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(not my image. I just find these comical and incredibly dangerous)

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[-] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago

Houston is a weird place.

In short, they often make the car as wide as is street legal. Sometimes they end up being too wide, but "maybe it's too wide but I can't quite tell" doesn't meet probable cause, so the police can only really measure them if they get pulled over for something else.

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