He'll need wiper blades on the inside of his windscreen after that flip.

LMFAHS @ the windshield wipers.

>> ^Drax:
Upvoting for the windshield wipers.


Agreed - it's 8 in the morning, and I LOL'd whilst eating cheerios.

Upvoting for the windshield wipers.

It all could've been avoided if they had turned on their wipers.

>> ^imstellar28:
Maybe you agree with it, like you might agree with punishing shoplifting by cutting peoples hands off, but its tyranny all the same.


I'm more of a cut their tongue out for lying kinda guy.

But seriously, why do you think you were pulled over if you'd done absolutely nothing wrong?

Don't you think the cop thought you were doing something that might qualify as reckless endangerment, but that the circumstances were such that it didn't warrant any punishment because at that moment no one was at risk?

We're not talking about a cop busting you for drug possession with planted drugs, or tapping your phone without a warrant, or holding you for 7 years without trial.

We're talking about a cop who's job is to enforce traffic laws pulling you over to say "hey, what you were doing wasn't safe" and tell you some scare story about the law.

I don't know motorcycle law, but I'm certain the law doesn't say you must have both hands on the wheel of a car or you go to jail for 5 years. It might say driving with no hands on the wheel is punishable with jail time, but that's different.

If you had to have both hands on the wheel at all times, cup holders, manual transmissions, and non-automatic wipers and headlights would be illegal, unless the controls were all mounted so they could be operated without ever pulling your palm off the wheel.

I could easily see there being laws about motorcycles requiring both hands on the bars at all times, but my quick google tells me the cop lied to you. There are laws against carrying a package that prevents you from being able to have both hands on the bars at all times, and possibly if you were needing to constantly keep one hand on your shirt in order to see, that might have qualified.

If the cop had arrested you, it would've been delightfully murky as far as the law was concerned, and the court would've had a chance to set precedent, so the next time it happens there's a little objective clarity about that particular situation.

Enoch is right. The health insurance industry/lobby is failing and abusing us dramatically. In large part, this is because they fail to acknowledge what "insurance" is. Insurance is supposed to be for when something goes badly wrong. Car insurance companies do not pay for maintenance tune-ups, new wipers, signal lights and brake pads, even though those can all prevent accidents. Why then does health insurance cover those? Answer: it makes them more money. The more they get their dirty fingers into our health care, the more money they make. But that's more money that goes to a middle man and is spent on bureaucracy instead of into doctors' pockets. This is causing rising prices and decreasing numbers of doctors due to higher workload for less pay.

Let's be clear. Insurance is for alleviating the cost of *problems* by spreading risk across a population. Insurance is NOT for checkups, vaccinations and allergy meds. You can try to rationalize that those reduce later costs, but the evidence i'm seeing out there is rising costs and reduced physician availability. The proof is in the pudding.

So, what to do? I'm fine with the government financing health insurance and even regular health care. No issues. I'm not fine with the government running both of those through greedy insurance companies and complicated bureuacracies. I like their compassion for the poor and sick. I despise their need for control. I do believe the free market can do it better. But for that to happen, we have to do a few things:

1) finance it via tax credits (deductions for the rich, rebates for the poor) so that individuals maintain control of spending, but have at least a portion of it ultimately paid by the government. thus we have both freedom AND compassion. oh, and this must include Medicare/Medicaid.

2) ending the employer tax breaks for providing health care. this is sand in the free market gears, as it reduces the number of choices happening.

3) educate people that the "we pay for every little thing" plans are not financially sound. because, they're not, especially if #1 is put in place.

oh, and the whole abortion debate is handled on preposterously unscientific grounds most of the time. it's plain as day that unborn "fetuses" are very much human children long before they are born. my son was born at 24 weeks. would he really have been "just a fetus" that my wife had some "right to kill" for the next 16 weeks were he not premature? Heck, i saw my daughter on ultrasound at 8.5 weeks. She already looked very human (just with an oversized head) and was moving around. Where on earth do we get the idea that human rights should only start at birth? Maybe that seemed sensible 30 years ago, but it's seems scientifically ignorant given all we've learned about life in utero since. I would much rather see the "right to abortion" at least end at a more sensible stage of development, like 8 or maybe 12 weeks. That's plenty of time to make a choice.

What're kids doing serving the kool-aid/wiper fluid anyway?
(Check the title)

When I saw the windshield wiper, I thought "How in the hell did that bus get on an aircraft carrier?"

Oh wow, this would make windshield wipers almost obsolete!!

i was thinkng the same as stingray, my guess would be that she is afraid to go in reverse into the street.
did she put in the wiper in teh back withouth meanig to?
she seems very stressed, the unecessary hard break when she goes slowly forward etc.
and after the crash, she goes forward, does not adjust the angle of the car at all, and goes back in the same track she did last time.

Yeah, I just gonna say that if you can't operate a motor vehicle without activating the wipers, you don't deserve a license.

Yes, it's a woman! Bonus points for repeated and pointless use of the rear windshield wiper, and the left brake light out.

they also did a sweet cover of this wipers song,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5SxzET4CJY&feature=related

nirvana version:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Er2T4_9pNcA&feature=related

this song is called D7, and is a cover of the Wipers by Nirvana.

Wipers version:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRa5BWOOGZM