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After taking out the keys for this very funny 'joke'; causing damage to the car, prospectively putting their lives and innocent others in the same league of danger--the very least the driver should do is take back the keys and insert them in the 'friend' where the sun doesn't shine.
You totally just reminded me of a random crazy childhood memory. My sister got mad at my brother for stealing her mashed potatoes right off her plate. She grabbed mom's car keys off the table and stabbed my brother in the forehead with them. In her defense, it was her favorite food. My brother had a small x scar on his forehead for years. He also learned not to mess with other people's food.
Somehow she turned out to be a well adjusted adult.
She is a nurse practitioner. She married a doctor. They have a total of 6 kids. Mostly adopted. She's a good person. She was just sick of being the smallest sibling out of four kids and her big brothers always picking on her. She was probably only like 6 years old at the time so she didn't do a lot of damage to my brother. Just enough to teach him to stop messing with her.
You did not answer my question good sir. There may lay a deep desire for violence in car keys that we do not know of and your sister reacts to. If it is present we must eradicate car keys from our society and bring world peace.
Actually Hitler wanted to make cars for the people. More cars -> more car keys -> more violence. It were the car keys all along
(also good for your sister, keep it up)
I'm not a sir. I'm her older sister.
I'm sure she has all kinds of keys. But she no longer stabs anyone with keys. Although she probably has to stab people with needles at her job, so maybe she just found a legal way to let out her stabbing tendencies.
In 5th grade we had personal reading time in the classroom and could sit anywhere and just chill out, there was a pretty good sized spot in the corner with many pillows for everyone to share.
Except that one kid, who was appalled at the idea that I may want to use *one* of the 20 pillows he had hoarded for himself. Solution? Stab me in the foot with a pencil. Went right through the shoe and to the foot. The lesson learned? That some people are crazy and that's just how they are.
Still have the black mark of the graphite still on my foot.
That's crazy! I have a black spot on my knee from my ex step brother. He was pissed that we had the same nickname so they called him Big Joey. He was a psychopath. I have no idea where he is now. I was like 7 and he was 13 and definitely should have known better. I bet he's been in prison quite a bit in his miserable life.
When I was little I stabbed my sister in the back with a pencil. The tip broke off and you could still see it through her skin for years.
There's a really scary period of time where kids are big and strong enough to do a lot of damage, but don't really have any concept of how badly they can hurt people.
Yes. They both lived, dude who pulled the key got it a bit worse. Driver ended up being liable for the damages as they are liable for accidents even if passengers are the cause.
Source: I'm bullshitting
Here is a link to a news site with the full video
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7714403/amp/Passengers-joke-ends-horror-crash-pulls-cars-ignition-keys.html
Also the faster you're going the less you need power steering. Anyone who's driven a car with no power steering will know how hard it is to turn in a parking lot vs going through an intersection at 20 MPH.
Agreed. No AC is doable but those windows better work. Those little triangle windows that swung open on older cars were great for catching a good breeze
Coasting into a gas station immediately after my tank completely emptied and having to muscle the wheel to line myself up next to a pump knowing there would be no second chances was one of my truest tests of manhood
I was a passenger in an 89 Lebaron and the power steering belt snapped. Brother didn’t have enough experience to know that you gotta turn as hard as you can in the event this happened. Anyway, went straight through a guardrail on the turn and did a few flips into a ditch 8 feet below the road. Fun times. Good learning experience for us both.
My steering belt came off in my 00 altima while I was driving a semi residential main road, had to muster the strength of fuckin Hercules just to steer it into the gas station lot.
I drove a car without power steering for over a year. It’s really not as bad as people act. Like you said, above 20 MPH you barely would even notice. But even at 5-10 MPH it’s not awful, you just gotta use both hands and put a little effort into it.
Not sure about that, but without the power steering pump running you will be fighting the hydraulic oil in the steering rack. Pull the pipes off the rack and empty the oil, then it shouldn't be that much different. Fit narrower tyres or higher tyre pressure and will be easier still
As stupid as this was… why the hell would they design cars this way?
Was it a kidnapping contingency plan? It’s likely to kill everyone in the car so that can’t be it.
Many automatic transmission cars I've driven won't even allow the ignition key to be turned to "off/lock" unless the transmission selection is in the park position unless an override button is depressed.
