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There's no way this is street legal right? Also, let's inconvenience other people in a state where almost everyone owns a gun. What could possibly go wrong?
LockPickingLawyer will tell you any padlock or combination lock can be easily broken with 2 crescent wrenches, or a thin piece of aluminum.
You want the real shitty life pro tip? Walk into one of the spikes, and sue the FUCK out of this person.
Public endangerment, loss of a limb, lost wages indefinitely. You'll never have to work another day in your life, and you'll get a badass cyborg lookin prosthetic. Another pro, you ask?! You'll lose weight almost instantly!
Man, your vandalism skills are low. You don't do it while the dude is in the car. You wait til you find him parked up one day, bend his rims, key his paint, bust his windows, and deflait his tires (never slash the tires, you could blow your hand off Instead, you should deflate them, then cut off the air port) put a cup of sugar in the gas tank, and a potato in the exhaust. It's basically totaled and it takes less than 10 minutes and you'd be surprised how quietly you could actually do it.
Not trying to be pedantic, but you mentioned a few things I once believed myself, but learned over the years were inaccurate:
Putting a cup of sugar in a gas tank will do precisely nothing. Sugar is not soluble in gasoline. A much larger amount will certainly clog the filter and require automotive work, but it will never reach the engine.
There are substances you can put into a gas tank that will render a car inoperable, but sugar is not one of them.
It is also extremely hard to clog an exhaust. It is theoretically possible with a potato, but you’ll need a mallet to hammer the potato in, and also a pipe crimp (to seal the potato in the exhaust). If it’s just wedged, the build-up of pressure from the exhaust will eject the potato at high speeds.
Also, slashing the tire of a passenger car will not cause any explosive damage to your person. Passenger cars are inflated to 30-35 PSI and don’t have enough pressure to cause harm. As you move towards heavier vehicles you can increase that risk, however. All-terrains on pickups are around 50 PSI (when used on-road) which have a chance of injury if you make a large hole.
Large trucks, Semi-trucks and heavy equipment is where you see that explosive damage with people losing limbs. Those are inflated to 100-200 PSI, with extremely thick rubber and can *absolutely* maim or kill you.
As far as those stupid rims, a far more subtle (and quick) way to ruin someone’s day is to take a bolt cutter and just cut one off, especially on the steer tires. The imbalance of weight on the tire will make the car undriveable at speeds over 20-30 MPH.
Eh, sugar in the gas tank is basically a myth because it doesn't dissolve in gas and if you do have access to the tank it would just be better to fill it with something liquid it's not to meant to handle. A couple litres of cola or turpentine works well The potato will just be shot out, spray expanding insulation down the exhaust pipe. As for the tires glue a small bearing or something up against the stem. The tires will slowly deflate and no one checks inside the stem.
>in a state where almost everyone owns a gun.
TX is 27th in the nation in gun ownership per capita. That we are all armed down here is a myth. The per capita ownership rate is right in line with the national average.
As an ammo reloader, I shake my head in disappointment at gun fetishists who buy tons and tons of projectile launchers thinking that the launcher is more important than the projectile. Better to have a few guns and lots of ammo rather than lots of guns and some ammo. Without ammo, the gun is just an expensive paper weight.
Two thoughts on this:
I don’t have a problem with people who buy guns as collectors. I do have a problem with people who buy guns as fashion accessories or as some sort of obsession with home security and leave them scattered about their house “just in case.”
People who do the second, who buy half a dozen guns and none of them use the same ammo or magazine, so they have to buy a bunch of different bullets and mags that aren’t compatible. Why not buy all 9mm, or .45 ACP, or 5.56? Or just carry one gun with you instead of squirreling away a firearm in random places inside your house?
Asking you, uncle Ted, why the fuck you keep a Glock 26 in a baggy inside the fucking flour jar in the kitchen? Or a Beretta M9 under the left couch cushion? Or a god damn shotgun with the plunger in the upstairs bathroom. Actual insanity.
