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Nov 23, 2018, 09:30 AM
 
Originally Posted by Doc HM View Post
This roundabout is about (sorry) 50 yards from my house. It may look batshit crazy and no-one actually drives it in the way the signs say but it's SO confusing that the traffic speeds are so low its actually quite safe. Always entertaining to see new drivers panic when they come across it.



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Nov 23, 2018, 11:16 AM
 
Whoops AND roundabout!
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Nov 23, 2018, 06:18 PM
 
Congo, that’s quite a collection of “poor life choices.” Along with “when raccoons attack”. I don’t feel at all bad for laughing at all of it.

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Nov 25, 2018, 03:16 PM
 
Holy cow, that last frame...
     
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Nov 27, 2018, 11:32 AM
 
Holy crap! An entire planet populated by sentient furniture?!?! The mind boggles!
     
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Nov 27, 2018, 02:06 PM
 
Originally Posted by subego View Post
The video is kind of horrifying.

Spoiler: a broken wrist (happens off-screen, but x-rays shown) and a torn tendon in the shoulder.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLBJA8SlH2w
     
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At least it wasn't the teacher who committed suicide mid flight.
     
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Originally Posted by subego View Post
Someone’s getting a new car.
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Best guess is moisture on the ground caused a steam explosion.

Similarly, best guess is they’re wearing enough gear there weren’t any major injuries.
     
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Originally Posted by subego View Post
They must have the "new fangled brake assist"
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Dec 10, 2018, 06:44 AM
 
Two minutes. Worth every second. Has swears.

     
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Raccoon versus cotton candy.

     
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I didn't know cotton candy dissolves on contact with water. Nice.
     
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aw, he looks bereft that his tasty treat is gone.
     
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Originally Posted by subego View Post


Best guess is moisture on the ground caused a steam explosion.

Similarly, best guess is they’re wearing enough gear there weren’t any major injuries.
This belongs on those “roundabout/to be continued“ reels.
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Dec 20, 2018, 10:16 AM
 
The last week has been brought to you by Woops!
     
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From Bogota.

Not many details yet. Looks like that’s the parking garage next to the escalator.
     
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Dec 26, 2018, 02:18 AM
 
Woops! GIF isn’t working
     
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Got it!

     
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Dec 26, 2018, 05:04 AM
 
He probably got terrible mileage with that V12 anyway.
     
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Dec 26, 2018, 06:22 AM
 
That’ll buff right out.
     
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Originally Posted by Spheric Harlot View Post
That’ll buff right out.
The thing is, that engine was clearly due for a rebuild anyway, so this just saved them a few steps.
     
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Feb 7, 2019, 09:51 PM
 
Originally Posted by subego View Post
Part of me thinks "cheating in traffic earns you problems", but part of me thinks "did the truck driver really intentionally try to block the right shoulder?" Either way that's awesome and frightening at the same time.

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Feb 7, 2019, 10:15 PM
 
The truck driver saw oncoming traffic, so he/she moved over. So the car passing on left would be able to merge ahead of the oncoming traffic.

Two possibilities:
1) Trucker was watching to the left, and didn't see the fool passing on the right.
2) Trucker saw the fool on right, but had to decide between a head-on collision (if left passer blocked), or a roll (if right passer blocked).

I suspect it was #2, the truck only moved partway to the right. Both passers were fools.
     
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Feb 8, 2019, 02:52 AM
 
The guy in the red car is (hopefully) a LOT better off than the guy on the left would have been.
     
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Feb 8, 2019, 03:02 PM
 
I admit I wasn’t able to get a confirmation on the injury situation with this one, but it looks pretty survivable, so I went with it because it was just too stupid not to.
     
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Feb 9, 2019, 07:11 AM
 
Sorry folks, won't happen again.
( Last edited by Chongo; Feb 9, 2019 at 04:02 PM. Reason: not "whoops")
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Originally Posted by Chongo View Post
Not watching for power lines above?
You asshole.

I did NOT need to see people burned to death without warning.
     
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Feb 9, 2019, 12:08 PM
 
Yeah... there is an important distinction between “woops” and “watch people die”.
     
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Originally Posted by Spheric Harlot View Post
You asshole.

I did NOT need to see people burned to death without warning.
Originally Posted by subego View Post
Yeah... there is an important distinction between “woops” and “watch people die”.
Sorry, deleted.
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Originally Posted by Chongo View Post
Sorry, deleted.
You know, my previous commentary wasn’t constructive.

I didn’t see the videos, but excessively disturbing things can most certainly be woops.

The distinction I was trying to draw was between what requires a warning and what doesn’t, which in my head I’ve been drawing at (more or less) death or visible injury.
     
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Mar 1, 2019, 08:50 AM
 
that first guy who got out his car and had to dodge other cars, eeep!
kudos to the ones who 4wheeled it down the embankment.
     
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...kudos to the ones who 4wheeled it down the embankment.
And straight into the bears' carefully-laid trap.
     
 
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