Campground
  • Communities
  • Create Post
  • Create Community
  • heart
    Support Lemmy
  • search
    Search
  • Login
  • Sign Up
superkret@feddit.org to Fuck Cars@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months ago

Dodge Ram in the Netherlands

feddit.org

message-square
38
link
fedilink
2

Dodge Ram in the Netherlands

feddit.org

superkret@feddit.org to Fuck Cars@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months ago
message-square
38
link
fedilink

original post: https://feddit.org/post/10733288

Source: [email protected]

“This is why we don’t need #US #cars in #Europe”

alert-triangle
You must log in or register to comment.
  • shadowtofu@discuss.tchncs.de
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    2
    ·
    2 months ago

    Someone in my city did this. Their car blocked the tram. The tram company ordered taxis for all passengers, and the car owner had to foot the bill.

    • rabber@lemmy.ca
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      0
      ·
      2 months ago

      Did the offender actually pay the bill? Did the tram company have to sue to get the money? Do you have a news article?

      • shadowtofu@discuss.tchncs.de
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        edit-2
        2 months ago

        Not the case I was thinking about, but here is a similar case:

        [translated] Parking in a stupid way can be expensive. In Frankfurt, the regional court has ruled that a car driver must pay for the use of 28 cabs.

        […]

        The cabs collected people waiting at the stops and drove them to other stops along the route. This went on for an hour before the car parked not far from a “Please keep enough distance from the track” sign was towed away and the route was free again. […]

        When the VGF then demanded 973.13 euros, 25 euros of this was a lump sum for their own expenses - and the rest was the cost of the rail replacement cabs. The court ruled out manipulation by the cab company after hearing witnesses, and the court was also unable to recognize any dilly-dallying during towing.

        The car driver did not have any legal grounds for not paying for the cabs, this only went to a court because they tried to accuse the cab company.

  • DJKJuicy@sh.itjust.works
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    1
    ·
    edit-2
    2 months ago

    So what will the authorities in the Netherlands do in this situation? Put a ticket on it and then wait for the owner to move it? Tow it to an impound lot? Flip it and light it on fire?

    Whatever size the vehicle, you can’t block the tracks…

    EDIT: I’ve been in this situation in streetcars in San Francisco and New Orleans. No emergency vehicles came, no super tow truck…the streetcar just waited and blocked traffic until the driver came back and moved their vehicle. I don’t know what would have happened if the driver never came back, but nothing happened in the 20-30 minutes we waited.

    • 100_kg_90_de_belin@feddit.it
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      2 months ago

      In my country your car get towed and you get a ticket. Theoretically you could be charged with disruption of a public service.

    • antimidas@sopuli.xyz
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      2 months ago

      In Helsinki they have a specific emergency vehicle for clearing tram tracks. It’s especially busy during winter as snow takes away some space from the parking and cars tend to start taking space away from the trams.

      Article is in Finnish but hopefully automatic translation can get enough across.

      https://www.is.fi/kotimaa/art-2000005983508.html

    • Droggelbecher@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      2 months ago

      In my country they tow tram track blockers immediately. I think it’s some sort of ‘emergency’ towing too (arrives faster and is more expensive). If it takes too long, they temporarily replace the tram line with a bus. I imagine it’s the same in many places.

      • albert180@piefed.social
        link
        fedilink
        Deutsch
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        2 months ago

        In Germany they sometime use Taxis as the car driver is liable for the cost.

        https://www.spiegel.de/auto/aktuell/falschparker-muss-ersatzverkehr-fuer-blockierte-strassenbahn-zahlen-a-1211260.html

  • JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    1
    ·
    2 months ago

    French has a nice neologism for this phenomenon: autobésité

    • brbposting@sh.itjust.works
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      2 months ago

  • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    1
    ·
    edit-2
    2 months ago

    I don’t even drive a big vehicle, but I know that I would be mortified if I drove somewhere only to realize that my vehicle is like 2x the size of every other vehicle around me, and I cannot fit into any parking spot.

    How do these people live with themselves? I would get out of the truck, take a look at how far I’m blocking the road, and then just drive away and never come back.

    • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      edit-2
      2 months ago

      Here’s an answer to your question in joke form.

      How does a deva diva change a lightbulb?

      She holds the bulb and waits for the world to revolve around her.

      • sunflowercowboy@feddit.org
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        0
        ·
        2 months ago

        Did you mean diva?

        Thank you though, I have a new wiki page to learn about myself. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deva_(Hinduism)

        • SLVRDRGN@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          1
          ·
          2 months ago

          You’re a supernatural being?