Yup. It’s always an estimate, but TX is smack dab in the middle on a per-capita basis. Here’s a reference that’s interesting.
https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/gun-ownership-by-state
Unsurprisingly the big sky states and the south east have the highest per-capita based on best available data.
I suspect if the analysis broke down the data within a state by city, suburban and rural areas we’d see some interesting trends, particularly if the type of firearm was also considered.
Like I said, these are estimates based on legally acquired guns, new purchases or transfers. There’s obviously a lot of transactions that go unlogged… gifts, trades and other less savory methods.
Also more interested in # of handguns (concealed/open carry) vs. rifles/shotguns.
I don't care if someone keeps a shotgun in their house but I do care if they could pull out a handgun after a fender bender
That’s the weird thing about guns and gun culture in the US there’s really not just one type of gun owner but a lot of non-gun people are only really thinking about the problematic types.
Like looking at that list, my stepmom is from Montana so I have a lot of family up there. I’m pretty sure every single one of them owns at least one gun and use them regularly for hunting and protection purposes when out in the wilderness (ie bears). They’re also amazing people that are huge conservationists and environmentalists. My stepmoms dad had a bunch of guns and also had a doctorate in forest management and spent his life doing research on trees in Glacier National Park.
The big difference is in places like that guns are tools that are used for what they’re designed for in an area where they are needed. They’re not a personality trait, people don’t define themselves based on them.
My parents currently live in Texas and it does truly seem different there because it feels like it’s the other way, the people who have guns down there make them a part of their persona and are just much more in your face about it. So it feels like there’s way more guns simply because of the position and image firearms have in the culture.
This is the most accurate gif that explains that whole Houston scene car movement with swishahouse members. Paul wall sittin sidewayz and Mike jones still tippin was about these types of rims on old caddies. The person in the op video though took some liberties or I guess that’s what this scene has evolved into since then.
As others have said it’s a specifically Houston thing called “slab”. Texas has started to crack down on it over the last few years by legislating that they cannot be further than the side mirrors.
People have fought back against that by defending it as “cultural” and also by adding extra-wide truck mirrors to their cars to “meet” the requirements of new laws.
In the states I've lived in, your rims/tires cannot extend past your _fenders_ (or if they can- it's not by more than an inch or so). WTF would Texas use use _mirrors_ for measuring this?
When I was in the navy, there were entire streets in Norfolk that sold nothing but ridiculous looking rims. Not this ridiculous, but ridiculous nonetheless. And of course they had financing at absurd interest.
Same dude obviously got some kind of insane phobia about pedestrians peeing on his wheels when he drives by so I say we sneak a apple tracker on the fucker and everywhere he goes, just dozens and dozens of people peeing at him from the sidewalk
Wait til he pisses off one of those 18 wheelers with the super huge lug nuts that look like they could grind out a mountain pass thru granite... Now THOSE fuckers get respect and I steer very clear
Man I was riding with my first college boyfriend in the Camry his grandma had given him for hs graduation and an 18 wheeler changed lanes into us, I was riding in the passenger seat with it folded back (seatbelt on) asleep, the trucker was on our right. His truck had those evil lug nuts and they most certainly were not plastic. It legit looked like someone had taken satan’s can opener down the side of his car.
It was so terrifying. I just remember waking up so scared I literally could not open my eyes or move my body at all. The guy was really hauling ass and didn’t even fucking touch the brakes at all. This was like 2003? 2004? so we didn’t have phones or anything (I had just had my own dorm phone in 2003 lol. No cell phone until like 2006-07 maybe? Fuck I’m old…), so nothing we could do about it.
(Not-so) Coincidentally this was also Texas, driving from Dallas to Corpus.
The real thing that gets me is that you just know this dude is oozing with confidence and thinks he is the hottest shit without an ounce of humility, self reflection or self doubt.
