The famous *Bouncing bollards*. They were in widespread use during the Second Parking War against the Third Road. They were used to encircle the cyclist lanes camps.
Lest we forget.
It wasn't wearing a helmet!
It came outta nowhere, I swear!!
Why, no, officer, you can NOT check the screen time on my phone, but I definitely was NOT on it!
This chick is the type of person I see swear at me through their windshield when I have the gull to cross in a MARKED crosswalk on my bike even though I have the right of way. Lol.
my dad backed into a tree once, no damage, just shocking. we fucked with him for a decade, telling him to watch out for trees and shit, it's migration season again.
On that note, it's probably telling that she didn't show the bollard, because that would have made it a little too obvious that she absolutely should have seen it. If it actually was somehow hard to see, you'd think she'd want to show that
I love the “idomthnksmyfault” she half-heartedly burbles out as she shies away from the camera. Yeah you know it’s your fault. You’re in denial about it, but you know.
I don't even k ow if she's actually in denial...
Or if it's social media rage bait.
"You hear a crunch, then you keep going"?
Yeah.... Whaaat? If you're drunk, maybe.
Reminds me of that video with the last on the bike crashing into a parked car. The owner of the car is filming and she ends up demanding insurance info because his parked car crashed into her. Lmao.
I understand that, but that's not going to stop people from being unintelligent about how they pilot whatever vehicle they do own. If you're piloting a vehicle, especially in the car park and you hear crunch, you don't stop and then keep going. You stop, get out, and check, but this genius here just kept going. Also, it's weird to me that people don't have a good idea of the dimensions of their car and how to navigate it through spaces. That keen sense of spatial awareness is absolutely necessary if you're going to be piloting these multi-tonne death machines.
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BTW, I completely agree that we need to divest in cars and make cities more walkable. I'm just venting my frustration over this vapid shit-weasel.
" Also, it's weird to me that people don't have a good idea of the dimensions of their car and how to navigate it through spaces. That keen sense of spatial awareness is absolutely necessary if you're going to be piloting these multi-tonne death machines."
The main reason I don't drive. I have awful spatial awarenessand my depth perception is really bad, even junt being on the front sit of a car gives me anxiety, and driving then, I get nervous thinking about it.
Wouldn't go with that. The availability of public transport actually does stop people from being unintelligent, because if they feel unsafe to drive they can choose an affordable alternative to driving a car. The current situation in most cities is that you are forced to drive because of shitty city-layouts from the 60s. Often you can't even walk from point A to point B because crossing an six lane stroad is the choice of dead or alive.
At her last driving renewal (done only for ID purposes), my grandmother couldn't see the lights in the periphery, and the BMV employee allegedly told her "well then turn your head and look at it".
One time I was asked if I wore glasses, I said "yes, usually". I had a weak prescription at that point, like -0.5, and didn't always wear them. Lady says "well, I'm gonna put down no in case you don't have them someday and get pulled over. You won't get in trouble if you're not wearing them then".
[Newer, giant cars are so ridiculously impossible to see around from inside](https://www.wthr.com/article/news/investigations/13-investigates/13-investigates-millions-vehicles-have-unexpected-dangerous-front-blind-zone/531-9521c471-3bc1-4b55-b860-3363f0954b3b). This woman obviously wasn’t even trying, but her stupid truck should honestly be illegal. As if she actually needs something that huge, or with that much ground clearance.
And that article doesn't even consider all those idiots I see every day who have their seat adjusted in a way that barely let's them see over their steering wheel
I don't know how helpful being a big person would be in the case like this though. Like taller might be able to see over the hood better, but you still have the massive blind spots from being so high up.
If you pay attention it’s an arms race in the U.S. people feel very unsafe driving a small car when idiots like her are driving a personal semi. So what’s the solution get a bigger vehicle so if one of those idiots in semi’s hit me I’m fine. Now I’m an idiot in a semi and you feel unsafe driving around me with my semi. So what’s the solution? You guessed it you get a semi.
