Rolling coal is the practice of tampering with a vehicle’s emissions control system, causing it to spew black clouds of sooty exhaust.

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      322 years ago

      Cops pull people over for having something hanging from their rearview mirror. I would think they’d love to be ticketing people for having these things.

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        22 years ago

        It’s a federal emission standard though, not a state one. It’s only illegal to do in New Jersey, Maryland and Maine. Every other state once you own it, you can install these devices, or do a EGR delete entirely if you want to. In states that do emission testing on private vehicles you’d want it to be reversible of course.

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        12 years ago

        No, they can’t unless the federal government specifically deputize the local cops, which would effectively make them federal police temporarily

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          132 years ago

          Not true, local cops can arrest someone for a federal crime. For example, lately some PDs have decided to start enforcing immigration laws.

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              12 years ago

              States and local PDs can decide on policies, ie which crimes they want to arrest and which they will let the federal government enforce. For example some states have a policy of not enforcing federal marijuana laws. But this is just a matter of efficient use of resources. They always could arrest someone for a federal crime.

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                  12 years ago

                  One important note regarding recent news from Texas: even if state police can arrest someone for a federal crime, that doesn’t necessarily mean that they can enforce other federal laws, like immigration laws.

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        132 years ago

        It also fits the bill for reckless driving because it is operating a vehicle while being aware of and consciously disregarding the risk that it may cause harm to others while being a significant deviation from a reasonable person’s standard of conduct. I mean, their intent is clearly to create a bunch of thick smoke as they installed a device for the sole purpose of creating thick smoke, people cannot see through thick smoke, stupid games stupid prizes call in the flatbed

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          22 years ago

          That’s true, beyond the health and environment aspects, they’re obscuring visibility. While some people I talked to said “it’s not toxic bro!” and they don’t believe in climate change, they can’t deny it obscures visibility.

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          122 years ago

          I don’t speak German but I’m guessing they’re ticketing/impounding vehicles that have modifications which violate emissions. Sometimes US cops to that to street racers… the problem is that’s because the average officer doesn’t like kids who modify Asian cars but they basically are the same demographic who would modify a truck.

          As long as we’re talking about that, the street racing and ‘sideshow’ thing is pretty out of control too. I’d be happy to see them step up enforcement on that bullshit.