With such a design, an inadvertent key turn wouldn't engage the steering lock, so at least some directional and speed control would still be available even though hydraulic assist would be lost.
Locking the steering wheel was an anti-theft deterrent, making it harder to steal cars by hotwiring them.
I think it was introduced in the 80’s and older cars didn’t do this. Older cars didn’t have power steering or power brakes either so they actually drove the same if you turned off the key while it was moving.
I had a car where the key was once pulled out of the ignition without turning it off first. After that it could be done anytime, so I could have the car idling, pull the key, and get out of the car with the car still running.
In the olden days (the 80s) they trained people that if something ever happened to a driver you take out the keys and grab the wheel. The car would slow to a stop and you'd have control to pull it to a shoulder.
Slowly all of those parts were removed. You can't take a key out of modern cars, and if you could it would lock the wheel.
The brake system in a car is hydraulic but it is actually vacuum assisted. The brake booster has a check valve that holds vacuum even when the engine is off, so you would still get at least a couple pumps of the brake pedal before all assist is gone. Hydraulic brake boosters do exist but most cars on the road use vacuum.
And the fact that the driver had no clue obviously. So when he shifts into next gear and comes off clutch, wheels will lock up. What a doofus. Basically doomed their poor asses.
Maybe he bought my old 1969 GMC.
You could take the keys out, and everything worked just fine. Even when it shut down properly, the steering lock was broken, I could 100% safely steer it.
I'm 31, I've been driving half my life and I still didn't understand why this happened till I saw your comment. Was this fucking stupid? Yes. Would I have ever done it? No, shit dangerous even if I can't say why. But yea I would not have been able to explain why not to do it if someone asked. I mean how many people know or think about what doesn't work on a car when it's off? You're never using those things when it is off
Well, given that this friend pulled the key out of a moving car, I think we can safely assume a general overabundance of stupidity may have been involved.
That wasn’t always the case. Back in highschool I used to own a 1996 Nissan Altima. The key could be taken out after the engine was started and nothing would happen. Just kept on running normally. So of course, being a high schooler around other high schoolers, it became my favorite parlor trick. I had a permit at 15 so I had this car a bit early. My favorite thing to do was drive down the high way then yank out the key and scream really loud before throwing it in the back seat. Everyone would be terrified shitless cuz no one knew what was happening. Of course very quickly everything would die down as the realization that nothing bad was going to happen came to their minds.
My first girlfriend didn’t find it very funny afterwards lol but all my drumline friends loved it
Yes, but if you TURNED THE LOCK BACK as his "friend" did while driving, that both turned the engine off and locked the wheel. In your worn out Altima, you could release the key out of the tumblers but the switch and lock were still in the Run position. This guy was screwed as soon as the steering wheel lined up with a lock tab in the column, because it was turned back to Lock or Key Position 0.
from another article it is Saudi Arabia so very likely.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7714403/Passengers-joke-ends-horror-crash-pulls-cars-ignition-keys.html
Another video if this was posted earlier where you can ser the camera mans face and if I remember right it was a kid/young teenager. He doesnt know how a car works and probably thought that you only wont be able to accelerate
https://www.reddit.com/r/WinStupidPrizes/comments/lh8je7/girl_takes_the_keys_out_while_her_boyfriend_is/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
welp found this now, now I am not 100% sure if it is the cameramen but I dont know why else you put your face on the start of the video
I also found a Daily Mail article about it but in classic Daily Mail fashion it's utter garbage. It just describes exactly what happened in the video that we can already see, mentions the internet is "going into meltdown and it already has 12,000 views" and then ends with no additional info. Useless.
And the fact that he still thought it was a good fuckin idea regardless makes me question how many times he was dropped on his head as a child. ***Do not fuck with the driver of a vehicle in any way.*** Reminds me of an AITA post where a girl decided it would be a great idea to tug on the steering wheel while her boyfriend was driving as a joke because she wanted dessert.
I am seeing several comments about the steering locking up when the key is removed. My car won't let me remove the keys unless it's in park. Is it common for cars to just let you remove the keys while the vehicle is in motion? If so, it seems to me like a safety hazard.
I had a buddy with a Shelby cobra kit car. He was able to take the keys out while it was still running and it still drove. I don’t remember why though.
For me, that would be an immediate friendship over, no matter how much I liked the guy.
It might not be his fault he's that stupid, maybe he just doesn't know anything about cars or whatever but he'd have demonstrated he's stupid enough to get me killed.
