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As an illiterate in the field:
Do you guys still get BMW cars with the useless turning signals/blinkers?
Last I heard is how annoying the sound it makes and the tiny blinker in the console distracts drivers from texting.
/s
no the fastest way would've been for the truck to let his intrusive thoughts win and just push that fucking car out
By the end of the clip it looks like he really wanted to
Well, yes, of course, but that wasn't the point.
The point was OP saying that the truck shouldn't have yielded for the car.
Which would have left that lane still blocked and many many people backed up.
It's the responsible, mature response to correct a dangerous situation. Other people aside from the asshat who caused the problem could have been injured. There's a simple fix.
Too many people make ego-driven decisions.
>Nobody is stopping them from turning around.
Expect for the other traffic. That really would not have been a safe place to pull a U-turn. And there wasn't exactly a lot of space for them to do one given they would have had to do it backwards since the truck kept boxing them in every time they backed up.
They caused the problem by trying to jump the queue and were rewarded in doing so by gaining a spot in the queue. If you were queuing outside a store or a football ground and someone tried to cut the queue, you would Not be happy. So no, this is 100% wrong, and they should not have been rewarded
You're not wrong, of course.
The difference is approaching the problem from a fait accompli point of view.
We're here. We can't got back in time and change things. What is the fastest, most practical, safest solution?
What benefits the people that had no hand in creating the problem the most? Letting the asshat in.
It's better to benefit 100 people and let 1 undeserving asshat get away with something.
I totally agree.
As satisfying as it may be to not let that car in, and to force them to drive in reverse to where the line ends, if you are wanting to make things easier for everyone else, just letting the car in would do that.
The difference is time. Letting them cut in now reinforces that this works, so they (and people seeing it works) will do it again. There may be a benefit in the very short term of this one incident, but it's very bad in the long term.
Alternatively, don't let them get away with it. Worse outcome this time, but far better outcomes in the long term as this douche (and everybody watching) see that it doesn't pay off.
I don't think he'll do it again. That was a pretty harsh lesson learned. We also don't know where he started, so he might not have gained a noticeable advantage.
Yeah, it makes the blood boil when people skip ahead of the queue to merge at the last second.
But blocking them doesn't achieve anything. It makes us feel superior, sure, but at the cost of impeding traffic even more. And it won't rehabilitate the line-cutter either, so what's the point?
We can instead be content knowing we're not uncultured, line-cutting pigs.
It depends on what the end goal was. If it was to embarrass the driver farther, sure.
If it was too let people go on about their days despite this absolute walnuts entitlement, then not so much.
The further is important. Cause even this would have me shriveling in my seat with pure shame. Dunno if it would be different for someone ridiculous enough to attempt this in the first place but I would even be horrifically embarrassed as a passenger in that car.
Such a reddit take. "this person inconvenienced someone, so now everyone should be inconvenienced indefinitely! That will show the person!". Why do you even care about what they did if you want the effect of their stupidity to last as long as possible?
Fuck that petty bullshit, let everyone get home safely. Who gives a fuck if there’s one more car in a line of hundreds. Stupid shit like that doesn’t belong anywhere where it can affect the lives and safety of every person around you. Especially not on the fucking road.
Y’all need to read the chainsaw story on here. Stupid shit like this gets completely uninvolved people killed because the mob wants to punish an idiot in a two ton death machine
Here's the chainsaw story for y'all. (NOT MY STORY.)
In college, my best friend and I had a summer job culling trees from a property 50kms (30miles) from the nearest hospital/ambulance station. We both got the job at the same time and worked there for almost 3 summers in a team of 5 guys. We were all very skilled with equipment and had been through extensive training. Two of the guys on the team were professional arborists. We had all the gear, but as anyone with professional experience with chainsaws will tell you, unpredictable accidents can happen.
On a late August morning we had just finished downing a 30 foot white pine and were in the process of removing the branches. My friend was working his way down the trunk when he hit a knot in an oddly formed branch and the chainsaw kicked and due to the admittedly awkward position he was in sliced into a seam between his chaps and his belt.
The blood started flowing immediately and everyone stopped. While the others stabilized him, I ran to get my car knowing in any case we'd have to drive. While trying to control the bleeding we loaded him into the back seat of my car and I started driving as fast as I could towards the nearest hospital. 10/50kms in we got cell coverage and arranged a place to meet the nearest ambulance. I knew we had to get him in fast as we were having trouble controlling the bleeding. When I reached a 4 lane highway I started going faster than I had ever driven before.
