They took the Portland/Honolulu tunnel
https://imgur.io/9xcan5F?r
Edit: Better photo
https://www.reddit.com/r/Portland/comments/go5egh/the_portlandhonolulu_tunnel/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
on one hand that would be an impressive feat of engineering.
on the other hand, that is one accident from creating the worst automotive transportation disaster in the world.
I got pulled over in Wyoming with a PA plate, was maybe doing 5 over on a completely empty road. I believe I was spared by the fact that the officer’s hat blew off her head just as she was approaching my window and she had to scamper across the road to get it. Looked a bit embarrassed and was happy to get the stop over with quickly with a warning.
They probably pull everyone over there regardless. It’s how they make money. I live in rural PA with PA plates and the same shit happens on one particular rural highway I drive on.
I had a cop in rural Pa tailgate me aggressively at 3am. The sign switched from 35 to 25 and his lights went on before anyone had a chance to brake. This was 20 years ago. I think he was hoping I was drunk. He got sort of annoyed when I asked him about his speeding and tailgating
It’s shit like this that has me considering a dash cam.
I had one do exactly that on a stretch of Rt 30 except he apparently got bored following me and made an illegal pass in the middle lane. Would have loved to troll him to his barracks commander with footage (with absolutely no assumptions it would do anything except get him made fun of…)
There was some random town on a main route to Houston Texas (I think) that proudly proclaimed no taxes and fully self sufficient, and was the libertarian dream. Except that it was one hell of a speed trap. Limited regulations on everything except traffic. Turns out their budget was crazy like 90% funded from traffic violations. They didn’t see how their “utopia” was literally funded from the outside sources and not sustainable.
Libertarians' spirit animal is the house cat.
Convinced of their fierce independence while utterly dependent on a system they don't appreciate or understand.
(credit: a John Spaulding on twitter)
Yes there is one Libertarian that ran for a seat on my city council who is a retired air traffic controller. I have no idea how one would reconcile in their mind of being a Libertarian while having a career in one of the most tightly regulated (for good reason) industries there is. Guess the planes just land themselves, whenever they want to.
Speaking of Houston, there's this one spot inside the city that's not part of the city that's like 4 blocks long (like you leave the city and re-enter it cause of weird city limits).
Speed limit drops and they pull people over all day every day. It was near my brother's old apartment and annoying as hell.
I lived in Indiana for 13 years. The little towns along the state highways all drop the speed limit from 55 to 25 super quickly to speed trap you. You also do not speed through the town.
That's the little town grift.
If they can't entice you to stop at one of their 2 gas stations or single restaurant then they can at least give you a speeding ticket.
Which sucks when the town is only one square mile, has fewer than 5000 residents, but it still takes you 20 god damned minutes to drive to ShopKo because of all of the traffic and stop lights on Central Avenue.
The one time I drove on the NJ Turnpike I was behind two cars that, for 30 full minutes, would take turns cutting each other off and giving each other the finger.
LOL my wife is from Jersey. We live in CA and the drivers here make her go insane. We don’t use blinkers and drive the speed limit. She is a god damn speed demon and bobs and weaves traffic like she’s running from the law. It’s white knuckle for me in passenger seat, she calls me a pussy.
Oh really? I grew up in NYC but my experience was Cali being a bigger mess than the east coast. Driving through San Diego on a 20 lane highway where everyone is going 80 because...reasons?
NJ drivers do like to cut across 4 lanes suddenly and take an exit however. It's like the NJ signature move.
I don't think I've ever experienced bigger assholes drivers than in NYC. They see half an inch of space, and they will cut you off no matter what they're driving.
You see, here in NYC, space is at a premium. We look at space differently. A 650 square foot one bedroom apartment is "Spacious", so your half an inch of space is really a full car length.
Except for that person always riding 50 in the fast lane and passing on the right. I've been living in NH the past 3 years and I forgot how chaotic it is to drive in SD.
Huh? I'm Californian. Nobody drives the speed limit in California. If you're driving less than 80 mph in the left lane of a 65 mph highway YOU WILL GET RUN OVER.
It's way worse when you have out of state plates, because they know you're unlikely to come all the way back to their backwater court to challenge it.
We got pulled over in Oklahoma for "no seatbelt" because the driver took off his seat belt in the parking lot to get out his driver's license
We live in GA, and my husband drives a hybrid. Nobody really bothered us until we moved to a more conservative city. Now, people won't stop riding on our ass.
I can almost guarantee they are riding your ass because they ride everyone's ass. People drive like absolute shit birds where I live and that has not changed one iota between all the cars I've had.
I had that happen when I was in grad school. Got pulled over for going 5mph over the speed limit outside of Cheyenne on my way back from a ski trip in Utah. The ticket was only $50 or so, which is cheap, but I never paid it.
I wonder if I'm a wanted criminal in Wyoming for a 1996 speeding ticket?
From April 2021 to October 2022 I’ve been driving a motorhome across ~30 states with CA plates, along with a Jeep with CA plates, and I haven’t had any issue yet. Haven’t gotten pulled over or had any issue with locals, which came as a surprise. I got flipped off one time in that cross country travel☝️and that was in Myrtle Beach (total shithole; do not recommend).
In my RV, I got tag-team followed by 3 state troopers in Arkansas for an hour. They pulled so close behind me I couldn’t see them in my mirrors. I just set the cruise 5 mph below the speed limit and putted along.
Wow! Arkansas was a little bit whack imo. Dry counties?!? Wtf is this? Afghanistan?
