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Tread carefully when coming out of the Silver Buckle (slrpnk.net)

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[–] SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

Yep, but that’s also 6 more inches to get through until the bumper. The problem being it removes the crumple zone the bumper has and makes the force entirely in your frame instead. It will also almost always hit the radiator of the vehicle hitting them doing significant damage.

They leave it there as assholes, while also not actually protecting their own vehicle, other than cosmetically, they’ll do more structural damage instead.

Hence the moron part.

[–] Bo7a@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Hey now. Alberta has a ton of morons, and slightly more than their fair share of assholes. But Hanlon's razor* still applies. I don't think anybody put a hitch on their truck with the express intent of causing harm somewhere. They are more likely just stupid and/or lazy.

* "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."

In other words: some bad things happen not because of people having bad intentions, but because they did not think it through properly. Or at all.

[–] SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

No… I’ve had truck owners ask me why I don’t leave mine on to protect my truck or make it worse for others. I just roll my eyes and walk away, because you can’t reason with them, like what’s happening in the comment chain here.

Also comes down to monkey see monkey do too I find.

[–] Bo7a@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Fair enough. I lived there long enough to know that some of them definitely did it purely out of spite, I just can't imagine it is a majority.

[–] SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world 0 points 4 months ago

Yep sorry didn’t mean to imply all/majority, just provide some insight. I used to work construction for commercial industrial general contractor. I saw ALL types in the various industries and businesses we dealt with and the range of contractors we used as well.

Lots of perspectives while having to “break bread” with some of them.

I’ve forgotten to take my ball off before, it happens, no one is immaculate.

[+] John_McMurray@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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[–] SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

It still has to travel through 6” of towball before hitting the bumper, so it saves that cosmetic damage.

The hell is with the insults?

Edit, oh you’re on of those people that think the tow ball protects your truck from damage, which it doesn’t. Hence you thinking I was insulting you in my original comment.

So a better example would be, you would get damaged if the vehicle stopped 2” short of your bumper, since you have something g attached to your frame sticking 6”. Does that makes sense to you now? I can provide a picture to show the differences with and without a towball on a bumper.