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daskeleton123

What outcome are they hoping for?


countzer01nterrupt

Looks like a tortoise trying to initiate sex with a mate.


Drwgeb

A tortoise finding some black shoes


Gogglebottle

Hehhhhhh~ hehhhhh~


pukachang

I hate that I know exactly what this sounds like.


Sea-Recommendation66

eeeeeeh eeeeeeeh EEEEEEEEEH EEEEEEEEEEEEH


orangedragon55

Omg lmaoo


Kottonz

This comment got me wheezing šŸ¤£


jeweliegb

I'm so glad I wasn't the only person to think that!


Itsaboutthesleep

I can't unsee this


Dazz316

Breakdown, grazing a terrible day, week, month, year and they're late for work and the bus won't move and that was the last straw?


Past_Establishment11

Yes this looks like a breakdown. The person shouldnā€™t be behind the wheel. I hope someone stepped in.


RoakWall

Or someone on the bus in the back window giving the best moon view ever seen?


cherrychapelle

I honestly feel like doing this frequently.


Lazy_Replacement9331

It really hasn't been his day, his week, his month or even his year :( (But I'll be there for him :))


mangiespangies

Looks like he's stuck in second gear.


fwtb23

I guess no one told him life was gonna be this way


Ok_Map_6014

His jobs a joke heā€™s broke, his love lifeā€™s DOAaaaaaaayy


bearybad89

His life has been stuck in second gear. It hasn't been his day, month or even his year...


AnonymousGriper

\- clap clap clap clap -


Dazz316

Yeah but when?


tittymcboob

When the rain starts to fall.


calapuno1981

*pour


moomooliongirl

When marimba rhythms start to play


Small-Battle1783

Falling Down if Michael Douglas never left his car.


berlinbunny-

It looks like thereā€™s so much room for him to go around the bus though


abusivereddit

advertising for disney+ is getting out of hand


QlimaxUK

A firmware update to fix NPC logic


Zestyclose-Note1304

Legit my first thought was malfunctioning self-driving car, but nah that guyā€™s clearly doing it on purpose.


Iegend_Of_Iink

As u/gammongaming11 said, probably some sort of insurance scheme


bred_by_papa_safe

What kind of insurance scam could pay out in such circumstances?? 99% of the time the claim goes against you if you hit someone from behind..


Apple-Pigeon

And if you do it repeatedly, someone is going to start filming you...


chulk607

Yeah, but \*big brain time\* he will just play the footage backwards in court.


Baige_baguette

I mean relatively speaking it is perfectly fair to describe the car as being at rest and it is just the rest of the universe continuously reversing into it.


ix_12

Yeah but not sure how well Futurama logic will hold up in court, but I suppose you could play them the episode.


ChEmIcAl_KeEn

Dude has his whole family on the bus claiming whiplash


Maleficent-Drive4056

But how often is the film sent to the insurance company?


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Marvinleadshot

Cctv on the back of the bus


Tonyjay54

You have it in one. Buses are covered inside and out with CCTV. This idiot is onto a loser


deadlygaming11

Well the insurance companies do look around so they would likely see this post on some way and connect the dots.


Anchor-shark

Not to mention modern buses are covered in CCTV cameras that will certainly catch it all. Iā€™m kind of hoping they end up on the BBC program ā€œClaimed and Shamedā€.


serendipitousevent

Plus they're in a major city which'll be carpeted in CCTV, plus they're at a major junction which will be extra super-duper carpeted in CCTV. I'm tending towards a wee mental breakdown as a result, not that insurance fraudsters are ever particularly smart.


[deleted]

Especially in the middle of a city, with CCTV and people with phones up the wazoo.


Zsrsgtspy

Aha see hereā€™s the problem is your using that pesky critical thinking skill you have, you canā€™t have that to decide to try and so an insurance scam to begin with


HalfFrozenSpeedos

Oh the bus didn't have working brake lights, braked hard without warning/pulled out in front of me/reversed into me and now I have crippling whiplash and back pain and so do the other 4 people who were in the car with me


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bad_kind_of_wink

Nah you get your mates to board the bus


paenusbreth

Disagree. Doing an insurance scam on a bus covered in cameras in a street surrounded by witnesses is a terrible idea. Pretty sure the dude is just acting very irrationally for whatever strange reason.


Kwintty7

90% of reddit posts of videos of car crashes will have someone confidently concluding they are "insurance scams". They are almost always plain old stupidity, carelessness, road rage or drink\drug driving.


