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Car collisions and why they are bullshit

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  • Dublo7Dublo7 Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    I didn't get my license until I was around 20. I was pretty lazy in that regard.

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  • TenTen Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    I was the same Dublo, in fact my wife was able to help me practise because she was off her Ps while I was still on my Ls (and she's the same age as I am)

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  • DislexicDislexic Creepy Uncle Bad Touch Your local playgroundRegistered User regular
    edited June 2009
    I saw a cop get T-boned on the driver's side by someone minding their own business, and it was technically the cop's fault.

    Person is driving down an 8-lane highway at around 50mph, coming over a hump in the road, cop pulls out of the parking lot, no lights, no sirens and BAM HOLY SHIT I JUST WATCHED A COP DIE.

    Cop gets out, covered in broken glass, checks on the driver of the other car, gets on the radio, then puts his head between his knees.

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  • msuitepyonmsuitepyon Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    Stale wrote: »
    msuitepyon wrote: »
    God damn, Stale is such a fucking badass.

    There is nothing badass about me being an ignorant twat.

    EDIT: or the months of rehabilitation, the tens of thousands of dollars in Govt property I destroyed and had to pay out of my pocket, or the vehicle I had spent more money then God building.


    I only relate that story every time we have this thread because hey, "Don't be a twat"

    Incredibly late, but you're not a badass for fucking your shit up being stupid. More because you actually survived all that shit. Are you completely sure you're even mortal?

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  • Donovan PuppyfuckerDonovan Puppyfucker A dagger in the dark is worth a thousand swords in the morningRegistered User regular
    edited June 2009
    I grew up "out in the sticks" as it were, and started driving our shitty old bush-basher Daihatsu in primary school. Didn't get my license until I was 18 though. Had no need for it.

    I've had three serious incidents, two of which were my fault.

    The first was driving an old Mitsubishi ute home from work when I was 19. I went round a curve in the road too fast and the rear tyres lost grip. I over-corrected, span and hit the road shoulder, which flipped and rolled me into a large tree-stump. I got out of that with nothing more than a little bump on the back of my head, but the ute was destroyed.

    The second was driving home along a different road when I was 21, I was about 5 minutes from home and dozed off. I woke up doing 110 km/h in a ditch along side the highway, at which point I rather stupidly yanked hard right on the wheel to get back on the road. I managed to save it, but there were some pretty scary-looking tyre marks over both sides of the highway by the end of it.

    The third was in city traffic on the way to work in the morning, about two years ago. A young woman drove straight into the side of my car whilst I was driving past a line of cars waiting to turn right. I was only going 60, but the impact caused my car to slide sideways across the road, all the while I was trying frantically to avoid smashing into the line of cars, a lot of which had kids being taken to school in them.
    The first thing that girl said to me was "Fuck it that's the second time I've done that this month."

    This month?!?

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  • Shazkar ShadowstormShazkar Shadowstorm Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    I got rear ended once
    Barely
    Dude left a little dent in my car with his 1980 Mercedes or whatever
    His car was smoking

    I got his insurance
    Took the money
    Didn't fix the dent

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  • msuitepyonmsuitepyon Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    I was rear-ended in my Jetta by a Yukon SUV. We were at a stop, she thought the light had changed and blipped the throttle careening into the back of my car. Apparently, that low-speed collision caused a little over $3000 worth of damage.

    More recently, I was driving home from work when a Nissan Murano pulls out of a parking lot into the side of my car. I had a dented fender, door, and a paint scrape going down the entirety of my passenger side. Another $3000 there.

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  • Shazkar ShadowstormShazkar Shadowstorm Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    See, on the other hand, my dad leased his brand shiny new Acura many years back
    And a week after he got it he got rear ended by a big ol' van van while about to make a left turn because the guy was spacing out
    He didn't just get a dent
    Nope
    BOOM, entire rear part of the car crunched. Totaled.

    And the car had a rear CD changer so I lost 6 CDs!

    And since it was a lease and not a buy insurance was much more of a pain in the ass.

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  • SaniusSanius Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    msuitepyon wrote: »
    I was rear-ended in my Jetta by a Yukon SUV. We were at a stop, she thought the light had changed and blipped the throttle careening into the back of my car. Apparently, that low-speed collision caused a little over $3000 worth of damage.

    More recently, I was driving home from work when a Nissan Murano pulls out of a parking lot into the side of my car. I had a dented fender, door, and a paint scrape going down the entirety of my passenger side. Another $3000 there.
    This sounds like a real life incident in the boardgame of LIFE

    where you land on the LIFE squares and land big bucks via insurance. That is what I always imagined it as, my family of six getting rear-ended and getting $10,000 dollars.

