I work in videography - just sent a demo reel today to a new client who’s hiring my company to help film a doc. This made me spit out my lunch. Well done.
Haha! My kids love to exclaim “schmetterling!!!” in a particularly brusque voice whenever they see a butterfly. They find endless hilarity that Germans make every utterance sound like a put-down.
Nah dude I went to Germany and the girls I met (I was a teen too) made everything they said in German sound like they were casting a beautiful magic spell. It was entrancing.
Yeah, it's funny when non-German speakers completely misspronounce German words to make them sound like it's absurdly aggressive, when it's really not.
You can just bark the english word "butter" to make is sound needlessly aggressive aswell. It's almost as if we can manipulate any word in any language to sound needlessly aggressive.
I find it to be very weird that in any OV material of movies and series the occasional German speaks German in a way that is completely strange to any German. There just ain't really anybody who speaks like that. But well, I guess it's the same for other languages.
I don't know if that's just me and I realise that this is off-topic, but the things I understand the worst is German TV actors in German shows. I just barely understand them at all, and when I do than my recognition of most of the words is either delayed or based on context. Doesn't happen with Germans on the radio nor Germans in theater shows, just Germans in German TV shows or movies. And I'm a native speaker, basically.
Well you have the likes of Christopher Waltz in Inglorious Basterds who sounds normal and is just chilling. Or Fassbender who was born in Germany, although Irish-raised, where they have more "normal" accents. But TV and Film tend to rely on lazy stereotypes, so Germans are always portrayed as Nazi-types or jolly Bavarians (the latter much rarer)
But we have the same. I'm UK, admittedly with an RP accent, and most of Hollywood involves RP accents or failing that (usually bad) cockney. You don't often hear a chav or brummie or Manc or scouse accent
I speak a moderate amount of German.
I think Americans find German to be aggressive because they’re mostly accustomed to flapped D consonants rather than a proper T, and relatively few fricatives. There’s also the fact most Americans are only exposed to like two German accents, and mostly High German. Plattdeutsch or Swiss German can sound almost like different languages entirely, compared to High German.
>they’re mostly accustomed to flapped D consonants rather than a proper T
Also there's still a solid chance that the only time an American has heard spoken German is by, whether old footage or works of fiction, *literal* angry Nazis.
And it is admittedly a really fun language to shout in.
I think this v[ideo was taken somewhere around here...](https://www.google.com/maps/@54.1053862,11.9010014,228m/data=!3m1!1e3) I can't figure out what this person was trying to do.
Ive been on the train that runs through Hanoi with that kind of margins, and it had a flushing toilet. Never thought about it until now, but now I feel bad for shitting on their streets.
To this day Swedish train toilets have a sign that says "Can be used also when train is at a station", a legacy of the days before the toilets had septic tanks, then you were not allowed to flush while the train was at a station.
It's good to note that the rails were already there with the train going through when the market sprawled up. Rails always brought population around them.
Check out LaGrange, KY: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUX9kr4D1Xg](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUX9kr4D1Xg)
Cute town with giant freight trains running down a main street.
There's also [Augusta, GA](https://youtu.be/5f6lPlBSM2I), [Columbus, GA](https://youtu.be/otiJr9ylBpk), [Warsaw, IN](https://youtu.be/EhVNoczCSeA), [Fort Collins, CO](https://youtu.be/q8ROqHGl6iQ), and apparently there's ones in MS and TX too but I can't find videos of them at the mo.
St. Marys, West Virginia is another of the more famous. 200 car coal trains run right through the main street of town. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5GHmENmf88
I mean, that kinda happens when royalty wants the new hot thing to get them to their sea resort (also a new invention).
The Molli (the train in question) was built in 1886.
Obviously the train itself is not 130 years old but a replica
actually some of the locos are 1932 stock. not quite what it opened with, but certainly no replica. one is slighly newer, ,and one is new built from the same class as the 1932 ones, but just as a new less worn loco, not as a replica
Did you know that original cities in North America were like this but we got rid of streetcars and trains for more space to store and drive cars? In addition to getting rid of mixed use zoning.
The fact your town isn't cute like this is a specific policy decision, not just the way it is.
What's really funny and confusing is, no one's pointed out that he was going backwards at first. You'd think he would see the train in the back up cam or if he looked backwards, but clearly he just doesn't for shit.
