(not my image. I just find these comical and incredibly dangerous)

  • chiliedogg@lemmy.world
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    Houston is a weird place.

    In short, they often make the car as wide as is street legal. Sometimes they end up being too wide, but “maybe it’s too wide but I can’t quite tell” doesn’t meet probable cause, so the police can only really measure them if they get pulled over for something else.

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    54 minutes ago

    Those look incredibly dangerous, if I think if a driver clipped a kid on the sidewalk the driver would very likely not survive

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    I don’t know. Why are semi trucks allowed to have these?

    I see them all the time even though they seem like a liability for a professional driver.

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      I’ve seen those sharp things on a pickup truck’s wheels

      A few months ago a pickup truck cut me off and i crashed into its side and fell into the side of the wheel. If the truck i hit had these spikes, i’d be dead

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    6 hours ago

    Nothing a big fat disc padlock and chain can’t solve.

    GrGrGrGrGrGrGrGrGrGrGrGrGrGrGrGrGrGrGrGrGrGrGrGr

    I hope bro likes having to carry bolt cutters in the passenger seat and having to do walk-around inspections every time he comes back to his car.

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      2 hours ago

      There’s also such thing as hardened steel chains and padlocks that require something more than bolt cutters to defeat.

      Though even if those spokes are hardened, they look long enough that you could probably still bend them by sticking a good solid bar in there and yanking.

      Or if you want to really fuck it up, instead of using that bar to lever them into a different shape, weld a bar horizontally that is too long to do a turn without pressing into the ground. Then see if the whole thing is strong enough to lift the car and turn the wheel, if the motor stalls when it tries, or if something snaps first.

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      4 hours ago

      How about a bit of downward pressure to bend them slightly out of true? That’d fuck up the wheel balance and give them a nice wobble once they get up to speed.