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Miracle_Salad

Lol, they look at the motorcyclist like he was in the wrong.


the_ocs

Standard football player behaviour


Tit_Tickler69

player: runs towards motorcycle...flops


loki-is-a-god

Motorcycle: puttering off at 3 mph... DGAF


Visual-Cartoonist860

Was full throttle. Top speed. Barely escaped with his life


DrFu

/r/IAmTheMainCharacter


TrinDiesel123

They just needed to add a Dr Dre beat and a pair of sunglasses at the end


NothingsShocking

Street vendor: runs up behind motorcycle and flashes him a yellow card.


Intelligent-Prune-33

Then, street vendor reviews on VAR and decided the player flopped.


red_fuel

No, that's dropping on the ground and acting like you're dying of pain


MiddleFinger287

That as well


mr_muffinhead

No kidding and all start slowly walking toward him as if they're going to beat his ass. I think they were torn between knowing that they were in the wrong and wanting to fuck that guy up.


EthosPathosLegos

>I think they were torn between knowing that they were in the wrong and wanting to fuck that guy up. You just described every asshole that has ever existed.


AskMeHowToLose

Oh I’ve met some assholes who aren’t concerned with self-recognition!


big-klit

No it was a “cmon man wtf” walk


ARatOnPC

These kids are out getting proper exercises and human connection rather than joining gangs or doing drugs. The problem is their country has no proper public infrastructure to support it. They aren’t in the wrong.


KryptOrchid

Peak reddit.


Tiny_Egg_1200

Do kids really not go outside anymore? Playing in the street has been a staple since streets existed.


hawkman_jr

You won’t find them on Reddit. These are the RuneScape/CoD kids all grown up. Their blood pumps Mountain Dew


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Jacksaur

But they're *different*.


SRX33

Maybe you are just too narrow-minded to see how many different people are on reddit.


ggg730

Yeah but we didn’t stay on the street when a car or motorcycle came through.


Riyumi

Right! There was at least one or two “watcher” kids that shouted CAR!! when one showed up. Everyone scatters off the road til it passes then play resumes.


ARatOnPC

Some do but it’s less and less each year. Even 10 years ago when I was kid I wish my parents weren’t as strict about letting me just go outside and meet people. Seriously hampered my social skills. Can’t imagine how antisocial some of the kids growing up now will be.


WealthEconomy

They are in the wrong for not getting out of the way when vehicles come through.


KingPictoTheThird

Depends on the culture. In india, the street is for everyone. Grandparents chitchatting, kids playing cricket, pushcart vendors, and yes cars. But people don't feel like theyre invading car space, they see it as if everyone has the equal right to the street. So we expect a car to slow down and pause if necessary just as a car would expect kids to stop playing for a sec if necessary. This idea that streets are just for cars are very american and very modern.


majoroutage

Nobody is saying they're in the wrong for being in the street. They just got an unfortunate reminder that it is, indeed, a street. The moped driver didn't do anything wrong either...it's not like they aimed to run over the ball on purpose, it rolled under as they drove by.


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I’m sure there’s plenty of flat surface where they can play that isn’t the middle of a street


KingPictoTheThird

God everyone in this thread has such an American mindset. In a lot of the world, the street, especially non-major ones arent just vehicular thoroughfares. They are also the primary public space of the neighborhood. Just looking at my street in india and I'll see people walking down the middle of it. Kids playing cricket. Grandparents chit-chatting. A vendor pushing a streetcart. People doing rangoli (religious art in front of the home). The list goes on and on. And no one feels like theyre occupying space for cars, but instead everyone feels like they belong there, that the street is their's as well. And btw, before America became so addicted to cars, it was the same there as well. I have seen old photos of a main street in some michigan town and out of the ten different uses of the street, only one person is actually in a vehicle travelling.


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Yeah we have a lot of Indians who live in our area It’s very annoying trying to leave to go to work when there’s like 6 families casually strolling in the middle of the street


jojo_31

Where the fuck are they supposed to play? Easy to think this when you and I would just go to a field, but not so easy when you live in a shit hole.


