This thing HAD to be the result of a Season 4 episode of Pimp My Ride, right?

And then you have to pray like hell that meth heads don’t rip out the wiring, or other common vandalism doesn’t occur. There are parts of every major city where I’d confidently put the over/under on the time before every charging station is destroyed at about two days.

Also some nice attention to detail and continuity in that scene, with the body on the porch. Jason had killed her earlier by putting an axe through that door as she tried to run out of it. No one would have noticed or cared if it wasn’t there, but seeing it just on the edge of the frame is an excellent touch.

Can’t remember if I read it here or somewhere else, but Right to Repair is a huge issue with the military as well. More and more, when a piece of hardware breaks the troops can’t fix it for the same reasons stated in this article. And then, even if it’s something simple, they’re not allowed to fix it because of the…

The incident occurred sometime around mid-afternoon, when people reading serious news stories in serious media outlets suddenly found themselves staring at links to videos with names like “Bottoms Up Brianna,” “Naughty Spy Girls Part 2,” and “Marsha and Megan Make a Mean Team,” among others.

To be fair, I’m not sure there’s been a standard issue interstate overpass built -- South, North, East or West -- that can survive this kind of hit without taking at least some damage.

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Dropping the bridge is the easy part. Building a replacement overpass is the hard part.

Stacy Abrams looked at the crash site and still hasn’t conceded that the bed was up.

You would think the driver would notice, or there would be an alarm or buzzer in the cab that tells the driver, “Hey dumbass! Put the bed down!” But it still happens. There was a similar incident in Houston a few years ago, although thankfully the guy took out a road sign truss before he hit the overpass:

I’m not from California, but know of Huell through Dana Gould’s impression of him on Adam Carolla’s podcast. Huell was awesome.

Posted this in another comment, but the Chinese have bought stakes in more than a dozen major European ports. A couple, like Piraeus in Greece, they control completely and are feverishly expanding. If there were some incident that threatened their interests there, such as civil unrest (not hard to imagine in places…

They’re working on it.
The Chinese are buying up controlling stakes in ports all over Europe, many of them in very strategic locations. Looking at the map, they could enter uncontested at any one of those and very quickly gain a foothold if there is some incident that makes it necessary to send a division or two to…

We were also supposed to learn in kindergarten not to take what doesn’t belong to you. Lots of memos have been missed, it appears.

Good luck with that. Most district attorneys aren’t getting out of bed these days unless it’s at least a second-tier felony.

The threshold for a misdemeanor/felony theft in Washington state is $750. Because of a lack of resources, a lot of jurisdictions won’t even bother prosecuting it or investigating anymore unless it’s at least past that threshold.
Not sure exactly what a catalytic converter fetches in that part of the country, but the…

It’s 3:45 a.m. and you’re asleep in your home. You hear someone rummaging around in the living room. You have a gun within reach for just this sort of nightmarish scenario.
Are you really going to stop and ask the person if they’re just there to steal your TV and silverware? And then let them go if they are?

Or that you were fleeing what you perceived to be a dangerous scene. I can’t even see how they press charges on that, let alone get a conviction.

Some of it depends on Washington’s castle doctrine laws, if they have one. Self-defense is also a very tricky thing because legally speaking the situation can change from second to second, and sometimes the status of the attacker and victim can go back-and-forth a few times in the same encounter.

I’m not letting him off the hook. But there’s a big difference in motive between a drunk driver suddenly coming up on a pack of people in the street at midnight and losing control of his vehicle, and one who comes up on a pack of people and intentionally floors it.