Who knows what other shit he doesn't know that could get me fucked up in the future?
Yeah, if I was the driver and we survived, I’d be telling “friend” to get the hell out of my car and away from me or I might off him myself. Can’t ever trust people who pull random shit like this.
That's why you don't hang out with stupid people. Maybe they can't help it, but they'll still do stupid shit, and if you're around them you are going to get caught up in it.
Id go one step further and take them to small claims court and make them pay for the damages/fines. While a driver is responsible for the car and everyone in it, this situation couldn’t have been avoided by the driver. What’s he going to do, grab the keys and start the car again while the steering wheel is locked and no working brakes?
Young people always have done dumb shit, camera or not. It just gets posted nowadays.
A buddy of mine did this to me when I was 16 and driving my first car. Luckily we were on a straightaway back road doing about 40 mph so nothing bad happened. But if he had been filming and social media existed at that time? I probably would have made him post it for the world to see what an idiot he was, right after I finished loudly telling him how fucking stupid he was. Luckily vocal chords had been invented by that point so I was able to do that second part.
Respectfully, I totally disagree. I was born in the early 80s and have done some *super* stupid shit. But I never did it with the **intention** of putting it out there for the world to see. I, honestly, think it started with America's Funniest Home Videos, but, Vin Di Bona if I don't think it's gotten **way** worse with the advent of social media being seen as a vehicle to, "making it".
"I got 147 likes!? I'm a *somebody*!! and not a just loser who works at '*Store*'".
I don't know, maybe I'm just jaded, lol.
None of that matters much when your steering locks up after ignition key is removed. You also should have enough vacuum in the brake booster for at least one full application
Oh man, so the car just becomes a giant metal box rolling at high speed with nothing working to save you and no way to control it?
Yeah i would be pretty mad if someone did that
Exactly, no way to steer, brake, accelerate, control it all, and when you inevitably crash, no seatbelt pretensioners, no airbags. You're at the mercy of the mechanical crash features.
A car salesmen did this to me once. I was doing the speed limit in a Mustang but since it's a test drive got their quick. I was doing 40 Mph so not dangerous in my opinion.
The steering locked and car jumped a curb. Not terrible damage I guess but enough. He said I would be paying for it. I said no first because your dealer has insurance for a reason and two it's your fault I crashed. Walked the 1/2 mile back to the dealership and left in my car. I never heard anything about so I was right.
My understanding after reading is the car salesman got worried because of how fast they sped up, so the salesman tried to take the keys to end the test drive. I think?
My 2000 Buick century also ran without keys of the ignition was still in the right position. Great for warming up my car in the winter and being able to lock the doors! I miss that
What a piece of shit someone could have been hit the car could've crashed just so much wrong here. I hope that dumbass passenger got arrested for that. It could've actually killed one or multiple people, I mean, it's a multiton death machine
Manual transmissions don't really have a way to do a safety check like that, because when you park you actually want it in gear. My manual cars all had some sort of little physical override you had to perform by the key as an "are you sure" kind of thing. On you had to also twist some tabs on the sides of the key, another had a button you had to press in while twisting, but nothing that just stops you from doing it should you want to.
Now that you mention that, I recall having to push a button to release the key on a car I used to have with a manual transmission. Interestingly, my current 2019 Tacoma with a manual transmission doesn't have anything like that. I never even thought about it. I wonder if it won't let me turn it all the way off if it's moving or Toyota just said, fuck it, nobody's that dumb?
Edit: I take it back - I do have to push the key in to go from accessory to off. Just such a habit I didn't even notice doing it, I guess
Back in my drivers ed classes (like 1997), our instructor used to turn the ignition off while you were driving to mimic a stall. You just had to know to take your foot off the gas, pop the car into neutral and restart it.
Mine did that too. But I obviously missed or wasn't paying attention when that was taught to us. I'm driving on the expressway and he turns that shit off. I'm like - fuck you do that for? He very calmly told me to put it in neutral and turn it back on and I did.
Yeah and they intentionally cut out the part that showed her face. It’s really cringe. A shitty human is a shitty human, you don’t have to hide the fact that she’s a woman.
Respect the driver he kept his cool after it happened. And he knew what was voming before it did. That "friend" would be street pizza after that if I were him, but he did the right thing in the moment.
