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Imagine having to rely on a wheelchair here.
Alright, which Deregulated Red Run Oblast is this?
People who drive trucks who don’t work in a profession that incentivizes them can all go to hell.
Even people that work in the profession don’t get the ones as huge as these peope drive.
What’s with all the free trailer hitches?
My first thought as well. Doubt any of these have locks. I don’t understand leaving it on. I travel on an RV and remove my hitch and store it as soon as the RV is disconnected.
I had enough spacial awareness not to block a walkway when I towed but the reason to leave it on is because it can protect your car.
Twice I had someone fail to break, and slam into the back of my car.
Twice my car was fine, and twice the dickhead on the phone ended up with a tow hitch sized hole in the front of their car.
My first hitch came with and got stolen within a 3 days of having it.
My first thought. I couldn’t imagine the foot pursuit, but I could imagine opening the amazon trailer hitch shop.
Hate those fucken assholes. Pavement princess driving motherfuckers.
It literally takes less than 30 seconds to bend down, pull the cotter clip, pull the pin, and toss the hitch end in the bed. Saves the shins and kneecaps of yourself and everyone else.
Not to mention anyone in a wheelchair can just get fucked walking around these minefields
I had an uncle that would quite literally do that and throw the hitch(es) into the bed of the truck every single time he walked through a parking lot. If he had to do that to multiple trucks before getting to the store so be it.
Good man.
I do the same, but with bicycle lights that people have left on. I know how annoying it is to find your battery empty.
Don’t do that.
Flashing tail light batteries last for many hours.
Riders often leave them on just so you dont need to remember to turn them on again when you depart.
Even if the battery did go flat, you’re not stranded.
I know you mean well but it might not be appreciated as much as you think.
Hours is enough to empty them. If I see them parked in front of our house late in the evening, I don’t think they’re going to go out anymore today. It’s far more likely that they forgot to turn them off than that they intentionally kept them on.
Fortunately, they rarely flash, but burn continuously. I think the flashing ones are illegal here, and they can be super annoying.
Fair enough I guess.
Bike lights are intended to be super annoying to the point of being obnoxious here. They need to be bright and flashy enough for oblivious drivers to actually notice you.
Knew someone who deliberately left it out because they thought it would help mitigate someone nudging into their backend.
To their credit, it actually worked once, someone got a hitch sized hole in their front bumper for a low speed collision.
On the other hand, this person also kept banging their own shin on their tow hitch… But they thought it was worth it anyway…
I got a hitch sized hole in my bumper because some asshole backed into my parked car and drove off.
To this person’s credit, they always seemed to take backing up seriously and slowly and kept quite a distance from everyone… also very carefully parked as straight as possible, and never over any of the lines. Still since they only tow about once a week, it’s kind of silly to have that hitch in all the time.
Unlike another colleague who doesn’t have a tow hitch, but always pushes his luck and has on occasion given a nudge to a parked car with his pickup, and never parks straight and usually parks over the middle lines…
How else will anyone know that they used their truck for something more than getting groceries? They have to let everyone know they tow a lawn mower with the ridiculously large truck.
Or toss it in through the back window
There’s got to be some meth-head scrappers that need this information.
Definitely don’t buy a bunch of those big elastic bands for workouts and loop the cars together in pairs.
As a non-alternative (i.e. don’t do this either) the same pairings but with a thin rope with a self-tightening knot.
It will break without any noticeable effort from the car, but will probably make a big bang.
4x4 Off-Road
Has never seen anything but paved roads its entire life.
I’ve heard the phrase “pavement princess” used for such vehicles
I’ve been using “emotional support vehicle” lately.
My buddy uses “gender affirming vehicle” all the time. 😆
I’ve also heard “mall terrain vehicle”
If it’s lifted on skinny tires it’s a bro-dozer. The tires are always bald all-terrain tires.
I call folks who drive them “rural identifying persons”
can’t help but notice that most of those trunks are empty too
They’re empty and almost every tow hitch is rusty. I think if they’re used the rust would get knocked off and they’d be shiny, like the one back there. They literally just buy trucks to make themselves feel manly, I guess because they can’t any other way. Then they never use it for any of the things they argue people need trucks for.