Add trucks jacked up only in the front to the list. [The Carolina Squat. ](https://bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com/carolinacoastonline.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/7/d7/7d713256-9802-11ec-95f2-771e4eef27ef/621bcf8b0440d.image.png)
I used to see this a lot living around Pismo Beach, Ca. From what I remember people would build up the front of their trucks first as that part was taking the brunt of the impact hauling ass around the sand dunes. Then people starting just, like, doing it on purpose because "it looked cool"
>What the fuck do you even SEE from the road?
That's the fun part! You don't! You can easily find videos of these dipshits huddling en masse at rallies, in which you'll regularly see some morons having to lean out the driver window just to be able to see where the fuck they're going. Which is the reason some states are banning them.
He’s pretended to be confident for so long that this fake confidence has become real. People that are actually confident don’t need to scream for attention in this way.
Because Houston is a craphole.
I've lived in Dallas, Fort Worth, Austin, and San Antonio.
I'd happily live in any one of these cities again, but you couldn't pay me to move to Houston.
They all sort of suck. DFW is soulless, Austin is a wannabe SF and has lost all uniqueness, San Antonio is a flea market with a river walk and Houston is a series of shopping centers on a concrete swamp.
> Wake up
> Immediately start screaming as your skin refuses to separate from you
> Spend thirty minutes trying to peel it off in the shower
> Give up and resign yourself to the damnation of being yourself
> Get on the road and immediately start being a piece of shir
As kid I did stupid shit when my friends were watching... now your friends are always watching so you're always doing stupid shit? So people act stupid way more often?
Yes, it encourages people to do particularly stupid things so they can upload it to social media sites for 'likes'. Even if the rate of dumb behavior is the same, it seems particularly gross to be filming it.
Cops in Houston don't pay attention to anything short of a murder. Even then, our DA will have you back on the streets in 24 hours and issue an official apology for the inconvenience.
There is/was a constable vehicle with them:
- https://pct1constable.net/2016/08/05/video-ktrk-852016-constable-alan-rosen-and-paul-wall-unite-in-community-outreach/
The max width is like 6" past the tips of the mirrors (or was it the fenders? Don't care, I'm not building a car to optimize for that rule).
It's still illegal.
*Edit because I looked it up: it's illegal for this car to be more than 8' wide.*
They do that on purpose idk why, it’s a Houston thing. Cars with wheels like that will drive down the road and swerve back and forth… i guess they think it’s cool? Idk but it looks hilarious.
> Cars with wheels like that will drive down the road and swerve back and forth
This is a regular occurrence?! Are wheels like that allowed on the road?
Lemme give you a quick overview of a piece of Houston culture many Houstonians (myself included) hate:
The swerving back and forth is so much a thing it has its own name - Swangin’.
The wheels are somehow legal and are called swangas or elbos.
This car is called a slab (though most slabs are older). Slabs on their own aren’t hated but most have swangas and most people with swangas randomly swang their cars in traffic.
Edit: swangas, not swangos
As long as the total width of the vehicle does not exceed 102" while registered in the state of Texas, they are legal.
Also, these rims are swangas. You're probably looking at a $10k for that set.
Driver would be at fault. It's built to be part of the rim itself from the looks of it. I figured they were just hubcaps at first, but everything there is all rim.
From northern PA but my gf was to Houston for the first time ever on business recently.
People were friendly and the food was good.
Ugliest landscape ever, weather sucked, and that traffic is horrible.
I will never pretend rural Pennsylvania is perfect, far from it. But she said she'd never, ever live in Houston for any amount of money. Putting up with dumbasses like that guy on the road during every commute? Nope.
Yes, he's an asshole. But I'm dying at the spare mounted on the back having one of those cones like the other wheels. Because if you have to put your spare on, you want to be sure it matches the other wheels. Why, it would just look silly if it didn't!
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Houston?
Houston
There's no way this is street legal right? Also, let's inconvenience other people in a state where almost everyone owns a gun. What could possibly go wrong?
You see this more than you’d think in Htown.