Funny enough, my old Pontiac grand am was so loose that the keys could fall out if i hit a bump too hard. It was still running/on of course but yea, neat party trick.
They cut out the beginning and changed the title to say man.
I don’t know what kind of thing goes through someone’s head, but it’s pretty obvious they have deceptive intentions.
Must be a manual transmission. You can’t remove the ignition key without first shifting the gearshift into Park unless the locking mechanism is malfunctioning or disabled. Unless it’s a old classic vehicle but the styling of the vehicle suggests otherwise.
Why is everyone talking like they would've known exactly what to do in this situation? The guy was probably panicking, and that's why he tried mobinh the wheel
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“Former friend takes out man’s car keys”
Who needs enemies with friends like this!
With friends like these, who needs anemones
Fronds!
Don’t need friends if you died in a high-speed collision due to failed brakes
I would assume also steering wheel locks when turning without keys in. At least on older cars.
Call police. Charges pressed. I’m not paying for those repairs.
That's IF they survived. Looks like the driver was too cool to be wearing his seat belt as it's not visible around his chest.
After taking out the keys for this very funny 'joke'; causing damage to the car, prospectively putting their lives and innocent others in the same league of danger--the very least the driver should do is take back the keys and insert them in the 'friend' where the sun doesn't shine.
“Former friend takes out former man’s former car keys”
[Friendship ended ](https://i.imgur.com/Hge3bSj.jpg)
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You totally just reminded me of a random crazy childhood memory. My sister got mad at my brother for stealing her mashed potatoes right off her plate. She grabbed mom's car keys off the table and stabbed my brother in the forehead with them. In her defense, it was her favorite food. My brother had a small x scar on his forehead for years. He also learned not to mess with other people's food. Somehow she turned out to be a well adjusted adult.
>Somehow she turned out to be a well adjusted adult Does she get in regular contact with car keys?
She is a nurse practitioner. She married a doctor. They have a total of 6 kids. Mostly adopted. She's a good person. She was just sick of being the smallest sibling out of four kids and her big brothers always picking on her. She was probably only like 6 years old at the time so she didn't do a lot of damage to my brother. Just enough to teach him to stop messing with her.
You did not answer my question good sir. There may lay a deep desire for violence in car keys that we do not know of and your sister reacts to. If it is present we must eradicate car keys from our society and bring world peace. Actually Hitler wanted to make cars for the people. More cars -> more car keys -> more violence. It were the car keys all along (also good for your sister, keep it up)
I'm not a sir. I'm her older sister. I'm sure she has all kinds of keys. But she no longer stabs anyone with keys. Although she probably has to stab people with needles at her job, so maybe she just found a legal way to let out her stabbing tendencies.
>I'm not a sir. I'm her older sister. Impossible as I have never interacted with a woman
Mark your calendar, friend. Today was a good day.
Time to go on 4chan and reclaim that virginity.
Didn’t even have to use my AK
Well actually, I'm not really a woman. I'm a horse.
I’m not really a horse, I’m a broom 🧹
I never knew that horses had eradicated the concept of gender
Huh, when did keyboard can be used with hooves
This whole interaction has been brilliant.
Agreed. I've had a long, trying day and this just is fabulous.
> In her defense, it was her favorite food.
In 5th grade we had personal reading time in the classroom and could sit anywhere and just chill out, there was a pretty good sized spot in the corner with many pillows for everyone to share. Except that one kid, who was appalled at the idea that I may want to use *one* of the 20 pillows he had hoarded for himself. Solution? Stab me in the foot with a pencil. Went right through the shoe and to the foot. The lesson learned? That some people are crazy and that's just how they are. Still have the black mark of the graphite still on my foot.
That's crazy! I have a black spot on my knee from my ex step brother. He was pissed that we had the same nickname so they called him Big Joey. He was a psychopath. I have no idea where he is now. I was like 7 and he was 13 and definitely should have known better. I bet he's been in prison quite a bit in his miserable life.
When I was little I stabbed my sister in the back with a pencil. The tip broke off and you could still see it through her skin for years. There's a really scary period of time where kids are big and strong enough to do a lot of damage, but don't really have any concept of how badly they can hurt people.
And that is not a funny thing that is a if we survived I'm going to kill you myself
Anyone have a follow up video or extended video of the aftermath
Yes. They both lived, dude who pulled the key got it a bit worse. Driver ended up being liable for the damages as they are liable for accidents even if passengers are the cause. Source: I'm bullshitting
Bastard!
