And even that is assuming there wasn’t another car traveling 60-70 mph behind him, with no clue that a tire is closing in fast. He slows down too much and maybe he gets run over from behind because the next guy has no time to react.
It’s a shit sandwich all the way around and somebody had to eat it. Glad the biker was…

I live in Mississippi and see them a good bit down here.

I’ve got an unrelated trailer question. Most trailers are made of sheet metal, but I’ve noticed quite a few that appear to be made of plywood or some such material. They’re almost always dirty and nasty-looking, which gives them a distinctive look. I’ve never been in a spot to touch one and see exactly what they’re…

It’s Oakland. They’d just create a blue ribbon panel on racism in the community, pass a proclamation blaming Donald Trump for the problem, probably rename a few more elementary schools, and paint over the swastikas as an act of defiance and healing rather than remove the cars.

Maybe even combine that with a local ordinance along the lines of any obviously abandoned vehicle — i.e., one that’s been stripped or has no tires on it — is considered a public nuisance and considered abandoned if it is not removed within a specified time frame (72 hours to a week). Then just take them and crush…

Ah, OK. I’m picturing in my head a tire 3 feet across and twice the size of what’s on my sedan and it just seems like a very large chunk of rubber.

Congress just passed a $1.9 trillion “relief” bill loaded with federal giveaways, and then immediately started talking about raising taxes to help pay for it. Giving from one hand to take with the other is a lot of what government thinks it exists to do.

Isn’t a 35-inch tire a monster truck tire?

I keep telling people that Mississippi is slowly moving up the charts on most of the state rankings, and no one believes me. We used to be No. 49 or 50 in most things. I feel like we’re closer to the mid-40s these days, with Arkansas, Alabama, Louisiana and a couple others safely in the rear view mirror.

I once drove from through the heart of the Mississippi Delta to cover a football game at Mississippi Valley State University. Ye gods. It was a rainy morning, and that might have been one of the most depressing drives I’ve ever been on. Finally reaching U.S. 82 a few miles from Valley was like surfacing from the…

I live in the middle of Mississippi. There are people here who might not like wearing the masks, might think there are political reasons behind the mandates that go beyond public health concerns, but most people I’ve seen still mask up when they go into stores.

Weird. I went to school in Louisiana for four years in the mid-1990s, had a car with NJ plates parked on campus for two of them, and never had any sort of trouble.
Later on, I moved to Mississippi. Got my plates changed over within a couple of weeks, but still, not one instance of vandalism. The only question I got…

Went down another rabbit hole from the main link and learned something new — I had no idea that the White House caught fire in 1929 and the Oval Office and West Wing were mostly destroyed. It’s an interesting story in its own right (President Hoover, his sons and some cabinet members were personally overseeing the…

Maybe the pattern on the couches hide stains very well. A function over form sort of deal.

I think it’s the same here in Mississippi. It’s just a matter of whether the deer is too destroyed from the car to keep. I also don’t think it’s limited to the driver. If you come across a carcass and want it, you can have it. It’s almost a reward for doing a public service.

Which begs the natural follow-up question ... was it a clean enough kill to keep either one of them?

I’m glad all of the deer puns have been herded into this one thread. I’d hate for the entire comments section to fall into a rut and force someone to spike it all.

Isn’t magic right up there with Kryptonite as one of Superman’s few weaknesses? So worthy or not, shouldn’t he be affected somehow by an enchanted hammer?

Careful how you phrase your next response.

I had to buy a new car on the fly a few years ago and wanted a new Mazda 3 to replace the 2007 Mazda 3 that just had its water pump go out. When I was picking my new ride there were probably about 30 new 3's on the lot. I think 25 of them were either white or black and the other five were assorted colors (and most…