Rolling Coal: Conservatives ‘screw’ Obama by modifying trucks to spew toxic black smoke

[NobleSavage]

http://www.smokeymountaincoalrollers.com/

mokey Mountain Coal Rollers is a group of dedicated diesel enthusiast. We are a new club formed in East TN; however, you do not have to be a resident of East TN or own a diesel to join our page, club, or attend our events. We are looking to reach diesel owners and diesel enthusiasts from across the nation. We want SMCR Facebook page and our webpage (still under construction) to be a place where you can share pictures of your diesel trucks, ask questions of others about your diesel, find out about vendors/sponsors, a place where you can link up with other diesel owners for parts purchasing or truck purchasing, and most importantly provide you with information on upcoming diesel events with SMCR and other diesel events across America.

In the future we will be holding contests and give a ways from SMCR and our sponsors. Those contests and give a ways will be a result of your participation, likes, comments, and shares with the page and website. The more our page grows, the more we will be able to obtain additional sponsorship and make available give-a-ways to our members and followers. So we at S.M.C.R. ask that you please share, like, and comment on our posts and assist us in getting the word out about our diesel club. Follow us on instagram @smokeymountaincoalrollers.

We also have our own line of merchandise from T-shirts, Hoodies, stickers, and more. If interested in please contact us at smokeymountaincoalrollers@gmail.com.

Finally, we would like to ask each of you to keep our page clean and to please refrain from profanity and bashing of others posts, comments, and photos. By submitting your picture to S.M.C.R. you are giving S.M.C.R. permission to use your photos and posts on the Facebook page and the S.M.C.R web page as well as in other promotional uses through Smokey Mountain Coal Rollers.

If you are a sponsor and are interested in donating prizes for give-a-way please message us through email at smokeymountaincoalrollers@gmail.com.

Thank you all (enthusiast and sponsors) for your continued support.

 

[The Paul]

http://www.smokeymountaincoalrollers.com/

mokey Mountain Coal Rollers is a group of dedicated diesel enthusiast. We are a new club formed in East TN; however, you do not have to be a resident of East TN or own a diesel to join our page, club, or attend our events. We are looking to reach diesel owners and diesel enthusiasts from across the nation. We want SMCR Facebook page and our webpage (still under construction) to be a place where you can share pictures of your diesel trucks, ask questions of others about your diesel, find out about vendors/sponsors, a place where you can link up with other diesel owners for parts purchasing or truck purchasing, and most importantly provide you with information on upcoming diesel events with SMCR and other diesel events across America.

In the future we will be holding contests and give a ways from SMCR and our sponsors. Those contests and give a ways will be a result of your participation, likes, comments, and shares with the page and website. The more our page grows, the more we will be able to obtain additional sponsorship and make available give-a-ways to our members and followers. So we at S.M.C.R. ask that you please share, like, and comment on our posts and assist us in getting the word out about our diesel club. Follow us on instagram @smokeymountaincoalrollers.

We also have our own line of merchandise from T-shirts, Hoodies, stickers, and more. If interested in please contact us at smokeymountaincoalrollers@gmail.com.

Finally, we would like to ask each of you to keep our page clean and to please refrain from profanity and bashing of others posts, comments, and photos. By submitting your picture to S.M.C.R. you are giving S.M.C.R. permission to use your photos and posts on the Facebook page and the S.M.C.R web page as well as in other promotional uses through Smokey Mountain Coal Rollers.

If you are a sponsor and are interested in donating prizes for give-a-way please message us through email at smokeymountaincoalrollers@gmail.com.

Thank you all (enthusiast and sponsors) for your continued support.

Yes, yes, if you keep your focus so narrow that you don't actually encounter any mention of rolling coal you can also avoid anyone mentioning the motivation for rolling coal.

 

[doubtingt]

Yeah, one or two Facebook pictures = intentional, planned, and orchestrated act of violence in which they select a target on political/anti-environmental grounds.