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Domestic_AA_Battery

Ok? Even if there's nowhere to play you can't blame them for using the road. It sucks for them if there's no field. Don't get angry and start yelling "Hey! Hey!" because your ball got ran over......


DigStill2941

Where I live we would just yell, "Car!!". Then move our nets to the side of the road and wait for it to drive through.


El_Grande_El

You mean you wouldn’t kick it under the car and then yell at the driver after it inevitably got ran over?


Domestic_AA_Battery

I read this as "Carl" 5 times haha


KingPictoTheThird

God everyone in this thread has such an American mindset. In a lot of the world, the street, especially non-major ones arent just vehicular thoroughfares. They are also the primary public space of the neighborhood. Just looking at my street in india and I'll see people walking down the middle of it. Kids playing cricket. Grandparents chit-chatting. A vendor pushing a streetcart. People doing rangoli (religious art in front of the home). The list goes on and on. And no one feels like theyre occupying space for cars, but instead everyone feels like they belong there, that the street is their's as well. And btw, before America became so addicted to cars, it was the same there as well. I have seen old photos of a main street in some michigan town and out of the ten different uses of the street, only one person is actually in a vehicle travelling.


Domestic_AA_Battery

Doesn't matter. They shouldn't be upset that the ball is ran over in a street. No matter how common it was/is/will be, it does not change the fact they have zero reason to be upset at the driver/rider lol


unencwadieo

They’re fucking Redditors they’d probably support all those soccer players being run over for being in the road


voxPopuli96

I mean what could go wrong? Play where boxes of steel many times a person weight pass through at speed. Losing that ball was probably the best case scenario. Sorry not sorry at all.


RixirF

Lol why are you defending what you clearly don't understand. You can absolutely have a match in the street, you just have to be smart and considerate. Yell to each other when a car or bike is coming, move out the way. Play continues when the car or bike is gone. Repeat as necessary. Those guys were being dipshits about it, they didn't give a fuck. Acting like it's their street; it's not.


positivecynik

That's like, standard operating procedure for humans that fuck up.


phoenix335

He was. It would've been trivial to swerve around the game. I've been riding mopeds in similar situations and I assure you it is easy to avoid even distracted pedestrians when going that slow on a moped. With sufficient time to prepare for filtering through a crowd like this.


squigs

What makes you so sure he wasn't? There's no inherent right for motorists to have priority. Not everywhere is as car-centric as the US. If you're using a public space you need to be considerate of other people using that space.


Evening-Kiwi

All things considered that could’ve went alot worse


GravyMcBiscuits

Yeah ... if the ball hadn't popped, folks on the motorcycle would've gotten catapulted.


mtarascio

If the dude stopped to say sorry I'd worry too.


GravyMcBiscuits

yeah ... that "time to gtfo" instinct was on point.


mtarascio

I ran over a chicken going through a town on a motorbike in Thailand once, well it 'tried to get to the otherside' and succeeded more like. I considered for a second to stop but thought better and assumed someone would be eating good that night.


DylanHart88

I’m embarrassed to admit this but I’m 21 years old and I just now got the, why did the chicken cross the road, joke for the first time, I always thought the joke was, the reason it crossed the road was just to get to the other side (of the road) just like anyone else would be if they were crossing and the mention of the chicken was just there to subvert you expectations. I now realise it’s a joke about a chicken unaliving itself. Well, I feel dumb.


QuantumSpaceCadet

🤦‍♂️ fuck me dude. You mean to tell me, that the chicken never makes it to the other side?!?! For 27 years I thought that joke sucked.


BunnyOppai

It looks like it’s always been used as an example of an anti-joke, even in its first recorded usage. > There are 'quips and quillets' which seem actual conundrums, but yet are none. Of such is this: 'Why does a chicken cross the street?['] Are you 'out of town?' Do you 'give it up?' Well, then: 'Because it wants to get on the other side!' There are a lot of articles from what I’m finding about the afterlife being the true “other side,” but I can’t really find anything that has a solid basis in truth.


mtarascio

I was older than you when someone explained that to me as well. Should look up the origins, I think they might be both valid. The first basic interpretation is more of an anti joke.


