There’s a guy who lives down the street from me who has one of these in excellent condition. He obviously loves it and I’m a big convertible fan myself, so it attracted my attention. I see it with the top down all the time...

Amateur. In the small university town of Brockport NY I once crammed 13 drunken students into my 1987 Chevy Sprint. The two-door model. We made it several blocks before a couple of the people hanging dangerously out of the back hatch sobered up enough to realize this was a bad idea.

Torch is correct: get yourself something you don’t mind damaging. In fact, I got a hand-me-down 1988 Chevy Sprint from my brother when I was only a little older than you. It was a crappy econobox with a 3 cylinder engine (77hp woohoo!) and a manual tranny. It came with several dents and had absolutely nothing…

You’re continuing to whine that the poor cops are horribly disadvantaged, have no idea of when the scary civilians they stop are going to try to kill them and how the rest of us “just don’t understand!”

The irony of this is not going unnoticed: the man who was trained to fight and kill enemies on the battlefield is LESS bloodthirsty than the cops who are (supposedly) serving and protecting a civilian population.

Yep. Even if they are truly honest, loyal and pure of heart I STILL wouldn’t trust anyone with that much power over me. White folks are starting to teach their kids what black parents have been teaching their children for generations: the police are not your friend, they are incredibly dangerous and best avoided…

Oh, and you have statistics to back that up, do you? Oh, and who gets to declare whether or not shootings were justified? Oh that’s right, the cops! I’m sure they make impartial decisions.

First off, while I’m sure they spend some time reviewing officer deaths in the academy, that’s NOT ALL they do there. Or at least it shouldn’t be! And if they do spend a disproportionate amount of time looking at officer shootings and trying to teach how to avoid them, then why isn’t there more of an emphasis on…

You fail to realize that all the training over the last 20 years has been focused on militarizing the cops and convincing them the public is the enemy, so shoot first and ask questions later. Don’t worry about killing the innocent - the union has your back and you’ll never do time. Besides, he was probably guilty of…

And why is this a binary guns/no guns argument? Were none of these yahoos armed with tasers? Not that tasers are particularly safe, but it’s a hell of a better tool when you’re not sure if you absolutely need to kill someone. But no, let’s go straight to the device that escalates the situation immediately and leaves…

Oh boohoo - being a cop isn’t even one of the 10 most dangerous jobs in the US. Yet every time one of these urban commando types guns down a fleeing unarmed black man they start squealing that they were ‘afraid for my life.” They are compensated for the slightly elevated risk that comes with the job by getting…

It’s so damn hard, isn’t it? I just don’t see how you can trust anyone who knows they can kill you on a whim with absolutely no repercussions. I’ve got a 4-year-old daughter and while I know she’s not going need to worry as much about being shot on sight like her non-white friends in school, I have to worry about her…

Well, that might be the easiest way for kids to get into the 3rd row of a Mazda5 but it’s hardly the only way - those middle seats DO slide forward, you know!

Imagine how fast they would have killed the driver if he was a black man and the kid was white. God help any blended families in Trumpland - looks like they’re subject to summary execution at the whim of a cop...

Yep. I read once that in Toronto the cops have to do a ton of paperwork every time they remove their gun from their holster. That probably makes them a bit less likely to draw first and think later. Obviously not the case with most American LEOs who know they can shoot anyone, anytime for no reason and never see the…

Yeah, because when a cop pulls me over and then puts a gun to my head I’m sure I’m going to react exactly according to whatever unwritten rules are in force today. Oh wait - we’ve seen video of people doing exactly this and then getting shot anyway. Guess it helps to be white, eh?

Oh really? We have video of innocent people doing everything they should do - not everything they HAVE TO do, mind - and getting shot regardless. In fact, we have MULTIPLES of these videos. Was the guy lying on his back with his arms raised while calmly asking the police not to shoot him or his companion ‘beyond…

You know, you’re right. Now that I think about it, I had that car for about 3 years and sold it mid/late 2000. I know I bought it used, so it must have been a ‘95 or ‘96.

I love convertibles. I currently drive a VW convertible. This I would kill with fire. It has nothing to do with VW purity, nothing to do with the fact that I hate basket handles (the sign that your convertible was never meant to be a convertible at all), and nothing to do with any concerns about the mechanicals of…

I liked my 93 Merc Mystique for the powerful engine, the large cabin and the stick shift. I wasn’t thrilled with the sub-par brakes and the electrical system that left me with constant CELs no matter how often I tried to fix it. (sidenote: this is why Ford workers referred to this particular car as the ‘Mistake’)