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25 Jul 2018, 3:02 pm

Next time I see a coal rolling a**hole instead of flipping them off like I did, I should just whip out my phone and get a picture, then I can report it to the police so they get fined(though I think there should be a more severe penalty). I mean if they did it to someone with Asthma they could trigger and asthma attack but its toxic to anyone asthma or not.

I mean maybe I still can report it but I didn't get a picture so no license plate, can't remember if it was a black truck or a blue truck and it was a few hours ago, so probably would not do any good.

I immediately regretted not getting a picture, but perhaps next time...I will think it through more, just made me so mad all I could think to do was flip them off. There's multiple wildfires in Colorado a week ago there was a fire in Denver at some automotive scrap recycling yard and you could see/smell the smoke from a lot of the denver area so I've already have plenty of respiratory irritation without some a**hole blasting exhaust at me.

I mean wow sorry I have to take the bus which involves walking, I guess I shouldn't have the right to breathe unless I am in a big ole pick-up truck.

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25 Jul 2018, 3:44 pm

I'm not familiar with "coal rolling".

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25 Jul 2018, 4:14 pm

Magna wrote:

I'm not familiar with "coal rolling".

Basically it is if someone modifies their diesel engine to let out a huge thick blast of black smoke that is particularly noxious. Its a violation of emissions standards and in Colorado there is a 100 dollar fine for doing it. Its basically a thing some a**holes do to troll people on bicycles, walking, or even if they are driving a smaller car apparently. But its not a joke it can actually harm people especially if they have respiratory problems already.

Luckily for me I was far enough away the worst of it had dissipated before it got to me. But yeah a while back my boyfriend mentioned it and I had to ask him what it meant I did not know there was a specific term for it before.

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25 Jul 2018, 4:19 pm

I HATE the smell of diesel fuel and exhaust. I know exactly what you're talking about now that you describe it. I agree with you.

Years ago I did drive a company car that was a diesel and was also a manual transmission. A friend was following behind me in a different vehicle and we were both entering a freeway accelerating on an on-ramp. I had to accelerate very rapidly shifting through the gears and I'm not sure if it was when I then needed to down shift, but at the next stop my friend asked what was wrong with my car because, unbeknownst to me the vehicle apparently spewed the thick huge black cloud of death. I had no idea it even happened and I'm not sure how or why the vehicle did that.

Usually I see it on pickup trucks but also sometimes semi tractors. Terrible.

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25 Jul 2018, 5:21 pm

What purpose does "coal rolling" serve----especially for the "coal roller"?

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25 Jul 2018, 6:08 pm

Didn't know that it was a thing, much less that there was a word for it.

Yeah. If you see that guy do it again on the way to your bus stop definitely snap his plates with your smart phone.

Just read the wiki article on it. And...guess what! I could be a prime target of coal rolling now.

Coal rolling is modifying your truck (sticking extra pipes, removing filters,etc) so that it belches out black diesel smoke. They do it for kicks, entertainment, or to make a political statement. Some even have switches in their vehicles so they can do it on command. They aim smoke at bicyclist, or import drivers,or...at folks who drive hybrid cars. Its a way to protest supposed excessive environmentalism. Some even call it "Prius repellent".

Guess what kinda car I just bought a couple weeks ago.

An '04. Prius.

Not trying to flaunt my environmental sympathies. It was just happened to be the car with most bang for the buck in the used car lot that day.

But I guess that's the polarized America we live in now. What you drive is a political statement whether you mean it that way or not. So I guess I can look forward to "replies" from Trump supporting rednecks blowing smoke at me now. Oh well.

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25 Jul 2018, 6:34 pm

Reporting people to the police makes you that kind of person nobody likes, called a snitch or a rat, doesn't it?

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25 Jul 2018, 7:19 pm

Spiderpig wrote:

Reporting people to the police makes you that kind of person nobody likes, called a snitch or a rat, doesn't it?

But if I blast black smoke in your face, that makes you love me?

Assuming that "being liked" is even relevant: No. Reporting that your neighbors smoke pot in the privacy of their home makes you a rat. Reporting that you assault someone with car exhaust on the street in broad day light in public (maybe to make a public statement) does not make you a rat. Its not in private, its out in the open, and its not victimless.

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25 Jul 2018, 8:42 pm

kraftiekortie wrote:

What purpose does "coal rolling" serve----especially for the "coal roller"?

It makes you "cool"

naturalplastic wrote:

What you drive is a political statement whether you mean it that way or not.

I don't even understand those TV commercials, how is a Prius supposed to be environmentally friendly??

If one wanted to save the environment, they would build a solar-powered vehicle, or ride a bike, or walk...

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25 Jul 2018, 9:40 pm

SabbraCadabra wrote:

kraftiekortie wrote:

What purpose does "coal rolling" serve----especially for the "coal roller"?

It makes you "cool"

naturalplastic wrote:

What you drive is a political statement whether you mean it that way or not.

An all electric car would be better, but a hybrid gas-electric saves fuel, and gets half of it power from the power plant (and thus moves the pollution from its own exhaust pipe to the smokestack of the city powerplant which is easier to control than are individual car tail pipes) so is the next best thing. I wasn't even aware of Prius commercials myself.

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25 Jul 2018, 11:44 pm

Magna wrote:

Yeah and its different than just a brownish cloud, sometimes diesel engines give off that normally...so I am definitely talking about the huge thick black cloud. But yeah the person I saw doing it definitely did it intentionally, I mean a vehicle issue or something I can forgive...but they certainly waited till they got around the corner to blast it like they accelerated a lot. I mean once I saw a truck giving off some rather dark smoke but it also looked like they had a pretty heavy load so I figured that had something to do with it...this was a totally empty clean painted pick up, which they just blasted that s**t out of for no reason.

I would not want someone to get ticketed if it was not intentional, because I get sometimes people have vehicle issues. But this was not anything like that.

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25 Jul 2018, 11:50 pm

naturalplastic wrote:

SabbraCadabra wrote:

kraftiekortie wrote:

What purpose does "coal rolling" serve----especially for the "coal roller"?

It makes you "cool"

naturalplastic wrote:

What you drive is a political statement whether you mean it that way or not.

I would actually like a diesel vehicle because then I could use bio-diesel which is made out of used cooking oil basically it has much lower emissions and it actually provides a use for waste oil from restaurants and what not. Also it can run in diesel engines without them having to be modified...which ethenol/plant based gasoline has problems in that area like I have heard regular gasoline engines cannot run on pure ethanol without a lot of modification. So there is a future for the diesel kind of engine but it does not involve fossil fuels.

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25 Jul 2018, 11:52 pm

kraftiekortie wrote:

What purpose does "coal rolling" serve----especially for the "coal roller"?

It’s about the same as doing a burnout for those coal rolling types.

IMO burnouts are much less offensive. Rolling coal is just straight up an a-hole move towards the environment.

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26 Jul 2018, 12:02 am

Spiderpig wrote:

Reporting people to the police makes you that kind of person nobody likes, called a snitch or a rat, doesn't it?

Probably, and I am not a person who usually calls police...I certainly prefer to avoid that. However the coal rolling is like assault you're basically blasting people with noxious fumes and for people with respiratory conditions it could be seriously harmed by that. Luckily I do not have a serious respiratory issue so I was fine, but someone with asthma or something may have been left coughing on it, having to get out their inhaler.

So to me that is different than say people being too loud or seeming to loiter or whatever...like I have had issues with neighbors in my apartment but I have not contacted police about it, that seems excessive, but coal rolling is a thing that can really hurt people...its not loud music in the apartment above or a neighboring apartment where the family likes to scream a lot its actually a threat to peoples health.

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26 Jul 2018, 12:04 am

goldfish21 wrote:

kraftiekortie wrote:

What purpose does "coal rolling" serve----especially for the "coal roller"?

It’s about the same as doing a burnout for those coal rolling types.

IMO burnouts are much less offensive. Rolling coal is just straight up an a-hole move towards the environment.

Yes and anyone who happens to be a pedestrian or bicycle rider within the vicinity of said offensive smoke.

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26 Jul 2018, 12:17 am

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Lol I kind of had to wonder if they were just pissed I was carrying my reusable 7-11 big gulp cup...which I can take into any 7-11 and get a fountain drink for a dollar. I suspect other convenience stores would let me use it there to. But yeah I was just ready to go with my reusable cup that insulates the drink to keep it cool and this a**hole had to blast by doing that s**t. I mean it was a good morning for me and that f*cker made an effort to ruin it, but yeah next time I shall remember to try and snap a picture rather than flipping them off as I can do more with the picture than a story about 'oh so I flipped a guy off for coal rolling'.

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