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The 1995 Seat Toledo claimed 75mpg highway. That's UK gallons, so call it 60mpg US in a car the size if a Contour. I got 45mpg in a Peugeot 407 driving around the UK and I was not driving for efficiency. What are modern diesels getting today? If gasoline cars are improved, diesels will be improved also.

I wish more euro diesels made it here.

I have a 2005 Subaru legacy GT. I love it. 5spd, turbo, AWD. 21mpg for my commute that is 90% freeway? not a big fan. I can get 30 on a long trip if I stay at 65, but I'm usually going with the flow in the left lane, so no.

Awd plus 30mpg is a tall order.

Yet people still wonder why aggressive bystanders get arrested for interfering. Interference from bystanders is partly responsible for this thing going pear-shaped.

Good for ratings. Irrelevant to justice.

I agree with everything said in this post. Except I'm not in a treestand. More of a breakfast bar.

Enough to knock him partially unconscious.

I know this was "resolved". Just wondering what folks here think.

The video would disprove such a claim.

I didn't see one. Just wondering if the rash of videos of cops tasing people then getting put through the wringer for it is going to result in fewer cops using tasers, resulting in them getting into fights that they may lose, and having to shoot the subject.

When I try to figure it out I look at all the individual decisions that contribute to the situation as a whole, and determine if each decision was made in good faith. The key decisions on the part if the dead man were: - Was he right to physically fight with the taxi driver? - Was he right to run from the cop? - Was he right to resist arrest? - Was he right to "ground and pound" the cop? As far as the cop goes: - Was he right to perform police duties off-duty? (the taxi thing) - Was he right to chase the man when he ran? - Was he right to try to arrest the man when he caught up with him? - Could he have used another method of effecting the arrest, such as tasing the man? - Was he right to shoot while he was being grounded and pounded? And a personal question: Amongst all the screaming about too-frequent taser use, could thus be an example of the cop not wanting to tase the man because he knew he was being filmed and knew he would be vilified for it, thereby losing control of the arrest and having to shoot to save himself? Also not noted in the video, the cop was only semi-conscious when he shot the man, bystanders said he was in-and-out of consciousness while awaiting the ambulances. Helps clarify how much danger he was in.

Didn't see this one discussed yet. http://youtu.be/q-_4Bv8JcSY The cop was off-duty but working security in full uniform at a hotel. He was called to help a taxi driver that reported being assaulted by a passenger. That passenger, an off-duty fireman celebrating his wedding, ran when the officer arrived. The cop caught up with the man and tried to arrest him. The video picks up from that point. Discuss...

You don't know the half of it. Just today I drove up behind what looked like a big rear-end accident with an Escalade at the back and a Prelude turned at 45deg in front of it. Prelude driver was standing at the door of the Escalade, so I asked if anyone was hurt and that is when I found out it was not an accident, it was some kind of domestic and she was saying things like "He won't let me leave". I asked him if he was stopping her from leaving and his answer was "This is my truck". I don't want any part of that garbage - I'm out. I went back to my car and called the police. He saw me calling and drove away. She drove away too.

I stopped because the accident looked pretty severe and I thought someone could be hurt. I'm certified NREMT-Emergency Medical Responder. I understand the nature of your concern - but talking to a guy about his truck and answering his questions 7 times over isn't "borderline grappling". I know when to back off. Trying take his keys was a move that is up for debate, for sure. Beyond that, when he announced he was leaving I just stepped aside. I'm not gettign my ass kicks over a traffic ticket. It was more like verbal aikido, keeping him busy so his drunk ass didn't get back on the road and cause another accident. "Taking notes like some kind of cop" = Completing the police report the trooper gave me to fill out. The pen and paper is for exchanging details and taking notes after an accident, etc. I guess I could use it for an accident I was not involved in too, but I don't that. Wghen this kind of crap happenss I call EMS and police as needed and try to make sure nobody dies before EMS arrives. Keeping Mr.OMVI talking was as much about keeping him off the road as a pedestrian as it was as a driver. Blocking roads, handling belligerant folks etc is not my thing. I am aware that what I do is dangerous. I am also aware that riding a motorcycle is dangerous. That doesn't stop you, does it? Again, not busting balls back at you - the feedback is welcome. I have spent a lot of time thinking through my actions whever this kind of stuff happens and will always do so. I always run these thngs past a couple friends of mine who are cops and take their advice. Sometimes they tell me I went too far, sometimes they say I did just fine. I adjust my response to accoutn for that feedback.

