Showing posts with label morons. Show all posts
Showing posts with label morons. Show all posts

Sunday, February 9, 2014

biggest waste of tax dollars I've heard of lately, the NASA moon buggy mk2






It that a Hang Ten Dart on the left? With Keystones no less!

It's been a magazine cover car, and featured on Top Gear, Season 16 episode 7 I think.

Why is it such a waste of money? At the cost of getting a pound of matter into space, just launching it off the planet, is very high. But the bottom line? No one is going back to the moon, this 8000 pound moneypit wouldn't drive well because it weighs so damn much, with such small tires, and the moon has light dust soil that looks to be a foot or so deep(from the 1972 lunar rover videos). How much did it cost? Four and a half million dollars. That was a stupid waste of money.

Saturday, February 1, 2014

Baltimore Maryland stoplight cameras grossly inaccurate and ripping off residents. City didn't bother releasing this info, the newspaper did

a secret audit from 2012 of the traffic cameras in Baltimore, MD should heat things up a bit. In an audit of the city's 83speed camerasThe Baltimore Sun is reporting that 13 had a double digit error rate, which helps account for a system-wide error rate of 10 percent. Of course, the secret part of this secret audit was that the findings were never released to the public.

City officials originally said that the cameras had an error rate of less than a quarter of a percent, but the audit found that most were not only off, they were way off – three specific locations in the city had error rates that varied from 35 to 58 percent. As the article points out, a total of 700,000 tickets were issued in fiscal year 2012 averaging $40, and a 10 percent error rate would mean that close to $2.8 million in fines were collected erroneously.

http://www.autoblog.com/2014/01/24/audit-finds-baltimore-speed-cameras-wrong-2-8m-video/

Monday, January 20, 2014

WTF is the deal in Queensland Australia with cops needing to give a biker a dressing down for riding a bike while wearing a vest? 6 cops needed to stand around and ask stupid questions without writing a ticket or making charges



Thanks George for letting me know!

What a waste of time, Aussie tax payers dollars, etc. Readers, this is the most foolish cop pull over I've ever seen. Two cops had to ask him the same questions about his vest, his bike, his job, etc

They act like they are confronting Chopper Reed after a murder, instead, they have Joe Businessman refueling!

I wish I could drop in, ride a harley, while wearing a clever Mickey Mouse MC vest. Just to spin the the hell up.