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Cake day: June 22nd, 2023

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  • TotalFat@lemmy.worldtoMemes@sopuli.xyzRiding in style
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    1 month ago

    I used to hit the TX state police auctions pretty often. I really liked the 9C1 Caprice basically the car the 1994-1996 Impala was based on. A little bit Cadillac, a little bit Camaro. Iron block and heads version of the LT1 improved reliability/durability. Could take speed bumps at 70 mph without flinching and was a phenomenal highway car especially for TX. Highway Patrol (DPS) cars are issued to specific troopers and not whored out to the whole department on a 24 hour rotation, so they are generally much better looked after.

    Anyway I happened to hit one auction that was unique. Before, they put a really crappy paint job on to cover up the black and white paint scheme. After, they cheaped out and just spray painted white squigglies all over the car. I picked up a nice 1995 still black and white 9C1 for $2600.

    Rocketing between Houston and Austin at over 100 mph, cars would move over to let me pass. Cops on the other side heading the other way would wave instead of pulling me over. On the rare occasion I did get pulled over, the registration showed previous owner as DPS since I bought directly from them myself. So I always got off with a warning.

    Man I miss that car. They quit making them so they could make more SUVs…

    Also the DPS Mustangs were stick shift so of course I grabbed one of those too!







  • Texas also sits next to a very warm body of water. Swimming in it is like bathing in a pool of hot sweat. The humidity is off the charts. I could get a general read on the comfort level by which direction the planes were landing and taking off. They always head into the wind. One direction meant high temps plus high humidity, and the other meant less off both due to a cool front blowing in from up north.

    California has the opposite. Sure most of it is a desert, but the cool Pacific Ocean cools the air and contributes a lot less humidity.





  • Invite about a dozen friends/strangers/homeless over. Instruct them not to eat for at least eight hours beforehand. Also everyone brings dogs. Build a Jenga tower out of hot dogs on a smallish table of adequate height. Place dogs around the table in the “moat.” Play Jenga with the hot dogs, consuming what is removed. If the tower collapses, the dogs attack the fallen food while everyone screams “meat feast” while downing shots. Person who broke the tower is dragged outside and beaten.