You’re backwards. The rusty ones are the ones getting used because the load and weight cause friction that takes the chrome coating off, exposing the underlying metal to the elements that cause rust.
Normally you grease the ball to keep it from getting bad, but a lot of people don’t keep up with that part.
Because I fucking hated getting grease all over my hands, pants from accidental brushing, and just everywhere else. The rusty ball still works for more than 20 years, so I took the tradeoff.
Yep.
I used to keep mine greased, got tired of getting dirty from it when it didn’t really make any difference.
Nah, they’re just Harbor Freight cheapo balls. All stainless balls are like $60, plated ones are like $20. It doesn’t take much for the plating to wear off from a trailer, and then there’s no stopping the rust.
I’m no expert, but I’m not saying it’s stop the rust, just rub it off. Rust is a thin layer on the outside, and it comes off really easily. I assume actually hooking up a trailer and using it on occasion would wear the rust off (for a little while). I could be totally wrong though.
I can confirm that scraping the balls causes rust way faster than it might scrape off. If you see glossy balls, they are likely never used.
It’s just marketing, anyway. Stock trucks are garbage offroad.
This picture irritates me so much
If this is the same picture I saw years ago. This is from a farm college. So they kinda need the toe hooks.
This is what every Sunday grocery trip looks like in Montana
Most places it illegal to have them on when not in use. Most people leave them on as a form of crash protection, like in a parking lot.
I’m sure it depends if you are living in a city that is run by chuds.
Yeah though I imagine we disagree on who the chud is or why. Selfishness isn’t patriotism or freedom bud.
Sure, but could they teach them how to park then?
Toe hooks huh… Must be some big feet…
But even with or without hitches, their rear ends are intruding beyond their parking spots. I know that’s also a challenge with these long ass trucks, but if it were a lot designed specifically for this demographic, it should have the spots appropriate.
Is it illegal to own a sedan there?
Basically yes. Their emissions laws are written so that bigger cars can produce more CO2 and other emissions. So small cars are not viable while large cars are barely regulated.
They don’t make sedans anymore. They’ve gone the way of the station wagon
I heard they are ICEs next target /s
please accidentally ban the other ICE 🤞
Foot pursuit? This is clearly in America. They just gonna shoot your ass cuz the average cop wouldn’t even fit in a corridor that narrow.
Woah there, let’s not jump to conclusions! You can’t just assume the person they’re chasing is black.
Imagine trying to get a shopping cart through that. I imagine that’s probably a Bass Pro Shops parking lot.
Some evil part of me would be tempted to take some chain and knit those trailer hitches together all down the line.
How are none of these in their spaces?
Yeah i was going to point this out. Its not just the hitches. All of these assholes have backed in, and deliberately gone in further than the boundary of the bay to minimise how far their nose overhangs the other end.
Because it’s literally impossible for these assholes to fit their unnecessary behemoths into a real parking spot. The same people who own these complain about parking spots being small, parking garage ceilings being too low, and gas being too expensive. They act like it’s society’s fault. Fucking chuds
It’s not, these guys just suck and they don’t have the first clue how to actually operate their vehicles. I can fit my full sized truck into spaces just fine when I have occasion to drive it. They all think they’re hot shit for having back-in parking “skills,” too, while utterly failing to comprehend that all they’ve accomplished here is making it impossible to load anything into the bed. You know, like what trucks are for.
(Postscript: So obviously, they’re not planning on putting anything in the back. Which means they could have just as well all showed up on Vespas.)
I was at a family party where this guy with the largest pickup I’d ever seen constantly complained about how expensive gas was and how it was Biden’s fault. It quickly became apparent that he only drove the thing the hour drive back and forth from his office job. Truck looked like new despite being a couple years old, save for highway tire wear.
Why on earth does he think we should all subsidize his absurd and impractical vehicle’s fuel? And I’m sure he complains about entitled people on welfare.
Idiot lane
Imagine trying to steer a shopping cart to your car here
Imagine how nice it is to scratch every single car there with your cart
I wouldn’t dare
This is not legal advice. I am not a lawyer.
My shins are already hurting by just looking at it.
Tie them together!
