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Crime: Slow moving vehicles on main roads during rush hour.
I live in the countryside and tractors, backhoes, harvesters and front lifts, which are all restricted to 30 or 50 km/h, have no business on the main roads during rush hour. Take the back roads or wait until rush hour's over!
It's not uncommon to see the following at 0750, and we're about 15minutes from everything here, a tractor pulling some equipment followed by two semis that are too slow in acceleration to overtake, and too big to squeeze by, followed by 50 or 70 cars of people screaming.
Theoretically slow moving vehicles have to pull over and let the queue behind them pass, but too many don't.
Punishment: I propose that we legalize lynching to some degree. I mean the fear of a roadside beating by a mob armed with travel mugs and fistful of small change, that's sure to keep some of the problem at bay. Further I propose that should the miscreant die from the beating, then nobody should be charged. Unless someone brought larger items like snow shovels or tire irons to the party, in which case the snow shovel wielder could be charged with involuntary manslaughter.
Cringey Boomer-esque joke about murdering people simply cause inconvenience.
Cringey gen z'er calling everyone older than them self boomers
Cringey boomer-esque guy doesn't understand the esque suffix.
That sounds more like an infrastructure problem to me, your anger might be a bit misdirected. If reasonable transport isn't available you should be angry at your local government instead, if it is available and you choose not to use it then it's a problem of your own making and you should be angry at yourself. You really can't blame someone for using the infrastructure available to move heavy equipment since it's almost certainly not their fault that you're stuck using the same road.