They just posted the police report. It was written up as a simple accident and he was cited for an unsafe lane change. I guess the road rage angle is just being dropped. He also blew .213 so I have to assume he will be facing a DUI also.

I have a few space blankets in my kit. The pen was for the police report so I don't think they'd want pencil. I heard good things about the fisher space pen. I also need to do the following: - Put the non-emergency phone numbers of the police departments for the areas I drive through in my phone. - Have a pad of paper in my car to write stuff down with. - I have a cheap gopro knockoff that I can set recording and clip to my belt to capture voices etc to make sure what I report is accurate. Just need to leave it in my car plugged in to charge - I need to seek advice on how and where it is appropriate to stop. I don't have safety lights on my car, just hazards, so I don't like to stop in the roadway. In this case the road was blocked at first but as soon as it was clear everyone was uninjured the priority was to get the cars out of the road. My EMR training had very little specifics on vehicle positioning except to 'protect the scene from further danger' but given that everyoen was unhurt we were *creating* the danger by being stopped there. Just like those freeway signs say... "Fender bender? Pull over to the shoulder!" Above all: - I need to quit being such a fuckin' jinx around other road users...

For the true post-apocalyptic world, assuming you need to move a lot of people or goods around and can obtain diesel, would be an old security van. Heck, I need that on 270. Any normal vehicle, assuming dwindling numbers of working vehicles, would become a hot commodity and you'll be dragged out of it at any opportunity. For getting backups - a Ford Focus would do nicely. However I'm really wondering how important your backups are going to be in an age when people are killing each other for moldy bread. TBH, if I weas the sort to plan for the SHTF, I'd go with a pre-arranged safe place with a house/trailer/bunker etc, and offroad tires on my vstrom. Wifey can ride bitch, my son can learn on his own dirt bike - bug out plan would be to assumed the roads are all going to be blocked and to cross-country it to the hideout.

