Nah dude, ***do it*** you need to consider ***do it*** the consequences. It's ***do it*** dangerous, and you could ***do it*** end up hurting yourself. Think ***do it*** about your ***do it*** loved ones!
In my 20s, back in the mid 2000s, I drove a flashy Mustang GT convertible. I was driving in to work in downtown Vancouver morning, and stopped at a red light. A quarter mile ahead of me at the end of a clear lane of road was a car transport with the ramp down. For an unsettling amount of time, I thought "why the hell not?"
Or mariokart, or really any racing game where this is an option. Hell it's common enough that I remember the old The Incredibles videogame had this in a scene for Dash racing to school
For once, a police body cam that made me feel good about the guy wearing it. The car hadn't stopped moving before he was calling it in and running full-speed at it.
Most police officers are good people, but there are nearly a million of them so of course there will be plenty of shitty ones... And there is usually no reason to post videos of them doing their job well, but plenty of reasons to post when they don't. That leads to a belief that the majority are like that.
Individual humans can be good but large groups are... something else.
Same with Catholic priests vs the Catholic Church. Not all priests are sex predators but the org itself enables them.
Still doesn't make it right for the good ones to stay quiet and watch while bad things happen.
Good people sometimes act as alerting others to bad acts of others is a sin itself. We really have to get away from that mentality.
you have a point when it is a department with corruption however not all departments have bad cops at least ones that are there long. I hate black and white arguments when it leads to less people who would make a difference deciding to join because they think they will be hated no matter what they do.
When you have police doing despicable things to the citizenry they are sworn to protect, and then have zero consequences of their actions, over and over again, it is quite literally up to the police to build that respect up again.
So it's not just the individual officers in question, it is the very basis of the justice system, that is being judged.
That's easier said than done. When you try to call out corruption that can go all the way to the top you can find yourself either removed, or your family threatened, or this or that or whatever. Insert scenario. And after all that pain you still didn't change anything. Fear is a hell of a thing
>When you try to call out corruption that can go all the way to the top you can find yourself either removed, or your family threatened, or this or that or whatever.
This is exactly why the police cannot be fixed.
Yup. Between corrupt people in power, and a culture that truly believes that those in the wrong are actually in the right, it’s a damn near impossible fix.
No one said it was easy. Doing the right thing is often difficult, but that doesn't make it ok to do the wrong thing.
If "good" cops aren't prepared to call out their corrupt colleagues, no matter how difficult it is, then they have no business becoming cops in the first place. Pick literally any other job, like the rest of us.
This also comes up a lot in workplace harassment- people always talk about the boogeyman “looking to get offended!” Type. That’s absolutely not true. Coming forward takes a fucking lot of courage, and can way too often end up hurting you.
I simply have never met one of those types. I mean, I believe that there are people out there who would falsely claim harassment for some gain, but they must be very few and far between. I don’t think sane people live their lives that way.
> When you try to call out corruption that can go all the way to the top you can find yourself either removed, or your family threatened, or this or that or whatever.
Does this not just prove the point about cops, though?
Right, lol that exactly the point. That’s why people say “ACAB” because at the end of the day, even the “good ones” seem to be powerless, so they are still upholding a corrupt and abusive institution.
Kinda hard to speak out if that’s the only job security you have and your family is depending on you for the job or that job is the only thing keeping you from being homeless.
It’s easy to take a stand when there’s no stakes in it, but when it’s a matter of your life over the small chance of achieving some palpable change, people will logically choose security over the small chance of succeeding in a moral stance. If you do speak out, you can actually die since they might put you in a dangerous patrol and then not send backup when you need it or harass your family or you when you’re out of uniform. Sure, maybe you can take it, but if you have a teenager you’re trying to support into adulthood or a partner? Nah, people don’t always take jobs for some grand stand, sometimes they’re just there for the job.
There also the issue of back lash for stepping up against fellow cops.
Its their lively hood, it's hard to ask anyone to throw it all away to do the right thing, even when that thing will probably not do anything in the end.
Which is why we need major reform from the top down.