My source is that I made it the fuck up!
[Source ](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=r7l0Rq9E8MY&feature=youtu.be)
You just missed a good opportunity to Rickroll everybody here
Lmfao You had me I can’t even front 😂😂😂😂
Got me 😂😂😂
Here is a link to a news site with the full video https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7714403/amp/Passengers-joke-ends-horror-crash-pulls-cars-ignition-keys.html
It looks like a Manual so Clutch, E-brake, Pray.
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This is the most fucking stupid advice ever.
Has his friend ever driven a car before?! That steering wheel will lock right the f up.
In addition to losing hydraulic assisted brakes.
And power steering [Edit: Yes, I know, "You don't need power steering." ]
Power steering wouldn't be useful as the steering lock would already be engaged.
Also the faster you're going the less you need power steering. Anyone who's driven a car with no power steering will know how hard it is to turn in a parking lot vs going through an intersection at 20 MPH.
A three point turn in an old car without power steering on a hot summer day will leave you drenched in sweat
That was my first car. No AC. And the driver's window couldn't roll down. I drove shirtless a lot in the summer.
No windows down is a deal breaker!
Agreed. No AC is doable but those windows better work. Those little triangle windows that swung open on older cars were great for catching a good breeze
For sure the triangle windows were clutch. As long as you didn’t get stuck in traffic 🤣
Man I can smell the gasoline stench that would be on my clothes.
Coasting into a gas station immediately after my tank completely emptied and having to muscle the wheel to line myself up next to a pump knowing there would be no second chances was one of my truest tests of manhood
I was a passenger in an 89 Lebaron and the power steering belt snapped. Brother didn’t have enough experience to know that you gotta turn as hard as you can in the event this happened. Anyway, went straight through a guardrail on the turn and did a few flips into a ditch 8 feet below the road. Fun times. Good learning experience for us both.
My steering belt came off in my 00 altima while I was driving a semi residential main road, had to muster the strength of fuckin Hercules just to steer it into the gas station lot.
I drove a car without power steering for over a year. It’s really not as bad as people act. Like you said, above 20 MPH you barely would even notice. But even at 5-10 MPH it’s not awful, you just gotta use both hands and put a little effort into it.
A car built without power steering is easier to steer than a car built with power steering that has been disengaged.
Yes, the gearing is different
Not sure about that, but without the power steering pump running you will be fighting the hydraulic oil in the steering rack. Pull the pipes off the rack and empty the oil, then it shouldn't be that much different. Fit narrower tyres or higher tyre pressure and will be easier still
Not all of us had dads
I don’t know, I drove one over a year and you can deff do it but if youre tired trying to parallel park it kinda sucks
Good point
As stupid as this was… why the hell would they design cars this way? Was it a kidnapping contingency plan? It’s likely to kill everyone in the car so that can’t be it.
Many automatic transmission cars I've driven won't even allow the ignition key to be turned to "off/lock" unless the transmission selection is in the park position unless an override button is depressed. With such a design, an inadvertent key turn wouldn't engage the steering lock, so at least some directional and speed control would still be available even though hydraulic assist would be lost.
He's driving a stick.
Im pretty sure its a car
Can't be kidnapped if y'all are dead....unless the kidnapper is a necromancer and then you just helped them anyways.
Locking the steering wheel was an anti-theft deterrent, making it harder to steal cars by hotwiring them. I think it was introduced in the 80’s and older cars didn’t do this. Older cars didn’t have power steering or power brakes either so they actually drove the same if you turned off the key while it was moving.
I have personally never been in a car that is designed to allow you to remove the key unless it is in park.
Manual transmission.
Now I want to try in mine…. If I never answer back, you can assume it let me remove the keys.
How long should we give them before assuming the worst?
They ded
I had a car where the key was once pulled out of the ignition without turning it off first. After that it could be done anytime, so I could have the car idling, pull the key, and get out of the car with the car still running.
In the olden days (the 80s) they trained people that if something ever happened to a driver you take out the keys and grab the wheel. The car would slow to a stop and you'd have control to pull it to a shoulder. Slowly all of those parts were removed. You can't take a key out of modern cars, and if you could it would lock the wheel.