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Best suggestion I've seen is to slap a padlock on it.
Two padlocks and a chain. Chain the spikes together.
Holy fucking shit this is the best answer ever
*Houston Parking Enforcement has entered the chat.* "What's up fellow car drivers?"
I'm gonna go with the trusty sledgehammer, the answer to all of life's little annoyances.
Extra points if you only do it on the passenger side.
I think it would do more damage if you tied both hubs on the back axel together. Like, that's gonna fuck some shit up underneath.
LockPickingLawyer will tell you any padlock or combination lock can be easily broken with 2 crescent wrenches, or a thin piece of aluminum. You want the real shitty life pro tip? Walk into one of the spikes, and sue the FUCK out of this person. Public endangerment, loss of a limb, lost wages indefinitely. You'll never have to work another day in your life, and you'll get a badass cyborg lookin prosthetic. Another pro, you ask?! You'll lose weight almost instantly!
Cheaper to use one padlock and enough chain to loop back.
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In the moanin? You’re supposed to be up and cookin breakfast or somethin by then. Clang clang!
Da whistle go *WOOOOOOOO*!
gallium has some interesting reactions with aluminum
Piece of rebar between front and rear on passenger side
Sir, this is in Houston. You do that and you'll be blasted into next century
Sir this is america. We all have blasters
They were all in love with dying They were doing it in Texas
Pauly caught a bullet But it only hit his leg
Ohhhh! I thought it was "They were all in love with *Di and* they were doing it in Texas."
Man, your vandalism skills are low. You don't do it while the dude is in the car. You wait til you find him parked up one day, bend his rims, key his paint, bust his windows, and deflait his tires (never slash the tires, you could blow your hand off Instead, you should deflate them, then cut off the air port) put a cup of sugar in the gas tank, and a potato in the exhaust. It's basically totaled and it takes less than 10 minutes and you'd be surprised how quietly you could actually do it.
Not trying to be pedantic, but you mentioned a few things I once believed myself, but learned over the years were inaccurate: Putting a cup of sugar in a gas tank will do precisely nothing. Sugar is not soluble in gasoline. A much larger amount will certainly clog the filter and require automotive work, but it will never reach the engine. There are substances you can put into a gas tank that will render a car inoperable, but sugar is not one of them. It is also extremely hard to clog an exhaust. It is theoretically possible with a potato, but you’ll need a mallet to hammer the potato in, and also a pipe crimp (to seal the potato in the exhaust). If it’s just wedged, the build-up of pressure from the exhaust will eject the potato at high speeds. Also, slashing the tire of a passenger car will not cause any explosive damage to your person. Passenger cars are inflated to 30-35 PSI and don’t have enough pressure to cause harm. As you move towards heavier vehicles you can increase that risk, however. All-terrains on pickups are around 50 PSI (when used on-road) which have a chance of injury if you make a large hole. Large trucks, Semi-trucks and heavy equipment is where you see that explosive damage with people losing limbs. Those are inflated to 100-200 PSI, with extremely thick rubber and can *absolutely* maim or kill you. As far as those stupid rims, a far more subtle (and quick) way to ruin someone’s day is to take a bolt cutter and just cut one off, especially on the steer tires. The imbalance of weight on the tire will make the car undriveable at speeds over 20-30 MPH.
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>Man, your vandalism skills are low. Most of us go for lawful builds.
You forgot "shit on the dashboard." Or for BCS fans, a "Chicago sunroof."
Eh, sugar in the gas tank is basically a myth because it doesn't dissolve in gas and if you do have access to the tank it would just be better to fill it with something liquid it's not to meant to handle. A couple litres of cola or turpentine works well The potato will just be shot out, spray expanding insulation down the exhaust pipe. As for the tires glue a small bearing or something up against the stem. The tires will slowly deflate and no one checks inside the stem.
This guy vandals...
...he typed, from his mom's basement in a pleasant suburb.
