How in the hell are these legal?
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Just cause they have them doesn’t make them legal. Cops probably don’t even know so they just let it go
Usually, US law enforcement errs on the side of illegal since they have the presumption of good faith (or at least did until ICE went gonzo about lies and cover-ups).
But anything that looks suspicious counts as probable cause meaning they can search you and relieve you of cash and valuables. Nowadays, they presume they can jusy rob you and it enhances the precinct budget for fun stuff.
We see this kind of overpolicing done more to minorities than whites, but so long as you don't look super rich (enough to have a lawyer on your contacts list) then you're fair game.
If this sort of thing is uncommon in their parts, it's going to draw more attention than a red sports car.
I think this is uncommon in most areas. Seems way outside of what should be even manufactured
They make a lot of shit purely for show. As in put it on while the car is on display.
They probably aren't. Doesn't stop them from existing though. 🤷
Nothing says idiot loser like these do.
In the Saints Row series they're called kneecappers and I tried and uninstalled them because they caused too much mayhem. They also appear in the Spy Hunter 1983 coin-op video game
I remember seeing them on Speed Racer used by villains before seeing the chariot race version in Ben Hur.
IRL they're obviously a hazard and inappropriate in traffic where people are just trying to collaboratively get home. (And yes, traffic is a collective cooperative effort, and we see that as soon as someone gets antagonistic.)
But Americans imagine themselves rugged individualists, a component of capitalist propaganda, and like to show they're rebels with shit like rolling coal and truck nuts.
This totally looks like a FAFO moment that is going to turn into a regulatory statute.
Since it's not a firearm, I doubt courts or officials will be interested at all in pursuing second-amendment liberties over this. They seem not to care about knives or ninja gear, either.
This isn't a problem with Americans. Every country has idiots. This just happens to be one of ours.
But some countries have many more idiots per capita.
Here in the US, we've been cultivating idiocy with a long standing anti-education movement in the Republican party.
More exactly, there are a multiple intersecting movements:
~ No public education / No education for the poors
~ Religious (Christian nationalist ideology) education for all
~ Charter schools as grift
~ Obey authority. Trust the state.
And these figured into the instant army that rallied to Trump in 2015-2016 from the rest of the Republican party. Principal figures from the party watched their own ideology collapse, and there was nothing they could do about it.
Im sure the driver has absolute zero in social skills.
fun fact I learned, when taking the wheel off of antique or fancy cars you have to hit this part with a lead hammer that deforms with each hit so it doesn't get scratched/damaged. Eventually it gets so deformed that you have to melt it down and mold it back into a hammer shape again.
idk why a rubber mallet wouldn't work but I assume car guys have thought of that before me and there's a reason why they're not used
I got the chance to use one of those hammers on a knock off hub before, it weighs like 6-7 lbs and you've gotta swing it pretty hard because it needs 5x more torque on it than a normal lug nut to stay put. Rubber can't quite cut it.
The modern upgrade is just use an actual nut and a comically long wrench if you don't have a pit crew.
Didn't mythbusters or top gear do an episode on this type of stuff? Iirc they had two cars do something like this and it ended very poorly for the car with the spikes. I think the wheel ripped itself apart.
How does one fit into a parking space?
If I drove a clunker and spotted one of these I'd make sure to drive past him, because it's probably a man, as close as I could so I'd rip these things to shreds.
The mods in "GTA Texas" are becoming ridiculous!
GTA Austin coming 2099, the 7th installment in the series
That looks very much not legal
People here wondering how literally Mad Max appendages are legal. A wild world out there. 😅
Nothing says "I think I'm the main character" like enforcing a zone of separation around your car. Fuckers like this should just drive into the ocean.
I would love to put one of those in my ass and roll with the wheel of the clearly superior being with no problems with his manhood whatsoever.
....wot?
So, the analmancy involved revolves around the conicular protrusions of wheel husbandry and the resulting mare has a thirty-seven percent chance of survival but that is also with a guaranteed +2/+2 stamina build with overguard AND chance lightning. Honestly, I'd be tossing that salad myself, but I had a bad experience with a cult (you know how we do in the military industrial complex, yea?), so mostly you're looking at eight...nine gates worth of foliage and that's gunna wrack you up to the qualar zone and if you need some prescriptions for your, y'know, your thing while they're there their not going to let you in, you see? So, that's gping to be $9.68, tax included, of course. You have moth balls?