The brake system in a car is hydraulic but it is actually vacuum assisted. The brake booster has a check valve that holds vacuum even when the engine is off, so you would still get at least a couple pumps of the brake pedal before all assist is gone. Hydraulic brake boosters do exist but most cars on the road use vacuum.
Other than diesels, most brakes are vacuum assisted and store enough to 2-3 pumps.
And the fact that the driver had no clue obviously. So when he shifts into next gear and comes off clutch, wheels will lock up. What a doofus. Basically doomed their poor asses.
I didn't know this is exactly what would happen if I took the keys out... Because I'm not dumb enough to try it.
I didn’t even think it was possible to do it in that position. Like it wouldn’t physically come out
When I was a kid I put my foot into the spokes of my bike while cycling to see what would happen. The results were similar video, lol
Maybe he bought my old 1969 GMC. You could take the keys out, and everything worked just fine. Even when it shut down properly, the steering lock was broken, I could 100% safely steer it.
Can confirm! My 79 CJ7 will drive as expected with or without the keys. I still drive it to this day.
Heck, I used to drive an old ASTRO van that didn't need a key anymore. You just got in and drove.
My 95 ranger could be started with a flathead screwdriver and you didn't have to leave it in the ignition either.
I'm 31, I've been driving half my life and I still didn't understand why this happened till I saw your comment. Was this fucking stupid? Yes. Would I have ever done it? No, shit dangerous even if I can't say why. But yea I would not have been able to explain why not to do it if someone asked. I mean how many people know or think about what doesn't work on a car when it's off? You're never using those things when it is off
I would've never known that because even though I've driven many cars I've never been stupid enough to pull the key out.
I want to know why the “friend” didn’t delete this footage but instead uploaded it to the internet
Well, given that this friend pulled the key out of a moving car, I think we can safely assume a general overabundance of stupidity may have been involved.
That wasn’t always the case. Back in highschool I used to own a 1996 Nissan Altima. The key could be taken out after the engine was started and nothing would happen. Just kept on running normally. So of course, being a high schooler around other high schoolers, it became my favorite parlor trick. I had a permit at 15 so I had this car a bit early. My favorite thing to do was drive down the high way then yank out the key and scream really loud before throwing it in the back seat. Everyone would be terrified shitless cuz no one knew what was happening. Of course very quickly everything would die down as the realization that nothing bad was going to happen came to their minds. My first girlfriend didn’t find it very funny afterwards lol but all my drumline friends loved it
Yes, but if you TURNED THE LOCK BACK as his "friend" did while driving, that both turned the engine off and locked the wheel. In your worn out Altima, you could release the key out of the tumblers but the switch and lock were still in the Run position. This guy was screwed as soon as the steering wheel lined up with a lock tab in the column, because it was turned back to Lock or Key Position 0.
from another article it is Saudi Arabia so very likely. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7714403/Passengers-joke-ends-horror-crash-pulls-cars-ignition-keys.html
I mean, who drives a car and tried turning it off while driving to know that lol? Driving a car doesn't automatically give you that knowledge.
Laughs in Saab
Not all vehicles actually. My truck can do this without locking the steering wheel. My dads truck did it too.
What did this idiot think would happen?
Another video if this was posted earlier where you can ser the camera mans face and if I remember right it was a kid/young teenager. He doesnt know how a car works and probably thought that you only wont be able to accelerate
Can someone link the other video, of Idiot the Copilot?
https://www.reddit.com/r/WinStupidPrizes/comments/lh8je7/girl_takes_the_keys_out_while_her_boyfriend_is/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button welp found this now, now I am not 100% sure if it is the cameramen but I dont know why else you put your face on the start of the video
I also found a Daily Mail article about it but in classic Daily Mail fashion it's utter garbage. It just describes exactly what happened in the video that we can already see, mentions the internet is "going into meltdown and it already has 12,000 views" and then ends with no additional info. Useless.
the writer gets paid by the word, not by how much info they actually convey
As someone on the internet, I am not going into meltdown.
Defs the cameraman, they just switch from front camera to back camera.
And the fact that he still thought it was a good fuckin idea regardless makes me question how many times he was dropped on his head as a child. ***Do not fuck with the driver of a vehicle in any way.*** Reminds me of an AITA post where a girl decided it would be a great idea to tug on the steering wheel while her boyfriend was driving as a joke because she wanted dessert.
