ProTip: you can easily deflate a car's tires by placing a small pebble in the valve cap before screwing it back on
I used to condone this, but people are stupid and can drive on the flat tire until it explodes, potentially putting other peoples lives at risk.
Not worth it for some petty revenge.
That's why you gotta do all four.
Can take hours to fully deflate, they could be on the Highway home by the time they go flat enough to be noticeable.
Hmmm you seem to know a little too much about this lol
Maybe I’ve had someone have this happen to them and the tire exploded and hurt an innocent bystander. It’s a large world.
The possibility is there if you think for more than a few seconds on the possible consequences of something.
Or we're just having a little fun ribbing on the internet?
Didnt need life advice lol but thanks
You might think that this is clearly a joke. That no one would actually do this. But you don't know how the people at the other keyboards are going to take it. Case in point.
I know people that had this happen to them. They got lucky.
Some people are disgusting.
Sorry they lack commonsense then
Yes… the vast majority of people lack common sense… hence why I had to make my comment condemning it…
I guess you could leave a sticky note on driver's window that says something like "oopsie woopsie I noticed your tires are deflated, this car is unsafe to drive :(". Also you could just unscrew the valve core to make sure tires deflate quickly.
No no no, gotta be worse than that. Leave a note apologizing for the damage. There is no damage. They’ll be looking for hours
I like it. A note that says, "I thought I could squeeze in but there wasn't enough room. Sorry about the damage." Might make them reconsider doing this again.
I had a student do that. Just a post-it note that said “Sorry for the damage :(“. It was a kid that I wouldn’t have expected to play a prank like that, too: very quiet and reserved.
Well, that guy is clearly a massive prick, but let's also talk about how fucking ugly that truck is. I don't know when everyone decided that land yacht pickup trucks were the bees knees, but they're not. They're just dumb and so. goddamn. ugly.
You mean their Emotiional Support Truck.
Pavement princess
Also partly responsible for an increase in pedestrian fatalities.
There is a lot of anger, frustration, and unacknowledged insecurity going into vehicle purchases in the US.
I agree. The amount of unrequited hate is disturbing.
There is a lot of anger, frustration, and unacknowledged insecurity going in the US.
FTFY
No argument here. The wasteful and dangerous vehicles are just a minor symptom of our cultural issues.
For real dude, there's no decent sized mid sized pickups anymore. I drove my '99 dodge Dakota forever and loved the size! It even had a V8 compared to most of the newer land yachts with 4 bangers and v6s.
I don't need a block on wheels, I just need a smaller pickup because I camp and haul shit enough to justify needing one vs a car or suv.
So, I don't know if it's still an issue but I know the whole land yacht thing started because of emissions standards. The US used to (they might still) set emissions standards based on wheel base rather than vehicle type. The larger the wheel base the looser the emissions standards. The thought was that vehicles that needed a larger wheelbase like large work trucks would always have higher emissions so they wanted to take that into account. But what actually happened is manufacturers just started making larger and larger vehicles to take advantage of the more lax emissions standards.
I think the wheelbase based emissions standards thing has been fixed now, but I don't know where I heard that so it might even still be a thing.
If you look at actual comparable bed length and cab type, you realise that outside of height, truck dimensions haven't increased that much (especially not compared to car sizes, ex.: the mk6 Jetta is the size of the Passat from 10 years prior).
Buy an Aussie import ute. They're exactly what you want and not common in the US so you have a fashion statement.
Last I'd checked, it was virtually impossible to import non-DOT-approved cars to the US. You basically had to take them apart and then assemble them here as "kit cars" to get around stupid grey market rules.
You can either bring in a 25 year old one, or rebody a local Chevy SS or Pontiac G8 with a ute shell.
I know; it's so easy it's a wonder we don't see more of them!
Haha never seen these things before. Reminds me of an El Camino, but trying to be a sports car instead of America muscle upfront.
Got it in one, they're an Australian icon. It's like the reverse mullet of cars, party in the front, business in the back.
That's why I got the Honda Ridgeline. It is basically a Honda Pilot with a bed. Small by truck standards but is great for someone that just needs to haul stuff in the suburbs and will never take it off-road. I don't get all the people around here that think they need a lifted full sized truck to drive to work on city streets everyday.
I had a '93 F150 for a few years. It was a v8 5.8L with an extended bed. Until... I let my friend borrow it and he... redlined it for several miles in first gear, (accidentally put it in 1st gear instead of into drive, and didn't noticed the extremely loud engine and the fact that he couldn't go over 20mph... yes, he is that stupid lmao) until it began smoking and he pulled it into a random driveway. And then as if that weren't bad enough, the genius homeowner popped the hood and hosed down the engine which, if you know anything about cars or metal, was the dumbest thing he could've done. Cracked up the whole thing. 😭
But that thing was a fucking beast man. These new trucks can't even fit a fucking 2x4 or a sheet of OSB in the bed. They are useless.
I drove an '04 Dakota for years (last year of that body style before they started making them bigger). Loved that truck, perfect size for camping or hauling band equipment.
Sucks that the mid-sized trucks now are bigger that the full-sized trucks from back then.
Safety regulations has a lot to do with it too. They have to squeeze in airbags and all the safety tech which would leave no room to sit in that older Dakota.
Just check the bed. If there’s a liner, chances are the truck is needed. If it’s clean, it’s a vanity truck.
I own a 350 and am very aware of just how big this truck is. But I do need the pulling power for work related things. I’ve also used it to help people that have broken down.
I haven't seen a new truck without a bed liner in decades. I apparently thought they were standard equipment.
If you need one, you need one, but I'm confident that a tiny percentage of these things are used for actual work. Also: still ugly. Sorry.
Yeah, not standard. And I guess if they’re that common where you are then check the wear of the liner. Like another commenter said, they get fucked up pretty quickly. It’s easy to tell if a truck is vanity or not just by looking at the bed. I’ve called people out for driving them. It’s especially humiliating for the guys because I’m a woman.
I also appreciate that you’re confident in your assessment without actually talking to any of those people. Assuming just makes an ass out of u and me.
As someone who lives in Texas and every other vehicle in the road is an oversized pickup, fuck em.
They drive worse faster the douchy chargers/mustangs and somehow manage to use their blinker less often than a BMW driver.
I haven't seen a new truck without a bed liner in decades.