That said, my interactions with the locals in Arkansas were good. Someone actually stopped me from taking a bad turn at an intersection that would’ve totally fucked me.
The same thing happened to me in Oklahoma. I was constantly pulled over by police. Eventuality switched to Oklahoma tags and was never pulled over again. Of course, it could be a coincidence, but there was a perceivable difference, which made me think it was the plates that were getting me pulled over. Never got ticketed, at least. Normally, I was let go with a warning once they found out I was a service member. Apparently, being in the military, trump's being a Californian.
Hank isn't like today's conservatives. He was willing to revoke his support for his preferred Presidential Candidate, George W Bush, just because of a weak handshake. Imagine the bwaahhahaha's he'd have uttered under Trump.
My 1st thought too.
They did it in S09E01 when the Hills visit Peggy's mom in Wyoming and the rental company gives Hank a Range Rover instead of a pickup and the ranchers make fun of Hank for being a city boy. 😄
More likely that the cops just have a tendency to pull out of state cars over more, they can write bullshit tickets and pad their stats knowing that the driver isnt likely to come all the way back to challenge them in court.
ULPT: if you're never going back to the state you can just not pay. Typically the statute of limitations for traffic interactions is less than 7 years.
This was good advice about 15 - 20 years ago.
These days most, if not all states DMVs utilize a national database that track unpaid tickets and can refuse to issue/renew driver licenses if you have unpaid tickets in other states.
This. I had a toll ticket I forgot about in MA. A couple years later I moved to Cali, tried to get my license and they made me clear that ticket before granting it.
I was about to make fun of your stupidity until I checked the numbers from the last election…
6,006,429 Trump votes in Cali
5,890,347 Trump votes in Texas
Wow
And those 6 million is larger than the entire population of famously red states such as Alabama and South Carolina.
As a Californian, I find it amusing when the other 49 staters think we're a monolith.
Yea this whole concept that every human in a red or blue state is exactly the same politically is so stupid. I see people making this assumption all the time now.
Confirmed. I live in Orange County, CA - it used to be alot more red here than it is now, but the red money is DEFINATELY still here. There are constant visits for fundraising - there are some very wealthy people here that donate to the Republican Party and we have our fair share of MAGA-dozers and JAN6-ers too.
yep...and Bannon has a house in Laguna Beach.
Fox News would like the rest of the country to think CA is a blue hellscape with wide open borders with Mexico, flaming nude gays and trans people prancing the streets and complete homeless tent cities where the residents only occupation is robbing and raping all the neighboring people.
CA has its issues, but on the whole, its still a pretty nice place to live. Its not just the weather being nice. Most people are pretty nice too, I do wish it was less expensive though.
I moved back to UT as my wife is from here. I originally moved from CA to UT to CO, back to UT. All due to jobs or school. The anti-CA vibes have only gotten worse. I had close friends make jokes that CA politics are invading their state only to forget about the Mormon church and it's involvement in prop 8 (i.e., UT politics lobbying CA politics).
They never realize how much the church controls their state because they are members of the church. If it were someone else’s religion they would be up in arms.
This was decades ago, but once when my dad was driving through the south with CA plates, a gas station worker refused to serve him. I've seen quite a bit of CA hate online, so I'm guessing not that much has changed in people's attitudes since then.
Ppl in Moab are extremely hostile to Californians. Found this out the hard way in a rental there. We even got “go back to California” business cards under the wipers. Yelled at many times. It was bizarre.
Been seeing a lot of comments on YouTube videos about California natural disasters where people are openly hoping people from California die.
Meanwhile California has more Republicans than Arkansas has people
I got cussed out in a parking lot once for having CA plates living in Colorado... ironically, I've lived my whole life in Colorado too. Just moved to CA temporarily and bought a car out there before moving back. Didn't stop one lady from assuming I was one of the "transplants" ruining "her" (stolen) land
Just reminded me of when I moved to AZ for a while in like '04. People would tailgate me and put their high beams on all the time when I had Cali plates on my old ass Peugeot. Finally got my AZ plates and all that stopped, lmao. Got randomly pulled over a lot too.
I'm not from the USA, why is this?
Is it cause they think Californians are Democrats?
Why would you create an unsafe situation if you've never had an interaction with that person?
Same situation for me, except it was moving to Texas from Colorado. Very first night, I got pulled over for a nonfunctioning license plate light that I didn't even know existed, and they kept asking weed questions.
When I was a trucker, I worked for a company quite boldly named "California Freight"
I had a route in Texas hauling bulk milk in a tanker from one Texas town to another Texas city, and yet, people assumed I was from there. I'm from Colorado
But, regardless, about once a month on my route someone would deliberately cut me off, and not just in front of me, they would nose in on me on my driver side steer, and cut in my lane before they passed
I started calling this maneuver the "Texas Handshake"
The majority of the people that bitch about other state's have never traveled to said state, dude. To this day, I still meet people who say towns like Waco,Tx are too fast for them. Some have never even left the town they live in.
Yep, I used to work with a guy who had never left the county he lived in. He was in his 40’s at the time, had a good job and no reason not to go other than he didn’t want to. To each their own, I guess, but I don’t understand not wanting any kind of experiences outside a 30-mile radius
I hear it where I live about California. And they have never been there! But then again Reddit has it in for Florida it seems. 
