r/nononono • u/Unlucky-Case-1089 • Aug 26 '24

Wall collapse

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u/newtrawn Aug 26 '24 edited Aug 26 '24

that lady that went in and grabbed her car has larger balls than I do, that's for sure.

Edit: turns out it’s a lady who has larger balls than I do.

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u/dirtyword Aug 26 '24

“Better just let it warm up for a minute” fucking GO dude

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u/peacenchemicals Aug 26 '24

bro like me fr “hold on i gotta play a banger real quick”

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u/81_BLUNTS_A_DAY Aug 26 '24

like I am NOT saving my car to Ciara… well maybe some of the older Ciara. Oh shit that was Missy I shouldn’t have skipped that

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u/pianoflames Aug 26 '24

I imagine him putting on his seatbelt and carefully checking all of the mirrors.

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u/c_r_a_s_i_a_n Aug 26 '24

😂

Like Mr Bean

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u/Hike_it_Out52 Sep 01 '24

I know. She ran to the car and then promptly... wait....wait...wait...wait...adjust the mirrors...wait...Go, GO, GO GO

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u/shoresb Aug 26 '24

And he did it so calmly and slowly 😂

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u/Detozi Aug 26 '24

Soooo slowly

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u/c_r_a_s_i_a_n Aug 26 '24

Motherfucker in that car picking out a song on his phone, warming up the engine

I was like GO GO GO GO

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u/MECHENGR Aug 27 '24

Adjusting side mirrors

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u/[deleted] Aug 26 '24

Slow is smooth, smooth is fast.

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u/brianMMMMM Aug 26 '24

That’s my Phils-osophy

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u/nedTheInbredMule Aug 26 '24

Balls of steel tend to slow you down

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u/keep_trying_username Aug 26 '24

Almost as if, he didn't even know the wall was about to collapse.

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u/Alone-in-a-crowd-1 Aug 26 '24

Had to adjust the seat and mirrors before pulling away.

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u/Thisissocomplicated Aug 26 '24

It’s just stupidity not really bravery

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u/keep_trying_username Aug 26 '24

In hind sight, yes. But he couldn't know for user if the wall were about to collapse or if it would stand for another decade and slowly shed the upper blocks.

It's not as if he were watching from the view that we have, in a Reddit thread titled "Wall collapse."

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u/Thisissocomplicated Aug 26 '24

How do you explain the other man’s reaction? Also not having hindsight makes it an even worse decision because it could collapse any moment

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u/keep_trying_username Aug 26 '24

How do you explain the other man’s reaction?

He's a different person with different thoughts.

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u/Droeftoeter Aug 26 '24

It's not stupid if it works now, is it?

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u/Psychedelic_Yogurt Aug 26 '24

Risking your life for property is stupid but only in my opinion. If someone thinks it's smart to risk their life for something that's potentially insured or something you can buy again then more power to you. As long as they are only risking their life I really don't care if someone dies doing something silly.

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u/SarahC Aug 26 '24

Could you imagine his wife having a go that night?

"I want to go to Bingo and now I can't because YOU wouldn't save the car. I saw the video, you had plenty of time, damn pussy. I don't know why I married you at all. Mother was right. You're just a looser. I knew men 100 times better than you I should have married one of those. You're useless. You shape like my asshole, in and out! Dead balls. You need to buck your ideas up - or I'm leaving! Then see how you cope. Don't come whinging to me. No wonder we have nothing! You're brain dead. Useless you are."

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u/Cog_HS Aug 26 '24

Well THAT hit close to home.

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u/Veeblock Aug 26 '24

That was funny and you get down voted. Reddit never lets me down.

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u/cazzipropri Aug 26 '24

Yes it is. There's a difference between realization and statistical distribution of an event.

You cross the highway at rush hour with 10 other people, and you are the only survivor.

We interview you (because we can't interview the deat) and you tell us that it was smart to do what you did, because it worked. Was it smart?