Plenty of 'em out there homie. I bought a used DMax in 2019 and despite being a Denali edition it didn't come with a bedliner, just a rubber mat for the floor. I should have had one sprayed in when I got the truck because my box is now beat to shit.
I think all the previous owner did with it was tow a horse trailer.
I drive 3/4 or one ton trucks for work. They suck to drive. You feel every bump, they sway on corners or with wind, and parking is a nightmare. I have no idea why somebody would drive them around for vanity.
I piss off my teenage son all the time using the outlander sport I bought for him. For driving around town it's awesome.
Yeah that sounds about right. My liner is already marked up and I've had it since March lol. I haul large items almost daily for work.
So you have it from work and also use it privately?
No, they own the truck for work.
Right. Not wealthy enough to have separate vehicles for personal and work
At least you get to write the cost of your vehicle off on your taxes, unlike everyone else.
My DMax is a pretty truck but the beat to crap box, without bedliner, is under a tonneau cover so you can't see it. Another thing you can do is check the receiver hitch, if it's scratched / rusty inside then you know its being used to tow something. 🙂
That would be the US EPA and whomever influenced them in the Carter administration to classify trucks as regulated differently than other passenger vehicles. It unironically financially encourages SUVs over vans and bigger bodied trucks over smaller ones.
It's killed the work truck, the small truck, and literal pedestrians.
Their intentions were fine at the time and it has resulted in average miles per gallon within their class going way up but it needs to be amended. The shifting of sales eats into any fuel efficiency gains. Regulate them the same as any passenger vehicle and give me my utility back.
I wish small pickups were still a thing
The Maverick is (comparatively) a small modern pickup. It's the whole reason I chose it. I always wanted a truck, but I absolutely detested how big and inefficient they were, so I never bothered. I had a Maverick come in for a remote start last year and got to look at it and I quite liked it, ended up ordering one of my own that same year.
Ford had new rangers on the lot when I was shopping for my truck
New rangers aren't that small. I really like the size of old rangers, colarados, Toyota Tacomas. Those were reasonably sized trucks meant for utility. Not for dick swinging contests and skirting EPA regulations.
I found it very small. Smaller than my mid size SUV I was replacing and I couldn't even get in the driver seat. But obviously ymmv
Don't be too hard on them, maybe this was all that was available when they pulled up.
Upvoting for the effort
And so the cycle continues..
When will it end?..
My favorite thing is to just leave a note that says, "I'm sorry about the scratch."
2nd option: "I saw who broke into your car. Call me at (leave fake #)"
is the rickroll number still operational?
God I hope so, what is it?
basically just a phone number you can call and it autoplays rickroll for you. i don't have it unfortunately, seen it ages ago and never wrote it down
778-330-2389 if it still works.
There's these too.. The UK one at least doesn't work.
New Zealand (09) 886 0565,
Australia +61 (03) 8652 1453,
United Kingdom +44 (117) 325 7425 and
US +1 (760) 706 7425.
In the old days, a friend of mine would carry some paper(?) stickers(?) (labels?) that said something like "I park like an asshole" and superglue it to one of the windows of someone parked like this.
If you wanted to be nicer, you could get some proper pre-printed stickers (most online print/sticker shops should have them) and place them. Wouldn't cause any damage but would maybe make them think about it a little bit.
I also saw a post recently where someone replaced all the tire valve caps with bright orange or pink little dick shaped caps. This would cause more inconvenience and embarrassment, but not be damaging or dangerous.
I knew a guy that had a roll of custom-printed "I park like a jackass" stickers. They weren't very large -- I think they were originaly labels for folders or something.
But they were on tamper-proof stickers, the kind that were metalic and broke into a bunch of tiny pieces when you tried to peel them off.
He'd slap two or three of them on the driver's side windshield and window out of the main line of sight, but you couldn't miss them when driving.
They're a pain in the ass to get off. I know, because he put one on my car that said, "I lick sweaty ballsacks".
That story took a quick turn haha
Well, is it true at least?
Of course not. If I'm going to gargle nuts, I require them be washed.
That's very reasonable
Wow what an asshole
Holy shit I just found penis tire caps on AliExpress, definitely buying some lol
Edit: I realized I don’t have the courage to actually do this to someone in public and risk getting caught, so I didn’t end up buying any, but they are readily available from your preferred discount app if anyone else wants to
Upvote for the honesty, rofl.
Haha, nice! Here, I found the post, in the old "R" site. I try to avoid posting stuff from there, but this is in the interest of science: https://i.redd.it/idl8jj50fg6b1.jpg
I guess they were red, not bright orange.
There's also a link to them on thingaverse somewhere if anyone has a 3d printer and wants to make them.
For those with the capacity, they can be printed also. Files are available in the usual places.
Get the stickers. Faster to apply and less worry about getting caught.
I have an STL somewhere for the penis valve caps.
Place a giant FTP sticker over half their rear license plate.
I’d put the i park like an asshole sign on the rear window where maybe they don’t notice it for a while.
Four of the best parking spots, too, judging by the handicap spaces nearby.
That's what gets me on these things. If you want to be a dick and make sure your car isn't hit go park or in the boonis! Nobody goes out there, don't have to worry about carts, take as many spots as you want! Shoot for a record of you want try to get 6! But why tf are you doing it in close parking spots?
They're purposefully doing it to be an ass, taking the close parking spots and causing more inconvenience 8s part of the point.
You can see on the next line over, there are a ton of empty spots right up front. This is probably some place that's not open to the public or whatever, or else they just have way more parking spots than they actually need.
I don’t actually mind this IF the person parks in the back of the lot. I get that they don’t want their precious hot wheels monster truck to get dinged, but as long as they park in the back of the lot where there’s no other cars, it’s fine. However, this person is clearly an asshole as there’s handicapped spots next to them, so they’re right up front taking spaces. It should be legal to vandalize their vehicle if a person does this.
Keying this car is a moral imperative.
Ah yes, the Categorical Imperative!
"Key only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time elude pursuement by the law." - Kant
My philosophy may be a little rusty...
it's universalizable. I'd be okay with someone keying my car if I purposely parked like an asshole, so it survives the ax murderer paradox
Same here but that sounds about right from what I can remember.
What a rookie. Could've taken six by parking sideways
Mildly?