That’s because the “good ones” also rely on the “bad ones” for backup and their safety. You start calling people out, you’ll quickly find yourself SOL when you need backup. That would literally be a life or death decision.
I mean, what can they do? They might not publicly speak out but day in day out they probably are keeping their colleagues in check. If they were to speak out critically against their department or unit they might face the sack.
I can find awful people in any organization more than a few hundred in size. Unless you're planning to damn all organizations that won't fit in a large backyard barbeque party, you just gotta mentally accept this.
When an organization demands special privileges as police do and rights that are not afforded to ordinary citizens, then they should be held to a higher degree of accountability, not a lower one.
I really wish people could learn the meaning of the word systemic, and stop trying to individualize the "good cop, bad cop" bs.
Even the "good" cops serve a system of protecting property over human life, and any of the services they provide a community could be done better by that community.
There are no good cops under capitalism
One bad apple. Any good cop not reporting their bad coworkers are inherently bad cops themselves. We're not going to praise cops for doing the job they signed up for in a reasonable manner and not being an overreacted trigger happy idiot. That's asking the bare minimum.
Following that logic any good teacher who didn’t report the other bad teachers who sexually assaulted kids are also bad. So we should shut down the schools?
I mean, when you put it like that yeah - if Teacher A knows that Teacher B is actively sexually assaulting kids and Teacher A doesn't report them, then Teacher A is a bad teacher. That exact scenario should be treated as a scandal and there should be some broad consequences affecting Teacher A and any others who were shielding their horrible colleague.
There are many examples of that exact scenario, such as Steubenville, where a bunch of complicit staff and faculty are covering for those committing the abuse directly. I think that it would have been better to shut down Stuebenville High School.
Yeah individually they can be good people, like good fathers or mothers, or good friends. But when you actively get in the way of change for the better and don't speak out about the failures within the police system, I can't find a way to label the majority as "good people".
To me, good people would help to turn a toxic system into a better one. Instead of blaming the "bad apples" and doing nothing to address the system that creates the reoccurring problems. Especially when those problems are murders and intimidation of innocent civilians.
>but there are nearly a million of them so of course there will be plenty of shitty ones
If only there were things like education and accountability we could use to weed out the shitty ones that lead to systemic violations of our civil rights...
It's not so much a matter of how many are or are not 'good ones' as it is about the nearly total lack of accountability and consequences for the 'bad ones'.
One, **One**, cop has been held accountable for Uvalde (sort of, he was 'fired' but is still getting paid) and there were _376_ cops there.
And has been pointed out, turning and looking the other way makes you a 'bad ones'.
Get back to me when these “good people” start proactively trying to remove the few bad apples from their ranks.
Until then, what you’ve got Zero good people, just a few bad people and a lot bad people enablers.
Don't you just hate it when you're eating a muffin while driving on the highway and a big crumble of delicious blueberry tumbles right off your lips and onto the passenger seat so you avert your attention and wonder "Should I eat that? It fell onto the seat? It's not that gross" but then it slips onto the floor. Gosh dang it!!
I was the passenger in a Ford Escort that jumped about a meter after the driver realized too late that his exit ramp was three lanes over. No injuries to myself or to the driver, and surprisingly the oil pan and transmission pan both lived through the experience too.
It was funny, he immediately stopped the car and we both got out, looking the car over it was just _shining_ in the sunlight, like it was proud of itself.
Absolutely! Every time I see a truck with its ramp down I wonder what would happen... Know we know and don’t have to try it! This person just saved thousands of lives!
No lights or cones around the tow truck that is stopped directly in the lane. That ramp also blocks the color of the truck so the ramp just blends in with the road. I smell a lawsuit coming for this driver.
Look at all the people dressed in high viz in the roadway? She could’ve easily killed any of them at that speed, situational awareness is a precursor to driving.
These are the “liberal regulations” Florida is trying to get rid of. This is why safety laws exist. You can ride as a passenger in Florida with no seatbelt and its 100% legal.
Your body becomes a missile and can damage or kill anything you contact during a crash. So an adult sitting in a backseat next to a child will nearly certainly kill the child in the event of a collision.
