This is not out in some rural town. This is in Portland, OR about 2 miles from downtown. Personal vehicles this large are simply incompatible with urban living and pressure their owners to continually break traffic law. Technically that Miata is parked as close to the stop sign as it can legally be, but as the Denali doesn’t fit in many places around here it’s owner is compelled to park across both the stop sign and the crosswalk.
Follow up: To whatever bootlicking idiot called PBOT and asked for enforcement on this block, it didn’t help. It made things worse just like I cautioned such actions do in the discussion below. They didn’t ticket the truck (Which was indeed parking in front of the stop sign this morning) but they did ticket just about every-other car parked on this street for non-street safety related things like parked wrong orientation, literal broken window, expired registration, etc. You probably cost my neighbors a few thousand dollars in combined citations for minor procedural issues, now everybody is miserable and the truck is still parked there. Please, never ever do that again. Your fantasy of calling law enforcement to fix all the problems is not what happens in real life. It doesn’t matter who they are, NEVER CALL THE COPS ON YOUR NEIGHBORS.
You could ALMOST Christmas Vacation that Miata under the Denali.
I drive a 2019 Ram 1500 with a 1" lift.
I don’t park like that. That’s fucking stupid. Only time I go into the city is to watch the Chicago Blackhawks play, and I pay for parking.
That truck would have been ticketed in minutes in my town.
And no, I don’t have a bunch of stupid stickers on my back window or the truck nuts.
Just one 10th Mountain sticker and that’s it.
Now imagine both on a highway and the Miata rear-ending the truck. In EU underride guards are mandatory, but in the US… I’m not sure.
I’ve never heard of an underride guard, so yea they’re probably not required in the US. brb, off to Google it
Edit: yea they’re only required on commercial trucks and vehicles, so massive semis, not personal trucks like this one
Email your council people. Ive done it before and they’ve made them move it.
I have never met a Denali driver that isn’t an outright cunt.
Without the Child killer 9000 to not be able to see anyone under 7 feet tall who might be in their path, how is Bob gonna take his kids to school?
Not as effective but an easy temp fix is to put a small rock under the cap and screw it back on. Most effective if two tires are done so they can’t just swap a spare, not that this chud knows how to change a tire or has a 5’ tall jack to lift the truck 6" to do the work.
“failed to load media”
tiny drill
Assuming they’re just regular schrader valves, you don’t need a special tool. You can even just use a pencil or ballpoint if you just want to let out the air. It’s less risky for you than taking out the valve.
I’m not 100% on board with the whole “fuck cars” thing but fuck that truck’s owner sideways.
Same. I’m not fuck cars, but I am fuck lifted oversized for no reason trucks. Double fuck em if they’re plastered with a bunch of lights.
Have you ever been in places that weren’t designed around cars? Here in Japan its night and day between places where half the land is parking lots and roads, theres like 2 businesses within a 15 minute walk, and every hotel runs its own shuttle, and places where anyone can get basically anywhere in 15-20 minutes.
That sounds great but I don’t live there and unless my city magically grows that kind of infrastructure, I can’t stop having a car.
My point is having seen both developments is certain to make someone anti-car, because it shows how much of a blight car-centric development is. I wasnt suggesting you, personally, should sell your car and stop having a job or being able to move around would somehow be productive.
The thing about America is that it’s full of loud, obnoxious assholes who do not take kindly to you if you point out the fact that they’re assholes (even subtly and without using that verbiage).
So nailed it, they get so mad for being told a simple truth that anyone can plainly see. Is it possible that inside their heads they’re the good guy? That simple reality enrages them?
Narcissists always see themselves as the hero or the victim. Either way, you’re wrong for suggesting they change a god damned thing about themselves.
I think many of them know they suck deep down somewhere as well. If anyone points it out, it confirms their innermost doubts and pisses them off immeasurably.
What the fuck is a Miata? That’s an MX-5
Well technically the Miata (and that’s what I’ll call it) was designed by Mazda’s California branch which named it the Miata. But it was changed by Mazda Japan to the Eunos Roadster, which was just the Roadster or MX-5 in other markets.
That’s what the US call them, I’m just pleased they didn’t jam a U or an extra Z in somewhere
If it’s any consolation I’m pretty sure the GMC Denali engines are straight up killing themselves for no reason, so the owner is probably due for some karma.
Trucks parked like that are just begging for some good keying
Where I live the speed has recently been reduced from 30 mph to 15 mph in an effort to make the area more livable. Roads have been narrowed with more room for trees, sidewalks and bike paths. As well as artificial choke points and high speed bumps, all in an effort to improve life for the people living there. This is done alongside an effort to create larger high speed roads around the area and push cars to use those, which are the long way around but since they are higher speed still faster.