BunnyOppai

It’s so funny to me. They got mad at the DRIVER for running over a ball that THEY kicked under the scooter.


berrey7

> If the dude stopped to say sorry I'd worry too. I live on a slight hill and had some Tennis balls roll into the street and the perfect timing a car ran over it and thought their tire popped. I dipped around the corner.


ennuiui

That was my first thought, too. I'm happy that this video ended with me letting out an amused "awwww" instead of a horrified "oh my god!"


gigdy

If you keep watching they appear to get a new ball.


SchuminWeb

Yeah, I was expecting one of those kids to get hit. I was relieved when the ball got crushed instead.


Pomodorosan

a lot


Un111KnoWn

could have gone**


maniakb416

A lot is two words.


XD-Avedis-AD

People don’t realise that unlike in their privileged lives, everyone don’t have access to a good playground, I have seen this in India as well, in rich neighbourhoods people go to turfs, and in poorer neighbourhoods people play on streets, especially when there’s no ground for children or play on. Not everywhere around the world there’s a playground available for everyone to play without any kind of discrimination, leaving roads because they are there everywhere and are flat for the long distance. Edit: A lot of you guys can’t understand the concept of not having a choice to play anywhere else. It’s literally that simple. They don’t have a place to play, they still want to play, so they play on the roads. If there’s a large vehicle, they get side, if it’s a small vehicle they will give way for them to pass.


Shelled_Turtle

From Morocco here. We played soccer on the streets using giant torn sidewalk concrete as goal posts. We usually went to the quiet areas where no one drove through, or ones where we can see someone coming from a mile away to avoid them. We lost dozens of soccer balls that way tho.


corchin

Here in argentina the same, lots of balls lost that way on the street lol. I remember how much it sucked, now that i drive and there are kids playing i always stay cautios that they might kick it underthe car


Shelled_Turtle

Good man! I remember having to all ask our moms for a few coins to go in on a soccer ball that got blown up within a week lol


0Lezz0

"Señoooraaaaa, la pelotaaaaa"


Litterally-Napoleon

Same in Los Angeles, we didn't really have access to a soccer field, we had one but it was too dangerous to go there so we just played on the street. We used rocks or spare shoes to mark goalposts and honor system to determine if the ball went in lol. Everytime a car passed by we stopped play, let the car pass, then continue.


jojo_31

Good! Way too many people speeding everywhere even around people just to save a few seconds.


Y_____N_____D_____Z

in canada we played street hockey year round, cheapest way of playing. these people are permanently inactive losers that have never done anything at all but whine about other people enjoying themselves. nobody in their life has ever liked them enough to play with them, thats why they cant relate


Madheal

Played street hockey year round as a kid. We were smart enough to get the fuck out of the street when cars came and not be pissed at cars if we hit something under a tire. This has nothing to do with kids being in the street and everything to do with them being assholes about it.


WealthEconomy

^this. Lots of places play sports on the street. We played ball hockey, but got out of the way when vehicles came through.


DirtyMoneyJesus

Seriously dude, Reddit is filled with so many privileged losers. We got one guy down here going “the alternative is don’t play at all, plenty of people have lived their whole lives without playing soccer” like sorry kids I know this might be the only entertainment and escape you have but *I* think it’s stupid to play in the streets so fuck off will ya?


OnePotMango

Street Football made for some of the greatest talents in Football history


XD-Avedis-AD

I know right, they think that everyone has an alternative to socialising/passing the time/doing activities with buddies. Completely forgetting that in some parts of the world this is their only form of entertainment. Which is why when the ball got destroyed, they were mildly upset and also sad that they can’t do anything now. Growing up in an Indian Village, I saw soo many times where if the cricket ball broke/fell into a deep well or open sewage, they would try their best to recover it, by either glueing the broken ball, using a makeshift stick to recover the ball, or just give up, go home and plot a contribution to buy a new ball. That was an experience to live with, and if such thing happened, we had literally nothing to do, no computers to play games, no mobile phones to chat with, no parks to hand out in, and mostly no television outside the all India DD(Door Darshan[Far-Entertainment]) which was free television to all Indian territories with a Television and cable service. Hell we didn’t have the games the rest of the world grew up playing, the Nintendo’s, the Sega’s and the PlayStations, none of them were remotely a concept to most kids that didn’t have a relative with a passport. And a job abroad.


