Rolling coal is the practice of tampering with a vehicle’s emissions control system, causing it to spew black clouds of sooty exhaust.

    • @bcron@lemmy.world
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      139 months ago

      It also fits the bill for reckless driving because it is operating a vehicle while being aware of and consciously disregarding the risk that it may cause harm to others while being a significant deviation from a reasonable person’s standard of conduct. I mean, their intent is clearly to create a bunch of thick smoke as they installed a device for the sole purpose of creating thick smoke, people cannot see through thick smoke, stupid games stupid prizes call in the flatbed

      • @zeppo@lemmy.world
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        29 months ago

        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.

      • @zeppo@lemmy.world
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        119 months ago

        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.