn’t until very recently that Mansfield bars were improved, which I learned thanks to an article on this very blog! https://jalopnik.com/man…

When passenger vehicles rear end semis, there’s a high risk of decapitation. Not guaranteed, but high risk.

It’s not sarcasm or mean-spirited, it is just constructive criticism.

I completely agree on this. I have a 3rd Gen 97 4Runner and actually off-road with it here in Colorado. I recently had a chance to drive a new Tacoma off-road and I couldn’t.see.shit. The fender flares, hood, etc., were just insanely limiting my vision of the trail in front of me. The solution of course is to have a…

- try to unstuck the gas pedal somehow, if that doesn’t work, then:

I (and anyone else who notices) can’t take your point seriously when you use “break” instead of “brake”. It’s not sarcasm or mean-spirited, it is just constructive criticism.

Honestly, when I hear Obsolete I think of their other album, so that’s neat of us...nerds.

I’m sort of with you too actually. Plus when a similar incident happened with Japan’s emergency missile alert system a short time later? Just seems weird.

This comment wins. And yes, we all know how dangerous it was, jet wash, yadda yadda, but still...these intercepts always kind of seem like a “hey look at me! Watch me do this! Ok now watch this!”. I mean, barrel roll over a spy plane is pretty rad.

It’s the open flames, dingus. Aside from the legal ramifications of getting caught, you’ll be promptly added to the no-fly list, so have fun never flying again! Another method, just get a vape pen and take a few hits before getting on the plane? Just don’t fuck around up there with any sort of heating element or fire.…

Ok, let me preface this by stating that I do love a good Pilsner, and in fact have been relishing in how many new microbrewed pilsners there are these days. Hoooowever, can we verify this