Not 2 Pics, just 2 I found in 10 seconds on the Facebook sites of the organizations you claim are not political. Here are another 50-100 pics that come up when you google "Prius repllant" which is a widespread phrase in that community with dozens of various stickers bought by many thousands of them that have arrows pointing to the exhaust saying "Prius repellent" or "Hybrid repellent", often created by and with the logo of that ever so innocent apolitical "Cumnins" forum that most of the organizations you cite say they are an offshoot of. Note several pics are of cars with those stickers also modified to spew smoke. These stickers sold in the thousands to "coal rollers" are not pro-truck, they are reactionary anti-environmentalism.

The Ohio Coal Rollers (OCR) was established in Nov of 2008 as part of the Cumminsforum.com Ohio chapter. The idea was simple at first, get a few people together for lunch, hang out at a county fair truck pull (whenever you could find one), hit a test and tune at the local track with a few friends; just be surrounded with good people you share at least one interest with, DIESEL TRUCKS!

OCR has since snowballed into what it is today, an Ohio Diesel Truck Club. OCR is an all-make diesel truck organization geared to inform and unite fellow Ohio diesel truck enthusiasts. The OCR organizes and promotes events and activities for Ohio friends and family to include Meet and Greets (socials), Drag racing events, Sled pull events, Vendor and/or business open house, and several other activities in between.

OCR will continue to be a success because of the members whom are encouraged to become involved in the chapter; to be creative with fresh new event ideas. Collaborating as a team to help dream, plan and organize will always ensure there's something new and exciting for all of us!

That organization says they are an offshoot of Cummins which sells "Prius repellent" stickers created to refer to and endorse the acts of violence in the first pics I posted. Also, as you can plainly read in your own post, they are commercial organization sponsored by major corporations like Ford, Dunlap, and Cummins who put on public events and host "Vendor open-houses" (aka they whore for companies that sell truck parts). They are not going to directly and explicitly make political statements or promote illegal acts. They are the folks who profit off of, but do not represent the people getting their personal trucks modified to spew plumes of smoke on the streets and at other cars, which is the growing political movement the OP is referring to. The movement grew out of things like truck pulls and races of diesels that would spew smoke as a side consequence. But the movement of created as much smoke as possible for its own sake and doing it on the streets outside one of those events has become its own thing and is blatantly political and fueled (pun intended) by anti-environmental politically conservative sentiments.

 

[doubtingt]

Humor, as in a prank against a complete stranger.

I was talking about the picture that had large trucks all behind a Prious.

Right, the pic where they orchestrated a situation where they all come up behind him while their buddy positions himself in front of the victim about to be attacked by toxic fumes, and where they refer to "hunting" because it very accurately describes their actions and intent to hunt down people on the street whom they don't care for due to the politics of the car, and spew toxins on them as in the other many pics.

 

[Nice Squirrel]

If someone did that to me I would file a police report.

 

[doubtingt]

If someone did that to me I would file a police report.

I wouldn't hold it against you, if you did much more than that. It is assault and could cause serious harm, so any acceptable self-defense response to violent assault in general would be morally and should be legally justified here. I would support the same reaction to them as I would if you found someone trying to inject airborne mercury molecules into the air-ducts of your home. The irony is that most of them probably support "stand your ground" laws, yet shooting them in the face would be more justified than most successful "stand your ground" cases, including and especially the Martin case.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

Humor, as in a prank against a complete stranger.

I was talking about the picture that had large trucks all behind a Prious.

Would that be cute if a bunch of bikers did that? Additionally, I have a personal distaste for any vehicle on the road where the bumper of the vehicle is at the base of the glass on a typical car.

I do ponder the authenticity of that shot, regardless, and think it is a photoshop.

 

[NobleSavage]

I was talking about the picture that had large trucks all behind a Prious.

Right, the pic where they orchestrated a situation where they all come up behind him while their buddy positions himself in front of the victim about to be attacked by toxic fumes, and where they refer to "hunting" because it very accurately describes their actions and intent to hunt down people on the street whom they don't care for due to the politics of the car, and spew toxins on them as in the other many pics.

Sounds quite conspiratorial. That could have easily been a random image found in Google. The odds are not astronomical that three pickup trucks just happened to be behind a Prius. There is no evidence in the picture that they are going to blow smoke on the Prius. The words on the image were probably just added by some dumb ass link bait slinger. Hell, I ride bicycles in traffic. I get shit thrown at me occasionally. That doesn't mean there is a political movement that is planned and orchestrated to target leftist bicycle riders. I just shrug it off as some idiot.

