See, I have no problem with this.
I grew up shooting at the firing range with my dad too. (or often at the gravel pit.) I've never seen or ever witnessed any negativity to it as a sport. I can't relate to this guy's story. We always had rifles in the home. (Locked Up!) There was no negativity towards them, myself or anyone I knew involved.

But WE DON'T carry them with us, everywhere we go. We don't have handguns under our pillows, and we don't have automatic weapons. I can walk down the street knowing for a fact that there is no one that I pass on the street that has a gun under their coat or stuffed in their pants! (at least I'm 95% sure - and that's much different than being 99% sure that people I am passing DO have a gun)

Music video: On location in gravel pit.

I always use my bicycle on the sidewalk or separate bicycle roads, my average speed is 16 km/h (10 mph), I always look for immediate and potential dangers and slow down near kids and animals as well as turn down the volume on my music when I need to dedicate more attention, I never cross a road unless I have eye contact with the approaching driver, and I have never in my 30+ year life been close to landing with any parts of my body above my knee (since all the crashes I have ever had have been low-speed while trying to break on gravel). (Also my mileage on bicycle since April when the snow disappeared is ~900km.)

Maybe this will come back to haunt me one day, but I'm so surprised that people need bicycle helmets for most of the slow speed bycycling they do when what they need is actually a brain, since everyone I know that has been involved in serious bicycle crashes have been stupid, reckless or just crazy.
Of course if you have to use the roads and live in France, then please do wear one..

Pay attention to the car thats coming instead of cutting. Tap the break a bit instead of going full speed down a hill. Slow down (and show some respect) for your fellow humans and animals.
Avoiding an accident alltogether is always better than being in one with a crappy helmet.

I use a helmet when I go snowboarding and mountain biking though, but it's not a bicycle helmet.

Saw this in real-time on a highway crew-Fully loaded gravel truck slammed into the back of a flag-line and compacted two cars (passengers included) into the back of another semi parked at the front of the line.....cruise control, driver fell asleep

pretty nasty

I started with an 80 gallon that now has 8 discus, 1 endlicheri and 1 senegal bichir, and a synodontis eupterus "featherfin squeaker" catfish.

Now I've got 2 additional 50 gallons that I set up with a Diana Walstad / NPT configuration with a layer of topsoil for substrate topped with small gravel in one tank and sand in the other. Danois and neons in the gravel and tiger barbs and corydoras in the sand. Those tanks work great for strong, heavy planting, and can go for months without any water changes or other maintenance -- quite the opposite of the picky discus!

Always fun to hear about another aquarium lover.

You can also use gravel on potholes..and if they are really deep you don't even have to take all of the gravel back out to fill it..just enough to get a couple inches of asphalt on top to seal the water out.

If you don't seal the water out, you're just going to end up with another pothole there next year when the water gets in, freezes and busts the pothole if not more of the road apart.

So.....this bag might be good for a day or a week....but I don't see it working when people have to park on it, stop on it, or a myriad of other things.

Gravel on the other hand, you can spin some of it out of the hole but it'll do it's job for much longer than week in most circumstances...usually until they get around to patching it. Looks like shit, but so does a white plastic bag sitting in the road.

I like that picture you have up above. It reminds me once when I was a kid it rained that hard and we had an un-even gravel drive way so it had some pretty big puddles, while it rained like that my brother, cousin and I went into the puddles and swam like they were lakes. Got some funny pictures of it, of which I am not sure exist anymore.

On one server I played on, I had a room with a 10x10 grid (checkerboard of course) of chests on the floor and ceiling (200 total chests), with the vast majority filled with gravel, stone, dirt and sand (all labeled, naturally). Now, the one that had all my good stuff in it was in the "sand" section on the ceiling.

We had a dog that used to chase rocks - lots of fun in the gravel pit, she always brought back the correct rock too!

I was fined for parking in my yard a few years ago when people across the street have been doing it for years. The reason I was fined? Obstructing the sidewalk. There's no sidewalk in my yard, it stops about a block before my house. When I brought this to the attention of the local courthouse they told me that I was fined because if there would have been a sidewalk there, I would have been blocking it

>> ^MarineGunrock:

I fucking hate shit like this. I recently received a notice of violation from the city regarding my car being parked in my front year. How much grass do you see in any of the front yards here? None. All the yards here are rock and gravel. It's too costly and wasteful to maintain grass in 115 degree summers. Keep in mind it's not some shitty, broken-down car on blocks. It's an 04 Volvo S60 that's in perfect running order with no cosmetic damage. It's my fucking yard. I should be able to park my car there. I understand that the intent of the law is to keep heaps of junk from being stashed there, but fuck.

Yeah, the intent of the law is to legislate against poor people, but apparently we can't make a law against being poor. Maybe some day congress will get its shit together.>> ^MarineGunrock:

I fucking hate shit like this. I recently received a notice of violation from the city regarding my car being parked in my front year. How much grass do you see in any of the front yards here? None. All the yards here are rock and gravel. It's too costly and wasteful to maintain grass in 115 degree summers. Keep in mind it's not some shitty, broken-down car on blocks. It's an 04 Volvo S60 that's in perfect running order with no cosmetic damage. It's my fucking yard. I should be able to park my car there. I understand that the intent of the law is to keep heaps of junk from being stashed there, but fuck.

Mwahahaha and now I know where @MarineGunrock LIVES!

I'm gonna poop in his yard!>> ^MarineGunrock:

I fucking hate shit like this. I recently received a notice of violation from the city regarding my car being parked in my front year. How much grass do you see in any of the front yards here? None. All the yards here are rock and gravel. It's too costly and wasteful to maintain grass in 115 degree summers. Keep in mind it's not some shitty, broken-down car on blocks. It's an 04 Volvo S60 that's in perfect running order with no cosmetic damage. It's my fucking yard. I should be able to park my car there. I understand that the intent of the law is to keep heaps of junk from being stashed there, but fuck.

I fucking hate shit like this. I recently received a notice of violation from the city regarding my car being parked in my front year. How much grass do you see in any of the front yards here? None. All the yards here are rock and gravel. It's too costly and wasteful to maintain grass in 115 degree summers. Keep in mind it's not some shitty, broken-down car on blocks. It's an 04 Volvo S60 that's in perfect running order with no cosmetic damage. It's my fucking yard. I should be able to park my car there. I understand that the intent of the law is to keep heaps of junk from being stashed there, but fuck.

runaway truck never coming back...
your brakes don't work so here's a gravel track...

It would also help to front load the trailer. This happens quite often when the center of gravity is behind the rearmost wheels. A friend of mine rented a trailer to haul some building materials (concrete, sand, and gravel), and, not realizing the implications, rear loaded it all into the trailer. Same damn thing happened, a rapidly increasing swinging motion that basically pulled the car off the road. Totaled the car, but he walked away from it, and had remembered to purchase the rental insurance.