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u/Horknut1 1d ago
They HAVE to be putting up a new one when the old one doesn’t smell anymore.
Because if these are all new, holy fuck. Is there a body in the trunk?
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u/Doppelthedh 1d ago
Did someone let D4vd borrow their car???
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u/DFParker78 23h ago
Came here to say same thing! Maybe there’s a corpse. Hey, ya’nevah know
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u/AZEMT 17h ago
Out of the loop and not sure I wanna ask
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u/tattooedtwin 17h ago
It’s honestly a grotesque story.. proceed with caution.
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u/tonyjuicce 23h ago
My buddy used to do this and called it growing the forest.
When he got a new car he didn’t want to slowly build back the national park he had created, and put them in all at once.
We were carpooling at the time and had let it ferment over a shift with the windows up on a hot summer day. Even after letting the car air out for half and hour and driving the entire way home with the windows down my lungs never recovered
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u/XK8lyn88x 1d ago
I used to do that. I’d open a new one every week and not throw the old one away. I had so many and it seemed completely normal until I got roasted by a mechanic about it. 😂
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u/SuspiciouslySuspect2 1d ago
Bro saved your life
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u/ComradeJohnS 1d ago
so dangerous having shit hanging from the mirror while driving, especially handicap placards that say dont hang while driving lol.
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u/Altruistic_Brick1730 19h ago
Yeah, because it's well-documented the amount of accidents air fresheners hanging from the mirror has caused.
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u/Blagsc 7h ago
There is a couple study's that got done around the 2010s (at least I remember them), saying that removing hanging objects from the RVM caused a noticeable drop in accidents.
Something to do with how its a distraction and does create a minor blind spot (a moving one), I was gonna find one to link here but can only find basic safety guides going "might not be the best idea!"
I think most of them got directed at the subset of people hanging dream catchers and toys off the mirror however not air fresheners
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u/ohmylanta34 22h ago
This is what I do, and on top of my happy little forest of trees is a Bob Ross one.
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u/brumfidel 13h ago
Is there a body in the trunk?
I remember a Mythbusters episode where they tested if you could make a car so stinky that no one would want to buy it. So they put a dead pig in the car and let it decompose until it basically liquified.
After they had the car cleaned by professionals they tried adding lots of those tree fresheners. Didn't help.
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u/iamNutteryBipples 1d ago
Felony Forrest.
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u/youalreadyare 1d ago
Beater bush
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u/sagima 1d ago
Probably has a body in the back
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u/starkiller_bass 23h ago
apparently D4vid can't afford legal counsel because he spent all his money on these things
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u/ballerina22 1d ago
I can smell the migraine from here.
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u/binarypower 23h ago
diethyl phthalate causes this. common ingredient in these.
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u/Charlie_Brodie 20h ago
It's weird I get the same migraine from spearmint gum, but not other mint gums
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u/Alfhiildr 9h ago
I get one from peppermint, but not spearmint. My mom uses pain relief rollers that have peppermint in them and I always complain that she’s just transferring the pain to me
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u/Charlie_Brodie 9h ago
That's crazy because I love peppermint. Maybe it's a spectrum of it?
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u/ballisticturtle 1d ago
seven
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u/theShpydar 1d ago
Exactly what popped into my mind.
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u/fmcortez 1d ago
Bro isn't trying to hide a smell, he's trying to pass a chemical weapons inspection.
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u/MultipleOrgasmDonor 1d ago
Shit like this is why there’s a law against having stuff hanging from your rearview mirror lol
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u/Anarchistcowboy420 1d ago
Black ice is the worst smell on earth, fight me.
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u/omnipotent87 1d ago
I found its not that bad if you follow the proper used, tear the bag and leave it in the bag but no everyone runs it out of the bag then it smells horrible.
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u/No_Lifeguard3650 1d ago
my old boss absolutely hated black ice smell. and refused to get in customer cars that had them. multiple times we would send him amazon packages of black ice fresheners or we would hang them up or hide them in his office and watch as he went insane trying to find them. it was hilarious
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u/Terrik1337 1d ago
You don't do that when your car smells nice. You do that when you decided crab is the best camping food and you stored the waste from that in your car to not attract bears but the bag leaked, so now your entire car smells like rotting ocean, and yet, you still expect your coworkers to ride with you for lunch.
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u/Stumbling_Corgi 23h ago
Stacking so many was a popular thing 25 years ago. Never all at once but you just never take the old one down. It was some kind of badge in the car community.
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u/Jacktheforkie 17h ago
I had 4 at one point, fuckin hard to pull off, eventually I snipped the strings
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u/riennempeche 1d ago
My brother had a Scooby Doo shaped air freshener. I asked if it smelled like a dog. I mean pine air fresheners are shaped like a free, lemon air freshener is shaped like a lemon, etc.
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u/badfish_122 23h ago
I had a ninja turtle air freshener that smelled just like mutant teens that lived in the sewers
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u/Haunted_South 22h ago
Repoman “you find one in every car”
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u/alllmossttherrre 14h ago
Looked for this, now I know there's no point in me posting redundantly :)
But there is the one scene where a character (Emilio Estevez I think?) sees one swinging from the mirror in the car he just repo'd, rips it off the mirror, throws it out the window
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u/its_my_third_dayhere 20h ago
Black ice does smell the best
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u/Carpedevus 19h ago
It took way too long of a scroll for someone to know that name. Well done! Gotta be black ice!
