Jalopnik as a former Gawker site has not room for rational takes like this. The outrage must continue and the flames of the racism narrative must be fanned!

please don’t leave any baggage unattended

You’re awfully level-headed and reasonable for this part of town. 

> you may be surprised to learn that the term “cracker” is used as an ironic honorific by Floridians and Georgians of long standing.

And you may be surprised what word people of color use as an ironic honorific.

Except it literally was the pull handle. That’s not even remotely in debate here. That rope exists and serves a function whether it’s tied in a loop or not.

So you admit you are responsible

I blame the affiliation with Bass Pro Shops for teaching crews how to tie no-slip knots, which are common for attaching fishing lures

“So the current “explanation” going around my racist family is that it was the pull handle for the garage.”

If anyone starts comparing this to Jessie Smullet, get out. Now.

Yes, the NHTSA is notorious for just taking the word of drivers.

It’s pretty easy to unintentionally make a knot with a loop look like a noose though, even a common non-sliding bowline can look like a hangman’s knot from far if the loose end is long and points back up along the rope.

Totally agree. Erica could become a hundredaire just like that.

Yeah I always knew about it here in Texas but outside the state pretty much no one knew about it. Hell, if anything I would hear mockery from people if they had heard of it, which was weird.

That’s oddly specific and very, very accurate. Been there. 

It’s kinda like when your girlfriend breaks up with you and you tell all your mutual friends that you are doing fine and are better off without her, but really you cry yourself to sleep every night while alternating between pulls straight from a plastic vodka bottle and eating store brand Lucky Charms right out the…

“Gung Ho" staring Michael Keaton and George Wendt (Norm!)

Which is why he’s looking at the peak of automotive reliability: the used German sports car.

I understand your reservations, but sometimes the point of a project is the project. It’s a little odd to build something so specifically what you want only to hope for a buyer with the exact same vision, but I have no trouble accepting that the builder wanted to make it more than he wanted to have it.  Now that it’s…

Tesla’s implied valuation is as the largest automaker in the world.

To be fair, most places do not actually have police helicopters just cruising around.