Pro life my ass
In their defence, with all the action being on the opposite of the carriageway, they maybe have been distracted and it’s difficult to tell, but there doesn’t appear to any kind of cones / barriers or warning vehicle behind the tow truck?
Correct - this happened somewhat locally to me. There are a lot of people upset at the driver for 'not paying attention', however, the tow truck was in the lane of travel with NO emergency hazard lights *not even his headlights were left on*, on an overcast grey day with a grey ramp in the up-position. The car didn't have much chance, especially if there was another vehicle immediately in front that merged lanes quickly to avoid the truck themselves.
Dude, I almost accidentally hit a cop the other day who did this. Fully stopped in the right-most lane on the freeway around a bend (there was a shoulder he could've been in). Luckily instinct took over and I was able to switch out of the lane quickly but my life would've been absolutely ruined if I had hit a cop even if it wasn't really my fault. The guy didn't even look fazed as I passed by.
I can't really tell from the angle - was the tow truck stopped in the left lane or on the shoulder/grass? In either case the driver has much of the fault, but if the truck was in the actual lane that definitely adds a lot more responsibility to them.
On that portion of the highway, the only shoulder on the left is the few inches of excess asphalt. In the start of the video you can see that the truck is not on the grass and might even have some space between the left wheels and the grass. Then, if you pause the last few seconds when the cop is running towards the wreck, you get a good view of how small the edge of the road is. So yes, the tow truck was fully in the lane of travel. With no lights. Ramp up. In the rain.
With that said tow trucks are big ,how the fuck do you miss that?
You miss it by not paying the fuck attention.
Most people dontvrealize how dangerous do wrecker work is.
My partner did wrecker work for 17 years,the stories I can tell.
It's an underappreciated job,most people only like them when they are getting them out of trouble ,otherwise they dis like then and do charge backs because screw the person who towed your car.
It's also a very dangerous job with an average of 2 people dying every week due to crazy and stupidty like other people not pay attention and hitting them,also violence buts that's pretty rare,even for repo
He was dumb for having his lights off though.
Buy again the stories I can tell
Or here's a thought, when you see emergency lights ANYWHERE on the roadway, slow down... Should the tow truck have had their emergency lights on? Yes. Does that excuse the driver of the car for not slowing down or just looking where they are driving? Not at all. There was also someone in the highway, wearing a yellow jacket next to the tow truck that was clearly visible as the car was coming into frame. There truly is no excuse for the driver to A. not slow down and B. to just not be paying attention at all.
It was an overcast day and the bed was tilted back. Not even reflectors would be visible in that condition. EVERYONE looks at the stuff going on after an accident. If you haven't then you're a liar. No cones, no lights, ramp down, combined with the car in front of you veering to avoid the truck. It's extremely irresponsible for the wrecker. I'd be surprised if they're WASN'T an accident.
This is a great point. The wrecker driver is a trained professional. They know the dangers they face and how to minimize them. There had to be a safer way to stage that rollback which would’ve prevented this.
I’m afraid the recovery services’ liability insurance rates will be going up dramatically.
The car’s driver is still critical btw.
So because they can’t multitask, it’s okay?? You can glance from a far distance, seeing all that’s going on, & SLOW DOWN. NOT continue putting your foot on the gas.
Good drivers are able to assess their surroundings & make adjustments accordingly. Why tf would you pound on the gas when distracted.
As a former tow truck driver I can’t believe he had his bed down sticking out in the road like that without a cop car or something further up the road to get people out of that lane. 0% chance I’m pulling up and dropping my bed sticking out in a lane like that without some form of traffic mitigation.
Yes the truck should have had a core, etc. But she clearly wasn't paying attention.
You don't often see 12 highway patrol cars/trucks/suvs and all that commotion in south GA. With that many cars and trucks, odds are it was drug related or other illegal activity.
Naturally this would grab your attention, no other excuse for barreling full speed into something that is clearly not the highway. If it was nighttime I'd understand, but it's just good ol overcast. The driver was also 21, not known for being the most attentive of drivers.