This is what stonetoss fans fap to
Plot twist: he’s literally hiding in the back seat just jackin it
u aint wrong
My move lately has been to stand their windshield wipers up. You're not doing anything criminally damaging to their vehicle, but in my experience, anyone this self-important will be really bothered by the thought of some random person putting their dirty hands on their precious baby.
Trucks are generally excessive for most people anyways, them taking up 4 spots only compliments their mentality.
What I don't get is why they're built so bulky? It's not necessary. There's just a bunch of empty space under the hood.
EPA regulations are designed to encourage better gas mileage, but they are based on vehicle size. So instead of making more fuel efficient engines, auto makers realized they could just make bigger trucks with the same shitty engines to meet the guidelines.
Yay for government regulation
Most pickups in the size range offer multiple engines, with the bigger engines filling the space.
My f150 does not have much room under the hood, and it’s got the v6 eco line motor.
See that's the problem with you truck people; a V6 is considered weak in your world.
Meanwhile the V6 in my Genesis Coupe is fast enough to get me to 60 MPH in under 6 seconds. And unlike a truck, it can actually take a corner at speed.
Unless you're a farmer, there's no reason to own a truck. I even bought one once to see what the hype was all about; got rid of it after less than a year cause I was sick and tired of getting 18 MPG and not even having fun while doing it. If I'm going to get poor fuel economy, I should at least be able to go fast.
EDIT: I mean I get the "more practical" argument, but let's be honest with ourselves here: How often do you REALLY use the truck bed? With the money you're saving in gas by driving something smaller and more economical, you could easily afford to rent a truck each and every time you need to move something. You're literally spending twice as much as you need to in gas, just for those occasions where you might need to use the bed. A U-Haul is less than $100/day (inc. gas + mileage); you're spending more than that every time you fill up, when you could be saving over $50 each time at the pump. It's simple math.
Unless your family was killed by a truck salesman, there’s no reason to hate on truck owners.
What? I never said it was weak. It has a better pulling ability than the v8. You’re just making up fake arguments.
Also, my boat with trailer was 8500 lbs. Nothing but a truck can pull it effectively and safely.
I agree some people by trucks just to say they have one, but a pickup can be incredibly useful if it fits your lifestyle.
I mean you kinda implied it by saying it's one of the smallest engines for the truck. Sorry for jumping to conclusions.
For a huge amount of people they make perfect sense, if you can only have one vehicle and don't live somewhere where parking is an issue. It really is a all in one vehicle, Haul, tow, people mover (crew cabs) and 4wd for rough weather.
Comparing a sports car to a full size truck is idiotic, its like comparing a road bike to a mountain bike they are just different vehicles.
A van or minivan can do everything a pickup can while being safer, more fuel efficient, and smaller in profile. A van can carry more than a pickup truck can, both in passenger and cargo capacity, especially with the shrinking bed sizes of modern trucks. There is a reason farmers tend to hold on to older trucks. There are very few good reasons to go for a pickup truck over a van for the average person.
What???? I would never load the back of my van with gravel, mulch, top soil. The tractor couldn’t dump it in, and shoveling it out and cleaning it after are no where near the same.
That's where a pickup truck would indeed come in handy. But you can also just rent one for that purpose instead, or use a trailer.
You could rent someone to lay out anti-truck screeds on the internet and save your own time for sleeping or polishing your golf clubs
Yeah. So let's not paint the whole world one color. Just because it doesn't meet your needs, AND you simply don't like them, doesn't mean everyone else needs to be like you.
0 to 60 doesn't mean shit in a truck. Why did you buy one in the first place? Cornering at speed?? .. Not what trucks are meant to do. Why the hell would you buy one??
Glad you like your car. I'm sure it's nice. If you're getting 18 MPG, you've managed to accomplish what many late model trucks cannot... Get under 20mpg.
Disclosure: I own a 2003 F250. I don't park like the asshat did in the pic, and I don't care how fast my truck goes. I don't roll coal and I run biodiesel to reduce emissions.
People buy the cars they want. Bitching about people car choices is like bitching about people's food preferences. Putting the blame on people for super poor fuel efficiency standards is sort of more in line, but even then, the people who are supposed to make these changes from DC but fail to do anything keep getting reelected. I wouldn't want to buy a full sized pickup where I live, because I think it'd be a nightmare trying to park anywhere. But as long as there aren't extenuating variables (as in the truck pictured in this post), I let people do what they want.
You can be mad at the government's inaction and the consumers which support the market at the same time.
You can also recognize anger as a destructive emotion and save it for important problems.
Or I can be reasonably scornful at jackasses
surround it with carts
Zip-tie surround it with carts.
This is when you put a small pebble under each of the tire valve caps and screw them down tight enough to depress the spring, open the valve, and let the air out all of the tires
Hey Satan, how's it going?
A local business has any vehicle that does this towed by his cousins tow company. That company is 3 towns over about 50 miles. Guy has signs everywhere that warns anyone doing it. He still gets one or two a week.
Easy money doing the lord's work.
Moose sex pheromones. Hose the car down with them. Let nature take care of this one.
Yeah idk if that’s gonna help in PA lol. Deer maybe, but they aren’t gonna attack a car
Fly attractant on the tire?
Most wheels don’t have them anymore, but a great prank used to be to smash a fish behind someone’s hubcap.
New cars kinda took care of not making things removable or have things you can loop things through the handles.
However the potato salad under the door handle is still on the table
Tesla aero wheels have clip on hub caps/aero wheel covers. Pull to remove, you may need double sided tape to install the prawn (shrimp) heads
Renter upset at the land lord? Prawn heads in the cheap aluminium curtain rods on moving out day
Isn't that just a shit-filled bag?
hard to find that, but you can absolutely get a syringe full of deer piss between the window and the rubber stripping that's meant to keep the rain out of the door. doe-in-estrus urine is available at almost any outdoors shop, as hunters use it to attract bucks.
Magnetic wheel weights. Throw a few on the inside of his rim
What would this do?
Unbalance his wheels
This should be a felony
I have a full size truck and I agree. You don't want dents. Park all the way in the back in one spot or park on the street. This person can suck a bouncy castle full of dicks.
MILDLY infuriating?
More or less. It's extremely douchy behavior but only indirectly harms the person that took the photo, so mildly infuriating feels about right.