They aren't. There might be places with shitty cops that tolerate them. (Quick search shows this is mostly a Texas thing)
Confidently incorrect. Maybe they're illegal some places, but definitely not most places. In Texas, they're not illegal, but it can be illegal if they make your vehicle more than 8 feet wide. Since they're usually on sedans, they usually don't hit 8 feet.
Also they're more specifically a thing in Black culture in Houston. I see them pretty rarely in other Texas cities
Maybe they are legal in a few places. There is more places in the world than just a couple of US states.
I'd be interested to hear where they're illegal and what that law says
Edit: Coming back to this, just looked into EU regulations and it's clear these are not outright prohibited, as the laws related to hubcaps focus only on fitment and detachment risk. However, most EU countries require non-OEM parts to receive government approval prior to hitting the market, almost certainly ensuring nothing like this would ever be sold there.
Australia, can't protrude past the factory wheel arches. Also, a trailer can't be wider than the vehicle towing it.
Sensible rules 😀
No law expert either but the pointy figurines people put on the hub front in the 70s? They are illegal; not specifically but by endangering all the other participants on the street. Bet wheel spikes fall under the same rules.
Btw, this is something i observed recently: US tends to make rules reactively and case-specific, which is why it needs to also define wrong-doing or not specifically ("don't dry your hamster in the microwave" warning label). While europe countries try to abstract general rules, just like in this case. I think the second approach works better for a healthy society.
I don't even know what are we talking about here. I'm 1000% sure you would not be able to drive more than 100m with rims like that in Europe. Someone would immediately call the caps and they would immediately immobilize the car and send the driver to jail.
Every single European country. No moving part of a car can extend beyond the fixed bodywork. Even "open wheel" cars have to have the top 180 degrees of tyre covered.
I'm reading something different in the EU, that only the tire treads can't extend beyond the car body
In Germany for example this is so unthinkable it's like somebody saying "tell me the law that says I can't steal vegetables from the super market". Please do your own research, some things just are illegal without me needing to cite a law.
My thoughts exactly. "Show a me law that says I can't attach two giant swords on each side of my car that will cut in half everyone that I pass by close enough. I'm sure you can't". American mind is sometimes hard to comprehend.
So you can't cite the law, I knew it. I won the discussion /s
"It's illegal because obviously"
You should become an attorney
Even Texas has unsafe protrusions rule, but a cop would have to enforce it. No part of the vehical can endanger pedestrians.
It's illegal because it endangers other people. People on bicycles, motorcycles or on foot are particularly vulnerable. People don't expect literal whisks to stick out from the wheels of a car.
Without even knowing which law regulating vehicle specifications is violated, I am positive that the German §1 (2) StVO is already violated:
I appreciate you giving an actual rationale for how they might be illegal
"It is unlawful to attach stupid dangerous bullshit to your vehicle."
In the UK you'd 100% get pulled over by the first police car you crossed paths with.
what? they are a pedestrian hazard, how would these not be illegal in every state?
Simple, make your city unwalkable. Pedestrians are no longer a concern. Anyone dumb enough to be a pedestrian deserves it.
Obvious /s is obvious
I see you have been to many Alberta towns
AKA Notth Texas.
i mean actual policy
bet money it is illegal and just not enforced
Not illegal as long as the total vehicle width does not exceed 102 inches.
8.5 feet, 259cm
Considered unsafe/sharp protrusion that would endanger a pedestrian, but cops would have to enforce that subsecrion...which probably doesn't happen in texas
pretty sure the tire, including rim must be in the tire well (in Texas it’s to the length of the mirror specifically even)
apparently this is a moron red state kinda thing where because it is not specifically called out cops cant be assed to enforce laws for general vehicular safety
Well that's definitely commonplace with pickups having low offset wheels. I'd be curious if there is policy to support that though!
5 foot tall hoods are also a pedestrian hazard, but fashion trumps safety.
again that just sounds like lazy cops
Worse. Lazy rules.
Americans proving their inability to understand their country isn't the world just never stops.
You'd ever only see these in the US, it doesn't matter if they're specifically illegal elsewhere because it just doesn't happen (on normal roads, outside very rare shows etc.).
