How did the cashier not call the cops as soon as Mr. Mustache walked in brandishing a baseball bat? I know that's what I'd be doing or grabbing a piece.
sharePlot hole perhaps.
Human is the most intelligent being on the planet
One of many eye rolling moments in this terrible movie, ha. The guy said it was a tire thumper, btw. Used it to check tire pressure? Never worked at a gas station or as a trucker, but def doesn't seem like a normal thing to carry around...
shareI don't know if the still do, but years ago it was a normal thing for truckers to carry.
My dad worked in a factory and ended up with one someone left behind. He cut it shorter and has kept it by his bed for 30+ years and takes it on walks for protection.
One end has metal on it and as you saw the trucker do. You hit the tire and the amount of bounce shows you if there is good pressure in the tires still.
You hit the tire and the amount of bounce shows you if there is good pressure in the tires still.
LOL, no disrespect but using
tire thumpers isn’t to disregard an actual tire pressure gauge, the purpose of a tire thumper is to quickly determine if a tire is adequately pressurized by the “thump” sound it makes when you strike it. It’s not meant to assume you know exactly how much pressure is in the tire simply by striking it. Imagine the sound a fully-pressurized basketball makes when you bounce it; it makes a very pronounced, loud thump. If it’s underinflated, the sound it makes is more of a deeper-toned thud. That’s the general idea of using a tire thumper instead of a traditional tire gauge. Plus, it’s a lot quicker than taking the time to bend down, pull the valve stem caps off and push a tire gauge onto each tire which not to mention that there’s on average, 18 of them and the inside tires are harder to access.
Using a tire thumper makes for a lot quicker work of making sure your tires are adequately pressurized and trust me, if you drive truck long enough, you can tell pretty accurately how much 100psi sounds like in a truck tire just by smacking the tread with a tire thumper or what I use, a small hand held sledge hammer.
"a small hand held sledge hammer."
now that sounds a lot more accurate than a wooden bat , or even the crowbar Stallone used in that truck movie
Truckstops sell wooden tire thumpers. I’ve got one that looks like a small baseball bat and I even also have one that’s just a wooden stick that has a metal collar around the end of it but, that little one handed sledge I have does work a lot better.
shareYou said it… I guess ya’d have to be a truck stop attendant or even more, a truck driver to know something like that yet you still act like the tire thumper wasn’t a normal thing to carry around…lol.
Knowledge is power. If you don’t know, don’t make silly assumptions to why someone would do something.
It possible that Mr. Mustache drove the ice truck for a living, so he likely frequented this gas station. Hence, the cashier might have known that he was safe, baseball bat notwithstanding.
shareThat’s kinda what I thought. Being that the ice truck was a local delivery truck, the guy driving it possibly delivered there a lot which would mean the cashier knew the guy and knew he wasn’t a threat. And then again, it was just a tire thumper carried by a truck driver who uses it to check for flats or a low tire.
shareI worked at a gas station for over 15 years. You don't get to just call the cops on someone unusual. He has to actually do something first.
A 911 dispatcher is going to tell you to call back when he actually does something.