Are you the type of asshole who leaves all the snow and ice on your car

[LynneSin]

If you are - you can go fuck yourself

:grr:

Nothing like having a big slab of snow & ice hit your windshield because some lazy fuck was too fucking lazy to clean all the snow and ice off of their car

[NewWaveChick1981]

1. I hate that shit too!

:grr: :mad: I clean my car off completely before I even THINK of driving it. It's been a while since it's snowed that much around here, but I've seen idiots scrape little cubbyholes in the snow so they can just barely see out of the front windshield and leave all the rest of the snow and/or ice on the car. If there's any layer of ice at all, it often flies off like the Phantom Zone thingie from Superman and hits whoever's behind them... :yoiks: Most people are freaking idiots around here when it comes to ice and snow...

[LynneSin]

3. Amen Sister

:pals:

[Mad_Dem_X]

2. Amen, Sister!

One of my top wintertime pet peeves, right there.

[Raven]

4. Very dangerous

Not only do you get hit but the person usually has a clear spot on their windshield the size of a quarter!This used to drive my crazy when I lived in Mass. I notice that it doesn't happen that much up here in NH

[JVS]

5. Tailgaters can go fuck themselves.

[LynneSin]

25. Or people who leave their damn turn signal on even when there is no turn

:grr:

[rocktivity]

56. We New Jerseyites don't use our turn signals correctly

because we're so fiercely protective of our privacy.

:eyes:
rocknation

[Ekirh]

58. I've been the opposite recently . .

Not using a turn signal at all . .

This is mainly because I needed to buy a new flasher. . .
f
Finally got it today . . . I was tired of using hand signals and everyone thinking I was really waving at them.

[zonkers]

38. I leave my ice and snow on and dress my car up as a snowman.

[grace0418]

55. You don't have to tailgate to have that happen. I was stopped at a light minding

my own business. When the light turned green, the genius in front of me tried to peel out (great idea when there is ice and snow everywhere) and a bunch of ice broke off the top of his car and flew into mine. I now have a nice dent on my hood and I'm lucky I don't have a cracked windshield.

[sniffa]

6. not onLy that

i aLso throw Lit cigarettes out the window.

[JVS]

7. I throw 3/4 empty bottles of beer out the window

[sniffa]

8. i throw these out the window too

[JVS]

9. sweet

[bicentennial_baby]

11. why do you want to kill the birdies?

:cry:

[sniffa]

15. because they're eviL

the rings are easier too, since most of the time, birds fLy out of harm's way when i aim my car at them.

[LynneSin]

21. Don't kill the birdies

What will my cat Evita feed on?

[Rabrrrrrr]

85. I wrap mine around seal necks first, so they don't blow away after I throw 'em.

[KG]

10. florida rocks!

:hi:

[mainegreen]

12. Nope. My car is cleeeean when I hit the road.

Probably because I drive a car with all the power of a golf cart so that extra snow really weighs me down!

[fortyfeetunder]

13. You're OK, right?

I hope you were OK, I can only imagine what happened to your windshield.
:hug:

[Patiod]

14. No, but my S.O. is

I refused to leave the gym Wednesday night until he cleared the icy snow off of the trunk and roof. He was pissy, but he did it.

I find that SUV owners tend to be the worst, probably because so many tiny little women drive them and they can't even reach the roof.

[Connonym]

16. off to fuck myself

I've never cleaned the snow off my roof. I don't think it has ever even occurred to me.

[taterguy]

17. I live in NC

If there's snow I stay the hell off the roads. I don't have much experience driving on snow and ice and the others on the roads have even less.

[bullwinkle428]

18. I'm not a believer in capital punishment...BUT -

there oughta be a law when it comes to these assholes!!! Perhaps an even worse related offense, is when they scrape a little "porthole" to look out the windshield rather than scraping the entire thing! :grr: :mad:

[bridgit]

19. moi, me!?!?!!? perish the thought...

[rocktivity]

59. See you in August, Bridgit!

:rofl:
rocknation

[bridgit]

76. ha! you got that right...

x( :rofl:

[sce56]

90. Well that looks more like solid Ice to me I thought we were talking about snow here.

I hate ICE

[bridgit]

97. well *I* thought it was snow *and* ice, but now that we're here...