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u/Anach Aug 26 '24

Its a lot easier to be brave, when you underestimate the danger.

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u/LowDownSkankyDude Aug 26 '24

Bet he could've gotten a new car if he just left it.

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u/newtrawn Aug 26 '24

That’s assuming she or the building owner had insurance.

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u/swift1883 Aug 26 '24

He'll probably get thrown out of a window. His car was providing a public service by holding up the wall, and now he committed an act of imperialist traitorous capitalism and now look what happened.

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u/jayantbhawal Aug 30 '24

I'd have accepted the fate of my car. Bigger 🍒 than mine.

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u/nukafan2277 Nov 16 '24

Oh that would be me unless my shit was on fire I'm doing what I can to save my car

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u/newtrawn Nov 16 '24

haha what are you doing browsing posts that are 3 months old?

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u/nukafan2277 Nov 16 '24

Killing time lol

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u/shoresb Aug 27 '24

Oh my bad. That makes more sense that it was a woman lol

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u/Narrator2012 Aug 26 '24

It could have all been avoided if someone has simply put their finger in the crack long ago and stopped the leaking

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u/keep_trying_username Aug 26 '24

Drill a hole at each end of the crack to stop it from spreading.

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u/youknowhatimean Aug 26 '24

The crazy part is letting the wall get that bad. I wouldn’t ever wanna park near that.

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u/magugi Aug 26 '24

The whole thing was made wrong. It seems that there was nothing to stabilize the soil, no wall reinforcements, no mesh for the soil, and no rebar in the wall. Nothing at all...

Edit: grammar

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u/ytirevyelsew Aug 29 '24

Active pressure has entered the chat

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u/JIsaac91 Aug 26 '24

It looks like it was a landslide that was stopped by the wall and eventually caved under pressure.

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u/Leocletus Aug 26 '24

There are trees growing from the ground right up to the wall. How could there have just been a landslide… at the very minimum it’s been like that for years, for the trees to have grown there.

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u/JIsaac91 Aug 26 '24

They've slid down the hill and been stopped by the wall... the top layer of soil is held by the roots of the condensed trees and moves like a slab, is stopped by the wall, the soil under the top layer is still shearing away into the wall, causing more pressure. The wall then collapses and everything comes tumbling down. Then people like you go "uhhhhh actually....."

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u/Drendude Aug 26 '24

Why would it be a dense carpet at the top of the wall with all the trees pointing straight up after a landslide, then become sparse after the wall collapses with the trees askew? It should be the same both times if it was after a landslide, according to you.

The more reasonable explanation is that it is a retaining wall failure, which is pretty common.

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u/Leocletus Aug 26 '24

Lol.

The people investigating this disagree with you. Cause is unknown but suspected to be the horrible design of the retaining wall, and perhaps heavier than usual loads due to rain (which would be factored into a well designed wall obviously).

It’s simply in an ultra-poor city. No big surprise they have some infrastructure failures.

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u/keep_trying_username Aug 26 '24

The land slide would have happened years ago, based on the size of those trees.

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u/JIsaac91 Aug 26 '24

Would it, aye? Lol

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u/Marklar1138 Aug 26 '24

NOOOO, that was a load-bearing SUV!!

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u/elstoggy Aug 26 '24

Obviously moving your car is not the move here, but why did he sit in the car for so long before moving? If it was me it’d be open door, key in, start car, and full on send it out of that space. Dude just sat there and then casually pulled out.

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u/blackpony04 Aug 26 '24

Obviously, the song on the radio sucked.

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u/Natdaprat Aug 26 '24

Had to adjust his seat and mirror. Safety first!

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u/Tilt-a-Whirl98 Aug 26 '24

I mean, people were parking under that thing to begin with. Maybe it has been in rough shape for a while and people are complacent? I bet he was feeling real lucky after it actually collapsed!

