While the Class 4 roads are public roads, the town doesn’t want to deal with off-roaders and any potential shenanigans and damage.

Who has time to pack? :)

When the Cartel spares your life, tells you to leave town today, and never come back...

Probably not quite as rosy as you represent. I imagine the stateful data for most services would be recoverable pretty quickly. However, many services rely on regional distribution. Additionally, service often have cascaded party relationships that use the very same infrastructure.

“My political faction has not been sufficiently appeased, therefor we will use violence against the civilian government until we get what we want” is kinda the definition of terrorism. And the far right just loves waterboarding terrorists, if I recall.

Pendley recently implied in online chats that the ugly riot that killed five people hadn’t gone quite far enough.

Presumably the owners may want to transit the canal again, regardless of the disposition of this specific ship. 

This isn’t a surprise at all. As a former car salesman, I can tell you that all dealers make more money on longer term loans already. Nissan (and every other maker) is in business to sell new cars, and if incentivizing dealers to push longer term loans does that, then that’s what they’ll do.

“I’m sorry, but your Ferrari’s policy specifically excludes damage that happens on a track.”

Of course there’s a toxicology report. Tiger had surgery. They didn’t just wheel him into the operating room and say, “hey hope he hasn’t taken any drugs that could kill him during this operation, let’s cut!”

I would want to know how they would handle a non-celebrity involved in the same crash. Would that person be given the same consideration for their privacy? If so, I agree there’s no reason to treat Woods differently. If he’s getting special treatment, though, I have an issue with that.

That’s where I was going. That is a big leap of faith to give some company the ability to hit your bank account for that amount of money without any sort of safeguards.

I mean, the real problem seems like they paid 100% up front with an electronic funds transfer.

Not to blame them because this sort of thing shouldn’t happen in the first place, but there are other methods of payment that wouldn’t have this as a potential risk in the first place

Exactly, though if nothing else you can get the manufacturer to step in on something this egregious. What are these people supposed to do if national cable channel coverage doesn’t make you whole, picket outside Boca Chica?

Definitely be careful what you wish for. And if you think you have no pull with the local Ford dealer, imagine how little of a shit Ford themselves cares about you.

Wow, I guess direct sales really is better than franchised dealerships...

We could SPAC the hell out of this.

Agreed.

They should really just do a press release that they want to make EVs and then run an IPO. They’ll have plenty after that.

Man, the bank REALLY doesn’t wanna give Falcon a loan.