• ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world
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    Meanwhile I’m getting pulled over multiple times for my loud exhaust because my muffler fell off and I don’t have the money to fix it.

    Then the cop pulling me over has to stop talking as a motorcycle drives by so loud he can’t even hear himself.

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      1 year ago

      That’s because the law wasn’t made because rich assholes, but because broken exhausts, wether by design or by negligence, are a god damn nuisance.

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        And yet the people who’s cars are loud by design are largely ignored because fuck the poor.

        “Hey I see your muffler is broken”

        “Yeah I don’t have the money to fix it”

        “Well now you’ll have even less money, here’s your $150 ticket”

          • Good Girl [she/they]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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            Yes yes, we’re all aware that something that inconveniences you for all of 5 seconds is worse than someone living at an income low enough to not allow them to fix a non essential part of their only source of transportation.

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            Ah, yes, in my rural area that would mean walking or biking 200+ miles per day just for work and even if I was capable of that it doesn’t solve the problem of not being able to bring my tools so I can work which weigh hundreds if not a thousand pounds.

            And there aren’t buses around here, not that it would solve the problem of getting my tools around. I’m all for saving the environment and establishing smaller, walkable cities but it doesn’t negate the need for automobiles - yet.

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      Compared to straight pipe, you would have a short pipe. Being so much closer to the engine, you’d get more noise. Even straight pipe dampens the noise a bit.

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        Yes you’re right fuck poor people how dare they have bills to pay.

        Oh and btw my muffler only broke because I was delivering pizzas on shitty side streets. So maybe the problem is cities should maybe fix their roads?

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          Well. Here poor people need to have legal cars. Not my fault you built your society around vehicles.

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                  Honestly, they are right. Sucks to suck, but if your breaks were failing, or your tires were bald / showing wire, you shouldn’t drive the car untill you fix it. Even if you don’t have the money to do so. You endanger the people around you

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          Oh and btw my muffler only broke because I was delivering pizzas on shitty side streets.

          Is car owned by you or by company? If first, bill your delivery company. If last, it’s company’s headache.

          EDIT: Downvotes? FYI in some countries with strong labour laws if employer requires something and does not provide it, then if employee spends money on it, said money should be compensated by employer.

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      In Germany its usually the fast cars that get pulled over for being too loud, my exhaust pipe on my old car was completely rusted through and I drove through a police check where they pull everyone over.

      They didnt say anything regarding the exhaust.

      I replaced it before the next inspection, because I would have never passed with it rusted through.