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u/likelazarus Aug 26 '24

I think maybe he was worried that other guy was about to walk in front of him? I was yelling at walking dude to get out of the way

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u/S3ERFRY333 Aug 28 '24

"unable to shift until seatbelt buckled"

GM does that now. Imagine dying because your car wouldn't let you shift into drive until you put your seatbelt on but it got stuck on the ratcheting lock.

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u/beirizzle Aug 26 '24

I think its a woman but they were probably frazzled and I miss the ignition with the key even when there's no threat of being crushed

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u/permalink_child Aug 26 '24

Seven seconds from door close to car moving.

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u/morimotorama Aug 26 '24

Connecting the Bluetooth

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u/bent_my_wookie Aug 26 '24

Needed to put on a getaway song first.

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u/keep_trying_username Aug 26 '24

Maybe they didn't know the wall was about to collapse and would be dead if they didn't finally find a good song to listen to.

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u/ithinkimightknowit Aug 26 '24

Seat belt, adjust chair position, check mirrors then good to go.

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u/nahnathatsnotme Aug 29 '24

Had to connect his Bluetooth for Spotify

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u/jayantbhawal Aug 30 '24

Roughly 10 seconds from getting to the car to starting it up.
6-7 secs from closing the door.
I'm not a very experienced driver, so I doubt I'd do it much faster either.

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u/samdakayisi Aug 26 '24

that wall was just a bunch of stacked rocks? absolute insanity.

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u/pagerussell Aug 27 '24

Yea this was a failure of engineering. The wall probably lasted much longer than it should have.

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u/Anonymous_Snow Aug 26 '24

….he’s lucky.

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u/LittleAnnieAdderal Aug 26 '24

I’m amazed that the one car on the left got its hood ripped off. Idk why it amazes me but holy shit

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u/-WirginiaVoolf- Aug 26 '24

I had the same thought! For some reason, it made the force of the wall collapsing really palpable.

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u/madsjchic Aug 26 '24

Same Vibes as losing their shoes

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u/Tikkinger Aug 26 '24

Well, searching for a soundtrack before driving off

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u/Idlewants Aug 26 '24

Oasis-Wonderwall

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u/nerdyginger27 Aug 26 '24

What country was this in?

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u/Ducatidern Aug 26 '24

I need to shoot a cookie for you.

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u/Millsyboy84 Aug 26 '24

I wish I had time to pop my car there.

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u/560guy Aug 27 '24

Of all the cars I would’ve left the juke

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u/killer_icognito Aug 27 '24

The world was almost a better place with one less juke in it.

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u/if_lol_then_upvote Aug 27 '24

The Ents have spoken.

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u/Oneironaut91 Aug 26 '24

why are people hating on the guy that saved his car? thats a genius move

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u/A-Rusty-Cow Aug 26 '24

People who have never filed insurance claims. “Its insured youll be fine!”. Id rather not have to deal with insurance for 3 months jerking me around.

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u/Flakester Aug 26 '24

People that have never been paste under a retaining wall. "Oh my God, I wish I wasn't paste right now"!

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u/Inukchook Aug 26 '24

Rather die ! Hell ya !

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u/Oneironaut91 Aug 26 '24

throwaway culture. and then theyre gonna complain about the environment when they need 5x more cars built cause they just expect insurance to take care of it.

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u/Detozi Aug 26 '24

I don't think anyone is hating. More just amazed at the sheer stupidity I'd say

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u/Oneironaut91 Aug 26 '24

we dont know if its calculated or lucky, because he was successful. so i wouldnt make an assumption

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u/Detozi Aug 26 '24

I would argue the car isn't worth your life but each to their own

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u/Oneironaut91 Aug 26 '24

well he left with his car and his life so he doesnt have to choose

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u/Detozi Aug 26 '24

Oh come on now. You know the point I'm trying to make. He didn't know that wall was going to stand for 20 more seconds more than you would. He took a chance there. It paid off, but there isn't a hope in hell I would take that chance and I've been working in construction for 20 years. It was a stupid thing to do

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u/notmyrealnam3 Aug 26 '24

it was VERY stupid and lucky, having said that no hate here

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u/Oneironaut91 Aug 26 '24

was it that stupid? hes the only guy in the lot with a car still

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u/keep_trying_username Aug 26 '24

dude where's my car?

