I was shopping for a new bike last year and KTM was on the list of options. Hell it was the best looking one in the segment as far as I’m concerned...except review after review of awful software issues and things just not working.

Personally i sort of hope that KTM crashes and burns and lets go of my beloved Husqvarna. And while their at it they can release Husaberg also. id really like to se a future where Husqvarna raises from the ashes and basically launch Husqvarna as nice touring and adv bikes while Husaberg returns with race spec bikes.…

A comment above explains that it is not a bonus in the American sense for an Austrian salary, so potentially just a bad translation there. However, there are employee contracts in America that include a pre-determined end of year bonus. I have a guaranteed bonus that can increase with certain metrics, but still have a…

The working employees probably earned their bonuses, but executives seem to have not done a very good job.  They probably all got their bonuses already though.

Yeah, I’ve never understood the point of a hunger strike.  The people being protested likely don’t care, and as you slowly starve they can simply say “we didn’t deny them food, they chose this for themselves.”

I’m more of the “wreak havoc and make the fuckers pay” school of protest, rather than the “make myself suffer and watch them ignore me” train of thought.

Scraper off their registration stickers 

Hard to pull a handgun when you are breathing though 5.56 holes not your lungs.

I’m sure, but you don’t always get a chance to defend yourself, and given how some states have adjudicated cases in which homeowners have shot at or shot and killed tow truck drivers, any particular driver might be reluctant to open fire until it’s too late (I know in Texas, there have been police departments and…

> they are essentially entering private property to enforce a state/local law something they do not have the legal authority to do.

Creeping around a house in Florida at 2:00 am?  Bro’s lucky he didn’t get shot.  Suburban Florida people are scared of everything and usually armed to the teeth.

Worst of all is that these people are paying for this to happen via monthly HOA fees. Chances are these folks were paying a couple hundred a month for the privilege of having their cars stolen.

Yes please. It makes me sick to think of this being sunk.

“Brooklyn Concrete Magnate”

There’s a mechanic getting one of these for Christmas.

Me, after reading the headline: “Don’t they have some sort of lost tool protocol?”

If the 4-foot piece of nylon got sucked into the engine, the results could have been catastrophic.

what, they don’t test one or two out before trying to buy a fleet?

Nothing more dangerous than a bored cop, except maybe several bored cops.

A cop named Crook. I love it.