  • TwinTitans@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    1
    ·
    2 months ago

    Canadian here - they’re useless here too. Saw a guy the other day who couldn’t even put some 2x4s in his box because it was to short due to having full size back seats. He had them poking through the window into the cab 😂

  • atro_city@fedia.io
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    1
    ·
    2 months ago

    These cars should be banned in Europe. If your car doesn’t fit into a parking spot, it’s too big.

    • Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      0
      ·
      2 months ago

      They’re not a car, they’re a truck, and can do things no passenger vehicle can do.

      Trying to park a light truck in the middle of a city is entirely on the driver though.

      • Ibuthyr@lemmy.wtf
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        0
        ·
        2 months ago

        The space in the back is smaller than the trunk a station wagon usually has. So all they can do is tow something, which any run off the mill SUV can also do. For the vast majority of actual work, we tend to use Sprinters in Europe. These trucks are completely useless here.

        • Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          0
          ·
          2 months ago

          Vehicles like this are typically a “one Tonne” pickup, meaning they can carry a metric tonne or more in the bed. They can also tow huge amounts, 4.5 tonne or more often.

          Whether the owner actually uses that capacity is another question, but they can do things no SUV or station wagon can.

          • friendlymessage@feddit.org
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            1
            ·
            2 months ago

            A VW transporter can carry 800kg, a Mercedes Sprinter up to 1.5t and their lengths are not absolutely absurd:

            (Pictured is the VW but Mercedes is roughly the same length)

            The only thing left then is the towing weight, that’s limited to 2 tons for the Volkswagen, same for the Mercedes Sprinter. But I’d assume that usually people towing more than that in Europe would go for a semi truck anyway.

            What are people in the US towing that weighs that much regularly?

          • Soup@lemmy.world
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            0
            ·
            2 months ago

            The thing is that large vans can also carry all that stuff and they can lock it up, protect it from the elements, and access it more easily because the floor is lower than a truck bed. They can also carry a wider variety of things since the inside of a work van is much longer and has walls to support various items. The entire benefit of a truck bed compared to a van can be defeated easily by a laying down a tarp(say, if you’re bringing in gravel) except for if you’re trying to tow a fifth-wheel or have converted the truck to be a tow-truck. I guess you could make an argument for carrying a single, small hay bale but I c’mon that’s like an American saying they need forty-five guns in case the government goes crazy while actively electing the craziest government officials; it’s clear they don’t know what they talking about and just think they’re neat but can’t simply admit it.

            I watched coworkers here in Canada buy two F-150s after they attended a single track day for motorcycles. The coworker who raced regularly, though, drove a little Ford Transit and the coworker who had a small race team and actually built parts for motoGP teams had a Mercedes Metris. Watching people struggle to get a little Ninja 250 out of the F-150 was hilarious and getting my Ninja 1000, a couple hundred pounds heavier, into the Metris one time was super easy. They could have just bought a trailer like my dad did and which we towed with a Subaru Outback, later a VW Golf, and now a Subaru STi.

            Trucks are largely worthless and the people who buy them very rarely use them for anything they are the only option for, often using them for things they are, in fact, greatly ill-suited to handle.

            • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world
              link
              fedilink
              English
              arrow-up
              1
              ·
              edit-2
              2 months ago

              I own a 2008 Dodge Sprinter. You can put two full size round hay bales in the thing and close it, or about 15-20 of the rectangular hay bales.

              Trucks only have the advantage of the ability to install and use a fifth wheel towing mount.

  • FriendlyBeagleDog@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    1
    ·
    2 months ago

    Even setting aside that it’s so unnecessarily huge, imagine having the utter contempt for others and self-importance necessary to park up on tram lines like that.

  • Sauerkraut@discuss.tchncs.de
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    1
    ·
    2 months ago

  • oleorun@real.lemmy.fan
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    1
    ·
    2 months ago

    #1 vehicle for drivers being under the influence of alcohol.

  • Bloomcole@lemm.ee
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    0
    ·
    2 months ago

    That will be expensive.
    And dumb, how can you not see the tracks?

    • Ibuthyr@lemmy.wtf
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      2 months ago

      Just like how they can’t see kids when they’re peeling off their driveway.

      • Sauerkraut@discuss.tchncs.de
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        edit-2
        2 months ago

        I worked the ER for a smaller hospital in the past and one evening I was called in because a father had ran over his own son with one of those pickups. The kid ran out to greet him but the father couldn’t see his own kid because the lifted pickup’s hood was too high.