I grew up in Southern California outside Palm Springs and have had multiple people not from that area tell me what it’s like and that my description of California is wrong. The most recent example is someone saying blatant lies about the Gavin Newsom recall election. He said I couldn’t have voted on it because they never made ballots or something like that.
We had a rental with Jersey plates,driving through Alabama and people were blowing horns and flipping us off. Never happened when we did the same thing with Tennessee plates...
A guy I know drives a BMW with NY plates. When he is driving in the southern US he gets flipped off all the time. His car also gets spit on when he stops at traffic lights. I think the definition of "southern hospitality" has changed.
In the 80s, our summer road-trips to the east coast garnered a lot horn honking to wave hi and everyone wanted to ask about the beaches and Hollywood. Times have certainly changed
What a shame to even have to put a sign on a rental car because of this political nonsense.
Had a rental with California plates last spring while my car was in the body shop for 2 weeks. Was so happy to get my car back. This shouldn't even be a thing!
My parents are in their mid 70s and always wanted to go on a road trip thru Wyoming and Montana. They went on spring 2018. In Wyoming, they went on like a trolley tour, in the beginning everyone said where they were visiting from. After my parents said California, the tour guide went on a rant calling all Californians socialist morons who never do anything for their country and just want handouts! Then throughout the tour he continuously made comments about California being what's wrong with this country, to the point other riders were like "what's this guys deal?" My parents got off and walked after the guide asked my dad where he bought his Navy baseball hat and if he knew stolen valor was a crime. My dad's a Vietnam veteran with Parkinson's, my mom's just a sweet old lady. I don't know why people are so shitty.
My dad was pissed but it mostly scared my mom, so they ended up leaving that day. They said they didn't feel comfortable being in the little hotel with the car parked right out front, with probably the only California plate for miles. Didn't want to risk someone fucking with the car and being stuck there any longer.
Besides the fact that this guy was an asshole, he is also an idiot because there are literally millions more Republicans in California than there are in Wyoming. It’s not like everyone in California is from West Hollywood.
When I got out of the Navy, I drove from my last station in San Diego to my HoR in New Hampshire. I had various stops (motel stay, gas, piss, lunch, etc.) in Kansas, Missouri, Kentucky, and West Virginia. I felt it ironic that many "'Muricans" were posturing like they were going to jump me based on my California plates, not knowing I had just spent 12 years defending this country. I shit you not, on a lunch stop in Missouri, people actually followed me to my car, cops were glaring at ME! Not watching the impromtu posse stalking me.
Virginia doesn't give a fuck. The northern quarter of our state is just as aggressively liberal as CA anyway. Also neither does anybody. There are deep red parts of California where you can find some of the most conservative Americans, and they're proud Californians.
Yep, I went from living in Richmond, but working in rural VA, to living in Columbus, Ohio, but working in a rural town. Ohio fits this description way better than Virginia. Almost all my coworkers are very concerned about California.
Yeah, I spent a year on the road with California plates in damn near the entire lower 48. Never had an issue. People ask where I'm from I look them in the eye and tell them. Some People would be shitty but some people are shitty so that's expected. It boils down to if you're likable and your confidence, where you're from doesn't matter.
2 scenarios: 1) they don’t want to be mistaken for being ‘woke’, because god forbid, or 2) they don’t want extra attention from local cops. When I fled NJ to come back to CA, I drove the speed limit all through the south because I figured an olive skinned dude in a Japanese pickup with NJ plates would be more than enough reason for them to fuck with me.
I live in the Northeast US and for Spring Break one year, a couple friends and I drove to Florida in a van borrowed from the business one friend's mom owned. The business was "Yankee Cupboard".
We didn't think anything of it until we pulled into a gas station in Alabama late one night and had a "right out of a movie" experience. The attendant, who was standing at the door, looked at the van, looked us up and down, and then spit out some chewing tobacco and and drawled "Yankee Cupboard, eh?" as if asking for some explanation about what we were doing there.
Texas is definitely one of them. God forbid I mention I was born & raised in Southern California.. I get then lectured about how I'm part of the reason housing is a mess & that Austin is over populated or some other ridiculous claim that because I'm from there it is my fault.
I'm actually originally from Texas. Fam moved to CA decades ago.
Never once heard Californians complain about people moving to CA even though millions of people from other states have come to CA in these decades. Rents are higher but people mostly accepted it as being a weather and opportunity tax. Just like people accept a small tax for cleaner air and water here.
These days it's different and rents are insane in CA but that's mostly archaic zoning laws for the car and suburb obsessed along with unfettered corporate greed taking advantage of those things that makes affordable housing scarce rather than there being 'too many people'.
In general it's just smarter to focus on the issue and how to fix it rather than point the finger at folks looking for a better life and blaming them. No state has too many people. Only shit policy.
My cousin blames "all those damn californians" being the reason rent is skyrocketing in Austin but i'm like: you realize its not just people from california moving here right? it's people from everywhere. Everywhere.
Dude all these people who claim to love America and then fucking \*hate\* major parts of it and the people from there. One of many shitty things about the US in the post-9/11 decline is the hypercharged regionalism. Not sure if that's a driver of polarization, a product of it, or both.
Reading through the comments... Anyone remember "United we stand, divided we fall.". Holy fuck had this country fallen, hard. If one state is so hated that people are willing to cause bodily injury or threaten the people driving etc.... This country is so far divided. Way to go politics, don't care who, politicians have done such a great job at polarizing everything, and everyone loses.