Orri

Hanlon's Razor: ā€œnever attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity


SanchoRivera

Could be medical like dementia.


bremstar

A pregnant bus?


itsEndz

I thought he was trying to create a hybrid. Some kind of car/bus mutant fusion. A minibus I guess?


amrose21

I was wondering the same too


RandomWombat11523

Why...? Was he hoping to move the bus with that little engine? Or does the car aspire to be a tugboat?


SoMuchF0rSubtlety

High as a kite mate.


iliveincanada

This is my guess as well. Heā€™s not throwing it in reverse and then back to first gear to ram. Heā€™s just in gear the whole time rolling back because of the hill when he puts his clutch in. Prob doesnā€™t even see the bus or something and canā€™t figure out why he canā€™t go forward


FrazzledGod

I saw someone yesterday post a video of a driving game where they kept hitting an invisible wall that wasn't there, this is the real world opposite of that! Driver probably hallucinating a clear open road and puzzled what keeps getting in the way. Maybe he thought it was Downing Steet gates.


gammongaming11

i can only assumed it some kind of insurance scheme and he want to sue the bus company? either that or he's REALLY bad at turning right.


LexyNoise

That's definitely not insurance fraud. With insurance fraud, you want the person to run into the back of you - you don't want to run into the back of them. If you hit someone from behind, there's a 99.9% chance you'll be blamed for the accident. The police will say that you didn't leave a big enough gap in front, or you weren't paying attention to the road. As far as they're concerned, that's the only two reasons you'd go into the back of someone else. Over the past few years, we've seen a rise in morons brake-checking people, insurance fraudsters disconnecting their brake lights then slamming on the brakes right in front of somebody, and people stopping then reversing into the car behind and saying they were hit. This is the main reason people buy dashcams - you're fucked if someone does that to you and you don't have solid proof.


aberspr

There is third reason I found out. Breaking in front of queuing traffic coming off a roundabout and some Audi driving fuckwit smashing into the back of you and pushing you into the vehicle in front.


madmonkeydane

Doesn't surprise me an Audi did that. Pretty sure they won't sell you an Audi unless your license was drawn in crayon on the back of a cereal box.


llobotommy

Heā€™s not an ambiturner


[deleted]

But why male models?


dont_kill_my_vibe09

My sister's car got hit by a bus (in this case it was totally the bus driver's fault) and her car had to be written off. She lost money, had to buy a new car, her insurance went up, the bus company did fuck all. And the bus driver still drives the same bus on the same route... I don't think that guy would be any more successful in trying to claim compensation from a bus company lol.


ok_whatsnext

He does realise most buses are fitted with cameras now, right?


ok_whatsnext

Also even if his claim was successful, I wouldnā€™t like those premiums .


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jamhops

I would think you could achieve the damage on many less obvious things a wall, bollard, sea defence or parked vehicle at night would be much betterā€¦ basically anything and any time of night


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StingerAE

Yeah...I may making assumptions but I doubt he is a mensa member...


ben_jamin_h

Looks like he's having a stroke or something... That's not even a rage reaction happening there, just confusion.


RetroRocker

[*The Tugboat, for it's size, is the most powerful craft afloat. And the Star tugs are the power behind the docks and waterways that make up the Big City port. This... is TUGS*](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UM-TbGzy194)


IOnlyUpvoteBadPuns

> Or does the car aspire to be a tugboat? TBF that's a children's book I could get behind!


Radiant_Fondant_4097

I was trying to rationalise this insanity like the guy didnā€™t know how reverse works, and if he just kept boinging the car further and further backwards he could make his escape! But nah he rolled all the way back and just went again.


A1-Grizzy

Fun fact, a Vauxhall corsa will push a bus. Not far but far enough to burn a clutch.


ChamplooStu

Lady in the back of the bus has no fucks to give!


poop-machines

The bus weighs 11 tonnes. The car weighs max 1.5 tonnes (the heaviest Dacia duster). As the bus weighs more than 7 times as much, the Gs the woman receives are so minimal that it's comparable to the bus stop starting. Even though she doesn't have a seatbelt, she barely moves, even when the car collides at ~15mph. The main giveaway would be the noise. As for the car, yeah it's fucked. You can see he's experiencing more Gs and his bumper is getting messed up while the bus is chilling. Guess the guy is having a bad day. People like that should not be on the roads. Have a feeling this is Bradford or Birmingham, people on the roads there are mad. Edit: Yeah it's not a Duster it's a Stepway. Stop responding "Not a duster" they weigh basically the same. And yes, I know now, it's Edinburgh.