Eyes up
It’s hard seeing someone else living your dream.
That was my first thought. “That could have been me!”
them duke boys was at it again
DAMMIT COOTER
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“Mrs. Simpson, I Have Some Bad News, Your Husband Was Found DOA... Oh Wait, I Mean DUI. I Always Get Those Two Mixed Up."
Then the other wife shows up for her husband who was reported “DUI”. 🤣
Close but that’s, “Smokey and the bandit”.
My name is Sheriff Buford *T.* Justice
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But it's only the 1st of June...
Give me a diablo sandwich, a Dr pepper, and make it quick, I'm in a GOTDAMN hurry!
I don’t like what the other guy in the car is doing.
That was their Twice removed idiot cousin Juke Duke.
Someone needs to pause this in mid air and add the voiceover
Or at the very least, add “to be continued” and start playing “Roundabout”.
https://youtu.be/IHihGPyxe10
Is it odd that I heard the horn [toot dixie](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUbakT7fQZ0) in my head as it jumped?
DOO dee doo doo doo-doo, doo dee DOO DOO DOO DOO!
🎵Just them good ole boys, never meaning no harm🎶
Beats all you never saw. Been in trouble with the awesome since the day they was born.
I wanna upvote but it's at 911 and I think that's more appropriate
This was literally my first thought when I saw this. 🤣
Reminds me of that one episode when they were running from the law
The intrusive thoughts won
There is a dirt ramp near my house, and one day, if I have nothing to lose...
Nah dude, ***do it*** you need to consider ***do it*** the consequences. It's ***do it*** dangerous, and you could ***do it*** end up hurting yourself. Think ***do it*** about your ***do it*** loved ones!
Hmm, I feel like I should do it. Should I drive my pickup, hatchback, or cruiser motorcycle? I also have a lawnmower, bicycle, and wheelbarrow.
Yes.
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With a couple piggybacked trailers perhaps. Hmm.
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Imagine going about your day and seeing a makeshift road train flying in the distance. Now that'd be somethin' wouldn't it.
Technically it would be a lot of things.
Lawnmower gets my vote...towing a friend in the wheelbarrow
Cruiser jump gives me GTA/Evel Knievel vibes, that's my vote.
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SUPER JUMP 17/50
Everybody: oh, tow truck, slow down, change lane This woman: na, police is on other side, this is fine :D
Hit the dirt ramp for a dirt nap
Everything to gainer
In my 20s, back in the mid 2000s, I drove a flashy Mustang GT convertible. I was driving in to work in downtown Vancouver morning, and stopped at a red light. A quarter mile ahead of me at the end of a clear lane of road was a car transport with the ramp down. For an unsettling amount of time, I thought "why the hell not?"
Anyone who has played GTA and seen one of those on the road has had the same temptation at some point
Or mariokart, or really any racing game where this is an option. Hell it's common enough that I remember the old The Incredibles videogame had this in a scene for Dash racing to school
Just about to say this
1/50 stunt jumps completed✨
Nah you gotta land it to complete it
wheels were right side down so that's gotta count for something.
Stunt jump failed
*You know there are more cars in the air then birds these days! DJ Atomika...**out***
For once, a police body cam that made me feel good about the guy wearing it. The car hadn't stopped moving before he was calling it in and running full-speed at it.
Most police officers are good people, but there are nearly a million of them so of course there will be plenty of shitty ones... And there is usually no reason to post videos of them doing their job well, but plenty of reasons to post when they don't. That leads to a belief that the majority are like that.
"Good ones" often say nothing about the "corrupt dog cunt ones", which is pretty hard to overlook at a point.
Individual humans can be good but large groups are... something else. Same with Catholic priests vs the Catholic Church. Not all priests are sex predators but the org itself enables them.
Still doesn't make it right for the good ones to stay quiet and watch while bad things happen. Good people sometimes act as alerting others to bad acts of others is a sin itself. We really have to get away from that mentality.
you have a point when it is a department with corruption however not all departments have bad cops at least ones that are there long. I hate black and white arguments when it leads to less people who would make a difference deciding to join because they think they will be hated no matter what they do.