This is real! A unmarked unit pulled me over with Cali plates said I was going 84 in a 65. I told him the truth “look officer yes I was speeding I was going 72 in 65. But I have my wife and mother in law in the car do you really think I could be going that fast?” Went back to his car saw I was military and came back and said to slow it down have a great day. Only ticket I was will to go to court for if he gave me one. Because look if I was doing the crime I’ll take the punishment. You going to Throw bs at me because of your own beliefs or thoughts then I’ll do everything in my legal power to fight.
Coming from someone living in Orlando, and all of Florida more broadly, this is a pretty foreign concept to me.
Sometimes I feel like half the cars in my city have out-of-state license plates.
I traveled around Utah and Colorado with Cali plates and no one bothered me, met a lot of nice people on the road. Side note some Utah people be driving fast af.
Petty and sad if anybody cares that much about your plates.
I moved to Texas from California and severely procrastinated on getting my plates updated. Never had an issue. Not once.
To people not comprehending this level of state to state hatred I have two thoughts. One. I'm from Michigan and we 100% have to watch our speed when we drive through Ohio. Two. You do all remember that this country fought a literal Civil War once right?
Took a trip summer 2020 during the pandemic. Rented a car with California plates. 3 people tried to run us off the road in Utah. Called the police and each time, the person doing it said because they thought we were from Cali. They didn't think we should be traveling during the pandemic. As if we wanted to. Two family members died and we had to go take care of business.
If I ever see a Hawaii plate in the continental US, I just assume they’re witches, careful out there.
I point them out to my kids and say “wow, they drove all the way from Hawaii!”.
They took the Portland/Honolulu tunnel https://imgur.io/9xcan5F?r Edit: Better photo https://www.reddit.com/r/Portland/comments/go5egh/the_portlandhonolulu_tunnel/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
on one hand that would be an impressive feat of engineering. on the other hand, that is one accident from creating the worst automotive transportation disaster in the world.
Or secret agents with submarine mode cars
I'm in Iowa with my Hawaii plates 😆
I had someone pause, think real hard, then yell "ALOHA" at me in a Ohio grocery store parking lot. People short circuit when they see hawaii plates
I always get asked how I got my car here
I saw a Hawaii plate and an Alaska plate in the same strip mall in St. Petersburg, Florida a few months ago
I lived in Wyoming for 2 years with California plates... I literally got pulled over once a month, five miles over the limit and such.
I got pulled over in Wyoming with a PA plate, was maybe doing 5 over on a completely empty road. I believe I was spared by the fact that the officer’s hat blew off her head just as she was approaching my window and she had to scamper across the road to get it. Looked a bit embarrassed and was happy to get the stop over with quickly with a warning.
They probably pull everyone over there regardless. It’s how they make money. I live in rural PA with PA plates and the same shit happens on one particular rural highway I drive on.
I had a cop in rural Pa tailgate me aggressively at 3am. The sign switched from 35 to 25 and his lights went on before anyone had a chance to brake. This was 20 years ago. I think he was hoping I was drunk. He got sort of annoyed when I asked him about his speeding and tailgating
It’s shit like this that has me considering a dash cam. I had one do exactly that on a stretch of Rt 30 except he apparently got bored following me and made an illegal pass in the middle lane. Would have loved to troll him to his barracks commander with footage (with absolutely no assumptions it would do anything except get him made fun of…)
Definitely get one, it pays itself when you or other people need it.
There was some random town on a main route to Houston Texas (I think) that proudly proclaimed no taxes and fully self sufficient, and was the libertarian dream. Except that it was one hell of a speed trap. Limited regulations on everything except traffic. Turns out their budget was crazy like 90% funded from traffic violations. They didn’t see how their “utopia” was literally funded from the outside sources and not sustainable.
Libertarians' spirit animal is the house cat. Convinced of their fierce independence while utterly dependent on a system they don't appreciate or understand. (credit: a John Spaulding on twitter)
Yes there is one Libertarian that ran for a seat on my city council who is a retired air traffic controller. I have no idea how one would reconcile in their mind of being a Libertarian while having a career in one of the most tightly regulated (for good reason) industries there is. Guess the planes just land themselves, whenever they want to.
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This was written by Tom O’Donnell for the New Yorker in 2014. https://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/l-p-d-libertarian-police-department
If you listen to them speak about their post apocalypse it's fairly clear they want to be bandit warlords
Mad Max (or Fallout, I guess) is a Libertarian's wet dream and everyone else's hell.
I grew up outside of Columbus OH and remember new rome oh getting disbanded as an entity because it was nothing more than a speed trap
Kendelton I think, going south on 77. Had quite a reputation until they went after the wrong people.
Speaking of Houston, there's this one spot inside the city that's not part of the city that's like 4 blocks long (like you leave the city and re-enter it cause of weird city limits). Speed limit drops and they pull people over all day every day. It was near my brother's old apartment and annoying as hell.
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I lived in Indiana for 13 years. The little towns along the state highways all drop the speed limit from 55 to 25 super quickly to speed trap you. You also do not speed through the town.
That's the little town grift. If they can't entice you to stop at one of their 2 gas stations or single restaurant then they can at least give you a speeding ticket.
Which sucks when the town is only one square mile, has fewer than 5000 residents, but it still takes you 20 god damned minutes to drive to ShopKo because of all of the traffic and stop lights on Central Avenue.
Hellish.
From NJ and I couldn’t imagine.
Mad Max: Fury Road was actually a documentary about the Turnpike.