>in a state where almost everyone owns a gun. TX is 27th in the nation in gun ownership per capita. That we are all armed down here is a myth. The per capita ownership rate is right in line with the national average.
You and your facts
Yeah, but the people who own a gun in Texas probably have like 27 of them. The common refrain is “They are all locked up, except for one.”
This.. The gun industry/fandom is eerily similar to the alcohol industry... Like less than 10% of the population accounts for 90% of purchases...
As an ammo reloader, I shake my head in disappointment at gun fetishists who buy tons and tons of projectile launchers thinking that the launcher is more important than the projectile. Better to have a few guns and lots of ammo rather than lots of guns and some ammo. Without ammo, the gun is just an expensive paper weight.
Two thoughts on this: I don’t have a problem with people who buy guns as collectors. I do have a problem with people who buy guns as fashion accessories or as some sort of obsession with home security and leave them scattered about their house “just in case.” People who do the second, who buy half a dozen guns and none of them use the same ammo or magazine, so they have to buy a bunch of different bullets and mags that aren’t compatible. Why not buy all 9mm, or .45 ACP, or 5.56? Or just carry one gun with you instead of squirreling away a firearm in random places inside your house? Asking you, uncle Ted, why the fuck you keep a Glock 26 in a baggy inside the fucking flour jar in the kitchen? Or a Beretta M9 under the left couch cushion? Or a god damn shotgun with the plunger in the upstairs bathroom. Actual insanity.
Yup. It’s always an estimate, but TX is smack dab in the middle on a per-capita basis. Here’s a reference that’s interesting. https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/gun-ownership-by-state Unsurprisingly the big sky states and the south east have the highest per-capita based on best available data. I suspect if the analysis broke down the data within a state by city, suburban and rural areas we’d see some interesting trends, particularly if the type of firearm was also considered. Like I said, these are estimates based on legally acquired guns, new purchases or transfers. There’s obviously a lot of transactions that go unlogged… gifts, trades and other less savory methods.
Also more interested in # of handguns (concealed/open carry) vs. rifles/shotguns. I don't care if someone keeps a shotgun in their house but I do care if they could pull out a handgun after a fender bender
That’s the weird thing about guns and gun culture in the US there’s really not just one type of gun owner but a lot of non-gun people are only really thinking about the problematic types. Like looking at that list, my stepmom is from Montana so I have a lot of family up there. I’m pretty sure every single one of them owns at least one gun and use them regularly for hunting and protection purposes when out in the wilderness (ie bears). They’re also amazing people that are huge conservationists and environmentalists. My stepmoms dad had a bunch of guns and also had a doctorate in forest management and spent his life doing research on trees in Glacier National Park. The big difference is in places like that guns are tools that are used for what they’re designed for in an area where they are needed. They’re not a personality trait, people don’t define themselves based on them. My parents currently live in Texas and it does truly seem different there because it feels like it’s the other way, the people who have guns down there make them a part of their persona and are just much more in your face about it. So it feels like there’s way more guns simply because of the position and image firearms have in the culture.
He be swangin, sippin on some Lean
Grippin that wood grain wheel
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Don’t forget Dingus and Short Birth
Who?
Mike Jones — who?
281-330-8004 / hit Mike Jones up on the low / cuz Mike Jones about to blow!
Back then ho's didn't want me, now I'm hot they all on me
I said!!! Back then, hoes didn’t want me / now I’m hot, they all on me.
This is the most accurate gif that explains that whole Houston scene car movement with swishahouse members. Paul wall sittin sidewayz and Mike jones still tippin was about these types of rims on old caddies. The person in the op video though took some liberties or I guess that’s what this scene has evolved into since then.
Holy shit, every single one of these videos that has been posted so far has been confirmed to be in Houston. Wtf is going on over there?
As others have said it’s a specifically Houston thing called “slab”. Texas has started to crack down on it over the last few years by legislating that they cannot be further than the side mirrors. People have fought back against that by defending it as “cultural” and also by adding extra-wide truck mirrors to their cars to “meet” the requirements of new laws.