It's so fucking tiring not being able to get away from 'Muricans like you who are so deep into their own shit that you're unable to even start to understand anything else.
Welcome to a post about the US on an US-based instance. Feel free to continue acting like a total asshole
What's US-based about fuckcars? Most posts here are not about or from the US.
It’s a troll account
Texas is just a fictional place. Doesn't really exist. (/j)
If only
Swangas are among the most fucked up modifications you can do with your car. It's literally not just a "fuck you" to other road users but actively hostile to everyone around you.
Just reflect for a moment what kind of culture can be so deeply submerged in toxic displays of hostility as a form of "swag", "coolness" or "masculinity" as to create something like that. How insecure do you have to be?
Masculinity in 2026 America is doing rude or harmful shit to show you're beyond the reach of consequences, or just dont give a fuck. It's Nietzsche's discharge its strength quote turned into culture-war ideology.
The recent examples I use are Hokit's comments about Michelle Obama at the White House UFC match, or Trump getting a World Cup red card penalty cancelled because he wanted it.
There are probably more recent examples. Renaming Lake Ontario comes to mind. Bombing Iran or Gaza are particularly grotesque examples.
New term for me. Looking it up, found this though.
I've been thinking about getting something like this for my bike! The theory is that a driver isn't worried about possibly killing me, but they sure as shit will avoid anything that might scratch their paint.
The spikes have to be higher up though. At that level, they're only going to get caught up in car tires.
I'm okay with this. Gotta appreciate the creativity.
Zooming in, appears to be tinfoil and cardboard... So, much like those caterpillars that mimic a snakes head, it's a false protective threat display. Wise technique if you have to ride a bike in traffic with assholes rolling real swangas.
This is fucking gold
Haha Scott street not surprised
Looks around at my death metal albums and shirts... well shit 😳
(Edit: added quote)
What harm does an album cover do to other people?
Gramma rocked her head right off 🤘😔
The term used was 'hostile', not 'harmful'. There's a difference IMO.
But anyway I would argue some album covers could be considered propaganda, which is potentially harmful to society.
And then there's stuff like the original cover of Virgin Killer by the Scorpions. A lot of folks would call that directly harmful in some way.
There's a difference here that's important about what it means to be actively hostile.
Yes, some types of art in general have a hostile face. Some metal, some gangster rap, some pop even.
The difference is that nobody but the most fucked up people is going around forcing it on me. I don't have to fear getting to close to the cover of Mayhem's "Dawn of the Black Hearts". I can ignore it if it's right next to me. Ignoring Swangas is detrimental to my health. Album covers don't amputate my legs when they come to close.
Sure, I can definitely agree with that.
I was really just making a joke in the first place.
It makes them feel things. That's offensive. Feeling. Absolutely disgusting.
Don't worry too much. It's becoming more common for people to realize that in reality metal fans are generally more calm, considerate, and helpful than your average human.
When I fell down at a "not-metal" concert, the nice and friendly and approachable people around me nearly stepped on me. Nobody cared.
When I stumbled and fell at a metal concert, multiple people were helping me up before I even had time to realize I'd tripped. They looked scary and not the kind you'd approach for a chat. I'm still in contact with one of them. He likes to hear black metal while he knits. It's absolutely like out of a badly written comic book.
I know this is not representative and I've met my share of racist fellas over the years that wore the cut-offs. But I swear most were big teddy bears in black clothing, and accompanied by some tiny goth goddess in the highest heeled combat boots.
They've been to a lot where moshing and death walls are common to those concerts, moshing is so much like a contact sport with sportsmanlike behavior, and anyone falling will be helped to get back up as much as possible.
In a lot of regions metal is the official theme music of white nationalists so I can't say this is true
Eh, it doesn't belong to them. Racists try to insert themselves into things the same way other groups do, e.g. "christian rock" that tries to use the appeal of the genre to spread their particular message.
As a counterpoint to your statement, metal is immensely popular across South America. Look up any Iron Maiden concert in Brazil and you'll see vast legions of diehard fans going nuts. And the overwhelming majority probably wouldn't be considered white, at least not in the way European or North American racists want it to mean.
Classic pop fan thinking.