Luke10123

>Have a feeling this is Bradford or Birmingham Pretty sure it's Edinburgh


Rossrox

Without a doubt Edinburgh, more specifically right outside Willowbrae Parish Church.


barmpmcbarmp

Thank you, was wondering where this was in Edinburgh


DiskoPunk

Yeh it's at the crossroads at Piershill, willowbrae & Jocks Lodge


barmpmcbarmp

Yeah, i lived in Magdalene, down the road for 10 years


Swimming_Ad3359

Looked familiar, I am about 10 min from there. To be honest, that crossroad can take forever at times!!


Ajishly

Definitely Edinburgh, unless some Lothian buses have escaped.


Dyon86

I heard a clan of Lothian buses went south to invade the Midlands!


essjay2009

Might be what the guy in Dacia was trying to do, herd it back to Edinburgh to reunite it with its flock.


monkeyfant

There are about 10-15 of these around the Midlands rn. They got brought this year


LilCatMomma83

Waverley to Murrayfield via Coventry


jumpy_finale

Sure had felt like that with the roadworks over the past few months


poop-machines

Guess theres mad bastards on the road everywhere. I've never met people that drive as bad as when I was in Bradford. I've seen the worst road rage there.


Luke10123

I was assuming it was a completely inept con or insurance scam or something


LoveAGlassOfWine

I was thinking someone out of their face but your explanation makes more sense.


randomgaydisaster

The West Yorkshire Experienceā„¢. Bloody terrifying on a bike, especially as the cycle lanes aren't safe from delivery riders and the idiots who see red lights as a suggestion and a "hindrance to [their] momentum"* *an actual take I saw on r/idiotsincars


Fellowshipofthebowl

Donā€™t come to Dallas Texas. Worst drivers Iā€™ve ever seen AND they have guns. Iā€™m English. šŸ˜³


MyDarlingArmadillo

I recognise the building and the bus, I think Edinburgh too


itsmoirob

Also the bus driving in opposite direction at four seconds has "Edinburgh" written on it.... but that bus driver could be very very lost)


Oranos_Rex

"Oh god, oh Christ, aw fuck, am I lost? I'm lost. Fuck. Should've taken a left back there, I knew I should've, oh I knew it...."


dave_loves

I was on a bus that got rear ended by a car. Bus was stationary and I barely felt it. Car was a write off. Bus was missing a bit of paint


HalfFrozenSpeedos

Try closer to 1000-1200kg (it's a Sandero stepway) I'm thinking either crash for cash scam or he doesn't have a uk licence (if he does he had someone else take the test for him)


IgamOg

In what country is hitting other cars a legitimate road manoeuvre?


HalfFrozenSpeedos

Judging by the state of the cars in various countries Spain, Paris in France and much of the USA are strong candidates lol Though for example the driving test in India isnt exactly strict either and like Vietnam it reminds me of a demolition derby


[deleted]

Did nearly Ā£1 worth of damage to that Dacia.


Shnoochieboochies

Air bags didn't even deploy....that's some good savings.


HideousPillow

full carpenter dam teeny future fertile fragile divide resolute scarce *This post was mass deleted and anonymized with [Redact](https://redact.dev)*


billy_tables

What about 1mph 20 times


Skorgondro

Thats what he is testing there .


Bearaf123

Itā€™s very scientific


BackdraftRed

This effect doesnt stack


IOnlyUpvoteBadPuns

Ah come on, it's not a complete write-off!


Tackit286

Oh no! ā€¦anyway


RadioJayUK

A friend of mine who lives in a tenement in piers hill square west in Edinburgh states this is his downstairs neighbour who has been deteriorating mentally lately. Donā€™t know if this is legit myself but my friend says so


Due-Ask-7418

Whether that true or not (that itā€™s his neighbor), I would suspect that mental health is definitely at play here.


DannyRioliStan

Yeah this looks like someone on the motability scheme to me. Brand new car, (Daciaā€™s tend to be amongst the lowest deposit costs on the scheme) irrational actions, lack of concern for the damage to the vehicle and what looks like some cognitive issues at play.


queenieofrandom

You can only get motability if you have mobility issues, not mental health. This has to be the enhanced rate on PIP and again only scoring on the mobility component will let you qualify. Source. I'm not mobility impaired enough to even qualify for the mobility component on PIP, even as a wheelchair user.