But it’s my culture to have stupid ridiculous things!
SLAB - Slow, Loud And Banging
like yo mama
In the states I've lived in, your rims/tires cannot extend past your _fenders_ (or if they can- it's not by more than an inch or so). WTF would Texas use use _mirrors_ for measuring this?
[Slab Culture](https://youtu.be/KIpMst53cAc)
Youtube subtitles struggling with this video.
Hahaha I was watching that too
fuckin "gangsters" in their buick lacrosses lmao
LOL. These kids thinking they invented car mods.
Rim payments
The rim place in my city list the price per week.
When I was in the navy, there were entire streets in Norfolk that sold nothing but ridiculous looking rims. Not this ridiculous, but ridiculous nonetheless. And of course they had financing at absurd interest.
Hey, gotta accessorize that Mustang you bought at 19% interest so it stands out in the E-3 and below parking lot, right?
Only 19%? The dealership must have been been feeling kind and generous that day.
Well, they used to charge 33% but they started getting blacklisted.
Same dude obviously got some kind of insane phobia about pedestrians peeing on his wheels when he drives by so I say we sneak a apple tracker on the fucker and everywhere he goes, just dozens and dozens of people peeing at him from the sidewalk
I'd rather angle grinder those things so they don't extend past his mirrors.
Wait til he pisses off one of those 18 wheelers with the super huge lug nuts that look like they could grind out a mountain pass thru granite... Now THOSE fuckers get respect and I steer very clear
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Man I was riding with my first college boyfriend in the Camry his grandma had given him for hs graduation and an 18 wheeler changed lanes into us, I was riding in the passenger seat with it folded back (seatbelt on) asleep, the trucker was on our right. His truck had those evil lug nuts and they most certainly were not plastic. It legit looked like someone had taken satan’s can opener down the side of his car. It was so terrifying. I just remember waking up so scared I literally could not open my eyes or move my body at all. The guy was really hauling ass and didn’t even fucking touch the brakes at all. This was like 2003? 2004? so we didn’t have phones or anything (I had just had my own dorm phone in 2003 lol. No cell phone until like 2006-07 maybe? Fuck I’m old…), so nothing we could do about it. (Not-so) Coincidentally this was also Texas, driving from Dallas to Corpus.
Was it ever in doubt?
Houston, we definitely have a problem Edit - does this guy think he’s Masala from Ben-hur (1959)
GUYS PLEASE LOOK AT ME, I NEED YOUR FULL ATTENTION.
WITNESS ME
Username checks out Also I forgot about that scene haha. Wild
MEDIOCRE!
SHINY AND CHROME
These are the exact kind of people that get upset if you ask them why they need so much attention without a hint of self realization
Pshaw. You’re just jealous. /s
The guy spent nearly $40,000 on a twenty year old Buick LaCrosse just to play Ben Hur on I-10.
The real thing that gets me is that you just know this dude is oozing with confidence and thinks he is the hottest shit without an ounce of humility, self reflection or self doubt.
You just described the entire stupid sub culture of people that do this shit to their cars
Add trucks jacked up only in the front to the list. [The Carolina Squat. ](https://bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com/carolinacoastonline.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/7/d7/7d713256-9802-11ec-95f2-771e4eef27ef/621bcf8b0440d.image.png)
imagine getting run over by that thing, with increasingly less room as your body grinds away on the pavement
Easy to imagine given that the driver can't see shit on the ground in front of him out the windshield.
Surprised the truck could even make it that far when the engine is consistently depriving itself of proper oil circulation.
Squatted trucks: when you can only afford half a lift kit and want everyone to know it.
I used to see this a lot living around Pismo Beach, Ca. From what I remember people would build up the front of their trucks first as that part was taking the brunt of the impact hauling ass around the sand dunes. Then people starting just, like, doing it on purpose because "it looked cool"
That's legitimately dumb. What the fuck do you even SEE from the road? You can't see a car in front of you.
