MTSkiBum

You have your stories, I have mine.

Another story is from the weekend I proposed to my now wife, I would have been 30 years old and everyone on this site at the time was calling me crazy for proposing too soon. We went down to corpus christi where it is quite common to drive on the beach. I was in a company car at the time, an early 2000's impala. First we drove on the beach and got stuck. I dug us out and we made it back to the main road. At this point I saw there was hardpacked sand on the bay side, however you had to make it over a 300 foot stretch of softer sand. We were fishing and the bayside would have been better for fishing than the surfside, so we decided to give it ago. I found what looked to be a short little patch of soft sand, and i told my newly proposed fiance, don't worry I will build up enough momentum that we can make it through that sand. I hit the sand going at least 90 mph in the company car and we made it pretty far, but not all the way. As soon as we opened the doors we were swarmed by hundreds of the most painful mosquito's you could imagine. It was a company car, so i did not want to call a tow truck. My wife jumps back in the vehicle and I walk back to the road as there is no digging this vehicle out. I flag down a truck who is nice enough to help, but we are getting tore up by these mosquitos as we dig down into the sand to find a point to attach the tow rope to the tow hook of the car. Eventually we get it attached, but as he is trying to pull me out he gets stuck. We flag down a 2nd vehicle, an FJ cruiser with locking differentials who at this point is daisy chained back near the main road. We get the vehicles pulled out and no damage to the car. The benefit is my wife believes every one of my very true crazy adventures in vehicles.

Right up until ending up in the ditch in rural Montana during a snowstorm at 2am. I was such a a screwup

I went to a ski resort to do cookies in the parking lot in my buddies early 90's Acura Integra. We did cookies for an hour and on the way home I was bragging about how much control I have on icy roads so of course I put it in a ditch.

But you also didnt have a fast car handed to you at that age. I was a pretty big screw off until late 20's, dropped out of college for a few years to fish/ski, etc. I have more sympathy for 20 year olds than most because of that reason.

I wrecked a car screwing off at 2 am with my buddies at 20 years old, but Montana is filled with dirt bags too. Edit, I was sober, no risk of getting in too much trouble. Who didn't race and screw around when they were younger.

It depends on the state. Like i said I am on a site where people say they have successfully applied for lemon laws quite frequently, although I probably spend more time on car/truck forums than you do.

Each state is different and most are in the first year or two. One site I go to has tons of Floridians and there it is 3 trips to the dealership for a similar issue in whatever set amount of time it is in Florida, either one or two years.

I agree with everyone when they talk politics and then I try to change the subject quickly. It is the easiest way to deal with it in my opinion.

Hopefully. They removed all our oil rigs off the Texas coast and we need some more structure.

Wyoming alone has enough coal to power the us for 500 years or something ridiculous like that. I am for reliables still though.

Too much stuff to do today, i wish i could sit around the house lazy though.

For anyone that cares, one of the reasons that it is so poor for the environment in the OP is because the processing is being performed in a country with lax environment laws. I am very pro mining of everything, including lithium. When done right it is not an environmental issue, no more than any other mineral. https://www.nsenergybusiness.com/projects/greenbushes-lithium-mine/

The DUI guy i completely understand, there is nothing you can do except keep locking him up for a few years in prison.

When I was a dirtbag skibum in my 20's i had some real winners of some roomates. One was a guy who got busted selling a kg of cocaine to informants, he got a month in jail before I knew him, then I met him working construction and he moved into our party house . He also spent 3 months in the halfway house years later for the crime. He had to spend time in the facility where they transition people from prison to real world. However, it messed him up because it caused he already had a job and the halfway house in montana is in butte so he had to move to a different city for a bit and find a lesser job. The other guy spent a year in prison for his 6th dui. After I moved away i found out he got his 7th and was back in prison, but i am not sure how long they put you away. An internet search gives conflicting numbers on actual percent who are non-violent. Either way, my personal opinion, not that it is worth anything, is to put less people in prison for a less amount of time, and also greatly increase police presence to maybe ~10% higher than it was before all of the national cuts. Edit, the guy who got busted for cocaine did turn his life around and owns a construction company in Oregon, however I don't think the other guy ever will.

I think smaller penalties, but stricter enforcement would be the way to go for non-violent offenses. Increase the police for and try to catch more people. But handle more punishment through community service than incarceration. Make someone clean trash up alongside the highway for a week rather than lock them up. This is not a topic I care a ton about though to be honest. I don't think imprisoning more people will help deter theft though.

Because recycling plastic is a scam.

Generally money from court imposed fines goes to the states general fund. Same fund where most taxes go.

We have the highest rate of incarceration amongst the 1st world countries. I don't think locking people up fixes the problem.

Glad you are feeling better.

Not the right move, it ruins ever thread and keeps other people from checking the site as much. Too much collateral damage if you troll ever thread.

Zapp's hotter than hot jalapeno chips are my favorite, but not too many bad chip flavors imo.

I have never had a TV break. Also, why the hell am I getting always feminine product ads in this thread. This is why I avoid the site like the plague on my work computer.

Go cheap and skip the extended warranty.

Sorry, that truly sucks.