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[California]

... safety or loss of life is secondary to having job done. I used to live in country like that. When I came to the US I thought what a bunch of sissies. Then it occurred to me very quickly how stupid and expensive is the approach we used in my original country.

... and your prior country is intermediate in that aspect.

Daughter did her semester abroad in India, we visited her for a few weeks. We saw what life looks like with minimal regulations:

In a day trip from New Delhi to see the Taj Mahal we saw: 1) an overturned bus, down off the levee/road. 2) a dead motorcyclist covered with a tarp. Our traffic didn't slow but suddenly switched to the other side of the divided highway running against oncoming traffic to avoid the wrecked motorcycle and body. No traffic control giving guidance, it was apparently just 'common knowledge' to drive on the the other side against traffic to avoid driving through a crash site. My appraisal was the motorcyclist stalled trying to cross the busy highway at a crossing where US would have a stoplight.

Another day we took an overnight train to Varanasi. We learned the main New Delhi terminal, which seemed crowded, had been the site of a deadly stampede a week earlier, as I recall 50 to 100 trampled dead.

We were in New Delhi in a modest middle class neighborhood (YMCA guest hostel) for Diwali, a holiday season similar to July 4 and New Years combined. Firework black powder fumes so severe as to limit visibility on the street to a block or less, we were choking even back in our room. Upon return through San Francisco airport we got held at Customs until we were the last ones left in the room. Then our luggage was brought out and we were asked to open it while the officials stood back, and we were interrogated. The officer used a wipe to get a sample off my camera, got a positive result from his testing machine. Then asked me about my use of firearms. I finally figured out our luggage stunk of fireworks fumes so bad that this had triggered suspicion we we had flown in with a bomb. It took a couple of weeks before blowing our noses didn't show black fumes residue.

There's a whole different world with minimal regulations out there.

 

[Fuddy1952]

... and your prior country is intermediate in that aspect.

Daughter did her semester abroad in India, we visited her for a few weeks. We saw what life looks like with minimal regulations:

In a day trip from New Delhi to see the Taj Mahal we saw: 1) an overturned bus, down off the levee/road. 2) a dead motorcyclist covered with a tarp. Our traffic didn't slow but suddenly switched to the other side of the divided highway running against oncoming traffic to avoid the wrecked motorcycle and body. No traffic control giving guidance, it was apparently just 'common knowledge' to drive on the the other side against traffic to avoid driving through a crash site. My appraisal was the motorcyclist stalled trying to cross the busy highway at a crossing where US would have a stoplight.

Another day we took an overnight train to Varanasi. We learned the main New Delhi terminal, which seemed crowded, had been the site of a deadly stampede a week earlier, as I recall 50 to 100 trampled dead.

We were in New Delhi in a modest middle class neighborhood (YMCA guest hostel) for Diwali, a holiday season similar to July 4 and New Years combined. Firework black powder fumes so severe as to limit visibility on the street to a block or less, we were choking even back in our room. Upon return through San Francisco airport we got held at Customs until we were the last ones left in the room. Then our luggage was brought out and we were asked to open it while the officials stood back, and we were interrogated. The officer used a wipe to get a sample off my camera, got a positive result from his testing machine. Then asked me about my use of firearms. I finally figured out our luggage stunk of fireworks fumes so bad that this had triggered suspicion we we had flown in with a bomb. It took a couple of weeks before blowing our noses didn't show black fumes residue.

There's a whole different world with minimal regulations out there.

You're so right. My brother spent quite some time there...the stories were amazing. One I remember he said he was waiting for a train standing on a platform, people pushing so hard a few fell off just as train pulled in...with some guy impaled on one car, piece of metal sticking out.

 

[msb1766]

Saw this at a gas station:

 

[Jstpssng]

Is that hitch mostly held in place by the closed rear hatch? That's when you find out which way they are headed, and turn in the other direction.

 

[flyerdan]

Well you know that they're headed for the scrapyard with a load of mowers 4 meth. I'd be more concerned with how the trailer tire seems to be way too far forward for the fender.

 

[Industrial Toys]

Those mowers all look so nice and clean. I have the same trailer, only with high 2x4 and plywood sides. Was used for garbage at a condo complex. Bet I could put three times as many mowers in mine.

 

[Doofy]

Saw this at a gas station:
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Gonna be a lot of mad homeowners when they get home and find their mowers gone!

 

[KubotainNH]

It looks kinda like the box is so rusted it's sliding off the frame. I would like to see a better view of that hitch setup.

 

[PhysAssist]

You're so right. My brother spent quite some time there...the stories were amazing. One I remember he said he was waiting for a train standing on a platform, people pushing so hard a few fell off just as train pulled in...with some guy impaled on one car, piece of metal sticking out.

One of my best friends did volunteer trips to S. American countries as a nurse practitioner- they saw people routinely losing limbs from riding on top and outside of trains, boats and buses- and then go back and do it all over again.

The other thing I was going to say was that like Russia, a lot of divers in these places have dash cameras so that they can protect themselves against spurious law suits from the rampant misuse of their "legal" systems.

 

[PhysAssist]

Is that hitch mostly held in place by the closed rear hatch? That's when you find out which way they are headed, and turn in the other direction.

Naw- it looks like they have to drive with it open- I bet that those metal bars extending over the bumper form some kind of clamping device to secure the hitch to the "tow vehicle".