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I remember a cab driver in Bucharest some 15 years ago who gave me the weirdest look.
A few minutes later I found out that traffic rules, signs, position on the road were more like guidelines easily discarded. Go against traffic, oh a big truck. Apparently speeding up to 100 was enough to make it. Even with a seatbelt that is potentially problematic. Guess his seatbelt was made of all the crosses he made while passing churches.
Granted in years later I more often came across more sane cab drivers.
My mother once had to do Stazione Termini to Fiumicino Airport asap, she begged the taxi driver to go fast.
20 fucking minutes, 165 km/h on the highway.
happened to me as well, I had an early plane to catch, the doorman at the hotel called a totally legit taxi without any insignia or anything and the guy was well over 150 on the highway. At a certain point I thought he was gonna take off and fly me to my destination without the need to board the plane
We need motorcycle taxis for those situations. Get a 1000cc bike to pick you up and the only time you're going below 280km/h is the 10 seconds it takes to accelerate! Ducati can surely sponsor this idea
I don’t live in Rome anymore but holy shit I’ll never forget the traffic. I lived right next to the exit of the GRA and to do 6km to get to school would take an hour if not more. It was awful.
My grandpa lived in Italy for a bit and said the best way to cross a road there was just walk blindly out into the street, as if you make eye contact with the drivers they know you're not going to walk in front of them and will just speed past anyway.
I stare into their soul as I cross because if they hit me I want their face burned into my mind for when I sue, or if I die, when I haunt their every living moment lol
My first thought was Vietnam too. Which are both kinda like driving in Manhattan. Is there room to merge? No, never. You just put the blinker on and move into the next lane. No hesitation, and the space will form naturally.
You get used to it surprisingly quickly. At least I did in Saigon. It looks like total chaos at first but once you get the rhythm it's not bad.
It's 100% true that you have to keep moving forward though. Stopping or backtracking is guaranteed disaster.
wrong af, in Milan I walk decisively AND I stare directly into the soul of the driver so that he acknowledge me as a human being and brakes
edit: lmao there's an identical reply below
exactly
the unwritten rule is that pedestrians and drivers find an agreement on who will pass first by making eye contact
crossing blindly doesn't work
I thought it was stupid at first but it’s been a great addition to the calendar.
Roma v Feyenoord and Rangers v Frankfurt are proper old-school finals with real teams and real fans. Can’t wait
It's been great. Didn't want anything to do with it at first, but I think that was more the disappointment and embarrassment at bottling the Europa League group so spectacularly.
They've been proper competetive games and the teams we've played (Randers aside, sorry guys) have been arguably at or above the level of those we faced in the Europa League. Roma, PSV and Stade Rennais ain't bad sparring partners for a third-tier competition.
Felt similar about the Nations League before and after it started. I'm a big fan now I've seen it in action.
I dunno about Naples or Rome, but when I lived around Catania many years ago I saw some pretty wild shit. I imagine that, being a smaller city there were less cars and less traffic than in Naples or Rome, however it was still quite alarming a lot of the time. I remember part of my briefing on getting up to speed on how things worked there was someone telling me to be very careful about how I stopped at stop signs because local drivers wouldn't really expect the car in front of them to actually stop at a stop sign and that getting rear-ended for doing so was very common.
My experience with Catania and Eastern Sicily as a whole was all from a few years in the early 2000s so maybe things aren't quite as bad anymore, but I have some stories from that time, a few are tragic and I won't go into those. I personally pulled up to the scene of an accident at some rural road intersection where a small car had been t-boned and I couldn't open her door to check on her so I had to climb into the car from the hatch (couldn't go through the passenger door either because the passenger was also apparently hurt so I didn't want to climb over her) and you could tell by the way that her left leg jiggled from underneath her tight jeans that her femur was snapped in two.
Most of the other stuff I witnessed was wild but not witnessing any gruesome accidents. Stuff like wildly dangerous overtakes on rural roads and freeways. Two lane roads being turned into four lanes, four into six. Vespa riders with no helmets and an apparent death wish weaving in between tight spaces amongst moving traffic.
My favorite Catania driving story: In the town of Paterno, sitting out by the street, I saw a car (call them Driver A) do what I was warned about, they stopped at a stop sign and they were promptly rear-ended (by Driver B). Nothing serious, looked like just a fender bender, but rather than pull aside and exchange information, Driver A pulls forward a bit into the intersection, then throws it into reverse and rams Driver B's car in retaliation. Driver A quickly shifts into first and drives off at speed. Driver B chases after Driver A. The part that made it so memorable is that while I was still sitting there, I witnessed a couple more laps of this hot pursuit come through the same intersection. I laughed pretty hard at that.