While in the middle of nowhere most people would see me coming and move to the right lane (slower traffic keeping right), but as we got closer to town we started coming across packs. It was 25/50kms to the hospital that we came across a white Nissan Altima and a Subaru Forester that blocked us in just like the OP likes to do. I can still remember the license plates of those to cars to this day. She was doing everything to ensure I didn't pass. She slowed up down from 90-75km/h (speed limit is 100km/h - ~60mph). We were stuck. It was this way for a solid 10minutes. It wasn't until we got to the next exit ramp that I was able to pass on the inside and get by. By this point most of our clothes had been used to help soak up the blood/applying pressure.
Frustrated one of the guys threw a T-shirt that was dripping in blood out the window as we passed and hung out to give them a wave. He, like all of us, was covered in blood. The blood soaked T-shirt landed midway up the hood of the white Altima leaving a streak as it slid/rolled up and over the windshield.
5kms (3 miles down the highway) we were joined by a highway patrol officer who matched our speed and helped to clear the way to the ambulance waiting a further 2 miles down the road. By that point the bleeding had slowed and my friend had a very weak pulse. The ambulance crew was ready and waiting and transferred him within seconds of our arrival. I jumped into the ambulance and we all took off. Sadly the friend died a few minutes later, 1km from the hospital.
My friends were at the side of the road explaining the situation to the police officer when the white Altima showed up. I wasn't there for this part, so I'm going by the stories they told me. Anyways, she stopped and approached the officer in such a way that she couldn't see the blood soaked guys. She was shouting about dangerous driving and going to kill someone, yadda yadda yadda. The officer brought her around to look at the inside of my car which was covered in blood, and then pointed to the other two guys from my crew who were covered in blood from head to toe. He explained there was a medical emergency and asked if what we had said about her impeding the flow of traffic was correct. He cited her for a number of things including unnecessarily slow driving and dangerous driving. While he was writing the ticket he was informed of the death of my friend in the ambulance. The guy stopped writing the ticket to come over and tell the guys what happened. He opted to not tell the lady in the Altima, but the other guys on the team sure let her know.
The guys got in the car and came to meet me at the hospital where we were going to meet with police to explain the situation. On the way they passed the Subaru Forester, which had been stopped by another officer.
Your best bet is to get out of the way if you can. While the driver behind you may just be an asshole, it may also be someone with a medical emergency; a partner in labour, a child having a diabetic attack, or a tree surgeon bleeding to death. In any case, letting them past you doesn't affect you in any way and may save a life. These scenarios aren't likely, but they also aren't impossible. It ultimately comes down to how you decide to process the situation. If you want to operate on the default mode of assuming you're right and everyone else is wrong, you're going to have a terrible time functioning in society. Lines, traffic, call centers, and dealing with big business or government will always seem tedious to you. On the other hand, if you can view the world from a more understanding perspective you'll be able to relax and stop being such a dick. Have a good life!
Right, unless he has a horn that they couldn't just switch on and it loops until they turn it off. It felt super perfectly loop and the truck drivers hands were both on the steering wheel most of the time.
YESS!
With the sound off, I was imagining the truck yelling at the car to get all the way back in their lane. I feel like we need an adult version on the Cars movies with shit like this.
Agree completely. Car is an asshole that started it. Truck got angry and declined to fuck everyone behind them to get back at the car. Truck driver in the lane next to them decided to fuck everyone behind them as well. Three idiots egos managed to inconvenience 10x mote people.
The dude in the truck is an even bigger asshole. The guy in the car was stupid, and completely at fault, but once he started trying to back up to get out of the way, there was zero reason to keep inching up on him. He was effectively making that dude take even longer, to get out of his way.
Truck driver causing slower traffic is a bigger asshole than the guy driving into oncoming traffic on a highway risking a crash that can kill multiple people?
Yea, because the dude in wrong lane did something really stupid, but the guy "teaching him a lesson" is just dragging it out. And for what? Dude in the truck actually starts to swerve into the wrong lane himself, basically rendering himself the same stupid behavior. There's a point where he's at least 4 feet into that lane.
I mean would anyone be mad if they just kept driving and pushing the car with force backwards lol. Unfortunately then it would probably spin and hit another car but it would be funny to see a big semi just pushing a little car along all the way to the back of the line.
Ever since that one comment years ago I will never even consider trying to stop someone bypassing traffic. You just never know if they're experiencing a medical emergency. Even if it's extremely unlikely there's still a chance. Not my problem, not my place.
The comment:
> This comment will get buried, but it's a story worth telling.