Total haters
Rap and house music and I used to lead sing in an alt rock band. Just a fact in certain parts of the US that metal fans have to live with.
Oh, did you sing in an alt rock band? As someone who has played and presently plays in actual metal bands I can tell you that there are racists in every type of music but there is no region where metal is music exclusively for racists.
Shit, what type of metal? You get different types of fans whether you're into the thrash metal, death metal, black metal, power metal, numetal (and the thousand subgenres) scenes.
You dig into this even a bit and your argument straight up falls apart.
Insecurity poisons your life and that of those around you until you do something really stupid or you deal with it in a healthy way.
They are not legal in the civilised world.
It's pretty common to see these on the road in Houston, Texas.
Oh wait, you said "civilized world", my bad.
Surprisingly, even Brazil is more civilized in that regard. Tires and rims may not extend laterally farther than front or rear bumpers.
The downside is that people weaponize the sound system, so they don't even need to be driving to be hostile to everyone within 300 meters.
Cars with these rims usually have outdoor external speakers on the bottom. So they weaponized the wheels and sound.
It's illegal here in the US too people just don't care.
In the US, what is street legal depends on the locality, most of which is decided by the different states. I heard that in one state, the rule was that tires and rims couldn't extend farther than the side mirrors, and so these people made their side mirrors stick out a lot farther too.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swangas
Thanks.
TIL. I always wondered what they were about.
Even more surprising is that Houston has any sort of culture.
Oh that’s easy! They’re not :)
Cite the law
I am guessing most states have a law about “unroadworthy vehicles” that pose a hazard
Sure, but they they also define "unroadworthy," and this isn't it. To be clear I think these are awful and would prefer they were illegal, it's just that they genuinely aren't a lot of the time
In South Carolina the law text is broad.
And yet I still see Carolina squats on bigass trucks. Their front blind spot has to be hundreds of feet at least.
I see squats riding around, too, and there is another explicitly written law against that. My impression is that SC cops don’t enforce traffic/vehicle laws at all unless you are doing something especially egregious.
Like driving while black?
common sense?
But seriously, nothing can stick out beyond the body of the car (expect mirrors), not even wheels.
Edit: After checking the laws says the fender has to cover the tire to prevent splashing so it may not apply to rims like that. So back to common sense
That might be true for civilised countries.
But then it's also the main reason why cars brought over by US military staff fail the inspection for road worthiness here.
Various US states have fender coverage laws:
I thought it was because of the difference in emissions standards
Common sense is not a law...
Also the laws are different in different jurisdictions
Not a law.
I am not a lawyer but EU Regulation No 1009/2010 on type approval requirements for wheel guards states:
In short: Nothing is allowed to extend beyond the wheel guards. Now, look at the image above again.
Deviating materially from the type approval makes your car not street legal as far as I understand. But this is a matter for a lawyer. Surely there is a reason why these psychopathic car mods are impossible to find in all of the EU on public roads.
Well written! But it misses my point entirely.
Common sense is not a law.
I did not quote "common sense" I quoted relevant law. If you want a full legal analysis rather than seeing relevant law, you need to pay a lawyer.
Then you replied to the wrong person. I didn't ask for a law citation :)
Why would you assume they're legal?
They're surprisingly common in the Houston area. If they're illegal, you certainly wouldn't assume they are based on how often you see them.
Consider, however, that cops are all lazy bastards.
True that.
Lol here (Estonia, not the US), they get a perverse pleasure out of giving people tickets, some of them anyway. If a cop saw those things, that car would rightfully get its annual inspection voided and potentially the driver would be forced to take it off the road immediately rather than being allowed to drive home or to a workshop to get it fixed.
A lot of the time I disagree with how ticket-happy they can be (it's not always about safety critical things), but in this case I'd agree with them 100%.
Why would you assume they're real?
They are, unfortunately, real.
I refuse to believe that america is a real place
America is fine, as long as you steer clear of the United States.
What do you have against South America?
America is a scary story the Brits made up to keep the other colonies behaving.
They aren't in any civilised countries, probably land you in prison when you are driving that on any public road in one of those.
According to Alexander's tactics in Gaugamela, you first have to wear them down with javelins, and then open ranks to create alleys for them to pass through your infantry, then finish them off with hypaspists. Afterwards, you can charge your cavalry straight to Darius himself and win the battle.