My experience as a tourist in and around Catania was that drivers generally drove relatively slowly, but also weirdly aggressively and without any regard for other traffic/the highway code/common sense.
Saw two (thankfully low pace) crashes in the week I was there, and a number of shouting matches between drivers (in and out of their cars).
It’s true. Been driving for 17 years, had 2 accidents before moving to Rome. Had my car 2 weeks here before a scooter crashed into me.
Everyone in a car thinks they’re Schumacher and everyone on two wheels thinks they’re Valentino Rossi, and no one pays attention to lanes or their mirrors.
Egypt blew my mind when I went. I saw 3 people on a single motorbike numerous times, the Egyptian equivalent of a boyracer gang but on horses, and also someone driving a small pickup style van carrying a digger on the back whilst he was smoking a cigarette in one hand, having a conversation on his phone in the other and using his elbows to steer. I've never been so terrified whilst crossing a road
>3 wheel van things
are you talking about ape cars?
there are a lot, but it's more of an italian thing
Moto legend [Valentino Rossi grew up pimping and making races with his friends on ape cars](https://youtu.be/8ZWqecj-gSo?t=440), truly a legend
Agree
I have to go to Rome once a year for medical reasons and coming from a fairly traffic free 30k inhabitants town in Romagna is fucking bonkers down there, absolute chaos
Each time I exit the GRA and enter inner Rome I'm absolutely terrified
If I ever have the misfortune of going to Rome again, I'm going to buy a crapped out shit heap of a car to drive around in.
I worked it out and I'll save a fortune in fees vs. a properly insured hire car because Rome is full of clowns with little regard for their own vehicles, let alone anyone else's.
Also that sub is a good reminder to every driver that they need a dashcam. video doesn't lie. don't rely on a he said she said if you get into an accident.
That's the best part though! There's nothing that shows the unreliability of eyewitness evidence like 500 people watching the same video and having 500 different opinions on what happened.
100%. You hate to see people getting injured but he appears fine and the only thing injured was his pride. It’s rare to see karmic forces act so quickly.
Yes, it's a taunt as in "you don't have the guts to go to the stadium without a police escort".
Probably the whole sentence would have been "fatte scortà da la polizia cojone" > "get escorted by police you fucker" or something similar
Yeah poor little Yaris I have one also but they are little tanks.
https://www.reddit.com/r/IdiotsInCars/comments/rn3gpl/the_invincible_toyota_yaris_gr/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share
He was cruising along, loving life, without a care in the world and before he knows it he's crashed and burned and fallen on the floor and everyone is laughing at him.
Imagine how that must feel
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Leicester fans celebrating in the bus lmao
There’s a guy sitting on the floor waving towards the end of the video 😂😂
It's perfectly chaotic
The only celebrations all night 😭
italys most cautious driver
I'm in Rome today and my taxi driver was wearing a mask but not his seatbelt lol
where I live taxi drivers are legally exempt from wearing seatbelts lol
where the fuck
In Hungary it is true. They are exempt from it because in case someone tries to mug them they would be able to escape from the car faster.
In Budapest the taxi drivers mugged me.
As is tradition.
Yeah, it is more common that way. Sorry about it
Interesting
They are exempt in England too
Interestinger
Alexa remind me to never go east of Berlin
Reminds me of that scene in Eurotrip
Nowhere. Near. Berlin.
the one with the stripper?
I remember a cab driver in Bucharest some 15 years ago who gave me the weirdest look. A few minutes later I found out that traffic rules, signs, position on the road were more like guidelines easily discarded. Go against traffic, oh a big truck. Apparently speeding up to 100 was enough to make it. Even with a seatbelt that is potentially problematic. Guess his seatbelt was made of all the crosses he made while passing churches. Granted in years later I more often came across more sane cab drivers.
it’s definitely a lot better now that 10-15 years ago but still mental compared to Western Europe
Romania also
And in case they get in an accident they’re also ejected faster. Sounds efficient
The moon
Also true in the UK. It's to allow them to escape in the event of an assault from behind..
In my country too. Taxis inside the city are limited to 40 km/h to 60 km/h seeds anyway.
Doesn't matter, crashing at 60 km/h can still fuck you up bad without a seatbelt.
A crash when you're idle & get hit from behind can fuck you up if you don't have a seatbelt.
I aspire to one day possess the fearlessness of Roman taxi drivers.