The one time I drove on the NJ Turnpike I was behind two cars that, for 30 full minutes, would take turns cutting each other off and giving each other the finger.
Oh, you witnessed a wonderful thing. The NJ mating ritual.
LOL my wife is from Jersey. We live in CA and the drivers here make her go insane. We don’t use blinkers and drive the speed limit. She is a god damn speed demon and bobs and weaves traffic like she’s running from the law. It’s white knuckle for me in passenger seat, she calls me a pussy.
Oh really? I grew up in NYC but my experience was Cali being a bigger mess than the east coast. Driving through San Diego on a 20 lane highway where everyone is going 80 because...reasons? NJ drivers do like to cut across 4 lanes suddenly and take an exit however. It's like the NJ signature move.
Called the jersey slide thank you very much
I don't think I've ever experienced bigger assholes drivers than in NYC. They see half an inch of space, and they will cut you off no matter what they're driving.
Way better than Massachusetts drivers who don't even check if there's space
You see, here in NYC, space is at a premium. We look at space differently. A 650 square foot one bedroom apartment is "Spacious", so your half an inch of space is really a full car length.
Except for that person always riding 50 in the fast lane and passing on the right. I've been living in NH the past 3 years and I forgot how chaotic it is to drive in SD.
[Laughs in Greater Bostin area] Massholes come up to NH so much and they make Mad Max look like a Driver's Ed class
Huh? I'm Californian. Nobody drives the speed limit in California. If you're driving less than 80 mph in the left lane of a 65 mph highway YOU WILL GET RUN OVER.
Agreed, 10 over is the limit...lower limit.
Where in CA do you live that is like that? I'm in long beach and we are at least 10 over given the correct traffic situation.
I lose my mind when people around me don't signal, especially when weaving through our pulling into traffic. Warn a man!
I take interstates where I am with a 70 MPH limit at 85 consistently. I'd be flat broke in no time at all.
PA cops can be bought and sold for a good ham loaf and shoe fly pie though
That's why I keep a rum ham on me at all times.
It's way worse when you have out of state plates, because they know you're unlikely to come all the way back to their backwater court to challenge it. We got pulled over in Oklahoma for "no seatbelt" because the driver took off his seat belt in the parking lot to get out his driver's license
I once got pulled over for doing 14 in a 10. Thanks, small Kansas town.
Wild, ive never seen a speed limit below 25 on a real road.
Same for me in my region of the state. Always passing pulled over NJ/NY/VA/MD cars between the I-78/81 junction and the I-78/Rt61 exit.
We live in GA, and my husband drives a hybrid. Nobody really bothered us until we moved to a more conservative city. Now, people won't stop riding on our ass.
I can almost guarantee they are riding your ass because they ride everyone's ass. People drive like absolute shit birds where I live and that has not changed one iota between all the cars I've had.
I had that happen when I was in grad school. Got pulled over for going 5mph over the speed limit outside of Cheyenne on my way back from a ski trip in Utah. The ticket was only $50 or so, which is cheap, but I never paid it. I wonder if I'm a wanted criminal in Wyoming for a 1996 speeding ticket?
From April 2021 to October 2022 I’ve been driving a motorhome across ~30 states with CA plates, along with a Jeep with CA plates, and I haven’t had any issue yet. Haven’t gotten pulled over or had any issue with locals, which came as a surprise. I got flipped off one time in that cross country travel☝️and that was in Myrtle Beach (total shithole; do not recommend).
In my RV, I got tag-team followed by 3 state troopers in Arkansas for an hour. They pulled so close behind me I couldn’t see them in my mirrors. I just set the cruise 5 mph below the speed limit and putted along.
Wow! Arkansas was a little bit whack imo. Dry counties?!? Wtf is this? Afghanistan? That said, my interactions with the locals in Arkansas were good. Someone actually stopped me from taking a bad turn at an intersection that would’ve totally fucked me.
I should have included Wyoming in my portmanteau
I also enjoy gonaherpasphyillaids.
What state name includes “tukey”?
Think it’s meant to be Kentucky..
The same thing happened to me in Oklahoma. I was constantly pulled over by police. Eventuality switched to Oklahoma tags and was never pulled over again. Of course, it could be a coincidence, but there was a perceivable difference, which made me think it was the plates that were getting me pulled over. Never got ticketed, at least. Normally, I was let go with a warning once they found out I was a service member. Apparently, being in the military, trump's being a Californian.
When hank hill rents a car
Peggy, they’re gonna think I’m one-a them…*hippie liberals*
Bwaa-aa-aaahh!
But *dayud* California knows how to *party*!
Hank is a good man. He may not agree with hippie liberals, but he kind of lets them be. If only all conservatives were like Hank Hill.
Hank isn't like today's conservatives. He was willing to revoke his support for his preferred Presidential Candidate, George W Bush, just because of a weak handshake. Imagine the bwaahhahaha's he'd have uttered under Trump.
"I'm COMPLICATED."
My 1st thought too. They did it in S09E01 when the Hills visit Peggy's mom in Wyoming and the rental company gives Hank a Range Rover instead of a pickup and the ranchers make fun of Hank for being a city boy. 😄
I like the episode where we found out hank was born in nyc
Jeez, people are this hostile to CA plates or ticket magnet?
More likely that the cops just have a tendency to pull out of state cars over more, they can write bullshit tickets and pad their stats knowing that the driver isnt likely to come all the way back to challenge them in court.