Piece of cake really.
There's zero chance these are legal. And even in places where enforcement of such things is lax, is be surprised if this lasted very long, simply because of how crazy dangerous it would be to pedestrians and cyclists.
Friggin bullies!
Aren‘t vehicles and/or custom parts checked for safety and roadworthiness in the US??? 😱
i have never in my 24 years of owning and driving 13 cars while living in two US states experienced such a mandatory check.
I've very distant memories of emissions tests but that was strictly exhaust or OBDII checks specifically for emissions.
Never safety or roadworthiness.
Not in Texas. I can basically guarantee that this is in houston, they are all over the place down there. They're called elbows or swangas and are popular throughout the "slow loud and bangin"(slab) car culture native to the area.
In South Florida we have late model Chevy sedans jacked up 2 feet with 40+inch rims, candy paint jobs, and one time I saw a Caprice with "truck nuts" clearly custom made from soccer balls. I'll take them any day over this.
Houston went through that phase a long time ago. Surprised it’s still around
Slabs are just lowriders whose owners don't know how to shut the trunk.
Houston was my first thought too.
You can literally mount real bull horns to your hood over there
Depends on what state you live in if there are mandatory vehicle inspections (20 of 50 states do NOT have vehicle inspections). The state I live in does not have any mandatory vehicle inspections.
Actually, 38 of 50 states don't have periodic vehicle inspections.
Most countries require annual safety inspections.
That is insane. So they drive their car into the dirt until it's falling apart with no consideration of other roads users. Just insane
They do give tickets even in states with no inspections (fix-it tickets).
What magical place do you live where the police do their job?
that's un-American
My state does have inspections but they are going away after the state admitted all they cared about was the fee. Personally, I don't think they mattered with the number of vehicles I see on a regular basis with valid stickers and obvious safety issues.
This is crazy…
Some of them are surprisingly legal, depending on the width of the car. They're popular in Houston, and so long as the total width of the vehicle doesn't exceed 102 inches they may be legal in Texas. Lots of them do make the vehicle wider than 8 feet, but for probable cause it has to be glaringly obvious they're over 102 inches, and that's not always legally clear. They mostly get tickets for them if they get pulled over for something else and the cops measure them during the stop.
And Texas no longer requires inspections as of like 2 years ago. But they could just remove them before inspections before anyway.
There are no more standards in america if your liked.
I don't know. Why are semi trucks allowed to have these?
I see them all the time even though they seem like a liability for a professional driver.
The idea is the driver can see if a lug nut is missing. They are typically just plastic, but would still shred a pedestrian or cyclist, two members of the woke left.
I've seen those sharp things on a pickup truck's wheels
A few months ago a pickup truck cut me off and i crashed into its side and fell into the side of the wheel. If the truck i hit had these spikes, i'd be dead
You really don't see them as much compared to when they were in their hay day, because they were/are a liability. But current ones are soft plastic with a thin metallic coating.
Fast rotating "soft plastic with thin metallic coating" will just as well mutilate or even kill pedestrians or cyclists in a collision. But then US Americans do not seem to care much about those.
As God intended
Let's be real, if you're close enough that these are hitting you you're getting hit by the multi ton truck as well. They're a little silly, but not the huge hazard you're making them out to be.
They make a wide vehicle even wider, for no good reason, your argument, can really only be made by an American who can not fathom that oversized roads are not only not the norm everywhere but are in themselves antipedestrian and get pedestrians and cyclists needlesly killed. There is also a good reason why tyre/axle parts extending beyond fenders are illegal in for example the EU. They are a risk to others in many ways, not only collission but also projecting stuff outwards. Last but not least, they make it harder for the driver to properly estimate the total width of the vehicle and invite driver error that can cost lives.
They are illegal in the EU and they are so for a reason.
Not disagreeing with you.
They put them on to keep cars from crowding them, which they do have a legit problem with. I don't really care as long as they stay in their lane it's just psychological. The first time the wander a little into my line and tear up my car, i'm going to own their ass.
It's not illegal or unreasonable to use a bit of someone else's lane when you can do so without getting unsafely close to them. For example, if you are in the right lane and there is someone changing a tire on the shoulder and you want to give them some space. These are not going to be easy to see from certain perspectives, and are kind of asking for someone to misjudge their car width.