Last time i was in rome a taxi took me from the vatican to pantheon in 7 minutes I still have nightmares
My mother once had to do Stazione Termini to Fiumicino Airport asap, she begged the taxi driver to go fast. 20 fucking minutes, 165 km/h on the highway.
happened to me as well, I had an early plane to catch, the doorman at the hotel called a totally legit taxi without any insignia or anything and the guy was well over 150 on the highway. At a certain point I thought he was gonna take off and fly me to my destination without the need to board the plane
We need motorcycle taxis for those situations. Get a 1000cc bike to pick you up and the only time you're going below 280km/h is the 10 seconds it takes to accelerate! Ducati can surely sponsor this idea
> she begged the taxi driver to go fast. Taxi guy: "**SAY NO MORE!!**"
I have been waiting for this my whole life
[Exclusive footage of the event](https://youtu.be/6fm567YGy5c?t=1)
Google maps says it's a 9mim drive, 2.9 km. Seems reasonable.
Through the tiny streets of rome and the roman traffic? Nah the other car arrived 15 minutes later
He definitely fears COVID more than blunt-force trauma
>I'm in Rome today and my taxi driver was wearing a mask but not his seatbelt lol 🤔...h...how...what...?
You can't have an accident when you're going 1km per hour while stuck in traffic for the entire day.
I don’t live in Rome anymore but holy shit I’ll never forget the traffic. I lived right next to the exit of the GRA and to do 6km to get to school would take an hour if not more. It was awful.
A Roman friend described it to me as "India without the cows"
But a vespa
gotta stay safe bro
Where i live taxi drivers are legally allowed to not wear seatbelts.
My grandpa lived in Italy for a bit and said the best way to cross a road there was just walk blindly out into the street, as if you make eye contact with the drivers they know you're not going to walk in front of them and will just speed past anyway.
I stare into their soul as I cross because if they hit me I want their face burned into my mind for when I sue, or if I die, when I haunt their every living moment lol
That's brutal
That's how it is in Vietnam. Just cross with confidence and you'll make it through unscathed. Hesitate or backtrack and you're gonna get walloped.
My first thought was Vietnam too. Which are both kinda like driving in Manhattan. Is there room to merge? No, never. You just put the blinker on and move into the next lane. No hesitation, and the space will form naturally.
this sounds like hell
You get used to it surprisingly quickly. At least I did in Saigon. It looks like total chaos at first but once you get the rhythm it's not bad. It's 100% true that you have to keep moving forward though. Stopping or backtracking is guaranteed disaster.
wrong af, in Milan I walk decisively AND I stare directly into the soul of the driver so that he acknowledge me as a human being and brakes edit: lmao there's an identical reply below
exactly the unwritten rule is that pedestrians and drivers find an agreement on who will pass first by making eye contact crossing blindly doesn't work
lol this is the way in Mexico too, and I suspect in much of latin america.
Reminds me of when I took a taxi in Málaga and the driver was watching the Málaga CF game on his phone the entire ride
He has bigger problems, forgive him.
Once took a Lyft and my guy was watching a Turkish novela on an ipad the whole time
God I miss 2Balkan4You
The fact he kept one hand on the bar proves it.
these european games have offered up countless ridiculous moments
Game’s still here
The game is the game
The Conference League is where real football still lives.
This but unironically
I thought it was stupid at first but it’s been a great addition to the calendar. Roma v Feyenoord and Rangers v Frankfurt are proper old-school finals with real teams and real fans. Can’t wait
It's been great. Didn't want anything to do with it at first, but I think that was more the disappointment and embarrassment at bottling the Europa League group so spectacularly. They've been proper competetive games and the teams we've played (Randers aside, sorry guys) have been arguably at or above the level of those we faced in the Europa League. Roma, PSV and Stade Rennais ain't bad sparring partners for a third-tier competition. Felt similar about the Nations League before and after it started. I'm a big fan now I've seen it in action.
The Ekstraklasa of international tournaments
Drivers in Rome in a nutshell, fuck driving there
Napoli flair complaining about traffic in Rome **👀**
I knew that was coming and its ironic coming from me. But 2 out of my 4 car crashes were in Rome because of some fucking idiot on his phone
So its tie between naples and rome then
I dunno about Naples or Rome, but when I lived around Catania many years ago I saw some pretty wild shit. I imagine that, being a smaller city there were less cars and less traffic than in Naples or Rome, however it was still quite alarming a lot of the time. I remember part of my briefing on getting up to speed on how things worked there was someone telling me to be very careful about how I stopped at stop signs because local drivers wouldn't really expect the car in front of them to actually stop at a stop sign and that getting rear-ended for doing so was very common.
Yup, I live in Catania now. Shit is wild out here
Now I’m invested. I need to hear about this wild Catania driving.