    After which I take one of the family members out of the car because I pretend they were put into a coma.

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  • Sara LynnSara Lynn I can handle myself. Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    Stale wrote: »
    I started driving at 14


    That's a perk of being a hillbilly

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R__k-8iCj24

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  • Sara LynnSara Lynn I can handle myself. Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    I'm fairly stubborn about not learning how to drive. It's something that's always scared me, and when I took lessons at 17 or so it made me even more afraid. Now that I live in a place that is mostly interstates I really have no intention of learning to drive anytime soon. I'm accident prone when I'm just walking around, I don't need to wrap myself around a pole.

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  • ButtersButters A glass of some milks Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    Yeah but sometimes to make ends meet a girl has to grab a hold of the pole and swing around it a few times a week.

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  • DrZiplockDrZiplock Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    Sara Lynn wrote: »
    I'm fairly stubborn about not learning how to drive. It's something that's always scared me, and when I took lessons at 17 or so it made me even more afraid. Now that I live in a place that is mostly interstates I really have no intention of learning to drive anytime soon. I'm accident prone when I'm just walking around, I don't need to wrap myself around a pole.

    I imagine Stale being a pretty solid driving instructor, provided you're not learning in his car.

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  • Sara LynnSara Lynn I can handle myself. Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    DrZiplock wrote: »
    Sara Lynn wrote: »
    I'm fairly stubborn about not learning how to drive. It's something that's always scared me, and when I took lessons at 17 or so it made me even more afraid. Now that I live in a place that is mostly interstates I really have no intention of learning to drive anytime soon. I'm accident prone when I'm just walking around, I don't need to wrap myself around a pole.

    I imagine Stale being a pretty solid driving instructor, provided you're not learning in his car.

    Oh, I'm sure he's capable of teaching me, but I wouldn't be the safest person on the road if I was petrified the whole time. I don't mind taking the train. Like I could afford a car to drive anyway.

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  • Blake TBlake T Do you have enemies then? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    Driving, once you get used to it is very relaxing and enjoyable when the traffic is good.

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  • ButtersButters A glass of some milks Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    DrZiplock wrote: »
    Sara Lynn wrote: »
    I'm fairly stubborn about not learning how to drive. It's something that's always scared me, and when I took lessons at 17 or so it made me even more afraid. Now that I live in a place that is mostly interstates I really have no intention of learning to drive anytime soon. I'm accident prone when I'm just walking around, I don't need to wrap myself around a pole.

    I imagine Stale being a pretty solid driving instructor, provided you're not learning in his car.

    Stale drives like 40 MPH in his parking garage. I think he would be the worst possible choice for teaching Sara to drive.

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  • Blake TBlake T Do you have enemies then? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    Also woo, I have the 3.0 firmware on my iPhone now.

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  • babyeatingjesusbabyeatingjesus Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    I was driving my 4 buddies to get some breakfast after a flight home from Toronto when a 2 ton shred-it truck ran a stop sign and pinned us right on my (driver's) door.

    I was not wearing a seat belt and if I had, I would have been stuck in the seat which ended up about 5" wide. As it was, nobody was hurt and I got to sit on the center console of my car, which was totalled, with a truck headlight about 3 inches from my face.

    Seatbelt conspiracy. They'll kill ya.

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  • AirAir Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    a while back i heard this story about my cousin and a couple other guys driving a couple hours out of the city and getting stoned in the country

    and something about it being a really weird drug experience, like it hit them especially hard and they were hallucinating or some shit

    so they were in the country all fucked and next thing my cousin remembers is waking up behind the wheel driving on the highway halfway back to his house with one of the dudes opening a door to vomit out of the car

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  • SzechuanosaurusSzechuanosaurus Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited June 2009
    AMP'd wrote: »
    Thread derails onto drunk driving in 3...2...1...

    I haven't seen Jigrah post in this thread yet, so I'll do it on his behalf...
    Jigrah wrote:
    Drunk driving is fine so long as you are speeding as well. Being drunk is awesome and speeding is awesome so it stands to reason that if you do both at once then you'll be really, really awesome like me and really, really awesome people like me don't crash or run over babies or anything like that. This is why I drink and speed basically everywhere. That family I rammed off the road who exploded in a fireball don't count because they must've sucked or something it couldn't have been my fault I'm awesome.

