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[–] [email protected] 66 points 6 days ago (6 children)
[–] bcgm3 34 points 6 days ago (1 children)

But why think of others or move your body unnecessarily when you could just buy a truck large enough to crush all other objects in the roadway?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] AngryCommieKender 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

What type of milage does it get?

0 city, 1 highway.

[–] Glifted 24 points 5 days ago

Many Americans are physically unable to do this

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago (1 children)

So many people don't know how to use their side mirrors

[–] badbytes 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

TIL, side mirrors, on newer cars, fold both directions. I often adjust them to assist incompetent drivers.

[–] redisdead -1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

I was once walking on a pedestrian path when a car parked in front of me. I told them that foot path were not, in fact, parking spots.

The guy told me he was a nurse and he had a job and I could walk around his car and stop being a little bitch and then he left.

So I smashed both wing mirrors of his Mercedes. Hope he made enough in this visit to cover the cost.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Guys a prick but you overreacted

[–] redisdead 0 points 15 hours ago

Nah. This is the only language these cunts understand: consequences.

If everyone smashed their shit every time they parked like idiots, they'd think twice before doing it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (4 children)

As a Dutch person. We don't do this. We just look in the mirror.

Question to the Americans. If you crash into that door is that a liability case? I would thing litigation wise the car driver is liable, am I right?

[–] lettruthout 8 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Maybe relevant: As I was driving my car into a parking space, the guy in the next car over suddenly opened the driver's side door. It happened so quickly no human could have stopped in time. At first his insurance tried to blame me, but my insurance pointed out that he was at fault because he opened his door into traffic. He paid for damages.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

That is relevant.

[–] kreskin 4 points 4 days ago

Question to the Americans. If you crash into that door is that a liability case?

it is, except both people willl sue each other.

[–] SkunkWorkz 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Yeah but back passenger seats have no mirror. As a Dutch person I have taught my kids to do the reach.

[–] bitchkat 2 points 4 days ago

When I was in school, a guy in a car hit me riding my bike in a parking lot. He tried seeing me (my parents more correctly). He ended up paying for my first year of college. It wasn't that much money, this was a long time ago.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

Thank you for sharing this! I took my test years ago and never learned this.