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trailing9 ,

The bigger story is:

Who are those 343,011 idiots?

mob ,

I'm sure some of them are idiots. I'm also sure there are some people who needed a car to work, catalytic converter went out and they needed to find the cheapest possible way to pass emissions and keep getting to work.

I know that because I'm about to drop a thousand or 2 on my catalytic converter, which I'll have to install myself to save money, to pass emissions. Luckily, I can budget well and every car repair known to man is on YouTube

Mac ,

Lots of deisel guys will delete the system due to cost and complexity.

havokdj ,

My father did this, but he only did this because it was either delete the EGR or scrap the truck, a truck which, almost 9 years later, he has still not paid off. He had issues specifically with the emissions device and the work involved would have turned it into a Ship of Theseus

eddietrax ,
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Saw one of these for the first time in our red neck of the woods. First thought when I saw all that black smoke coming out of that BBQ smoke stack was “how did that pass emissions?” Now I know why. Yuck

Alchemy ,
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the DOJ also alleges that eBay sold 23,000 unregistered or restricted-use pesticides, which violated a 2020 U.S. EPA stop-sale order, as well as distributing 5,614 paint and coating removal products that contain methylene chloride. The chemical is linked with lethal brain and liver cancer, as well as non-Hodgkin lymphoma.

Yeah, fuck em up and fine them to hell.

sebinspace ,

non-Hodgkin Lymphoma

Ah shit, I was totally ready to blame them for Hank’s cancer

Iamdanno ,

Ebay's response: "This is unprecedented!"; not "This is a lie!", or "We're not guilty!".

If your best response is that the EPA hasn't prosecuted you this large before, then you must be super guilty.

evatronic ,

I hope the case results in the list of people who bought these things being forwarded to their states' authorities.

SpeedLimit55 ,

Lol no state has extra resources to do anything. Murica!

roboticide ,

And where these are most popular, the police would choose not to do anything anyway.

doingthestuff ,

eBay has always sold shady stuff. They only stop when they get lots of pressure about a certain thing they're allowing. I used to buy $5 Windows 10 keys on there but they haven't sold them recently.

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