:scared:

[sce56]

99. Ouch you are bringing back awful memories there

I once drove in to work making the four mile ice skate with no problems just to slide past the driveway to my shop then sitting there all day long one of the few of us to actually come in but no training that day. They would not march the troops to class due to the danger of the ice! Ft Lost in the Woods Misery

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

20. Only on the roof. My SUV is tall and I am short.

[LynneSin]

22. You know - the damn car that splated me had New Jersey plates

Fucking New Jersey drivers!

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

23. Delaware drivers are always in the way.

Anyway, if it didn't have a DU sticker (and others), it wasn't me.

So...

:P

[LynneSin]

24. Well either get a short car or get a stepstool

:grr:

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

26. I'll go back to my short car in a few months.

Why should I purchase a stepstool to clear off my SUV? Do you know how money I spend on gas?

[LynneSin]

27. Does my sister know she's dating a damn freeper

:shrug:

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

28. She's ridden in the freep mobile.

So not only has she risked catching freeper from it, but she has survived my driving.

I still haven't caught "The Commie" from her 55mpg diesel Golf. I guess it's commie vibes cannot overpower the 40mpg less I get in the Freep mobile.

[LostinVA]

65. "DEmocratic Socialism," not "Commie" from my diesel VW

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

70. What's the difference, commie?

[LostinVA]

71. YOU ARE A FREEPER!!!

[LostinVA]

64. *sigh* yes

But she's so damned cute, Lynne, and she adores me.

[LynneSin]

68. My cats adore me but if they were freepers....

...I'd toss them out on the street

:pals:

[LostinVA]

72. Evita IS a songbird killer

hehehehhehehe

[Fla Dem]

29. Another good reason to clear all the snow from your car. Improves gas mileage.

All the weight from the snow causes you to use more gas than if you had removed it. Economically and environmentally right think to do, as well as safety.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

49. Yes, but then I would ruin my Freeper creds.

[Nickster]

45. That's why I got one of those push brooms with an extendable handle. You can extend it and scoop off

the snow from the very top of the truck and then break it down and put it away nicely in the garage.

[LostinVA]

66. I have something like that for my car

Even though it's short, I'm short, too, and can't reach all of the roof on my own.

[MissMillie]

30. no

I'm an entirely different kind of asshole, altogether.

[LynneSin]

31. Not all assholes need to go fuck themselves

just those who refuse to remove the 5 inches of snow and ice off the top of their damn car!

Edit Note: Oh the Bush Regime can go fuck themselves too

[MissMillie]

32. I hear ya

they should a picture on TV of a car that had got hit by one of these slabs of ice.... the windshield was demolished and the driver was injured (thank goodness not seriously).

nasty, nasty stuff.

[leftofthedial]

33. lazy, inconsiderate bastards

I bet there is a strong correlation between being a repuke and leaving ice and snow on your car

[Jimbo S]

34. Yeah

So?

It's too damn cold to brush snow and chip ice off the roof, and besides I have to get to work.

I brush off the headlights and taillights so people can see me.

[Connonym]

41. I think we can infer that people from WI are assholes

or maybe if none of us brushes off our roof it all cancels out?

[Jimbo S]

60. From one ass hole to another

:pals:


if none of us brushes off our roof it all cancels out?

Nah, it just means we are all in this together.

[Connonym]

77. I'm assholier than thou

I'm actually gobsmacked by the whole notion of removing the snow from the car roof. I've been asking everyone I talked to today if they do that and either I just hang out with a lot of assholes or people in WI in general don't tend to be snow on the roof brusher offers.

[Jimbo S]

87. But I'm a professional asshole

I'm in management. I get paid to be one. :P

Plus, I have just the one heart to your three. }(

[Connonym]

104. Yes, clearly you're the assholier

I bow before your superior holiness. I'm not worthy, I'm not worthy

[Jimbo S]

117. No need to bow

Wanna be my Queen Bitch? Together we can rule The Lounge!

[Nikia]

89. I was too when I lived at my other place

Where I couldn't park in the garage.
Sometimes, it was hard enough to get all the ice and snow off my winshield and back window. Then there was the thing about facing punishment if I was late to work. Luckily, there were few other cars driving at 6:00 a.m. on my route to work. Even if there was though, I never saw big chunks of ice or snow falling off my car as I drove.