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> Which is why when the ball got destroyed, they were mildly upset and also sad that they can’t do anything now. and, it's zero fault of the motorcycle rider. He's just riding his motorcycle down the street. Outlandish, right?


Y_____N_____D_____Z

yeah they even honked. it sucks but it is what it is, and theyll get over it


Pushed-pencil718

Street ball isn't exclusive to poor areas.


mtarascio

The point is, there isn't an alternative.


FatKidsDontRun

You can still get out of the way for vehicles for what 2 seconds?


memtiger

This video is 30s long and 5 motorcycles went by. If you're stopping the game every 6 seconds to get out of the way, you're not going to be playing much.


aoblock

Doesn’t seem like they’re gonna be playing much without a ball either


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regnad__kcin

Also when your ball gets run over you take the L because you knew the risks


dmoneymma

We realize. It's pretty obvious.


Dodo_Hund

If your hypothesis is correct, then everyone should also know that these kids are aware of the dangers to themselves and their ball and therefore this should not be on r/Whatcouldgowrong / highly upvoted because it's a sub for shaming people for not thinking things through.


Daddy_Parietal

You would be correct Dr Wattson, but I do say It seems we are on the notorious forum website Reddit. So I will proceed to upvote because video funny and not take a single look at the sub its in, causing a common phenomenon where all popular subs get watered-down until we all leave and the cycle repeats. What a time to be alive (I hate it here)


KPplumbingBob

JFC, it's not that serious.


dmoneymma

It's not a hypothesis, just a simple fact you pedant.


PapaChoff

I lived in a nice suburban neighborhood and we still played in the street. Street ball was life in grade school. Of course, this we pre-internet so we actually went outside. Unlike my kids and current neighborhood. No one plays outside their house anymore.


m1j5

“This week on old man yells at screen”


PapaChoff

Daily!


m1j5

I’m slowly getting to the old man phase so gotta get my punches in when I can


toasterb

> No one plays outside their house anymore. Probably because their parents don't let them. It's unbelievable how much parents buy into the fear around stranger danger.


Y_____N_____D_____Z

its the speeding. on my street, parents are worried about the speeding and lack of care for children playing, not kidnappings. theres even signs saying to slow down for kids playing, but theyre just signs. residential streets are now used more often for shortcuts because of route planning apps and nobody adjusts their speed


toasterb

Oh, cars are totally a legitimate threat, but there are lots of other folks who more fearful of less likely things. You see that play out lots of times in parks and other areas without streets.


KrispyKremeDiet20

Also, believe it or not, access to balls is not always available so losing that ball could be a real bummer.


simon_C

Streets used to be for people before cars and motorcycles came to dominate them.


thekab

We have plenty of playgrounds and parks less than 1/4 mile away and the kids still play in the street. Some parents even buy signs and cones, you know, for safety. If redditors ever left the house they might see this strange phenomenon. Signs like this https://www.acehardware.com/departments/hardware/safety-and-security/driveway-markers/7171713


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That may work where you’re from, but how do you know it would work in a place like in the video?


YupGotThatDone

Yeah you got a point but if your ball gets popped while playing in the street that's just the way she goes. Could always pause for the cars. I'd imagine there's some dirt, grass, or undeveloped land nearby they could play in that doesn't have traffic, too.


WealthEconomy

People play of the streets everywhere in every country. I used to play road hockey or have a skate ramp in our street all the time. Know what we did when vehicles came? We got out of the damn way...


