Welcome to the MacNN Forums.

If this is your first visit, be sure to check out the FAQ by clicking the link above. You may have to register before you can post: click the register link above to proceed. To start viewing messages, select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below.

You are here: MacNN Forums > Community > MacNN Lounge > Woops!

Woops! (Page 10)
Thread Tools
subego  (op)
Clinically Insane
Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: Chicago, Bang! Bang!
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Dec 2, 2019, 09:34 PM
 
Got it. It looks relatively level there.

I’m sure it’s a good idea to use it every time, but Chicago is really flat. It’s pretty common for people to only use it on a slope.

I also always do it in park (with my foot on the normal brake). Is that wrong?
     
Laminar
Posting Junkie
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Iowa, how long can this be? Does it really ruin the left column spacing?
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Dec 3, 2019, 09:32 AM
 
With an automatic transmission, the park pawl is designed to hold the full load of the car. For the car to break the pawl and roll would be almost unheard of.

If you're applying the ebrake after you've put in in park but before you've let off the real brake, then the ebrake is holding the car's weight. That's fine.

The only useful scenario I can see is if you're on a really steep slope and you've let the car rest on the park pawl, it might be a little clunkier when it first shifts out of park.

The only time I bother using the ebrake on an automatic car is when I'm jacking it up or servicing it. Between the park pawl and the brake-to-shift lockout, it's not going to pop out of park. The manual car gets the ebrake every time, though. There's nothing stopping it from randomly popping out of gear (or having a kid playing around pop it out of gear). But even then, the ebrake cables are likely to fail and break before the transmission gets into such a state that it would fall out of gear.
     
subego  (op)
Clinically Insane
Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: Chicago, Bang! Bang!
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Dec 3, 2019, 03:45 PM
 
Thank you!

Also,

     
andi*pandi
Moderator
Join Date: Jun 2000
Location: inside 128, north of 90
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Dec 3, 2019, 04:47 PM
 
he got up and walked that right off.
     
subego  (op)
Clinically Insane
Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: Chicago, Bang! Bang!
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Dec 3, 2019, 04:57 PM
 
I feel like it’s a “perfect storm” situation. He was presumably in riot gear, the truck looks like it was already braking, he got hit by something relatively flat, and lastly, it doesn’t look like he saw it coming, so he wouldn’t have tensed up.

That momentum though...
     
OreoCookie
Moderator
Join Date: May 2001
Location: Hilbert space
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Dec 4, 2019, 12:05 AM
 
Was that video taken in Chile?
I don't suffer from insanity, I enjoy every minute of it.
     
subego  (op)
Clinically Insane
Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: Chicago, Bang! Bang!
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Dec 4, 2019, 12:39 AM
 
I don’t know.

Looks like Spanish on the signs so I was assuming Venezuela or Bolivia.


Edit: woops! I read “China” and not “Chile”.
     
subego  (op)
Clinically Insane
Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: Chicago, Bang! Bang!
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Dec 4, 2019, 11:33 AM
 
Did it make national news our police superintendent was found drunk and asleep in his car?

Woops!
     
reader50
Administrator
Join Date: Jun 2000
Location: California
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Dec 4, 2019, 02:58 PM
 
Even better, it made international news. I read about it on The Guardian, a UK paper (with US edition).

Also that he's been fired. Too bad it wasn't for the off-books Homan Square facility.
     
subego  (op)
Clinically Insane
Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: Chicago, Bang! Bang!
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Dec 5, 2019, 02:50 AM
 
I don’t think he’s been fired, just demoted. Firing a cop is an involved process. IIUC, his side piece, who he was seen making-out with that night, was also demoted.

Edit: he officially retired last night.

My cynical view is rolling heads over Homan would likely make it worse.
( Last edited by subego; Dec 5, 2019 at 02:01 PM. )
     
subego  (op)
Clinically Insane
Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: Chicago, Bang! Bang!
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Dec 5, 2019, 03:59 PM
 


The vertical horizontal video is bonus woops.
     
andi*pandi
Moderator
Join Date: Jun 2000
Location: inside 128, north of 90
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Dec 5, 2019, 05:19 PM
 
oopsie! Is cop making a left turn or trying to block the crazy speeder?
     
Thorzdad
Moderator
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: Nobletucky
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Dec 5, 2019, 05:29 PM
 
I was in a line of cars cruising along some 2-lane Indiana state road once. The line of cars were approaching a section of the road that was both a hill crest and a left-hand bend. In other words, a very blind corner.

