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edatoakrun

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Is it OK to make fun of the less fortunate?

http://carscoop.blogspot.com/2012/03/impatient-woman-rushes-to-beat-another.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Disclaimer:

Do not try this, with your ICEV, if you have to drive one.

Fortunately, no persons were harmed, in the filming of this video.
 
No comment on what happened, but what I will comment on is the lead-in narrative:

A gas crash! Igniting into one explosive scene! After a race to the pump ends up fueling danger!

How many pun words about a gas explosion can be fit into the lead-in...

:lol:
 
I suppose you could do something this dumb with a rear-drive BEV with the traction control turned off.

But without the sputtering ICE sound effects, it wouldn't seem quite so stupid, IMO...

http://carscoop.blogspot.com/2012/09/hagwalah-and-award-for-most-imprudent.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
 
If this had been a BEV recall, the headline would probably have been written as:

Electric cars recalled for ripping ears off of passengers


Hyundai recalls nearly 200k Elantras following severed ear investigation

Affected by the recall are 186,254 model year 2011-2013 Hyundai Elantra vehicles, manufactured from November 12, 2010 through March 5, 2013. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, certain support brackets attached to the headliner may become dislodged during side airbag deployment. As a result, the headliner support may come in contact with the occupant during a crash, causing a laceration injury...

http://www.torquenews.com/1081/hyundai-recalls-nearly-200k-elantras-following-severed-ear-investigation" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
 
This seems to be the most relevant place to post this. Stupid tricks with ICE components.

I guess this is what happens when you drink too many wine coolers in the morning (according to the description on YouTube).

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_KJXDElIWw[/youtube]
 
This hasn't caught on in California (not even up here in Jefferson)...yet.

Watch the videos at the link.

Jason Mendelson was driving his Toyota Prius in the right lane of Interstate 64 near Richmond, Virginia, when a white pickup truck with two protruding smokestacks cut into the lane ahead.

After a few moments, the pickup spewed a torrent of black smoke that enveloped his small car. The pickup sped away. Mendelson didn't think much of the odd interaction until a few minutes later, when the pickup returned and again left him in a cloud of smoke.

"That's when I realized, 'Okay, this was on purpose,'" he said.

Indeed, he was the victim of a practice called "coal rolling" or "rolling coal," which if you're unfamiliar, is the equivalent of farting in someone's vehicular face.

Own a diesel pickup truck, and you can spend somewhere between several hundred to several thousand dollars on modifications that make the vehicle capable of belching towers of black smoke on command, all for the apparent pleasure of leaving fellow drivers or pedestrians choking on a cloud of soot.

Victims aren't usually chosen at random. Rather, coal rollers take particular delight in targeting drivers of green-friendly cars like the Toyota Prius, because rolling coal isn't always mere indiscriminate harassment, but a form of grassroots political protest against President Obama and perceived burdensome federal regulations.

Coal rollers take particular delight in targeting drivers of green-friendly cars like the Toyota Prius.
"I run into a lot of people that don't really like Obama at all," one coal-roller tells Slate, which detailed the practice at length. "If he's into the environment, if he's into this or that, we're not. I hear a lot of that. To get a single stack on my truck – that's my way of giving them the finger. You want clean air and a tiny carbon footprint? Well, screw you."...

http://www.autoblog.com/2014/07/10/rolling-coal-americas-political-divide-reaches-roads-video/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
 
edatoakrun said:
This hasn't caught on in California (not even up here in Jefferson)...yet.

Watch the videos at the link.

Jason Mendelson was driving his Toyota Prius in the right lane of Interstate 64 near Richmond, Virginia, when a white pickup truck with two protruding smokestacks cut into the lane ahead.

After a few moments, the pickup spewed a torrent of black smoke that enveloped his small car. The pickup sped away. Mendelson didn't think much of the odd interaction until a few minutes later, when the pickup returned and again left him in a cloud of smoke.

"That's when I realized, 'Okay, this was on purpose,'" he said.

Indeed, he was the victim of a practice called "coal rolling" or "rolling coal," which if you're unfamiliar, is the equivalent of farting in someone's vehicular face.

Own a diesel pickup truck, and you can spend somewhere between several hundred to several thousand dollars on modifications that make the vehicle capable of belching towers of black smoke on command, all for the apparent pleasure of leaving fellow drivers or pedestrians choking on a cloud of soot.

