• Gary Ghost@lemmy.world
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    At least it’s safe from police brutality. I just watched a video of a police officer breaking grandpas ribs and collapsing his lung for sleeping in his car at a unofficial park. He was driving across the states and got so tired that he couldn’t keep his eyes open, so he pulled over to nap with his fucking bird. He had his pet bird in the passenger seat. So we can’t even sleep in our cars without getting assaulted

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      I know many people who worked in the capital but lived outside of it and, since traffic makes it basically impossible to get into the city between 8 and 9am, they would arrive at ~7 and just nap for an hour or two in their cars. I can’t, for the life of me, even fathom why that would be wrong in the eyes of a copper. Truly ACAB.

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      I often sleep in my car while traveling for work. It doesn’t make sense to pay $100 plus, when I’m only going to be in it for 6 hours.

      I ALWAYS park in a rest area or a truck stop, and I’ve never had an issue.

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        If your company is not paying expenses for a hotel, get another job.

        Crazy what Americans have to go through

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        At a rest stop or truck stop it’s expected that truckers are a sleep. I know Michigan can be full of truck stops while Illinois has maybe one that I know, more like a welcome center. I’m actually impressed that Michigan invested into so many stops. While driving through some parts the country I got a piss into a bottle or behind a dumpster. The dumpster is fun, I can scare the shit out of random employees taking out the trash. I could also end up unconscious, risky

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          Careful out there.

          I don’t have much experience driving through Illinois outside of one trip where on & off ice was the issue. I wasn’t processing rest areas at the time. I like driving in the south.