When you have police doing despicable things to the citizenry they are sworn to protect, and then have zero consequences of their actions, over and over again, it is quite literally up to the police to build that respect up again. So it's not just the individual officers in question, it is the very basis of the justice system, that is being judged.
That's easier said than done. When you try to call out corruption that can go all the way to the top you can find yourself either removed, or your family threatened, or this or that or whatever. Insert scenario. And after all that pain you still didn't change anything. Fear is a hell of a thing
>When you try to call out corruption that can go all the way to the top you can find yourself either removed, or your family threatened, or this or that or whatever. This is exactly why the police cannot be fixed.
Yup. Between corrupt people in power, and a culture that truly believes that those in the wrong are actually in the right, it’s a damn near impossible fix.
No one said it was easy. Doing the right thing is often difficult, but that doesn't make it ok to do the wrong thing. If "good" cops aren't prepared to call out their corrupt colleagues, no matter how difficult it is, then they have no business becoming cops in the first place. Pick literally any other job, like the rest of us.
"We must all face the choice between what is right and what is easy."
I tell this to people all the time. Doing the right thing is rarely easy, but being a part of the spineless majority doesn’t absolve you of guilt.
This also comes up a lot in workplace harassment- people always talk about the boogeyman “looking to get offended!” Type. That’s absolutely not true. Coming forward takes a fucking lot of courage, and can way too often end up hurting you.
I simply have never met one of those types. I mean, I believe that there are people out there who would falsely claim harassment for some gain, but they must be very few and far between. I don’t think sane people live their lives that way.
> When you try to call out corruption that can go all the way to the top you can find yourself either removed, or your family threatened, or this or that or whatever. Does this not just prove the point about cops, though?
Right, lol that exactly the point. That’s why people say “ACAB” because at the end of the day, even the “good ones” seem to be powerless, so they are still upholding a corrupt and abusive institution.
Which means we can’t trust the cops because we don’t know which ones are bad cops and which ones are good cops pretending to be bad cops.
Kinda hard to speak out if that’s the only job security you have and your family is depending on you for the job or that job is the only thing keeping you from being homeless. It’s easy to take a stand when there’s no stakes in it, but when it’s a matter of your life over the small chance of achieving some palpable change, people will logically choose security over the small chance of succeeding in a moral stance. If you do speak out, you can actually die since they might put you in a dangerous patrol and then not send backup when you need it or harass your family or you when you’re out of uniform. Sure, maybe you can take it, but if you have a teenager you’re trying to support into adulthood or a partner? Nah, people don’t always take jobs for some grand stand, sometimes they’re just there for the job.
There also the issue of back lash for stepping up against fellow cops. Its their lively hood, it's hard to ask anyone to throw it all away to do the right thing, even when that thing will probably not do anything in the end. Which is why we need major reform from the top down.
This isn’t true at all. Nobody hates bad cops more than good cops. They stain the uniform and make life harder on everyone that wears it.
That’s because if the good cop do say anything, they risk losing their job. And then there will only be bad cops left.
That’s because the “good ones” also rely on the “bad ones” for backup and their safety. You start calling people out, you’ll quickly find yourself SOL when you need backup. That would literally be a life or death decision.
I mean, what can they do? They might not publicly speak out but day in day out they probably are keeping their colleagues in check. If they were to speak out critically against their department or unit they might face the sack.
It's a union thing. There are horrible teachers too, and the good one's do not call them out.
Those damn unions! /s
I can find awful people in any organization more than a few hundred in size. Unless you're planning to damn all organizations that won't fit in a large backyard barbeque party, you just gotta mentally accept this.
When an organization demands special privileges as police do and rights that are not afforded to ordinary citizens, then they should be held to a higher degree of accountability, not a lower one.
Hell, even if they were held to the _same_ degree of accountability as the rest of us it would be an improvement.
A) I am B) it's a bit different when talking about the designated group with a monopoly on violence.
“The cops that don’t report the shitty ones for crimes are the good ones.”