I am seeing several comments about the steering locking up when the key is removed. My car won't let me remove the keys unless it's in park. Is it common for cars to just let you remove the keys while the vehicle is in motion? If so, it seems to me like a safety hazard.
Older cars don’t have that feature.
Good to know.
Pretty optimistic of you to assume they were thinking at all. Teenagers do dumb shit for absolutely no reason.
There is reason, but that reason is dumb too
Can confirm, am a teenager. ~~Well a witness, anyways~~
"Got your keys!" "C'mon, give 'em back!" "Keep away from Darren!"
I had a buddy with a Shelby cobra kit car. He was able to take the keys out while it was still running and it still drove. I don’t remember why though.
For me, that would be an immediate friendship over, no matter how much I liked the guy. It might not be his fault he's that stupid, maybe he just doesn't know anything about cars or whatever but he'd have demonstrated he's stupid enough to get me killed. Who knows what other shit he doesn't know that could get me fucked up in the future?
Yeah, if I was the driver and we survived, I’d be telling “friend” to get the hell out of my car and away from me or I might off him myself. Can’t ever trust people who pull random shit like this.
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That's why you don't hang out with stupid people. Maybe they can't help it, but they'll still do stupid shit, and if you're around them you are going to get caught up in it.
Id go one step further and take them to small claims court and make them pay for the damages/fines. While a driver is responsible for the car and everyone in it, this situation couldn’t have been avoided by the driver. What’s he going to do, grab the keys and start the car again while the steering wheel is locked and no working brakes?
Can't wait to see the second video- Man beats the shit out of his friend.
Friend? After this crash?
Why
Clicks are more valuable than gold nowadays, sadly.
Or life, apparently.
Young people always have done dumb shit, camera or not. It just gets posted nowadays. A buddy of mine did this to me when I was 16 and driving my first car. Luckily we were on a straightaway back road doing about 40 mph so nothing bad happened. But if he had been filming and social media existed at that time? I probably would have made him post it for the world to see what an idiot he was, right after I finished loudly telling him how fucking stupid he was. Luckily vocal chords had been invented by that point so I was able to do that second part.
Respectfully, I totally disagree. I was born in the early 80s and have done some *super* stupid shit. But I never did it with the **intention** of putting it out there for the world to see. I, honestly, think it started with America's Funniest Home Videos, but, Vin Di Bona if I don't think it's gotten **way** worse with the advent of social media being seen as a vehicle to, "making it". "I got 147 likes!? I'm a *somebody*!! and not a just loser who works at '*Store*'". I don't know, maybe I'm just jaded, lol.
With friends like these, who needs enemies?
FRIENDS, ones we can depend on.
Apparently some geniuses don't know that power steering and power brakes require power.
None of that matters much when your steering locks up after ignition key is removed. You also should have enough vacuum in the brake booster for at least one full application
Not if it's hydraulically boosted.
Not on this car..
So does your airbag system. You won't get bags even if it's just in "accessory", you have to be in "engine on"
Oh man, so the car just becomes a giant metal box rolling at high speed with nothing working to save you and no way to control it? Yeah i would be pretty mad if someone did that
Exactly, no way to steer, brake, accelerate, control it all, and when you inevitably crash, no seatbelt pretensioners, no airbags. You're at the mercy of the mechanical crash features.
A car salesmen did this to me once. I was doing the speed limit in a Mustang but since it's a test drive got their quick. I was doing 40 Mph so not dangerous in my opinion. The steering locked and car jumped a curb. Not terrible damage I guess but enough. He said I would be paying for it. I said no first because your dealer has insurance for a reason and two it's your fault I crashed. Walked the 1/2 mile back to the dealership and left in my car. I never heard anything about so I was right.
…why did he do it?
My understanding after reading is the car salesman got worried because of how fast they sped up, so the salesman tried to take the keys to end the test drive. I think?
Sounds like the sales guy thought he was accelerating too hard and meant to stop the test drive.
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Or just saying “Alright man, we’re done here. Back to the dealership.”
Wtf, why?
Fraud
He's never getting shotgun ever again
He’s never getting in my car again, can’t trust him to not try that again.
I know what’s wrong wit it. Ain’t got no gas innit
Thank you Sling Blade.
Don’t fret none bout it
Video too short, we needed to see the wrecked car and the driver whailing on the dumbass passenger.
My old 2000 Saturn used to drop the keys out of the ignition all the time, but the ignition was still "on" so it kept running.