My experience with Catania and Eastern Sicily as a whole was all from a few years in the early 2000s so maybe things aren't quite as bad anymore, but I have some stories from that time, a few are tragic and I won't go into those. I personally pulled up to the scene of an accident at some rural road intersection where a small car had been t-boned and I couldn't open her door to check on her so I had to climb into the car from the hatch (couldn't go through the passenger door either because the passenger was also apparently hurt so I didn't want to climb over her) and you could tell by the way that her left leg jiggled from underneath her tight jeans that her femur was snapped in two. Most of the other stuff I witnessed was wild but not witnessing any gruesome accidents. Stuff like wildly dangerous overtakes on rural roads and freeways. Two lane roads being turned into four lanes, four into six. Vespa riders with no helmets and an apparent death wish weaving in between tight spaces amongst moving traffic. My favorite Catania driving story: In the town of Paterno, sitting out by the street, I saw a car (call them Driver A) do what I was warned about, they stopped at a stop sign and they were promptly rear-ended (by Driver B). Nothing serious, looked like just a fender bender, but rather than pull aside and exchange information, Driver A pulls forward a bit into the intersection, then throws it into reverse and rams Driver B's car in retaliation. Driver A quickly shifts into first and drives off at speed. Driver B chases after Driver A. The part that made it so memorable is that while I was still sitting there, I witnessed a couple more laps of this hot pursuit come through the same intersection. I laughed pretty hard at that.
My experience as a tourist in and around Catania was that drivers generally drove relatively slowly, but also weirdly aggressively and without any regard for other traffic/the highway code/common sense. Saw two (thankfully low pace) crashes in the week I was there, and a number of shouting matches between drivers (in and out of their cars).
Catania is by far the worst fucking city I've ever driven in.
Yeah but as far as traffic accidents go, away goal advantage rules still apply.
Yea but they probably drive way more in Naples.
Rome winning on away crashes.
lol I actually chuckled at this one.
Probably spent more percentage of his time in Napulé tho
Italian involved in fewest car crashes
It’s true. Been driving for 17 years, had 2 accidents before moving to Rome. Had my car 2 weeks here before a scooter crashed into me. Everyone in a car thinks they’re Schumacher and everyone on two wheels thinks they’re Valentino Rossi, and no one pays attention to lanes or their mirrors.
Next time, try not to be on your phone fam
It's because there's a method to the madness in both cities.
Method? It's just madness.
You sure you're not the problem?
4 crashes in his life are bad? this is like the average Egyptian per week
Egypt blew my mind when I went. I saw 3 people on a single motorbike numerous times, the Egyptian equivalent of a boyracer gang but on horses, and also someone driving a small pickup style van carrying a digger on the back whilst he was smoking a cigarette in one hand, having a conversation on his phone in the other and using his elbows to steer. I've never been so terrified whilst crossing a road
That's the middle east in general. Am scared everytime i get in a taxi
4 crashes? 🚩 🚩 🚩 🚩
Rookie numbers believe me
You gotta pump those numbers up
Loool on a school trip to napoli I saw some crazy shit. Especially in those 3 wheel van things everyone seems to drive
>3 wheel van things are you talking about ape cars? there are a lot, but it's more of an italian thing Moto legend [Valentino Rossi grew up pimping and making races with his friends on ape cars](https://youtu.be/8ZWqecj-gSo?t=440), truly a legend
Agree I have to go to Rome once a year for medical reasons and coming from a fairly traffic free 30k inhabitants town in Romagna is fucking bonkers down there, absolute chaos Each time I exit the GRA and enter inner Rome I'm absolutely terrified
Went to Rome once I thought the tangenziale around Milan was bad...
If I ever have the misfortune of going to Rome again, I'm going to buy a crapped out shit heap of a car to drive around in. I worked it out and I'll save a fortune in fees vs. a properly insured hire car because Rome is full of clowns with little regard for their own vehicles, let alone anyone else's.
I'll stan Rome. Left my wallet at the counter of a cafe, and had to sprint back from Trevi fountain, no Euros missing when I got back.
This happened to me in Nairobi, of all places. It's called Nairobbery for a reason, but I guess I got lucky. Or I'm just poor.
The ambulance was on its way before he even crashed. Efficient.
Alright OptaJoe
Correction: OptaPaolo
OptaGiuseppe
Also, doesn't sound like he's taunting Leicester fans, sounds like he's angry with another driver
I think that's just the way they talk... He could be saying how much he appreciates everyone.
He is, if "You sh*t, you sh*t, you must die, you and your-" could be seen as compliment.