All of a sudden, the guy behind me jumps into the oncoming lane right before the road becomes a no-passing zone, and proceeds to pass me and the other three cars ahead of me. He got around the last car right at the crest of the left-bend hill, and ducked quick back into the lane, just as a motorhome in the oncoming lane broached the hill. As he was passing all of us, I was dead sure I would soon be witness to a very ugly head-on.
     
reader50
Administrator
Join Date: Jun 2000
Location: California
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Dec 5, 2019, 05:31 PM
 
Cop had to be turning. They'd just chase the unsafe passer once he got by.

It's legal to pass because the lines don't go solid before that turn. However, it was unsafe in general, and risky to pass 5 cars at a time. And our camera guy definitely caused the accident. Might even draw a charge of assault on the cop. Impatience carried a high price all around.
     
BLAZE_MkIV
Professional Poster
Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: Nashua NH, USA
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Dec 5, 2019, 07:05 PM
 
I don't see any turn signals blinking...
     
subego  (op)
Clinically Insane
Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: Chicago, Bang! Bang!
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Dec 6, 2019, 03:21 PM
 
Originally Posted by subego View Post
I don’t think he’s been fired, just demoted. Firing a cop is an involved process. IIUC, his side piece, who he was seen making-out with that night, was also demoted.

Edit: he officially retired last night.

My cynical view is rolling heads over Homan would likely make it worse.
Salacious rumors:

He had hit a second bar earlier that night.

He wasn’t asleep, but was getting a blowie from aforementioned side piece.

The cops who found him reported it, so the coverup came from higher up in the chain-of-command.
     
subego  (op)
Clinically Insane
Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: Chicago, Bang! Bang!
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Dec 6, 2019, 03:24 PM
 
Originally Posted by BLAZE_MkIV View Post
I don't see any turn signals blinking...
Hard to tell for sure, but it looks like it.

One would hope the passer would instinctively slow down if they saw a blinker.
     
subego  (op)
Clinically Insane
Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: Chicago, Bang! Bang!
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Dec 6, 2019, 05:18 PM
 


The runner is apparently the driver of the small truck.
     
reader50
Administrator
Join Date: Jun 2000
Location: California
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Dec 6, 2019, 05:52 PM
 
Would that count as two accidents, or one? Between the same two vehicles.
     
turtle777
Clinically Insane
Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: planning a comeback !
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Dec 7, 2019, 01:36 AM
 
Originally Posted by BLAZE_MkIV View Post
I don't see any turn signals blinking...
Doesn’t matter. Any time you hit a cop car, it’s going to be your fault.

-t
     
subego  (op)
Clinically Insane
Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: Chicago, Bang! Bang!
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Dec 7, 2019, 03:02 PM
 


To answer the obvious questions.

1) Paint fumes
2) No injuries
     
subego  (op)
Clinically Insane
Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: Chicago, Bang! Bang!
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Dec 7, 2019, 04:08 PM
 
Originally Posted by reader50 View Post
Would that count as two accidents, or one? Between the same two vehicles.
Two collisions, one cup.
     
Laminar
Posting Junkie
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Iowa, how long can this be? Does it really ruin the left column spacing?
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Dec 9, 2019, 10:28 AM
 
Originally Posted by reader50 View Post
Would that count as two accidents, or one? Between the same two vehicles.
Kudos to the big truck driver for getting his ass out of the way and not making it a three-car accident.
     
subego  (op)
Clinically Insane
Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: Chicago, Bang! Bang!
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Dec 10, 2019, 01:30 AM
 


1) Cheese
2) He walked away, but only after 9 hours of digging.
     
Spheric Harlot
Clinically Insane
Join Date: Nov 1999
Location: 888500128, C3, 2nd soft.
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Dec 10, 2019, 11:00 AM
 
Oh. My. God.
     
subego  (op)
Clinically Insane
Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: Chicago, Bang! Bang!
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Dec 12, 2019, 03:13 PM
 
     
Laminar
Posting Junkie
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Iowa, how long can this be? Does it really ruin the left column spacing?
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Dec 12, 2019, 03:44 PM
 
This couldn't happen with an automatic, so it had to have been a manual, and they did offer the IS300 in a manual. If the aftermarket system didn't include some kind of neutral switch, it's possible that the car was parked in gear and the starter motor drove the car forward. Weird situation though.
     
subego  (op)
Clinically Insane
Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: Chicago, Bang! Bang!
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Dec 12, 2019, 03:57 PM
 
Could someone in theory have broken the window, gotten inside, and put it in reverse?

Not me though. Can’t drive a stick.
     
reader50
Administrator
Join Date: Jun 2000
Location: California
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Dec 12, 2019, 04:20 PM
 
You forgot a link so we can check the story details. And Lam is right - it was indeed an IS300.
     