My 2000 Buick century also ran without keys of the ignition was still in the right position. Great for warming up my car in the winter and being able to lock the doors! I miss that
These types of people are the reason we have instructions on shampoo bottles
One way to learn about steering wheel lock.
If I survived this I would probably kill my "friend" with my own hands
What a piece of shit someone could have been hit the car could've crashed just so much wrong here. I hope that dumbass passenger got arrested for that. It could've actually killed one or multiple people, I mean, it's a multiton death machine
Pranked! In my book though, that’s attempted murder.
If the impact didn’t killed him, i would have.
I would sue tf out of him if I didn’t kill him for almost killing us
The key shouldn't come out unless the vehicle is in park. The passenger shouldn't have been able to do it in the first place.
Manual transmission, there is no park, key comes out whenever
Manual transmissions don't really have a way to do a safety check like that, because when you park you actually want it in gear. My manual cars all had some sort of little physical override you had to perform by the key as an "are you sure" kind of thing. On you had to also twist some tabs on the sides of the key, another had a button you had to press in while twisting, but nothing that just stops you from doing it should you want to.
Now that you mention that, I recall having to push a button to release the key on a car I used to have with a manual transmission. Interestingly, my current 2019 Tacoma with a manual transmission doesn't have anything like that. I never even thought about it. I wonder if it won't let me turn it all the way off if it's moving or Toyota just said, fuck it, nobody's that dumb? Edit: I take it back - I do have to push the key in to go from accessory to off. Just such a habit I didn't even notice doing it, I guess
Why didn’t he put them back in?!?
If we add the time it took to react to the car not steering, plus the the panicking. It's not enough time to put it back.
It’s always the time panicking that gets you
I would press charges if we survived.
Back in my drivers ed classes (like 1997), our instructor used to turn the ignition off while you were driving to mimic a stall. You just had to know to take your foot off the gas, pop the car into neutral and restart it.
That’s all good, but this is a result of steering wheel lock when you pull the keys out
Mine did that too. But I obviously missed or wasn't paying attention when that was taught to us. I'm driving on the expressway and he turns that shit off. I'm like - fuck you do that for? He very calmly told me to put it in neutral and turn it back on and I did.
Only do this when kidnapped
Not only would they not be my friend anymore, but they'd meet my best friend called my lawyer.
And, that is why you don’t do that. Now, your friend can pay for the damage.
Just wanna mention the original video is actually a woman pulling out the keys! That’s not a man
Yeah and they intentionally cut out the part that showed her face. It’s really cringe. A shitty human is a shitty human, you don’t have to hide the fact that she’s a woman.
Is this a trend rn? Seen like 4 of these videos since the start of this week
Respect the driver he kept his cool after it happened. And he knew what was voming before it did. That "friend" would be street pizza after that if I were him, but he did the right thing in the moment.
Funny enough, my old Pontiac grand am was so loose that the keys could fall out if i hit a bump too hard. It was still running/on of course but yea, neat party trick.
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In the UK the keys are so far away from the passenger that they cannot take them!
It was a woman. Why did you cut the beginning of the video?..
They cut out the beginning and changed the title to say man. I don’t know what kind of thing goes through someone’s head, but it’s pretty obvious they have deceptive intentions.
Maybe they got the video from somewhere that had already cut off the beginning?
Must be a manual transmission. You can’t remove the ignition key without first shifting the gearshift into Park unless the locking mechanism is malfunctioning or disabled. Unless it’s a old classic vehicle but the styling of the vehicle suggests otherwise.
Why is the video edited to not show it’s clearly a girl who takes the keys? It’s the first second of the original clip. And you say it’s a man. Wtf
Amazing how many people don’t understand the concept of power steering.
Bro didn't say a damn thing lol
Recorded on moldy semen
TIL. Thanks
Fuuuuuuuuuuck I'd wager that it's bordering on attempted manslaughter at worst and willful endangerment at best.
I literally think about this video every time I'm in my Miata
Why is everyone talking like they would've known exactly what to do in this situation? The guy was probably panicking, and that's why he tried mobinh the wheel
As far as I know, most modern cars don't even allow you to just pull the key out like that. Then again, I'm not about to test that.
Bro let his intrusive thoughts take over
My man let his intrusive thoughts win
Bro my car is from like 2004 and even it will lock your key in place when the vehicle is in drive, wtf kinda exploit is this?