You don’t fit. Go to your own garage. You are several feet too long.
Original Reddit discussion: https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinfuriating/comments/1t3oadt/your_truck_is_stupid_big/
When I see people with clean, big, unused trucks, I always give them this hand signal:
Wag your index finger, and it looks like their small limp dick, blowing in the wind. You get double points if you look them in the eyes. They usually get the message. Be careful, though. I’ve gotten into a few fights over just that hand sign.
I’d definitely reserve it for those pissers who ride your ass or park like assholes, but get ready for a fight.
Remember when Hummer came out with a consumer SUV back in the early 90s? I remember thinking they were gigantic and too big for the roads/parking spots. Quick search tells me the wheel base was 130inches (3.3m or 10.8ft). Here it is completely in a parking spot.
A modern F250 supercab with an 8-foot bed is 175.9in (4.5m / 14.7ft). A 6.75-foot bed, the wheelbase is 147.8in (3.75m / 12.3ft). I wish we could go back to the days of the Hummer…I remember when they first came out, someone tried to take an H2 down this narrow one way brick road with high curbs in our town, and managed to wedge himself in between the curbs completely stuck, threatening to shed his sideways if he went forward of backwards
LoL nice I would have just stood there and laughed at that loser
It’s an old geezer’s car compared to a stadium super truck, if they were street legal…
I can’t help but think the H1 is fucking cool. They’re not that long but they are W I D E.
Would cost an absolute fortune to fill with gas these days lol
It’s diesel.
Leg room is shit in the humvee if you’re tall but they’re beefy bois that can crawl through damn near anything.
Damn, I’m tall
I’ve seen an increase in these dumb trucks in my small European city. Every single one in pristine condition, so you know the pricks don’t use them for work. A few stood out with expectedly dumb details. One had a license plate a la “I love USA”, and another had a sticker “0800-EAT-SHIT”. I’m pissed EU doesn’t have the balls to ban them altogether.
I think they’re banned in the UK. Too big for the roads in a city that was built for horses.
Interesting how giant stupid trucks attract douchebags world wide.
See, that right there.
I used to have a massive F-550, but it was so beat up and had the connections to make use of that towing capacity.
Most of these trucks have never been off the pavement and never hauled more than groceries.
Also, an F-250 now is the size of my F-550 in the 90s.
I need to figure out some way to plausibly scratch these things with deniability. Maybe an umbrella with a metal tip sticking out of my bag. Whoops, sorry, couldn’t be helped, total accident.
Perhaps a simple trip/stumble while holding a handful of sharp metal objects that happen to make contact as you reach out to prevent a full fall, clumsy me…
It’s wild to remember this joke was from 1998, yet I can swear trucks have gotten even bigger since then. I remember most pickup trucks having a compromise between cab space and bed space. My brother’s first truck had two seats in the front and two side seats squished behind it - that is, it was such a small space that the seats faced inwards from the wall and we had to fold our legs so our knees went up. It was actually pretty fun to sit back there, I had a friend who’d ask him specifically to drive us places because she loved that feature.
But nowadays it seems most pickup trucks (that I see, in the US) gave up on making that compromise, like the truck in the post image. Full cab in front like it’s trying to be a family sedan, then a long-ass bed that makes the thing stick out pretty much anywhere it parks.
I’d say “pick a lane,” but with the size of these things, I don’t have high hopes.
A while back, i watched my friend help another friends mom into his truck in an icy parking lot- by using the Tommy gate as an elevator to get her the 2.5’ up to the other trucks door.
TBF, at least both actually use their trucks for work. Tommy gate is a stone mason and thw other guy I regularly see hauling trees to plant for landscaping.
I miss my old four cylinder Tacoma sometimes but my mini van is so much more practical. I have a trailer and hitch when I need to haul something I don’t want in the van. I looked at Tacomas again a few years ago and was floored at how big they were, I swear they are the size the full size tundras used to be.
And they fucking insist on parking in the front of places. You can drive a piece of shit like that but you can’t walk from the back of the lot? Lazy little dick.
Now if you all could see the uncut picture you probably would see that he’s got something in the back of the truck provably preventing him from backing up. This truck also is a base model work package. Steel rims steel bumper, white… could it be possible it’s a contractor forced to work in some shit hole condominium? Or is loading/ unloading something at that moment? Yall a fucking bunch of stupid. The good stupid you mind.
I think that it’s going to take societal change to stop this from being the norm. In Australia there was a road safety campaign with the slogan:
“Speeding. No one thinks big of you.”
It essentially compared speeding with having a small penis, by using the metaphor of a wiggling pinkie, and thus embarrassing perpetrators.
In other words, it needs to become uncool to drive such a massive vehicle. Perhaps “The bigger the trick, the smaller the …”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speeding._No_one_thinks_big_of_you.
Edit: Removed stray period.
Edit: Added non stray period back and changed how I entered the URL. Fingers crossed this works. Remind me again why I work in IT.
