(not my image. I just find these comical and incredibly dangerous)
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Why would you assume they’re legal?
Why would you assume they’re real?
They are, unfortunately, real.
Oh that’s easy! They’re not :)
They aren’t in any civilised countries, probably land you in prison when you are driving that on any public road in one of those.
According to Alexander’s tactics in Gaugamela, you first have to wear them down with javelins, and then open ranks to create alleys for them to pass through your infantry, then finish them off with hypaspists. Afterwards, you can charge your cavalry straight to Darius himself and win the battle.
Piece of cake really.
That looks like a really expensive accident waiting to happen.
Why would anyone put that on their car?
Idiots, they live among us.
Look, you spent all that money on your Cadillac, you can’t just look like everyone else. They gotta know it’s you! Swangas stand out from the crowd. Whistle tips on the exhaust (only in the mornings, when you supposed to be up making breakfast) let everyone know you’re coming. You don’t have to hide. You’re the king of the block, no, the city. No need for subtlety.
Put a cow catcher on the front of your truck and lift it three feet! Put underglow on your (Automatic) Honda and a JDM tow hook! Make it so your car sounds like gravel in a trash can at 60kph!
Basically, people like to customize their very expensive decisions. You don’t have to worry about accidents because they’re not going to happen to you.
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.
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
The idea is the driver can see if a lug nut is missing. They are typically just plastic, but would still shred a pedestrian or cyclist, two members of the woke left.
Satire become reality if we don’t do something after learning about it: https://xkcd.com/3167/
They probably aren’t. Doesn’t stop them from existing though. 🤷
Friggin bullies!
Mad Maxxing
These have been a thing for so long there’s classical music about them.
That just makes it even crazier, you are aware of that aren’t you?
Very much so. I am in no way promoting the use of these. I have always hated them.
Put whatever crazy paint, nuts, slogans, rattlers, poppers, feelers, candy, chrome, buck, gator, silliness you want on your ride. Just don’t make it more dangerous for the rest of us. Fuck your coal, swangas, high beams, lifts, etc.
I think it is a failure of legislation and/or enforcement. Because that is not freedom if it is actively harming others and not much else, to the point where it threatening the life of others, without any hyperbole.
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Fuck. Tysm, I usually remember to delete that.
Nothing a big fat disc padlock and chain can’t solve.
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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.
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.
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.
If the bar can’t bend them you can always just put your spare tire scissor jack under the tip. That will definitely do the trick.
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.
Nothing says idiot loser like these do.
In the Saints Row series they’re called kneecappers and I tried and uninstalled them because they caused too much mayhem. They also appear in the Spy Hunter 1983 coin-op video game
I remember seeing them on Speed Racer used by villains before seeing the chariot race version in Ben Hur.
IRL they’re obviously a hazard and inappropriate in traffic where people are just trying to collaboratively get home. (And yes, traffic is a collective cooperative effort, and we see that as soon as someone gets antagonistic.)
But Americans imagine themselves rugged individualists, a component of capitalist propaganda, and like to show they’re rebels with shit like rolling coal and truck nuts.
This totally looks like a FAFO moment that is going to turn into a regulatory statute.
Since it’s not a firearm, I doubt courts or officials will be interested at all in pursuing second-amendment liberties over this. They seem not to care about knives or ninja gear, either.
This isn’t a problem with Americans. Every country has idiots. This just happens to be one of ours.
But some countries have many more idiots per capita.
Here in the US, we’ve been cultivating idiocy with a long standing anti-education movement in the Republican party.
More exactly, there are a multiple intersecting movements:
~ No public education / No education for the poors
~ Religious (Christian nationalist ideology) education for all
~ Charter schools as grift
~ Obey authority. Trust the state.And these figured into the instant army that rallied to Trump in 2015-2016 from the rest of the Republican party. Principal figures from the party watched their own ideology collapse, and there was nothing they could do about it.
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