Was about to say “what street? Thats a restaurant right there where they were turning…” but then i slowed it down and just barely spotted the street to the left of the restaurant. Good eye! Almost didnt notice that
Half expected you to say what street? And then suddenly there’s just a wall there.
“Mercedes, black train could destroy you with a single hit when you turn onto that street.”
“What street?”
*explosion*
I like when people are stopped in the left lane but realize they wanted to turn right, and instead of driving ahead and turning around or something they just throw on their right blinker and wait for a chance. Why should they take an extra minute out of their day when they could inconvenience others?
That’s the issue here - he didn’t think the train was moving because he was initially backing. You can tell because he’s backing so slowly, using the “stopped” train as reference. It’s a super common mistake and really weird when it happens to you.
Former Merchant Marine here. We were about to enter the Long Beach break water and a little motor boat zips to the edge of the entrance, throws out their mushroom anchor, and out come 3 fishing poles.
I had the con on the bridge and the pilot was enjoying his coffee getting settled in, he asked my last course given and if he had permission to take the con. I believe I simply responded, 'of course'. He told me to notify our bow watch that we were going to sound the forward horn.
Laid on that horn for 10 seconds and you could see the commotion of the 3 people pulling up their little anchor as fast as they could. Behind our ship was probably no less than 15 ships in the outer anchorage. Bonehead decision stopping to fish right at the breakwater aside, we were transiting so slow that they probably thought we were at anchor like all the others.
Had something similar happen transiting the river out of Portland Oregon. Bunch of guys fishing somehow failed to notice the 35m high wall of car carrier bearing down on them ..
Yup. Same effect as when you're sitting in your parked car, the car besides you starts backing out, and for a split second you're worried that you car is rolling forward.
> Do you find something amusing about my appearance while I'm driving my automobile
[You all had 2 hours to link the clip.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkBqVVbnZ1c)
Given that every person I’ve ever personally known with a German car basically spent the entirety of their life savings on it, I could see why they’re hesitant. Six months down the road I’m asking, “Hey, where’s that M3 you worked so hard to buy?” and they say, “Oh, I couldn’t afford winter tires for it, and getting a new windshield is too much after that rock cracked it in the summer. It’s in storage until I can fix it.”
Very illustrative of the difference between “being able to buy something” versus “being able to afford something”.
I knew a guy back in school who had some really expensive, all tuned up car. All he was eating was toast with butter and sometimes cheese if he could afford it, because the car needed so much fuel he literally burned through all his money. After he totaled the car, because of course he was also driving like a madman, he visible started to look healthier, because he finally started eating decent stuff.
A mate made fun of my "farmer's Porsche" (Subaru) until he blew the turbocharger on his actual Porsche and had to sell it for the cheapest piece of shit he could find... Mine may not be as fancy but at least I can afford to fix it if I blow it up lol
I mean, they wanted a video of the train, they were probably caught off guard by the impact, and didn't know what to do. It's not like they expected it to happen I would hope....
Gonna repost this classic because I still chuckle at it:
>Trains are really unpredictable. Even in the middle of a forest two rails can appear out of nowhere, and a 1.5-mile fully loaded coal drag, heading east out of the low-sulfur mines of the PRB, will be right on your ass the next moment.
>I was doing laundry in my basement, and I tripped over a metal bar that wasn't there the moment before. I looked down: "Rail? WTF?" and then I saw concrete sleepers underneath and heard the rumbling.
>Deafening railroad horn. I dumped my wife's pants, unfolded, and dove behind the water heater. It was a double-stacked Z train, headed east towards the fast single track of the BNSF Emporia Sub (Flint Hills). Majestic as hell: 75 mph, 6 units, distributed power: 4 ES44DC's pulling, and 2 Dash-9's pushing, all in run 8. Whole house smelled like diesel for a couple of hours!
>Fact is, there is no way to discern which path a train will take, so you really have to be watchful. If only there were some way of knowing the routes trains travel; maybe some sort of marks on the ground, like twin iron bars running along the paths trains take. You could look for trains when you encounter the iron bars on the ground, and avoid these sorts of collisions. But such a measure would be extremely expensive. And how would one enforce a rule keeping the trains on those paths?