I’m more of a livid and get them towed mindset. Lol
Have fun with those heart attacks
This is a parking job screaming for a keying!
Nice truck, sorry about your dick!
I have to imagine this is actually going to make it MORE likely that this vehicle gets damaged.
Just not accidentally.
Looks like a perfect space for every lazy person to push their shopping cart into.
Cart Narcs will understand.
“Oops, shopping cart slipped right out of my hands.”
The driver is a very wide load and needs the space.
I guess there wasn't an EV charger available.
Is that the lightening?
No, they just like to park at EV chargers** to "own the libs".
No, that's a Toyota. I think OP was trying to say that the type of dickwad who would park like that is the same kind who would ICE an EV charge station
Yes.
I finally understand why you still have the death penalty.
Protip: pepper spray on door handles is a great way to sabotage a vehicle without damaging it.
That’s an invitation. He wants to be keyed.
How are there not visible key marks in the paint?
This is a job for 4 mini coopers!!
6 smart cars, all around
I hope someone with an old rust bucket parks in one of those driver spaces
Grab some zipties and two shopping carts. Ziptie the shopping carts to their door handles.
The handles probably have no where to loop around these days. But you’d still get the same effect just surrounding it with shopping carts like right up against it. Ding city and the whole town plays along.
A quick glance at the image shows that it's possible to do that there, there's enough room in the handles
A lot of handles are actual handles these days.. Including this truck.
Most people who park like that in a stupidly big vehicle, at least park far away so they're not stealing high frequency prime spots.
Seriously. The funny thing is actual work/farm trucks tend to do that, it's the pavement princesses that park like assholes.
Yeah, but not this asshole. Right next to the handicapped parking, which is as close to the building as you can get. Fucker.
Four spots
One asshole
Squeeze in right next to the driver's door so he can't get in
I drive a shitbox, I would definitely do that.
Keying the fuck out of this, every damn time....
I'm surprised it's not keyed all the days long.
de-stress. park in back and walk a little. for your health. driver has small dick energy and suffers
I park in the back during work, but I always end up with UPS and Amazon trucks parking next to me, and they leave their engine running the whole time that I'm eating lunch...
Time to draw and quarter that monstrosity.
Could'a been 6. Dudes a rookie.
Clearly needs a ring of shopping carts around it for additional protection
Zip tied together to make sure they don't roll away
Don’t you understand? He can’t risk any scratches on his pwecious wittle twuck
His pavement princess.
Dude's thinking he drives a flying car 💀
He's trying to play car roulette it seems :D
MICROPENIS
Are they a fire chief or something? See a firefighters emblem on the front plate. Barring an emergency still no excuse for parking like a dick though..
Clearly the parking space is too small, lets petition our gouvernment to increaste them, like a football field per car, or something like that... or else please use public transportation
Public transit ? What kind of filthy commie are you ? Why do you hate America's car manufacturers?
Easy fix, wire snips to the valve stem.
I've never considered this. This seems like a much safer way to "slash" a tire.
That car officially belongs to the first person who can hotwire it.
I doubt these trucks can be driven around in European or Asian roads. They seem so humongous. Even cargo vehicles which transport goods across the city are much smaller than these in India. Why are trucks so popular in the US? Does everyone haul things often? Are cargo trucks not rentable?
The US government's standards for fuel economy paradoxically push car manufacturers to make bigger vehicles. The few mid-size pickups still available are now as big as full size pickups once were.
It’s a cultural thing, mostly. Some people do work as contractors and need large truck beds though.
Doesn't even fill them all. Must be a compact truck. I'd still squeeze in with my car in front of him, across those two spots.
You see those white lines they parked over? Yeah, it would be funny if someone took some white masking tape and put it on the truck to look like they painted the parking lot lines over the truck...
Can't help but wonder how someone would react seeing that shit LOL!
It is my opinion that it should be legal to paint said stripes on someone's car if they park over the line. Should really hammer just how much of an asshole someone is if they have multitudes of stripes.
I hear ya there, but I try not to be quite that evil.
I would totally park as close as possible to this guy and make him have to go through the passenger side.
There's definitely room for a compact car on the truck's driver side. And if the compact is a hatchback then easy entry.
Absolutely this. Bonus points if it's a Prius.
"asserting dominance"
Love this kind of selfish .ssholes. Never understood also the need to drive these monstrous cars. Once oil will bounce back, we’ll see if these ´cars’ will still be out there…
And you know it took him half an hour to back the truck into that position.
Better revenge, line up a bunch of carts around the truck, so he has to move them all to get out.
How nice of them to leave the handicapped spot free.
Otherwise, a total asshole.
yall see wasted parking, I see next summer's heatwaves
we called those hillbilly hookup spots when i was little
"Look at this nice truck that I don't know how to drive!"
1 space is deliberate, 2 spaces is careless, 3 spaces is heartless, but 4 spaces is priceless
Eh! Truck ova here!!
Great way to get a tire slashed.
This screams hashtag - you park like an asshole!
I'll just key the car. May be write my name and gfs name with a lil heart sign.
Guys.
The parking lot is near empty.
You even have a car parked in the middle of two spots in the background.
It may be a dick move but in this particular instance I think yall can save your cortisol.
I don't care if someone parks like this farther out in the parking lot. But this entitled douchenugget did it right up front, no, that's not accecptable ever. If you want extra room, park farther out and walk.
Isn't there like 6-7 parking spots for every car in the us? Taking up 4 seems fine then 🤷♂️
If theres a fire somewhere that individual can easily leave the parking spot.
Front plate looks like a firefighter plate
I think they could easily just pull out of a regular spot?
Also, the firefighter I know has a little alarm thingy they can put on their roof to get traffic to move
100% right.
Should have used /s
Hahaha
Wait, are you serious?
I mean. Thats likely a firefighter in some form. People are not usually just slapping that plate on for the hell of it. Also. No that comment about leaving easily was sarcasm
ProTip: you can easily deflate a car's tires by placing a small pebble in the valve cap before screwing it back on
I used to condone this, but people are stupid and can drive on the flat tire until it explodes, potentially putting other peoples lives at risk.
Not worth it for some petty revenge.
That's why you gotta do all four.
Can take hours to fully deflate, they could be on the Highway home by the time they go flat enough to be noticeable.