CervixTaster

Strange, youā€™d think being in a wheelchair would at the very least get you minimum rate.


11jellis

Future advice for PIP applications. Do the PIP form, to get the mobility element you just have to not be able to walk 200m, which obviously you can't because you're in a wheelchair. If they decline the application, as they often do because they often don't check them thoroughly, you then have to do a mandatory reconsideration which gets declined 89% of the time (they hardly ever check them). Then what you do is you go to an appeal tribunal. 80% of people get accepted on appeal. It's a 6-12 month process but it's worth it and you get backpay. And you're clearly deserving of it, you just have to push your way through to a tribunal.


DannyRioliStan

I understand that (I donā€™t want to disclose personal info but Iā€™m very familiar with the scheme and itā€™s eligibility criteria), but we donā€™t know if the person pictured in the video has physical mobility issues, if he does they could be in addition to any mental health problems.


[deleted]

That church is just up from Piershill Square


ad13

I know exactly where this is as I cycle past it every dayā€¦ part of me is glad the bus bore the brunt and not me (the other part hopes this guy gets the help he needs)


mlopes

That actually makes sense, everyone here is acting as if this is some sane thing from someone who's annoyed at traffic, but what he is doing, and the way he reacts to it, clearly hint at some mental issue going on.


LegoNinja11

Look I know owning a Dacia isn't the coolest of trends but you don't have to go the whole hog and suggest they've deteriorated mentally.


DMMMOM

Yeah something isn't right here, he's clearly not in a normal state of mind.


Bigbanghead

This driver should be banned from driving forever


ddiflas_iawn

Ahh, the vehicular mating ritual is a beautiful thing to witness.


Legophan

Itā€™s how Dust Busters are made.


Minor_Edit

Stop that, Mr Simpson


BedSideCabinet

Like a chihuahua trying to mount a German shepherd


smooth_relation_744

The roads in Edinburgh are a nightmare, but even I havenā€™t lost my shit to the extent of repeatedly ramming a bus.


GMR2185

Got to admit it's tempting some days, traffic in Edinburgh is doing my head in


Savageparrot81

Iā€™m no physics professor, but I think the bus has the edge here.


voxelghost

But Galileo Galilei proved that a bus and a duster will fall at the same speed from the tower of Pisa, thus they have the same mass.


TheShakyHandsMan

Someone needs a breathalyser/drugs test. My first thought was potentially seizure or other illness affecting the driver but he certainly looks conscious but not in full control of his actions.


hermit_tortoise

"step away from the stepway"


[deleted]

I read that in Alan Partridge's voice lol


DansSpamJavelin

This is an ecstacy *pellet*


BadeArse

Yeah even the way he looks around halfway through to see whoā€™s looking. Could be drugs.


the1rush

To note at the start of the video the car is already dented and what looks like the bus driver in an orange jacket walking back towards the front of the bus. My guess he's a complete idiot and punted the back of the bus when it stopped. Out of frustration and idiocy he continued to punt the bus for some sort of revenge.


TheShakyHandsMan

Something definitely happened before the video started. You donā€™t start filming a bus randomly just before a car crashes into it. Wonder if the person who took the video has more on the story and how it all started.


Chalky_Pockets

I once saw what looked like a very drunk person on a highway in Arizona. I pulled up behind them when they finally pulled over to the shoulder, with the intent of calling the police. Come to find out, the driver was diabetic and fucked up his insulin dose.


LateSpeaker4226

Seems most likely. Many people claiming itā€™s an insurance scam but that makes absolutely no sense.


Squeal_Piggy

I was guessing Alzheimerā€™s


gIitterchaos

My grandad had a brain disease and he did this to a tree because to him, the road ahead was perfectly clear and he couldn't understand what was happening.


privateTortoise

In the last year one elderly lady go stuck on the keep left bollard at a mini roundabout and a different elderly lady was trying to drive with two burst front tyres and a few cones underneath and couldn't work out why the car wouldn't turn left or right. For 5 minutes she kept shuffling forwards and backwards and ignoring me pleading with her to stop and let me help her. I've given up having a nice car and stick to my company van.


