Rolling coal is the practice of tampering with a vehicle’s emissions control system, causing it to spew black clouds of sooty exhaust.
Rolling coal is an extremely inefficient method of converting little dick energy into kinetic energy.
It’s a great way to convert money into carbon soot though.
I hope this enforce to the point that all the assholes in my state that have rig thier trucks to do this can go to fucking jail or have their trucks and licenses revoked.
It’s only illegal if it’s enforced, and the people who roll coal are the same types of people that would enforce the rules.
Some of those that work forces are the same that spew carbon.
Climate in the change of.
Fuck you I won’t roll what you told me!
Also reduce their lung capacity by 75%
Can we please actually enforce the rules on drivers though? These are so obviously illegal yet nothing is done.
Not many federal emission police out there to enforce it.
Cities have emission standards. Police could try harder if they wanted to.
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That’s true, beyond the health and environment aspects, they’re obscuring visibility. While some people I talked to said “it’s not toxic bro!” and they don’t believe in climate change, they can’t deny it obscures visibility.
Meanwhile In other countries they do just that
I don’t speak German but I’m guessing they’re ticketing/impounding vehicles that have modifications which violate emissions. Sometimes US cops to that to street racers… the problem is that’s because the average officer doesn’t like kids who modify Asian cars but they basically are the same demographic who would modify a truck.
As long as we’re talking about that, the street racing and ‘sideshow’ thing is pretty out of control too. I’d be happy to see them step up enforcement on that bullshit.
I’m from Europe, but can’t local police enforce federal laws?
No, they can’t unless the federal government specifically deputize the local cops, which would effectively make them federal police temporarily
Not true, local cops can arrest someone for a federal crime. For example, lately some PDs have decided to start enforcing immigration laws.
Those vehicles should be impounded and converted into cubes on the spot by roaming hydraulic presses.
Ideally with the drivers inside
Fuck it, hit 'em hard. Been buying off eBay for 20-years, I like 'em. But this seems like a fine place to put our collective foot down and say, “No. You can’t do that.”
I was shafted by an Ebay seller who was nasty and awful. He acted like he was too stupid to understand why his item was not at all what I ordered. He had a 99.4% approval rating. I thought how the hell was that possible? I found out when I went to leave my negative rating and Ebay would not allow me to post the negative rating.
A seller shipped me a phone that was much worse than what I bought, and it wasn’t even the same brand. I returned it. However, the seller wouldn’t ship the right phone but still had the listing saying several were available. I couldn’t leave a negative review, which makes no sense, and I reported it to ebay, but as of yet nothing has happened to the seller that I can tell.
It’s really disappointing. I want an Amazon alternative, but it’s tough if I’m going to have to go through this crap.
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I use Swappa.com for all my used electronics. Been buying and selling randomly from them for years. They are starting to get big enough to have sellers that refurb stuff which kinda sucks. When they were smaller and only had normal people selling their extra/old equipment was much better.
There’s gotta be a better alternative than AliExpress for US consumers.
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Ah. So no alternative then. Got it.
Is this sarcasm? Half of the shit I get on aliexpress isn’t available anywhere else. Or if it is, it costs an order of magnitude more when buying from US reseller, who is just marking up inventory they bought from aliexpress.
I used to use them all the time, they’ve been super shitty for about 10 years now. They don’t even show up in my searches anymore because I won’t buy from them. Come to think of it, neither does Amazon, he he.
I’d think that would make eBay complicit in any scams they block negative reviews for.
They should probably go after Amazon as well.
Good. Why not ban those oversized SUVs while you’re at it? They’re a serious danger to children and they’re not even good at hauling stuff!
Because the government is bought and owned by the car industry (as well as 20 other industries) yaaay!
The US is just three corporations in a trenchcoat pretending to be a country
Hard agree and also, because I love them but don’t hear them getting nearly enough shit alongside us, Canada is just a resource extraction megacorp masquerading as a country.
I drive a Prius. Assholes “roll coal” when they drive next to me all the time. I don’t even get it. They’re not even giving me shit for having an electric car, they’re giving me shit because I pay less for gas than they do.
No, it’s because of their fragile ego.
Sure, but they do it specifically to Priuses. Electric cars too, but also Priuses and other hybrids. I’ve heard so from other hybrid owners and seen them do it too. It is definitely about their fragile ego, but I think it’s also just because they’re idiots.
They love to try and get me on the motorcycle all the time.
It’s happened to me and I just drive a small car. They’re doing it to any vehicle that’s not a fuckoff huge truck I guess
I think it’s more that they are fucking dumbass pieces of shit.
