I went to a funeral recently, and a guy shows up in a Challenger. He decides it's a good idea to lay rubber in the funeral home parking lot as the mourners are arriving, and does a 10' long burnout.
Who does that E36 M3?
(To be clear, this wasn't some kind of sendoff salute to a guy that would appreciate it. It was his ex-wife's father.)
Sometimes it's hard to enjoy cars when some guys can be such dicks.
He was a dick long before he bought a Challenger.
My theory for everything is that the 5% ruin it for everybody else. I own a kart track and I remember all the bad drivers and it makes me think there are so many bad drivers but the fact is that 1 in 20 is a problem. I suspect this 1 in 20 number more or less applies to many other things like 1 in 20 people toss their garbage out the window of the car, 1 in 20 drives slowly in the left lane, 1 in 20 talks during a movie, etc.
I remind myself that they are dicks who use cars to express their dickitude, not car guys.
Of course, this is not the way other people see it, but I take solace that most of them realized that they can be an even bigger dick with a lifted F-350 on worn out low profile "mud" tires than they can be in an Integra or a Firebird.
Are dicks naturally attracted to Challegers/Chargers?
Or are Challengers/Chargers specifically designed to attract dicks?
Appleseed said:Are dicks naturally attracted to Challegers/Chargers?
Or are Challengers/Chargers specifically designed to attract dicks?
Call it convergent evolution. They are cheap cars that are good burnout machines because they are nose heavy, make a lot of power, and have cruddy suspension. Not too many people track or autocross them, and the only time I saw one at the drag strip, it was owned by an older gentleman who seemed put off when I did not know if the magazines tested his particular car as being faster or slower than a Mustang, and this information seemed to be vital to his well-being.
I include "sideshows" in that category, because there's a time and place for such things, and taking over intersections isn't it. There's something wrong with me when I just shrug as a donut-doing car sends a bunch of people flying. It should be a lesson in responsibility but instead they often get upset at the driver... okay. Yes, it only takes a few to ruin it for everyone else, usually resulting in many otherwise needless laws.
Appleseed said:Are dicks naturally attracted to Challegers/Chargers?
Or are Challengers/Chargers specifically designed to attract dicks?
anecdotal evidence- 100% of the car chases on live PD are chargers.
In reply to Mndsm :
We had a car chase end in our little town last week......
It was a Kia Soul....we all know what shiny happy people drive those.
It's evolution.
The Chrysler 300 was the douchenozzle car-of-choice but they've gotten older now and have stepped up to the Charger or Challenger.
Still have the vape pen, white sunglasses and flat brim though.
I think it's because Chrysler finance will lend money to anyone, same as HD finance. Dirtbags will miss a mortgage payment before they miss a toy payment.
At least they put your 392 credit score on the fender for everyone to see.
In reply to DeadSkunk (Warren) :
Perhaps an "easily stolen" Kia.
SV reX said:It was his ex-wife's father.
I can't say that I know the couple's current relationship or the offender's relationship with the deceased, but...
Primarily, this would be her grieving event (the passing of her father) and it would have been wise for the offender to have been on his best behavior. I think it is this that says the most about the offender's character.
DeadSkunk (Warren) said:In reply to Mndsm :
We had a car chase end in our little town last week......
It was a Kia Soul....we all know what shiny happy people drive those.
Yea but look at the dick in the blacked out charger just hardparked in the middle of the street. Wouldnt you run from that dude too?
John Welsh said:In reply to DeadSkunk (Warren) :
Perhaps an "easily stolen" Kia.
It was stolen, from Ohio !
John Welsh said:SV reX said:It was his ex-wife's father.
I can't say that I know the couple's current relationship or the offender's relationship with the deceased, but...
Primarily, this would be her grieving event (the passing of her father) and it would have been wise for the offender to have been on his best behavior. I think it is this that says the most about the offender's character.
Couldn't agree more. Especially since dumbE36 M3 was wanting to buy her father's house from her when it was all over.
Price went up $15K
I'm surprised he showed up at the funeral period. Why would his ex wife want to sell him her fathers house at all?
In reply to docwyte :
He lives on the property. (And was supposedly friends with the father)
It's always been assumed he would buy it.
ShawnG said:It's evolution.
The Chrysler 300 was the douchenozzle car-of-choice but they've gotten older now and have stepped up to the Charger or Challenger.
Still have the vape pen, white sunglasses and flat brim though.
I think it's because Chrysler finance will lend money to anyone, same as HD finance. Dirtbags will miss a mortgage payment before they miss a toy payment.
At least they put your 392 credit score on the fender for everyone to see.
I'm actually old enough to remember when it was '70 - '74 E-bodies that attracted the douch nozzles. Could be why they're so rare now - the car. There's no shortage of scum bags. It seems Mopar is the time honored go to for the miscreant set
I joined a colleague halfway through a work trip two weeks ago. His rental car was a Dodge Charger. I made him exchange it. Yep - we got a Kia Soul!
Continuing the thread drift - I enjoy the Kia Soul with four flat/missing tires nosed into the curb. But why is the cop car on the flatbed? Following too close with the tire spikes?
And without knowing the full story, I'm as usual wondering "Why does this need five police cars at this point?" Good time to rob a bank at the other end of town...
Speaking of "sideshows"... https://news.yahoo.com/video-driver-arrested-doing-donuts-044856947.html
I come from a motorcycle-racing family, and that's a group that has significantly more image issues than car guys. There was an amazing incident that my dad took me to. It was at the Cow Palace Arena in South San Francisco. They had a series of Speedway races after which Evel Knievel jumped a bunch of cars. Knievel jumped the cars, then rode over to where a group of 20 or so Hells Angels were hanging out, got off his bike, said something along the lines of "You guys make it hard on all of us" and slugged one of them. Of Course the Angels then jumped Knievel, and in turn hundreds of motorcycle guys from the crowd turned on the Hells Angels. It was pure melee and remarkable that nobody got killed a la Altamount - which was just a month earlier, so a lot of people were pissed off at the HA.
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=763673967941352
Well, if you want inappropriate at a funeral just think back to Tony George showing up at Scott Brayton's funeral in the Viper GTS pace car.....
DeadSkunk (Warren) said:In reply to Mndsm :
We had a car chase end in our little town last week......
It was a Kia Soul....we all know what shiny happy people drive those.
Big Hamsters?
DeadSkunk (Warren) said:In reply to Mndsm :
We had a car chase end in our little town last week......
It was a Kia Soul....we all know what shiny happy people drive those.
*looks out at Kia Soul in driveway*
I don't think I'd try to run from a bicycle driving the Soul.
loosecannon said:My theory for everything is that the 5% ruin it for everybody else. I own a kart track and I remember all the bad drivers and it makes me think there are so many bad drivers but the fact is that 1 in 20 is a problem. I suspect this 1 in 20 number more or less applies to many other things like 1 in 20 people toss their garbage out the window of the car, 1 in 20 drives slowly in the left lane, 1 in 20 talks during a movie, etc.
I used to give people more credit, but I am aligning more and more with this outlook.
Sadly a significant number of that 5% are just obnoxious shiny happy people that use whatever tools they have on hand to maximize obnoxious shiny happy personness. V8 RWD things are a common tool (Charger, Challenger, Mustang, Pickup truck), as are boats, guns, motorcycles, fireworks, basically anything that can produce some amount of smoke and lots of noise.
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