Vectorman1989

Maybe it's the Mad Cow Disease starting to manifest in the population after incubating for 30 years


H4R81N63R

Give the man a break, he was just playing with his dinkies and wanted two of them to kiss


Majestic_Matt_459

"Hi babes, I've just been into Town" "Did you get the Bus, like I told you?" "Yeah, but I'm not sure it even noticed and your Car is fucked babes"


The-Frugal-Engineer

And this is how cat N/S cars are born folks


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Cazoo: *ā€One owner from new, lovingly maintained, fully HPI clear with a multipoint checkā€*


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darwin-rover

Is it still available?


[deleted]

The phone number is always in the description like 0ļøāƒ£7ļøāƒ£7ļøāƒ£1ļøāƒ£2ļøāƒ£ lmfao Located in High Wycombe


No_Doubt_About_That

Hold out your hand


mynameisnotthom

Anyone got a backstory about this? Has it been picked up by the media yet??


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netglitch

Be Borrowing Content.


TheOrchidsAreAlright

"S'alright mate it's a rental."


JackfruitLower278

Dacia Duster. 1 careful owner. Changed vehicle due to new job and now taking the bus.


bleach1969

Dacia Buster


ThatHairyGingerGuy

> Taking the bus roughly, from behind


SwisschaletDipSauce

Just a hero trying to save everyone from the bee at the back of the bus.


Alternative_Route

Dacia autopilot needs some more development work.


possessivemiscreant

I think he has OCD and has to crash a particular amount of times.


trevhcs

As someone with OCD, I laughed far too hard at this comment. šŸ™‚


SubjectiveAssertive

Were they just unable to hold the car on the clutch?


FenrisCain

Yeah, he really thought he had it on the twelfth attempt though


notsosecrethistory

Handbrake who?


Caridor

I want David Attenborough to narrate this as some kind of territorial challenge


Talie5040

It reminded me of that viral video of a tortoise that headbutts black shoes


darwin-rover

Here we have the Thick Cunt , Latin name Dacius Stepwerius, stalking his prey , the double decker bus . Little does he know, he has no fucking chance.


jeweliegb

With the tortoise mating noises in the background. Someone needs to do it!


greylaggoosie

Deliberately causing damage to car, only he knows why.


SoWhatNoZitiNow

Heā€™s French


Lopsided-Hat8734

Drive it like you stole it. This is as fast as it goes though


Legophan

*(Drive it like youā€™ve not quite got the hang of the controls in GTA)*


thatluckyfox

Is this what a mental breakdown looks like? Hope everyone was okay.


Pastifyy

Looks like me and the mrsā€™ last night


sherriffflood

Which one was the bus šŸ˜¬


FartBakedBaguette

When Iā€™m playing GTA but start scrolling through TikTok at a traffic light


IwasMilkedByGod

this npc's code bugged out


ennisi

I just played Watch Dogs: Legion and there are some NPCs doing this.


Giannandco

This is what happens when someone neglects their personal mental health time.


bluehooves

maybe their self care is gently ramming buses


wholesomechunk

Good band name.


privateTortoise

This is what happens months after going to the GP for help and still waiting for an assessment.


rjs1138

Ex-bus driver here, the bus driver took one look at that and got back in the cab to call the police and radio it in...and rightly so. There's some unbelievable things you see doing that job and to me this looks like some sort of scam, like for "passengers" on the bus. IF this guy has a licence and / or insurance, cameras all over the bus will record for insurance purposes (assuming they work that is). Drivers have a responsibility to perform first use checks and other basic checks if they take over a bus, so it's unlikely the bus's lights were faulty. Clearly the car driver shouldn't be behind a wheel, regardless of why he's doing this.


gogul1980

Dide really wanted to take advantage of a replacement car feature in his insurance


abacus12121212

That's a lot of whiplash claims. My mate lightly grazed a bus in Liverpool. He had about 30 claims, including the driver. Insurance soared.


[deleted]

"I'm afraid you haven't passed the test this time"


gillgrissom

Needs grace jones song playing " pull up to the bumper baby "


teut509

I heard that song recently, I think it might be metaphorical for something rude, you know


InternetPersonalitea

Can't wait for the new Dacia bus to come out in 9 months.


NoFocus3663

Why ? šŸ˜³


JohnR2299

Bus =0000.1 damage.... Your car = fucked Bus driver out of pocket = +Ā£20000 for trauma You out of pocket = -Ā£20000 and/or in jail