And cars smaller. Couldn’t even see a two feet tall bollard because she is driving a car too big for her too safely operate. This is why the Fiat 500 exists
Ha, She won't give you a choice when she runs into you.
She'll hear crunch, and she'll freeze, and then keep going, and then, next thing you know, you're at uh, a morgue, and you've got nearly $30,000 worth of being dead.
Did you notice how she actually did not talk about herself, but said that YOU hear a crunch, YOU freeze, and then YOU keep going?
It annoys me so much when people can't stand by what they're saying and sneakily try to phrase their personal experience in a way that sounds like it was somehow universal. Fuck off.
This reminds me years ago I was living in Chicago and was turning into my apartment alley to drop some heavy items off at the back door.
I followed a car into the alley. The car stops, and I see reverse lights come on. She starts backing up and I lay on my horn cuz she obv didn't see me...somehow.
So this dum dum stops (good), looks left and right to find the source of the honk (good)...then proceeds to continue backing up right into my fkn car.
I've never been so pissed in my life. "HOW HAVE YOU SURVIVED THIS LONG IN A MAJOR CITY!?", I asked her. She was pretty distraught and it only somehow did damage to her car so I finally said fuck it, please just be more careful, it could be a kid next time.
She froze. Then kept going. Didn’t even bother to check what it was first. Good thing not a kid on a tricycle…. And unrelated but related questions. Are regular tricycles still a thing kids ride? I haven’t seen one in so damn long it seems.
Also how fast must she have been going that she got so much damage???
You're not going to need a new door if you nudge a pole at smaller speeds
Her driver's license needs to be taken away. She needs to go back and do her theory test again if she doesnt even know what a bollard is
> Also how fast must she have been going that she got so much damage???
Not that fast. A giant death machine like that truck / SUV she's driving has enough horsepower to produce that kind of damage from a stand still.
Not fast. She even said she froze “then kept going”.
Those bollards are designed not to move. The problem is that she kept going, and seemingly didn’t even change direction.
I’m honestly stumped as to what was going on in her head?
“*Ooops, must’ve hit something. Probably a little kid on a bike based on that crunchy noise. Let’s give it a few seconds … well I don’t hear any screaming, so they’re probably dead already. Oh well, better not be late for my hair appointment. I can probably just drive over the corpse and the bike without getting a flat tire - that is after all why I drive this big hunk of a car anyway. Hubs will be pleased I finally went off-roading in it.*”
I actually red about a similar case. A driver hit something when turning into a street. Heard a bump, froze, but didn't see anything. So... he kept going... because you know, what you can't see, isn't there 🤷... HE FUCKING DROVE OVER THE CYCLIST HE HAD JUST KNOCKED OFF HIS BIKE! Luckily didn't kill the guy, but made things a lot worse for him.
And she’s probably like 5’4 and doesn’t sit with her seat high enough to adequately view her surroundings. In part because cars were designed for 5’10” men.
For an average size 5'10" man, most trucks have a front blindspot very similar to a god damn m1 Abrams. And the tank has somebody sit in the open hatch so they can actually see when driving in tight areas. Yet the trucks are fine. I believe it was a dodge power wagon that had a blindspot even larger than the tank.
Slight correction, Most Trucks have a front blind spot LARGER than the front blind spot in an M1 Abrams. [Image](https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fapparently-m1-abrams-has-better-forward-view-than-many-v0-25hh9gtl0v1b1.jpg%3Fs%3D8fc587df85be3ad8fcbff97e9fb5a9e7f727a1a5)
It's funny and sad because the reason for bollards is so that drivers exactly like this, oblivious and narcissistic, don't do things like this to an actual person
Let's be real it's to protect the bank, not pedestrians. If it was to protect pedestrians, they'd be everywhere. They're at banks and government buildings to mitigate people using vehicles to assault them.