The big trucks have 2 ft to play with. They max out at 9 ft wide in an 11ft lane. and if they wander into the next lane incorrectly, they're responsible for 53 ft and are far more likely to kill someone.
Ode to local statutes, in most states (all the ones I checked) it is absolutely illegal to operate in other people's lanes.
Statute: California Vehicle Code (CVC) § 21658(a)
Statute: Virginia Code § 46.2-804
Maryland Transportation Article § 21-309
Look, I don't love the wheel grinders, but what you wrote is not factual
Up in Canada it's similar across the board. Can we get someone to chime in from Mexico?
Ok you got me, I don't know the vehicle codes of every state, nor am I an expert on them in any state. But I can tell you that people drifting into other lanes on occasion is a thing that happens, usually without it being a big deal. Sometimes by mistake though I gave you a scenario where it is arguably reasonable. I don't dispute that it can also be dangerous, especially with big trucks.
While of course the lanes are there for a reason and should not be ignored, the relative positions of cars is the more important thing and our visual sense of where other vehicles is a thing we generally take in from the vehicle body and the expected consistent shape of them. And it is what we intuitively use when having to make sudden maneuver. Making your car have an unexpected shape and width below the body is asking for trouble.
Yes it is? There are specific rules for passing cyclists and who has the right of way? If you are drifting out of your lane and/or without specific markings for a wide vehicle you are liable for collisions?
No, it is not just psychological, this stuff is real and absolutely mutilating towards any pedestrian or cyclist and also dangerous for other car drivers (doesn't matter if they are just fake plastic or not). There is a reason this is not tolerated pretty much anywhere other than parts of the US.
This seems like a surefire way to get any insurance claim denied for dangerous modification to your car, or something along those lines.
That looks like a really expensive accident waiting to happen.
Why would anyone put that on their car?
Look, you spent all that money on your Cadillac, you can't just look like everyone else. They gotta know it's you! Swangas stand out from the crowd. Whistle tips on the exhaust (only in the mornings, when you supposed to be up making breakfast) let everyone know you're coming. You don't have to hide. You're the king of the block, no, the city. No need for subtlety.
Put a cow catcher on the front of your truck and lift it three feet! Put underglow on your (Automatic) Honda and a JDM tow hook! Make it so your car sounds like gravel in a trash can at 60kph!
Basically, people like to customize their very expensive decisions. You don't have to worry about accidents because they're not going to happen to you.
Idiots, they live among us.
Satire become reality if we don't do something after learning about it: https://xkcd.com/3167/
Where did Randal get that comic about my wife???
From your mom!!!
Did I say that right?
Depends on your predilection for necrophilia or ability to hold seances :)
Houston is a weird place.
In short, they often make the car as wide as is street legal. Sometimes they end up being too wide, but "maybe it's too wide but I can't quite tell" doesn't meet probable cause, so the police can only really measure them if they get pulled over for something else.
Anyone who has those needs to go straight to therapy and community service.
Or just confiscate the car, fine their sorry asses, and pass that info on to their auto insurance company.
You’re funny thinking these car owners have insurance
straight to the thunderdome
Nothing a big fat disc padlock and chain can't solve.
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I hope bro likes having to carry bolt cutters in the passenger seat and having to do walk-around inspections every time he comes back to his car.
You could probably skip the chain and just put a lock on one of the spokes, the added weight as it spins would probably cause some serious damage.
How about a bit of downward pressure to bend them slightly out of true? That'd fuck up the wheel balance and give them a nice wobble once they get up to speed.
There's also such thing as hardened steel chains and padlocks that require something more than bolt cutters to defeat.
Though even if those spokes are hardened, they look long enough that you could probably still bend them by sticking a good solid bar in there and yanking.
Or if you want to really fuck it up, instead of using that bar to lever them into a different shape, weld a bar horizontally that is too long to do a turn without pressing into the ground. Then see if the whole thing is strong enough to lift the car and turn the wheel, if the motor stalls when it tries, or if something snaps first.
If the bar can't bend them you can always just put your spare tire scissor jack under the tip. That will definitely do the trick.
