Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition
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@HardwareGeek said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@Bulb said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
And that matters why?
Without having read TFA, it could be trying to disguise a car that had been involved in a hit-and-run or other illegal activity. It's a piss-poor disguise, but most criminals aren't very bright.
It could but the operation in question was to find vehicles that weren't safe or roadworthy and, if I was on the look out for those, a car with wallpaper and tape over damage would get stopped. Correctly in this case.
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For the among us, without wallpaper:
He was reported for driving a vehicle in a dangerous condition and having a bald tyre.
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@loopback0 Will work well on a mobility scooter; those things have engines which won't speed you up.
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@HardwareGeek said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
Issued primarily to drivers convicted of driving drunk, they have taken on the nickname "whiskey plates" as whiskey represents the letter "W" in the NATO phonetic alphabet.
Yeah, sure, that's why.
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@boomzilla did so long ago. The traffic violators there get yellow registration plates.
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@HardwareGeek said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
Good idea™. Now, do the same thing for people who drive like assholes.
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@Zerosquare Most places call those standard-issue plates.
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@Zerosquare said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
Now, do the same thing for people who drive like assholes.
You'll find they have a circular badge split in four quarters, half blue and half white. Or four circles interlocking in a row for the slightly less asshole drivers.
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California Drivers Were Sold Bad Gas in Statewide Scheme (salvaged from scrapped and abandoned cars)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZuta8hpd0o
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@Zerosquare they already have several of those. This is one of those tags:
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@boomzilla said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
Am dissapoint, there was no speedway in the clip, nor was an entire station taken out, just a single pillar of a roof and a pump out of several roofs.
Speedway is this btw:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cCMr7KBgEU
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@Carnage said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@boomzilla said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
Am dissapoint, there was no speedway in the clip, nor was an entire station taken out, just a single pillar of a roof and a pump out of several roofs.
Speedway is this btw:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cCMr7KBgEUHeadlines are misleading as regards the actual content? Say it ain't so!
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@Carnage said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
just a single pillar of a roof and a pump out of several roofs.
And pumps are pumps, they do not actually contain fuel. At least around here they have valves which close automatically (probably legally required) to prevent fuel outflow if the above-ground portion of the installation is damaged.
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@HardwareGeek said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
California Drivers Were Sold Bad Gas
You mean, it didn't cause them cancer?
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@boomzilla said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
The lawnchopper,
Here's the redneck equivalent:
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Chesterton's bicycle:
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@Zecc Well that suddenlied abruptly.
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Today we had to stop behind a Fiat Punto in a one way street without space to overturn.
Because the driver wanted to snap a photo of a Lamborghini parked over a zebra crossing.
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@Zecc said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
without space to overturn.
That became violent really fast
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@Zecc
This is actually pretty common a few villages further towards the Belgian coast. Knokke pretends to be the Saint-Tropez of the Belgian coast or something. This comes with posh shops and people with plainly more money then sense.
There is a roundabout when you enter the village. There are often car spotters there in the lookout for exclusive cars. The Audi A8 or something like that purposely waited before entering the roundabout to get it's picture taken.
Still don't understand why they didn't want to take a picture of my Astra break ...
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@Luhmann said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
Knokke pretends to be the Saint-Tropez of the Belgian coast or something. This comes with posh shops and people with plainly more money then sense.
Knokke shops...
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@boomzilla Looks like an analogue version of a subscription model. And the guy seems to have subscribed to many valuable extras...
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A cross-over with the shit posting thread: take care of farmers' protests! Near Berlin, farmers dumped heaps of manure on national highway B5, and thus caused a few shitty accidents:
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@TimeBandit So the lanes on the left are closed, but there is one lane left (on the right which is not closed)?
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The last vehicle involved in the accident was one of those empty car transporters and it's making a convenient ramp for jumping over the others.
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@Zecc said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
The last vehicle involved in the accident was one of those empty car transporters and it's making a convenient ramp for jumping over the others.
Them Duke boys are at it again...
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@BernieTheBernie said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
A cross-over with the shit posting thread: take care of farmers' protests!
A not-funny version in : 2 (3?) farmers were killed when a car crashed head-on onto a straw bale wall that farmers had built in the middle of a highway, and the wall collapsed on them.
Then it emerged that it happened during the night and that the wall was draped with black plastic sheets (the kind farmers used to wrap straw bales). So the internet machine started blaming the farmers. Then it also emerged that the police had closed the highway at all previous junctions and put signs etc. and that the car had gone through a barrier (cones or similar, but still), and the internet machine was a bit subdued. It finally (at least that's when we stopped hearing about it) emerged that the couple in the car were immigrants, and... well, let's keep it not-.
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story in several partsWall'O'Text:I was on holidays in a ski resort, in a building with a private parking lot (well, dirt area...) that's accessible by a short dirt track along another building. That track is narrow and there's space for one parked car, and even like that if cars don't all park on the same side of the track, the snowplough can't get through and clear the parking lot.
Well, guess what, cars were parked on both sides. I assume they started parking from both ends of the track, randomly, and when the lines of parked cars met... they were on both sides. To be fair, while that's a , I mostly blame it on the road being poorly designed/sign posted. Still. Regular cars could get through (barely), so it wasn't too much of an issue. Until it snowed ().
The snowplough came and valiantly tried to get through, and failed, leaving half of the road (and the car park) uncleared. Oops. Though it's probably better than what it did another time in a similar situation and, uh, just ploughed on, regardless of what happened to the car(s) on the side!
Then this guy from B*****m, driving a BMW (double combo!) probably thought his big SUV was a Big Boy's 4x4. Spoiler: it wasn't. So he got stuck in the middle of the track, where it stopped being cleared. He did what any responsible driver would do and immediately sought help. beat Nah, of course not. He just put on the warning lights and went to unload his car.
To be fair, at the end of what probably was a long trip, with the kids all excited, the keys to get from the building's reception and so on, I can understand leaving the car there for a few minutes. To also be fair, this guy at least knew where the blinkers on his BMW were, so that puts him a bit ahead!
This was about mid-afternoon of one day. And there was evening and there was morning, and the car kept blinking and blocking the way.
This was the situation the next morning:
(the writing on the back is my doing -- I kept it polite and family-friendly. I added a pair of big on the front, and on the sides, especially as even on foot it was almost impossible to walk along the car)
On the right side, there literally was less than a (gloved) finger between the two cars.
The car was still there at midday, and was only gone by the end of the afternoon. I learnt the rest of the story from the receptionist of the building.
The guy arrived and told her he was stuck, then got the keys to his appartement, unloaded the car etc. And... that's it. He apparently implicitly assumed that it was the reception's responsibility to do something about it!
Then at some point someone called the police. Who obviously couldn't move the car by themselves (I don't know if the guy came to help them at this point). Then a tow-truck was called (and hopefully the police gave the guy a fine?) but with the narrow dirt track being pretty icy (even the part that was clear), it couldn't get the car out (I assume moving it without hitting the car(s) on the right wasn't possible). So they gave up.
The next day (after my scribbling), the receptionist met the guy in the building, and he was just blissfully getting ready to go out skiing with his kids! That's when the penny dropped, for both sides, and the receptionist struggled to stay polite while telling him to move his ass (and his car), call his insurance or a tow truck or whatever but do something! Which the guy did, though of course the tow truck from his insurance couldn't move the car more than the tow truck from the police could...
In the end, he managed to get a tractor from a snowplough or something similar and got his car out. He still blocked the whole road, and the parking lot, for about 24 hours.
Though there's a positive from all that: now we know that the battery of a BMW can power blinkers, and for more than a day!
The end.
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