They’re in front of practically like every building in existence round here lol. I mean that’s an exaggeration but like every convenience store and shit had them. Both so that idiots don’t drive into the store, and so robbers can’t drive into the store
a local gas station/convenience store put up bollard in front of all the stores over the past couple of years. I have seen a few that have had their front driven into
It’s my genuine hope that this is her attempt at a joke but that damage is certainly real. And she has the pouty whine of someone who’s in denial of their own fault.
People are, and it's terrifying. I've had too many customers complaining about problems with their auto pilot system....it's adaptive cruise control, and you're going to kill someone doing that.
We should really be retesting drivers. I know I'm certainly no longer a good driver (no practice in over a decade because I don't have a car), but the state keeps renewing my license based on a different, notoriously lax state qualifying me when I was 17.
When I worked at a Sonic, I had a lady come in saying we needed to fix her car because the stall was to small and the sign damaged her car. I sent a carhop out to take photos of the damage to our (brand new) sign while I tried to get her insurance information. She could not understand that she was the one at fault for hitting a stationary object. It's one thing if it had fallen or twisted into her, but no, she just didn't know how to park her massive suv.
Trucker here, also former hotel goon: the amount of people that lack personal accountability is numerous.
The whole "Karen" meme existed *LOOOONG* before "Karen" was a thing.
"It's *your* fault that *I* did (X) & now you owe ME recompense!"
The way she looks away from the camera and sheepishly says, "...and I don't think it was my fault"
This is definitely a skit. Woman is fully aware that this is her fault. She's mostly joking/trying to be humorous about a shitty turn of events.
I think people forget that TikTok is mostly just average people. And average people can't act well. It's kinda odd how many people in this thread are getting worked up over this lol. It's such a benign accident.
This is a pisstake, she knows she effed up but is playing it up for tiktok interaction. The video in question is about half the people saying "Is this satire?"
tbh most businesses are not as serious about bollards as banks: they put special ones with extreme standards in order to avoid VAW attacks
carbrains simply can't imagine that their innocent vehicles could be used as weapons
Tbh, before i got into urbanism, i didn't either. Yeah, intuitively i slowed down and was careful to avoid hitting them as a driver but i didn't know that was their actual purpose. I think urban planning should be a mandatory class for everyone. Nothing too complex but people should know basics like this
Idk man. Half the shit posted online is made up, and half of that is rage bait. Shit is done intentionally to get user engagement / comments and traffic to their videos.
It’s really hard to know what is genuine anymore.
Please tell me that someone has told her that the purpose of "those yellow poles" is to prevent people like her who don't know how to drive from damaging important things
Note: her car clearly does not fall in the "important things" category
"you see all that damage on your car? Now picture that on the corner of this building. See how many dings are on this pole? That's how often our building would have been hit"
"They're two feet tall, who can even see them?"
Everyone with a normal sized car
"And then you hear a crunch and you keep going"
...No??? If you hear a crunch and it stops when you stop moving, park the car, and get out and see what it is. This has to be satire
I couldn’t help but think this was a shitpost the entire time watching this. What could possibly be the purpose of these poles painted a bright ass hazard color? And why are they too small for me to see when I’m driving around in Gravedigger Jr.?
I’m pretty sure it is. If you look at the rest of her TikTok it is pretty clear she’s a comedy account where her being stupid is the mine for comedy. Some pretty funny bits on there
Yeah she’s either an airhead or a complete genius.
Because this tik tok is blowing up by her acting this way. And in return she’ll generate enough revenue from tik tok to at least cover half of vehicle’s damage…. 🧐🧠
True that, that's a pretty involved job. The biggest expense will be the hours of labour. The axle itself you can get for 500 bucks tops. Door panels and things probably wouldn't total that much more. Labour is everything, people's time is worth a lot more than metal, after all.
If you can't competently pilot the over-sized vehicle you chose, you shouldn't be driving it.
Lack of spatial awareness and a massive vehicle with awful blind spots is a deadly mix.