Victims aren't usually chosen at random. Rather, coal rollers take particular delight in targeting drivers of green-friendly cars like the Toyota Prius, because rolling coal isn't always mere indiscriminate harassment, but a form of grassroots political protest against President Obama and perceived burdensome federal regulations.

Coal rollers take particular delight in targeting drivers of green-friendly cars like the Toyota Prius.
"I run into a lot of people that don't really like Obama at all," one coal-roller tells Slate, which detailed the practice at length. "If he's into the environment, if he's into this or that, we're not. I hear a lot of that. To get a single stack on my truck – that's my way of giving them the finger. You want clean air and a tiny carbon footprint? Well, screw you."...

http://www.autoblog.com/2014/07/10/rolling-coal-americas-political-divide-reaches-roads-video/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

The newly dubbed "Rolling Coal" has been going on for years around here without the catchy media name. It is just idiot rednecks in big trucks blowing smoke at people and cars. Prii are favourites because of their image. However, most of those diesel trucks are slow. When I see a smoke stack truck, I just speed by it in the Prius. You can tell when the smoke will happen because you can usually hear a change in engine idling. At that point, it is windows up, air on recirc, and I gun it from the light leaving them in their own cloud of dust and me well ahead of them looking like idiots.

It is completely legal here now after the repubs took away our clean air initiatives like emissions testing.
 
IF you're feeling especially brave, try doing the above and then slowing in front of them, leaving them in their own smoke cloud for an extended period. However, I wouldn't recommend it. I've seen videos of these morons sticking their own faces into the smoke stream.
 
WeFuel's gas delivery app is both awesome and just plain stupid

Silicon Valley Comes To The Rescue...
http://www.autoblog.com/2016/01/26/wefuels-gas-delivery-app-is-both-awesome-and-just-plain-stupid/

Not funny however, is another report illustrating yet another risk of ICEV use:
A family in New Jersey, trapped over the weekend in the massive East Coast snowstorm, was trying to dig its way out when the chill became too much to handle. The mother and her children — ages 1 and 3 — huddled in the car with the engine running to keep warm. The kids’ father tried to clear the snow outside.

Authorities said no one seemed to realize that the tailpipe was clogged with snow, pushing deadly carbon monoxide gas into the car. When the father went to check on them, police said, he could not wake them up...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/01/25/everybody-cry-mom-1-year-old-killed-by-carbon-monoxide-as-dad-clears-snow/?tid=hybrid_experimentrandom_1_na

Strange that CO detectors are not mandatory for ICEVs.

Imagine what the regulatory obstacles would be if anyone tried to introduce something as hazardous as ICEVs into the economy today.

Yet we continue to tolerate all the risks, just because we have convinced ourselves they are necessary.
 
At least the ICEVs in Shasta County this week are interesting, for a change...

You may want to skip last night's cruise webcast ahead ~ 2 hours:

https://livestream.com/accounts/5720926/events/7297772/videos/155183854

https://koolaprilnites.com/Koolpage.asp?ID=7
 
(thread resurrection)
New Jersey Is Allegedly Scanning Facebook For Coal-Rolling Diesels, Threatening Sellers With Jail
The NJ DEP is using the site to locate and contact owners of modified diesel trucks.
https://www.roadandtrack.com/news/a40733652/new-jersey-scanning-facebook-for-coal-rolling-diesels-threatening-sellers-with-jail/

This garbage made it to California for sure. I've been the victim of this before and seen other coal rollers in action. Good to see someone is cracking down.
 
cwerdna said:
(thread resurrection)
New Jersey Is Allegedly Scanning Facebook For Coal-Rolling Diesels, Threatening Sellers With Jail
The NJ DEP is using the site to locate and contact owners of modified diesel trucks.
https://www.roadandtrack.com/news/a40733652/new-jersey-scanning-facebook-for-coal-rolling-diesels-threatening-sellers-with-jail/

This garbage made it to California for sure. I've been the victim of this before and seen other coal rollers in action. Good to see someone is cracking down.

Coal-rollers are sociopaths. CA has a reporting mechanism:

CARB's Vehicle Complaint Hotline
1-800-END-SMOG (1-800-363-7664)

Please have the following information ready to report:

Vehicle type
License plate number
Date, time, and location of the incident
Make and model of the vehicle
 
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