Alright, which Deregulated Red Run Oblast is this?

People who drive trucks who don't work in a profession that incentivizes them can all go to hell.

What's with all the free trailer hitches?

My first thought as well. Doubt any of these have locks. I don’t understand leaving it on. I travel on an RV and remove my hitch and store it as soon as the RV is disconnected.
My first thought. I couldn't imagine the foot pursuit, but I could imagine opening the amazon trailer hitch shop.

Definitely don't buy a bunch of those big elastic bands for workouts and loop the cars together in pairs.

As a non-alternative (i.e. don't do this either) the same pairings but with a thin rope with a self-tightening knot.

It will break without any noticeable effort from the car, but will probably make a big bang.

Hate those fucken assholes. Pavement princess driving motherfuckers.

It literally takes less than 30 seconds to bend down, pull the cotter clip, pull the pin, and toss the hitch end in the bed. Saves the shins and kneecaps of yourself and everyone else.

I had an uncle that would quite literally do that and throw the hitch(es) into the bed of the truck every single time he walked through a parking lot. If he had to do that to multiple trucks before getting to the store so be it.
- Good man.
  I do the same, but with bicycle lights that people have left on. I know how annoying it is to find your battery empty.
Knew someone who deliberately left it out because they thought it would help mitigate someone nudging into their backend.
To their credit, it actually worked once, someone got a hitch sized hole in their front bumper for a low speed collision.
On the other hand, this person also kept banging their own shin on their tow hitch... But they thought it was worth it anyway...
- I got a hitch sized hole in my bumper because some asshole backed into my parked car and drove off.
How else will anyone know that they used their truck for something more than getting groceries? They have to let everyone know they tow a lawn mower with the ridiculously large truck.
Or toss it in through the back window
There's got to be some meth-head scrappers that need this information.

Imagine trying to get a shopping cart through that. I imagine that's probably a Bass Pro Shops parking lot.

Some evil part of me would be tempted to take some chain and knit those trailer hitches together all down the line.

This picture irritates me so much

If this is the same picture I saw years ago. This is from a farm college. So they kinda need the toe hooks.
- Most places it illegal to have them on when not in use. Most people leave them on as a form of crash protection, like in a parking lot.
- Sure, but could they teach them how to park then?
- Toe hooks huh... Must be some big feet....
  But even with or without hitches, their rear ends are intruding beyond their parking spots. I know that's also a challenge with these long ass trucks, but if it were a lot designed specifically for this demographic, it should have the spots appropriate.

Is it illegal to own a sedan there?

They don’t make sedans anymore. They’ve gone the way of the station wagon
Basically yes. Their emissions laws are written so that bigger cars can produce more CO2 and other emissions. So small cars are not viable while large cars are barely regulated.
I heard they are ICEs next target /s
- please accidentally ban the other ICE 🤞

4x4 Off-Road

Has never seen anything but paved roads its entire life.

I’ve heard the phrase “pavement princess” used for such vehicles
- I've been using "emotional support vehicle" lately.
can’t help but notice that most of those trunks are empty too
- They're empty and almost every tow hitch is rusty. I think if they're used the rust would get knocked off and they'd be shiny, like the one back there. They literally just buy trucks to make themselves feel manly, I guess because they can't any other way. Then they never use it for any of the things they argue people need trucks for.
It's just marketing, anyway. Stock trucks are garbage offroad.

This is so ridiculous

How are none of these in their spaces?

Yeah i was going to point this out. Its not just the hitches. All of these assholes have backed in, and deliberately gone in further than the boundary of the bay to minimise how far their nose overhangs the other end.
Because it’s literally impossible for these assholes to fit their unnecessary behemoths into a real parking spot. The same people who own these complain about parking spots being small, parking garage ceilings being too low, and gas being too expensive. They act like it’s society’s fault. Fucking chuds
- I was at a family party where this guy with the largest pickup I'd ever seen constantly complained about how expensive gas was and how it was Biden's fault. It quickly became apparent that he only drove the thing the hour drive back and forth from his office job. Truck looked like new despite being a couple years old, save for highway tire wear.
  Why on earth does he think we should all subsidize his absurd and impractical vehicle's fuel? And I'm sure he complains about entitled people on welfare.
Idiot lane

Imagine trying to steer a shopping cart to your car here

Imagine how lice it is to scratch every single car there with your cart
- I wouldn't dare

What's with the towball being top and bottom?

For when you're towing in Australia.
Different size for larger trailers over 3.5t. 50mm or 75mm typical use in Australia.
2" or 3" ball in NA to my understanding. They rotate around.
- NA has 3 common ball sizes for pickup trucks: 1 7/8" for tiny trailers under 2,000 lbs; 2" for most trailers under 6,000 lbs; 2 5/16" for large/commercial trailers under 10,000 lbs

So many tiny penises.

Tie them together!

My shins are already hurting by just looking at it.

All of them are so proud of their back-in parking skills thinking that space is for them. Meanwhile handicapped and children have to walk in the way of them, ironically dodging the same trucks that are so tall that they can't be seen

Parking like that is way easier than parking hood-first, lol.
This happens where I live and I keep wondering how crazy I would be to complain about it. The parking spots aren't long enough for trucks, so they back in and completely cover the sidewalk. I need to use mobility devices to get around and usually have to fight my way through the grass because there isn't enough room for my walker. I'm not looking forward to this fight when snow is on the ground
- Make a habit of removing their tow hitches so you can get past.
- Yeah I think it's time for an urbanism community here on Lemmy. I've been on the fence but I'm all for spreading more awareness that things like this are not normal.

And not a single dangling metallic ballsack on sight

But just the thought of all those ball sacks in close proximity makes this photo so redneck homoerotic.

Hmm, I've decided to down vote any post with the "tik tok screenshot"... Fuck that crap!

New boost =

Fuck TT screens

My shins broke just looking at that

What in the GPT is going on with the hitches in the distance?

Lifted trucks have to have extensions to lower the balls so they hang the right height for trailers.
Apparently a couple of them fell in love.
When a truck and another truck love each other very much...
And the close ones. What is with the double ended tow ball?
- different size balls for different size hitches. All hitches are removable, you can flip those over to fit different implements. Imagine that, removable, almost like there was a legal requirement they be removed while not in use.
- There are different hitch ball sizes. I've got one lying around that has 3 ends.
  The ones in the back need extensions to the ground to match their ridiculous lift kits, otherwise the trailer would tip ass backwards.
- Different trailers need different size balls. If you look close those are triple/quadruple ended. Fun for the whole family.

I cast "invisible tether".

This is not an actual DnD spell, but I'm wishing into existence because fuck all of these people.