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[–] [email protected] 72 points 11 months ago (7 children)

Rolling coal is the practice of installing a tampering device to pump more diesel into a vehicle’s engine than it can handle, leading it to spew out sooty black clouds of exhaust that pollute the air.

The practice is sometimes used as a form of anti-environmental protest. Coal rollers, or the drivers who engage in the action, may intentionally target Teslas, Priuses or other electric or hybrid vehicles.

Do people decide to be this awful out of the blue? Or is some genetic defect from being inbred?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

I'm not a psychologist but it sounds a bit like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reaction_formation - "You want me not to pollute so I pollute even more"

[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago

Basically their reasoning skills peaked at age 4

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Albertan here. Had a little Toyota truck in front of me the other day. I always liked those because my uncle had one. When the light turned green the modified exhaust spewed black smoke from a low exhaust point, nearly blinding me and smelling like hell. I wanna stick a potato in that exhaust pipe so bad.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago

Fuck those guys, seriously.
On more than one occasion, when it's been a nice day out we've went to go for a walk, some asshole spews black toxic fumes in our faces and drives away laughing.

[–] Lyricism6055 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

They fucking do this to me on my bike too. I don't even ride on the roads! It's only when I'm crossing the streets that I see cars

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

All the fucking time but fortunately I have my ulock in a sleeve within reach and can take out their rear views as needed or window for more deserving assholes

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

Out of the blue. Was driving through Norfolk a few years ago and this ford pickup decided to roll coal several times in the I-64 tunnels between Newport News and Norfolk. Dude blacked out the entire tunnel multiple times and they were clearly trying to cause a major accident. I follwed the sonofaremoved to get his plates and tried to call the highway police number but the lady on the other end refused to listen (kept pretending i was talking about normal exhaust shit) and started threatening me for reporting it.

[–] snekerpimp 5 points 11 months ago

It’s evidently the mating call of the redneck, signaling to potential mates that they may have a micro-penis, but they have enough money to pay for plastic surgery, the holy grail of rednecks.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago