Baronjutter posted:

My wife worked auto-claims in an insurance company. It's extremely stressful because you have people calling you immediately or shortly after accidents. Sure it generated a ton of entertaining stories but mostly it's just a high-stress call-centre type environment

My favourite stories were:
-Guy is at a party with a bunch of his friends, his friends are all drunk but he IS NOT DRUNK. He, being not at all drunk decides to take everyone for a joy ride in his truck. He drives very safely and soberly but somehow managed to flip his truck off the road. Because he was sober and his friends were not he was worried they would react irrationally towards him so he fled into the woods. Some of his drunk friends were lightly injured and the police ended up sending a full search party and dogs into the woods to try to find him but he claims he fell asleep because he was so tired from all his sober driving and partying. The next day he woke up, spent all day hiding in the woods, then finally called his boss and begged for a ride into town. His boss fired him for missing work that day and for injuring a bunch of his co-workers and hiding from the police all night. He also lost most of his friends, who decided to lie and say he was extremely drunk too. Things didn't go well for this guy.

-Guy is driving home from the oil fields in his huge truck and decides to take a more off the beat route. He takes a corner too sharp and slides off the snowy road into a field. Because of this he notices a fire out in a clearing and drives over to investigate. He finds that another guy drove off the road in the exact same spot, tried to get out of the snow bank/trees by heading to the clearing but realized it was a lake and his truck broke through the ice. While this story is being told, the new guy's truck also falls through the ice. They spend the night trying to stay warm by the fire while getting their trucks out, both end up being total losses and only by chance being rescued by a 3rd person who spotted their fire.

-Old guy gets out of prison. He has no license and has strict parole terms that forbid him from driving or associating with other ex-cons. Another guy he knows from prison gets out later and asks him if he can borrow his truck to drive to another city since old guy can't drive it anymore. Old guy agrees but wants to come with him apparently so he can drive the truck home, which he isn't allowed to do. The moment their road trip starts the con drives the truck to a walmart and robs the place and uses the truck as a getaway vehicle. Eventually they go their separate ways and old guy files a stolen vehicle claim. The story is full of holes, drastically changes every time a new statement is given, and eventually old guy's lovely daughter takes over communication and drastically changes the story again. From what people could piece together these two were basically just planning on going right back into crime after prison, had a falling out over the outcome of a robbery and old guy's truck got stolen. Because of the criminal aspects the claim and very obvious lies it ended up being denied.

-Two dudes live together as roommates and are hosting a party. Roomate 1 owns a truck and says he went to bed early and did not give permission for anyone to borrow his truck. Roommate 2 says suddenly when his friend went to bed a guy showed up at the party that no one knew and suggested everyone go for a joy ride in the first roommate's truck. Everyone decided this was a good idea and went with him. Because everyone was drunk this mystery man ended up hitting like 10 cars during the joyride and ending up in a police chase with a helicopter. They finally ditched the truck in a field and scattered, the cops easily catching everyone except for this mystery person. The number of people they caught was the exact passenger capacity of the truck. No one could describe the mystery driver, no physical description or name but all had the same story of "a guy showed up at the party and stole the truck and we all just went along to make sure the truck was safe". It's important to note that if roommate 2 had driven the truck, it would not have been covered by roommate 1's insurance as a theft since someone you live with or regularly allow use of your vehicle can't steal your truck according to the insurance policy. Obviously everyone fabricated this mystery person to help commit insurance fraud and criminal charges from the police chase. I believe this one was denied and roommate 1 had to go to court to try to get any money for his lost truck.

-Suburban teen gets dumped and is really mad so takes his little teen boy sports car and does rage laps around his neighbourhood. Loses control and manages to destroy 3 neighbour's sheds and fences. One neighbour had a bunch of expensive ATV's and camping poo poo and was leaving for vacation with them the next day, another house had JUST gone on the market and they had just built a fancy fence and shed to help sell the house, which had a full day of viewings scheduled for the next day. The kid was 100% humble and admitted to his stupidity, his parents didn't try to protect him and handled all the insurance stuff correctly, and his official insurance statement describing the reason for the accident was just giant "I hosed UP" taking up the whole bottom of the page. It was cute, lessons were learned.

-Tons and tons of stories of upper middle class to rich 20-somethings getting into major expensive accidents that gently caress over other people, crying on the phone and then pushing the whole thing off on their mom or dad to handle for them because doing an insurance claim is just too scary and adult for them. Then the parents being ridiculously uncooperative and doing everything to lie or threaten lawyers to get their precious babies out of any responsibility. There was one where a 20 year old girl blew a red light because she was texting, hit a woman legally crossing the street, and the mom and daughter both just went on and on about how that "stupid woman" should have looked before she crossed the street, our society doesn't care about personal responsibility anymore, doesn't this bitch understand this is going to ruin my daughter's driving record and reputation?? Why should we have to pay for her physiotherapy just because she doesn't look when she crosses the street?! MY HUSBAND IS A LAWYER and we are very well connected locally!!!! Tons of people like that, I'm not at all exagerating.

-Rich people thinking extremely fussy european supercars are at all appropriate for driving on northern Canadian roads.

-A lot of really sad poo poo involving first-nations communities. Like drunk driving 14 year olds running over younger siblings then driving off and wrapping it around a tree and everyone circling the wagons and not talking about it. Or people just not understanding how insurance works and thinking they are covered for something when they are not and lives being ruined. Not really "favourite" stories here, just deeply tragic and depressing windows into the horrible conditions on Canadian reserves.

Platystemon posted:

You can trust their testimony.

They were drunk.

Baronjutter posted:

Not to accuse anyone of anything, but these were both oil workers driving home at like 4am after a night on the town after payday using a bypass off the main road that had drunk driving checkpoints set up.

Carbon dioxide posted:

I still don't understand the Austrian rules on traffic lights.

Lights go in the order green -> flashing green (couple seconds) -> yellow (couple seconds) -> red
Green means go.
Flashing greens mean "stop if at all able, go if unable to stop" (so the same as the meaning of yellow in all sane countries)
Yellow means stop (it is illegal to cross at this time)
Red means stop (it is equally illegal to cross at this time).

The only reason they seem to have yellow is to have an extra light for the short amount of time between the point the intersection is cleared and the other road gets green. And while that might be useful for traffic planners to know, it has no separate legal status whatsoever and it doesn't give any useful information to anyone waiting for the light.

Austria introduced a fourth state for no good reason whatsoever and while doing so, they redefined yellow to mean something else than in every other country.

MF_James posted:

This is exactly what I thought of, that's going to be some wicked shrapnel.

Memento posted:

https://i.imgur.com/28L3TYC.jpg

Dude with an angle grinder blade in the side of his face.

Rev. Bleech_ posted:

aaaand that brings us to now
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nrs-lyhcXmA

Say Nothing posted:

Say Nothing posted:

weg posted:

Wow, I guess that airbag went full Takata on his tailbone.

chrisgt posted:

I've used that word since before I knew about AvE, but yes, it means "study as gently caress". I learned of words such as "skookum" and "choocher", plus many others when I lived in Newfoundland in 2003.

Deteriorata posted:

Yeah, it's pretty nice.



That's probably limited some by my router. It's plenty fast so I haven't bothered upgrading it.

Tumble posted:

Kith posted:

https://i.imgur.com/ZE7CoSo.mp4

Stuck the landing!

Gromit posted:

Travel Kerplunk is less portable than I expected.

duz posted:

Radio cranked up playing metal?

Mr. Apollo posted:

Taking an escalator in China.

https://i.imgur.com/BpdymcL.mp4

iroc.dis posted:

Watched a friend of mine fall 30ft down the side of a stacked conex tower we were using to practice rappelling when his carabiner failed. I probably don't have the phrasing correct on it but the gate didn't lock and when he put his weight on it, it opened up and down he went onto asphalt. Broke both legs and his back and had some rough burns on his arms and chest from where he tried to hug the rope to slow himself down. He's able to walk again but not very well.
It was pretty awful to see it in person

Mr. Fix It posted:

This game just popped up in my Steam discovery queue: https://store.steampowered.com/app/821800/ADRLabelling_Game/

Check that price it's available for around a 100th the price on ios/android

Phanatic posted:

Any drilling accident you can crawl away from is a good one.

https://www.facebook.com/drillersclub/videos/1970550473257114/?hc_ref=ART04j3URmJ8nrUZt-6dhgsMloA3ipocfRvVOauJrxVv6-Vgxt4b8b-mDRPr2ybksRk

Nenonen posted:

There are two kinds of Russian men: those who have just had an accident happen to them and those waiting for it to happen to them.

Kith posted:

https://i.imgur.com/dSUoXT1.mp4

Kith posted:

https://i.imgur.com/8aDIUTB.mp4

At least they're wearing a helmet.

Necrosaro posted:

The truck was probably carrying "ton containers" which I was told in truck driving school in hazmat class that those tanks are used to carry the most dangerous chemicals. The ton containers are designed to survive most traffic accidents without being breached. The valves are recessed and protected by a metal dome and the walls of the container are thicker then most other metal containers. If the truck happens to get into an accident the likelihood of spills is a lot less then a single large tank. But if you see one of those trucks flipped over, I would run up wind of it real fast.

The ton container had a starring role in one of the CSB videos where a worker died after getting sprayed in the chest and face with the chemical it contained. It was at a DuPont chemical plant and it contained phosgene, which was used as a chemical weapon in world war 1. It doesn't take much to kill you. Phosgene makes you drown in your own lung fluids.

CSB video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5N8hxhJD7E

C.M. Kruger posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeDmBCuDxLQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6m4Oatwj2IM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVmd2CDMyE8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2bB7hAWS3U

Blast of Confetti posted:

reminder that elon got in to an over the phone slapfight with the guy in charge because he told him to gently caress off. he's a thin skinned idiot and the exact type of person you don't want loving around nearby when lives are on the line

Gina like vagina posted:

What kind of country doesn't let tradesmen wear shorts when it's hot? Nothing in Australia would ever get built if they had to wear trousers in summer (or ever). Tradie shorts are a tradition here.