This entire thing reminds me of "The knock out game" where the conservative blogosphere started foaming at the mouth about black kids knocking out white people as a game. The only people that benefit from this type of hype are the people who sell advertising on partisan websites.

 

[dismal]

Guys who like big noisy smoke spewing trucks screwing with Priuses doesn't strike me as "political".

It strikes me as doing the sort of thing that would amuse guys who like big smelly smoke spewing trucks enough to join a club focused on big smelly smoke spewing trucks.

 

[doubtingt]

Sounds quite conspiratorial.

No, it sounds like nothing more than organize social behavior of people who quite clearly have organized themselves into social groups around this behavior, forming social groups around it, etc.. People with no rational argument against obvious organized efforts to harm others, love to use the "that's a conspiracy theory" fallacy, when all it involves is everyday human behavior by people who very clearly do engage in organized activities around the very issue.

That could have easily been a random image found in Google. The odds are not astronomical that three pickup trucks just happened to be behind a Prius.

Wow. Now that is some religious magical thinking in defense of an irrational faith. The odds are extremely small that 3 such trucks would be so perfectly lined up across all 3 lanes just as some other random unrelated person happened to have their camera at the ready and for some unrelated reason took a picture of this and chose to post it online where yet another completely unrelated person just happened to find it even though it wouldn't have been tagged with anything related to Coal rollers, then decided to put the caption on there. We're talking maybe 1 in a trillion odds of all that coming together and even if it did, it would still show the aggressive political sentiments of the caption writer. In contrast, given the known and empirically established facts that the sentiment in the caption is held by a growing number of truck drivers who explicitly say on their trucks that they target Priuses, it is many many many times more probable that the photo was staged and that the truck drivers were on it together with the photo taker, who was also the caption writer or at most shared the photo with their in-group of people whom they knew would get the "joke" and one of them wrote the caption.

There is no evidence in the picture that they are going to blow smoke on the Prius.

It is blatant reference to the other photos showing intentional smoke blowing on Priuses. Again, the odds of this photo and those involved having no thoughts about that practice are 1 in a trillion. They might not have blown the smoke, they were just participating in and supporting a political movement of disdain and aggression toward those who support environmentally sound policies. Is it funny to them? Yes, just like anti-jew propaganda was a good laugh to some and for the same reason, because to pro-violent people, it is amusing joke about committing violence against unsuspecting and innocent people whose politics you disagree with, and not only joke about but to laugh at actual acts of violence such as in those other photos showing the orchestrated smoking of Prius owners.

Hell, I ride bicycles in traffic. I get shit thrown at me occasionally. That doesn't mean there is a political movement that is planned and orchestrated to target leftist bicycle riders. I just shrug it off as some idiot.

And do the people who throw shit at you have bumper stickers that say "I throw shit at Bicyclists" and then take photos of each other throwing shit at you and add captions about how they are "hunting" you? IF so, they should be arrested for criminal assault, just like the folks who spew smoke at others from vehicles modified for the sole purpose.

 

[NobleSavage]

You are blowing this way out of proportion doubtingt.

 

[doubtingt]

You are blowing this way out of proportion doubtingt.

You are denying objective fact and any rational application of established environmental, chemical, and social science to deny that these are politically/ideologically motivated acts of harmful aggression.

I haven't made any claims about how big this sub-culture is, I am just noting the clear and scientifically supported realities about those that are involved and what it is that makes blowing smoke fun for them, and how blowing it a Prius is little different in psychology (or the people doing it) than those that find it fun to beat up "fags".

 

[fromderinside]

And do the people who throw shit at you have bumper stickers that say "I throw shit at Bicyclists" and then take photos of each other throwing shit at you and add captions about how they are "hunting" you? IF so, they should be arrested for criminal assault, just like the folks who spew smoke at others from vehicles modified for the sole purpose.

Its not political or serious unless the asshole has his gun rack loaded with guns.

 

[RavenSky]

No, that's not quite right. You've made several comments about how the articles else is just reading a bunch of lefty echo-chambers. So we all know you're finding sites that make it seem political. You've as much as admitted it and subsequently pretending otherwise isn't going to fool anyone.