Hmmm you seem to know a little too much about this lol
Maybe I’ve had someone have this happen to them and the tire exploded and hurt an innocent bystander. It’s a large world.
The possibility is there if you think for more than a few seconds on the possible consequences of something.
Or we're just having a little fun ribbing on the internet?
Didnt need life advice lol but thanks
You might think that this is clearly a joke. That no one would actually do this. But you don't know how the people at the other keyboards are going to take it. Case in point.
I know people that had this happen to them. They got lucky.
Some people are disgusting.
Sorry they lack commonsense then
Yes… the vast majority of people lack common sense… hence why I had to make my comment condemning it…
People do actually do this you mook.
Must be one them them Beehaw users. /s
I guess you could leave a sticky note on driver's window that says something like "oopsie woopsie I noticed your tires are deflated, this car is unsafe to drive :(". Also you could just unscrew the valve core to make sure tires deflate quickly.
No no no, gotta be worse than that. Leave a note apologizing for the damage. There is no damage. They’ll be looking for hours
I like it. A note that says, "I thought I could squeeze in but there wasn't enough room. Sorry about the damage." Might make them reconsider doing this again.
I had a student do that. Just a post-it note that said “Sorry for the damage :(“. It was a kid that I wouldn’t have expected to play a prank like that, too: very quiet and reserved.
No, if you do all four insurance will cover it. Only do three.
This is a myth. You can google it if you don’t believe me
If you have comprehensive coverage, this will be covered. If the damage is of less value than your deductible, you won’t receive any money.
I've been told if you do all four insurance might be more apt to cover it, best to do one to three of them that way it might not be covered
That's for knifing. There's no physical damage here.
You're right. Better just pull the valve cores so they're obviously flat.
Direct action person right here... love it.
These people seem to forget the classic FAFO maxim, looks like they need to be reminded.
Good way to get shot by the owner
only in murica
You think this vehicle is being driven anywhere else?
i suppose less common in other countries but not non-existent
I keep a few screws in my car to prop up under the tires of people who park like this.
Better yet, with a valve core removal tool, you can flatten them all in seconds and make it harder to fix.
Well, that guy is clearly a massive prick, but let's also talk about how fucking ugly that truck is. I don't know when everyone decided that land yacht pickup trucks were the bees knees, but they're not. They're just dumb and so. goddamn. ugly.
You mean their Emotiional Support Truck.
Pavement princess
Also partly responsible for an increase in pedestrian fatalities.
There is a lot of anger, frustration, and unacknowledged insecurity going into vehicle purchases in the US.
I agree. The amount of unrequited hate is disturbing.
FTFY
No argument here. The wasteful and dangerous vehicles are just a minor symptom of our cultural issues.
For real dude, there's no decent sized mid sized pickups anymore. I drove my '99 dodge Dakota forever and loved the size! It even had a V8 compared to most of the newer land yachts with 4 bangers and v6s.
I don't need a block on wheels, I just need a smaller pickup because I camp and haul shit enough to justify needing one vs a car or suv.
So, I don't know if it's still an issue but I know the whole land yacht thing started because of emissions standards. The US used to (they might still) set emissions standards based on wheel base rather than vehicle type. The larger the wheel base the looser the emissions standards. The thought was that vehicles that needed a larger wheelbase like large work trucks would always have higher emissions so they wanted to take that into account. But what actually happened is manufacturers just started making larger and larger vehicles to take advantage of the more lax emissions standards.
I think the wheelbase based emissions standards thing has been fixed now, but I don't know where I heard that so it might even still be a thing.
If you look at actual comparable bed length and cab type, you realise that outside of height, truck dimensions haven't increased that much (especially not compared to car sizes, ex.: the mk6 Jetta is the size of the Passat from 10 years prior).
Buy an Aussie import ute. They're exactly what you want and not common in the US so you have a fashion statement.
Last I'd checked, it was virtually impossible to import non-DOT-approved cars to the US. You basically had to take them apart and then assemble them here as "kit cars" to get around stupid grey market rules.
You can either bring in a 25 year old one, or rebody a local Chevy SS or Pontiac G8 with a ute shell.
I know; it's so easy it's a wonder we don't see more of them!
Haha never seen these things before. Reminds me of an El Camino, but trying to be a sports car instead of America muscle upfront.
Got it in one, they're an Australian icon. It's like the reverse mullet of cars, party in the front, business in the back.
That's why I got the Honda Ridgeline. It is basically a Honda Pilot with a bed. Small by truck standards but is great for someone that just needs to haul stuff in the suburbs and will never take it off-road. I don't get all the people around here that think they need a lifted full sized truck to drive to work on city streets everyday.
I had a '93 F150 for a few years. It was a v8 5.8L with an extended bed. Until... I let my friend borrow it and he... redlined it for several miles in first gear, (accidentally put it in 1st gear instead of into drive, and didn't noticed the extremely loud engine and the fact that he couldn't go over 20mph... yes, he is that stupid lmao) until it began smoking and he pulled it into a random driveway. And then as if that weren't bad enough, the genius homeowner popped the hood and hosed down the engine which, if you know anything about cars or metal, was the dumbest thing he could've done. Cracked up the whole thing. 😭
But that thing was a fucking beast man. These new trucks can't even fit a fucking 2x4 or a sheet of OSB in the bed. They are useless.
I drove an '04 Dakota for years (last year of that body style before they started making them bigger). Loved that truck, perfect size for camping or hauling band equipment.
Sucks that the mid-sized trucks now are bigger that the full-sized trucks from back then.
Safety regulations has a lot to do with it too. They have to squeeze in airbags and all the safety tech which would leave no room to sit in that older Dakota.
Just check the bed. If there’s a liner, chances are the truck is needed. If it’s clean, it’s a vanity truck.
I own a 350 and am very aware of just how big this truck is. But I do need the pulling power for work related things. I’ve also used it to help people that have broken down.
I haven't seen a new truck without a bed liner in decades. I apparently thought they were standard equipment.
If you need one, you need one, but I'm confident that a tiny percentage of these things are used for actual work. Also: still ugly. Sorry.
Yeah, not standard. And I guess if they’re that common where you are then check the wear of the liner. Like another commenter said, they get fucked up pretty quickly. It’s easy to tell if a truck is vanity or not just by looking at the bed. I’ve called people out for driving them. It’s especially humiliating for the guys because I’m a woman.
