"Rainbow" (rainbeaux)
07/11/2014 at 14:47 • Filed to: None
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"Rainbow" (rainbeaux)
07/11/2014 at 14:47 • Filed to: None | 0
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I was at a car show yesterday, and while everyone was leaving, the two cops by the exit just took turns going after speeders. Neither one cared when the bro trucks were spewing soot all over me. Of course, they also didn't do anything about the Ram with fake police lights, which as far as I'm aware is a fairly serious offense. (and if I was in charge, both those lights and rollin' coal would be punishable by having the vehicle stripped for parts and sold with all profits going to the cops. You can't get douchier than that.)
Cebu
> Rainbow
07/11/2014 at 14:51 |
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"Speed kills" not "massive amounts of noxious gasses kill".
I'm seriously considering a career in law enforcement at this point (God knows I'd qualify well) just so I can attempt to reform one county, maybe even one TOWN or precinct from this lunacy.
RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
> Rainbow
07/11/2014 at 14:52 |
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Rolling coal illegal, sure, but local cops don't have any particular reward/reason for conducting EPA enforcement - that's illegal on the same level as (technically) just about any engine swap and 80% of mods to any car after '73.
The fake police lights... that does cause me to raise an eyebrow.
Also, with the EPA recently requesting the ability to garnish wages and conducting fairly horrific poorly informed human subject soot tests a couple years back, I'm not precisely sympatico toward what they decide is legal/illegal, even not getting into the horrors of delegation doctrine there.
Douchey, yes, but I can see *one* of those two things being a serious crime. Being douchey, as such, is not one.
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Rainbow
> RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
07/11/2014 at 14:58 |
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Fair enough. Of course, I'm sure there's some other reason than just the EPA's ruling; after all, they can and do blind other drivers with the stuff. It's a safety hazard at the very least.
Yowen - not necessarily not spaghetti and meatballs
> Rainbow
07/11/2014 at 15:02 |
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I think they should go after the shops though, if the bro's get turned down at the shop that only leaves the DIY crowd, at that point it'd be effective to ticket those left over.
Edit: I take that back, because I want shops to be OK with installing catless downpipes on my car.
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Rainbow
> Yowen - not necessarily not spaghetti and meatballs
07/11/2014 at 15:04 |
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That's actually a really good point. I'm sure a good bit of the shops that do/did it legally have some other sketchy stuff in there, too.
jariten1781
> Rainbow
07/11/2014 at 15:26 |
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I don't believe local jurisdictions have the authority to enforce EPA regs at all. So while the locals could ticket them with something like 'impeding the flow of traffic' for rolling coal it'd be a minor ticket and probably not worth their time. The EPA through the DOJ could go after them, but they're probably too busy dealing with chemical plants leaching in to rivers and what not to send out local traffic patrols.