ExiledInIllinois

Not everyone... Sheesh... Where do I begin: "...You can get just so much from a good thing You can linger too long in your dreams Say goodbye to the oldies but goodies 'Cause the good ole days weren't always good And tomorrow ain't as bad as it seems..."

They say the Finnish national identity and concept of "SISU" has really no literal English equivalent... But holy crap, this came very close! Balls in this case is SISU! "Sisu is extraordinary determination in the face of extreme adversity, and courage that is presented typically in situations where success is unlikely."

Stalin was on Hitler's left. Putin has moved to the right.

That nasty socialist pig. 😕

"America First"... The Firsters is straight out of the 1930s... They are the Charles Lindberghs, Henry Fords, and Joe Kennedy's that wanted to align and appease Hitler and the fascists. The fascists are the Putin's and Xi's today hybridized 30 years strong from old communists... I mean knock Hillary all you want, she was right 10 years ago when she said the GOP all they want to do is roll the clock back to 1929 for a conservative "do-over."

Yup... Like they busted Blago. Yet... How would Secret Service have reacted? They'd have to honor the bust, right?

Those damn commies are celebrating!

What do you call a broken escalator? -Stairs

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What do you call an artsy pumpkin? 🎃 ...An avant-gourd!

The Devon Levi story... Not sure if posted yet: https://www.trainwrecksports.com/from-dollard-to-buffalo-the-devon-levi-story/

Hope the photographer was in the passenger seat. 😏

As automatics progressed, they are quicker and more efficient than manuals, especially off-roading. I think the paddle shifters just make it "clutchless"... Well at least with your left foot. So you can take the RPMs up and shift when you want to. Rev matching when you downshift is pretty cool. BUT... Manuals better when fording through water...

^^^There's a tunnel behind that sexy Putin poster. It leads to a shitpipe. Someone cap the other end...

I taught my son... Has the, got him the 2014 Cooper S 9 years ago when the new bigger style Cooper came out... Still going strong. The nice thing is, nobody else could drive it when he went to school. 6 speed with rev-matching. Really cool feature. Has hill assist. On a hill, you got 2 seconds to get from the brake to the clutch before rolling backwards. Ooops! 😆

"Well, ain't this place a geographical oddity. Two weeks from everywhere!"

How does a faulty wheel bearing on a train overheat to 250° over the ambient air temp while chugging down the Eastern Ohio Road... 🤔 Is it safe to drink and shower with the water in town. I guess the guy in white pickup took the Norfolk Southern approach to maintaing their vehicle. Hey... It happens. 😏

1988: 😆... "What does that matter? Tell that to the bank."

Oh my...😆

Yup... Not sure if they were knobby swampers. Maybe drowned out the wear noise... YET... Really? Yikes. That truck has some explaining to do. I mentioned my bad drive shaft u-joint grinding every time I hit a bumper or clunker when shifting to reverse... Slop progressively getting worse... I never thought it would blow wide open though. But it did!

It was a KIA... Amazing what those Korean gymnasts can do! 😉 Buckled in! Or the driver is gonna be a rag doll in vehicle!

Like I said, it may not have influenced... But it was definitely an illegal ride without fender/flare coverage over the tread. Coverage is for stones and other things like riding up on another vehicle, etc... BUT even if coverage blunts the blow of the wheel-tire coming off, does that give the KIA or whoever an extra second to get by? Just dumb luck being there I suppose. But who knows. Older truck, older axles... Those big wide tires do put stress on axles. We don't know, but there had to be warning sound. Amazing the vehicle with dashcam was so close and didn't get caught up in it. Same with the rest of traffic coming to a grinding halt. Years ago on I94, coming home from work... Co worker ahead of me. A tire came off in opposing lanes and bounced over the Jersey Wall, in front of us and then right over the top of us both as we zoomed forward!

It's plain to see the pick-up was negligent with the set up of their rig: I have my theory too. Dumb luck, wrong place at wrong time. BUT... The pick-up truck driver should be held liable. You see it all the time... People breaking the law... IMO, which didn't cause the tire to fly off but MAY have added to the situation... Here's why: The truck appears to have over-sized tires that may have caused, from stress on the hub/axle, to finally give way. That's NOT against the law, but don't quote me on it... FWIW, I think all state motor vehicle codes have on their books that tires need full fender coverage. IE: NOT protruding out beyond the fender OR flare. This white truck definitely doesn't have its tires under full fender/flare coverage. I hope someone looks at this and sees that truck was illegally modified. Maybe the flare would have blunted the blow?? There are reasons for these laws... Just nobody thinks they are important when looking "cool." https://www.wranglerforum.com/threads/california-tire-fender-law.91510/ "I had to go down to the CHP office and they gave me a hand drawn diagram showing what was required, as it is not shown on the net or even in their CVC books. The flares must cover the tread, not the sidewall. Your mud flaps will need to cover the tread down to the horizontal centerline of the tire, in other words, you can eyeball a straight line from the center (hub) of the front tire to the center of the rear tire extending past the rear bumper. The flaps must go to at least this level." ALSO: Was the truck driver using wheel spacers that allowed them to fit those over-sized wheels/tires on to vehicle? Who knows how many lug nuts were in service on that wheel. Whole bunch of factors why an axle goes like that... And just a quick look, it appears things were modified on that truck. You see it all the time... People tooling around in these absurd rigs on the street. The white truck here wasn't too absurd, but it was clearly in violation. IMO, that makes it liable more than a freak act of God. And, I don't really buy act of God. The warning signals were there, the pick-up drive was just ignoring them. I dropped a drive shaft on my Jeep at highway speeds. I knew for a whole year the u-joint was going... Just too cheap to fix it... Until it blew over a bump at 55mph. A Jeep TJ's drive shaft is only the length of my forearm, but it would have sucked had someone behind me hit it as it came off.

Wait a second... How do you even remember? 😉😜 J/K...