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Minnesota police shame snow-covered car drivers in tweet
FoxNews.com/auto ^ | Mar 11, 2019 | Gary Gastelu | Fox News

Posted on 03/11/2019 9:40:56 AM PDT by ETL

Minnesota police know a thing or two about snow, and they’d like you to know you should clean it off your car before you hit the road or it hits another vehicle.

The Minnesota State Patrol tweeted a photo of a car that got pulled over recently for being almost entirely covered in snow, save for a small square of the windshield in front of the driver and the driver’s door window.

“Don’t be this person when it snows. Please. Please. Please. A trooper stopped this car Feb. 14 in Elk River.

Yes, they were cited. Sure, maybe the snow would blow off — onto someone else’s car. Clean off your vehicles BEFORE you hit the road,” the agency tweeted.

Several states have laws that require car windows to be clear of snow and ice, but Minnesota law requires them to be removed from all of the surfaces on a vehicle and holds drivers responsible if anything falls off and damages another car, according to River 96.7.

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1 posted on 03/11/2019 9:40:56 AM PDT by ETL
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2 posted on 03/11/2019 9:41:19 AM PDT by ETL (Obama-Hillary, REAL Russia collusion! Uranium-One Deal, Missile Defense, Iran Deal, Nukes: Click ETL)
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3 posted on 03/11/2019 9:42:46 AM PDT by ETL (Obama-Hillary, REAL Russia collusion! Uranium-One Deal, Missile Defense, Iran Deal, Nukes: Click ETL)
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4 posted on 03/11/2019 9:43:29 AM PDT by ETL (Obama-Hillary, REAL Russia collusion! Uranium-One Deal, Missile Defense, Iran Deal, Nukes: Click ETL)
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To: ETL

Good. Really dangerous when you get huge sheets of snow/ice flying off a tractor-trailer.


5 posted on 03/11/2019 9:43:44 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: ETL

That’s just plain stupid........I don’t care how much snow is on my car, I brush off all the windows and the front hood.....


6 posted on 03/11/2019 9:46:07 AM PDT by Hot Tabasco (ui)
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Metro Vancouver driver slapped with $109 fine for driving snow-covered car

https://www.vancouverisawesome.com/2019/02/11/snow-covered-car/

7 posted on 03/11/2019 9:46:25 AM PDT by ETL (Obama-Hillary, REAL Russia collusion! Uranium-One Deal, Missile Defense, Iran Deal, Nukes: Click ETL)
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To: FreedomPoster
A pet peeve of mine. It only takes a few minutes to brush all the snow off the roof. I always start the car right away and turn on front and rear defrosters so by time I am done, everything is nicely warmed up inside.

Not sure how the tractor-trailers get the snow off their rooftops however.

8 posted on 03/11/2019 9:46:27 AM PDT by SamAdams76
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To: Hot Tabasco

“That’s just plain stupid........I don’t care how much snow is on my car, I brush off all the windows and the front hood.....”

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I saw a car that had to brake on a fairly busy local road—the braking made about a foot of snow go forward completely covering the windshield.Snow on the roof of the car can be dangerous.

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9 posted on 03/11/2019 9:50:06 AM PDT by Mears
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To: ETL

The rare big snowfall in the south is comical with people driving around with what looks like snow cakes on the roof, like they want everybody to see how much snow they got. It does blow off at highway speeds, sometimes in a big sheet which can be dangerous. Sliding forward over the windshield when stopping is a problem too, if temps are warm enough for melting on the surface of the car. There’s no law here requiring that the entire car be cleared of snow that I’m aware, but it’s just common sense no matter how proud you are of your accumulation, lol.


10 posted on 03/11/2019 9:54:33 AM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: ETL

It’s almost like some of these hombres don’t know how to deal with snow.


11 posted on 03/11/2019 9:54:40 AM PDT by Rinnwald
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To: Mears

That’s true, on my past cars I would brush the roof too. Unfortunately my current car I can’t reach the whole roof but that’s ok, I’m retired and park my car in the garage where it’s snow proof.......


12 posted on 03/11/2019 9:55:05 AM PDT by Hot Tabasco (ui)
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To: ETL

https://youtu.be/7OgDtkQW71M


13 posted on 03/11/2019 9:55:21 AM PDT by Doogle (( USAF.68-73....8th TFW Ubon Thailand....never store a threat you should have eliminated)))
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To: Hot Tabasco

I kept a broom in my car to clean off the roof-—and I am a short woman,it’s always doable.

I am also retired and garaged now-———problem solved.

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14 posted on 03/11/2019 9:58:34 AM PDT by Mears
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To: ETL

When it’s just snow, use a soft-bristled push broom. If it’s ice, defrosters. Don’t even try to scrape it.


15 posted on 03/11/2019 10:01:14 AM PDT by IronJack
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To: ETL

They really overuse some words, shame being one of them. Just is another. I’m surprised they didn’t say the driver just got shamed. They were schooled. Fileted. Mocked. Just mocked. We are letting kids redefine words and they are deleting the concepts behind the words. Shaming is something you do about morals like sleeping with your best friends wife, not driving while covered with snow. Of course you might get beaten up in the process. But if we “shame” people for being fat or driving with snow on their car or any number of Twitter Tweetable offenses we lose the concept of actual shame.


16 posted on 03/11/2019 10:01:18 AM PDT by webheart (Grammar police on the scene.)
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To: Doogle

“What in the heck?” ....:o)


17 posted on 03/11/2019 10:18:33 AM PDT by BookmanTheJanitor
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Pretty good sculpture...


18 posted on 03/11/2019 10:21:21 AM PDT by Doogle (( USAF.68-73....8th TFW Ubon Thailand....never store a threat you should have eliminated)))
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To: webheart
I disagree - endangering others is indeed shameful.
19 posted on 03/11/2019 10:31:38 AM PDT by NobleFree ("law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual")
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To: NobleFree

Whenever we get an ice storm here in Texas you can always count on some jerks driving with ice still on their cars becoming projectiles as they fly off the car.


20 posted on 03/11/2019 10:32:47 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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