"The suspect drives a very unique car, police say: A black or charcoal-colored Subaru WRX sedan with no license plates.

The car has a hood scoop, low profile spoiler with red LED brake light strip, black wheels, and rain deflectors on the doors."

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    7 months ago

    Sounds like a hero to me. Those things serve no purpose other than help prop up city tax revenue.

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      7 months ago

      My main concern is his method. That is a very dangerous way to remove them, especially if he isn’t taking into consideration what’s behind his target.

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        7 months ago

        He could be using a shotgun with bird shot. Whatever misses the target wouldn’t travel very far before falling harmlessly to the ground.

        Makes sense too if he is to shoot from a moving vehicle. It would be like reverse clay target shooting.

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          7 months ago

          Nope. There’s a video in the article. He’s driving in the middle lane, sees something shiny to shoot at, swerves over a couple lanes, pulls over (blocking the rightmost lane so people have to go around him), gets out of the car and pops a few cap at the sky. Definitely not any method to this madness, just the classic YOLO shenanigans I’ve come to expect from modded WRX drivers.

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      7 months ago

      As a professional CDL driver… I want more of them. Fucking tired of people going 50+ on 35mph roads, 80+ in a 65. Racing around me and cutting me off when I’m already going 5 over posted. I used to agree but after years of driving for a living? Nah fuck em they deserve the ticket, anything within 5 of posted won’t land you a ticket and even if a cop tried it would be dropped without any resistance if you just challenged it. If you can’t handle going within 5 of posted then you shouldn’t be behind the wheel.

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        7 months ago

        Cars doing 35/40 in a 20 with people trying to cross the road… this is not okay. Pedestrian fatalities are up, and this is part of the issue.

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    7 months ago

    If you want more of these shenanigans, done without firing a gun into oncoming traffic, look at the ULEZ vigilantes in London. All the cameras are just falling down… Glass and plastic being bruleed. Copper wires being cut. Post holes being filled with foam and concrete. No guns required. Causes much more work to replace than just unbolting the old camera and putting up a new one.