DOJ sues eBay for selling ‘rolling coal’ devices; fines could hit $2 billion [article]
DOJ sues eBay for selling ‘rolling coal’ devices; fines could hit $2 billion [article]
Rolling coal is the practice of tampering with a vehicle's emissions control system, causing it to spew black clouds of sooty exhaust.
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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?
Take a bunch of white dudes with no personality or interests of their own and expose them to manipulative content and ideas presented in a "cool" way and BAM this is what you get.
I target liberals every day yet an electric car triggers me to the point of needing to kill off the off the only planet we have by burning more diesel at its highest cost in decades.
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"
Basically their reasoning skills peaked at age 4
You've never been to Alberta
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.
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.
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.
The kops and the klan go hand in hand
Q: what did the cop say to the klansman?
A: https://twitter.com/JoshuaPHilll/status/1670260246416162816
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
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
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.
Both.
Most of them aren't inbred, they're just fairly well-to-do suburbanites or rich rural farm boys who have never experienced anything resembling hardship their entire life and therefore feel oppressed when they are asked to consider people other than themselves.
Pedophiles are genuinely the shittiest people you will ever interact with and they deserve nothing but to be [redacted oh my god so redacted]