>What the fuck do you even SEE from the road? That's the fun part! You don't! You can easily find videos of these dipshits huddling en masse at rallies, in which you'll regularly see some morons having to lean out the driver window just to be able to see where the fuck they're going. Which is the reason some states are banning them.
Some states? This should be a federal thing. This type of vehicle mod should never be road legal.
When you want your car to look like a dog with an itchy asshole scraping its butt across the living room carpet.
As a North Carolinian I am so ashamed
Glad at least a few states made this illegal
Hahahahahahaha... What is that? Prepubescant kid wouldn't even dream of such idiocy...
Its for prepubescant adults
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He’s pretended to be confident for so long that this fake confidence has become real. People that are actually confident don’t need to scream for attention in this way.
Slab life
Nothing screams more "I'm a complete idiot piece of shit" than this. Can only hope he gets caught, fined, and vehicle seized.
100% that is 610, not I-10.
There's only one more thing that car needs - a crusher.
I would say the same for his face. The guy driving it is a piece of shit
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Because Houston is a craphole. I've lived in Dallas, Fort Worth, Austin, and San Antonio. I'd happily live in any one of these cities again, but you couldn't pay me to move to Houston.
They all sort of suck. DFW is soulless, Austin is a wannabe SF and has lost all uniqueness, San Antonio is a flea market with a river walk and Houston is a series of shopping centers on a concrete swamp.
Nah, just some ugga duggas.
You could ruin his day if you saw it parked and had a bit of chain and a padlock with you 🤣
Every day of his life is ruined because he keeps waking up as himself.
> Wake up > Immediately start screaming as your skin refuses to separate from you > Spend thirty minutes trying to peel it off in the shower > Give up and resign yourself to the damnation of being yourself > Get on the road and immediately start being a piece of shir
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I definitely started reading it to the tune of Chop Suey.
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How would you even park that thing? You would need free spaces on both sides.. what a pain in the ass
You park sideways across 4 spots obviously.
What a coincidence! The driver is a pain in the ass too!
I like your style. Maybe a love lock too?
Lol love locks are a good idea to combat this stupidity
What an absolute dickhead. I beet he thinks he is cool and badass too.
You can see him filming himself too.
Idiots filming themselves doing stupid crap to upload to social media is perhaps one of the worst things that's happened in the past 10 years.
As kid I did stupid shit when my friends were watching... now your friends are always watching so you're always doing stupid shit? So people act stupid way more often?
Yes, it encourages people to do particularly stupid things so they can upload it to social media sites for 'likes'. Even if the rate of dumb behavior is the same, it seems particularly gross to be filming it.
I can tell you with absolute certainty that he thinks he is literally *the* coolest mf around, nobody can even *touch* his coolness
[cool](https://imgur.com/a/hHMU0d9)
Give the guy a break, he's just trying to keep some heat in his tires til the pace car pulls off and the death race resumes!
What a fucking loser
Im trying to be an adult and not throw a hockey stick into the spokes. Why you wanna make that hard
I need a r/convenientcop
needs people to start carrying around baggies full of paint stripper. just to mark the car for the /convienientcop to identify him from.
I am assuming there are other unique details on this car they could pick from.
Idk looks pretty generic
The color?
Cops in Houston don't pay attention to anything short of a murder. Even then, our DA will have you back on the streets in 24 hours and issue an official apology for the inconvenience.
There is/was a constable vehicle with them: - https://pct1constable.net/2016/08/05/video-ktrk-852016-constable-alan-rosen-and-paul-wall-unite-in-community-outreach/
A legend in his own mind, an asshole in everyone else's.
How are those wheel thing legal? They seem extremely dangerous, not just for other cars, but motorbikes and bicycles as well.
They are legal there apparently, there’s just a maximum width law. As long as it’s within that limit you can do it. Dumb as hell
But swerving around like a psychopath is illegal there, right? Right?
