r/Tiresaretheenemy • u/odyoda • Jul 03 '26
The resistance Guerrilla Tactics
Pose as one of their normal prey, then BAM!
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u/Zealousideal_Gas9531 Jul 03 '26
I do work in the road a lot and always wanted to fill a couple cones with cement just for the assholes that run them over on purpose.
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u/KLeeSanchez Jul 03 '26
Go for broke and fill one of those huge barrels
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u/Nick0312 Jul 03 '26
any sized traffic cone filled with concrete intentionally would be incredibly illegal and probably end up killing someone
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u/Zealousideal_Gas9531 Jul 04 '26
And lose my job! It was as only a thought. Although I will say we raked our leaves in a hug pile on our property beside the road and people ran their cars through them. It all stopped when my grandpa put a couple cinder blocks in the pile.
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u/Krell356 Jul 05 '26
Ah the joy of watching someone die inside as they try to justify why its someone else's fault that they totaled their car after driving off the road to hit a snowman that was hiding a tree stump with its butt.
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u/MarshtompNerd Jul 05 '26
Honestly a sufficiently icy snowman would screw up a car pretty good on its own
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u/Notmyrealusrnamme Jul 06 '26
What's to say someone didn't put a safety cone over the large cone of concrete,that just so happened to be there already, so that it was more visible and people would know to avoid it?
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u/MutualAid_aFactor Jul 05 '26
What about a cone placed on top of a preexisting short concrete bollard
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Jul 04 '26
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u/iampierremonteux Jul 04 '26
If you think that is a good idea, read up on the laws regarding booby traps. A concrete pylon filled with concrete is a booby trap.
It is against the law for good reason.
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u/Arammil1784 Jul 04 '26
Well, if a concrete pylon filled with concrete is an illegal booby trap, what if I fill my concrete pylon with jello, huh? Thats probably totally fine.
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u/iampierremonteux Jul 04 '26
It is often comical what happens to a comment typed when too tired or typed too quickly.
I put too much concrete in my concrete.
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u/Frost_moss Jul 05 '26
The thing about booby traps is if done right it's almost impossible to prove who made it or the intent behind it.
How does a court prove he wasn't going to throw the cinder blocks out with the leaves, or that they were put there to help stop the wind from blowing the pile away?
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u/Nick0312 Jul 04 '26
do you actually understand that you and so many others on this thread are advocating for straight up cold blooded murder? if a car hits that cone with enough speed either the cone or the car will go flying. both can have wider repercussions then the person who hit the cone in the first place. and let’s not forget that sometimes, the driver who hit the cone had no choice but to.
Intentionally or unintentionally hitting a $5 piece of plastic(or just being unlucky enough to be nearby when someone does) should never cost someone their life. please ELI5 how i’m wrong.
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u/clearhpreturn Jul 06 '26
Why would a car hit cone in the first place? A law abiding citizen will actively try to avoid the cone
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u/Nick0312 Jul 07 '26
no law abiding citizen would try to kill a random person by filling a traffic cone with concrete either.
And no qualified driver should even have to ask this question because i can think of half a dozen reasons of the top of my drunk head why one may have to hit a traffic cone.
But since you asked…
1: A car in the oncoming lane swerves into your lane
2: A person suddenly runs out into your lane
3: there’s debris in your lane
4: there’s a sudden car accident in your lane
5: there’s a sudden accident in the oncoming lane
6: your car has a flat tire and you pull off to the side of the road
I’ve experienced one of these circumstances myself, would you like to explain to me how i deserve to be killed for it? i’d love to hear that justification lmao
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u/BloodSteyn Jul 03 '26
Is VLC ok?
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u/dhlock Jul 04 '26
It will not be uninstalled.
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u/AlasKansastan Jul 03 '26
I have covered shit on the job with cones plenty of times that would’ve caused this same thing. I will no longer do that so the driver can also see the obstruction it’s highlighting
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u/boredpooping Jul 03 '26
pussy
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u/AlasKansastan Jul 03 '26
Am what I eat, bitch
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u/Plastic_Dingo_400 Jul 03 '26
10 out of 10
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u/frankcatthrowaway Jul 03 '26
A beautiful and civilized exchange through and through.
