The dumb fuck in the SUV!

The BBQ Pit
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To the dumb fuck in the SUV I passed yesterday on the highway:

I really hope I could be there if the driver of that monstrosity gets into an accident. Not a huge accident, but enough to set off the passenger side airbag on which you’ve decided to rest your feet.

I’d like to see you fold in half as the airbag deploys at more than 200 mph and snaps your spine in half like a matchstick.

That would be pretty ironic, eh? You drive this huge gas-guzzling truck that is specifically designed to save you in an accident, but you still end up in a wheelchair because you can’t sit with your feet on the floor like a normal person.

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AWW damn…

::checks calendar:: yep its about that time…

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SCORE!!!

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Let me get this straight. The guy was sitting SIDEWAYS?

SUV or no SUV, that’s six ways to stupid.

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I don’t understand how you can drive with your feet on the passenger side airbag. I mean, even if you have cruise, you’d still have to brake from time to time, wouldn’t you? Unless he had one foot on the airbag and one on the brake pedal, in which case I want the number of his yoga instructor.

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He refers to the driver as a second person. Seems fairly obvious he was refering to the passenger of the vehicle.

What amazes me is that he’s wishing serious harm and permanent disability (If not death) on this person simply because he had his feet up in an SUV. I’m sure such an action has aboslutely horribly inconvenienced the OP in at least some way to rate such vitriol. One also wonders if it’s just that it was an SUV, or if he would have the same low opinion of my ten-year-old self putting my feet up on the dash of my mom’s compact (For about all of 10 seconds before my mom told me to stop it).

Let me just say, this seems to be the most absolutely irational and pathetic reason I have seen in a long time for wishing such serious harm on someone.

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Your thread title is redundant.

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It’s not just SUVs. I see people riding like this all the time, and it always makes me cringe.

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Well, yes, if you put your feet up, you put yourself in danger… but NoGoodNamesLeft, can you please explain why this such a big deal - was there a child in the passenger seat, did the SUV move into your lane…etc.

WISHING DEATH UPON OTHERS IS NOT WELCOMED. Even in jest or irony.

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Tsk.

I thought better of you than this.

Fenris, driver of an SUV

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Zenster: c’mon, take a ride, in my beautiful BMW SUV. :wink:

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What the fuck is the OP talking about?

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Still doesn’t beat the idiot I saw in a vehicle (yeah, it was an SUV, but that’s not relevant) who was driving down the interstate with his child on his lap, allowing the kid to steer.

Had I been able to follow him and stop him, this is what I wanted to tell him: “How the hell are you going to tell your wife that you survived the accident because you used your kid as an airbag.”

Asshole.

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Fenris, I only wish you could take a rush-hour drive with me here in Silicon Valley. You would see the number of sub-morons that pilot their SUVs as though they were driving a sports car. I’ve seen SUV owners weave through near stand-still traffic at upwards of 80 MPH. Sure, other drivers occassionally do this too, but with their lighter vehicles, they do not have quite the opportunity kill so many people at once.

If I’m not permitted to vent about this in a quasi-humorous way using the Pit, forgive me. I must say that Blonde seemed well enough able to take my joking in the way it was meant.

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That would make me furious too – but the OP has yet to clarify his/her story. It’s apparently one that would call for bodily harm upon those in the SUV.

Calling NoGoodNamesLeft, if you’re out there…

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Zenster, my SUV is a bad-ass driving machine…and 6 inches lower than the other SUVs, so I still can’t see over them as we approach the latest fatal accident.

I always get your jokes, cowboy. So…if you don’t own an SUV, how do you transport your wolf Zen around town?

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I’m so disappointed that these SUV occupants are not obese. Messes up all the pit-rant statistics I’ve been collecting.

Next time, NoGoodNamesLeft, be sure and throw us a bone, huh? You’ll get a lot more replies on an obesity-stereotype rant than an SUV-driver rant.

:smiley:

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Sorry I missed the call for clarification; I was out last night (Pirates of the Carribean: Two thumbs up!).

No, the rant wasn’t directed at people who drive SUVs. It was directed at people who are incredibly stupid.

Yes, it was the passenger, and she was slightly younger looking than the driver, so I’d guess a younger sister or girlfriend of the driver.

I didn’t wish death on anybody. In fact, I mentioned the fact that if they got in an accident, she’d end up in a wheelchair, thus survive. Besides, a fender bender in an SUV wouldn’t harm anyone who wasn’t RESTING ON THE FREAKING AIRBAG!

Wishing to see someone in an SUV get into a fender-bender is “no big deal”, as the SUV would likely be unharmed (as would the passengers, unless they were too stupid to sit properly, which is kind of the point of the OP).

Let me get into a bit more detail. I drive an Escort. Every day I get in, there is a giant, yellow ‘melted-on’ decal on the roof of my car that screams something like “ATTENTION: AIRBAG! THIS CAR CONTAINS AN AIRBAG THAT WILL DEPLOY AT HIGH SPEED IN THE EVENT OF AN ACCIDENT. TO AVOID RISK OF INJURY, DO NOT SIT CHILDREN UNDER 12 IN THE FRONT PASSENGER SEAT. DO NOT SIT OR LEAN ON OR NEAR AIRBAG. DO NOT PLACE OBJECTS ON OR NEAR AIRBAG.” Then it has the whole spiel in French, too! -Over both seats.

So I look up at this dumb sticker (that cannot be removed) and think…“what kind of moron didn’t know this?”. Beyond my desire to not have giant ugly yellow stickers screaming messages I clearly understand in my car against my will, people who do this harm themselves in a way that would have been totally preventable.

So lets say there’s an accident (God forbid, even though I’m a firm believer that these morons should probably get what they deserve). Even a minor fender-bender, but enough to set off the airbag. The designers of this car spent hundreds of thousands of dollars (and hours) on safety feature development and design. The car is freakin’ huge, and it’s occupants are protected like soldiers in a tank. Yet, this moron in the passenger seat still ends up needing emergency medical treatment for life-threatening injuries. Then they’ll probably need emergency surgery, knocking somebody else off the operating table that day. Then comes years of rehab and learning to walk again (probably with assitive devices.) All the while, this person would be unable to work, and probably collecting some sort of government payout. Oh, yippie, we all get to foot the bill for that, too!

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I ride like that quite a bit when I’m in the passenger seat during a long car ride (3+ hours). Then again I don’t own an SUV which I would imagine would have much more leg room than my little car. I also sit indian style, cross legged, one foot tucked under, whatever happens to be comfortable for a period of time. It’s nice to switch it up a bit although I can’t explain why. Then again I’m not even sure if my car has a passenger side airbag seein’ as it doesn’t have one of those fancy yellow stickers. I’ll check next time I’m in the passenger seat.

Really, I never thought it was such a big deal.

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Have you ever seen an airbag deploy? You do know they have killed people sitting in a normal position, right?