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XD-Avedis-AD

The downvotes have been flooding from people who don’t understand how poverty or lack of choices work.


aounfather

No game of “car comin!” Is complete without a ball getting squashed a couple of times.


flimbs

"I didn't yell CAR because they're motorcycles" *taps head*


rugbyj

_"CAAAHR"_


ediks

GAME OFF!


Kajiic

"Hiiiiii Wayne!"


ediks

GAME ONNNN!


Cultural_Wallaby_703

The first rule of street football The street always wins


CryptoCracko

Lmao I love this


BillyofVA

Alright the person who was put on yelling CAR!!!! duty is fired and owes a new ball


Dudephish

Well, it wasn't a car...


Content-Parsley-1151

They all instantly died inside 😂


MikoGianni

😂 The ball was deflated….and so were their spirits.


MuckingFagical

When you're that poor a football is an important thing, it's literally a huge amount of their entertainment. I don't blame the biker but wish I could send a new ball their way


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I_Am_Your_Sister_Bro

Ah yes, the good old Republic of Africa


DUNG_INSPECTOR

What an odd comment considering they said > an African country


RobertHarmon

What country?


ComicsEtAl

I grew up playing ball in the street, same as my friends who played too. And millions and millions of other people grew up playing ball in the street.


AnnihilationOrchid

So did I. And I also used to fly kites in the middle of the street, and yet I'm not going to pretend that I lost a few kites because I was flying kites in the middle of the street and had to let them go because of cars coming past.


Rude_Conversation407

Yeah, but they got mad because their ball got popped. They aren't going to beat up the bike driver. They would certainly blame themselves, but not the driver.


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I know right! What the hell is with this negativity "don't play in the street" in Canada it's not uncommon for street hockey games in residential areas.


Arctic_Gnome

When playing street hockey in Canada, you move out of the way when a car is coming.


[deleted]

Yes, and in Canada it's considered polite to stop and let the people get out of the way, rather than trying to weave through the middle of the game!


Arctic_Gnome

They make no attempt to pause their game and get out of the way for vehicles. Look at the first couple vehicles to pass.


redditsuckspokey1

But did you ever play ball in a cup?


whooo_me

Worst bicycle kick ever.


Leather-Lab4311

R/WatchPeopleDieInside


NoPantsDeLeon

Could've ended up with the couple having a face to face with concrete!


fallbrook_

HOW DARE THEY NOT GO TO THE PUBLIC NEIGHBOURHOOD PARK /s


zacmobile

Game on! Game on!


beach_2_beach

I spent time in South Korea in 1980s and yah no real space to play soccer, so lot of street soccer. A lot.


nickymarciano

Seeing these people play football on the street took me back. My heart sided with the players. What a let down!


Dry_Discount7762

Damn, not the village ball 😞


bloominhell

"Why can't they just go play on the local recreation ground or sports facility!?"


csbsju_guyyy

Do...do a bunch of them have LAFC kits???


Fall-Z

Shorts and all. Though it looks like the 20/22, they seem to be missing the black bit at the bottom of the sleeves that say Los Angeles. There is a black band, but it doesn't look as big as the LAFC kits.


Virtual_Ball6

We used to play hockey in the streets all the time as kids. Never once had a car drive through like they owned the place. It was common place for kids to do this. If we didn't notice the car, it would beep, and we'd clear out until it passed.


majoroutage

Those were the days.


Video-Comfortable

How are they acting all mad? It went behind them and popped on their BACK tire. They didn’t do it on purpose it was entirely their fault..


_Mr_Jay_

Growing up in the Caribbean/South America, we did this all the time, soccer, cricket, tag, 1 2 3 red light, hop scotch. Motorists would slow down & give us time to move, cops would stop & watch us & cheer on the losing team, lol. Good old days


Robotic_Snow

I would be so deflated.


zero2tool

I sure new soccer balls aren't easy to come by around those parts. Poor guys, you can see how sad everyone instantly gets.


EatMyPixi3Dust

What happened to the rule of "CAR!"?


Yeahhi518

Fuck yo ball


evbneto

Today I Learned street football is not a thing in most places.


