(not my image. I just find these comical and incredibly dangerous)

  • lokalhorst@feddit.org
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    9 days ago

    In Germany for example this is so unthinkable it’s like somebody saying “tell me the law that says I can’t steal vegetables from the super market”. Please do your own research, some things just are illegal without me needing to cite a law.

    • ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net
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      8 days ago

      My thoughts exactly. “Show a me law that says I can’t attach two giant swords on each side of my car that will cut in half everyone that I pass by close enough. I’m sure you can’t”. American mind is sometimes hard to comprehend.

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        8 days ago

        Even Texas has unsafe protrusions rule, but a cop would have to enforce it. No part of the vehical can endanger pedestrians.

      • yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de
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        8 days ago

        It’s illegal because it endangers other people. People on bicycles, motorcycles or on foot are particularly vulnerable. People don’t expect literal whisks to stick out from the wheels of a car.

        Without even knowing which law regulating vehicle specifications is violated, I am positive that the German §1 (2) StVO is already violated:

        Anyone participating in traffic must conduct themselves in such a way that no other person is harmed, endangered, or hindered or inconvenienced more than is unavoidable under the circumstances.