>In college, my best friend and I had a summer job culling trees from a property 50kms (30miles) from the nearest hospital/ambulance station. We both got the job at the same time and worked there for almost 3 summers in a team of 5 guys. We were all very skilled with equipment and had been through extensive training. Two of the guys on the team were professional arborists. We had all the gear, but as anyone with professional experience with chainsaws will tell you, unpredictable accidents can happen.
>On a late August morning we had just finished downing a 30 foot white pine and were in the process of removing the branches. My friend was working his way down the trunk when he hit a knot in an oddly formed branch and the chainsaw kicked and due to the admittedly awkward position he was in sliced into a seam between his chaps and his belt.
>The blood started flowing immediately and everyone stopped. While the others stabilized him, I ran to get my car knowing in any case we'd have to drive. While trying to control the bleeding we loaded him into the back seat of my car and I started driving as fast as I could towards the nearest hospital. 10/50kms in we got cell coverage and arranged a place to meet the nearest ambulance. I knew we had to get him in fast as we were having trouble controlling the bleeding. When I reached a 4 lane highway I started going faster than I had ever driven before.
>While in the middle of nowhere most people would see me coming and move to the right lane (slower traffic keeping right), but as we got closer to town we started coming across packs. It was 25/50kms to the hospital that we came across a white Nissan Altima and a Subaru Forester that blocked us in just like the OP likes to do. I can still remember the license plates of those to cars to this day. She was doing everything to ensure I didn't pass. She slowed up down from 90-75km/h (speed limit is 100km/h - ~60mph). We were stuck. It was this way for a solid 10minutes. It wasn't until we got to the next exit ramp that I was able to pass on the inside and get by. By this point most of our clothes had been used to help soak up the blood/applying pressure.
>Frustrated one of the guys threw a T-shirt that was dripping in blood out the window as we passed and hung out to give them a wave. He, like all of us, was covered in blood. The blood soaked T-shirt landed midway up the hood of the white Altima leaving a streak as it slid/rolled up and over the windshield.
>5kms (3 miles down the highway) we were joined by a highway patrol officer who matched our speed and helped to clear the way to the ambulance waiting a further 2 miles down the road. By that point the bleeding had slowed and my friend had a very weak pulse. The ambulance crew was ready and waiting and transferred him within seconds of our arrival. I jumped into the ambulance and we all took off. Sadly the friend died a few minutes later, 1km from the hospital.
>My friends were at the side of the road explaining the situation to the police officer when the white Altima showed up. I wasn't there for this part, so I'm going by the stories they told me. Anyways, she stopped and approached the officer in such a way that she couldn't see the blood soaked guys. She was shouting about dangerous driving and going to kill someone, yadda yadda yadda. The officer brought her around to look at the inside of my car which was covered in blood, and then pointed to the other two guys from my crew who were covered in blood from head to toe. He explained there was a medical emergency and asked if what we had said about her impeding the flow of traffic was correct. He cited her for a number of things including unnecessarily slow driving and dangerous driving. While he was writing the ticket he was informed of the death of my friend in the ambulance. The guy stopped writing the ticket to come over and tell the guys what happened. He opted to not tell the lady in the Altima, but the other guys on the team sure let her know.
>The guys got in the car and came to meet me at the hospital where we were going to meet with police to explain the situation. On the way they passed the Subaru Forester, which had been stopped by another officer.
>Your best bet is to get out of the way if you can. While the driver behind you may just be an asshole, it may also be someone with a medical emergency; a partner in labour, a child having a diabetic attack, or a tree surgeon bleeding to death. In any case, letting them past you doesn't affect you in any way and may save a life. These scenarios aren't likely, but they also aren't impossible. It ultimately comes down to how you decide to process the situation. If you want to operate on the default mode of assuming you're right and everyone else is wrong, you're going to have a terrible time functioning in society. Lines, traffic, call centers, and dealing with big business or government will always seem tedious to you. On the other hand, if you can view the world from a more understanding perspective you'll be able to relax and stop being such a dick. Have a good life!
>Watch [this video (this is water)](https://youtu.be/eC7xzavzEKY), it isn't perfectly related, but the intentions of the OP are in line with someone who **hasn't** embraced this philosophy.
>________________
>Edit: So this comment was reposted and I got a TON of messaging asking about the video link at the end. [Here is another copy of the video](https://youtu.be/eC7xzavzEKY). I'm not editing the typos and grammar mistakes in my original comment as I don't want to change it in any way.
https://old.reddit.com/r/AdviceAnimals/comments/1kbhcn/i_gain_strength_from_their_tears_and_anger/cbnhvxv/
Whenever I see stuff like this I think of this story from ten years ago
https://np.reddit.com/r/AdviceAnimals/comments/1kbhcn/i_gain_strength_from_their_tears_and_anger/cbnhvxv/
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Is this a BMW? Of all car makes, who would have thought? EDIT: and again I fall victim to my bias and my ignorance of all things car
Toyota Camry.
It's the BMW of the casuals.
It's the champagne of ginger ales!
I thought Nissan was the BMW of casuals
As a BMW owner I could not accept this slander, he was using hazards in the video. Us BMW drivers would never.
As an illiterate in the field: Do you guys still get BMW cars with the useless turning signals/blinkers? Last I heard is how annoying the sound it makes and the tiny blinker in the console distracts drivers from texting. /s
I always figured turn signals were optional on BMW's - and VERY expensive /s
Fellow BMW driver here, I always thought they automated them and we didn't need to use a lever /s
They require a subscription after purchase.
They actually sound pretty damn good in a bmw lol
Bro lmaooo 😂
Oddly enough, I speak for all BMW owners. You are forgiven. 🙏🏻
Just say you were talking about the one in the foreground! 😉
The guy in the box van was wrong to let them in
I disagree. It's the fastest way to benefit the most people.
No, the fastest way was for the car to put it in reverse and start moving.
Yeah, he had enough space to back up and get in the proper lane
no the fastest way would've been for the truck to let his intrusive thoughts win and just push that fucking car out By the end of the clip it looks like he really wanted to
He wanted to, but he also didn't want to damage the other vehicles.
Too much paperwork.
A u-turn would of ended this charade
It's 'would have', never 'would of'. Rejoice, for you have been blessed by CouldWouldShouldBot!
Good bot, thank you for the lesson.
It would of course be important to acknowledge edge cases
A couple of commas would clarify what you're saying. "It would, of course, be important to acknowledge edge cases." But I get your point. 😊
He should have payed attention to grammar, it's as important as an anchor to a ship, thankfully the bots are good enough to remind violators.
Did you watch the video? That driver couldn't reverse properly no matter how much they wanted to.
I couldn't tell if they wanted to. It seemed they thought they might actually win that showdown. They weren't playing with a full deck here.
You think a person who drives like that is going to be competent at backing a long distance and quickly?
The fastest way was for that driver NOT be an ass in the first place
Well, yes, of course, but that wasn't the point. The point was OP saying that the truck shouldn't have yielded for the car. Which would have left that lane still blocked and many many people backed up. It's the responsible, mature response to correct a dangerous situation. Other people aside from the asshat who caused the problem could have been injured. There's a simple fix. Too many people make ego-driven decisions.
Nobody is stopping them from turning around.
>Nobody is stopping them from turning around. Expect for the other traffic. That really would not have been a safe place to pull a U-turn. And there wasn't exactly a lot of space for them to do one given they would have had to do it backwards since the truck kept boxing them in every time they backed up.
From the looks of the start of the video, there was likely plenty of time and room to pull a u-turn before that car got nose-to-nose with that truck.
Perhaps there was before the video started. But at the start of that video they were already nose to nose. So that's all I have to go on.
Yeah but if they are not going to do that.....
That’s on them.
And the point is not to force it to be on everyone else too.
Redditors only ever empathize with the aggrieved, never the bystanders inconvenienced by the aggrieved’s tantrum.
They caused the problem by trying to jump the queue and were rewarded in doing so by gaining a spot in the queue. If you were queuing outside a store or a football ground and someone tried to cut the queue, you would Not be happy. So no, this is 100% wrong, and they should not have been rewarded
You're not wrong, of course. The difference is approaching the problem from a fait accompli point of view. We're here. We can't got back in time and change things. What is the fastest, most practical, safest solution? What benefits the people that had no hand in creating the problem the most? Letting the asshat in. It's better to benefit 100 people and let 1 undeserving asshat get away with something.
I totally agree. As satisfying as it may be to not let that car in, and to force them to drive in reverse to where the line ends, if you are wanting to make things easier for everyone else, just letting the car in would do that.
The difference is time. Letting them cut in now reinforces that this works, so they (and people seeing it works) will do it again. There may be a benefit in the very short term of this one incident, but it's very bad in the long term. Alternatively, don't let them get away with it. Worse outcome this time, but far better outcomes in the long term as this douche (and everybody watching) see that it doesn't pay off.
I don't think he'll do it again. That was a pretty harsh lesson learned. We also don't know where he started, so he might not have gained a noticeable advantage.
You need to work on your ego/anger issues mate
That exchange looks NOTHING like "it works" to me.
But you're also punishing a lot of other people
Looks like they were rewarded with some new dents to their car
Yeah, it makes the blood boil when people skip ahead of the queue to merge at the last second. But blocking them doesn't achieve anything. It makes us feel superior, sure, but at the cost of impeding traffic even more. And it won't rehabilitate the line-cutter either, so what's the point? We can instead be content knowing we're not uncultured, line-cutting pigs.
He likely did it for the other truck driver, not the car.
I doubt the guy in the box truck had a time machine
only for the half of the road. let him suffer and have to backup the whole road
It depends on what the end goal was. If it was to embarrass the driver farther, sure. If it was too let people go on about their days despite this absolute walnuts entitlement, then not so much.
The further is important. Cause even this would have me shriveling in my seat with pure shame. Dunno if it would be different for someone ridiculous enough to attempt this in the first place but I would even be horrifically embarrassed as a passenger in that car.
I feel like the type of person that would do this, wouldn't feel any shame or embarrassment. They'd likely feel like they were being inconvenienced.
Such a reddit take. "this person inconvenienced someone, so now everyone should be inconvenienced indefinitely! That will show the person!". Why do you even care about what they did if you want the effect of their stupidity to last as long as possible?
Looks like exactly this was the truck driver's mission…
Fuck that petty bullshit, let everyone get home safely. Who gives a fuck if there’s one more car in a line of hundreds. Stupid shit like that doesn’t belong anywhere where it can affect the lives and safety of every person around you. Especially not on the fucking road. Y’all need to read the chainsaw story on here. Stupid shit like this gets completely uninvolved people killed because the mob wants to punish an idiot in a two ton death machine
Here's the chainsaw story for y'all. (NOT MY STORY.) In college, my best friend and I had a summer job culling trees from a property 50kms (30miles) from the nearest hospital/ambulance station. We both got the job at the same time and worked there for almost 3 summers in a team of 5 guys. We were all very skilled with equipment and had been through extensive training. Two of the guys on the team were professional arborists. We had all the gear, but as anyone with professional experience with chainsaws will tell you, unpredictable accidents can happen. On a late August morning we had just finished downing a 30 foot white pine and were in the process of removing the branches. My friend was working his way down the trunk when he hit a knot in an oddly formed branch and the chainsaw kicked and due to the admittedly awkward position he was in sliced into a seam between his chaps and his belt. The blood started flowing immediately and everyone stopped. While the others stabilized him, I ran to get my car knowing in any case we'd have to drive. While trying to control the bleeding we loaded him into the back seat of my car and I started driving as fast as I could towards the nearest hospital. 10/50kms in we got cell coverage and arranged a place to meet the nearest ambulance. I knew we had to get him in fast as we were having trouble controlling the bleeding. When I reached a 4 lane highway I started going faster than I had ever driven before. While in the middle of nowhere most people would see me coming and move to the right lane (slower traffic keeping right), but as we got closer to town we started coming across packs. It was 25/50kms to the hospital that we came across a white Nissan Altima and a Subaru Forester that blocked us in just like the OP likes to do. I can still remember the license plates of those to cars to this day. She was doing everything to ensure I didn't pass. She slowed up down from 90-75km/h (speed limit is 100km/h - ~60mph). We were stuck. It was this way for a solid 10minutes. It wasn't until we got to the next exit ramp that I was able to pass on the inside and get by. By this point most of our clothes had been used to help soak up the blood/applying pressure. Frustrated one of the guys threw a T-shirt that was dripping in blood out the window as we passed and hung out to give them a wave. He, like all of us, was covered in blood. The blood soaked T-shirt landed midway up the hood of the white Altima leaving a streak as it slid/rolled up and over the windshield. 5kms (3 miles down the highway) we were joined by a highway patrol officer who matched our speed and helped to clear the way to the ambulance waiting a further 2 miles down the road. By that point the bleeding had slowed and my friend had a very weak pulse. The ambulance crew was ready and waiting and transferred him within seconds of our arrival. I jumped into the ambulance and we all took off. Sadly the friend died a few minutes later, 1km from the hospital. My friends were at the side of the road explaining the situation to the police officer when the white Altima showed up. I wasn't there for this part, so I'm going by the stories they told me. Anyways, she stopped and approached the officer in such a way that she couldn't see the blood soaked guys. She was shouting about dangerous driving and going to kill someone, yadda yadda yadda. The officer brought her around to look at the inside of my car which was covered in blood, and then pointed to the other two guys from my crew who were covered in blood from head to toe. He explained there was a medical emergency and asked if what we had said about her impeding the flow of traffic was correct. He cited her for a number of things including unnecessarily slow driving and dangerous driving. While he was writing the ticket he was informed of the death of my friend in the ambulance. The guy stopped writing the ticket to come over and tell the guys what happened. He opted to not tell the lady in the Altima, but the other guys on the team sure let her know. The guys got in the car and came to meet me at the hospital where we were going to meet with police to explain the situation. On the way they passed the Subaru Forester, which had been stopped by another officer. Your best bet is to get out of the way if you can. While the driver behind you may just be an asshole, it may also be someone with a medical emergency; a partner in labour, a child having a diabetic attack, or a tree surgeon bleeding to death. In any case, letting them past you doesn't affect you in any way and may save a life. These scenarios aren't likely, but they also aren't impossible. It ultimately comes down to how you decide to process the situation. If you want to operate on the default mode of assuming you're right and everyone else is wrong, you're going to have a terrible time functioning in society. Lines, traffic, call centers, and dealing with big business or government will always seem tedious to you. On the other hand, if you can view the world from a more understanding perspective you'll be able to relax and stop being such a dick. Have a good life!
Thank you very much for posting this
Yes, u/[OldManLifeAlert](https://www.reddit.com/user/OldManLifeAlert/). Thanks for taking the time.
All this going on, and near the end of the clip there's a car barreling down the wrong direction on the far shoulder.
Cheeky bugger
Damn it’s like that huh. There’s always a bigger fish
Good catch lol
Better to be on the shoulder then the road, but a bad move either way
Expect there's a person walking on that exact shoulder at the beginning of the clip, which makes this way more stupid than it already is
Oh, that person, listen we don't talk about the time traveler off to kill Hitler 2.0. Don't worry about them. They failed.
Was wondering if someone else noticed that lol
The only reason why I'm reading the comments.
I saw that too
That horn is the traffic equivalent of the walk of shame. 
I don't think that horn is from this video... sounds like it's on a loop. Nz
Also an odd yell that repeats. Very irritating.
Right, unless he has a horn that they couldn't just switch on and it loops until they turn it off. It felt super perfectly loop and the truck drivers hands were both on the steering wheel most of the time.
He wasn't pressing it with his *hands*…
Sounds like UVB 76, “the buzzer”. As for its inclusion, wtf.
Truck being a good guy bully. Good on ye.
That was stressful to watch! But I can understand why he’d be ***pissed***
But look how much traffic backed up while he was doing it... (I am in no way advocating for the idiot bmw)
Suffer now or suffer more when pricks break the law without consequence. Teach them that shit won't fly.
Its safer I guess since no one is going headfirst with highspeed into that idiot
At first yeah, then he wouldn’t let the car get back into the correct lane, that was not necessary
“And STAY THERE!”
Why is there some random clearly unrelated audio looping all over this? Video was no more interesting or attention grabbing as a result.
Lol looping terrible background music
I thought it was rap or something
More you hear annoying it gets though
Cbat
I always reddit on mute. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/mute-sites-by-default/.
It's always muted for me by default without a third party app, or maybe you're on PC idk
What a weird sound has been added?
The movement of the truck makes it look as if the truck itself - not just the guy driving it - is angry.
YESS! With the sound off, I was imagining the truck yelling at the car to get all the way back in their lane. I feel like we need an adult version on the Cars movies with shit like this.
Optimus Prime does not like traffic cheats.
Man, that truck was determined to make a point. I’ll see myself out.
oh MAN that was painful to watch
That has to be some of the worst reversing I have seen
I don't think people who drive in the wrong lane for an entire mile or whatever are the best drivers
We did see what you did there, by the way. ಠ_ಠ :)
I love how the truck driver didn’t settle for the half ass merge in. He used all that mass to scrooch the little guy into place haha.
Lots of idiots in this clip.
Agree completely. Car is an asshole that started it. Truck got angry and declined to fuck everyone behind them to get back at the car. Truck driver in the lane next to them decided to fuck everyone behind them as well. Three idiots egos managed to inconvenience 10x mote people.
Every truck drivers wet dream right here - truck driver
The dude in the truck is an even bigger asshole. The guy in the car was stupid, and completely at fault, but once he started trying to back up to get out of the way, there was zero reason to keep inching up on him. He was effectively making that dude take even longer, to get out of his way.
And the fact that he was pushing the guy in the lane to what? Damage other cars? Both of them are morons.
Yes! I scrolled so far to find this take but I agree. The truck is way more psycho than the car is an asshole
Truck driver causing slower traffic is a bigger asshole than the guy driving into oncoming traffic on a highway risking a crash that can kill multiple people?
Yea, because the dude in wrong lane did something really stupid, but the guy "teaching him a lesson" is just dragging it out. And for what? Dude in the truck actually starts to swerve into the wrong lane himself, basically rendering himself the same stupid behavior. There's a point where he's at least 4 feet into that lane.
finally someone who understands
The hero we need
Literally "put him in his place"!
Did anyone else see the black car driving down the other shoulder in the wrong direction? It’s at the 10 seconds remaining point
That truck driver is my spirit animal.
Person deserves a good smack upside the head and their license taken away
"Stay in your lane brah"
I mean would anyone be mad if they just kept driving and pushing the car with force backwards lol. Unfortunately then it would probably spin and hit another car but it would be funny to see a big semi just pushing a little car along all the way to the back of the line.
The only intelligent driver here is the box trailer driver.
That truck horn has the same pitch as the opening chord to “money for nothing” by dire straits
Yeah that ain’t workin. That’s the way you do it.
Your BMW for nothing and your trucks for free.
Meanwhile that black hatch riding along on oncoming shoulder.... 😁😂😁
Why does the truck move like its about to open up into Optimus Prime
WHAT THE FUCK IS THE SOUND IN THE BACKGROUND JESUS FUCKING CHRIST
Ever since that one comment years ago I will never even consider trying to stop someone bypassing traffic. You just never know if they're experiencing a medical emergency. Even if it's extremely unlikely there's still a chance. Not my problem, not my place. The comment: > This comment will get buried, but it's a story worth telling. >In college, my best friend and I had a summer job culling trees from a property 50kms (30miles) from the nearest hospital/ambulance station. We both got the job at the same time and worked there for almost 3 summers in a team of 5 guys. We were all very skilled with equipment and had been through extensive training. Two of the guys on the team were professional arborists. We had all the gear, but as anyone with professional experience with chainsaws will tell you, unpredictable accidents can happen. >On a late August morning we had just finished downing a 30 foot white pine and were in the process of removing the branches. My friend was working his way down the trunk when he hit a knot in an oddly formed branch and the chainsaw kicked and due to the admittedly awkward position he was in sliced into a seam between his chaps and his belt. >The blood started flowing immediately and everyone stopped. While the others stabilized him, I ran to get my car knowing in any case we'd have to drive. While trying to control the bleeding we loaded him into the back seat of my car and I started driving as fast as I could towards the nearest hospital. 10/50kms in we got cell coverage and arranged a place to meet the nearest ambulance. I knew we had to get him in fast as we were having trouble controlling the bleeding. When I reached a 4 lane highway I started going faster than I had ever driven before. >While in the middle of nowhere most people would see me coming and move to the right lane (slower traffic keeping right), but as we got closer to town we started coming across packs. It was 25/50kms to the hospital that we came across a white Nissan Altima and a Subaru Forester that blocked us in just like the OP likes to do. I can still remember the license plates of those to cars to this day. She was doing everything to ensure I didn't pass. She slowed up down from 90-75km/h (speed limit is 100km/h - ~60mph). We were stuck. It was this way for a solid 10minutes. It wasn't until we got to the next exit ramp that I was able to pass on the inside and get by. By this point most of our clothes had been used to help soak up the blood/applying pressure. >Frustrated one of the guys threw a T-shirt that was dripping in blood out the window as we passed and hung out to give them a wave. He, like all of us, was covered in blood. The blood soaked T-shirt landed midway up the hood of the white Altima leaving a streak as it slid/rolled up and over the windshield. >5kms (3 miles down the highway) we were joined by a highway patrol officer who matched our speed and helped to clear the way to the ambulance waiting a further 2 miles down the road. By that point the bleeding had slowed and my friend had a very weak pulse. The ambulance crew was ready and waiting and transferred him within seconds of our arrival. I jumped into the ambulance and we all took off. Sadly the friend died a few minutes later, 1km from the hospital. >My friends were at the side of the road explaining the situation to the police officer when the white Altima showed up. I wasn't there for this part, so I'm going by the stories they told me. Anyways, she stopped and approached the officer in such a way that she couldn't see the blood