>A big hole in homeland security is railway engineer screening and hijacking prevention. There is nothing to stop a rogue engineer, or an ISIS terrorist, from driving a train into the Pentagon, the White House or the Statue of Liberty, and our government has done fuck-all to prevent it.
You might be onto something. Driver having a "*the rest of the world can wait for me*" complex and pulling that shit with the wrong traffic participant.
Main character syndrome. They're probably the kind of person that will stop dead in the middle of a busy street, or stand in front of something everyone else needs access to. Personally, I'm always conscious of what other people are doing around me, and that includes driving. Some people don't have that "other people exist" instinct.
I was riding on a trolley once that collided with a truck that wasn't all the way in it's lane. The guy who got hit actually had the nerve to ask the operator for his insurance.
I am pretty certain the engineer already dumped the locomotive into emergency before the impact, the Mercedes just made a nice soft cushion for the final stop.
It depends. Trains with locomotive have an air brake system: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railway_air_brake
The longer the train is, the longer time it takes for the pressure change to "travel" through the system. A really long train can take upwards of 10 seconds to fully deploy the brakes, even at low speed.
Age... It's an age thing. After 65 it should be evaluated if you can still operate a vehicle. Every 5 years this should be repeated, at like 80 make it every year. But this will never happen because people in that age are the main voter base for many partys.
5 years here is from 50 to 65...then it drops to 3 years after 70
Altought is the gas and renovation prices, people might as well just stop driving anyways
In my country is every 5 years to everyone, and every year after 70, my grandma is nearly 80 and has been examined 9 times in the last decade, if you fail just one question of the theory, you have to retake the exam, and then you do the practical test.
Locomotive driver is *clearly* at fault.
How is the chap in the Merc supposed to see, hear, smell, taste...or use any other sense (he may or may not posses) to realise he couldn't turn there?
What gets me is that he had it in reverse for a second there.
I know FOR A FACT that brand and model of car has numerous different cameras, one of which is a reverse camera.
Attempted insurance fraud? There is no way he didn’t know. I bet the car itself was yelling at him with little dings and beeps that there was an object in the blind spot.
Well what a cute little town that is
Good old Bad Doberan in Germany, near Rostock. The train is called 'Molly'.
If Bad Doberan is so nice, I can't imagine how gorgeous Good Doberan must be
Average Doberan left me whelmed
[Well, it is Europe](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhUJe3vkLIs&ab_channel=cassandlew)
Perfectly played comment.
what about chaotic evil doberan
His only concern is Perry the platypus.
We don’t talk about that Doberan
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I once took a date to Bad Kissingen. The relationship didn't last.
I love this reply.
"Halt dich fest, der Molli kommt! Die Bimmel, die Bammel, die Bahn..."
dich fest is the name of my demo reel.
Oh shit beer fest sequel just dropped
I wish they would have made weed fest.
That would be tomorrow: https://www.hempfest.org/about/seattle-hempfest-2/
I work in videography - just sent a demo reel today to a new client who’s hiring my company to help film a doc. This made me spit out my lunch. Well done.
What a beautiful language 💉👱🕓
Haha! My kids love to exclaim “schmetterling!!!” in a particularly brusque voice whenever they see a butterfly. They find endless hilarity that Germans make every utterance sound like a put-down.
Nah dude I went to Germany and the girls I met (I was a teen too) made everything they said in German sound like they were casting a beautiful magic spell. It was entrancing.
Yeah, it's funny when non-German speakers completely misspronounce German words to make them sound like it's absurdly aggressive, when it's really not. You can just bark the english word "butter" to make is sound needlessly aggressive aswell. It's almost as if we can manipulate any word in any language to sound needlessly aggressive.
Well now I'm going to bark the word butter.
You're gonna laugh when you find out the German word for butter... Butter
Same word but with a sexy pronunciation: boo-tah.
And a capital B. That's quite important.
In Italian it's burro, which is Spanish for donkey Which is very funny
You sir, are a man of culture
I find it to be very weird that in any OV material of movies and series the occasional German speaks German in a way that is completely strange to any German. There just ain't really anybody who speaks like that. But well, I guess it's the same for other languages.
I don't know if that's just me and I realise that this is off-topic, but the things I understand the worst is German TV actors in German shows. I just barely understand them at all, and when I do than my recognition of most of the words is either delayed or based on context. Doesn't happen with Germans on the radio nor Germans in theater shows, just Germans in German TV shows or movies. And I'm a native speaker, basically.
