Official "Whacker" or "Screwed Up Install" Thread

[Fast LT1]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FgAjJikP8k&feature=fvw

:shock: Look at the one dudes holster. :shock:

Man if them two idiots pulled up behind me i'd probably put one hell of a hurtn' on them!

And that Charger can't even do a real burnout!

Here's a real burnout! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkx5glwzujA

[Lt. Dino]

No no... to give the Charger credibility... THIS is a burnout. You know you've done it right when the FD shows up.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ON-W28Ewaqo

But back on topic for whackers... I know this kid, and he's got "WKR" painted on his helmet.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtw2mnvrYfI

[Alovebaby41]

Hilarious - a guy with a radar detector complaining about a guy with a lightbar being defended by guys assuming that the guy with the lightbar might break a law and that the guy with the radar detector is cool. If I had a nickel for every time I heard that "radar detectors promote safety by telling us where the police are and reminding people to slow down" I'd have enough nickels to pay for all those radar detectors that people thought would save them from speeding tickets and didn't.

If I got a nickel for everybody who committed crimes without illegally using flashing lights I'd have a hell of a lot more nickels than the poser patrol.

i just love how when you stop somebody for speeding or what not they always say well my radar detector never went off. And i add well i hate to tell you but we use lidar not radar. Always funny to see there reaction.

[rwo978]

No no... to give the Charger credibility... THIS is a burnout. You know you've done it right when the FD shows up.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ON-W28Ewaqo

FAIL.

That's something that used to be a Charger with $30K+ of crap. Would have been really funny if he got a vid of it fully involved, considering all the smoke coming out of the cockpit and trunk. However, I chuckle enough with the $1k worth of tires he just burned thru being 'cool.' :roll:

[Fast LT1]

No no... to give the Charger credibility... THIS is a burnout. You know you've done it right when the FD shows up.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ON-W28Ewaqo

I was at walmart and these highschoolers were doing burnouts in their old hick trucks so i had to show em how its done in my ss, and someone called the county fire dept, and the cops wrote me a $90 ticket but it was well worth it, i probably covered the entire parking lot with smoke! :lol:

[GaryErrol]

Forty-five years ago when I was first driving and driving my parents car, burning rubber seemed the cool thing to do. A few years later when I got a job, purchased my own car and now had to buy my own tires, it no longer seemed to be fun any longer.

[JLazz1524]

Just browsing around youtube and stumbled across this gem: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26ErOnNORAE
My favorite part of that video is the blue line decal.....no wait, it's definitely the siren and the random blue light.

[CrownVic97]

I had these "gems" presented on the old ELB whacker thread....because they really don't belong in this particular task (only in the minds of their owners) and degrade the car's integrity.

Presenting the top 3 CVPI "storm chaser" cars...:roll: (that I've found at least):

#3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2dCOHDuLro

#2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqSqpcKsLEM

And #1 on the list...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTLUZxf8XZ4

Do they really need a retired patrol car to chase tornadoes in :|? A perfectly good beater truck that's mechanically sound can do that job, because they will run into hail and flying debris (if they are crazy enough...) eventually. Those cars ARE going to get the piss beat out of them.

[Ben E.]

I had these "gems" presented on the old ELB whacker thread....because they really don't belong in this particular task (only in the minds of their owners) and degrade the car's integrity.

I like the mini lightbar in the back window of the one car, with no blackout to keep the light from completely blinding the driver while he's supposed to be checking for weather formations...

[EVT]

Local FD grass truck....Yes that is a orange extension cord :lol:

[RuralFireMedic]

Wow! If that's the lighting install, I'd love to see the rest of the truck. Just to see what else was jerry rigged & how.

[Donslockkey]

I remeber when I was in high school my home town had that set up. It was the first to go when the city bought the MX lightbars. Don Myhre

[Patrol 3-8]

whats with the whacktastic door decals on the storm chasers? im skywarn certified too but i have small magnetic decals for my truck...

[Stendec]

Local FD grass truck....Yes that is a orange extension cord :lol:

Hey, it's a field-expedient quick-disconnect, though it would be more trick to have put one of those cord lock things on it. If the ground prong wasn't used, and you cut it off and ground the polarity tabs down, would the lights turn in different directions depending on how it was plugged together?