I’m fortunate enough to be able to walk to and from work every day. These “roll coal” bastards just hate me for it. I think it must really chap their assess to see little ol’ me bopping down the street listening to my tunes and not needing an emotional support truck the way they do.
Time for the ol’ “Roll coal if your dick is tiny” sticker
If it’s any consolation, the fact that they are modifying their trucks which are already enormously over priced and gas suckers to suck even MORE gas when they do this to you should hopefully provide some sort of satisfaction to you. I typically point and laugh at them.
Oh I’m aware and I do laugh at them. They just also baffle me.
Wait I thought people were just tampering to get higher performance or something, idk. But they’re literally doing it to make the vehicle spew worse than it already does? Wtf and why? What is wrong with people?
Running the diesel engine extra rich so it vomits extra sooty exhaust instead of properly burned, cleaner exhaust, because they feel the need to compensate for their small member by annoying everyone else.
Since getting an electric car they’ve started cutting me off, brake checking me and then doing the soot farting thing. It’s like they need to make up for my car’s lack of tailpipe emissions in a way that really lets me know they’re doing it.
It’s not LIKE that. It 100% IS that. That is the entire intended point of rolling coal.
That is one reason I debadged my Tesla.
(The other reasons are Elon Musk and also I think it looks better being totally smooth)
why?
They see it as a “fuck you” to liberals/environmentalists.
I’ve seen around 5 guys (maybe the same one?) doing this in Seattle. They are extremely stupid looking and they also cover their license plate with “mud.” It makes me laugh because they’re spending lots and lots of money and time to look that fucking stupid.
Same here, giant jacked up white 4x4, the only thing missing was the trump flag. Othello neighborhood, obviously not a local.
The one(s) I saw were all matte black, so we now know there are at least 2 of them. POS going to Othello? Again, so fucking stupid. I grew up in the Chicago area, I would love to see them try that crap in those neighborhoods, they wouldn’t have time to see what was coming. Seattle suburbanites really are spoiled and don’t how bad the consequences can be when they’re being shitty.
Haha I grew up (sometimes, moved a lot but fam was from) near where Comiskey park was, 33rd & Emerald.
Yeah, saw the white shitroller, lifted, big wheels, lots of bumperstickers @ othello & mlk last week revving at the intersection then rolling coal over people @ the light rail station. If I had an AT4 at that moment, I’d probably be in jail now.
Glad you didn’t too, they’re not worth it.
Honestly, that’s how I read it, so message received. It’s not the sort of thing you say or do if you’re trying to win friends and influence people, though.
Wait I thought people were just tampering to get higher performance or something, idk
Some folks are, but their goal is to not spew a bunch of black smoke because black smoke means incomplete combustion, which in turn means less power than they could’ve had if they’d managed to shove more air in.
“Rolling coal” is an entirely different thing based purely on idiocy and spite.
It looks tuff, bro!
The worst thing is the people who intentionally spew Priuses (back when they were the only semi-electric cars around) and bicycles with soot, as some sort of “fuck you for trying to not pollute, hur hur” thing.
Because it lets the world know how MAGA you are.
Those types of tuners also exist, and depending on the tune they can actually in some cases slightly improve fuel economy (depending on driving style). I tuned my Audi A3 to “Stage 1+” and actually have seen slightly better fuel economy doing highway driving to which I attribute the new ECU/TCU tunes allowing me to stay in gear longer during acceleration I guess?
A lot of germans disable their EGR-system to increase reliability.
The smoke is a symptom of over-fueling a diesel which does actually make more power, all else being equal.
A little smoke is a symptom of making more power. A lot of smoke just means you failed to add enough air to go with it and are pointlessly polluting and wasting fuel.
(Side note: my diesel VW, which is modified for more power but also is typically fueled with 100% biodiesel, produces less smoke than it did stock.)
To a point. After that you’re just making more smoke, and washing out the cylinders, drastically reducing the engine’s life. I take some consolation in the fact that most of the bros rolling coal will absolutely not be able to afford a replacement engine once they trash theirs.
1 in 100 are children who do it to “own the libs” the rest do it because it increases fuel efficiency and power.
Power maybe. Fuel efficiency, no.
Fuel efficiency yes. These newer diesel motors go into dpf mode around 300 miles to burn off any diesel soot. Which in turn uses more diesel and tanks the fuel economy. I get why some guys do it especially when the egr system goes up. But rolling coal is fucking stupid. Terrible on the motor too.