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  • StaleStale Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    Butters wrote: »
    DrZiplock wrote: »
    Sara Lynn wrote: »
    I'm fairly stubborn about not learning how to drive. It's something that's always scared me, and when I took lessons at 17 or so it made me even more afraid. Now that I live in a place that is mostly interstates I really have no intention of learning to drive anytime soon. I'm accident prone when I'm just walking around, I don't need to wrap myself around a pole.

    I imagine Stale being a pretty solid driving instructor, provided you're not learning in his car.

    Stale drives like 40 MPH in his parking garage. I think he would be the worst possible choice for teaching Sara to drive.

    You and Munkus drive exactly the same


    like old fucking women






    and I never get over 30 in the garage. Perfectly in control. Fast does not always mean reckless.

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  • tsplittertsplitter Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    Dublo7 wrote: »
    I didn't get my license until I was around 20. I was pretty lazy in that regard.

    same here, but boy do i regret it

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  • ButtersButters A glass of some milks Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    Have you ever driven with me?

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  • Sara LynnSara Lynn I can handle myself. Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    This is exactly, to the t, what I am like when I drive.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1Sxhc02L8g

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  • FaricazyFaricazy Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    man, driving is not hard

    what's the big deal, women

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  • StaleStale Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    Faricazy wrote: »
    man, driving is not hard

    what's the big deal, women

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  • Lost SalientLost Salient blink twice if you'd like me to mercy kill youRegistered User regular
    edited June 2009
    I'm constantly on the verge of being disowned for not wanting to purchase a car.

    I love cars, don't get me wrong, but I just ain't got the urge to buy one.

    I once got in an accident, but it was pretty tame by comparison to some of you folks' stories.

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  • ButtersButters A glass of some milks Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    Stale when did I ever drive with you and if it was your car I drove slow because it was your car, you big silly.

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  • Sara LynnSara Lynn I can handle myself. Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    Butters drove me to the airport really slow, mostly because we got stuck behind some slow ass people.

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  • FaricazyFaricazy Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    i was on the train the other day and this latino girl was talking at 500 wpm at her boyfriend about driving and how they ask ridiculous questions for the permit like "how many sides does a stop sign have?" and "what does yield mean?" and the boyfriend goes, "yield means slow down!"


    ARHGHUHG

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  • AirAir Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    since a couple of weeks ago i have been eligible to get my full license i believe
    so after exams i will do that
    and then its a beer or two before i drive anywhere just because i can

    seriously 0 alcohol limit is some bullshit
    i even avoid mouthwash in the mornings because that little bit of alcohol in it could give some kind of reading if i were pulled over shortly after getting into the car
    and since i am always late i dont need to be delaying myself anymore by explaining that to a cop
    i think they even mention it somewhere on the website about the 0 bac limit
    if mouthwash or anything with tiny alcohol levels gives a positive reading
    take it up in court

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  • AirAir Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    fortunately i have only been through random breath testing in the morning one time and instead of actually giving me an alcohol test he just booked me for not having p plates on my car


    much better

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  • TheidarTheidar Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    Sara Lynn wrote: »
    Stale wrote: »
    I started driving at 14


    That's a perk of being a hillbilly

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R__k-8iCj24

    I find it hilarious that she grew up about fifteen minutes from me in super rich yuppie suburb land.

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  • Sara LynnSara Lynn I can handle myself. Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    Srsly, bitch ain't country she's from Pennsylvania.

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  • DruhimDruhim Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited June 2009
    when I was 18 I flipped my brother's VW bug on the 4th of July

    I was a dumbass kid going 30 over the speed limit and lost control on a curve

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  • AMP'dAMP'd Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    It was the original Volkswagen, and Hitler was so pissed

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  • TheidarTheidar Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    Sara Lynn wrote: »
    Srsly, bitch ain't country she's from Pennsylvania.

    And not rural hicktown central PA.
    Yuppie suburban southeastern PA

    I mean my brother used to call it castle town because every house was a fucking mansion.

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  • Sara LynnSara Lynn I can handle myself. Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    Also where Jon & Kate lived or currently lived or something

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  • DrZiplockDrZiplock Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    Sara Lynn wrote: »
    Also where Jon & Kate lived or currently lived or something


    Ayup.

    Fucking Berks.

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  • TheidarTheidar Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    Yeah they moved out of there a while ago. Their new place is in Wernersville, and before that they were in the Lebanon area.

    Its funny cause I see them at like Park City Mall or Penn Ave or Shady Maples and know exactly where they are on the show.

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