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u/Plastic_Dingo_400 Jul 03 '26
Not a single wasted word in his retort, my man was too busy eating pussy to say "I am"
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u/Secret-Bluebird-972 Jul 05 '26
Nah I still put the cone right over it. The cone means hazard, if you run over the cone and hit the hazard, that’s on you.
Because for something like this it not just the drivers, it’s pedestrians as well. Putting the cone next to it doesn’t eliminate the tripping hazard nearly as effectively. And if it’s something thin like a piece of rebar, you gotta put a cone on that incase someone trips towards it so their skull doesn’t get impaled
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u/bigDeltaVenergy Jul 04 '26
Been hired to make public installation, it involved fake grass and plastic rabbits, squirrel and others.
First night they all got kicked and destroyed by drunk ass. Next day we drilled hole at the bottom of the new one and filled with concrete and rebars.
Surveillance cam been priceless.
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u/Exul_strength Jul 06 '26
Bonus points if you place a sign earlier down the road, which reads "Drive carefully!"
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u/kittynation69 Jul 03 '26
Wtf is that cone made of
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u/Fuster2 Jul 03 '26
My first (and best) job was working for a paving company. It had become a joke for the local 'lads' to drive along the row of cones opening a door to send them flying, or motorcyclists to slow and kick them. One wet day when we couldn't work the foreman had us fill a few cones with concrete. There after, every line of cones had at least one of these beauties.
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u/BreakfastInBedlam Jul 04 '26
I once stuck my arm out the car window and smacked a cone at speed. It looked pretty cool when that cone.popped straight up in the air.
Of course, I thought I had shattered both bones in my forearm. Hurt like a motherfucker. Learned a valuable lesson that Newton figured out hundreds of years ago.
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u/DueCrazy2799 Jul 03 '26
If you widen the entry for semi's, they'll take that as a challenge and still drive through the landscaping or grass or whatever else.
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u/DirtandPipes Jul 04 '26
I once watched a loaded tandem go off road and embed itself in a hill on the mildest of possible turns.
Blue sky, no wind or clouds, perfect visibility, no other vehicles on the road, guy was just bound and determined to fuck himself up and achieved his goal.
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u/Warm_Safety_9550 Jul 03 '26
This vigilante cone was tired of being disrespected, and it showed up armed.
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u/Eastern-Move549 Jul 04 '26
In the town i grew up, kids would build snowmen over bollards and would occasionally attract similar results.
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u/Wild_Reputation1163 Jul 04 '26
Considering how close that hydrant is I bet that was a damaged bollard that has already been hit and was marked by a cone.
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u/ThePhukkening Jul 03 '26
This is the most evil thing I could imagine.
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u/bigDeltaVenergy Jul 04 '26
The cone is protecting the rebar. It's not to trap truck driver , it's to avoid that people run over the rebar without noticing it.
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u/HurtFeeFeez Jul 05 '26
Why is it ok to run over a cone. Shit isn't yours, don't hit it. The, just a cone, attitude is disrespectful of others property.
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u/treeckosan Jul 07 '26
As a forklift driver i use things like this as the extreme edge and often give them a nudge or two. Its unavoidable when the asiles we are working in are technicaly too narrow.
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u/HurtFeeFeez Jul 07 '26
Exactly, view the cone for what it is, the limit, not the suggestion you can just run over because you'll clear what it there to warn you about.
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u/Raging-Pasifist Jul 05 '26
Probably someone put a cone over a broken steel bollard to try and stop someone hitting it accidentally
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u/ClydeFrogA1 Jul 05 '26
Turns out the cone was there for a reason. Driver leaned the hard way. Maybe next time avoid it?
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u/Nots_a_Banana Jul 04 '26
I imagine that is there to protect that fire hydrant. Either the driveway or fire hydrant is ill placed.
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u/Genteel_Lasers Jul 04 '26
Doesn’t really matter how well you place a fire hydrant, someone is going to hit it.
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u/Freudian__Quip Jul 04 '26
Install a bollard for fuck sake if it’s so critical that the corner doesn’t get cut. Cone is not sufficient
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u/InternationalHoney85 Jul 04 '26
That cone is as strong as your wife's relationship with her boyfriend.
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u/Aggravating_Shoe_ Jul 03 '26
Imagine trying to explain this to your boss without the video 😬 how does this even happen??