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AreWeDrunkYet posted:Is that 3 police cars to write a ticket? They're probably doing the "This has to be illegal but gently caress if I know offhand what law it breaks, come help me dig through the ordinance book to find something" dance. Also, the Police SUV is a supervisor.
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AreWeDrunkYet posted:Is that 3 police cars to write a ticket? Small town. "Holy gently caress, you guys got to see this."
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`Nemesis posted:They're probably doing the "This has to be illegal but gently caress if I know offhand what law it breaks, come help me dig through the ordinance book to find something" dance. Also, the Police SUV is a supervisor. That reminds me of a case some years ago.  This thing is a ride in a theme park. It slowly rises up into the air while the top part does a full rotation. It goes up 45 meters and it gives you a good view of all sides of the park. One day, some dude decided to base jump from the ride without permission, even though 45 m is way too close to ground to safely open a parachute. Well, he managed to land relatively safety with a partially opened chute. Park security arrested him... and then they didn't really know what to do, because nowhere in the park regulations did it say that it's illegal to jump out of attractions. In the end they just fined him for damage to park property, because he hit a tree on the way down and a big branch broke off.
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Low bridge: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBOLpUYtMVE
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This made me think of you guys... https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/watch-in-most-lions-move-ever-planned-silverdome-implosion-somehow-fails-to-work/
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His lovely reaction made a bad situation into a disaster. I don't think it needed to roll over.
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Presumably not running. Presumably. 
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The Konami Code? Do you get 30 extra lives if you drive over it just right?
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Pretty sure I solved this puzzle in Bioshock.
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:The Konami Code? Do you get 30 extra lives if you drive over it just right? Take, not get.
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quote:Best guess for this image: Québec
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:I had a quick look on youtube to see if I could find the video version in case you could hear someone's accent or something and the search terms 'construction worker fall water' didn't bring up that specific video but what it did turn up was a whole parade of fuckin' horrors so I stopped looking. ...and you didn't post any to the thread?
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GreyjoyBastard posted:...and you didn't post any to the thread? Had to scroll down quite a way to find one that was funny instead of fatal. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rW8goQVdpDs
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Imagined posted:His lovely reaction made a bad situation into a disaster. I don't think it needed to roll over. Dunno that that tractor has a seatbelt or if anyone could be assed to use it. Probably got thrown all around the cab the way the tractor bounced.
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Ranzear posted:Dunno that that tractor has a seatbelt or if anyone could be assed to use it. Probably got thrown all around the cab the way the tractor bounced. i can't find information about this. But this is in Holland and on a public road so I can only assume it is mandatory to wear a seatbelt. His head pops out of the cab in the end of the video he's fine.
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It's mandatory in a lot of places. I had someone just a couple days ago try the bullshit "It's safer to get thrown from the car than be strapped in when it's on fire after a crash" argument.
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cr0y posted:This made me think of you guys... I just heard a rumble. Heard the blast on Sunday as well, the Silverdome is 10.6 miles from my house. Then I go to google to see this. E: found video https://twitter.com/wxyzalicia/status/937791945769996290 Nth Doctor fucked around with this message at 22:28 on Dec 4, 2017 |
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Moto42 posted:I had someone just a couple days ago try the bullshit "It's safer to get thrown from the car than be strapped in when it's on fire after a crash" argument. The chances of your car catching fire after an MVA are astronomically low. Anyone who tries to use that as an excuse is a disingenuous rear end in a top hat.
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Raskolnikov38 posted:what if the other vehicle is a gas tanker Sure. But that's a very specific instance. Probably on the low side of "vehicles involved in auto accidents" statistic. Especially considering that there's a crash every, what? 15 seconds or something dumb like that? Also, I've seen a few accidents with gas tanker trucks with no fire. Reality isn't a Michael Bay film. Funny enough, if you see a gas tanker on fire, for some reason, it's usually the only vehicle involved.
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I know a guy who crashed a propane truck. It went off the road and rolled onto it's side and didn't blow up or light on fire. The driver that crossed centerline and hit him head on died though. Really the biggest worry would be that you are crashing into a fully loaded semi-truck.
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Zipperelli. posted:The chances of your car catching fire after an MVA are astronomically low. Anyone who tries to use that as an excuse is a disingenuous rear end in a top hat. On the other side of the story about not wearing seat belts, I had a buddy in highschool get tossed from his flipping and rolling vehicle while not wearing a seat belt and then get promptly steamrolled as his truck landed on him.
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Zipperelli. posted:The chances of your car catching fire after an MVA are astronomically low. Anyone who tries to use that as an excuse is a disingenuous rear end in a top hat. Even worse is the "seatbelts create a false sense of security that encourages drivers to make more rash decisions than they normally would because they are 'safe'; there would be less accidents in general if seatbelts weren't mandatory " argument. Tuxedo Ted fucked around with this message at 00:11 on Dec 5, 2017 |
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There's also the classic case of Derek Kieper, the anti-seatbelt campaigner who died when he was ejected from a rolling SUV. The two other occupants were wearing seatbelts and survived with non-life-threatening injuries. https://www.snopes.com/autos/accident/seatbelt.asp
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Bareheaded motorcyclist dies in helmet protestquote:A bareheaded motorcyclist participating in a ride to protest mandatory helmet laws was killed when he was thrown over the handlebars in Onondaga, New York. Wear your helmets, kids.
