Remember the rental car that caught fire in Nantucket

[Effete Snob]

https://www.politico.com/news/2022/12/20/feds-hertz-rental-cars-recall-00074844

Feds probing Hertz for allegedly renting cars under recall


By ALEX DAUGHERTY
12/20/2022 04:07 PM EST
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, the federal auto safety regulator, announced Tuesday that it is investigating rental car company Hertz for allegedly renting vehicles that have been recalled without first fixing the issues, a practice that the agency says violates vehicle safety laws.

[Mr.Bill]

1. Good to hear that such laws exist.

I was hoping they did. It only makes sense.

[LastDemocratInSC]

6. An act that makes good sense to one person

is a burdensome regulation to another. And the current RWNJ push to restrict federal agencies from creating reasonable safety policies creates a risk for all of us.

[KentuckyWoman]

9. Well put.

Very well put.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

2. Thought it was a bunch of rental cars?

[Mr.Bill]

3. It was five of them parked closely together.

One caught fire and the fire spread to the others.

[marble falls]

4. "Regilations and laws! We don't need no stinking regulations or laws!!"

[Ford_Prefect]

5. Imagine...

[Permanut]

7. Okay, I thought this was going to be a limerick.

[Mr.Bill]

8. I see what you did there.

[LeftInTX]

10. It wasn't menudo?

SAN ANTONIO — A blaze in a parking lot destroyed 97 vehicles at a cook-off staged by firefighters for victims of house fires, officials say. Investigators speculated a discarded cigarette or a hot catalytic converter touching the dry grass on which the cars were parked may have triggered the blaze Sunday at the 3rd Annual Bush's Canned Foods South Texas Menudo Cook-off. Several firefighters and a few spectators were treated for heat exhaustion and smoke inhalation. The event was sponsored by the San Antonio Professional Firefighters Association to benefit families whose homes were destroyed by fire. About 8,000 people were attending the cook-off, which continued despite the fire.