I also appreciate that you’re confident in your assessment without actually talking to any of those people. Assuming just makes an ass out of u and me.
As someone who lives in Texas and every other vehicle in the road is an oversized pickup, fuck em.
They drive worse faster the douchy chargers/mustangs and somehow manage to use their blinker less often than a BMW driver.
Plenty of 'em out there homie. I bought a used DMax in 2019 and despite being a Denali edition it didn't come with a bedliner, just a rubber mat for the floor. I should have had one sprayed in when I got the truck because my box is now beat to shit.
I think all the previous owner did with it was tow a horse trailer.
I drive 3/4 or one ton trucks for work. They suck to drive. You feel every bump, they sway on corners or with wind, and parking is a nightmare. I have no idea why somebody would drive them around for vanity.
I piss off my teenage son all the time using the outlander sport I bought for him. For driving around town it's awesome.
Yeah that sounds about right. My liner is already marked up and I've had it since March lol. I haul large items almost daily for work.
So you have it from work and also use it privately?
No, they own the truck for work.
Right. Not wealthy enough to have separate vehicles for personal and work
At least you get to write the cost of your vehicle off on your taxes, unlike everyone else.
My DMax is a pretty truck but the beat to crap box, without bedliner, is under a tonneau cover so you can't see it. Another thing you can do is check the receiver hitch, if it's scratched / rusty inside then you know its being used to tow something. 🙂
That would be the US EPA and whomever influenced them in the Carter administration to classify trucks as regulated differently than other passenger vehicles. It unironically financially encourages SUVs over vans and bigger bodied trucks over smaller ones.
It's killed the work truck, the small truck, and literal pedestrians.
Their intentions were fine at the time and it has resulted in average miles per gallon within their class going way up but it needs to be amended. The shifting of sales eats into any fuel efficiency gains. Regulate them the same as any passenger vehicle and give me my utility back.
I wish small pickups were still a thing
The Maverick is (comparatively) a small modern pickup. It's the whole reason I chose it. I always wanted a truck, but I absolutely detested how big and inefficient they were, so I never bothered. I had a Maverick come in for a remote start last year and got to look at it and I quite liked it, ended up ordering one of my own that same year.
Ford had new rangers on the lot when I was shopping for my truck
New rangers aren't that small. I really like the size of old rangers, colarados, Toyota Tacomas. Those were reasonably sized trucks meant for utility. Not for dick swinging contests and skirting EPA regulations.
I found it very small. Smaller than my mid size SUV I was replacing and I couldn't even get in the driver seat. But obviously ymmv
Don't be too hard on them, maybe this was all that was available when they pulled up.
Upvoting for the effort
And so the cycle continues..
When will it end?..
My favorite thing is to just leave a note that says, "I'm sorry about the scratch."
2nd option: "I saw who broke into your car. Call me at (leave fake #)"
is the rickroll number still operational?
God I hope so, what is it?
basically just a phone number you can call and it autoplays rickroll for you. i don't have it unfortunately, seen it ages ago and never wrote it down
778-330-2389 if it still works.
There's these too.. The UK one at least doesn't work.
New Zealand (09) 886 0565, Australia +61 (03) 8652 1453, United Kingdom +44 (117) 325 7425 and US +1 (760) 706 7425.
In the old days, a friend of mine would carry some paper(?) stickers(?) (labels?) that said something like "I park like an asshole" and superglue it to one of the windows of someone parked like this.
If you wanted to be nicer, you could get some proper pre-printed stickers (most online print/sticker shops should have them) and place them. Wouldn't cause any damage but would maybe make them think about it a little bit.
I also saw a post recently where someone replaced all the tire valve caps with bright orange or pink little dick shaped caps. This would cause more inconvenience and embarrassment, but not be damaging or dangerous.
I knew a guy that had a roll of custom-printed "I park like a jackass" stickers. They weren't very large -- I think they were originaly labels for folders or something.
But they were on tamper-proof stickers, the kind that were metalic and broke into a bunch of tiny pieces when you tried to peel them off.
He'd slap two or three of them on the driver's side windshield and window out of the main line of sight, but you couldn't miss them when driving.
They're a pain in the ass to get off. I know, because he put one on my car that said, "I lick sweaty ballsacks".
That story took a quick turn haha
Well, is it true at least?
Of course not. If I'm going to gargle nuts, I require them be washed.
That's very reasonable
Wow what an asshole
Holy shit I just found penis tire caps on AliExpress, definitely buying some lol
Edit: I realized I don’t have the courage to actually do this to someone in public and risk getting caught, so I didn’t end up buying any, but they are readily available from your preferred discount app if anyone else wants to
Upvote for the honesty, rofl.
Haha, nice! Here, I found the post, in the old "R" site. I try to avoid posting stuff from there, but this is in the interest of science: https://i.redd.it/idl8jj50fg6b1.jpg
I guess they were red, not bright orange.
There's also a link to them on thingaverse somewhere if anyone has a 3d printer and wants to make them.
For those with the capacity, they can be printed also. Files are available in the usual places.
Get the stickers. Faster to apply and less worry about getting caught.
I have an STL somewhere for the penis valve caps.
Place a giant FTP sticker over half their rear license plate.
I’d put the i park like an asshole sign on the rear window where maybe they don’t notice it for a while.
Four of the best parking spots, too, judging by the handicap spaces nearby.
That's what gets me on these things. If you want to be a dick and make sure your car isn't hit go park or in the boonis! Nobody goes out there, don't have to worry about carts, take as many spots as you want! Shoot for a record of you want try to get 6! But why tf are you doing it in close parking spots?
They're purposefully doing it to be an ass, taking the close parking spots and causing more inconvenience 8s part of the point.
Yup, pretty much right by the door
You can see on the next line over, there are a ton of empty spots right up front. This is probably some place that's not open to the public or whatever, or else they just have way more parking spots than they actually need.
I don’t actually mind this IF the person parks in the back of the lot. I get that they don’t want their precious hot wheels monster truck to get dinged, but as long as they park in the back of the lot where there’s no other cars, it’s fine. However, this person is clearly an asshole as there’s handicapped spots next to them, so they’re right up front taking spaces. It should be legal to vandalize their vehicle if a person does this.
Keying this car is a moral imperative.
Ah yes, the Categorical Imperative!