Please crack down on rolling coal in general. If you were to put it in the context of the shopping cart theory, it would be shoving your cart directly into someone else’s car.
It’s the sheer waste that gets me - not just the fuck you tiny dick bullshit of spewing your effluence onto people intentionally, no, they need to waste fucking shittons of petrol or diesel to do it MEANWHILE THE WORLD IS FUCKING BURNING. The fucking amazon dried up, what more evidence do they need?
Of course, if evidence swayed them, if they had half a fucking brain they’d never try this shit in the first place. But you know what’s worse than the stupids running the planet into meltdown?
The rest of us let them. Even wildly stupid bullshit like this.
This has got to be this most pathetic chapter in the American saga.
Fun fact. My workplace added recycle bins to the breakroom a few years ago. The day after, HR had to call a facility-wide emergency meeting to explain that their use was voluntary only and that no workers would be required to use them.
Grown ass adults lost their shit because they saw a recycle bin.
Stop it. Are you serious?
Yes, I am serious. Folks around here can be aggressively reactionary and will blow up over nothing (or what should be nothing).
I moved to this area about 12 years ago. I wasn’t expecting some huge culture shock, but there it was. I had educated, millennial colleagues who were openly homophobic at work. I could go on with a list of grievances, but it just feels like piling on and I don’t have the option to get out.
JFC I’m sorry things are this way. That is crazy.
And this is why homeschooling and hate speech should be illegal, and assault legalized against certian people
DOJ infringing on my god-given rights to own the libs per usual
The libs are owned by my blue flag!!
If they market them as intentionally modified, then probably criminal case can be opened against them.
- [x] Intention
- [x] Health hazard for others
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I’ve been coal rolled and driven off the road as a recreational cyclist on rural, lonely roads. The last time I felt safe cycling on the road was 5 years ago?
Seems like the entire Western world is dealing with a rise in anti-social behaviour on the roads since the pandemic started.
Honestly things have gotten so much worse IMO, most drivers are not paying attention and I’ve been almost smooshed a few times. Slowing down and trying to stay out of cars’ way can only do so much…
The ones that force past only to pull over or turn 5 seconds later are the worst examples of impatience I’ve seen on the road in years ☹️
Could have been worse. A 16 year old here in Texas ran over 6 cyclists while trying to roll coal on them. 2 had to be airlifted:
four of the six cyclists who were hit were hospitalized. Two of those had to be airlifted because of the severity of their injuries.The update:
https://www.bicycling.com/news/a37808647/texas-driver-assaults-six-cyclists/
A 16-year-old truck driver ran over six cyclists out on a training ride on September 25, in Waller County, Texas.
The driver was attempting to “roll coal” on the cyclists when he hit them, according to witnesses.
The driver was finally arrested on November 8 and indicted with six counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, which is a second-degree felony.
Edit: the last update from the Law Firm representing the cyclists:
https://www.bikelaw.com/2021/11/felony-charges-for-waller-driver/
Holy shit. This kid will probably not see jail and will be driving again in a year or two because his weapon of choice was a car.
Yup. Montana drivers will hunt down cyclists and run them over, if not roll coll on them until they choke and fall over. Love this place!
Shit like this is the reason why I ditched the bike and got a car. The infrastructure is woefully inadequate for biking; more often than not you have to share the road with these idiots instead of having your own dedicated lane. Furthermore, I had way too many near death experiences. I never want to ride a bike in the US ever again.
The practice is sometimes used as a form of anti-environmental protest.
Sometimes? What are the more common reasons?
It’s also used to assault cyclists for the crime of existing
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From that perspective, I’d rather get rolled coal than doored.
To look like you’re an impressive person with a big, strong truck that is so powerful it can’t help but not spew lung-destroying emissions. They’re just cosplaying truckers.
You don’t even see that shit out of semis anymore. It’s just burning fuel for no reason.
i’d probably read the sometimes as applying to environmental protest rather than the practice… as in there are other forms of environmental protests, and this is one that is sometimes used
the emission systems reduce the power and fuel efficiency. removing or bypassing emission systems means they burn less fuel and get more power.
Fud
But the LIB’s got owned, didn’t they… fucking losers
If you rolled coal expect to be held down and repeatedly kicked in the crotch at the inevitable climate induced apocalypse.
People who drive those stupid fucking lifted trucks from the thumbnail regardless of whether or not they rolled coal will probably be next in line.
Can you imagine the CIA hunting down climate terrorists the same way Mossad hunts down Nazis in South America?