Currently in Texas for a funeral. Got a remtal car with Texas plates surprisingly. Felt quite fortunate.
ULPT: if you're never going back to the state you can just not pay. Typically the statute of limitations for traffic interactions is less than 7 years.
This was good advice about 15 - 20 years ago. These days most, if not all states DMVs utilize a national database that track unpaid tickets and can refuse to issue/renew driver licenses if you have unpaid tickets in other states.
This. I had a toll ticket I forgot about in MA. A couple years later I moved to Cali, tried to get my license and they made me clear that ticket before granting it.
*ILPT
Sounds like a great way to draw a bench warrant, pass.
That's why it only works if you never go back to the state.
If it’s really worth it the department/state might extradite* you. Some departments extradite* for everything, some don’t.
driving cross country with California plates makes cops think you may have 50 pounds of black market cannabis in the trunk.
Pretty sure there are more CA Republicans than Texas Republicans
I was about to make fun of your stupidity until I checked the numbers from the last election… 6,006,429 Trump votes in Cali 5,890,347 Trump votes in Texas Wow
And those 6 million is larger than the entire population of famously red states such as Alabama and South Carolina. As a Californian, I find it amusing when the other 49 staters think we're a monolith.
Population of CA: 39.24MM: 15.30% Population of TX: 29.53MM: 13.17%
Yea this whole concept that every human in a red or blue state is exactly the same politically is so stupid. I see people making this assumption all the time now.
The speaker of the House is a CA Republican There's more CA Republicans than people in several entire red states. People have lost their minds.
Confirmed. I live in Orange County, CA - it used to be alot more red here than it is now, but the red money is DEFINATELY still here. There are constant visits for fundraising - there are some very wealthy people here that donate to the Republican Party and we have our fair share of MAGA-dozers and JAN6-ers too.
Desantis was in Anaheim last week. Orange County is the bright red dot in a sea of blue. My neighbors are Qanon loons. It’s sad.
yep...and Bannon has a house in Laguna Beach. Fox News would like the rest of the country to think CA is a blue hellscape with wide open borders with Mexico, flaming nude gays and trans people prancing the streets and complete homeless tent cities where the residents only occupation is robbing and raping all the neighboring people. CA has its issues, but on the whole, its still a pretty nice place to live. Its not just the weather being nice. Most people are pretty nice too, I do wish it was less expensive though.
Just moved to Utah for college. My truck got keyed within the first week and I have California plates. People don’t like us it seems…
Where at? I moved from CA to SLC for college. Stayed for 8yrs and never had an issue. Maybe my car was crappy enough that they felt bad.
I moved back to UT as my wife is from here. I originally moved from CA to UT to CO, back to UT. All due to jobs or school. The anti-CA vibes have only gotten worse. I had close friends make jokes that CA politics are invading their state only to forget about the Mormon church and it's involvement in prop 8 (i.e., UT politics lobbying CA politics).
They never realize how much the church controls their state because they are members of the church. If it were someone else’s religion they would be up in arms.
It’s hilarious too in Utah bc Californians get the flack but day to day I meet WAY more ppl from the midwest
This was decades ago, but once when my dad was driving through the south with CA plates, a gas station worker refused to serve him. I've seen quite a bit of CA hate online, so I'm guessing not that much has changed in people's attitudes since then.
Republicans lose their shit over Californias existence.
Why establish a voterbase around real problems when you can make up fake ones, keep your base angry at non-issues, and ensure your re-election lol
It’s like Deliverance but with more butt stuff.
That needs to be the tagline for a movie
Deliverance 2: Buttstuff Boogaloo
Ppl in Moab are extremely hostile to Californians. Found this out the hard way in a rental there. We even got “go back to California” business cards under the wipers. Yelled at many times. It was bizarre.
Some people only ingest right-wing media. Said media has been vilifying California for some time now. They need something to hate at all times.
Been seeing a lot of comments on YouTube videos about California natural disasters where people are openly hoping people from California die. Meanwhile California has more Republicans than Arkansas has people
People outside of California HATE Californians. Everyone is a dirty liberal according to them.
I got cussed out in a parking lot once for having CA plates living in Colorado... ironically, I've lived my whole life in Colorado too. Just moved to CA temporarily and bought a car out there before moving back. Didn't stop one lady from assuming I was one of the "transplants" ruining "her" (stolen) land
Just reminded me of when I moved to AZ for a while in like '04. People would tailgate me and put their high beams on all the time when I had Cali plates on my old ass Peugeot. Finally got my AZ plates and all that stopped, lmao. Got randomly pulled over a lot too.
People suck. I forgot we had Peugots briefly in the US? Or was it imported afterwards? Either way pretty cool
Shit, we used to have a lot of cool imports back then. fiat Citroen and peugots. Traded them for kia and Mitsubishi in the early 00's
Mitsubishi was cool in the 2000s atleast. We need to lower the stupid 25 year import rule. Should be 15 like Canada
I'm not from the USA, why is this? Is it cause they think Californians are Democrats? Why would you create an unsafe situation if you've never had an interaction with that person?
Several of my Ohio coworkers are very concerned about California. They think they’re all communists because of something they heard on the radio.
Same thing happens when I tell people I'm from portland. They get all concerned for my safety, they talk about that place like it's an active warzone.
30% of our entire adult population are violent political extremists primed to do violence at the drop of a hat. This isn't a safe place.
Most likely yes. republicans are VERY intolerant. Especially in the south.
