Thanks for the link. I couldn’t find one in the story. (Although there were lots of links to stories about traffic causing hearing damage, PIT maneuvers, random Florida cop stuff, squirrels, and weird car windows. So there’s that.)

No shit. Seeing that cop dump his mag into the car, and reading that another cop joined in, and all I can think is whether the poor fucker cuffed in the back lived through it. Even just a link to the source story would have been nice.

Fair enough. (We may be annoyed by your damnable American cheek, but that is outweighed by our appreciation for the courtesy of a prompt response.)

apologised [sic]

Yep, that was going to be my pick too. They surprised me the first time - I wasn’t expecting it to move the way it did. Touch on the inside to unlock, touch on the rectangular dimple to lock. Bonus points for the well-located, old-fashioned keyhole on the driver’s door if you need it.

Holy crap, what a bunch of babies. DFW! Toronto Pearson! Newark! Denver! Those places are the height of luxury and drowning in delightful amenities. You should join me sometime on a trip to Bloodvein River Airport in northern Canada.

Hey, thanks picking the COOT, and extra thanks for posting the video! I spent a few summers traversing the wilds of northern Canada in that thing, and the video tour brought back a lot of good memories.

Gas is short for gasoline.

you have to call it petrol

For me, it’s the COOT 4x4 amphibious all-terrain vehicle. It’s basically two steel tubs connected by an articulating collar, powered by what’s basically a big Briggs & Stratton lawnmower engine. The drive shaft setup looks like something out of Mad Max, with a centrifugal clutch like on a snowmobile. The articulation…

Oh, crap; I’d forgotten about that. I think I was in denial that someone so very familiar with The Handmaid’s Tale would be cool with being in a controlling cult.

Yeah, it’s amazing how he just rolled and popped right up. I’m wondering if it’s because he was actually leaning on the car that hit him rather than being any distance away from it. He got pushed rather than punched, if you know what I mean.

Anyone old enough to have seen rule number two flip back and forth a couple of times? When I was a kid, you didn’t want to run batteries flat (if you needed to, you bought a “deep cycle” battery that could better withstand the extremes). Then came the “memory effect” that the very common NiCad or NiMH batteries would…

Wow, that’s a lot of writing to defend the guy. You also happened to leave out all the important stuff showing that Lindbergh was an unabashed anti-Semite. He wasn’t only about “let’s not get dragged into a war.” He described the war in Europe as:

Nobody ever actually said or wrote that. You know that, right?

Good strategy as long as you do it before you are on the road. You don’t want a Del Griffith situation.

I have to admit that the first time I saw the video, I said to Mrs. Muck - “assuming no one was seriously hurt, I would have really enjoyed that.” The idea of flying over a city in a passenger jet “with the window down” is really appealing to me. (For a short period of time, of course, and just the once should do me,…

“There is a need for a bold fighter to stand between the people and the ever-expanding government that is infringing on our God-given freedoms.”

There is totally a great joke here involving the words “Rubicon”, “die”, and “cast”, but I don’t have the energy to figure out what it is.

I thought they were referencing the Frank Sinatra song.