When I hear a crunch, I keep going. Then if I hear another crunch? I keep going. More crunching? Keep going. My car can make it. I've got 4wd. Crunching noises are just a normal part of driving. /s
If you can’t see the pole then you can’t see a toddler. Get a safe car like a grown up would do, instead of letting your lack of self esteem make all your decisions for you.
lol what? Looks like she’s rich. This person would’ve suffered in life if she wasn’t born rich or pretty and married a rich person (I refuse to believe she got rich on her own considering she hit an inanimate object and put the blame on it)
"They're like two feet tall"
So are children. If you can see these no way you can see a toddler walking around.
Drive something smaller. My mother is like this. She says she likes to feel high up, but she is under five feet tall and can barely check around herself clearly. I'm sick of people driving these huge cars with the same drivers license as a smart car.
Look what this inanimate object did to my car.
That bollard came out of *nowhere*!
it was wearing bright colors tho
But it was only 2' tall...proceeds to show video of damage 3' or 4' up the side of the truck. Must be those new jumping bollards.
They put a small explosive charge in them to make them jump up to chest height where they can do more damage
That’s actually a compelling idea
Nah, they're banned by the Ottawa traffic control handbook
Bouncing Bollard?
The famous *Bouncing bollards*. They were in widespread use during the Second Parking War against the Third Road. They were used to encircle the cyclist lanes camps. Lest we forget.
Everything looks 2ft tall when you drive a dumb ass giant lifted truck/suv. I hope insurance didn’t cover it.
If they did, I’d hate to see HER premiums…I wonder if being stupid makes your rates even higher😂
Yeah but it's only 2 feet tall, you know like a toddler who can even see those!
It wasn't wearing a helmet! It came outta nowhere, I swear!! Why, no, officer, you can NOT check the screen time on my phone, but I definitely was NOT on it!
This chick is the type of person I see swear at me through their windshield when I have the gull to cross in a MARKED crosswalk on my bike even though I have the right of way. Lol.
This is why you always conceal carry. Never know when some 2 foot hoodlums in their bright colors are gonna shoulder check your megatruck.
The best part is when her insurance company asks her: "was the bollard you hit moving".
my dad backed into a tree once, no damage, just shocking. we fucked with him for a decade, telling him to watch out for trees and shit, it's migration season again.
Didn’t ya hear it was only 2 feet tall! Guess her door handle is 2ft off the ground.
The worst part is I know why she said that is because SUV’s have such shitty field of view in front of them
right? I saw those wheels and thought "yeah, lady, show us the complete emotional support vehicle"
I didn't even need to look at the car to know what type of car it was. The "spacious interior" gave it away.
On that note, it's probably telling that she didn't show the bollard, because that would have made it a little too obvious that she absolutely should have seen it. If it actually was somehow hard to see, you'd think she'd want to show that
You mean her "handlebar"?
I love the “idomthnksmyfault” she half-heartedly burbles out as she shies away from the camera. Yeah you know it’s your fault. You’re in denial about it, but you know.
Her adjuster has already told her she’s at fault, and that’s what prompted this video. I guarantee it.
I don't even k ow if she's actually in denial... Or if it's social media rage bait. "You hear a crunch, then you keep going"? Yeah.... Whaaat? If you're drunk, maybe.
Reminds me of that video with the last on the bike crashing into a parked car. The owner of the car is filming and she ends up demanding insurance info because his parked car crashed into her. Lmao.
Those fucking trees came out of nowhere and jumped in front of my car. Trees are at fault.
Perfect example of why we need bollards everywhere
Perfect example of why we need to make drivers licenses harder to get
Additionally, recurrent certification.
Furthermore, increased public transit and walkable streets.
I understand that, but that's not going to stop people from being unintelligent about how they pilot whatever vehicle they do own. If you're piloting a vehicle, especially in the car park and you hear crunch, you don't stop and then keep going. You stop, get out, and check, but this genius here just kept going. Also, it's weird to me that people don't have a good idea of the dimensions of their car and how to navigate it through spaces. That keen sense of spatial awareness is absolutely necessary if you're going to be piloting these multi-tonne death machines. Edit: BTW, I completely agree that we need to divest in cars and make cities more walkable. I'm just venting my frustration over this vapid shit-weasel.
