or the unplacarded Walmart truck with 40k lbs of household chemicals/solvents/compounds in quantities too small requiring placards but still in enough quantities that if mixed in a rollover can make huge clouds of icky nasty make you dead really quick…
Yeah, hazmat training in the Texas State Guard opened my eyes up to the dangers on our roadways EVERYWHERE!
Yup a. 50 AE in the keister would definitely cure roids. 
I’m sorry, but you make it sound as if a piece of plastic handed down by the government can change the laws of chemistry. Obviously that’s not what you intended.
The threats from zombies are getting worse every day. You know who I’m talking about: the zombies, wandering down the Interstate or Your Street with their “smart” phones in their faces, MAYBE a pinky-finger on the wheel, too busy “tweeting” to care whether they kill you and your children with their 2500-pound UNguided missiles… That poor, underpaid WalMart (or Dollar General or Sears or …) driver is the least threat of the bunch.
Well, except for the batteries, that is…
Yup, no disagreement there at all
But thats the governments fault, i don’t know why but it probably has to do with high wages and subsidies that are not targeted to the wealthy
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Dimbo;
Nothing new as before small cell phones and smart phones there were drivers eating, reading, shaving, doing makeup, adjusting the radio, reading the paper or a book and doing other items totally unrelated to DRIVING THEIR CARS. Now they have added programming the GPS and other “smart” electronics to cars to further distract drivers. IMO totally stupid as are drivers who think that they can safely multitask while behind the wheel.
Point well taken, and sadly oh-so-true, just based on observations of the real world around us.
It seems, as Neanderthals were replaced by Cro-Magnons, Homo Sapiens is being replaced by Homo Indoctus…
My mother taught me a little ditty that went “This is the way we wash our hands, wash our hands, wash our hands. This is the way we wash our hands so early in the morning.” Then repeat with all the daily duties like combing hair, putting on clothes, etc. Maybe you’ve heard it…
After one of the zombies took herself out (fortunately solo, THIS time) at my Interstate exit a few months back, I added a verse: “This is the way we thin the herd, thin the herd, thin the herd…”
“No you di’int”?? I want to scream “NO YOU CA’ANT”.
But I’m old and tired and very-very
Dim
I was out for a walk one day and saw a woman pushing a double wide baby stroller down the sidewalk. She was yammering away on her cell phone, totally oblivious to the world, one hand on the phone, one hand gesturing in the air, who knows what she was pushing the stroller with.
As she came up to a busy street that had the right of way she proceeded to keep going, oblivious to the fact that she wasn’t the only person on the planet, she had a stop sign, cross traffic did not, and other people might actually have the right-of-way, and pushed the stroller directly in front of a SUV going 45 MPH. The driver did an emergency swerve, lifting his wheels into the air and missed the stroller by about a foot… he wound up in somebody’s yard.
Of course she started screaming, blaming the driver, called the cops. I waited around and told the cops exactly what I saw… and recommended they contact child protective services and take her kids away and give them to a safe home before she killed them.
I’m really thinking that big honking spark maker under the hood is more likely to ignite the leaking gas from your tank than a battery inside an aluminum tube floating around in your glove compartment. How much more likely? A hundred million times more likely sounds about right to me. Considering that the spark maker under your hood is actually hooked up to stuff in your car it is also much more likely to cause an every day electrical fire without the help of an accident. Of course it’s also FAR more likely that you will die in an automobile accident that has nothing to do with the spark maker under your hood let alone a flashlight battery.
If a Lithium Ion battery in a flashlight ever does catch a car on fire you can bet it will make the national news, man bites dog stories always do. The fact that it would be so incredibly rare is what would make it newsworthy.
My car has a HUGE lead acid battery (probably twice the size of those in most cars) in the trunk sitting right over the gas tank. Should I replace it with some AAA cells?
Let’s not forget that super heated box even closer to the gastank designed to re-burn all those emissions that don’t get burned in the big sparkbox gojuice eating machine in the front, it is designed to run WELL over the flash point temp of the pusholine in the tank, don’t believe me, park over some knee deep dry Texas grass some time 
are you speaking of the EGR system? 
Sounds more like the catalytic converter to me.
I vote you are paranoid.
Ding ding ding
Out here in Cali those things cause lots of fires. They get real hot, people pull off of the road onto the tall grass that hits the underside of the car,(The grass on the side of the road in California is dead, dry and ready to burn -they put heat shields over them now but the old ones are still out there) then the grass under the car catches fire.
Stuck in traffic years ago I saw a guy get stuck in a field trying to evade the cops, as they were putting him in the back of one of the patrol cars, the grass under his black firebird caught on fire. It was great. I don’t remember what happened after that, I guess the traffic must have started moving or the hypoxia from laughing so hard inhibited the memory from fixing.
Edit, story was hard to read and the sentence structure was too choppy and I’m a bit CDO. (That’s OCD but prefer to arrange the letters in alphabetical order it just makes more sense) :bigsmile:
nah, i insist i am correct, see the tongue out smiley i used 
I was originally going to say cigarette lighter but it does not treat emissions even if it could satisfy the rest of the description 8)