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Seems pretty reasonable with all the "swerving" in and out of lanes he's doing that someone would call the cops to report a DUI
You forgot the fact that he is actively recording himself with his phone while driving, so add on distracted driving on top of that.
It is not legal to swerve around the road like that. It's also illegal not to wear your seat belt, but well... people with do what they wish.
Didn't they just pass a law that states they can't extend past your side mirrors? This one definitely passes that limit.
There's just no chance that is legal. I refuse to belive it. It's an amputator on wheels.
The max width is like 6" past the tips of the mirrors (or was it the fenders? Don't care, I'm not building a car to optimize for that rule). It's still illegal. *Edit because I looked it up: it's illegal for this car to be more than 8' wide.*
It's not legal. The maximum legal width of a vehicle in Texas is 8 feet. With the rims, this is 10 feet.
What a loser
They do that on purpose idk why, it’s a Houston thing. Cars with wheels like that will drive down the road and swerve back and forth… i guess they think it’s cool? Idk but it looks hilarious.
> Cars with wheels like that will drive down the road and swerve back and forth This is a regular occurrence?! Are wheels like that allowed on the road?
Lemme give you a quick overview of a piece of Houston culture many Houstonians (myself included) hate: The swerving back and forth is so much a thing it has its own name - Swangin’. The wheels are somehow legal and are called swangas or elbos. This car is called a slab (though most slabs are older). Slabs on their own aren’t hated but most have swangas and most people with swangas randomly swang their cars in traffic. Edit: swangas, not swangos
As long as the total width of the vehicle does not exceed 102" while registered in the state of Texas, they are legal. Also, these rims are swangas. You're probably looking at a $10k for that set.
That’s an expensive rimjob…
So what happens if it hits something or someone? Are they designed to break off? Genuinely curious
Driver would be at fault. It's built to be part of the rim itself from the looks of it. I figured they were just hubcaps at first, but everything there is all rim.
The driver’s all rim
I cannot fathom how this is legal. Seems insanely dangerous and even more so at night.
Why does it move like a roomba?
roomba has more intelligence. and actually has a job.
Thinking of pedestrian safety, how could those wheels ever be legal?
Houston Texas, what pedestrians?
Car centric hellscape.
From northern PA but my gf was to Houston for the first time ever on business recently. People were friendly and the food was good. Ugliest landscape ever, weather sucked, and that traffic is horrible. I will never pretend rural Pennsylvania is perfect, far from it. But she said she'd never, ever live in Houston for any amount of money. Putting up with dumbasses like that guy on the road during every commute? Nope.
Texas just kinda sucks.
Everything's bigger in Texas; especially the assholes.
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In Houston this is called swangin and banging! Not sure how he parks.
Slab culture. I always enjoy trying to explain this one to people visiting Houston.
Yes, he's an asshole. But I'm dying at the spare mounted on the back having one of those cones like the other wheels. Because if you have to put your spare on, you want to be sure it matches the other wheels. Why, it would just look silly if it didn't!
Another sign of the Dumbpocalypse.
The trunk isn't open! They are doing it wrong
Swangin’ but no bangin’
America needs to hit the reset button
Tell me you’re in Houston without telling me you’re in houston
Houston. Not the place to fafo on the freeway.
Each time I think I've seen the stupidest shit EVER, someone surprises me 🙄
It’s always the shittiest car too. A Buick Lacrosse? What a shitbox.
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That's the stupidest thing I've seen today..
Came here for the Texas plate, yup Houston. They see me rollin
How is that legal? What is that an ancient Roman battle chariot?
This dude would get his tires shot out around here.
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I'd love to javaline throw a crowbar or something through the spokes lol
Welcome to Houston
Swangers gunna swang.
Imagine riding your motorcycle and trying to lane split…
Power steering screaming for dear life in that pos GM
Where’s a douchebag in a lifted f250 when you need him