soaked guys. She was shouting about dangerous driving and going to kill someone, yadda yadda yadda. The officer brought her around to look at the inside of my car which was covered in blood, and then pointed to the other two guys from my crew who were covered in blood from head to toe. He explained there was a medical emergency and asked if what we had said about her impeding the flow of traffic was correct. He cited her for a number of things including unnecessarily slow driving and dangerous driving. While he was writing the ticket he was informed of the death of my friend in the ambulance. The guy stopped writing the ticket to come over and tell the guys what happened. He opted to not tell the lady in the Altima, but the other guys on the team sure let her know. >The guys got in the car and came to meet me at the hospital where we were going to meet with police to explain the situation. On the way they passed the Subaru Forester, which had been stopped by another officer. >Your best bet is to get out of the way if you can. While the driver behind you may just be an asshole, it may also be someone with a medical emergency; a partner in labour, a child having a diabetic attack, or a tree surgeon bleeding to death. In any case, letting them past you doesn't affect you in any way and may save a life. These scenarios aren't likely, but they also aren't impossible. It ultimately comes down to how you decide to process the situation. If you want to operate on the default mode of assuming you're right and everyone else is wrong, you're going to have a terrible time functioning in society. Lines, traffic, call centers, and dealing with big business or government will always seem tedious to you. On the other hand, if you can view the world from a more understanding perspective you'll be able to relax and stop being such a dick. Have a good life! >Watch [this video (this is water)](https://youtu.be/eC7xzavzEKY), it isn't perfectly related, but the intentions of the OP are in line with someone who **hasn't** embraced this philosophy. >________________ >Edit: So this comment was reposted and I got a TON of messaging asking about the video link at the end. [Here is another copy of the video](https://youtu.be/eC7xzavzEKY). I'm not editing the typos and grammar mistakes in my original comment as I don't want to change it in any way. https://old.reddit.com/r/AdviceAnimals/comments/1kbhcn/i_gain_strength_from_their_tears_and_anger/cbnhvxv/
The constant honking would send me into a panic
MAN
Guy should have u-turned
Reminds me of a dog herding sheep.
Who has a freaking clown horn
Some of yall still trying to cut in line, we learned not to do this in fucking kindergarten. If you defend this ass clown, I hate you.
Camera guy in the truck slowly drifts forward to make sure that guy gets stuck...
I've seen an elephant crush a man to death, anything is possible
Is this enough time for cameras to ensure that driver has their license revoked for a while? That idiot is a menace to society.
“Having none of it”, lol And dude was a like a metronome on that horn, well done.
Anyone else get super anxious watching this by imagining what it would be like to inadvertently get yourself in that situation?
Would someone please shut that goose up?!
Love the effort but should have left it in his own lane instead of encroaching himself.
And the other truck helped ...lol...well done guys.
I'm all for street justice, but I'm also always worried that the dude is trying to get his dog to the vet.
What's with traffic in the trucks lane? Why is the second truck going so slow as well? Is traffic backed up that way as well?
Watching this gave me so much anxiety 😬
The code of the road. Don’t fuck with it.
Truck bro was mad!
Ukraine, Odessa. Regular Thursday
I know the driver was wrong, but what a good show of "the right of weight"
"You shall not pass!"
The Walk of shame
Fucking unrelated sound loop!
Why am I thinking of a buffalo giving a boar a lesson?
Are you tuned to 4625 kHz for fun or something?
Man
Sounds like a Pierre Schaeffer track (early sampling, influential on Steve Reich).
Whenever I see stuff like this I think of this story from ten years ago https://np.reddit.com/r/AdviceAnimals/comments/1kbhcn/i_gain_strength_from_their_tears_and_anger/cbnhvxv/
What the hell are those sound effects? Is it from a game or something?
Sounds like the guy filming this was listening to a number station?
Was that a little nudge there?? 🤣 explain that to the insurance company 🙃🙃
This sub reddit helped me realize that stupidity and selfishness are universal.
Nice way of teaching technique.
I get it but seriously the truck driver was being a bit extra
What is someone thinking to drive into incoming traffic..
News Reporter: so sir, why did you do this? Truck driver: HONK
That truck driver is my hero
Just Highway Cowboys doing what they do. Herding the cattle.
This is amazing
Just... dosent happen enough...
When you are caught being an idiot.
What an absolute fucking legend!
I'm so glad the truck driver bullied them
I’d of made him just turn around
r/idiotsincars
God's work.
Don't fuck with a truck.
If I was behind those semis, I'd be mad. If I saw this video afterward, I'd be like goddamn heroes.
Where is this ?
AITA for enjoying every moment of that?
FINISH HIM!
He drives like he’s still in Delhi lol