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If oil is leaking into the river, and we assume they get all that oil up, there will still be damage, and there is still the tree loss. On top of the waste of destroying working stuff.
How very USAian.
I like that quote from that one guy complaining about a river taking away more land each year... and the primary issue with that is less parking.
WTF?
I think the Johnstown flood being cause by a handful of rich assholes lowering the height of the dam so they could more easily drive to their hunting lodge has got to be up there.
We deserve to go extinct
ah yes, collective punishment
We’re all enablers at this point
I am not to any significant degree, and have done wirk against this at times in my life.
There is a whole lot more we could be doing. The fact that people in power are doing things like this already says we haven’t done enough. We have not gone extreme enough if this shit is occurring
Yes but this is a cause of peoppe who want to live, and this cukture doesnt love letting people who kill the powerful do that
So everybody dies. Unless some old fuvkers want to plant some trees in whose shade they will never sit.
Mate, edit your posts before hitting send.
Fuck that shit. This isnt me. I wouldn't do this. This isnt you. You wouldnt do this.
That shit absolves these fuckers of being such vile fuckers.
If these monsters are the ones in power making these decisions, then no, we aren’t doing enough.
Well, if you dont deserve to live, and you absolutely cannot be convinced otherwise; names and addresses arent hard to find for making very loud very personal statements.
Nah, just the gringos that do this kind of shit
Those crackers are there because a bunch of people enabled them to be there
I think we are devolving. More I talk to people the more I feel they lack simple knowledge. I recently spoke to someone that didn't know what the 4 step water cycle is, I fucking learned that in elementary school.
I think adding the 4 step in front may have confused them. I was only ever taught it was the water cycle it was never called the 4 step cycle, probably because water can kinda do the cycle in whatever step it wants. Some rain becomes ground water, some rain becomes runoff, some rain evaporates shortly after falling all from the same rain storm.
Someone downvoted you, and I can't imagine why. I've never heard it called that either.
BREAKING: US people who want to see things crash and burn aren't looking around!
I get the cringe value of some destruction derby stuff when there's at least some show, but there's none of any dumb fun in just dumping vehicles down.
You know, at least in my area, when they wheel a vehicle out onto the ice in winter to gamble about when it’ll fall through in spring, they strip out all the fuel lines and interiors and stuff and just leave the shit frame, and the cars themselves don’t work prior to being selected for this. I’m pretty sure they also retrieve them afterwards.
Could they do something better with the thing? Almost certainly. But at least it’s not… as bad as launching fully functional cars into a river just for funsies..
Why the hell does your area just regularly let a car break through the ice?
According to the novel American Gods it's a discreet way to dispose of the bodies.
No one expects them to be hidden in plain sight inside the klunker in the middle of the ice, no one's going to risk walking there and possibly drowning, and once it drops no one's going to dive to the bottom of the lake to find the skeletons in the old klunkers from previous years.
My local police does have a dive team, or at least access to one, but i could see that being harder to do in the past.
The culture may have been different then, but in my area fishermen will often go out before the ice is driveable. The smart ones wear some kind of floatation device. The younger fishermen would probably go check out the car during a slow part of the day, maybe see if some cool stuff is left behind or take some cool photos of it.
Honestly I don’t know. It’s a yearly thing though in several places I know of. They have contests (usually through local tv stations) to guess the date it’ll fall through and stuff. People bet on it.
It may have to do with the fact that a lot of people go ice fishing so we regularly hear about big trucks falling through the ice, so it’s something to keep people aware of the danger..? Or rural folks might just find that fun, idk.
As someone who fishes, it could be many things. First, if they leave them, they serve as great fish habitat. Fish don’t have eyelids, so somewhere to find shade during the sunniest bits of the day is great. And it breaks down into rust over time.
It could be for rescue diver practice. Sinking most of a vehicle to go mess with in a controlled setting is better than learning on an actual rescue.
And if this happens a bunch with bets and all, it could be a way of gauging when it is no longer safe to be out on the ice like you said. It’s always a gamble anyways, but that is pretty solid evidence of how safe it is if you know that body of water.
But it could just be redneck bullshittery. “The South” is anywhere 20 minutes outside of any major city in the USA. Go drive around and look, I promise it works. That’s how you get shit like this. They are everywhere.
I remember hearing about this. Its like you want people to know about this. I can't imagine that modern young folks in the area find this great.
I would be on board with this if we would just finish the job and throw the rest of the cars off a cliff too.
Humans fucking suck.
Hey uh this is an onion, yeah? Yeah? Plz?
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Maybe God was on to something the first time he drowned all of humanity. If only he’d just gotten like 3 or 4 more people.
This time god is ~~drowning us~~ letting us drown ourselves in trash.
Nobody wanted that. Not even Alaskans