You must log in or # to comment.
Don’t judge … that poor man needs that large vehicle in order to accommodate his extremely large penis and enormous testicles … the loud engine sounds are to warn others of his condition and let everyone know everywhere of what he has to live with … that poor man … it’s a real problem
Damn right, this is nothing but gender affirming care.
What of the twat in the beemer? We just gonna leave him out of our hypotheticals?
I bet he’s never used a turn signal in his fucking life.
If the dough in the Bremerton hits me I fly over the hood. The dickless wonder in the truck can’t even see me walking and I’ll roll under the car and die.
Tyres protruding that far outside the body are seriously dangerous and would be illegal here in Australia.
They are illegal in the States as well, but you’d need someone to actually enforce it.
That’s a relief. I do wonder sometimes about the US’s safety standards considering some of the pics I’ve seen. But yeah, how he doesn’t get pulled over immediately every time he leaves the house is baffling.
I don’t know if it’s actually policy but unless they cause accidents, modifications aren’t enforced by police. In theory they’re bought at annual inspections but many states don’t even have those and the ones that do are easy to circumvent.
This is the same issue with headlights. At least some of the issues with excessive glare are caused by aftermarket LED headlight bulbs clearly labeled “not for headlights” in the wrong reflector housing but legally sold if they can be used for other purposes. In theory caught by inspection. If the state has them. If someone looks. If the person doesn’t just swap them for legal bulbs to pass
While the police can do it here, we also have dedicated Transport Inspectors in the Department of Transport that specifically look out for that sort of thing. You don’t have something similar?
Our process is annual inspections but it’s per state. Each state is different and many don’t even. There are clear accident stat differences showing which states don’t.
In the states I’ve lived in, it is a service offered by a garage. They get licensed to give out inspection stickers. For each inspection they hook it up to a machine that logs emissions and go through a checklist of safety items to verify. In my experience they’re good at catching worn tires and brakes but never seem to check things like headlight alignment or window tinting. And my state is one of the stricter ones
Actually legal in WVa and Alabama, no suprise.
That isn’t surprising. They won’t pass inspection in the semi civilized states I’ve lived in, but things get sketchy really fast once you get out of the northeast.
Slashing tyres is probably moral in this situation.
Just don’t get caught.
In PA it’s not allowed to go more than 3" widet than factory, plus the tires has to be covered with a fender so it doesn’t kick up debris or whatever.
And PA would be where exactly?
deleted by creator
Yep Pennsylvania.
Those things are even worse on the road than they are when they’re parked.
I was at an underground parking lot in the city in Toronto once. We got caught in a long lineup of cars because some idiot in a jacked up F150 with no sense of scale thought it was a good idea to park his enormous truck here.
A bunch of us guys helped him out by hopping onto his bumper and weighing down the back end so that he could barely pass the height limit. I imagine he had the same problem on his way out.
I imagine he had the same problem on his way out.
Somebody could have done him a favor and let all the air out of his tires.
“Sorry about your dick buddy”
I can tolerate a dirty truck that’s all dented to hell, that person clearly needs their truck for some kind of work. A clean truck that’s large is just screaming “don’t look at my dick”
When I see something like this, I agree with my country 72% taxation on gas. If they had to pay $8 per gallon like us, they wouldn’t buy those monsters
In California they often reach over 5$ a gallon, and will drive them.
They still buy them and then bitch constantly about how expensive gas is.
No, they’ll bitch about gas prices being high because of Biden.
Thanks Obummer
Those tires and lift kits cost them 20-30% more fuel, but engineering is for lefties.
Google says California gas and sales tax together are only about 71¢/gallon.
While we understand gas is expensive in California, relative to the rest of the us, it’s not expensing globally and 71¢/gallon is not much tax globally. The tax really needs to be much higher, for the cost of the roads and other costs to society. Google also claims this tax covers 80% of California road maintenance, so I’d argue it needs to be 25% higher. But that’s only maintenance, not new construction, and doesn’t at all cover the harm done, so really ought to be much higher
California has the highest state gas taxes in the us so the rest of us are much worse.
Gas taxes that don’t even cover road maintenance are too low.
Gas taxes that don’t cover the externalised cost of emissions are also too low. But I don’t think any jurisdiction taxes that way.
My bigger objection are people using this argument to try to add unfairly high EV taxes
No, EV taxes don’t need to cover road maintenance if gas taxes don’t, and no, EV taxes don’t need to be extra high because of a weight penalty, when ice pickups weigh more and the difference is a rounding error relative to big trucks
But I do believe in vice taxes as a way to guide consumer choices. The most fair choice is to tax all road vehicles by miles and weight, without regard to technology, plus a vice taxes on gasoline (like we do with alcohol) to account for the damage it does to society and to discourage use.
Agreed.
`miles * weight * small number
This is fake the bmw isn’t double parked and the truck isn’t parked at a 45°
Cars should be taxed by weight.
Fuck those BEV drivers in particular?
It can help make up for the loss of revenue from gasoline taxes. Roads have to be paid for somehow, and ideally the burden will fall on those owning vehicles and not society at large.
Very True, vehicle weight also has a direct relationship with how much wear and tear they cause.
People buy much bigger batteries than they actually need anyway.
I’m in the UK, could you have a word with our Gov pls? They’ve just announced that my 90kg electric vespa will cost 3p/mile the same as my friends 2500kg BMW iX :(
But the government ministers drive the BMW iX. How will they afford higher rates per mile?