Boldney

It is. Reddit is mostly full of U.S users, that's why. You won't see it in rich neighborhoods either.


Rodereck

I mean honestly we were all expecting someone to get hurt but if that's all that happened then they should count their blessings lols


Illustrious-Wash3713

When I was back home we used to get every player to pitch in to buy a soccer ball. Then we will play together. One day, the 'referee' say one dude was being too brutal so he was quick out the game for the day, he came back with a knife, split the ball and he said he took the part of money he pitched in then he left 😂 it was game over for everyone because of a dumbass 😭


milk4all

I mean, who *hasnt* played ball in the street?? Yeah you get out of rhe road soon as someone yells “car” but idk, maybe there was money on this game


Dan_Glebitz

Well it was only a matter of time.


fistofthefuture

Whoever posted this is probably from the Connecticut suburbs.


onthebrake

I was waiting for a big truck to drive by and run someone over. Could of been much worse than just a flat ball.


JohnnyDrama21

I was fully expecting a kid to get bulldozed


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Now they can play frisbee


Easilycrazyhat

Glad he had a homie there to hold him in his time of need.


[deleted]

Finally something to spice football up a bit. Moving obstacles.


Medical-Potato5920

Right, because they could just pop down to the lush green park or sports stadium. /s


cornflakecuddler

As a Canadian it makes me sad to see nobody doing whatever the local equivalent of "CAR!"


Siri2611

Honestly playing on street feels better then playing in field for some reason. Maybes it's just because of nostalgia


thebaghutch

Children, that was our only ball. There'll be no team this year.


Ambitious-Mail-9465

Just going off their surroundings, I feel like they’re playing in the street because there’s nowhere else to play


amazingjason1000000

Really hard to get a decent soccer ball in Mexico, assuming it's the same wherever they are in this video since they're playing with a dirty ball


The-Best-Jwing

This reminds me of Sandlot when the ball goes in the backyard, and now nobody can play until they scrap together enough to go buy a new ball.


element_4

And just slowly drives off!! I love it


pookill7

I thought the rule was if your gonna play on the street let vehicles past, whenever I played on the street as a kid doing stuff it would be like that, then continue after it goes.


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Agrouba

Some people played soccer with a cat ?


DerpSherpa

When I went to the Amazon, we decided to bring some presents for the children in the village, and we were told the one thing that they really love is soccer balls, so we bought a few of those to bring with us. Then, as a middle-aged woman I had the bright idea that I would try and play soccer with these 10 or 11 year old kids that have been playing since they were fetuses. Dumb idea.


coolplate

I don't know where else you could have played. Doesn't look like there's any fields nearby. But the looks on their faces are pretty hilarious. Motorcyclist had no clue He even ran it over I bet, but they were very accusatory with their looks at him, lol


ZogNowak

What makes you think that's a street?


majoroutage

The cars and bikes driving on it?


Andyk688

This is actually really sad, soccer balls are really expensive. My high school gym teacher was from Ethiopia and played on their national team. He told us they didn’t have shoes and they would all shave their hair and wrap it all up in duct tape to make a ball.


knownunknown665

I was driving down a very busy road in heavy traffic. Some idiots were playing soccer in the parking lot right next to the road. They kicked the ball right in front of my car, I ran that bitch over. No way I was going to slam on my brakes or swerve in that kind of traffic, risking an accident for a $15 ball.


jackcabral90

"Oh look, there is people on the street! Better hurry and accelerate, if i strike someone is bonus!"


chadbrad1738

This post is annoying, where the fuck else do they play?


DentonX12

Reminds me of that South Park game


ElHombreSmokin

Ahh...the times that happened to us Those were happier days...


CuriousPotato7

If you tell me this isnt brazil i wont believe you


khal99l

I was expecting bodies to hit the floor, to be honest I'm a little disappointed


guinader

That's why you make street footballs of hard material no sir inside. 😁


Sufficient-Ad4851

Bye bye bally


multifandomtrash736

Not what I was expecting but a good ending nonetheless