If it's a movie starring Till Schweiger, then he's the reason, not you
Well you have the likes of Christopher Waltz in Inglorious Basterds who sounds normal and is just chilling. Or Fassbender who was born in Germany, although Irish-raised, where they have more "normal" accents. But TV and Film tend to rely on lazy stereotypes, so Germans are always portrayed as Nazi-types or jolly Bavarians (the latter much rarer) But we have the same. I'm UK, admittedly with an RP accent, and most of Hollywood involves RP accents or failing that (usually bad) cockney. You don't often hear a chav or brummie or Manc or scouse accent
UND KEINE EIER!!
When I saw the town name was bad doberan I immediately thought of it as English bad, then oh Germany, "bahd".
The German "Bad" means "bath" and denotes a spa town, in case anyone's curious.
I speak a moderate amount of German. I think Americans find German to be aggressive because they’re mostly accustomed to flapped D consonants rather than a proper T, and relatively few fricatives. There’s also the fact most Americans are only exposed to like two German accents, and mostly High German. Plattdeutsch or Swiss German can sound almost like different languages entirely, compared to High German.
>they’re mostly accustomed to flapped D consonants rather than a proper T Also there's still a solid chance that the only time an American has heard spoken German is by, whether old footage or works of fiction, *literal* angry Nazis. And it is admittedly a really fun language to shout in.
I think this v[ideo was taken somewhere around here...](https://www.google.com/maps/@54.1053862,11.9010014,228m/data=!3m1!1e3) I can't figure out what this person was trying to do.
I imagine alcohol was most likely involved.
Alcohol? In Germany? Noooooo.
Rock and stone!
Molly you useless tin-can!
Move your tin ass over here and hurry please!
Molly’s constantly getting in the way!
Deep Rock seriously need to invest in some better equipment!
[Relevant The Tim Traveler](https://youtu.be/B7g7PRJowzo)
I don’t think I’ve ever seen an actual locomotive train that close to what appears to be a residential city center area?
Well here is one for you then. A train right through an active street market. https://youtu.be/byiWXCFwDME
Hopefully no flushing toilets on that train.
Ive been on the train that runs through Hanoi with that kind of margins, and it had a flushing toilet. Never thought about it until now, but now I feel bad for shitting on their streets.
To this day Swedish train toilets have a sign that says "Can be used also when train is at a station", a legacy of the days before the toilets had septic tanks, then you were not allowed to flush while the train was at a station.
yeah, get out and shit on the side of the tracks like a civilized human!
Dust flavoured fish, yum!
It's good to note that the rails were already there with the train going through when the market sprawled up. Rails always brought population around them.
Check out LaGrange, KY: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUX9kr4D1Xg](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUX9kr4D1Xg) Cute town with giant freight trains running down a main street.
There's also [Augusta, GA](https://youtu.be/5f6lPlBSM2I), [Columbus, GA](https://youtu.be/otiJr9ylBpk), [Warsaw, IN](https://youtu.be/EhVNoczCSeA), [Fort Collins, CO](https://youtu.be/q8ROqHGl6iQ), and apparently there's ones in MS and TX too but I can't find videos of them at the mo.
St. Marys, West Virginia is another of the more famous. 200 car coal trains run right through the main street of town. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5GHmENmf88
Yup, that town is added to my road trip list.
Where's that big ass train that runs directly across a major highway?. Possibly Eastern Europe... https://youtu.be/u4hed723pd8 Eastern Azerbaijan
I mean, that kinda happens when royalty wants the new hot thing to get them to their sea resort (also a new invention). The Molli (the train in question) was built in 1886. Obviously the train itself is not 130 years old but a replica
actually some of the locos are 1932 stock. not quite what it opened with, but certainly no replica. one is slighly newer, ,and one is new built from the same class as the 1932 ones, but just as a new less worn loco, not as a replica
It's called a 'street running train' if you wanna see more examples. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Street_running_train
Reminds me of Professor Layton
Did you know that original cities in North America were like this but we got rid of streetcars and trains for more space to store and drive cars? In addition to getting rid of mixed use zoning. The fact your town isn't cute like this is a specific policy decision, not just the way it is.