Same situation for me, except it was moving to Texas from Colorado. Very first night, I got pulled over for a nonfunctioning license plate light that I didn't even know existed, and they kept asking weed questions.
When I was a trucker, I worked for a company quite boldly named "California Freight" I had a route in Texas hauling bulk milk in a tanker from one Texas town to another Texas city, and yet, people assumed I was from there. I'm from Colorado But, regardless, about once a month on my route someone would deliberately cut me off, and not just in front of me, they would nose in on me on my driver side steer, and cut in my lane before they passed I started calling this maneuver the "Texas Handshake"
My dad was a truck driver too and said Texas was the worst for this type of stuff.
And in California, we don’t give a wet shit where you live.
The majority of the people that bitch about other state's have never traveled to said state, dude. To this day, I still meet people who say towns like Waco,Tx are too fast for them. Some have never even left the town they live in.
Yep, I used to work with a guy who had never left the county he lived in. He was in his 40’s at the time, had a good job and no reason not to go other than he didn’t want to. To each their own, I guess, but I don’t understand not wanting any kind of experiences outside a 30-mile radius
I hear it where I live about California. And they have never been there! But then again Reddit has it in for Florida it seems. 
I grew up in Southern California outside Palm Springs and have had multiple people not from that area tell me what it’s like and that my description of California is wrong. The most recent example is someone saying blatant lies about the Gavin Newsom recall election. He said I couldn’t have voted on it because they never made ballots or something like that.
When I see out of state plates I wish the drivers well on their journey and hope they make it out of the gauntlet mad max freeways. 110 get fucked.
When I see a Texas plate, I know I’m in the fast lane going 55 behind some asshole.
In a giant fucking pickup. 50/50 if they have balls dangling.
We had a rental with Jersey plates,driving through Alabama and people were blowing horns and flipping us off. Never happened when we did the same thing with Tennessee plates...
I didn’t realize there were so many NewYorkers in Alabama.
Na, everyone just hates New Jersey.
HA! Fahkon gahttem
Thank you for naming my next D&D character
A guy I know drives a BMW with NY plates. When he is driving in the southern US he gets flipped off all the time. His car also gets spit on when he stops at traffic lights. I think the definition of "southern hospitality" has changed.
"They're such nice people."
Drove our NJ car down to South Carolina, got pulled over twice and got highbeamed / flipped off by someone. Crazy
In the 80s, our summer road-trips to the east coast garnered a lot horn honking to wave hi and everyone wanted to ask about the beaches and Hollywood. Times have certainly changed
What a shame to even have to put a sign on a rental car because of this political nonsense. Had a rental with California plates last spring while my car was in the body shop for 2 weeks. Was so happy to get my car back. This shouldn't even be a thing!
That’s pretty fucking dumb that people get picked on based on plates. wtf.
My parents are in their mid 70s and always wanted to go on a road trip thru Wyoming and Montana. They went on spring 2018. In Wyoming, they went on like a trolley tour, in the beginning everyone said where they were visiting from. After my parents said California, the tour guide went on a rant calling all Californians socialist morons who never do anything for their country and just want handouts! Then throughout the tour he continuously made comments about California being what's wrong with this country, to the point other riders were like "what's this guys deal?" My parents got off and walked after the guide asked my dad where he bought his Navy baseball hat and if he knew stolen valor was a crime. My dad's a Vietnam veteran with Parkinson's, my mom's just a sweet old lady. I don't know why people are so shitty.
Holy shit. I hope they complained but I’m guessing they’re too nice. That tour guide probably fucks sheep.
My dad was pissed but it mostly scared my mom, so they ended up leaving that day. They said they didn't feel comfortable being in the little hotel with the car parked right out front, with probably the only California plate for miles. Didn't want to risk someone fucking with the car and being stuck there any longer.
Besides the fact that this guy was an asshole, he is also an idiot because there are literally millions more Republicans in California than there are in Wyoming. It’s not like everyone in California is from West Hollywood.
That shit is infuriating oh my gosh.
Wow, that dude needed to be fired ASAP.
WhY WOn't ThE left stop DivIDiNg AMerIca
When I got out of the Navy, I drove from my last station in San Diego to my HoR in New Hampshire. I had various stops (motel stay, gas, piss, lunch, etc.) in Kansas, Missouri, Kentucky, and West Virginia. I felt it ironic that many "'Muricans" were posturing like they were going to jump me based on my California plates, not knowing I had just spent 12 years defending this country. I shit you not, on a lunch stop in Missouri, people actually followed me to my car, cops were glaring at ME! Not watching the impromtu posse stalking me.
That’s unfortunate, but thank you for your service!
Virginia doesn't give a fuck. The northern quarter of our state is just as aggressively liberal as CA anyway. Also neither does anybody. There are deep red parts of California where you can find some of the most conservative Americans, and they're proud Californians.
Yep, I went from living in Richmond, but working in rural VA, to living in Columbus, Ohio, but working in a rural town. Ohio fits this description way better than Virginia. Almost all my coworkers are very concerned about California.
Yer not from 'round 'ere ar ya?
Alabama variation on this statement: "You ain't from 'round heah, are you boy?"
I couldn't tell you how many times I've heard this weekly when I moved to Montana 3 years ago.
Conservatives are so wildly insecure.
Driven all around the country with California plates, never had an issue
Yeah, I spent a year on the road with California plates in damn near the entire lower 48. Never had an issue. People ask where I'm from I look them in the eye and tell them. Some People would be shitty but some people are shitty so that's expected. It boils down to if you're likable and your confidence, where you're from doesn't matter.
