“Have the kids tried growing” - MAGAcuck
TBF we’re rapidly approaching an idiocracy situation, so maybe killing children is a mercy. (/s in case it’s not abundantly obvious)
We must raise them even higher in order to not discriminate against children.
Look; kids need to be killed. It’s easier if you don’t need to see them.
Are you going to tell me americans shouldn’t cull the weak? That we shouldn’t be americans?
Gotta love American exceptionalism … and then when other countries copy the U.S., you kinda gotta facepalm.
And when they don’t copy fast enough? Believe it or not, trade war.
These haven’t really invaded New Zealand yet, but I walked past a parked one once and the bonnet came up to my shoulders - I’m six foot tall.
These… things are a “clear threat” to fully-grown adults. They’re well beyond that for children.
Oh, they’re here. Our parking spaces aren’t big enough for American cars, so they park as far back as the curb will let them – you can see their towballs lining the paths like tripmines.
Gor a chuckle out of a ‘ute’ with the empty bed pulling a trailer with the tradie’s gear in it though. Awww, your two-cab lifestyle ute’s open bed too small for a 2x4 there buddy?
Don’t run over children?
The point is that you can’t see if you’re running over a child due to the height of the Overcompensator 4000.
You would have to come up with a very mental gymnast type of theory for this to make it an everyday reality, all I see is a driver seeing the road ahead, driving, a child runs into the road, the parent (S) responsible for the child did not look after the child’s safety. Your reaction was too slow. What else is there to say?
Lemme try - you drive one of these things up to a streetlight, with a crosswalk. Busy downtown street, large number of pedestrians on the sidewalks. It’s a red light, so you stop and wait for your turn. Plenty of pedestrians make use of the crosswalk.
Now the light turns green. How can you be certain everyone’s cleared the crosswalk, and there’s nobody in front of you? After all, you can’t see the ground for several yards in front of your truck! Can you be certain nobody slipped and fell? No kids got away from their parents? Nobody in a wheelchair is struggling with a pothole? You might be pretty sure you’ve accounted for everyone, but you’re literally risking someone else’s life on this “pretty sure” every time you go through one of these lights!
It’s usually driveways and right on reds. You pull up to the light on your Brodozer Yosemite edition, with the big knobbly tires, factory lift kit, and the (man)hood extension. It’s a red light and you want to make a right, because every second you spend behind the wheel of your 110k overgrown minivan alternative, not driving up the ass of the Kia Pimento in front of you fills you with murderous rage. You look right, and there are no visible people, look left, and there is a 1 second gap in trafficking, a perfect amount of space for your extended crew-cab single occupant truck to jam in. You floor it and crank the wheel around 4 times to full lock. You don’t even feel it as all 9500lbs of your truck crushes the life out of 2 teens who waited for the pedestrian symbol before walking their bikes across the road. You didn’t see them because looking from the driver’s seat, over the 6ft long and 6ft high hood puts your minimum view distance of 2 kids at 22ft away. Looks like you’re gonna be late to pick up your order of Crocs and socks from JCP at the mall.
What a weird hill to die on.
What hill?
You have given no counter argument.
This is what happens when politicians create laws and never revisit them to make corrections. Im a pretty tall person and i was on a dealship lot walking amongst the trucks and the amount of them I couldn’t even see over was terrifying. How much bigger do these need to get before they start classifying them as big rigs?
In the US? I don’t think there is a width or height requirement for a Big Rig (something that requires a CDL). Vehicles cannot be over 102 inches wide, any anything over 80 inches wide requires some additional marker lights. Height, anything up to about 13 feet is fine and legal. Maximum length is 65 feet. CDL’s are generally for certain weight limits, (26000 lbs) not physical dimensions.
As an adult I can attest to some vehicles being way too damn high up for their own good. I’m slightly below average height for my area and while out shopping I walked by a truck with a grill that came up above my height. If the driver was in and decided to get rolling, there would definitely have been a good chance of I was directly in front of it that I’d be in the hospital.
If the drive would be unable to see me when I’m right up against the grill, a small child would probably stand no chance a few feet away. The people with vehicles like that definitely should to stop stroking their 1mm peter like it’s a 2 footer and think of other people’s safety.
No shit?
Regards
The rest of the world
Unfortunately this is not only a UK problem. Most SUVs as you find them all around the world are bigger threats to humans of all ages…
I dunno, I think the Yanks still outdo us.
Let’s play a game of “Most children deaths”! Let’s see who will win tonight? Will it be cars, or guns!?
ICE waiting backstage looking for someone to hold their beer
I drive a normal sized pickup and almost every day I come out of work I have that freakout moment where I think my car has been stolen because it is 100% completely hidden behind one of these kid killers some other person keeps parking next to my pickup.
Trucks don’t need to be that big. Half of them have extended cabs and shortened beds, which kind of kills the point of having a pickup truck. The full bed for hauling shit is the whole point.
Also, why would you condemn yourself to the pain of parking one of those wherever you go?
Also, they kill children.
The full bed for hauling shit is the whole point.
Why not get a van though? You get much more carrying space that can also be converted into enough passenger space so that it’s basically a bus.
Half of them have extended cabs and shortened beds,
Somebody correct me if I’m wrong, but I think it’s literally all of them at this point. Aside maybe from fleet sales and other special cases like that, I don’t think there are any pickup truck models in the US that are actually available with a regular cab anymore.
(The Slate truck is supposedly going to be regular cab, but it doesn’t count because it’s not out yet.)
Imported Kei trucks have the same bed length as the newest F150, if not a little longer.
I miss the days when single cab pickup trucks were the norm. Because that meant not only smaller trucks, but also the sacrifice of passenger space discouraged people from getting them unless they actually needed one.
pipi small, but wroom wroom big
I read bonnet as bayonet and thought we had a mad Max apocalypse
My favorite part about this is that many of these Sherman tank drivers come speeding behind me and then when they’re a car’s length from me, veer over into another lane, leaving the car behind them(who had been matching their speed) with the nasty little surprise of my car, which had been completely invisible to them a second ago.
They do that shit on purpose to piss off the car behind them for daring to “tailgate”. I’ve had former friends and family who brag about it.
Literally putting a random person’s life on the line for a small bit of petty revenge at a perceived slight.
Old sedans for the win