My philosophy may be a little rusty...
it's universalizable. I'd be okay with someone keying my car if I purposely parked like an asshole, so it survives the ax murderer paradox
Same here but that sounds about right from what I can remember.
What a rookie. Could've taken six by parking sideways
Mildly?
This is what stonetoss fans fap to
Plot twist: he’s literally hiding in the back seat just jackin it
u aint wrong
My move lately has been to stand their windshield wipers up. You're not doing anything criminally damaging to their vehicle, but in my experience, anyone this self-important will be really bothered by the thought of some random person putting their dirty hands on their precious baby.
Trucks are generally excessive for most people anyways, them taking up 4 spots only compliments their mentality.
What I don't get is why they're built so bulky? It's not necessary. There's just a bunch of empty space under the hood.
EPA regulations are designed to encourage better gas mileage, but they are based on vehicle size. So instead of making more fuel efficient engines, auto makers realized they could just make bigger trucks with the same shitty engines to meet the guidelines.
Yay for government regulation
Most pickups in the size range offer multiple engines, with the bigger engines filling the space.
My f150 does not have much room under the hood, and it’s got the v6 eco line motor.
See that's the problem with you truck people; a V6 is considered weak in your world.
Meanwhile the V6 in my Genesis Coupe is fast enough to get me to 60 MPH in under 6 seconds. And unlike a truck, it can actually take a corner at speed.
Unless you're a farmer, there's no reason to own a truck. I even bought one once to see what the hype was all about; got rid of it after less than a year cause I was sick and tired of getting 18 MPG and not even having fun while doing it. If I'm going to get poor fuel economy, I should at least be able to go fast.
EDIT: I mean I get the "more practical" argument, but let's be honest with ourselves here: How often do you REALLY use the truck bed? With the money you're saving in gas by driving something smaller and more economical, you could easily afford to rent a truck each and every time you need to move something. You're literally spending twice as much as you need to in gas, just for those occasions where you might need to use the bed. A U-Haul is less than $100/day (inc. gas + mileage); you're spending more than that every time you fill up, when you could be saving over $50 each time at the pump. It's simple math.
Unless your family was killed by a truck salesman, there’s no reason to hate on truck owners.
What? I never said it was weak. It has a better pulling ability than the v8. You’re just making up fake arguments.
Also, my boat with trailer was 8500 lbs. Nothing but a truck can pull it effectively and safely.
I agree some people by trucks just to say they have one, but a pickup can be incredibly useful if it fits your lifestyle.
I mean you kinda implied it by saying it's one of the smallest engines for the truck. Sorry for jumping to conclusions.
For a huge amount of people they make perfect sense, if you can only have one vehicle and don't live somewhere where parking is an issue. It really is a all in one vehicle, Haul, tow, people mover (crew cabs) and 4wd for rough weather.
Comparing a sports car to a full size truck is idiotic, its like comparing a road bike to a mountain bike they are just different vehicles.
A van or minivan can do everything a pickup can while being safer, more fuel efficient, and smaller in profile. A van can carry more than a pickup truck can, both in passenger and cargo capacity, especially with the shrinking bed sizes of modern trucks. There is a reason farmers tend to hold on to older trucks. There are very few good reasons to go for a pickup truck over a van for the average person.
What???? I would never load the back of my van with gravel, mulch, top soil. The tractor couldn’t dump it in, and shoveling it out and cleaning it after are no where near the same.
That's where a pickup truck would indeed come in handy. But you can also just rent one for that purpose instead, or use a trailer.
You could rent someone to lay out anti-truck screeds on the internet and save your own time for sleeping or polishing your golf clubs
Yeah. So let's not paint the whole world one color. Just because it doesn't meet your needs, AND you simply don't like them, doesn't mean everyone else needs to be like you.
0 to 60 doesn't mean shit in a truck. Why did you buy one in the first place? Cornering at speed?? .. Not what trucks are meant to do. Why the hell would you buy one??
Glad you like your car. I'm sure it's nice. If you're getting 18 MPG, you've managed to accomplish what many late model trucks cannot... Get under 20mpg.
Disclosure: I own a 2003 F250. I don't park like the asshat did in the pic, and I don't care how fast my truck goes. I don't roll coal and I run biodiesel to reduce emissions.
People buy the cars they want. Bitching about people car choices is like bitching about people's food preferences. Putting the blame on people for super poor fuel efficiency standards is sort of more in line, but even then, the people who are supposed to make these changes from DC but fail to do anything keep getting reelected. I wouldn't want to buy a full sized pickup where I live, because I think it'd be a nightmare trying to park anywhere. But as long as there aren't extenuating variables (as in the truck pictured in this post), I let people do what they want.
You can be mad at the government's inaction and the consumers which support the market at the same time.
You can also recognize anger as a destructive emotion and save it for important problems.
Or I can be reasonably scornful at jackasses
surround it with carts
Zip-tie surround it with carts.
This is when you put a small pebble under each of the tire valve caps and screw them down tight enough to depress the spring, open the valve, and let the air out all of the tires
Hey Satan, how's it going?
A local business has any vehicle that does this towed by his cousins tow company. That company is 3 towns over about 50 miles. Guy has signs everywhere that warns anyone doing it. He still gets one or two a week.
Easy money doing the lord's work.
Moose sex pheromones. Hose the car down with them. Let nature take care of this one.
Yeah idk if that’s gonna help in PA lol. Deer maybe, but they aren’t gonna attack a car
Fly attractant on the tire?
Most wheels don’t have them anymore, but a great prank used to be to smash a fish behind someone’s hubcap.
New cars kinda took care of not making things removable or have things you can loop things through the handles.
However the potato salad under the door handle is still on the table
Tesla aero wheels have clip on hub caps/aero wheel covers. Pull to remove, you may need double sided tape to install the prawn (shrimp) heads
Renter upset at the land lord? Prawn heads in the cheap aluminium curtain rods on moving out day
Isn't that just a shit-filled bag?
hard to find that, but you can absolutely get a syringe full of deer piss between the window and the rubber stripping that's meant to keep the rain out of the door. doe-in-estrus urine is available at almost any outdoors shop, as hunters use it to attract bucks.
Magnetic wheel weights. Throw a few on the inside of his rim
What would this do?
