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OldCurlyWolf wrote:In the mid seventies, living around Houston, I kept swearing I was going to buy an old beater pickup and make front and rear bumpers out of a dozer blade and then dare anyone to hit me.

My $200 1981 Nissan 720 had what appeared to be F350 bumpers creatively mounted and then torch cut to length. It also had a tendency to backfire. People rarely cut me off and didn't tailgate for very long.

The bumpers went well with the one-coat-of-black-Krylon-over-powder-blue Chevy Luv fender and the rust holes in the floorboard.

Hoi Polloi wrote:You know, if I were turning into my neighborhood just like I had a gazillion times and I came across limestone pavers across the street, I would first be struck by them being out of the ordinary and would then start going through all the possible ways they got there.

Maybe I'm just paranoid, but any time I come up on an obstruction that looks like it might have been put there, I get the car gun ready and use the big flashlight to check around from relative safety inside the car before I get out to do anything. That goes double for any vehicle blocking a county road in the middle of nowhere.