Let’s post information everywhere about how cool it is to grind up real coal and add it to your truck’s gas tank to get that genuine steam locomotive smoke.
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
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Hey, not all conservatives are idiots. A lot of them are really smart people, who happen to be rich and extremely selfish.
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Aside from the obvious terribleness of this practice as a whole, doing this in the Salt Lake City area is extra harmful. SLC’s eponymous Great Salt Lake exists because it is entirely surrounded by mountain ranges; there is no outlet to the ocean. While this affects the water in the obvious way, it also affects the atmosphere. Simply put, pollutants and other heavier-than-most-air-type airborne particles tend to stay in the valley and accumulate, since it’s harder for them to get over the mountains. SLC is notorious for having some of the worst air quality in the country, and I wonder how much these idiots and others like them contribute to that.
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And why are they promoting illegal modifications?
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Now that beards are so often worn by shitheads like this pair… Is clean-shaven the counter-culture style at this point?
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A fine is a price of doing business. Really, they should see some jail time.
They’re not breathing it. It’s spewing out behind them. Having seen many videos of trucks deliberately blasting bicyclists, it’s clearly a weapon to be deployed against those unlike themselves.
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I would expect them to be individually subject to the laws of the state where they reside and drive - tests of all purchasers’ vehicles should be done and owners charged if not in compliance- would that qualify as getting owned by the “libs”??
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Where can one obtain real coal? I’m assuming we’re not talking about Kingsford briquettes. Is it available on Amazon?
Seriously, not sure if this is true, but I seem to recall hearing that these kinds of rolling coal/stupidity modifications cause harm to the engine, causing them to wear faster. Good.
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Finally some good news this week.
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That’s what I say. This is aggravated assault. Someone did this to me. I had photographed the truck but failed to get the license. My Honda Civic couldn’t get close enough. Soon afterward, an NPR show, This American Life, did a piece on Coal Rolling glorifying it as an all American form of expression. I let them know what I thought.
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I’ve been bearded for over 20 years now. I just deal with the ebb and flow.
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Beards are now a symbol of patriotic machismo—unless the beards are attached to Muslims, in which case they automatically become a symbol of everything Real Americans® should be fighting against.
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Even stupider is that each smoke particle is unburnt fuel that could have gone to powering the wheels instead of going out the tailpipe. They’re throwing away money and ruining their engines at the same time.
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Pre-cable cutting, I had a pricey package of channels, just so I could have the Discovery Channel. Those days are long gone and Discovery Channel – unwatchable.
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I’ve heard that you can find stray pieces on the ground while hiking railroad tracks in coal mining areas and transport areas, but that may no longer be true. They used to use open hoppers, but I don’t know if they still do.
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Still true. We find it all the time here in Maryland on the lines where West Virginia coal comes into the state (or maybe it’s Pennsylvania coal, I’m not sure).
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I got some for a relative as a gag Xmas gift. Got it from my local rock/sand/garden supply store. I figured $20 worth would work. I should have known when the told me to pull my truck around back that I bought to much. It was probably about a cubic meter worth lol
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