which begs the question, what’s the fine for actually parking like a fuckwit?

I know enough about how the service animal rules are abused to see this coming a mile away.

I want to know more about the composition of the floating bog. Is it all roots? Can you walk on it without falling through? How deep does it go? 

Blah Blah Blah the kid is black and Im a cop, Blah Blah Blah

This is probably your best story I’ve read here. Very well done.

Most excellent. As a rider for approaching 50 years, you’ve identified the thing about motorcycling that has kept me involved: you absolutely have to be completely focused in the task at hand.

Such a professional job without a plan of what to do with the cars afterwards

That’s mainly because so many people have deluded themselves into believing they “need” a loaded full size truck with 4wd.   Or they “need” a 7 passenger SUV just because they have one or two kids. 

Well it is maroon!

Hung from our own yardarms.

Read the caption, it gets odder. 

For all their nickel-diming of customers, Ryanair is one of the safest airlines in the world.

Why is the photo on this article of El Al planes? They literally have nothing to do with this story.

Vehicles that get stolen and/or crashed more often should have higher rates if they can get insurance at all. Why should everyone else subsidize Hyundai/Kia’s poorly thought out cost-cutting, and their incredibly lax response to this problem?

So, there’s a solution, but nobody wants that solution. The solution is, drive less. Start requiring neighborhoods to be built walkable, and on public transit routes. Start requiring new road projects to prioritize public transit. Override the NIMBYs who refuse to allow infill development in their neighborhoods…

Americans love their big ass trucks.

Fun fact, in The Netherlands (I don’t know if this specific rule is also for the rest of Europe) the Ram 1500 is becoming ever more popular, while the F150 isn’t. And why is that? Because the bed of the Ram is slightly longer which makes it possible to list it as a commercial vehicle, and with that it escapes the…

Europe has a 3500kg (around 7700lbs) limit after which you need a commercial license. Most of the recently announced EV trucks are skirting or outright getting past that limit.

I have been screaming this forever. Plus we think we have problems with pedestrian and bike deaths now, add another 3,000 pounds to the curb weight and no one has a chance. Plus the idiots driving these will be killing drastically higher numbers of people in reasonably-sized cars.

The specific energy of jet fuel is around 12,600 watt-hours per kilogram. This means that with 1 kilogram of fuel, you could get a power of 1 watt for 1 hour