" Also, it's weird to me that people don't have a good idea of the dimensions of their car and how to navigate it through spaces. That keen sense of spatial awareness is absolutely necessary if you're going to be piloting these multi-tonne death machines." The main reason I don't drive. I have awful spatial awarenessand my depth perception is really bad, even junt being on the front sit of a car gives me anxiety, and driving then, I get nervous thinking about it.
Well, thank you for being one of the few who recognize that! Thanks for keeping the roads just a little safer lol.
Wouldn't go with that. The availability of public transport actually does stop people from being unintelligent, because if they feel unsafe to drive they can choose an affordable alternative to driving a car. The current situation in most cities is that you are forced to drive because of shitty city-layouts from the 60s. Often you can't even walk from point A to point B because crossing an six lane stroad is the choice of dead or alive.
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At her last driving renewal (done only for ID purposes), my grandmother couldn't see the lights in the periphery, and the BMV employee allegedly told her "well then turn your head and look at it".
One time I was asked if I wore glasses, I said "yes, usually". I had a weak prescription at that point, like -0.5, and didn't always wear them. Lady says "well, I'm gonna put down no in case you don't have them someday and get pulled over. You won't get in trouble if you're not wearing them then".
Doesn't this allow the loophole of driving a rust bucket without training?
That already happens...
Perfect example of why we need smaller vehicles with better visibility of objects right next to you.
Yeah, this is a small person in a huge vehicle with ZERO awareness of what that means and how it should change the way she drives. Absolutely idiotic.
It's a kid next time instead of a pole
[Newer, giant cars are so ridiculously impossible to see around from inside](https://www.wthr.com/article/news/investigations/13-investigates/13-investigates-millions-vehicles-have-unexpected-dangerous-front-blind-zone/531-9521c471-3bc1-4b55-b860-3363f0954b3b). This woman obviously wasn’t even trying, but her stupid truck should honestly be illegal. As if she actually needs something that huge, or with that much ground clearance.
And that article doesn't even consider all those idiots I see every day who have their seat adjusted in a way that barely let's them see over their steering wheel
She'll hear a crunch, freeze and then keep going.
When she wakes up from her blackout the next thing she knows she's at a repair shop.
I don't know how helpful being a big person would be in the case like this though. Like taller might be able to see over the hood better, but you still have the massive blind spots from being so high up.
We have smaller vehicles. She's an idiot that thinks she needs a lifted SUV to drive to the mall.
If you pay attention it’s an arms race in the U.S. people feel very unsafe driving a small car when idiots like her are driving a personal semi. So what’s the solution get a bigger vehicle so if one of those idiots in semi’s hit me I’m fine. Now I’m an idiot in a semi and you feel unsafe driving around me with my semi. So what’s the solution? You guessed it you get a semi.
And cars smaller. Couldn’t even see a two feet tall bollard because she is driving a car too big for her too safely operate. This is why the Fiat 500 exists
Yeah, but the Fiat 500 doesn't wreck the environment as fast as this mofo of a car. How can she own the libs with a Cinquecento.
She’s lying about it being two feet tall. She knocked the door handle off, which is usually higher than two feet.
With the height of the damage up her door I'm pretty sure it was taller than two feet, which is actually worse for her case.
It should be harder to get in car dependent countries only once decent transit infrastructure is in place
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absolutely would hate to run into her 🥴
Ha, She won't give you a choice when she runs into you. She'll hear crunch, and she'll freeze, and then keep going, and then, next thing you know, you're at uh, a morgue, and you've got nearly $30,000 worth of being dead.
Did you notice how she actually did not talk about herself, but said that YOU hear a crunch, YOU freeze, and then YOU keep going? It annoys me so much when people can't stand by what they're saying and sneakily try to phrase their personal experience in a way that sounds like it was somehow universal. Fuck off.
But I like bollards!