Unbalance his wheels
This should be a felony
I have a full size truck and I agree. You don't want dents. Park all the way in the back in one spot or park on the street. This person can suck a bouncy castle full of dicks.
MILDLY infuriating?
More or less. It's extremely douchy behavior but only indirectly harms the person that took the photo, so mildly infuriating feels about right.
I’m more of a livid and get them towed mindset. Lol
Have fun with those heart attacks
This is a parking job screaming for a keying!
Nice truck, sorry about your dick!
I have to imagine this is actually going to make it MORE likely that this vehicle gets damaged. Just not accidentally.
Looks like a perfect space for every lazy person to push their shopping cart into.
Cart Narcs will understand.
“Oops, shopping cart slipped right out of my hands.”
The driver is a very wide load and needs the space.
I guess there wasn't an EV charger available.
Is that the lightening?
No, they just like to park at EV chargers** to "own the libs".
No, that's a Toyota. I think OP was trying to say that the type of dickwad who would park like that is the same kind who would ICE an EV charge station
Yes.
I finally understand why you still have the death penalty.
Protip: pepper spray on door handles is a great way to sabotage a vehicle without damaging it.
That’s an invitation. He wants to be keyed.
How are there not visible key marks in the paint?
This is a job for 4 mini coopers!!
6 smart cars, all around
I hope someone with an old rust bucket parks in one of those driver spaces
Grab some zipties and two shopping carts. Ziptie the shopping carts to their door handles.
The handles probably have no where to loop around these days. But you’d still get the same effect just surrounding it with shopping carts like right up against it. Ding city and the whole town plays along.
A quick glance at the image shows that it's possible to do that there, there's enough room in the handles
A lot of handles are actual handles these days.. Including this truck.
Why not to the wheels?
Most people who park like that in a stupidly big vehicle, at least park far away so they're not stealing high frequency prime spots.
Seriously. The funny thing is actual work/farm trucks tend to do that, it's the pavement princesses that park like assholes.
Yeah, but not this asshole. Right next to the handicapped parking, which is as close to the building as you can get. Fucker.
Four spots
One asshole
Squeeze in right next to the driver's door so he can't get in
I drive a shitbox, I would definitely do that.
Keying the fuck out of this, every damn time....
I'm surprised it's not keyed all the days long.
de-stress. park in back and walk a little. for your health. driver has small dick energy and suffers
I park in the back during work, but I always end up with UPS and Amazon trucks parking next to me, and they leave their engine running the whole time that I'm eating lunch...
Time to draw and quarter that monstrosity.
Could'a been 6. Dudes a rookie.
Clearly needs a ring of shopping carts around it for additional protection
Zip tied together to make sure they don't roll away
Don’t you understand? He can’t risk any scratches on his pwecious wittle twuck
His pavement princess.
Dude's thinking he drives a flying car 💀
He's trying to play car roulette it seems :D
MICROPENIS
Are they a fire chief or something? See a firefighters emblem on the front plate. Barring an emergency still no excuse for parking like a dick though..
Clearly the parking space is too small, lets petition our gouvernment to increaste them, like a football field per car, or something like that... or else please use public transportation
Public transit ? What kind of filthy commie are you ? Why do you hate America's car manufacturers?
Easy fix, wire snips to the valve stem.
I've never considered this. This seems like a much safer way to "slash" a tire.
That car officially belongs to the first person who can hotwire it.
I doubt these trucks can be driven around in European or Asian roads. They seem so humongous. Even cargo vehicles which transport goods across the city are much smaller than these in India. Why are trucks so popular in the US? Does everyone haul things often? Are cargo trucks not rentable?
The US government's standards for fuel economy paradoxically push car manufacturers to make bigger vehicles. The few mid-size pickups still available are now as big as full size pickups once were.
It’s a cultural thing, mostly. Some people do work as contractors and need large truck beds though.
Doesn't even fill them all. Must be a compact truck. I'd still squeeze in with my car in front of him, across those two spots.
No touchy. No touchy!
You see those white lines they parked over? Yeah, it would be funny if someone took some white masking tape and put it on the truck to look like they painted the parking lot lines over the truck...
Can't help but wonder how someone would react seeing that shit LOL!
It is my opinion that it should be legal to paint said stripes on someone's car if they park over the line. Should really hammer just how much of an asshole someone is if they have multitudes of stripes.
I hear ya there, but I try not to be quite that evil.
I would totally park as close as possible to this guy and make him have to go through the passenger side.
There's definitely room for a compact car on the truck's driver side. And if the compact is a hatchback then easy entry.
Absolutely this. Bonus points if it's a Prius.
"asserting dominance"
Love this kind of selfish .ssholes. Never understood also the need to drive these monstrous cars. Once oil will bounce back, we’ll see if these ´cars’ will still be out there…
And you know it took him half an hour to back the truck into that position.
Better revenge, line up a bunch of carts around the truck, so he has to move them all to get out.
How nice of them to leave the handicapped spot free.
Otherwise, a total asshole.
yall see wasted parking, I see next summer's heatwaves
we called those hillbilly hookup spots when i was little
"Look at this nice truck that I don't know how to drive!"
1 space is deliberate, 2 spaces is careless, 3 spaces is heartless, but 4 spaces is priceless
Eh! Truck ova here!!
Great way to get a tire slashed.
This screams hashtag - you park like an asshole!
I'll just key the car. May be write my name and gfs name with a lil heart sign.
Guys.
The parking lot is near empty.
You even have a car parked in the middle of two spots in the background.
It may be a dick move but in this particular instance I think yall can save your cortisol.
I don't care if someone parks like this farther out in the parking lot. But this entitled douchenugget did it right up front, no, that's not accecptable ever. If you want extra room, park farther out and walk.
Isn't there like 6-7 parking spots for every car in the us? Taking up 4 seems fine then 🤷♂️
If theres a fire somewhere that individual can easily leave the parking spot.
Front plate looks like a firefighter plate
I think they could easily just pull out of a regular spot?
Also, the firefighter I know has a little alarm thingy they can put on their roof to get traffic to move
100% right.
Should have used /s
Hahaha Wait, are you serious?
I mean. Thats likely a firefighter in some form. People are not usually just slapping that plate on for the hell of it. Also. No that comment about leaving easily was sarcasm
doesn’t look crowded tho so 🤷♀️
doesn’t look crowded tho so 🤷♀️