This kidnapper’s van from Colorado had the following message written on their windshield: ATL Whats up? Heck yeah JESUS
First it was candy, and now Jesus.
What will pedophiles try next to lure in unsuspecting meat?
Tag: cars
I don’t know why I’m at work, so I’ll muse about 2011
I’m pretty sure I can count on one hand just how many people are in this office today. Granted, I’m not complaining at the fact that I’m getting paid to sit here and do absolutely no work, but man, I certainly wouldn’t have minded sleeping in this morning. But instead, I trudged out of bed at 6:30 a.m. to go run around the ‘hood in 36 degree weather, and here I sit, waiting for a few hours to pass, since I made it all the way out here already. So with that in mind, and since I’ve pretty much seen the entire work-safe internet now, I suppose it’s not a bad time to sit back and catch up on some writing. And with the end of the year literally right around the corner, why not use that as a topic?
Since I’m at the office, and don’t ever visit my own sites on the network for paranoid fear that they’ll one day find my online identity, I’m musing most of this based on what I can remember off the top of my head. But the good news is that, as a whole, I don’t think that the encapsulated 2011 year was a very bad year at all. Compared to 2010, it was a much improved year. At first blush I want to say that it wasn’t anything magnificently spectacular, but the more I think about it, I guess I can say that 2011 was a pretty decent year overall.
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It may be God’s Property
But it’s still illegally parked and in the fucking way.
Saw this shit recently while I was trying to do some work. In the midst of the slow holiday period, I volunteered to do some grunt work, to look like a good team player. The company was going to haul some furniture in from their warehouses, delivered in one of their company trucks. It was cold and windy outside, even in the storage bay. But for whatever reason, God’s Property here saw it fit to illegally park, block the company truck, and deliver some shitty catering to one of the other companies in the building, while myself and several other grunt workers were forced to wait for them to emerge.
Needless to say, the time spent waiting, even the most religious of saints was cursing God’s Property for wasting all our time.
Bryce Harper’s Monster Truck
In short, the Arizona Fall League has more or less ruined me as far as live baseball experiences are concerned. Parking is free at all these small, intimate ballparks. There are only general admission tickets that are $7 a pop, and allow you to sit anywhere you want, including right behind home plate. And unlike in Spring Training where there are veterans loafing it and not taking the games seriously, the Arizona Fall League is nothing but 19-25 year olds playing their hearts out, because every ounce of effort could possible get noticed and get them called up to the Majors sooner rather than later. Baseball at it’s most pure and innocent, and frankly, most beautiful.
I also shagged five baseballs because hardly anyone is at these games, and got into one game free, because a stadium worker just didn’t really care and let us in, but it’s instances like getting to go right up to Bryce Harper’s douchy monster truck and take my picture next to it that is really awesome.
I look forward to going to Arizona again in the future, even if it’s boring as fuck outside of baseball. At least the food is really good.
Neko-Con Stories: The BMW’s contridictory vanity plate
It amuses me to no end when car owners are so proud of their vehicles, that they require vanity plates to boast about their cars. Most of the time, this occurs the most with Honda drivers; I’ve seen with my own eyes a Honda S2000 with the license plate “S2000,” and once even a Civic… A HONDA CIVIC (with no trim badge, meaning it’s a DX) with a vanity plate saying “CIVICPWR (btw, the Civic DX has like, no power).” There are several other notable examples floating around on the internet in regards to obvious vanity plates on Hondas.
But since everyone knows that I love BMWs, this affliction is not avoidable by arrogant BMW drivers either. Case in point – this BMW M3, with the plate saying “M THR33,” which I find to be confusing. Yes, in leet speek, it would be phonetically be “M THREE,” but since I live in reality, I’m kind of baffled by the two 3’s to designate it.
Does the 33 designate engine size? If that’s the case, then this is incorrect; this particular M3 came in 3.0 or 3.2 liter sizes; even today’s M3s, none of them are equipped with a 3.3 liter.
Or perhaps it’s taking cues from the fashion in which BMW designates its cars; M-series cars are typically the cream of the crop when it comes to any family of BMWs, but the fact that their plate says 33, it kind of implies that it’s a 3-series with a 3.0 liter engine, which would probably be the most correct interpretation so far. But at the same time, they’re essentially exposing the fact that it’s a 3-series with a 3.0 engine, which can describe both the 330i or the M3.
It’s overall very contradictory, and it doesn’t really serve any purpose other than to propagate stereotypes about BMW drivers being arrogant, excessive, ignorant, and a whole bunch of other derogatory personal adjectives, or all of the above. So as far as vanity plates goes, M THR33 gets a big fat F.
A BMW driver doing something douchey, you don’t say
I know they’re being somewhat mindful, pulling this shit fairly away from everyone else, but seriously, four parking spaces? And people wonder why BMW drivers have such horrible reputations, it’s shit like this that ruins it for the sane people who happen to drive BMWs that they’re unfortunately pigeon-holed as inconsiderate assholes as well.
The funny thing is that this is just a 318i convertible. A motor of marginal potential, lodged into an overpriced and overrated name and chassis. The 318i is the equivalent of the Gobot of BMWs. The only thing worth any genuine value of the 318i is the fact that it has a BMW badge, and in this case, happens to be a convertible. Otherwise, it’s just another piece of shit BMW demonstrating stupid behavior.
Seen in NOVA: Automotive self-loathing
“I hate 350Z”
Quite the interesting vanity plate on an Infiniti G35 coupe. Y’see, the Infiniti G35 coupe and the Nissan 350Z are essentially, the exact same car. Strip the body panels, and all the superficial seating, and accessories, down to the naked body, skeleton, and heart, and you’ve got an identical chassis and motor.
| Infiniti G35 Coupe | Nissan 350Z | |
| Drivetrain | Front-engine, rear drive | Front-engine, rear drive |
| Platform | Nissan FM | Nissan FM |
| Engine | VQ35 | VQ35 |
| Displacement | 3.5 liter V6 | 3.5 liter V6 |
| HP/Torque | 306/268 | 306/268 |
I admit there is a little bit of cherry picking involved in these statistics, but come on, chassis, engine, power – these are some pretty key components to an automobile. The point remains that aside from the body panels and car’s design, which are kind of similar in shape, the two cars are the same thing.
Why the driver of this G35 hates 350Zs is completely beyond me.
Or perhaps they’re really that stupid? Probably.