Input from police / EMS folks would be of great value here. (Sorry this is so big. your momma didn't seem to mind) First, the video. The crash is too far away to see except the plume of snow... Cliffs: S10 tried to force a F150 off the road in a road rage incident but only wound up wrecking himself into the median and getting stuck. I didn't see the events leading up to the plume of snow, but an independent witness said: I got stopped and went to check on the driver of the S10. No injuries. The F150 driver joined us and the two drivers started arguing angrily. I got them both to calm down and asked if they needed to exchange insurance details (I didn't see the collision with the F150 and thought he was just a witness). When F150 said there had been contact I sent him over to a parking are about 200 yards down the road. I asked the second car if she was a witness and sent he over to the same parking area when she said yes. The S10 was apparently will stuck so I told him to sit tight and I'd call for help. I moved my car out of the roadway and set up flares, then called the highway patrol and reported a non-injury two-car accident, not blocking the road but stuck in median, requesting patrolman for accident report and peacekeeping. The F150 driver was still angry and reported the S10 driver was drunk or something. I spoke with the witness and got the 30-second description of the accident above. I spoke with the F150 driver and got the same story. I told them highway patrol were coming and said I'd go speak with the S10 driver. Once I got there is took me about 5 seconds to decide he was very, very drunk. He was wobbling when he was standing, he asked me the same set of questions several times, including;"What happened?" There was a distinct altered mental state which was not from any head injury. He then decided he was going to get his truck unstuck and "I promise I'll park over by the other guy." I then spent the next 15 minutes talking with him trying to get him to stay at the scene. I never indicated that I thought he was drunk, nor did I argue his account of the accident (The F150 rear-ended him with no warning). When he got angry I redirected the conversation over to something innocuous like commenting on how little damage the truck had suffered, or humoring him about his version of events while telling him I didn't see the accident ("If he rear-ended you make sure you tell the police that."). He told me he was a firefighter and told me that I wasn't needed several times and that I should go. When he asked why I wasn't leaving I said because my (LED) road flares were out for safety and visibility and I needed to stay until I could collect them again after the tow truck had arrived. He kept saying things like; "You're an EMR, I'm a firefigher, you know what the deal is, you know how things are, just go away." When the police arrived he was arrested and carted off to jail. Lessons learned: - Even though I have 5 pens in my car, only one of them worked! More pens? Or different kinds of pens? They are cheap ballpoints. - I had gloves and a fleece in the car and they are great for walking around but after 30 mins in the 10F cold I was very uncomfortable and shivering too much to write anything down until I got back in my car to warm up. Need to leave a much bigger coat in the car. - I assume that confronting him about being drunk or about his story being BS or about him causing the accident would have been a bad move. My intent was to just keep him calm long enough for the police to arrive. - He announced he was going to get his truck out and tried to run around to the driver's door. Knowing how drunk he was and concerned he was going to flee I tried to open the passenger door and take him keys but the door was locked, he came running back around demanding to know why I did that and I told him I was gonna turn his engine off because his clutch was burning up (it actually was). I don't think he believed me but all he did was mouth off about it. - At one point he was standing on the fog line of 36/37 and in his drunken state he started to topple backwards into the path of a semi truck. I grabbed him by the shoulder and pulled him upright and away from the truck. This pissed him off enough that he called the police himself and reported that I assaulted him. I assume I should not simply let him fall into traffic, but he wouldn't listen to me when I told him to get away from traffic. - When he again tried to get into his truck and get away I just stepped out the way. I'm not getting hurt over an insurance claim. I could see he was turning against me as he figured out I was stalling him for the police so I stepped out of the way and let him do what he wanted, while at the same time trying to keep the conversation going wherever possible. I don't know if there a a good single answer for "when do you give up". - I was acutely aware of my ability to defend myself (or inability) being aware that I was not armed except for a pocket knife, and we were standing between a lane of traffic and a 2' snow drift. My only saving grace was that he was clearly too drunk to run effectively and I had a clear path to escape (down the fog line away from his vehicle) regardless of my MA training, I am NOT going to get into a fight next to an active highway! So basically, other than learning that I'm not as prepared as I think I am, I also got a chance to dust off some of my "dealing with drunk people" skills that I honed while working as a night barman in a downtown bar during college. It's just like dealing with people who are angry at someone else, or a situation, but must be handled carefully lest they become angry at me. The only difference being that they can switch to being angry at me very quickly.

Who is that supposed to be pointing at? Angle of thumb suggests Captain Slow, but he appears to pointing at himself.

Pilot busing/bearing is fine. (apparently it is a single unit with FW) I have no clue. I figured any "non-disengaging" failure of the pressure plate would be immediately apparent by way of something clearly broken. Tech cannot explain it.

Fair enough. Just did that. The fork moves exactly the same distance as before. The slave cylinder is not a new one.

You can see the reflection of the smoke/gunshot in the window on the left. Looks very close. Maybe a pistol, as no apparent overpenetration (no damage to windows behind him).

The fork pushes the TOB forward into the pressure plate fingers. The TOB clips to the fork and has a rotating hub that contacts the fingers. I'm confused about why this clutch is so much lighter than my last one. I can push the clutch all the way in with two fingers. Almost with one. Previously I couldn't do that. Both original clutch and first replacement. Wierd.

Egad! You've solved it, Mr.Holmes!