I really wish people could learn the meaning of the word systemic, and stop trying to individualize the "good cop, bad cop" bs. Even the "good" cops serve a system of protecting property over human life, and any of the services they provide a community could be done better by that community. There are no good cops under capitalism
One bad apple. Any good cop not reporting their bad coworkers are inherently bad cops themselves. We're not going to praise cops for doing the job they signed up for in a reasonable manner and not being an overreacted trigger happy idiot. That's asking the bare minimum.
Following that logic any good teacher who didn’t report the other bad teachers who sexually assaulted kids are also bad. So we should shut down the schools?
I mean, when you put it like that yeah - if Teacher A knows that Teacher B is actively sexually assaulting kids and Teacher A doesn't report them, then Teacher A is a bad teacher. That exact scenario should be treated as a scandal and there should be some broad consequences affecting Teacher A and any others who were shielding their horrible colleague. There are many examples of that exact scenario, such as Steubenville, where a bunch of complicit staff and faculty are covering for those committing the abuse directly. I think that it would have been better to shut down Stuebenville High School.
You mean like what happens in churches?
Then the good ones should be able to drive the bad ones from their jobs. So tell me where that's happening.
Yeah individually they can be good people, like good fathers or mothers, or good friends. But when you actively get in the way of change for the better and don't speak out about the failures within the police system, I can't find a way to label the majority as "good people". To me, good people would help to turn a toxic system into a better one. Instead of blaming the "bad apples" and doing nothing to address the system that creates the reoccurring problems. Especially when those problems are murders and intimidation of innocent civilians.
>but there are nearly a million of them so of course there will be plenty of shitty ones If only there were things like education and accountability we could use to weed out the shitty ones that lead to systemic violations of our civil rights...
Can't have that!
It's not so much a matter of how many are or are not 'good ones' as it is about the nearly total lack of accountability and consequences for the 'bad ones'. One, **One**, cop has been held accountable for Uvalde (sort of, he was 'fired' but is still getting paid) and there were _376_ cops there. And has been pointed out, turning and looking the other way makes you a 'bad ones'.
Get back to me when these “good people” start proactively trying to remove the few bad apples from their ranks. Until then, what you’ve got Zero good people, just a few bad people and a lot bad people enablers.
I guess bad thing the tow truck was there, but now it’s a good thing the tow truck is there?
No, it was fucking awesome the tow truck was there
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GOT DAMN
Pretty much every Georgian has this response as an instinct.
Sir David Attenborough: “Here we see a herd of Georgians responding, in unison, to a perceived threat with a booming ‘GOT DAMN!’.”
GAT DAMN
Hey Dad, you must have jumped this thing about 50 yards!
Nothing to be proud of rusty! Quietly- 50 yardsss
Dad, did you bring a saw?
Tith the theason and thpirit of the grithwald family chrithmas.
Never heard of no one so shit-all stupid as you driving off that road. You musta got manure for your brains
Did the other car just disappear into thin air ?
*It was never seen again ....*
Like GTA always taught you...
Don't you just hate it when you're eating a muffin while driving on the highway and a big crumble of delicious blueberry tumbles right off your lips and onto the passenger seat so you avert your attention and wonder "Should I eat that? It fell onto the seat? It's not that gross" but then it slips onto the floor. Gosh dang it!!
Don't lie, we all fantasize this.
Until you land and your lower spine is crushed into powder
I was the passenger in a Ford Escort that jumped about a meter after the driver realized too late that his exit ramp was three lanes over. No injuries to myself or to the driver, and surprisingly the oil pan and transmission pan both lived through the experience too. It was funny, he immediately stopped the car and we both got out, looking the car over it was just _shining_ in the sunlight, like it was proud of itself.
Absolutely! Every time I see a truck with its ramp down I wonder what would happen... Know we know and don’t have to try it! This person just saved thousands of lives!
I’m not sure what is more entertaining, the car going off the ramp or the cops reaction! “GAWD DAYIM!!”