[TommyO]

35. This happened to one of my co-workers TWICE

on her drive in this morning on the Garden State Parkway and I-287. Fortunately no damage other than her now jangled nerves.

[Midlodemocrat]

36. Nope. I park in my garage.

:HAHAHAHA:

[TommyO]

40. I still have crap from my move in the garage

I pondered moving stuff out on Tuesday night into the spare room, but decided to go to Tae Kwon Do instead. Of course, I then spent a whole-lotta-time cleaning my car of after the snow, sleet, and freezing rain ended on Wednesday.

[jobycom]

37. Yes.

I live in Austin. Until January of this year, I never realized snow and ice could actually fly off a car like that. I figured it would just melt off.

[InvisibleTouch]

39. I am, actually.

I've got the excuse now that I've got a great big van and I can't reach the roof, but even when I had a shorter car, I usually left the snow on the top. I've been guilty of the "scraping a tiny little porthole in the windshield" thing too, and then cranking up the heat so the rest would melt from the inside during the drive. Combination of being late and being lazy. But last night there was a news story about a woman whose windshield was shattered by a flying sheet of ice off a truck, which made me think maybe I ought to clean off the top of my van.

[matcom]

42. I'm hoping it will fly off and hit an outdoor cat

that's 100 points right there

[reyd reid reed]

43. I park in the garage

but, when I'm at work and it snows, I've gotta admit, I do. But, in my defense, around here the snow's so light that most of what's left blows off when I pull out of my parking space. Plus, it's usually 1-2 a.m. and there's not much traffic that late. And where I work ain't exactly the best part of town, so I want to clear my windows and get out of there.

:shrug:

[Smooth Operator]

44. no reason to leave the snow on the roof

for those of you who own a tall vehicle, buy an extendable carwash brush. The bristles are soft so they won't scratch your paint. I owned a conversion van and never drove it with snow on the roof. Nothing worse than driving along and having the stuff slide down your windshield during a sudden stop.

[LynneSin]

47. It's one thing if it's a dusting of snow

The storm that hit the NE dumped ICE in Delaware with a bit of snow. I spent an hour chipping away at the solid chunk of ice that encased my vehicle. So to leave that ice sheet on your car - if the ice flies off it can do some nasty damage to the car behind you.

[madinmaryland]

46. I saw a moran with two-thirds of his Front windshield covered

with a slab of ice. I can't figure out how he could actually see. Moran was traveling on I-395 going into Baltimore.

:grr:

[deepthought42]

74. Wow...talk about a fucking moran...

No way in hell would I drive on 395, 695, or 495 w/ice on my car, especially the windshield! Freaking idiot, hope he gets his come-uppance.

[Samurai_Writer]

48. A friend of mine had her windshield totalled by ice...

about a month ago, during a major ice storm in Wichita, KS. Thank got the windshield held. This happened on the freeway -- a 2'x2’ slab hit her windshield while travelling probably 50 mph or more.

[Burma Jones]

50. No - Just saw someone get their windshield smashed up on the way back from lunch

had I-270 southbound all messed up around Rockville, MD

[rocktivity]

51. They ought to get pulled over!

Just this morning I saw snow flying off cars, and it snowed two days ago! Clean it off the roof and trunk, at the VERY least!

:mad:
rocknation

[LynneSin]

53. I found out at a meeting today it's illegal in PA to drive like that

And that someone had their front grill ruined from flying chunks of ice

[Beausoleil]

61. It's illegal in Alaska, too!

But now I'm in San Antonio. Just the other day while on I-35 someone forgot to scrape one of these off their vehicle and it bounced off my door and took off my side mirror:

[LynneSin]

63. Damn, an Alaska gets alot of snow each year

that has to be a real bitch of a law

[Beausoleil]

67. 220 inches during the winter of '98

in Seward. You definitely can get ticketed if you're throwing snow and ice off your vehicle. Heated garages are wonderful!

[TallahasseeGrannie]

52. I might find out tonight

when it is supposed to get into the teens in Northern Florida.