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Also, people are just dumb. E: vvvvv Fair.
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Hremsfeld posted:Also, people are just dumb. People who drive SUVs aren't people 
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Moto42 posted:It's mandatory in a lot of places. Every once in awhile I take this position and make it seem like I'm really serious and believe it, and I've gotten some friends to the point that they were yelling at me. For some reason it's easy to convince people you believe in that and flat earth, and they eventually get furious. Pharmaskittle fucked around with this message at 00:27 on Dec 5, 2017 |
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GotLag posted:There's also the classic case of Derek Kieper, the anti-seatbelt campaigner who died when he was ejected from a rolling SUV. The two other occupants were wearing seatbelts and survived with non-life-threatening injuries. Memento posted:Bareheaded motorcyclist dies in helmet protest They both died doing what they loved: being irredeemable idiots.
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Trabant posted:They both died doing what they loved: being irredeemable idiots. Oh I forgot one! Barrister killed in quad bike accident fought mandatory roll-over bars for Honda quote:A prominent lawyer killed in a quad bike accident was at the centre of a legal battle by motorcycle company Honda to fight the introduction of mandatory roll-over bars.
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Memento posted:Oh I forgot one! In his defense roll bars on quads are an utterly moronic idea. Quads are like motorcycles, you throw your weight around to get them to do what you want when you're riding them aggressively. Strapping the rider to the bike doesn't work, and a roll cage without seat belts is of no use at all.
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wolrah posted:In his defense roll bars on quads are an utterly moronic idea. Quads are like motorcycles, you throw your weight around to get them to do what you want when you're riding them aggressively. Strapping the rider to the bike doesn't work, and a roll cage without seat belts is of no use at all. No roll-bars, roll-over bars. Just like a single upright at the back of the quadbike that means if it rolls, it forms a triangle with the ground as opposed to pancaking the rider. Like the pictures in the article I linked indicate.
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Tuxedo Ted posted:Even worse is the "seatbelts create a false sense of security that encourages drivers to make more rash decisions than they normally would because they are 'safe'; there would be less accidents in general if seatbelts weren't mandatory " argument. That one's actually partly borne out by the statistics. People do engage in riskier behavior when they feel that there's some other factor helping to avert that risk. For instance, it's been demonstrated that drivers will pass cyclists at a closer range and higher speed when the rider is wearing a helmet than when they aren't. As another example, the drivers of cars equipped with anti-lock brakes will generally follow other cars more closely than drivers of cars that are not so-equipped. There's even some research proposing a human tendency towards "risk homeostasis;" that is, people will naturally adjust their behavior to maintain a specific internally-assessed level of risk, behaving more cautiously when they think things are dangerous and more recklessly when they think they're safe. There is some indication that seatbelts and airbags do actually trigger this sort of behavior. I've even noticed it about myself -- when I am motorcycling, I usually wear heavy armored leather on every part of my body. Sometimes, though, when I'm just going around the block, I don't bother with the pants and just wear my jeans. This is stupid, and I know it, and I definitely ride more slowly and cautiously because my kneecaps feel extremely exposed. However, the point at which the whole thing falls apart is the last part of what you quoted. While people who wear seatbelts do, on the whole, drive slightly less cautiously than those who don't, seatbelts are such a powerful safety device that the safety benefits outstrip the effect on behavior by orders of magnitude. So in the end, the equation comes out in favor of the safety devices every time. Sagebrush fucked around with this message at 02:11 on Dec 5, 2017 |
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Memento posted:No roll-bars, roll-over bars. Just like a single upright at the back of the quadbike that means if it rolls, it forms a triangle with the ground as opposed to pancaking the rider. Round here they're called sissy bars. 
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Sagebrush posted:That one's actually partly borne out by the statistics. People do engage in riskier behavior when they feel that there's some other factor helping to avert that risk. For instance, it's been demonstrated that drivers will pass cyclists at a closer range and higher speed when the rider is wearing a helmet than when they aren't. As another example, the drivers of cars equipped with anti-lock brakes will generally follow other cars more closely than drivers of cars that are not so-equipped. There's even some research proposing a human tendency towards "risk homeostasis;" that is, people will naturally adjust their behavior to maintain a specific internally-assessed level of risk, behaving more cautiously when they think things are dangerous and more recklessly when they think they're safe. There is some indication that seatbelts and airbags do actually trigger this sort of behavior. I've even noticed it about myself -- when I am motorcycling, I usually wear heavy armored leather on every part of my body. Sometimes, though, when I'm just going around the block, I don't bother with the pants and just wear my jeans. This is stupid, and I know it, and I definitely ride more slowly and cautiously because my kneecaps feel extremely exposed. See also reduced reaction time when autonomous braking is active. Also there are statistics saying that 50+ percent of reported crashes occur five miles or less from home and something like 75+ percent occur within 15 miles. Another thing to factor in when "just going around the corner".
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