# I am seeing entirely too many Hummers on the road!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-seeing-entirely-too-many-hummers-on-the-road/180677>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [June 9, 2003, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-seeing-entirely-too-many-hummers-on-the-road/180677 "2003-06-09T17:36:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![ouisey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/9fc29f/32.png) [@ouisey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ouisey)\
**Post date:** [June 13, 2003, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-seeing-entirely-too-many-hummers-on-the-road/180677/101 "2003-06-13T15:54:02Z")

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I have a Kansas City Hummer story!

Last winter, driving home from the grocery store, we got hit by a snow fall that left the roads very slick. Driving in an Acura, we had to move very slowly, because it was very dangerous out there.

We finally get to the Ridgeview exit at K10, as we’re sitting at the stop sign, waiting to very carefully pull out onto the overpass, this Hummer comes racing up the road, attempts to break and spins out right in front of us. The last thing you EVER want to see in your life is some nitwit who has lost control of his Hummer hurtling towards you. Believe it or not, the car came to a stop in front of some trees without a scratch. I’m thinking the driver’s underwear needed a good scrub out after that episode.

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**Author:** ![finoa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b487fb/32.png) [@finoa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/finoa)\
**Post date:** [June 13, 2003, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-seeing-entirely-too-many-hummers-on-the-road/180677/102 "2003-06-13T17:04:14Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Weirddave \*  
> \*\*Preach it, brother! What a wonderful world it would be if people just learned to **mind their own fucking business**. \*\*

Weirddave, if you live on your own personal island planet, your statement would have a semblence of logic, but here on Earth, we humans live in what is called a ‘society’. This means that we typically work, live, and interact with each other. Until you build your own personal roads, your own personal cities, your own personal parking lots, the rest of us have to deal with the stupid decisions that selfish people like you choose to make.  
:wally

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**Author:** ![jeevmon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/87869e/32.png) [@jeevmon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jeevmon)\
**Post date:** [June 13, 2003, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-seeing-entirely-too-many-hummers-on-the-road/180677/103 "2003-06-13T17:04:50Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Weirddave \*  
> \*\*Preach it, brother! What a wonderful world it would be if people just learned to **mind their own fucking business**. \*\*

If someone wants to spend $50K on a car, that is their business. When they choose to drive an obnoxiously large vehicle that I can’t see around, that takes up more than its fair share of parking, that clogs narrow streets that I need to use to get to where I’m going, then it becomes my business because it’s affecting my use of public roads.

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**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\
**Post date:** [June 13, 2003, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-seeing-entirely-too-many-hummers-on-the-road/180677/104 "2003-06-13T19:17:52Z")

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C’mon **Weirddave** , are you seriously suggesting that the 7154 pound vehicle traversing the roads right next to me and my family is none of my fucking business?

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