If it’s already registered with the Coast Guard, I’m assuming that it meets all CG requirements for a vessel of it’s type.

As much as I often complain about the tactics of the rich in avoiding and at times outright evading taxes with impunity I am completely with the boat owner here.

Me too - I was going to say... ehhh... this is a stretch.

This outcome appears to be fair. He isn't a felon, AAA gets their money back, the state gets reimbursed for their cost investigating, his business takes a bit of a hit, and life goes on. I'll still keep watching because he's from all accounts a decent person who surrounds himself with decent people.

“He did what he did to help people.”

Doesn’t mean you can’t continue to watch his videos. It’s not like he’s a rapist or something. He actually didn’t hurt anybody, he was helping them (in a not-so-legal way) while hurting AAA slightly. While not great, on the scale of bad things a person can do, this is way down near the bottom. 

I’m fairly sure one day I’ll end up writing:

My Wife And I Own A Couple Of Dozen Cars, The City Isn’t Happy About It

If she’d said tall people should get height reduction surgery, no one would care (as if anyone is actually going to get “painful surgery” cause of this), it’s just that short dudes have an insane victim complex.

Jason, your bedtime stories have just got to be the best!!!

which begs the question: “Why the hell are these not EVs then?” it’s literally the perfect use case for EVs since idling does not waste energy like it does in an ICE.

Because you added air conditioning in a vehicle that has a window constantly open.

Hold my 4 beers.

Volkswagen has used variations of the VR6 since 1991 in various vehicles.

Yeah, the normal responsible firearm owners always get shit on when things like this happen. We need stricter gun control to keep firearms out of hands such as these. 

I like how it is easier to get a gun in this country than it is to vote.

I don’t know how much it helps. It saves on the development costs but it also puts a major risk on the industry - imagine some fundamental design problem that instead of being in 100k cars is in 1000k cars and requires a mass recall. That’s what dependence on Takata created.

Ah yes, the “I drive a Ram 3500 and want to ensure everyone else drives a Miata” philosophy

Thank you Torch for this wonderful trivia that I can annoy my spouse and kids with. 

I’m sure the PR value they’ll get from this is far above what the car cost them.

NZ allows 500 “specialty” LHD’s to be registered per year. They have to meet three of four qualifying criteria suggesting limited availability or high performance to keep you from registering an average LHD saloon to do the school run in. But, it is possible.