The crew wouldn’t pull you out, but they would throw you a door to test their theories of how much weight it could carry.

“Rose is the secret villain of this movie.”

This is beside the point. If Rose had just stayed in the damn boat Jack put her in, he could’ve saved himself, instead of dragging her high-maintenance ass all the way through the ship.

Anytime you see someone make a couple sloppy moves in short succession, move far away. You don’t want someone else’s sloppy behavior to force your hand in an emergency situation.

The minefield between Mauritania and Morocco / Western Sahara is quite tense the first time you drive through it. Stay on the soft sand - if you think you see a road surface, that’s more likely to have landmines.

When I first saw the headline I thought “screw those dealers and their markup.” But it takes two to tango, so I guess if suckers are willing to pay the added fee for nothing, then more power to ‘em.

The idea of a 68 year old driving one of these is absolutely terrifying.

The list is pretty endless as far as byproducts or further processed crude oil goes. Hundreds of uses in industries as performance chemical (example as defoamer) or paraffin waxes used in basic chemical processes by multiple 24 ton truck loads a week in one plant to mineral oils used as coating on the cardboard your…

Yuck - I think I like the buckets better. It had been years since they were used, but the old guys there still referred to bad accidents as “bucket jobs”. People who work at funeral homes tend to have dark senses of humor. 

It’s a subtle improvement, but those columns have gotten far larger and more crash resistant over the decades. It’s also common to see retrofits, of smaller and weaker ones, that involve a tall concrete panel installed between the columns to add mass, and transfer the impact forces to others in the row.

I would imagine they had to scrape the poor bastard out with a trowel after that. I worked for a funeral home in high school that was once the county coroner (and ambulance service) as well - they had a couple of huge stainless steel lidded buckets for accidents that were too, er, messy, for mere body bags...

Somehow I doubt there’s much difference between the smear you leave on the pavement in a cabover as opposed to something like, say, a Kenworth with the engine int he front, when hauling a 40-foot trailer of lead brickettes. You’re a smear on the front of that trailer regardless of what you drove it to the point of…

Haha it was actually about 6-7 times in total. The first two were the only ones with a substantial amount of smoke, and the first one was the only time with visible flame. I’ve since learned from other PCA guys with 944s that the pre-1985.5 wiring is basically biodegradable and will cause electrical fires somewhat…

I have to be the one that posts this reaction to the story? Ok fine!

Pa. still managed to pass some laws that stayed on the books way too long :(

If I remember my history, “sat on my Packard’s pan handle” was a relatively popular 1890's euphemism.

You see this law as a hinderance to progress but just imagine the amazing modular vehicles that would have ensued if it had passed... Plus the wonderful Jalop encounters that would have happened spontaneously in bushes “hey buddy I think you are sat on my Packard’s pan handle"

Amen to that. And ANY law named after someone is a presumptively bad law.

I expect farmers to disassemble their cows and hogs, preferably near a smoke pit, to keep them from traumatizing my car every day.

The law is clearly insane, motivated by ignorance and panic...