        I sincerely hate those wanktanks with all my heart and soul

    • Orangeva@lemm.ee
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      0
      ·
      2 months ago

      They can see the tracks - they just don’t know what they are lol

      (/j)

      • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        2 months ago

        No joke, I nearly died walking across Waterlooplein a few years ago. I had no idea there were even trolley tracks there. I heard or maybe just felt something, stopped walking and turned my head - to see a trolley whizzing past about an inch away from me.

  • Treczoks@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    0
    ·
    2 months ago

    Time to equip the tram with giant sawblades to clear the way.

    • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      0
      ·
      edit-2
      2 months ago

      Just needs a cowcatcher

      AKA a pilot.

      • Treczoks@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        2 months ago

        That would still move the offending car around, potentially damaging the normal, innocent car and the bikes parked next to it.

  • Rooskie91@discuss.online
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    0
    ·
    2 months ago

    This looks like a show down.

    Tram be like:

    "You’re big because the single person inside you is insecure.

    I’m big because there are 100 people inside me.

    We are not the same."

    • jabathekek@sopuli.xyz
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      0
      ·
      2 months ago

      there are 100 people inside me.

      😳

      • NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        0
        ·
        2 months ago

        Found Annabel Chong.

        • andros_rex@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          1
          ·
          edit-2
          2 months ago

          The production that propelled her into the limelight was another Bone production, The World’s Biggest Gang Bang. Quek took part in this gang bang on January 19, 1995, when she was 22 years old. She said part of her motivation to do the film was a desire to challenge gender roles. She appeared in advertisements on adult television to solicit 300 participants for the event. Initial reports differed as to whether she had sex with 251 men over the course of 10 hours, or with around 70 men multiple times to reach a total of 251: the largest number ever in a pornographic film. Acting on the understanding that male participants who had verified a recent negative test for HIV would wear a colour-coded tag, Quek had sex with some men without a condom. It later emerged that the testing had not been as strictly verified as the producers had led her to believe. Even though the film became one of the highest-grossing pornographic films of all time, she was never paid the US$10,000 she was promised, and she apparently never received any money from the video.

          Extremely fucked up. Not the quantity of men (it would have probably been extremely painful a couple hours in though. and even more so if she took a break in between), but the fact that she wasn’t paid and wasn’t fairly informed about risks.

  • Shardikprime@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    0
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    2 months ago

    Ah yeah , it’s big body season now in EU

Fuck Cars@lemmy.world

fuckcars@lemmy.world

Subscribe from Remote Instance

Create a post
You are not logged in. However you can subscribe from another Fediverse account, for example Lemmy or Mastodon. To do this, paste the following into the search field of your instance: [email protected]

A place to discuss problems of car centric infrastructure or how it hurts us all. Let’s explore the bad world of Cars!

Rules

1. Be Civil

You may not agree on ideas, but please do not be needlessly rude or insulting to other people in this community.

2. No hate speech

Don’t discriminate or disparage people on the basis of sex, gender, race, ethnicity, nationality, religion, or sexuality.

3. Don't harass people

Don’t follow people you disagree with into multiple threads or into PMs to insult, disparage, or otherwise attack them. And certainly don’t doxx any non-public figures.

4. Stay on topic

This community is about cars, their externalities in society, car-dependency, and solutions to these.

5. No reposts

Do not repost content that has already been posted in this community.

Moderator discretion will be used to judge reports with regard to the above rules.

Posting Guidelines

In the absence of a flair system on lemmy yet, let’s try to make it easier to scan through posts by type in here by using tags:

  • [meta] for discussions/suggestions about this community itself
  • [article] for news articles
  • [blog] for any blog-style content
  • [video] for video resources
  • [academic] for academic studies and sources
  • [discussion] for text post questions, rants, and/or discussions
  • [meme] for memes
  • [image] for any non-meme images
  • [misc] for anything that doesn’t fall cleanly into any of the other categories

Recommended communities:

  • [email protected]
Visibility: Public
globe

This community can be federated to other instances and be posted/commented in by their users.

  • 905 users / day
  • 3.53K users / week
  • 6.46K users / month
  • 6.52K users / 6 months
  • 1 local subscriber
  • 12.1K subscribers
  • 328 Posts
  • 3.23K Comments
  • Modlog
  • mods:
  • 𝗧𝗼𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿 *𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑝𝑢𝑠ℎ𝑒𝑑 𝑑𝑜𝑤𝑛@slrpnk.net
  • grue@lemmy.world
  • 𝗧𝗼𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿 *𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑝𝑢𝑠ℎ𝑒𝑑 𝑑𝑜𝑤𝑛@lemmy.world
  • UI: unknown version
  • BE: 0.19.11
  • Modlog
  • Instances
  • Docs
  • Code
  • join-lemmy.org