Oakland becomes even MORE of a Mad Max hellscape as robbers CHASE driver in multiple cars, ram him and then steal his belongings when vehicle flipped and crashed

Daily Mail ^ | 12/16/23 | Dolores Chang

[thecodont]

Visited at a friend’s invitation a few years back. The feeling of being behind enemy lines was palpable. Hair on the back of my neck standing up kinda thing. Criminals and druggies all over the place, while 20/30/40 something hipsters zoomed around on electric scooters. Surreal.

Downtown Oakland used to be beautiful, with many fine stores, restaurants, and theaters.

Now everywhere you look: boarded-up businesses, graffiti, "vibrant" ethnic artwork, and pot dispensaries.

Painted on one building: "No Justice. No Peace."

How about:

"No law enforcement. No business. No money."

[Disambiguator]

My best guess:

Quad turret-mounted M2 .50 caliber machine guns.

Would that fit in or on a Honda Accord?

🤷🏻‍♂️

As an aside, I’ve seen humvees with machine guns driving on city streets. The city was Los Alamos, NM, and the humvees belonged to DOE (Energy, not Education).

[alexander_busek]

What in the world is that image from?

Oakland becomes even MORE of a Mad Max hellscape [...]

An Oakland restaurant owner was robbed by multiple suspects after his vehicle crashed and flipped upside-down in a Mad Max-style car chase. The harrowing event occurred early Friday morning on Lakeshore Avenue in Oakland, California - a city likened to a hellscape in the Mad Max film series, where gangs roam in packs of vehicles in search of fuel.

I'll give you three guesses:

1. "Little House on the Prairie," with Michael Landon

2. Walt Disney's "Bambie"

3. ...

Regards,

[nicollo]

Effective law enforcement can reduce these crimes, but they will never go away so long as the US government continues to subsidize them via the welfare state.

[Billthedrill]

Why is the US even in Oakland, in the first place?

We have to fight these guys in Oakland or they might come to the United States.

[dayglored]

> 3. ...

I'm gonna go out on a limb and guess... Mad Max. :-)

I've never seen the movie, only read the occasional reference to its content, and those were all negative, apocalyptic, dystopian. I had no idea it involved a wild scene such as your image, which while a bit over the top, looks like a lot of fun. So I assumed the image was from something else.

Now I'm absolutely gonna have to watch the movie. Thank you!

[alexander_busek]

I've never seen the movie, only read the occasional reference to its content, and those were all negative, apocalyptic, dystopian.

Some people like dark, dystopian movies. They enjoy the esthetics of apocalyptic landscapes.

The image is, however, from one of the sequels. The original "Mad Max" movie was a low-budget Australian production, and suffered a lot from Early Installment Weirdness.

Regards,

[coalminersson]

I usually go in and out through the sun roof.