Lifted F250 sparks national debate

The dude looks like he'd be on Jersey Shore.

 

He was drunk, he may have thought it was a bump or a curb. I agree though, he felt something and he probably assumed it was the parking lot.

 

The lift laws are fine. It's more of a headlight height violation then it is anything. It applies to lowered vehicles as much as lifted vehicles. I'm not trying to spark a debate here, but let's be real. There's no way a truck lifted as much as that one with wheels and tires that size can properly stop in the case of an emergency in front of it. The laws are there for EVERYONE'S safety including the guy in the lifted truck. When I was younger there was a few guys that got pulled over for being lifted and their trucks were what the average lifted truck is now, not these mega lifted monster trucks rolling around on 48" & 50" tractor tires. There's no way in hell you could turn or stop a truck rolling on 48's or 50's to avoid a collision. Sadly most of the time the attitude of the lifted truck's owner is phuck it, they'll be the ones hurt not me. I'm not including everyone that owns a lifted truck so there's no sense in trying to flame me. There's absolutely nothing wrong with a lifted truck. In this case that truck was insanely lifted and no where near being legal, regardless of where he tried to mount his headlights.

That said, the MAIN factor here isn't entirely the truck. It's the fact the dude was driving the truck while intoxicated. I'm 100% certain he'd been aware there was a woman there had the idiot not been drunk. Any vehicle is a weapon when you're drunk, but in his case the size of his truck and him not being sober indeed hindered his ability to operate the vehicle safely...

 

I actually agree about the news agency not really caring about the actual blame. All they care about is reporting a news story they knew would spark a "debate" and from the comments below the report, it certainly has done just that. But we all know that's how mainstream media works, unfortunately.

I also agree about why wasn't this dude ever pulled over and inspected or even cited for a violation? It wouldn't take much for a police officer to see the truck being in violation of the headlight height law. The truck is a beast! From what the story reads the truck was tagged in Oklahoma. So there's 2 states the truck had traveled in and not one officer thought to maybe check the truck out??? No they didn't!!! They probably thought, man that's a nice ass truck, he's just some rich dude with more money then sense". I also agree it wasn't the truck, but I will stand by the fact that the truck's size certainly didn't help the situation, and that's just my opinion.

Your city must be a lot different then mine, because there's plenty of extreme lifted trucks that drive through the downtown Atlanta area and I've never seen one pulled over. Hell they're usually the ones in the fast lane holding up faster traffic.


Not to rattle on, but I know a guy that had a lifted 85 Silverado that was damn up there. He was driving through a fairly populated area where there were plenty of red lights and stop and go traffic. Well long story short. Redlight turned red on him and the car in front of him and he ended up running into the back of the lady's car and his entire front suspension collapsed leaving the front of a Chevy Silverado to fall into the back of a car where a 9 month old child had been about 5 minutes before. Luckily the lady had just dropped off her baby before heading off to her job. He told me it happened so quick he slammed the brakes on and the truck sorta bounced into the back of the car and he couldn't do anything but watch. sh*t happens dude, but sometimes it don't have to end the way it does if you know what I mean.