# "Whoo" yourself, motherfucker! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 2, 2006, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whoo-yourself-motherfucker/359188 "2006-06-02T19:30:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2006, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whoo-yourself-motherfucker/359188/21 "2006-06-02T23:37:46Z")
[QUOTE=Birdmonster] That’s why you need to keep a dozen nails in your pocket at all times. [/QUOTE] Nails don’t work. Most of the time, the thires go right over them with no problem. What you need are [caltrops](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caltrop). ---
**Author:** ![Wakinyan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wakinyan/32/352_2.png) [@Wakinyan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wakinyan)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2006, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whoo-yourself-motherfucker/359188/22 "2006-06-03T00:01:57Z")
People who don’t use their blinkers should either be shot or lose their license; I don’t which yet. It’s really the only thing that drives me mad in traffic. Oh, and the sons of b+tches who sniff my ass, because those m+therf+ck+rs put my kids at risk when I’m driving and I’m a bit picky about that. ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2006, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whoo-yourself-motherfucker/359188/23 "2006-06-03T00:08:56Z")
[QUOTE=Q.E.D.] Nails don’t work. Most of the time, the thires go right over them with no problem. What you need are [caltrops](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caltrop). [/QUOTE] Am I a bad person for checking out that link and wondering if they’re available mail-order? ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2006, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whoo-yourself-motherfucker/359188/24 "2006-06-03T00:23:50Z")
[QUOTE=jsgoddess] Am I a bad person for checking out that link and wondering if they’re available mail-order? [/QUOTE] The answer to both questions is [yes](http://cgi.ebay.com/Magnum-caltrops-tire-mines-package-of-5_W0QQitemZ7208558483QQcategoryZ16044QQcmdZViewItem). 😉 ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2006, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whoo-yourself-motherfucker/359188/25 "2006-06-03T00:44:50Z")
“Will stop dump trucks from dumping on your land!” Now there’s something I didn’t even know was a problem. But caltrops are the solution! ---
**Author:** ![Una\_Persson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/una_persson/32/346_2.png) [@Una\_Persson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Una_Persson)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2006, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whoo-yourself-motherfucker/359188/26 "2006-06-03T01:44:39Z")
[QUOTE=jsgoddess] “Will stop dump trucks from dumping on your land!” Now there’s something I didn’t even know was a problem. But caltrops are the solution! [/QUOTE] I owned a farm once…in Kansas… But seriously, I owned an ex-farm, which I bought to build a house on. The job moved, I moved, my feelings moved, and it became a pretty piece of large rural property. Which every worthless SOB with a truck and a will would try to use as a dump because they couldn’t afford the prices the plutocrats at the tip were charging (you know, like $10 a load…but it’s only those evil yuppies Republicans who can afford that much!!!1111!!!). In lieu of staking out a blind there and then shooting lots of holes in their crapped out Ford-100 when they showed up, caltrops would have been a nice, more legal “Second Place”… ---
**Author:** ![Imasquare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Imasquare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Imasquare)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2006, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whoo-yourself-motherfucker/359188/27 "2006-06-03T02:37:03Z")
[QUOTE=Amaranta] Is it like seatbelts - if there some “coolness” in not using a signal? [/QUOTE] That’s exactly what I think motivates this type of behaviour. I think that certain macho types consider good manners to be a sign of weakness. And using a turn signal is of course good manners. ---
**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2006, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whoo-yourself-motherfucker/359188/28 "2006-06-04T01:51:59Z")
[QUOTE=BiblioCat] Maybe they were out of blinker fluid. [/QUOTE] Yep, sounds like a Baltimoreon to me… 😛 NOBODY here uses signals. EVER. Bastards. ---
**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2006, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whoo-yourself-motherfucker/359188/29 "2006-06-04T01:57:26Z")
[QUOTE=jsgoddess] “Will stop dump trucks from dumping on your land!” Now there’s something I didn’t even know was a problem. But caltrops are the solution! [/QUOTE] But, will they stop neighbours’ contractors from tearing the shit outta your yard? ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2006, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whoo-yourself-motherfucker/359188/30 "2006-06-04T03:25:55Z")
[QUOTE=GingerOfTheNorth] But, will they stop neighbours’ contractors from tearing the shit outta your yard? [/QUOTE] I was just coming in here to comment on the ironies of my participation in this thread! ---
**Author:** ![if6was9](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e47c2d/32.png) [@if6was9](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/if6was9)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2006, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whoo-yourself-motherfucker/359188/31 "2006-06-04T03:45:47Z")
[QUOTE=Imasquare] That’s exactly what I think motivates this type of behaviour. I think that certain macho types consider good manners to be a sign of weakness. And using a turn signal is of course good manners. [/QUOTE] I have to disagree slightly. It’s not good manners, it’s for your own good! Letting someone else (in a 2000 pound missile) know what you’re going to do with your 2000 pound missile is just plain fucking common sense. ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2006, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whoo-yourself-motherfucker/359188/32 "2006-06-04T05:30:53Z")
[QUOTE=GingerOfTheNorth] But, will they stop neighbours’ contractors from tearing the shit outta your yard? [/QUOTE] If they don’t, the tips in [this book](http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0818403144/sr=8-4/qid=1149398976/ref=pd_bbs_4/002-9460505-1381600?%5Fencoding=UTF8) certainly will. ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2006, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whoo-yourself-motherfucker/359188/33 "2006-06-04T23:01:28Z")
[QUOTE=5-4-Fighting] I wasn’t sure I would ever re-subscribe, but this was so snot-shot-out-of-the-nose funny, I had to. [/QUOTE] And my work here is done. Thank you and goodnight. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Spavined\_Gelding](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/958977/32.png) [@Spavined\_Gelding](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spavined_Gelding)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2006, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whoo-yourself-motherfucker/359188/34 "2006-06-04T23:37:21Z")
Around here we don’t use turn signals ‘cause everybody knows where you’re going. ---
**Author:** ![Stratocaster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stratocaster/32/16393_2.png) [@Stratocaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stratocaster)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2006, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whoo-yourself-motherfucker/359188/35 "2006-06-04T23:55:31Z")
[QUOTE=davenportavenger] (Right? I usually let the car pass first because I’m a wuss and I don’t want to hold Mr. Important Driver Man up when he’s going to attend the Big Merger Downtown.) [/QUOTE] You’re way nicer than me. I’d kick the fender really hard. Probably break my toe in the process, but it would be satisfying nonetheless. ---
**Author:** ![Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Man_With_a_Cat)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2006, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whoo-yourself-motherfucker/359188/36 "2006-06-05T13:06:19Z")
[QUOTE=davenportavenger] I don’t want to hold Mr. Important Driver Man up when he’s going to attend the Big Merger Downtown.) Put your blinkers on!!! It is not that difficult!!! [/QUOTE] I once wasted a perfectly good, large Mac D’s shake on the windshield of an asshole that tried cutting me off while I was walking in the crosswalk with a green light. Come to think of it, that was probably a nobler use of the shake than if I’d finished it.. ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Tiger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6de8d8/32.png) [@Mama\_Tiger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Tiger)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2006, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whoo-yourself-motherfucker/359188/37 "2006-06-05T15:52:14Z")
My dad used to use his briefcase when he was getting cut off in crosswalks. A hard bang on the side of the car would work wonders without actually causing any damage. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whoo-yourself-motherfucker/359188.md?page=1)