Probably running them as taxis for that sweet sweet free charging zone! :)
I have to apologise to the Gov, either they’ve changed their mind, clarified or it was just vicious rumour but it appears electric motorbikes won’t incur the per mile charge… woo hoo
That’s bs, gas taxes already don’t pay for road maintenance and too many localities seem to want to over-tax EVs
Let me counter-propose
- EVERY road vehicle be taxed by weight and mileage to cover road maintenance
- IN ADDITION keep a smaller gas tax to help pay for the additions harm to society and the environment of burning fossil fuels, AND to discourage this kind of behavior
This is fair to everyone - each covering their actual usage and damage caused, regardless of technology
Of course then we can go off into the woods arguing that actual trucks cause essentially all road damage but we do need those
It can help make up for the loss of revenue from gasoline taxes.
UK is already going to tax EV owners from 2028 to make up for lost petrol revenue. Electric Vehicle Excise Duty or eVED.
BEVs would weigh less than most of these oversized trucks and SUVs, especially with the added lift kits, dualies and oversized wheels
Chevy Bolt weighs about 3600lbs
Ford F150 starts at over 4500 lbs going up to 5500lbs for the gasoline models. (Another source says that the Lightning is around 6000lbs)
Chevy Tahoe starts at just under 5500lbs and goes up to nearly 5900lbs
So spot-checking it seems taxing by vehicle weight would impact oversized vehicles more than it would impact BEVs. Particularly if it was structured as “vehicles over 4,000 lbs, vehicles over 5,000 lbs and vehicles over 6,000 lbs” or even better something exponential beyond 4,000 lbs.
Combine this with a tire diameter registration fee (combined diameter of all tires on the vehicle, so dualies cost 50% more on top of the extra cost of 20"+ tires) and we should start getting somewhere with financially incentivizing smaller vehicles
My point was that BEVs can weigh significantly more than their equivalent ICE car. The goal should be to get rid of ICE completely and use BEVs where personal transportation makes more sense than mass transit. There is already too much of a push to make ICE cars more desirable than BEVs. I have serious doubts that taxing vehicles by weight would do a better job of keeping these monstrosities off the road than their own cost plus the price of gas does, but putting our legislative thumb on the scale yet again to discourage someone considering a small BEV versus a small ICE car seems shortsighted.
Remember that you still tax fuel purchases.
Taxing by weight also encourages weight efficieny in BEV. Reduces weight also supports other sustainable practices, like reducing tire wear, rare earth metal usage, pedestrian safety and vehicle cost.
For towing or very long range use, the correct solution is probably some form of optional range extender in the form of a battery pack, or even better, a fuel based APU, since they are much lighter. Bonus points if it can be external or removable.
2x the weight, 16x the street damage. But honestly, does every BEV need to be able to go 600 miles in one go?
The only ones that do are the attempts at extended range full sized pickups. They have an argument that it’s needed for towing and I imagine at least some actually tow.
My EV gets over 300 mile range and is lighter than any full sized pickup. I’d argue that’s a sweet spot since I can drive five straight hours on a road trip, about the same as for a gas car.
Nah. BEVs aren’t actually much heavier these days.
They are in the US. Hummer EV is over 10,000lbs.
That’s because its a hummer with a 250kwh battery. That’s just a choice someone has made. Not all BEVs weigh that.
The Tesla model 3 weighs about the same as a BMW 3 series.
Nope, just pay proportionally for the wear and tear you cause.
Same thing around me
If the truck was lifted just a bit more, it could share the space with the roadster
If your vehicle cannot fit In a parking spot, then you shouldn’t park there. If you over park because of this, you should get towed. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
Americans love pedastrian safety
Shaquille O’Niel owned one of these, and he’s literally the only person who ever has that could justify it as “this is the only one I fit in”.
He would fit fine in a Fiat Multipla, or VW Caddy. They have loads of room. We have 7 foot rugby players that fit fine in those.
There are much more reasonable cars for extremely tall people.
No, still not. This is a disgracemobile.
This is not a car, it’s a truck, and should require a commercial license to drive.
Monster trucks are street legal there?
If it’s anything like the small town I live in, you can’t legally have tires that extend further than your fenders, but it’s entirely unenforced.
Folks love their lift kits and oversized tires
Bumpers are supposed to be at a certain height for impact with other vehicles, but nobody enforces that either
I’m more surprised the vehicles are not swapped. Average BMW owner:
I kind of want to make stickers that say like “I’m an asshole that parks in the bike lane” or “I drive a large car because I’m a coward” or whatever and discreetly slap them onto these abominations. Sadly my lawyer has recommended against this action.
You used to be able to get some from youparklikeacunt.com, but that doesn’t appear to be active anymore, sadly.
Little dick energy
…because I’m a coward"
…and discreetly slap them onto
Are you wanting to attack cowardice from a place of… cowardice? I think you should collect your stickers and return back to your oversized, lifted monstrosity. Under the advice of your lawyer, of course.
Do you think I drive a large car? How on earth did you come to that conclusion?
You claim owners of large vehicles are cowards.
Your plan of action is to “discretely” tag their vehicles with stickers.
Wanting to be discreet instead of direct or confrontational is cowardice.
According to you, cowards own large vehicles.
Are you joking? It doesn’t follow that all cowards have large cars. That’s like textbook incorrect logic. Do you also think all rectangles are squares, because all squares are rectangles?
Furthermore, not all discretion is cowardice.
What’s your emotional investment here, anyway? Do you drive a large car and park in the bike lane?
No emotion, just laughing at your turn to cowardice after labeling others as cowards. Your stickers will effect zero change, but good on you for being sneaky and feeling accomplished.
I drive large bikes and park them on sidewalks.
You don’t seem like the kind of person who can identify and sort through their emotions.
This is me being elated after I put a sticker on somebody’s car.
It’s the Ford F-900 DUI Edition!