[MPD 818]

I guess my question to some of these storm spotter people that do their cars up with stupid ass looking graphics and unnecessary lights is, do you not get embarrassed driving those things around when you are "off duty?" I mean me personally, I would feel silly riding around in a car that proclaimed "storm spotter" with a big ass yellow lightbar on the roof when it is 20 degrees outside.
I guess it all goes back to the "i drive an old police car, that I claim do I not want to look like a police car, but letter it up and put lights all over it in an attempt to make it look like a police car" mentality. Besides in this day and age, I dare ask the question of how important are storm spotters anymore? Technology has gotten so advanced that entire storms are tracked and projected hours before arriving. I understand that there are agencies and facilities that go out into the field in an attempt to gather intelligence and information that you can only get in the field, but do we really have a need anymore for every yahoo with a yellow light on their roof running around all official like proclaiming to be storm spotters? I could make the same argument for ham radio, but that is another day in a different forum

[Ben E.]

I dare ask the question of how important are storm spotters anymore?

Believe it or not, the NWS claims that their storm spotter network is one of their most important tools, basically to visually verify things that they see on radar. I'm pretty sure they only tout that about their "officially trained" spotters that take their classes.

[Jarred J.]

we are supposed to have a storm spotting class soon here. I might look into it

[philyumpshus]

I took a class through our county emergency management office about severe weather reporting or something like that. Basically these guys came in and talked for 2 hours about calling this number when you see severe weather. I thought I might get something out of it but it was retarded.

[vonirkinshtine]

First sign of trouble is usually if the clouds are spinning.

[Jarred J.]

or if you cant see the clouds.

[GaryErrol]

The National Weather Service here in Indianapolis trains a lot of ham operators in storm spotting. I've heard the NWS office get on a ham radio,, assume they have licensed users, and talk directly to hams. Several years ago I actually listened to the ham spotters track a tornado going diagonally across the city.

Most of these guys, and gals, are reporting from their homes so I doubt that they are using, or need, flashing lights. I've taken the class but don't do it as I can not see anything from where I live and I feel I need to be home with my wife during a bad storm.

[Stendec]

I took the NWS class, and kept the booklet in my cruiser. They have my house and number in their database and I get called a couple times a year to tell them what's happening at my place. I also enjoy photographing different weather phenomenon, usually from my house. I'm borderline, but some people are hardcore weather/meteorology hobbyists, just like amateur astronomers or birdwatchers

I've got zero lighting on my POV, with the exception of an mag mount amber beacon left over from when I plowed snow that I use when marshaling or supporting bicycle tours.

I agree, if I'm not on duty or called out and there is bad weather in the area, I'm staying home to look after the family unit, not cruising around looking for a good camera angle.

[ParkerFF1]

The NWS here does the same, they talk directly to certian net controls when net is up, i only know of one guy with amber and it is, or was rather, a single strobe beacon, he is the only idiot of the local skywarn group, most call him chicken little, you know The sky is falling the sky is falling....

[dustymedic]

http://www.peopleofwalmart.com/?p=23472

[ne33]

Dunno if this has been posted before but.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-zP3...eature=related

[JohnMarcson]

My response to storm spotters is "get an amber sentry beacon".

[rwo978]

Dunno if this has been posted before but.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-zP3...eature=related

Too much clear to the rear :roll:

[MPD 818]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-zP3...eature=related Quotes from his video description:

I am a Volly in NC, permitted to run red, but use amber because I travel north to blue light states (where red is illegal)

I am going to call BS on that. He is concerned about red being illegal, but yet he has amber LEDs that are clear when off. Plus I just do not buy the "I can run red, but decided to use amber because of the laws in another state" bit.

also use the vehicle for private security (where using lights for a non-emergency would be violation of my dept. policy) they move traffic just as well as red or blue when responding code 3

Yeah, if I see some dude in a volvo with that much amber attempting to pass me or get around me running emergency traffic, I will go out of my way to get in his way.

Oh and by the way what is the deal with the mysterious rotating dash light that is in his back window that is not on in the video?

[RL1]

Prob a blue light so he can 'be legal in the northern states'...

[dustymedic]

Prob a blue light so he can 'be legal in the northern states'...

It is dark dome on it, you're probably right..