hillsanddales

One inch sensor in a phone is incredible. Hope that tech makes it over here

The other day a jeep wrangler swiped my car in a parking lot and drove off. I wasn't there but a kind bystander saw it and left their number and the offenders license plate. The damage wasn't small, but also small enough for me to shrug off because it's a 2014 golf wagon and in the end it's just a car.

But the hit and run pissed me off enough that I reported it. The cops found the driver who will be ticketed now and their insurance will go up. If they fessed up I'd have let it slide.

At least your dude fessed up. And yes, they'd all have a much easier time parking if they chose a sensible car.

I hear you. But at the same time if you brodozered your wheelchair mover with a bush bar and off road tires, I'm still yoinking the step stool haha.

More seriously, yeah it sucks there are so few practical vehicles being made that aren't the size of an Asian elephant.

There is no world in which I'd see that truck without stealing the step stool.

I love how snarky that news segment is

So infuriating. At the very least they could have moved the bike lane inside the parked cars.

While I story of understand you anger, as there are some fools out there that are using their illegal ebikes effectively as motorcycles on bike paths and sidewalks, they are:

1. In the vast minority
2. On a 60lb vehicle, instead of a 3000lb vehicle, and can do far less damage as a result.

If you're going to get angry, get angry at cars, car-centric infrastructure, and the fact that people on ebikes don't have the proper cycling infrastructure to stay separated from pedestrians.

It's like they put in so many roads to get "there" that "there" doesn't exist anymore.

You're far more patient than I ever could be. Good one you. It's conversations like these that change people's minds. If not OC, than those less stubborn who read the interaction.

Every capitalist "free" market has rules. There is no such thing as a perfectly free market, nor should there be, unless we want a system closer to feudalism than a democracy.

How's it feel knowing your car fucks more than you do?

Good on them. I don't have the appetite for risk right now to do this type of activism, as I have a family to think about, but I wish I had done more in my 20s (I did some but didn't raise enough hell), and I intend to do a shitload more after I retire, if we're all still around.