“Mr Morrison has mobility issues, so he was unable to escape the car travelling at 30mph by jumping out.”
Yeah, right. I’m reasonably fit and mobile, but jumping out of a car going roughly 50 km/h? Nope.
Maybe if staying in the car would definitely, positively, make no mistake about it, mean certain death for sure, guaranteed… and jumping out offered a fair chance of surviving only slightly maimed and with, well, mobility issues. Maybe. Probably still nope, though.
Right? I’d take my chances instead with the seatbelt and airbags.
And lithobreaking. The car is going to be pretty fucked up anyway, so what’s a couple of additional scrapes and dents more?
lithobreaking
Thanks for that, found my word of the day!
Off now to practice using it…
If I had an electric car, I’d want a manual circuit interrupter. Like a physical piece I could just remove to make the car die and stop. That’s too much vehicle to be propelling itself.
“The only reason they finally did something was because a resident snapped a picture of it,” said a resident wanting to remain anonymous in fear of eviction from management. He had been living in the park for ten years. “Them sending out a warning to us to not talk to media, it’s intimidation all the way.”
Wait, you’re near Ripponlea? I’m in Hampton East!
Busted!
(Associated Press reprint)
there is a reason that The Villages is known as the “chlamydia capitol of florida”.
so, there’s that…
There’s even a documentary on The Villages.
It’s rather horrifying.
I also know someone who moved there, which was weird because they were barely 50.
See? That only damages the infrastructure.