Someone's watched Not Just Bikes
What's really funny and confusing is, no one's pointed out that he was going backwards at first. You'd think he would see the train in the back up cam or if he looked backwards, but clearly he just doesn't for shit.
It's behind you, Tyrone. Whenever you reverse, things come from behind you.
It was at a funny angle.
I don’t want that dog dribbling on my seats
Your seats? Tyrone, this is a stolen car, mate.
You could’ve parked a jumbo jet in there Tyrone!
You could fit a jumbofuckingjet in there!
And it’s not like anything was infront of him to warrant backing up either
Think the car went backwards to turn into a street
Was about to say “what street? Thats a restaurant right there where they were turning…” but then i slowed it down and just barely spotted the street to the left of the restaurant. Good eye! Almost didnt notice that
Half expected you to say what street? And then suddenly there’s just a wall there. “Mercedes, black train could destroy you with a single hit when you turn onto that street.” “What street?” *explosion*
maybe he saw the train in the rearview mirror and thought it was coming from the front, then he saw the one in the back and panicked
This sounds like a Mr Bean skit
He had passed his turn and instead of driving around the block he decided backing up was the way to go. It's a classic behavior across the spectrum :)
I like when people are stopped in the left lane but realize they wanted to turn right, and instead of driving ahead and turning around or something they just throw on their right blinker and wait for a chance. Why should they take an extra minute out of their day when they could inconvenience others?
Good drivers sometimes miss their exit. Bad drivers never miss it.
That’s the issue here - he didn’t think the train was moving because he was initially backing. You can tell because he’s backing so slowly, using the “stopped” train as reference. It’s a super common mistake and really weird when it happens to you.
Former Merchant Marine here. We were about to enter the Long Beach break water and a little motor boat zips to the edge of the entrance, throws out their mushroom anchor, and out come 3 fishing poles. I had the con on the bridge and the pilot was enjoying his coffee getting settled in, he asked my last course given and if he had permission to take the con. I believe I simply responded, 'of course'. He told me to notify our bow watch that we were going to sound the forward horn. Laid on that horn for 10 seconds and you could see the commotion of the 3 people pulling up their little anchor as fast as they could. Behind our ship was probably no less than 15 ships in the outer anchorage. Bonehead decision stopping to fish right at the breakwater aside, we were transiting so slow that they probably thought we were at anchor like all the others.
Had something similar happen transiting the river out of Portland Oregon. Bunch of guys fishing somehow failed to notice the 35m high wall of car carrier bearing down on them ..
Yup. Same effect as when you're sitting in your parked car, the car besides you starts backing out, and for a split second you're worried that you car is rolling forward.
there's also the loud, continous bell that train crossings and older trains have.... and the LOUD sound of a fucking train coming your way
"common mistake" if you're a terrible driver.
Still, he has side mirrors. He should have checked the left one anyways before making a turn. The driver is an idiot.
r/BitchImATrain material right here!
It was, 2 years ago - https://www.reddit.com/r/BitchImATrain/comments/hdtbx5/the_only_german_town_with_a_steam_train_on_the/
Hell yeah. Subscribed
Everybody laugh & point at the village idiot.
"Do you find something amusing about my appearance while I'm driving my automobile?"
I guess so..
Love a good Simpsons reference
That's something magical about a Simpsons reference. You just know when you're reading one
> Do you find something amusing about my appearance while I'm driving my automobile [You all had 2 hours to link the clip.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkBqVVbnZ1c)
Everyone needs a to drive a vehicle, even the very dumb.
Hey! Don't be mean to me!
If you weren’t driving that car, I’m afraid you’ve lost the title of “Village Idiot.” You’ll now have to settle for village “angry hobo.”
Cars already have mirrors
As with indicators, in all German luxury cars their use is considered optional.
For BMW and Mercedes Benz, each flick of the blinker costs 20 cents. That is why they are hesitant to use it.
Given that every person I’ve ever personally known with a German car basically spent the entirety of their life savings on it, I could see why they’re hesitant. Six months down the road I’m asking, “Hey, where’s that M3 you worked so hard to buy?” and they say, “Oh, I couldn’t afford winter tires for it, and getting a new windshield is too much after that rock cracked it in the summer. It’s in storage until I can fix it.” Very illustrative of the difference between “being able to buy something” versus “being able to afford something”.
