Except they consistently don’t, and heavily armed indigenous protestors are routinely allowed to block roads for extended periods of time .

Erin: UP isn’t blaming the DA for the increase in theft. That’s a phenomenon that’s stricking everywhere, its seems.

True. But pending some factual details on who is stealing and why, my bet is that a lot of this is being done more or less as a job by people whose professional identity is “thief.”

I’d feel empathy if this were grocery items and not Amazon shipments. Medications delayed, rising costs of shipping due to increased insurance costs to carriers...we’re just making excuses for theft.

How do you get away with minimum wage violations anymore? Wouldn’t that be very apparent on a W2?

But wasn’t it you that said the looters are just down on their luck and it’s ok?

I don’t feel sorry for the looters. Fuck them. Theft is theft. They are fucking over consumers.

Erin Marquis strikes again! I mean seriously, what are you doing here at Jalopnik?

Abuse is virtually guaranteed. That’s the problem here.

With a hobby like that the goal isn’t to save money, it’s to outdo yourself.

Maybe they can hire all the down-on-their-luck train thieves who are just out there trying to survive.

Alpha Tauri is a lower-level, less competitive team than Red Bull. Same with Alfa Romeo to Ferrari. They’re not ‘sister’ teams. They’re the B team, lesser teams.

It’s not because of “5G. ” It’s because radio frequencies the US FCC has sold to commercial operators for 5G use are too close to radio frequencies used in aviation, so there could be interference. Other countries presumably haven’t sold radio frequencies to commercial operators so close to radio frequencies used for…

Yeah not really.. if you look at the highest clicked/commented-on pieces on Jalopnik, they’re not junk like this.

“But this strikes me more as desperate, wholesale looting than property crime”

Your excusing criminal behavior so casually identifies you as a seriously dysfunctional person. As you mentioned in passing, some of those packages contained life-critical medication.

Holy shit that is an awful take. Like absolute trash-tier.

Most people interested in something like this are hauling bicycles, lawn furniture, or a few bags of mulch and the like, not sheets of plywood or two tons of bricks. After all delivery isn’t expensive and it costs like twenty bucks to rent the pickup truck from Menards if you really want to haul stuff home yourself.

Crew cabs sell in higher numbers than the others. They are just going after the biggest pool of buyers to maximize sales.

I’m still mystified why we get this kind of Subaru Baja style thing instead of a modern El Camino. This is cute, and so is the Maverick, but to me it’s like a less practical hatchback rather than a “trucklet”. I want something small and economical that I can haul things in.