[LynneSin]

54. This isn't frost on a car

This is an inch thick solid coat of Ice & snow covering the car. It starts breaking off and it can be vary dangerous - feasibly breaking the window of cars behind the asshole

[TallahasseeGrannie]

105. Oh, I remember that from growing up in NJ

I feel for you. And it IS damned cold this morning. But happily, it will be in the 70's by Monday. The robins are all hanging out in my yard on the way north. Won't be long now!

[grace0418]

57. I hear ya sister! Not only does the ice pose a danger, but the lack of visibilty

caused by not cleaning off your windows and mirrors is an accident waiting to happen. We have enough problems dealing with the snow and ice on the ground, must we also have to endure getting pelted with ice chunks from assholes driving half-blinded by the ice on their cars?

Take a few minutes and clean off your fucking car asswipe. It'll do your car good to let it warm up a bit anyway.

[sweetheart]

62. nothin' worse than tailgaters

If its snow and icy, what are you following that close for! :hi:

[Burma Jones]

69. I dunno, I've seen some of these sheets fly up and over a couple lanes....

and the ones off the trucks.....they can smash your windshield

Nevertheless, tailgating is dumb.

[sweetheart]

75. the car cam

Given the ubiquity of video technology, i'm suprised that
cars are not regularly fitted with a digital camera that
can film all driving motion... like a voluntary black box, that
one could submit in court to show the license plates of irresponsible
truckers who leave sheet ice on their roofs,
hit and run drivers and so much else.

[Kutjara]

81. They're seriously considering making black boxes mandatory...

...in the UK. Another big brother intrusion and a big step toward 24/7 citizen surveillance. Guess who's pushing hardest for their introduction? That's right, the insurance companies, who will go to any length to avoid paying out.

You can guarantee that if they offered "voluntary" black boxes in the US, they would quickly become mandatory. Also, if you had such a box in your car, it would be found during an accident investigation. If the case came to court, the judge would find it very strange if you didn't want to use it as evidence (which could be taken as an admission that an accident was your fault.) So, even with a voluntary black box, you would quickly lose control of the data it contained.

Like automatic speed limiters and remote immobilizers that the cops can use to kill your engine, I think black boxes are far more dangerous than helpful.

[sweetheart]

82. agreed

i was actually thinking of just a video camera mount that would allow a civilian
to keep a record of car-events, as often things happen (people keying cars, ice,
trucks without flaps throwing up rocks and cracking the windscreen, and so many
other events that with a legal video record, might win one for the person who normally
just has to eat the cost of irresponsible others, a way to chase them up.

Who remembers the number plate after all of the ice block that falls on your car,
or the number plate of a road rage attacker, or the car stereo theif, or the
criminal cop, foward and back video footage from pinhole cameras would be a nice
thing to have... this is entirely not a black box, and i hear you about that, with the
GPS and its ability to track movements of people... no way!

[Kutjara]

83. Your car cam idea could be great...

...as long as there were safeguards to keep the state from getting the footage if you don't want them to have it. Maybe an "instant delete" button or encryption of the data. It would certainly be good to be able to tape encounters with the law and to get the goods on vandals and dangerous drivers, as long as the government can't turn your own car into it's own little snitch.

[Reverend_Smitty]

79. If you're going 60mph on the interstate you don't need to be tailgating to get hit

The snow ended on Wednesday yet I saw all sorts of ice (none of it was snow) flying off the back of people's cars today. Huge roof sized chunks of it, people can get killed by something like that and I'm pretty sure it's illegal to be driving in NJ without cleaning off your car

[grace0418]

118. Or if you're sitting at a light and the joker in front of you decides to peel out.

You could be 10 feet back and still get hit. I know from experience.

[derby378]

73. Snow and ice = extra weight = decreased gas mileage

Of course I clear off as much of that stuff as I can. What kind of dink d'ya think I am, anyway? :silly:

[Left Is Write]

78. Snow and ice? Where?

:P

[bigwillq]

80. I had a bit of leftover stuff

from my windshield fly off my car.

I got lazy and didn't clean it all the way.

[Dastard Stepchild]

84. Well... I'll just go and fuck myself then...

Since I do this sometimes.

[boobooday]

86. I get what I can reach . . . but I'm short

Sorry about that little pile on the top . . .

But I'm too lazy to fuck myself too.

