There is no shortage of people with low impulse-control on either side. It might be more heavily weighted toward the liberals because they are younger (on average).
The conservative have more scar-tissue, on average and more bad experiences of letting emotions grab the steering wheel.
The old saw is that no twenty-year-old who isn't a Liberal has no heart and no forty-year-old who isn't a Conservative has no brain.
In 1990, when a base-level compact car sold for $9k, the estimated repair cost for a trashed condenser, radiator, fascia and transmission pan was $2300.
In models built after 2015ish, you can add a computer behind the right-front headlamp which can run $2200 all buy itself and the other parts + labor are at least 3X the 1990 costs. Costs go up to the point of totalling most vehicles if driving without coolant "lunched" the engine (about five miles in most cases).
Indeed. If they're on he county verge and someone hits them, you're gonna be on the hook for the consequence. Hell; a neighbor of mine who had a corner plot got tired of people "trenching" his lawn and driving across it to cut the corner. He put in hedges. Someone ploughed through the hedges and again trenched his lawn. He replaced the hedges and placed bowling ball-sized hunks of granite behind them. The next person who tried to trench is lawn ended up losing both his oil pan and transmission pan. When the sheriff showed up he took my neighbor aside and told him that setting "traps" like that ON HIS OWN PROPERTY was illegal, and that if the perp knew that, he could hold my neighbor to account. You can't make this shit up! 'Course, the sheriff never did enlighten the moron driver to this... Just be aware of your local laws... And the neighbor? He put BIGGER hunks of granite behind the hedges...
Waaaaay down south of you, hard up against the Rio Grande River (border with Mexico) in Starr county, I saw a lot of Trump - Vance signs hung along the road and on fences. This is a traditionally hard Blue voting location, but these farmers - ranchers know what illegal immigration does to them personally. They have to repair - replace the damages done by these 'travelers'. Visiting their own properties after dark is a dangerous activity.
This did not happen during Trump 2016 - 2020 campaigns, but Trump made some friends since then. That is saying something.
Lol for the drive by Democrats.
ReplyDeletePity that politics is so personal for Democrats.
There is no shortage of people with low impulse-control on either side. It might be more heavily weighted toward the liberals because they are younger (on average).
DeleteThe conservative have more scar-tissue, on average and more bad experiences of letting emotions grab the steering wheel.
The old saw is that no twenty-year-old who isn't a Liberal has no heart and no forty-year-old who isn't a Conservative has no brain.
Should be interesting to see if it stays there.
ReplyDeleteIt's very spooky, I'll give you that!
ReplyDeleteI was scared when I saw it too!
DeleteSpike strips would be a nice addition.
ReplyDeleteThose are under the MAGA hat
DeleteSo, after they rip off the oilpan you can follow them home by the fluid trail.
ReplyDeleteIn 1990, when a base-level compact car sold for $9k, the estimated repair cost for a trashed condenser, radiator, fascia and transmission pan was $2300.
DeleteIn models built after 2015ish, you can add a computer behind the right-front headlamp which can run $2200 all buy itself and the other parts + labor are at least 3X the 1990 costs. Costs go up to the point of totalling most vehicles if driving without coolant "lunched" the engine (about five miles in most cases).
Oh...and oil and transmission cooler lines...
DeleteTrigger Treats
ReplyDeleteI like the way you think. I hope the sign and blocks are set back sufficiently from the highway ROW.
ReplyDeleteIndeed. If they're on he county verge and someone hits them, you're gonna be on the hook for the consequence. Hell; a neighbor of mine who had a corner plot got tired of people "trenching" his lawn and driving across it to cut the corner. He put in hedges. Someone ploughed through the hedges and again trenched his lawn. He replaced the hedges and placed bowling ball-sized hunks of granite behind them. The next person who tried to trench is lawn ended up losing both his oil pan and transmission pan. When the sheriff showed up he took my neighbor aside and told him that setting "traps" like that ON HIS OWN PROPERTY was illegal, and that if the perp knew that, he could hold my neighbor to account. You can't make this shit up! 'Course, the sheriff never did enlighten the moron driver to this... Just be aware of your local laws... And the neighbor? He put BIGGER hunks of granite behind the hedges...
DeleteWaaaaay down south of you, hard up against the Rio Grande River (border with Mexico) in Starr county, I saw a lot of Trump - Vance signs hung along the road and on fences. This is a traditionally hard Blue voting location, but these farmers - ranchers know what illegal immigration does to them personally. They have to repair - replace the damages done by these 'travelers'. Visiting their own properties after dark is a dangerous activity.
ReplyDeleteThis did not happen during Trump 2016 - 2020 campaigns, but Trump made some friends since then. That is saying something.