The point of disagreement is whether there are sites that make coal-rolling seem apolitical. You are the only person claiming it is apolitical.

Post a link to that site. If you can't, then perhaps you would be smart to drop these dismal attempts to ridicule everyone else here.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

I tried to do some digging, wasn't that easy. I found a few diesel web boards talking about it. Based on what I was reading, it is generally something that they want to do for fun. A bare minority indicated political motivations, but even more indicated it was tacky and stupid.

I think some people must understand the misunderstanding here. Some people like me (who actually thought this was originally a farce), can't possibly understand why anyone would think putting a stack on a diesel truck to make a lot of smoke would be in any way... fun. Even many diesel truck owners think it is stupid. It seems much dumber than the loud mufflers and bass speakers that make the car next to it vibrate (and those things are pretty dumb).

 

[NobleSavage]

The point of disagreement is whether there are sites that make coal-rolling seem apolitical. You are the only person claiming it is apolitical.

Post a link to that site. If you can't, then perhaps you would be smart to drop these dismal attempts to ridicule everyone else here.

I posted many links. There are a lot of Facebook pages as well. None are political. Most aren't even into blowing smoke. They use the name "rolling coal" more or less as a synonym for Big Fucking Diesel Engine. As Jimmy Higgens noted I found a forum or two where blowing smoke was actually criticized.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

Post a link to that site. If you can't, then perhaps you would be smart to drop these dismal attempts to ridicule everyone else here.

I posted many links. There are a lot of Facebook pages as well. None are political. Most aren't even into blowing smoke. They use the name "rolling coal" more or less as a synonym for Big Fucking Diesel Engine. As Jimmy Higgens noted I found a forum or two where blowing smoke was actually criticized.

That also is confusing as well, as coal has nothing to do with diesel. Honestly, they just have themselves to blame for this miscommunication. Might as well refer to electric cars as "going critical mass".

 

[dismal]

I tried to do some digging, wasn't that easy.

It was actually quite easy before the search became dominated by lefty sites echoing the same story about the leftosphere. The first search I did, memorialized in post #2, had maybe 3 political articles stemming from the same Slate article in the first two pages of google.

Here is a google custom search set to exclude articles that came out after the Slate piece on 7/3:

https://www.google.com/search?q=coa...ce=lnt&tbs=cdr:1,cd_min:,cd_max:7/2/2014&tbm=

Google search today:

https://www.google.com/#q=coal+rollers

 

[The Paul]

I posted many links. There are a lot of Facebook pages as well. None are political. Most aren't even into blowing smoke. They use the name "rolling coal" more or less as a synonym for Big Fucking Diesel Engine. As Jimmy Higgens noted I found a forum or two where blowing smoke was actually criticized.

Ah. So you noticed that "rolling coal" seems to have more than one definition. I was starting to think that had simply escaped you.

But no, you knew. So what you did is looked at a conversation where people were using the term "rolling coal" to refer to rigging an engine to produce as much smoke and soot as possible, declared that contrary to the prevailing opinion this behavior was not actually a political statement, and then attempted to prove that claim by providing links to websites that used the term "rolling coal," but not in reference to rigging engines to produce more smoke and soot.

 

[NobleSavage]

I posted many links. There are a lot of Facebook pages as well. None are political. Most aren't even into blowing smoke. They use the name "rolling coal" more or less as a synonym for Big Fucking Diesel Engine. As Jimmy Higgens noted I found a forum or two where blowing smoke was actually criticized.

Ah. So you noticed that "rolling coal" seems to have more than one definition. I was starting to think that had simply escaped you.

Jesus H Christ. I'm friends with a lot of left wing and right wing individuals on Facebook. They post the Most-Earth-Shattering-News every hour. My news feed is like the pulse of the right and left wing blogosphere. I get a kick out of watching memes rise and fall. I like to track the political sites with the Ghostery plugin to see who the third party advertisers are. When I first heard about rolling coal I did Google search. I could not find anything political. I did a search a few days later and the Google results were swamped with left leaning sites frothing at the mouth about rolling coal. Yeah, I'm sure there are a few idiots doing this, but the left is blowing it way the fuck out of proportion. The best thing to do is ignore them or snap a pic of their license plate and send it to the police. The only people benefiting from the hype are 3rd party ad servers.