It's a great way to convert money into carbon soot though.

It's only illegal if it's enforced, and the people who roll coal are the same types of people that would enforce the rules.

I was shafted by an Ebay seller who was nasty and awful. He acted like he was too stupid to understand why his item was not at all what I ordered. He had a 99.4% approval rating. I thought how the hell was that possible? I found out when I went to leave my negative rating and Ebay would not allow me to post the negative rating.

No, it's because of their fragile ego.

I'm fortunate enough to be able to walk to and from work every day. These "roll coal" bastards just hate me for it. I think it must really chap their assess to see little ol' me bopping down the street listening to my tunes and not needing an emotional support truck the way they do.

Running the diesel engine extra rich so it vomits extra sooty exhaust instead of properly burned, cleaner exhaust, because they feel the need to compensate for their small member by annoying everyone else.

why?

They see it as a "fuck you" to liberals/environmentalists.

Wait I thought people were just tampering to get higher performance or something, idk

Some folks are, but their goal is to not spew a bunch of black smoke because black smoke means incomplete combustion, which in turn means less power than they could've had if they'd managed to shove more air in.

"Rolling coal" is an entirely different thing based purely on idiocy and spite.

It looks tuff, bro!

The worst thing is the people who intentionally spew Priuses (back when they were the only semi-electric cars around) and bicycles with soot, as some sort of "fuck you for trying to not pollute, hur hur" thing.

Agreed. Nobody wants the eBay police, but sellers and buyers should be the ones held accountable.

It's the sheer waste that gets me - not just the fuck you tiny dick bullshit of spewing your effluence onto people intentionally, no, they need to waste fucking shittons of petrol or diesel to do it MEANWHILE THE WORLD IS FUCKING BURNING. The fucking amazon dried up, what more evidence do they need?

Of course, if evidence swayed them, if they had half a fucking brain they'd never try this shit in the first place. But you know what's worse than the stupids running the planet into meltdown?

The rest of us let them. Even wildly stupid bullshit like this.

Fun fact. My workplace added recycle bins to the breakroom a few years ago. The day after, HR had to call a facility-wide emergency meeting to explain that their use was voluntary only and that no workers would be required to use them.

Grown ass adults lost their shit because they saw a recycle bin.

Seems like the entire Western world is dealing with a rise in anti-social behaviour on the roads since the pandemic started.

Could have been worse. A 16 year old here in Texas ran over 6 cyclists while trying to roll coal on them. 2 had to be airlifted:

https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/transportation/article/waller-bicyclists-hit-truck-teen-driver-ironman-16490862.php

four of the six cyclists who were hit were hospitalized. Two of those had to be airlifted because of the severity of their injuries.The update:

https://www.bicycling.com/news/a37808647/texas-driver-assaults-six-cyclists/

A 16-year-old truck driver ran over six cyclists out on a training ride on September 25, in Waller County, Texas.

The driver was attempting to “roll coal” on the cyclists when he hit them, according to witnesses.

The driver was finally arrested on November 8 and indicted with six counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, which is a second-degree felony.

Edit: the last update from the Law Firm representing the cyclists:

https://www.bikelaw.com/2021/11/felony-charges-for-waller-driver/

It's also used to assault cyclists for the crime of existing