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Maybe it\u2019s a symptom of getting older, cars coming out of the box better, or a byproduct of where I live these days, but I hardly see any slammed (modified) cars anymore these days.\u00a0 This isn\u2019t to say they don\u2019t exist anymore, I still see large groups of them every now and then on the roads or in a parking lot, but they\u2019re clearly organized and don\u2019t put themselves in the public eye as perhaps I once recollect, in Northern Virginia, where a stock Honda Civic or Acura Integra was about as rare as seeing a Ferrari in the wild.<\/span><\/p>\n But for the few instances where I see a noticeably slammed car on the road, I\u2019ve also observed a trend that these car owners do that I\u2019ve found quite puzzling, which is putting an Instagram handle on their rides.<\/span><\/p>\n Now it\u2019s presumptuous to say that all people in slammed, riced-out cars are doing questionable, often times illegal vehicular behaviors, but let\u2019s not kid ourselves either.\u00a0 Whether it\u2019s speeding, practicing power slides on public streets, burnouts in parking lots to illegal mods, emission-altering exhausts to tinted windows too dark, it\u2019s usually people in slammed, riced-out cars doing it.<\/span><\/p>\n That being said, why in the world would people who occasionally exhibit in misdemeanor activity willingly put an additional identifier on their car that they can be possibly tracked down in the event that they\u2019re seen doing dumbass shit?<\/span><\/p>\n Like I really don\u2019t understand it; if you\u2019re making videos doing burnouts or street racing or participating in a flash mob of other tricked out cars, and then putting it on your Instagram, doesn\u2019t that make it even easier for cops to track and identify you?\u00a0 Or say some rando is walking through a parking lot, sees your \u2018gram, checks it out, and there\u2019s videos of you racing or practicing donuts in a parking lot; and this rando just so happens to be a police, or reports your shit to the police, and now there\u2019s an APB out for your ride.<\/span><\/p>\n Whatever though, even if these clowns had the wherewithal to sign up everything with dummy info, covers their plates before videoing themselves, and have gone through the trouble to minimize prosecution before putting their Instagram handles on their cars, they\u2019re still pathetic in my opinion.\u00a0 So attention-starved and narcissistic that they willingly go to the trouble to put an Instagram handle on their cars so that random strangers might possibly check them out online.<\/span><\/p>\n I\u2019d really love to know the numbers of police busting people for car-related dumbass-ery on account of being able to track them from Instagram handles on their cars, because any number higher than zero validates the notion that it\u2019s not really a particularly smart idea to advertise yourselves on your cars when you\u2019re participating in some questionable public behavior.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Maybe it\u2019s a symptom of getting older, cars coming out of the box better, or a byproduct of where I live these days, but I hardly see any slammed (modified) cars anymore these days.\u00a0 This isn\u2019t to say they don\u2019t exist anymore, I still see large groups of them every now and then on the … Continue reading Car Week: Is there anything dumber than putting Instagram handles on your car?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[131,51,112,45,83,133,52,156,49],"class_list":["post-49540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-branding","tag-cars","tag-crime","tag-fail","tag-observations","tag-old-man","tag-owned","tag-social-media","tag-wtf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49540"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49542,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49540\/revisions\/49542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}