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u/WilkTheMilkJug 11h ago
I realized pretty recently that you’re supposed to leave these partly packaged still, because of how strong the scent is. And slowly remove the wrapper to ease into the scent.
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u/Sanofi2016NFLPOOL 1d ago
Or absolutely horrid to have that many to mask what it really smells like inside. Lol
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u/whut-whut 21h ago
Maybe it keeps away burglars. Makes people think twice about doing a smash and grab if everything inside that car is marinating in the smell of death.
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u/doculean 20h ago
Sits in the car. Eyes start to water, nose burns, gasp for air...
"Heya, thanks for the cough ride."
Friend looks back at you with equally water eyes. "No problem."
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u/edvurdsd 1d ago
Got into a Lyft one time with a similar amount over the mirror, he also had a similar amount behind the rear headrests lol
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u/calcifer219 23h ago
All I can think of is Tommy boy elevator scene.
“Went a little heavy on the pine tree after shave their kid.”
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u/binarypower 23h ago
these stink more than the odor of whatever they're trying to cover up. they are "my car stinks" decor
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u/PresentRaspberry6814 23h ago
Nearly die from the stench from just one of those erroneously named "fresheners" every time I get an Uber.
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u/Mikeologyy 13h ago
That right there is a guy who thinks the air fresheners are masking the very identifiable smell he’s trying to cover up, but they’re not at all.
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u/vmflair 1d ago
Common drug trafficker ploy to cover smells. Cops are trained to look for this in traffic stops along major highways.
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u/Cam_E_Leon 1d ago
Then I guess the factory/factories where these are manufactured are the best place to hide weed
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u/GringoSwann 1d ago
I'm assuming Kevin Spacy is keeping a half-dead heroin addict tied up in the trunk...
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u/Paper_Street_Soap 1d ago
They’re gonna get cancer in ten years and try to blame it on generational trauma instead.
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u/squirrelmonkie 23h ago
My buddy catfishes. He makes this rancid bait. Its livers and god knows what else. He left his bait in his car and had to do this 1 time. It still smelled terrible
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u/theguyfromtheweb7 23h ago
Either it smells great OR this person rips ass so hard they're blowing holes in the seat and they need every help they can get.
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u/TheGroundBeef 23h ago
It probably has zero smell. Shit, the car probably smells like ass if they keep trash and stuff in it. Once those trees lose their scent in 48 hours they’re literally rubbish
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u/ChefArtorias 23h ago
Honestly that's too large an obstruction to be safe. Even one of these should be hung from the gear shift.
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u/elginsk8r 23h ago
The fruit stripe gum of air fresheners, each tree extended the smell an additional 5 miles
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u/Aliencoy77 23h ago
I thought it would be a kind of funny prank to get like 100 of these and put them in one of my co-workers work trucks to sit over a weekend. It would be easy enough to do if they ended up leaving work earlier than me on a Friday.
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u/Infinite-Depth-2943 23h ago
getting an instant migraine just looking at this. one black ice tree is aggressive enough, a whole cluster of them is lowkey chemical warfare
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u/DroidSoldier85 23h ago
I despise the smell of black ice. It smells terrible and ghetto to me. This coming from someone who enjoys a good fragrance but not that one.
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u/Adventurous-Gift-863 23h ago
FWIW - in Delaware nothing can be hung from a rear view mirror as it blocks the driver’s field of view.
Even the handicap parking tags specifically state the instruction to “Remove when vehicle is in motion.”
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u/henrynator2000 23h ago
This is too common in sweden where i live all the teenagers got like 30 little trees in their old volvo bricks
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u/GoldTheLegend 21h ago
A place I used to work at had a work truck like this. Everyone just kept adding new ones on as time went. I wonder if its still going.
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u/SherlockH221B 21h ago
Apparently it is a thing every time you have sex in your car you hang a new one
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u/SpikeRosered 16h ago
True crime has led me to believe this person has a dead body somewhere in the car.
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u/holyfire001202 1d ago
Once you were glad to be free for a while
The air tasted good, and the world was a friend
Edit: Formatting
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u/nitro1432 1d ago
Well if you’re the artist D4vd better check the frunk for a dismembered decomposing body.
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u/ReindeerSad1857 1d ago
One day it’s gonna smell so good in there he won’t be able to see the road 😂
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u/justelectricboogie 1d ago
OR......it smells so bad 1 just doesnt wont do it. I'm thinking they all look pretty new.
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u/12345CodeToMyLuggage 23h ago
Went a little heavy on the pine tree perfume, kid.
Sir, it’s a taxicab air freshener.
Great you’ve pinpointed it. Step 2 is washing it out.
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u/Sad_Being2721 23h ago
The air freshener tree hanging from the rearview is clearly labeled OP14. If that's the model name, they're definitely overdoing it.
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u/snwbrdwndsrf 22h ago
Those have always had the opposite effect and I gagged a little when I saw this pic.
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u/Troyisepic 22h ago
There was a customer of mine that you could smell his car in the shop because it reeked of these things. I swear he like sewed them into the seats or something. I’d open the door of the garage and his car could be 70 feet away on the other end and I knew he was getting an oil change.
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u/sneekeruk 22h ago
I think theres about 70 hanging from the rear view mirror of my mini, they have been there since 2001.. still has a little bit of a smell when you open the door (its tucked up in a nice dry garage)
Someone I knew had 105 when I asked, it was a full on multicoloured bush. It swayed quite well if he turned the stereo up in it, it had a 15" JL on the rear seat panel and the boot was the box. That was also a classic mini.
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