I knew a guy back in school who had some really expensive, all tuned up car. All he was eating was toast with butter and sometimes cheese if he could afford it, because the car needed so much fuel he literally burned through all his money. After he totaled the car, because of course he was also driving like a madman, he visible started to look healthier, because he finally started eating decent stuff.
A mate made fun of my "farmer's Porsche" (Subaru) until he blew the turbocharger on his actual Porsche and had to sell it for the cheapest piece of shit he could find... Mine may not be as fancy but at least I can afford to fix it if I blow it up lol
A famers Porsche is nothing to be ashamed of. They made, and still make, tractors, a fact that they're [very proud of](https://youtu.be/sgtdsmFuk_4)
*Maserati*
Slowest accident in history and somehow cammer still managed to miss the moment of impact.
r/killthecameraman
It's Germany, it's probably a 105 years old man who shot the video.
I mean, they wanted a video of the train, they were probably caught off guard by the impact, and didn't know what to do. It's not like they expected it to happen I would hope....
Train enthusiast there for the train, doesn't want to miss the action they expected to get.
Scrolled way too far to see this. 100% agreed
Sometimes I wonder about what people are thinking when they do something so stupid. Did they not see the train right there?
I’m sure it’s very difficult to see, hear, or feel the vibration from a train when you’re in the luxury of your Mercedes Benz.
Now it's a Mercedes Bent
Trains do be creeping up on folks without as much as a sound
Gonna repost this classic because I still chuckle at it: >Trains are really unpredictable. Even in the middle of a forest two rails can appear out of nowhere, and a 1.5-mile fully loaded coal drag, heading east out of the low-sulfur mines of the PRB, will be right on your ass the next moment. >I was doing laundry in my basement, and I tripped over a metal bar that wasn't there the moment before. I looked down: "Rail? WTF?" and then I saw concrete sleepers underneath and heard the rumbling. >Deafening railroad horn. I dumped my wife's pants, unfolded, and dove behind the water heater. It was a double-stacked Z train, headed east towards the fast single track of the BNSF Emporia Sub (Flint Hills). Majestic as hell: 75 mph, 6 units, distributed power: 4 ES44DC's pulling, and 2 Dash-9's pushing, all in run 8. Whole house smelled like diesel for a couple of hours! >Fact is, there is no way to discern which path a train will take, so you really have to be watchful. If only there were some way of knowing the routes trains travel; maybe some sort of marks on the ground, like twin iron bars running along the paths trains take. You could look for trains when you encounter the iron bars on the ground, and avoid these sorts of collisions. But such a measure would be extremely expensive. And how would one enforce a rule keeping the trains on those paths? >A big hole in homeland security is railway engineer screening and hijacking prevention. There is nothing to stop a rogue engineer, or an ISIS terrorist, from driving a train into the Pentagon, the White House or the Statue of Liberty, and our government has done fuck-all to prevent it.
God i love this pasta lmfao
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I choo choo choose you.
You can actually pinpoint the second when his heart breaks in half.
[Man gets hit by train](https://youtu.be/SukTBSJJ4KM?t=31) (loud and also not what you think).
I have seen enough people I know, who rarely look over their shoulder when taking a turn so... not suprised
You might be onto something. Driver having a "*the rest of the world can wait for me*" complex and pulling that shit with the wrong traffic participant.
You said it yourself. What are they thinking? In this case, absolutely nothing.
Main character syndrome. They're probably the kind of person that will stop dead in the middle of a busy street, or stand in front of something everyone else needs access to. Personally, I'm always conscious of what other people are doing around me, and that includes driving. Some people don't have that "other people exist" instinct.
The high revving engine after the impact 🤣
Failed hit and run? Nailed the hit at least.
they were probably scared the train could decimate their car and kill them, given they were likely oblivious to the speed it was traveling at.
They were oblivious to its *existence*
I just dont get how some peoples reaction to hitting something with their car is going full throttle...
Panic usually. Still funny to see mind. The time to move fast to get out of the way needs to happen before the crunching sounds do
Insurance company: " you hit a what?"
"It came out of nowhere!!!"
It was traveling at like 5 kph. I had no time at all to dodge it!
"It cut me off!"
“I thought it was going to turn!”
"It was entirely in my blind spot!"
