Give me a break!!

**layoutshooter** · 10-27-2009, 07:53 PM

LOL!! That may be close to the truth. It would, in this case at least, be an all Dumb-O-Crat action since the "RV" had Michigan plates and Michign is owned and operated by the Dumb-O-Crats!!!

**piper1** · 10-27-2009, 09:42 PM

I see crap like this every time I am down south for vacation, and it is basically crap that will still roll, headed to Mexico, usually a bunch of it in groups. How that kind of crap is allowed to be on the road is beyond me.

One good thing the OPP does up here (ya, they do a FEW good things) is they have blitzes on the long weekends and target RV's ,trailers etc. Not nearly enough but at least they do it a bit. That is when they aren't enforcing the ........oh never mind.

I can just hear you grumbling when you saw this Joe!!!

**layoutshooter** · 10-27-2009, 10:33 PM

Man, do you have that right Dave!! I could not wait to get my camera out and get a few pics. I was sure no one would believe this one!!

**greg334** · 10-27-2009, 10:55 PM

What's so bad with this?

It passes Michigan's requirements to be on the road.

It has both mirrors

The lights look like they are there

The tow bar is not fastened with bungee cords

And the tires are not flat

So it is better than the 2006 Cadillac that I saw today - that one was missing both mirrors, it was rear ended, had garbage bags for a rear window and one of the door windows and the driver's door was held closed with two bungee cords (it was sprung with a three inch gap.

Some times you will see Lincolns that have lost their air bags and are dragging so bad that the sparks light up the street while other times you know that the person made the mistake of not opening up the gate wide enough to pull out of the driveway and ripped both mirrors off the car - we do have the honor of having the number one sales position in the world for replacement mirrors and the number one position for thefts of mirrors in the suburbs.

Ah Michigan, where I got used to seeing pickup trucks so rusted out that the rear end of the sides of the bed was dragging on the ground and what remained of the bed would shed some rust when the truck hit a pot hole. These pickups were always the best example of why to rust proof the truck when you bought it, with the cab mounts rusting through and the cab bouncing up and down while driving on our wonderful smooth roads.

Ah Michigan what can I say......

**highway star** · 10-28-2009, 11:24 AM

Layout, in many states, and I would suspect most, DOT officers are State Police that can pull over anyone.

**layoutshooter** · 10-29-2009, 09:28 AM

Yep, than can pull garbage like this over but they seldom do. They would prefere to pick on truckers, even if the violation is not dangerous. Why? Money, revenue for the city/state whatever. We are a cash cow and very little of this kind of enforcement is about safety. It just about the bucks. You see this kind of "stuff" on the roads anywhere. You see cars with lights out and they are never stopped. I bet I could walk around ANY Wally World parking lot on a Sat afternoon and write ticket after ticket on cars with bad tires, missing parts etc. We are just easy cash cows. If you hear the word "Safety" uttered by ANY government official in the same sentence as "TRUCKS" assume that they are after your wallet.