Paying $10k to fix my car right now would be literally taking food off the table for my kids and making them have to do with less over the next year during their prime development. Please reconsider what is actually embarrassing and to whom.
it wouldn't make a difference, because arguing that you can commit murder in response to theft is obviously completely ridiculous, and flies in the face of all relevant legal principles and precedents going back at least to the root of our legal system, the Magna Carta of 1215.
but I am nonetheless curious what on earth you are driving where the catalytic converter costs ten thousand dollars.
There's a reason why we give people the right to defend their life and property with violence. It keeps people civil.
Hell we let people get away with mowing down jaywalkers in LA. Why is it any different for a thief?
https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/catalytic-converter...
By the way a new converter for a Honda is 3k right now. We didn't even discuss repairs and missed work from having to deal with it.
Sounds easy with a tech income. Not so much when you're working a minimum wage gig.
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