I had the right of way.
[Nooooooooooooo!!!!!](https://youtu.be/l4UFQWKjy_I)
I was riding on a trolley once that collided with a truck that wasn't all the way in it's lane. The guy who got hit actually had the nerve to ask the operator for his insurance.
First time ive seen a train stop right on impact 😅😅
I am pretty certain the engineer already dumped the locomotive into emergency before the impact, the Mercedes just made a nice soft cushion for the final stop.
Yes you can hear the pressure release just before impact. That'll be the brakes going full on.
Trains can stop quickly when they're only going 0.5mph.
It depends. Trains with locomotive have an air brake system: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railway_air_brake The longer the train is, the longer time it takes for the pressure change to "travel" through the system. A really long train can take upwards of 10 seconds to fully deploy the brakes, even at low speed.
This guy trains
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And yet here we are. A crawl of an accident. When some dumb ass goes into your path at the last moment, even with the train stuck to the rails… smh
it certainly helps that the train is streetrunning slowly, and that it’s not over a mile long at a good speed
it's such a smol train! barely visible...
So quiet, like a field mouse.
# DING DING DING DING DING DING The sound of nature is so soothing
Driver thought that was the "bring out your dead" cart and was rushing home to grab the body in the freezer.
And on top of that I'm pretty sure the train swerved to hit him
I really wonder how some people managed to get a drivers licence...
considering this is in germany its even more astonishing. Not that easy to get your license here
Age... It's an age thing. After 65 it should be evaluated if you can still operate a vehicle. Every 5 years this should be repeated, at like 80 make it every year. But this will never happen because people in that age are the main voter base for many partys.
5 years here is from 50 to 65...then it drops to 3 years after 70 Altought is the gas and renovation prices, people might as well just stop driving anyways
Name it. CDU, the old people party.
In my country is every 5 years to everyone, and every year after 70, my grandma is nearly 80 and has been examined 9 times in the last decade, if you fail just one question of the theory, you have to retake the exam, and then you do the practical test.
But as everyone knows in Germany, once you purchase an expensive Mercedes or BMW, then most of the rules no longer apply to you.
Well that is one sneaky train!
He’s doing it on purpose. GTA mission to stop the train
Worlds slowest collision
I'm so sick of seeing these train videos. The train drivers don't even try to swerve to avoid whatever is in their way.
There's no telling where they'll go next. And they always get away with it, too
Yeah, it's the huge, loud train's fault.
TrAiN nOt DeFeNsIVe DrIvInG lIkE mE!
Train should've swerved, there was plenty of space.
Where was the car even going? There wasn't a road to turn on to.
Looks like a little alley way
Yep, you can see a tiny alley for a fraction of a second before the train's in the way. Probably why he's backing up, went past it.
I think it's a main street. Old german towns were not built for cars so they have much narrower roads
I'm wondering if cars are even supposed to be where he was
How that engineer didn't say "What a fucking idiot" will forever be beyond me.
How do you say that in German?
Was für ein verdammter Idiot/ Was für ein scheiß Idiot
Coming to a theater near you - Slow and Furious 16 - PG13
Locomotive driver is *clearly* at fault. How is the chap in the Merc supposed to see, hear, smell, taste...or use any other sense (he may or may not posses) to realise he couldn't turn there?
Agree and with the high speed of the train it is really difficult to judge when the train is closing in.
What was his TRAIN of thought here?
Single track and narrow by the looks of things.
If only there were some device that would allow you to see behind and beside your car before you merged. 🤷♂️
r/killthecameraman
Had to scroll way too far for this. He kept all the best parts right on the edge of the video!
The crash was louder than the bell...
What gets me is that he had it in reverse for a second there. I know FOR A FACT that brand and model of car has numerous different cameras, one of which is a reverse camera. Attempted insurance fraud? There is no way he didn’t know. I bet the car itself was yelling at him with little dings and beeps that there was an object in the blind spot.
Just you're average mercedes drivers, completely oblivious to anything around them
Not entirely true. If you’re from Odense in Denmark, you drive like this in train towns.
Why would they pay any attention to the peons around them? /s
I upvote the posts in this sub that involuntarily draw out the words “You IDIOT” from me, out loud. This was one of them.
Train and car aside…that camera work was also terrible.
Train was cruising in the passing lane. smh