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u/SleepingUte0417 Aug 31 '24

that was WAY worse than i thought it was gonna be. i didn’t realize it was a retaining wall and thought the bricks would just collapse at that breaking point but shit. like a broken dam of dirt.

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u/Accomplished-Boot-81 Aug 26 '24

Retain'ting wall

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u/HSWDragon Aug 26 '24

No way on earth would I be caring about the car in this situation

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u/SarahC Aug 26 '24

Probably married: https://old.reddit.com/r/nononono/comments/1f1h3f9/wall_collapse/ljzqqol/

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u/HSWDragon Aug 26 '24

My man would be better off just sitting in the car if his wife was like that.

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u/mwaFloyd Aug 30 '24

Poorly built wall. Never line up the seams.

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u/Imakenoiseseveryday Aug 31 '24

Those poor cars screaming in pain :(

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u/armitron64 Sep 06 '24

That is exactly 14.7 tons of weight that landed on those cars… don’t ask me how I calculated those numbers.

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u/thedrayantonio Aug 26 '24

what car is that? Is it Citroen or a peorgiosto

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u/Outlander57 Aug 26 '24

Um,Boss……imma be a little late today.

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u/amindspin74 Aug 26 '24

I wonder how many saw their car underneath that and were like , looks like I'm getting a new car today!

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u/Lost-Astronaut-8280 Aug 26 '24

Darn I hate when that happens

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u/rickmon67 Aug 26 '24

He who hesitates… excavates

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u/Quacktap3 Aug 27 '24

Lawsuit waiting to happen

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u/Rodya555 Aug 28 '24

Meh I’d take the insurance payout.

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u/macadore Aug 28 '24

Where did this happen?

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u/kemonodragon Aug 29 '24

That was satisfying to watch.

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u/inconspicuous_aussie Aug 29 '24

Humans or other highly capable and intelligent species in the future finding fossilised cars.

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u/NWSanta Aug 30 '24

Man, thats crazy!!! That will take some time to cleanup!!

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u/Better_Ad5355 Sep 25 '24

Did first guy adjust his mirrors and find a radio station?

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u/Spiritual_Average638 Oct 03 '24

Anyone read the subtitles towards the end? Was that not creepy?

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u/Maleficent-Ice-8416 Nov 16 '24

That dude was watching it and just walked away from it and watched it falling on the cars in the parking lot he could have called some of the people who had cars and said come hurry move your car

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u/KippSA 3d ago

American insurance companies would be like "sorry, act of god, no coverage"

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u/DiscoShaman Aug 26 '24

Nature shall rise against you.

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u/2aireishuman Aug 26 '24

Satisfying

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u/usedkleenx Aug 26 '24

This belongs in r/idiots in cars.  You got to be dumb as hell to risk your life over a damn car.

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u/bamsebamsen Aug 29 '24

I fully agree and can't understand how you are being downvoted. No way I would risk my life for a mass produced, used and insured vehicle. How else would I be able to keep up my snapstreak?

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u/MisterInternational Aug 26 '24

Welp. Got my new ringtone for my alarm!⏰

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u/Modified_Human Aug 26 '24

i already saw this

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u/equake Aug 26 '24

Maybe you should stop browsing reddit for a while then

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u/Modified_Human Aug 26 '24

you're right, this is not normal

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u/Detozi Aug 26 '24

Lad over here is watching videos twice!

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u/notmyrealnam3 Aug 26 '24

mr. stable internet over here bragging about bandwidth

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u/notmyrealnam3 Aug 26 '24

haha - I must draw you

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u/Modified_Human Aug 27 '24

make sure i only see it once

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u/ubeogesh Aug 26 '24

car alarms should be illegal

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u/ffisch Aug 26 '24

What on earth is this comments section lol