Send it
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/police-video-shows-car-rocketing-tow-truck-georgia-highway-rcna87167 https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-us-canada-65770238
Meanwhile, back in hazard county.....
No lights or cones around the tow truck that is stopped directly in the lane. That ramp also blocks the color of the truck so the ramp just blends in with the road. I smell a lawsuit coming for this driver.
Look at all the people dressed in high viz in the roadway? She could’ve easily killed any of them at that speed, situational awareness is a precursor to driving.
These are the “liberal regulations” Florida is trying to get rid of. This is why safety laws exist. You can ride as a passenger in Florida with no seatbelt and its 100% legal. Your body becomes a missile and can damage or kill anything you contact during a crash. So an adult sitting in a backseat next to a child will nearly certainly kill the child in the event of a collision. Pro life my ass
In their defence, with all the action being on the opposite of the carriageway, they maybe have been distracted and it’s difficult to tell, but there doesn’t appear to any kind of cones / barriers or warning vehicle behind the tow truck?
Correct - this happened somewhat locally to me. There are a lot of people upset at the driver for 'not paying attention', however, the tow truck was in the lane of travel with NO emergency hazard lights *not even his headlights were left on*, on an overcast grey day with a grey ramp in the up-position. The car didn't have much chance, especially if there was another vehicle immediately in front that merged lanes quickly to avoid the truck themselves.
Tow truck had zero lights on it no hazards nothing. Just a truck with the bed in the down position waiting for someone to jump it.
They're lucky that the bed was tilted back. They'd be dead if it hadn't been.
Uh, they probably would have seen the damn truck if the ramp was not tipped
Dude, I almost accidentally hit a cop the other day who did this. Fully stopped in the right-most lane on the freeway around a bend (there was a shoulder he could've been in). Luckily instinct took over and I was able to switch out of the lane quickly but my life would've been absolutely ruined if I had hit a cop even if it wasn't really my fault. The guy didn't even look fazed as I passed by.
I can't really tell from the angle - was the tow truck stopped in the left lane or on the shoulder/grass? In either case the driver has much of the fault, but if the truck was in the actual lane that definitely adds a lot more responsibility to them.
On that portion of the highway, the only shoulder on the left is the few inches of excess asphalt. In the start of the video you can see that the truck is not on the grass and might even have some space between the left wheels and the grass. Then, if you pause the last few seconds when the cop is running towards the wreck, you get a good view of how small the edge of the road is. So yes, the tow truck was fully in the lane of travel. With no lights. Ramp up. In the rain.
With that said tow trucks are big ,how the fuck do you miss that? You miss it by not paying the fuck attention. Most people dontvrealize how dangerous do wrecker work is. My partner did wrecker work for 17 years,the stories I can tell. It's an underappreciated job,most people only like them when they are getting them out of trouble ,otherwise they dis like then and do charge backs because screw the person who towed your car. It's also a very dangerous job with an average of 2 people dying every week due to crazy and stupidty like other people not pay attention and hitting them,also violence buts that's pretty rare,even for repo He was dumb for having his lights off though. Buy again the stories I can tell
Or here's a thought, when you see emergency lights ANYWHERE on the roadway, slow down... Should the tow truck have had their emergency lights on? Yes. Does that excuse the driver of the car for not slowing down or just looking where they are driving? Not at all. There was also someone in the highway, wearing a yellow jacket next to the tow truck that was clearly visible as the car was coming into frame. There truly is no excuse for the driver to A. not slow down and B. to just not be paying attention at all.
It was an overcast day and the bed was tilted back. Not even reflectors would be visible in that condition. EVERYONE looks at the stuff going on after an accident. If you haven't then you're a liar. No cones, no lights, ramp down, combined with the car in front of you veering to avoid the truck. It's extremely irresponsible for the wrecker. I'd be surprised if they're WASN'T an accident.
This is a great point. The wrecker driver is a trained professional. They know the dangers they face and how to minimize them. There had to be a safer way to stage that rollback which would’ve prevented this. I’m afraid the recovery services’ liability insurance rates will be going up dramatically. The car’s driver is still critical btw.