These have been a thing for so long there's classical music about them.
https://youtu.be/u21u_ZMHqfE
That just makes it even crazier, you are aware of that aren't you?
Very much so. I am in no way promoting the use of these. I have always hated them.
Put whatever crazy paint, nuts, slogans, rattlers, poppers, feelers, candy, chrome, buck, gator, silliness you want on your ride. Just don't make it more dangerous for the rest of us. Fuck your coal, swangas, high beams, lifts, etc.
I think it is a failure of legislation and/or enforcement. Because that is not freedom if it is actively harming others and not much else, to the point where it threatening the life of others, without any hyperbole.
Link without tracking parameter: https://youtu.be/u21u_ZMHqfE
Fuck. Tysm, I usually remember to delete that.
What happens if you throw a crow bar in there?
Not a lot until they start to drive away, then you have a DIY crowbar launcher
Or tire iron?
It undoes the lug nuts on the cars beside it, giving the driver an unfair advantage during street racing.
This is why they're illegal in most states
Herbie!
Or a chain where you drop one end in the front and the other end in the rear.
Attach a couple monkey fist knots made of fireproof rope soaked in lighter fluid to the end of each chain and you can exibit the car at burning man
Haha I chuckled at this.
Mad Maxxing
Welcome to Houston. They’re called Swangas.
normally, i would have questions. But this is obviously the USA, so shrug
Ancient problems require ancient solutions
The Romans defeated scythed chariots by using disciplined infantry maneuvers, missile fire to panic the horses, and ground obstacles like caltrops or stakes
Oh, if I see a pair of these, I'll snap :) Whoever is out there paying $30,000 just to fuck people up probably has it coming, though.
IRL wacky races?
Nothing that a couple swings of a sledgehammer wouldn't solve.
I was thinking you'd just need to jam a steel rod through the empty spaces....
Easily removed, what you need is to carry around a couple dollar tree padlocks.
One long steel rod that goes parallel to the car and through the spaces on those things on both the front and back wheel. Then one padlock for each so it can't be removed easily.
Then watch them try to drive away lol
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Did anyone lose their legs because of those already?
Motorcycles and cyclists should stay away from that shit. WTF, how is that crap even allowed.
Post this on facebook and witness the swarm of contrarian geniuses claiming it's unironically a great idea because it makes other people keep their distance.
I used to hate stance culture until I learned about slab culture.
The urge to stick a piece of rebar or something in there of you see one parked...
Or a long steel cable set to wind around the elbow, with the other end attached to the driveshaft.
Texan swangas. Really shitty car mods.
I’d like to see what happens and someone mounts a long steel rod on their own car, and drives close to that one.
At first, I thought it was a scratch on your car's front glass lol
In the game "Saints Row 2" these are known as kneecappers. They can be used to puncture the tires of other cars by ramming them (In the game, haven't tried thar in real life yet)
I hope they like insurance claims
I bet their insurance company loves this. Easiest denial of claims ever.
Happy cake wank day!
Hey! Where's the guy in the bike we were following?
Don't worry about it, I think we lost him.
It may not be very legal, safe, or mechanically sound, but at least it looks dumb!
Pretty sure Legal Eagle made an episode about stuff like this...
You can't just write this and not link to the episode! 😐
Could be this one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-VwTemdXec
But I didn't see these spikes. Flamethrowers and caltrops were mentioned though.
Although very expensive I can just see someone putting a few feet grade 120 chain on those and watch them rip themselves apart.
Edit: Swapped a vowel.
Theyre not comical, theyre conical.
They did that to a fucking Cadillac CT5?
I hope it doesn’t have SuperCruise.
Because the state of Missouri is a terrible place
Those look incredibly dangerous, if I think if a driver clipped a kid on the sidewalk the driver would very likely not survive
https://youtu.be/TU604U5s-R0?t=15s
what the fuck
This is probably ai
No they're real they're often seen in the south from Atlanta to Houston.
Ah ok, thanks
Elbow rims aka swangas
Anyone can edit Wikipedia, there's no way that this is true. (Seriously, just think about it for three seconds!)
I have seen things like this but not quite this long.
Nope. Look up "swangas rims", they're quite real
In Reddit and before asshole spez kicked me out, there's Shitty Car Mods and swangas are usually featured.