I read that part, but like you said, there’s a lot of unanswered questions involved. Guess everybody hopping on the “Birches is an illiterate asshole” train will just have to wait until the trial pans-out and we have a better understanding of what actually happened.

Pretty much all of my pneumatic tools are Harbor Freight; I actually have 10-year-old Central Pneumatic drill, angle grinder, and cut-off wheel grinder that are all still going strong, but some of their stuff is pretty hit-or-miss.

Except for outsourcing the head-work. Gotta know your limits!

The Wal*Mart TV sounded like a great deal, but then I read through the reviews.  Whoo boy!  It’s a “smart” TV because it doesn’t have a remote and it can only be controlled through a smartphone app?  Fuck that!

The Wal*Mart TV sounded like a great deal, but then I read through the reviews.  Whoo boy!  It’s a “smart” TV…

What kind of lightbulbs are you using?

What kind of lightbulbs are you using?

I personally enjoy the blurb about Post-Its Extreme, where the guy is literally pissing on the Post-It.

I personally enjoy the blurb about Post-Its Extreme, where the guy is literally pissing on the Post-It.

Or he can just fess up.  He just had his collateral repo’d when he cosigned on a loan that defaulted; involving police at this point makes it Level I Bank Fraud.

But what if you cosigned a loan and put your car up for collateral?  Still going to shoot somebody?

Exactly. He cosigned a loan that got defaulted, and the bank picked up the collateral. Calling the cops would mean he Filing a False Report, Obstruction of Justice, and Bank Fraud, which would put his ass in jail.

You can’t steal your own property.  When he cosigned and offered his car as collateral, he signed the title over to the bank.

People’s cars get accidentally repo’d in the US every. single. day.

Come the fuck on! That’s bullshit. I hate banks just as much as anybody else, but it’s not like this guy just cosigned and defaulted a loan for shits and giggles; he put up collateral against the loan, and you don’t just do that shit on accident. If I wanted to put up collateral and cosign a loan, I’d have to leave…

As it turns out, Kendall was listed as a co-signer on a debt that someone else defaulted.

Oh God...I’ve got a section on my way home that’s a long sweeping 35 MPH. I get up to about 43 - 44 MPH at the crest and just freewheel it through the S, and get about 55 - 60 MPH on the prevailing straight-away, but when I hit the bottom of the S, the transmission seems to randomly down-shift for no apparent reason.…

Honestly, I’m much more impressed by how well humans can weld rather than the robotic junk that we get from China.  I don’t know why, I don’t know much about MIG-welding other than what I learned from the sticker on the door, but I could probably weld circles around a robot.

Nice pointing out!  That’s definitely an inspection mark, so it was a valid weld that failed after inspection.  Gotta wonder how many of the other welds are prone to catastrophic failure?

Everything uses E-Coat nowadays.  This is just shitty welding.

TBH, I think anyone driving a modern Jeep is perfectly fine as long as they strap-in while it catches fire.

From a structural standpoint, that weld is A-OK; now, if you have a dozen of those fuckers, it’s hanging on by a thread as-is.  Now apply 24,000 pounds of force: yeah, that’s not going to protect you.

I think the LS430 was the best-looking car ever made to come out of Japan; funny, I was looking at 430's 15 years ago, and not has it ever dropped below $5k. I can get OEM Lexus parts on-the-cheap, so that’s not even a worry.