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Car collisions and why they are bullshit
Voranth
MI NOMBRE, POR CIERTOES DONTÉ!Registered User regular
MI NOMBRE, POR CIERTOES DONTÉ!Registered User regular
So I got into a car accident the other day. All and all it wasn't that serious, but it still sucked. My friend was giving me a ride and we chilling at a red light when all of a sudden SMASH right into the back of our car, with enough force to cause us to smash into the back of the car in front of us.
After a bit of commotion we find out what the deal is: This van was driving up to the light when it's transmission broke and it's breaks stop working. It rammed the back of an old lady's car at a decent speed, causing it to crash into us, causing us to crash into the car in front of us.
Needless to say we're pretty shaken up and the whiplash is already setting in. We step out and the white van is leaking red break fluid all over the place. There's bits of plastic and glass from headlights all over the place. Police are on the scene pretty quick and everything gets sorted out with relative ease.
Reasons why this is bullshit:
1) If my neck isn't fine by thursday I won't be able to play in my high school's upcoming alumni rugby game, the greatest event of all time.
2) My friends car has a ton of physical body damage; the trunk no longer opens, and the airbag didn't deploy despite the dashboard incessantly blinking about how the airbag is deployed and the car "must be returned to a dealer immediately." She's only owned the car for a couple months, and had been in another accident which was also not her fault about a month ago.
In the long run, this obviously could have been a lot worse. I've seen worse first-hand. But it's still pretty lame.
So tell us, SE++, what kind of car-related incidents have you been involved in, and why were they bullshit?
After a bit of commotion we find out what the deal is: This van was driving up to the light when it's transmission broke and it's breaks stop working. It rammed the back of an old lady's car at a decent speed, causing it to crash into us, causing us to crash into the car in front of us.
Needless to say we're pretty shaken up and the whiplash is already setting in. We step out and the white van is leaking red break fluid all over the place. There's bits of plastic and glass from headlights all over the place. Police are on the scene pretty quick and everything gets sorted out with relative ease.
Reasons why this is bullshit:
1) If my neck isn't fine by thursday I won't be able to play in my high school's upcoming alumni rugby game, the greatest event of all time.
2) My friends car has a ton of physical body damage; the trunk no longer opens, and the airbag didn't deploy despite the dashboard incessantly blinking about how the airbag is deployed and the car "must be returned to a dealer immediately." She's only owned the car for a couple months, and had been in another accident which was also not her fault about a month ago.
In the long run, this obviously could have been a lot worse. I've seen worse first-hand. But it's still pretty lame.
So tell us, SE++, what kind of car-related incidents have you been involved in, and why were they bullshit?
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Within 30 seconds I had hit a tree and a fence.
Once we were recovering from the crash (it was low speed, but still the shock) someone pointed out that the fence was electrified.
Satans..... hints.....
i'd get that checked out
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basic science
look it up
They say that it hit me and I flew around twenty or more feet and tumbled for a while. I am also told that I looked like a pretzel and I had blood coming out of everywhere.
Parents of the Goddamned year right there.
Science foils me again! I'll get you next time, Gadget!
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you should get that deep raspy voice checked out... dude you may have like throat cancer.
Some dumbass girl hit me just months after I bought my car too. Busy Chicago street, waiting in traffic and she decides to turn right into me. Pushed me forward into a cab.
It's bulllshit cars are designed essentially to fall apart at the tiniest bump. Goddamn "crumple zones" just means you're replacing your car for what would have been a paint scratch 15 years ago.
Yeah she did; emergency crews were on scene pretty quick (I guess it was a slow day?) so we got that all sorted out. Everyone was pretty nice about the exchange too; everyone knew it was an accident and no one was placing blame on anyone. So that part was alright.
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I'm pretty awesome like that
Fucking scariest shit I've seen since I started driving.
Wait wait wait wait
Explain this slowly
I don't get it
Well, the other solution is to drive around in a 15 year-old car and enjoy dying when the force of the impact is transferred into your soft, squishy body as opposed to being absorbed by your car.
I can't doctor up pictures so lets do it with letters:
If some physical object: >
is headed towards another object: <
> <
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they will not end up in the same place. But they will fight and try to, but will either break, or displace each other.
This fight you speak of... is it to the death?
You (the driver) pretty much lose your license here if 2 or more people are driving without seatbelts.
Your Torso is nature's crumple zone.
This was like within weeks of getting a good as new Honda Civic. Totaled the sumbitch, although not a scratch on me from it, just a bit of whiplash.
Insurance ended up paying out more than the car had cost us though, and that's how I got my lovely current car, which is pretty much the best ever, despite not being anywhere near new or I guess worth as much as the Civic.
In Australia it's the law and no one even thinks about driving without a seatbelt, it's really weird to see other adults have to tell other adults to buckle up.
It's like wearing pants, it's just considered standard behavior.
Satans..... hints.....
FUCK YOUUUUUUUUUU
No... To the pain!
how are you still alive
two were my fault
the others not so much
It's the law in America too, there are just a lot of people still who just don't care.
"Hey uh, Bob, you're not...there's nothing...we can see...you know what, nevermind."
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He was drunk. Drunk people always walk away or fly out the window and hit a telephone pole. Which gives them brain damage.
Happened to a friend of mine.
My old roommate, who did nothing but work out and eat health food, and took really good care of himself, never wears a seat belt.
Government can't tell me what to do its stupid he says.
My record is clean.
Ask him if they can rebuild noses from soy these days.
I'd wear a seatbelt even if it wasn't the law
It's a liability thing.
This way you can't sue if you get hurt by not wearing your seat belt.
So that was you.
No seriously this happened to me, except I was the other guy in your story. I drive a 96 pathfinder, the guy rams me from behind, my hit punches a square hole the size of a drink coaster through his license plate and grill, and my car suffered no damage. My back was a little sore for a couple days, but I didn't end up reporting him for it.
that's like suing if you got hurt not wearing your bicycle helmet