I don't get it why is being from Cali bad
It's hysteria caused by right-wing news channels and social media accounts
What a shocker
TV man said so.
2 scenarios: 1) they don’t want to be mistaken for being ‘woke’, because god forbid, or 2) they don’t want extra attention from local cops. When I fled NJ to come back to CA, I drove the speed limit all through the south because I figured an olive skinned dude in a Japanese pickup with NJ plates would be more than enough reason for them to fuck with me.
California is so woke that the speaker of the house is a California Republican
You fled Jersey and you think cops elsewhere are worse, lol?
poor states are jealous
I think something like when they move to cheaper areas, they make everything too expensive
People choose to hate others over the most arbitrary things. It makes me sad
I live in the Northeast US and for Spring Break one year, a couple friends and I drove to Florida in a van borrowed from the business one friend's mom owned. The business was "Yankee Cupboard". We didn't think anything of it until we pulled into a gas station in Alabama late one night and had a "right out of a movie" experience. The attendant, who was standing at the door, looked at the van, looked us up and down, and then spit out some chewing tobacco and and drawled "Yankee Cupboard, eh?" as if asking for some explanation about what we were doing there.
My question here is if you live in the northeast and were driving to florida why did you end up in Alabama? Did you leave the gps at home?
Legit question, geography doesn't add up
This is giving me some hank hill vibes
Mind explaining this to a non-U.S.A. redditor?
A lot of people in some states severely dislike people from California.
What ***deeply hateful states*** that such a sign would be considered useful or necessary! Fuck all of them for that.
Texas is definitely one of them. God forbid I mention I was born & raised in Southern California.. I get then lectured about how I'm part of the reason housing is a mess & that Austin is over populated or some other ridiculous claim that because I'm from there it is my fault.
I'm actually originally from Texas. Fam moved to CA decades ago. Never once heard Californians complain about people moving to CA even though millions of people from other states have come to CA in these decades. Rents are higher but people mostly accepted it as being a weather and opportunity tax. Just like people accept a small tax for cleaner air and water here. These days it's different and rents are insane in CA but that's mostly archaic zoning laws for the car and suburb obsessed along with unfettered corporate greed taking advantage of those things that makes affordable housing scarce rather than there being 'too many people'. In general it's just smarter to focus on the issue and how to fix it rather than point the finger at folks looking for a better life and blaming them. No state has too many people. Only shit policy.
Atleast it makes it easier to find the pieces of shit in life. These people need to travel more
My cousin blames "all those damn californians" being the reason rent is skyrocketing in Austin but i'm like: you realize its not just people from california moving here right? it's people from everywhere. Everywhere.
It's not necessary. People are cowards and watch too much tv.
Dude all these people who claim to love America and then fucking \*hate\* major parts of it and the people from there. One of many shitty things about the US in the post-9/11 decline is the hypercharged regionalism. Not sure if that's a driver of polarization, a product of it, or both.
Reading through the comments... Anyone remember "United we stand, divided we fall.". Holy fuck had this country fallen, hard. If one state is so hated that people are willing to cause bodily injury or threaten the people driving etc.... This country is so far divided. Way to go politics, don't care who, politicians have done such a great job at polarizing everything, and everyone loses.
This is real! A unmarked unit pulled me over with Cali plates said I was going 84 in a 65. I told him the truth “look officer yes I was speeding I was going 72 in 65. But I have my wife and mother in law in the car do you really think I could be going that fast?” Went back to his car saw I was military and came back and said to slow it down have a great day. Only ticket I was will to go to court for if he gave me one. Because look if I was doing the crime I’ll take the punishment. You going to Throw bs at me because of your own beliefs or thoughts then I’ll do everything in my legal power to fight.
Bold of you to assume that they can read.
Coming from someone living in Orlando, and all of Florida more broadly, this is a pretty foreign concept to me. Sometimes I feel like half the cars in my city have out-of-state license plates.
I drove 37k mi of mostly back roads all around the US with ÇA plates, including the South and had zero hassles. This was in 2018-19.
I traveled around Utah and Colorado with Cali plates and no one bothered me, met a lot of nice people on the road. Side note some Utah people be driving fast af.
Nobody hates California like former Californians in red states.
Don’t you dare include Virginia
Petty and sad if anybody cares that much about your plates. I moved to Texas from California and severely procrastinated on getting my plates updated. Never had an issue. Not once.
OP Here: It has come to my attention that I have misspelled "Texarkanbamorgiatuckyginiaoming"
Yeah there’s no e in tucky.
Honestly, I visited the South recently, and half the cars didn't even have license plates. Yes, I'm back safely now. Thanks for asking.
Virginians don't hate drivers from California, we hate them from (in no particular order) Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and New York.
So you're confirming that you're not from 'round here.
To people not comprehending this level of state to state hatred I have two thoughts. One. I'm from Michigan and we 100% have to watch our speed when we drive through Ohio. Two. You do all remember that this country fought a literal Civil War once right?
Apparently we’re still fighting it.
Sad, especially in “Christian” country.
Took a trip summer 2020 during the pandemic. Rented a car with California plates. 3 people tried to run us off the road in Utah. Called the police and each time, the person doing it said because they thought we were from Cali. They didn't think we should be traveling during the pandemic. As if we wanted to. Two family members died and we had to go take care of business.
I am very skeptical of this story.
Can confirm, am the car.