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Netrunner,
I'm not saying Republicans need the keys. I'm saying that Obama and the Democrats aren't exactly backing up the tow truck. Understand how we got in the Ditch? Let's see, Republican President throws us in War we don't want, need, or can afford to satisfy his Dad's agenda. Check!
Greedy banks and real estate agents lie and giving out loans to people that have no means to pay for them. Check!
Home cost to skyrocket only to imploded when the balloon payments go into effect. CHECK!
Then the banks sell the loans to Freddie and Fanny who are forced to buy the loans by the Government. These organizations then get stuck holding the bag for BILLIONS of dollars worth of bad loans. CHECK!
Oh yeah I got plenty of blame to sling around and I think I've got a pretty good idea of why we're in this mess. From what I can tell Health Care didn't have a hell of a lot to do with it. I'm glad we got it and I think millions will benefit from it, but now we need to focus on fixing our economy, and I don't hear anything from Washington except that we are going to wind up paying more. How much am I going to have to pay out of my check to fix other peoples greed? So don't take your holier than tho' attitude that I "still" don't understand. It doesn't take much to understand that my companies sales continue to sink in the toilet. 2 years in and Obama's still blaming Republicans. Democrats control the House and the Senate! Get a solution together and FIX THE DAMN ECONOMY! But that means creating jobs that aren't government jobs and I haven't seen Obama present a plan yet that does that. Oh wait, we can just extend unemployment! That's a great way to help the situation.

So do you know where the road is? Because I don't think bottomless funding of Freddie and Fanny is the way to go. So what's worse? That the Republicans didn't learn from their mistakes or that the Democrats didn't learn from the Republican's mistakes or even their own?!
Oh and judging from some of the polls, it seems more and more of the general population thinks so too.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2010-03-31-poll_N.htm
http://abcnews.go.com/PollingUnit/republican-rise-doubts-obama-economy-abc-news-poll/story?id=9785572

Just an FYI, most stolen cars are tow trucked away

>> ^LordOderus:

What if the car was a standard and was in gear? Wouldn't dragging the tires like that cause damage when they can't roll freely?


The majority of cars on the road today are two-wheel drive. The Chevrolet Corvette being towed at the beginning of the video is rear-wheel drive and the Toyota Corolla at the end of the video is front-wheel drive. In these cases, the tow truck driver hoists the car by it's driven wheels.

In the case of an all-wheel drive vehicle, this solution would cause damage to the vehicle. I would be especially worried if I owned a car that was mostly sold as front-wheel drive, but the one I owned was one of a few rare, all-wheel drive models(which I do). You can't expect a tow truck driver to know the driven wheels of every car ever made, and the ad itself points out that the tow truck driver can do everything without ever getting out of his truck.

>> ^Payback:
>> ^Samaelsmith:
If a car is in the way, wouldn't it make more sense to tow it out of the way as opposed to making damned sure it stays in the way?
I have never understood these devices.

Tow trucks cost money, impound yards take up space. One enforcer can clamp dozens of vehicles per hour, and the powers-that-be still get the full impound charge for merely turning a key in a lock...


But if the car is now locked into the spot it shouldn't be in then doesn't that make a mockery of the supposed reason for it not to be there in the first place?
Wouldn't that mean that these "laws" aren't really for any good reason but just a way to arbitrarily extort money from the public?

Yeah, I know, just consider those to be rhetorical questions.

>> ^Samaelsmith:
If a car is in the way, wouldn't it make more sense to tow it out of the way as opposed to making damned sure it stays in the way?
I have never understood these devices.


Tow trucks cost money, impound yards take up space. One enforcer can clamp dozens of vehicles per hour, and the powers-that-be still get the full impound charge for merely turning a key in a lock...

>> ^Pushkill:
In Ukraine, Truck don't tow car, car tow truck!


The Netherlands, Ukraine, it's all the same.

In Ukraine, Truck don't tow car, car tow truck!

You would if you were smart. Obviously these guys don't have that quality. The tow truck guys are lucky as hell that the thing exploded the way it did, straight out from the top, otherwise they would have been toast.

Tow-truck companies do asinine things too. Like slapping "mad fees" on people. This is pure justice.

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So this penguin's driving through the desert when his car breaks down. He calls for a tow truck and a walrus arrives to tow the car. When they get to the garage the walrus says he'll need a while to look over the car and figure out what's wrong, so the penguin waddles out of the garage and looks around. Spotting a super market across the street he immediately begins waddling that way to get out of the heat.

Once inside he heads straight for the frozen food section and notices they're having a sale on ice cream. The penguin's eyes light up and he dives head first into the freezer eating up all the ice cream he can get his flippers on. After a while he's full and figures the car's probably ready by now so he pays for the ice cream and immediately heads back to the garage.

Once there he waddles up to the walrus who's got the hood of the car up and looks to be working on it still. The penguin asks, "So.. figure out what's wrong?". The walrus turns and nods saying, "Well, it looks like you blew a seal.". The penguin flushes bright red while covering his mouth and says, "Oh! No it's just ice cream!".

This has nothing to do with the topic, btw.