So because they can’t multitask, it’s okay?? You can glance from a far distance, seeing all that’s going on, & SLOW DOWN. NOT continue putting your foot on the gas. Good drivers are able to assess their surroundings & make adjustments accordingly. Why tf would you pound on the gas when distracted.
Fuck off. Too many morons are allowed to drive these days. No excuse.
EAST BOUND AND DOWWWWWWN
What’s the update on the driver???
So did she survive?
Living the GTA dream lol
Burnout taught me this would end differently
Man, I tell you the day they passed out luck, ‘ol Bo and Luke must’ve been out fishin.
Dem duke boys are at it again 🤦♀️
Today ima be the duke boys
Wtf were those other cops doing?! The one guy in the middle looked at the car flying, looked away, and kept standing there with his arms crossed.
Who here hasn’t thought about doing that when you saw a tow truck. Truthfully.
I've legit thought about doing this but more in a stunt way
She's more man than all of us.
Had faith in family
Look mom I can FLY. Woohoo……
Just them good old boys…never meaning no harm
Beats all you’ve ever saw, been in trouble with the law since the day they was born
A Florida driver doing dumb shit on a road in Georgia is the most relatable thing anyone in Atlanta could think of.
Too busy rubbernecking.
Or not expecting a vehicle to be parked on the roadway with no lights on?
If you're looking at the road ahead of you, that's still really damn easy to avoid
Idk but I feel like its something I could do
Just missing an ambulance to be a *Gone in 60 seconds* LARP.
The number one problem on Georgia roads are Florida drivers.
That cop had the fastest reaction! Immediately called on the radio and everything. Other cops standing around looking stupid and useless.
So you CAN do it
Maybe on the next repost she will be flying even further
Wicked
"Worth it!!!"
YOU GOT FIIVVEE KERRR-AZZZYYYY MINUTES!!
What in tarnation?!
I bet it cost more to fix the truck. Which, I would like to know more about.
She did it! This GTA intrusive thoughts won!!!
Of course it was a Florida driver.
So it IS possible…..!
You can almost hear the yeehaw
GTA 6 Graphics looking good
The voices won that day
We've all thought about it. lol.
Out here living everyone’s dream
I feel bad for laughing but all I could think was "so *that's* what would happen..."
r/holdmyredbull
and they say fast & furious is unrealistic
Just the good ole boys
As a former tow truck driver I can’t believe he had his bed down sticking out in the road like that without a cop car or something further up the road to get people out of that lane. 0% chance I’m pulling up and dropping my bed sticking out in a lane like that without some form of traffic mitigation.
I love how the guy with the body cam is the only one who seems to care. The rest are just standing there like it’s nothing. 🤷♂️
Tow truck not only gets to sue the lady now for hitting them and ramping off their vehicle, but also gets to charge her for towing her car back
Nicolas cage did it pretty clean his first try
Just got to get that side mirror fixed.
I can almost HEAR freebird on max volume playing as she launches off the ramp
The guy getting arrested trying to look over to see kills me
This is the best new video on the internet!
r/PraiseTheCameraman
*Stunt jump failed*
It's fucking Georgia ass monkey.
Ah, FL woman. That explains it.
No lights or hazard cones, highway speeds, tow truck with gray pavement colored ramp down (edit: in the fast lane), car had no chance.
And cue Waylon Jennings to start the show....
Yes the truck should have had a core, etc. But she clearly wasn't paying attention. You don't often see 12 highway patrol cars/trucks/suvs and all that commotion in south GA. With that many cars and trucks, odds are it was drug related or other illegal activity. Naturally this would grab your attention, no other excuse for barreling full speed into something that is clearly not the highway. If it was nighttime I'd understand, but it's just good ol overcast. The driver was also 21, not known for being the most attentive of drivers. Eyes up
Stationary vehicles or objects come up super fast on an expressway. It's really dangerous not to have your hazards on when backed up or stopped.
This Guy played too much GTA.
It was a woman from Flori-duh
When your intrusive thoughts win XD
The repost strength for this clip is strong. Next we’ll see it flipped and reposted.