Crash Course

[wolf]

Glad you're okay, Rich.

Is there a new sport of annoying people in the snow?

I was driving home last night, after midnight, and some dumbass came up behind me, insisted on tailgating (which annoys me at the best of times, and really pisses me off in the snow) and keeps laying on his fucking horn the entire time he was behind me. Not "my horn is broken and it's blowing all the time" ... it wasn't a constant sound. He was clearly hitting it and letting off on occasion.

Because I judged him to be unpredictable, I even blew a red light.

I never blow red lights.

Slide through on yellow from time to time, but never red.

[Beestie]

Originally Posted by wolf

...and some dumbass came up behind me, insisted on tailgating

I thought of an invention once to deal with that. There would be a switch in the car that, when flipped, would crank up a thing mounted underneath and to the rear of the car that would emit (massive quantities of) essence of skunk such that their air intake would gulp it in before they had time to figure it out and turn off the heater/AC.

No harm but plenty foul.

Snow tailgaters are the worst.

[Troubleshooter]

Originally Posted by Beestie

I thought of an invention once to deal with that. There would be a switch in the car that, when flipped, would crank up a thing mounted underneath and to the rear of the car that would emit (massive quantities of) essence of skunk such that their air intake would gulp it in before they had time to figure it out and turn off the heater/AC.

No harm but plenty foul.

Snow tailgaters are the worst.

My mechanic and I designed a Spyhunteresque smoke-screen that would only take about $30 and an hour of time (with the right tools) to install.

Take a generic wiper-fluid resevoir, mount the fluid pump to it, hang the tank of the fire-wall, run the power and the switch and then tap a fluid fitting into your exhaust manifold. Fill the resevoir with brake fluid. When necessary, a one or two second burst should generate enough smoke (which incidentaly causes a tremendous headache) to dissuade such close pursuit.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Originally Posted by Troubleshooter

My mechanic and I designed a Spyhunteresque smoke-screen that would only take about $30 and an hour of time (with the right tools) to install.

You better feed that into the exhaust AFTER the catalytic converter.
Or you can feed freon into the intake manifold and produce phosgene gas. heh heh heh

Southbound I-95, just south of Philadelphia, according to the TV news, some sort of truck wiped out two of the big overhead signs. Now these signs are mounted on a "sign bridge" that straddles all 5 southbound lanes and must be 18 ft in the air. Just before them, 95 goes under Stewart ave with a normal 16ft clearance, so the "truck" got on at Stewart with a really high load or something magical happened.
The only other thing I could think of is a dump truck, maybe a salt truck, tilted the bed up while he was moving. oops.