[sasquatch]

88. Some person's chunk of ice dislodged my sideview driverside mirror

[MsKandice01]

91. I never even knew that was a problem...

Us life-long Californians really have no clue.

[sce56]

96. Humm sheltered in the Bay Area

Well most of my ice and snow days were not in California but the pictures here and in #90 above were taken in California!

[MsKandice01]

92. I never even knew that was a problem...

Us life-long Californians really have no clue.

[MsKandice01]

93. I never even knew that was a problem...

Us life-long Californians really have no clue.

[graywarrior]

94. Yep.

Specially here in Florida.

[GoneOffShore]

95. Off to fuck myself.

I've been driving around for three days with the ice on the top of my car.

I actually couldn't get it off without breaking the sunroof, but this morning I saw some cracks in the carapace and decided to get it off the car.

In my defense, I haven't been driving on highways since the snow/ice storm. Only around Center City Philly.

Sorry Lynne - I did clear everything off the windows though, so if you gave me the finger, I'd be able to see it.

[LynneSin]

110. Well in Center City Philly you're lucky if you can go 20mph

It's another story when you're flying down 95s at 75mph and that ice is still on there

[stuntcat]

98. lololol

I watched a certain spouse of mine drive off with ice and snow all over his car this morning. It pissed Me off and I don't even drive, I wished I'd gone out and cleaned it for him since he couldn't be bothered. Then I bet he flung ice on a pedestrain somewhere x(

[Rabrrrrrr]

100. I'm only posting because it's the 100th post, and I wanted the glory

You can now back to your rant.

[LostInAnomie]

101. No, I'm not that kind of an asshole.

I do let my empty bottles of liquor roll off my roof and bumper though.

[Seabiscuit]

102. Snow and ice??? I live in San Diego, dude!

[dropkickpa]

103. In PA, at least, being this kind of asshole is now against the law

see?

http://www.ebrandywine.org/images/extras/Motorist%20must%20remove%20snow%20from%20vehicles.pdf

[Kutjara]

106. I'm actually even more of an asshole than that.

I shovel ice out of my deepfreeze ONTO the roof of my car, just so it can fall off and kill people when I drive around L.A.

[Cannikin]

107. I'm the asshole that leaves the snow on his car...because I like to look like a comet while driving.

[NewWaveChick1981]

109. ...

:spray: :rofl: :thumbsup: That's priceless!!!!

[blockhead]

108. and how do you chip off ice without scratching up your car?

:shrug:

[susanna]

113. You have to warm it up on the inside first.

Sometimes for a loooooong time. Then it starts to loosen. Michigan teaches us many lessons. :-)

...and to the OP, no, I'm not that kind of asshole. I have been behind that asshole though - lots of times.

[blockhead]

115. running your car doesn't get the ice off the roof or trunk.

I brush off the snow but the ice will have to melt on its own.:)

[susanna]

116. It will loosen it on the roof, given the time.

At least all my cars have, and I'm a veteran of many ice storms. The trunk, not so much, that's true.

on edit: clarity

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

111. I saw a major self-inflicted asshole last year ...

a SUV with snowpack on top, braked because traffic was stopped. The sheet of snow kept going forward and covered the windshield, so the driver couldn't see. So of course the right thing to do is take the foot off the brake ... bang! smack into the car in front.

no damage, except to pride.

[Skittles]

112. no

here in Texas I don't do it often but when it happens I freeze my ass and hands off getting cleaning ALL my windows completely because I just do not think it is prudent of have any vision obstruction.....and I use a squeegie to get any excess snow of the rest of the car too. :)

[Scout1071]

114. It's so dangerous that it's illegal in many states.

I have a 45 min commute for many years and I can tell you that there have been times I've thought I was near death because of these ice sheets. Heavy traffic and all of the sudden an ice sheet the size of a car flies off the roof of an 18 wheeler. Sweet Jeebus, it can certainly cause you to have an accident or worse.

Same with cars and SUV's. People, please go the extra step to clean off the tops of your cars. It's just the safe thing to do. Even if it's incovenient.

[u4ic]

119. Some idiot cut me off last week

- almost had a major accident - because they had a friggin' peephole instead of clearing off the whole of the rear window. :grr: