{"id":1037,"date":"2008-02-01T08:44:49","date_gmt":"2008-02-01T13:44:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/01\/snow-covered-cars\/"},"modified":"2008-02-01T08:44:49","modified_gmt":"2008-02-01T13:44:49","slug":"snow-covered-cars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/01\/snow-covered-cars\/","title":{"rendered":"Snow covered cars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just in time for a huge winter storm; here&#8217;s another rant for you; morons who drive snow covered vehicles. I&#8217;m sure there is a little-used bylaw that covers this somewhere, but they really should enforce it a little more. I just love driving behind these guys, the snow blowing off their car and obscuring the view of everyone behind them.<\/p>\n<p>Or even better are the drivers that have several week&#8217;s worth of accumulation on there, iced and packed into a deadly snow frisbee. These things release spontaneously at high speed on the highway and smash down onto the hood and windshields of cars behind them. It&#8217;s enough to cause an accident, and I&#8217;m sure it has at some point. Most often it&#8217;s the people with minivans and trucks and SUVs that can&#8217;t seem to be bothered to brush the snow off the roof of their vehicle. I can say that because I own a minivan and you will never see me leave snow on there.<\/p>\n<p>So remember tonight when 30 cm of\u00c2\u00a0snow is falling, clean off your cars people.\u00c2\u00a0 It has nothing to do with you, but the guy behind you.<\/p>\n<p>I guess I need\u00c2\u00a0 a cup of coffee or a hug, or both this morning.\u00c2\u00a0 I will ask the guy in the cubicle next to me if he minds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just in time for a huge winter storm; here&#8217;s another rant for you; morons who drive snow covered vehicles. I&#8217;m sure there is a little-used bylaw that covers this somewhere, but they really should enforce it a little more. I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/01\/snow-covered-cars\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-stupidity"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piGNU-gJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}