However fucking idiots driving these huge trucks can just go across the speed bumps at 45 mph and they rush all the choke point no matter if they have the right of way or not. When such a huge thing comes rushing at you, you move out of the way. They also regularly cut across parts where cars aren’t supposed to go. For example tight corners where the side walk is lower so larger delivery trucks and busses can still make the corner by cutting across the side walk a bit. Regular cars are supposed to just drive around them and in a regular car the kerb will make sure people don’t normally do that. The big trucks however use them all the time as they don’t even notice the kerb.
Since car brains experience the efforts to slow everything down as obstacles to overcome, more and more choose to drive these huge trucks and drive any speed and route they want. This actually goes against all the efforts to make the area better for pets, bicycles and people.
We desperately need max weight and size limits for cars.
Get the city to install chicanes with trees planted in them. You can’t just roll over those and a landship like that is going to have to slow down a lot to maneuver through them.
But yeah, I’d love tax brackets depending on car size. Huge trucks pay more, kei cars pay less. That would make a lot of sense for city liveability and road maintenance.
But yeah, I’d love tax brackets depending on car size. Huge trucks pay more, kei cars pay less.
Ironically, that effort is what landed us in our current predicament. There was a clean air push, and the government wanted to start regulating fuel efficiency in vehicles. They were going to start requiring vehicles to hit certain efficiency minimums. But auto manufacturers lobbied to add a tiny little “efficiency can reduce as vehicle size increases” provision. They said it was because larger cars were naturally less efficient, so they needed that exception to be able to reasonably hit the efficiency targets.
In reality, what happened is the auto manufacturers started making larger and larger cars, so they didn’t have to deal with making efficient vehicles. Because the less efficient engines are cheaper to produce at scale and they can sell them for more. They started doing huge advertisement and astroturfing campaigns, to get people into the “bigger is better” mindset for cars… And it fucking worked. Americans almost universally drive massive cars now, purely because auto manufacturers didn’t want to be held to efficiency standards.
Well, yeah, if the car makers can add exceptions to the law and turn it upside down then the law becomes useless.
I explicitly wouldn’t allow that exception. If larger cars are less efficient then disincentivizing their use by means of higher taxes is clearly beneficial to society. If you want to drive that three-ton gas guzzler then you can surely afford that 30% higher vehicle tax. If you can’t, might I interest you in this comparatively efficient and tax-reduced Subaru Sambar?
Mind you, I would apply different rules to things like semi trucks that (at least in my part of the world) you can’t drive without a special license. But if you can drive it with a regular European class B license then the tax should scale progressively with size and mass because making larger and less efficient cars unattractive is specifically the point.
Holy shit, TIL about Chicanes! I’m definitely going to lobby my city for those!
Your city is doing riiiiight! I hear you regarding the growing pains, but the successes are glorious. I’m proud of you!
Time to start hucking bricks at passing trucks
Cover that shitbox with bologna.
put a note on the windshield: “please take care to better manage your genders affirming vehicle.”
Emotional support vehicle
Funny enough the right front fender of the Miata has a bunch of trans rights stickers. I’d rather not make assumptions about the Denali owner but it would sure make for an even more stark contrast.
Funny enough the right front fender of the Miata has a bunch of trans rights stickers
Well yeah, it’s a “hairdresser’s car.” Obviously, all Miata owners are inferior girly men, so of course the trans rights sticker fits right in!
(I own a Miata myself, so I’m entitled to make that joke. BTW, other cars I’ve owned include a VW New Beetle and two minivans, so I’ll let folks draw their own conclusions about my confidence in my masculinity. But just to be clear, anybody else trying to make that joke without heavy, obvious sarcasm is gonna get banned for violating rule 2, though.)
Also, maybe there could be an ambiguity between “trans[gender] rights” and “[manual] trans[mission] rights,” LOL. “Save the manuals” is a big deal among Miata owners, after all.
That gives me an idea for a new bumper sticker, for a very specific kind of car owner. Not 100% sure where it lies on the line between funny and insensitive, though, so I’m gonna put the quick mockup I just made in a spoiler tag so folks don’t see it unless they specifically want to.
hopefully clever and not offensive
Or maybe, someone who has the strength of character to choose a car on merit, without needing a tank to make them feel safe, is more likely to NOT be hostile to those who may be different from the norm, again because they’re not scaredy little fucks who are afraid of everything and have to appear intimidating all the time.
Sure! Sounds like that particular Miata owner was actively expressing support above and beyond not being hostile, though.
am transfem, can barely drive a stick, but you get a pass from me
I think you’re allowed to make a bunch of assumptions about the Denali owner here. That’s kinda what they did all that for in the first place.
They’re clearly being a dick with nothing more than a parking job, so it’s far more likely they are actually dicks IRL and noticed the same thing on the miata and chose to be dicks about it.
Sometimes, the other person being an intolerable, selfish, bigoted asshole, is exactly the thing we can and should assume about people in certain situations. Situations like this one.