Laminar
Posting Junkie
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Iowa, how long can this be? Does it really ruin the left column spacing?
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Dec 12, 2019, 05:37 PM
 
With an aftermarket system, all bets are off for safety. In my wife's old car, you couldn't shift out of park without pressing the brake. If you remote start the car, if you forget to put the key in and just press the brake, it kills the car.
     
andi*pandi
Moderator
Join Date: Jun 2000
Location: inside 128, north of 90
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Dec 13, 2019, 12:38 PM
 
a return to the manual parking brakes that cannot be operated or fail electronically, please.
     
subego  (op)
Clinically Insane
Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: Chicago, Bang! Bang!
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Dec 17, 2019, 03:21 PM
 
     
subego  (op)
Clinically Insane
Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: Chicago, Bang! Bang!
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Dec 18, 2019, 03:05 PM
 
Here we go, again...



Vodka this time.
     
Thorzdad
Moderator
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: Nobletucky
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Dec 18, 2019, 05:20 PM
 
Originally Posted by subego View Post
Vodka this time.
The cause or the effect?
     
subego  (op)
Clinically Insane
Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: Chicago, Bang! Bang!
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Dec 18, 2019, 09:00 PM
 
Yes.
     
subego  (op)
Clinically Insane
Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: Chicago, Bang! Bang!
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Dec 19, 2019, 04:24 PM
 
     
Laminar
Posting Junkie
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Iowa, how long can this be? Does it really ruin the left column spacing?
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Dec 19, 2019, 04:39 PM
 
Is that what I think it is?
     
subego  (op)
Clinically Insane
Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: Chicago, Bang! Bang!
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Dec 19, 2019, 04:51 PM
 
Originally Posted by Laminar View Post
Is that what I think it is?
I’m not sure if this is an actual question, or slyly pointing out I steal everything from Reddit by quoting the Reddit post title.
     
ghporter
Administrator
Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: San Antonio TX USA
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Dec 19, 2019, 09:32 PM
 
One term for that “structure” on an airplane is “honey pot”. Because it’s the opposite of anything sweet or nice... Just sayin’.

Glenn -----OTR/L, MOT, Tx
     
subego  (op)
Clinically Insane
Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: Chicago, Bang! Bang!
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Dec 19, 2019, 11:05 PM
 
The toilet trailers on movie sets are called “honey wagons”.


Edit: and never offer to repair one, because then you become known as the person willing to do that.
( Last edited by subego; Dec 26, 2019 at 12:25 PM. )
     
subego  (op)
Clinically Insane
Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: Chicago, Bang! Bang!
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Dec 25, 2019, 12:41 PM
 
     
Spheric Harlot
Clinically Insane
Join Date: Nov 1999
Location: 888500128, C3, 2nd soft.
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Dec 25, 2019, 01:04 PM
 
So lifelike.
     
subego  (op)
Clinically Insane
Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: Chicago, Bang! Bang!
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Dec 25, 2019, 01:10 PM
 
“What’s this?!?”
[Tippy taps circle]
“Okay... nap time.”


Yup. Checks out.
     
subego  (op)
Clinically Insane
Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: Chicago, Bang! Bang!
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Dec 31, 2019, 01:11 PM
 
     
reader50
Administrator
Join Date: Jun 2000
Location: California
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Dec 31, 2019, 03:45 PM
 
What incident was that? That kind of failure usually totals the launch pad.
     
subego  (op)
Clinically Insane
Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: Chicago, Bang! Bang!
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Dec 31, 2019, 04:03 PM
 
     
subego  (op)
Clinically Insane
Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: Chicago, Bang! Bang!
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Jan 5, 2020, 03:01 PM
 
     
subego  (op)
Clinically Insane
Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: Chicago, Bang! Bang!
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Jan 5, 2020, 03:56 PM
 


Only minor injuries somehow.
     
Spheric Harlot
Clinically Insane
Join Date: Nov 1999
Location: 888500128, C3, 2nd soft.
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Jan 5, 2020, 04:38 PM
 
Wow. That's some impressive carnage. I count at least thirteen vehicles.
     
Laminar
Posting Junkie
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Iowa, how long can this be? Does it really ruin the left column spacing?
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Jan 5, 2020, 05:41 PM
 
Originally Posted by subego View Post
Mustang
Judging by the initial lurch when first changing lanes, I'm betting someone is still learning to drive stick and just biffed it.
     
 
Thread Tools
 
Forum Links
Forum Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts
BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off
Top
Privacy Policy
All times are GMT -4. The time now is 03:49 AM.
All contents of these forums © 1995-2017 MacNN. All rights reserved.
Branding + Design: www.gesamtbild.com
vBulletin v.3.8.8 © 2000-2017, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.,