Here in Australia, a ram 1500 nearly hit me on my bike by going the wrong way around a roundabout too. They didn’t even slow down to check.
I slammed my brake and swerved.
If they can’t even successfully navigate a right hand turn on a roundabout, they shouldn’t be here. And the drivers park and drive them at a lower standard, instead of higher too
And the IGA near me is full of large utes during lunch hours using 2-3 parking spots each.
The two utes?
Excuse me, uh did you say yutes?
Yeah your honor the two yutes.
Uh, what is a yute?
Oh excuse me your honor - two youTHs.
Also, I actually drive a Jeep Unlimited (which is actually a fairly big car). And yet, never had an issue fitting into any of these spots. I’ve literally seen though ute drivers who pull into a spot badly, and not even try to fix the issue. Considering buying some stickers to throw on their windscreen.
Only a cuck, drives a truck.
Something like that?
Maybe shame and embarrassment would work, but the kind of people who drive this kind of car are probably anti-social assholes who don’t care about other people very much.
But these people get off on being jerks. There’s something wrong with their brain so empathy doesn’t work right.
Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name.
Did you mean: Speeding. No one thinks big of you.?
I think you wanted that second period.
Not sure what you mean. When I click the link on my post, it goes to where I intended. Note that I removed an errant period at the end of the URL about an hour ago.
Edit: Well this is getting weird. I tested it three times, now it goes to a redirect page that does require the period.
Edit: I think I nailed it third time around.
Speeding. No one thinks big of you.
The automatic linking feature breaks with a URL ending in a period.
Thank you, fixed.
I don’t think that will work. The comparison has been made but doesn’t seem to phase people. I think IED might be only the solution, since the people who drive these don’t seem to care in the least that they are a lethal danger to everyone in a smaller vehicle/on a bike/pedestrian.
Fuck these big ass trucks, should be illegal!
They should reduce the height on parking garages to exclude them.
Just let the air out of the tires so they dont have to worry about scraping.
Also I have a tiny old but tall van, it’s exactly 15 feet long and narrower than most modern compact cars, but it’s over 6 ft tall. It does fit in most parking decks, and never sticks out of the spot.
They have a steel beam barrier at 6’2" at the entrance to my hospital parking and some broski rams into it every week.
Why does he keep coming back?
It feels so good when he stops.
Agreed, but that’s probably an issue for fire safety. There’s probably some regulation that mandates a minimum height.
And some vans designed for transporting people with wheelchairs/powerchairs could be blocked out.
And vans in general, they’ve only gotten taller and taller in recent years. Many look like a good gust of wind’d knock them over.
That was actually a problem with briefly-very-popular conversion vans.
I dunno, I’ve met parking garages I couldn’t safely walk through at a modest 6’5"
Another reason why I like the European vehicle weight and speed restrictions, especially with a damn trailer. If the gross weight of a vehicle is over 3.5 metric tons (7700 lbs) you are limited to 80 km/h (50 mph). Depending on the version and/or the load, your Ford F-250 is in the right lane with the rest of the trucks and trailers. Any sort of modifications, like raising the damn truck, requires a thorough technical inspection.
Costs $22 worth of gas just to start it up
Remember kids, the owner of the parking lot is not responsible for any damage or theft. Something that big is just a damage magnet, and that’s just accidents.
Remember that when your car gets hit.
I really think driving these things around should only be legal for work purposes.
The loophole is many who own their own trades business still drive them for personal uses because they can’t afford (don’t want) another car.
Yes very specifically had one modified to fit the height of loading docks with a hydraulic gate, to move heavy ass things and a crew of workers, maybe in some cases another vehicle would make sense but we had to get equipment to some pretty remote places as well. Of course one of our employees took it home everyday to do burnouts or whatever. To a certain extent cops are more lenient to a commercial vehicle.
They’re only common because of tax laws. Everyone else in the world uses box vans for most “work” purposes, and if not box vans, the same frame with something else in the back. Pickup trucks have their uses but they’re worse than vans for most trades.
For my field pickup trucks are the way to go, but we often have to go off road to reach a site.
That said this truck is still too large. While we may need the extended bed for additionally equipment storage, the front and basically porfile/height could still be reduced significantly. It’s a huge issue with modern truck design
Don’t I know it. Most of my male family members have been tradespeople and all but one chose/chooses a van over a pickup truck.
If only the people who drove them for legitimate work purposes owned them, even as their only vehicle, it would be a huge number off the roads.
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And these assholes usually the first to whine about how expensive gas is.
you would too if you needed a mortgage to fill up the car
Only silver lining of gas going to is including these guys are paying even more to drive that ugly pos. Not worth everything else going up in price, though.
(I think that’s f250 according to the side, but a 6.7 diesel? $7.50 is the rate for diesel around here and it’s got something like 13 to 14mpg real world stats so lol.)
They also can never find their signals and are by far the most aggressive drivers on the road.