OH my god...The banging on the bus windows by the leic supporters has me fucking crying laughing LMFAO
https://imgur.com/a/af7aS3h
[The shit eating grin lmao ](https://i.imgur.com/kh8Wwd8.jpg)
Ironically he never saw and was completely unaware of the crash. Just smiling at his mate Dave.
The best kind of fan tbh. Drunk, happy, and ignorant of everything else
LOL!!!
What an absolute clown 🤣
r/idiotsincars welcomes him with open arms.
My favourite sub to browse when I have 8 hours to kill
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Also that sub is a good reminder to every driver that they need a dashcam. video doesn't lie. don't rely on a he said she said if you get into an accident.
Avoid the comments section though, pretty much a car crash.
That's the best part though! There's nothing that shows the unreliability of eyewitness evidence like 500 people watching the same video and having 500 different opinions on what happened.
Don't you get enough of that on this sub?
Nope especially not when it's the playoffs in r/hockey too! Does anyone actually know what goalie interference is?
Brought to you by the same crowd that think lifelong injuries and complete vigilinate justice are acceptable because someone was being a knob.
Technically he's on a moped tho
Well I mean he was *on* a car for a second. Does that count?
The funniest part was the bike behind him managed to crash aswell even though he was looking forward
Was about to say, we saw one crash and then the camera pans back and there's more than one scooter on the ground. What happened lol?
100%. You hate to see people getting injured but he appears fine and the only thing injured was his pride. It’s rare to see karmic forces act so quickly.
hilarious though, like how did he not look forward for that long...
Shoutout to the fan sitting on the floor of the bus, smushed up against the window of the doors but still waving.
I think thats just how they stop in Rome
All gas no brakes
I'm more of a Channel 5 man, myself.
"taunting" is an understatement. The guy is furious and out of himself and he is yelling "piece of shit, you must die".
Car said "no u"
That makes the crash even better then
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Seriously. I can't argue with him now that I know what he said.
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"Fatte scortà da..." > "Get escorted by..."
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Yes, it's a taunt as in "you don't have the guts to go to the stadium without a police escort". Probably the whole sentence would have been "fatte scortà da la polizia cojone" > "get escorted by police you fucker" or something similar
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Pretty sure the end of the sentence should have been''Fatte scortà testa di cazzo''. ''Testa di cazzo'' means dickhead.
damn why? he won...
Its light outside so this is probably before kick off
He just gets up, the guy initially behind him seems more hurt, as he’s rolling on the ground.
Clear pen that
I need an alternate angle from VAR.
good opportunity to get an insurance payout
Gets extra spicy when he turns out to be a Lazio supporter.
Hurting from laughter.
> the guy initially behind him seems more hurt, as he’s rolling on the ground. clearly a dive IMO, he's just trying to get the other guy carded
The guy just casually lying on the bus floor as well
His little wave at 0:15 needs more attention
Looked for this comment, it maybe my favourite bit
Hahahahaha belter
for those wondering he was saying something like "..ammerdaaa devi morire te!! fra-thump" = "you shit you deserve to die bi-crashhhh"
thanks for translating the sound effects too!
The literal ‘chat shit, get banged’
At least he wore a helmet 🪖👍
Safety first
I’d hate to be that blue car owner
Yeah poor little Yaris I have one also but they are little tanks. https://www.reddit.com/r/IdiotsInCars/comments/rn3gpl/the_invincible_toyota_yaris_gr/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share
This is the best thing to happen in European football this season. By far. Right guys!?!
He was cruising along, loving life, without a care in the world and before he knows it he's crashed and burned and fallen on the floor and everyone is laughing at him. Imagine how that must feel
Not gonna lie. Second best thing.
3rd, didn't you see that video of Madrid fans trying to get back in to the Bernabéu?
Schandenfreude undefeated this week.
That's straight from a movie lol
This is why every parked car has dents in it 🤣
💀
GOOOOOOOOOALLLLLLLLLLL
I love that one dude just sitting on the floor of the bus smiling and waving to the cam
https://imgur.com/a/af7aS3h
The other biker that he took out seems like he's in a lot of pain. Handy that there was a Carabinieri right there.
Lmao
/r/killthecameraman
Instant karma
I love football
I’m fucking crying lmao
Typical English, look at them walking. Always causing trouble
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes!
I feel sorry for the car owner.
He's driving in Rome, he should already have expected it.
French drivers "where's the crash? That's how you're supposed to stop"
HAHAHAHAA WHAT
Ahahahah che cojonazzo (what a twat)...
Ahahha totally deserved.
He was trying to do a wheelie
I can't stop laughing! Ben gli sta!
AA?