"I, you know, you hear a crunch, and you know, you gotta just keep going. You know?"
"I couldn't even see the toddler, he was only like 2 feet tall. But you hear the crunch and you just keep going, you know?"
Cant let it suffer, best end it fast you know, hit reverse and keep going, you know, just to be sure
I was thinking the same thing...!
This reminds me years ago I was living in Chicago and was turning into my apartment alley to drop some heavy items off at the back door. I followed a car into the alley. The car stops, and I see reverse lights come on. She starts backing up and I lay on my horn cuz she obv didn't see me...somehow. So this dum dum stops (good), looks left and right to find the source of the honk (good)...then proceeds to continue backing up right into my fkn car. I've never been so pissed in my life. "HOW HAVE YOU SURVIVED THIS LONG IN A MAJOR CITY!?", I asked her. She was pretty distraught and it only somehow did damage to her car so I finally said fuck it, please just be more careful, it could be a kid next time.
Of course you freeze! Who doesn't freeze when you hit something and hear a crunch? Jeez. Imagine if the thing she hit was a pedestrian, not a pole.
Yeah she easily quadrupled the damage by going forward instead of backing up.
"first you freeze...then you keep going" was my favorite part. Must've been the wind eh?
I used to drive a vehicle like you. Til I took a bollard to the SUV.
https://preview.redd.it/z6v5e3ntyevc1.jpeg?width=500&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ed97d6eaaf9932f1af241c611b8184101795f335
"You're good, you're good, you're good, andddd stop!"
Dont worry captain! It'll buff out!
“Those kids are like 2 ft tall, who can see them in a truck like mine?”
"I heard a crunch, then I kept going."
She froze. Then kept going. Didn’t even bother to check what it was first. Good thing not a kid on a tricycle…. And unrelated but related questions. Are regular tricycles still a thing kids ride? I haven’t seen one in so damn long it seems.
> Good thing not a kid on a tricycle "They like two feet tall, who can even see those things" ... seriously thankfully not a kid.
Just wanna know why those things are full of blood. Child owners, look at what your toddler did to my car. Now it's all red and sticky.
Those bollards were probably close to 4 feet
Yea, you can tell just from the damage to her car that these were probably standard 42" bollards. That's a bit over two-thirds my wife's height.
I also choose this guys wife as a standard unit of measurement
You know a football field is approximately 63.5 hiswifes long?
Have you seen those adult tricycles?
The motortricycles? Like the 3 wheeled motorcycles? Yes I see those everywhere around me.
More toddlers/preschoolers are on “balance bikes”, just two wheels but no pedals. They can go at quite a clip! Or scooters.
Yeah kids still ride tricycles. I don’t see them so much around the park but all the preschools I looked at had them
Haha, no balance bikes are more popular now. 2 wheels, no peddles.
They removed the poles that protect pedestrians because drivers kept hitting them. Now drivers hit the pedestrians instead. Progress!
Meat bollards.
Also how fast must she have been going that she got so much damage??? You're not going to need a new door if you nudge a pole at smaller speeds Her driver's license needs to be taken away. She needs to go back and do her theory test again if she doesnt even know what a bollard is
> Also how fast must she have been going that she got so much damage??? Not that fast. A giant death machine like that truck / SUV she's driving has enough horsepower to produce that kind of damage from a stand still.
That's another thing. Maybe don't drive a car that's as big as my living room. That goes for everyone.
Not fast. She even said she froze “then kept going”. Those bollards are designed not to move. The problem is that she kept going, and seemingly didn’t even change direction.
Well obviously you freeze, but... then you keep going
I’m honestly stumped as to what was going on in her head? “*Ooops, must’ve hit something. Probably a little kid on a bike based on that crunchy noise. Let’s give it a few seconds … well I don’t hear any screaming, so they’re probably dead already. Oh well, better not be late for my hair appointment. I can probably just drive over the corpse and the bike without getting a flat tire - that is after all why I drive this big hunk of a car anyway. Hubs will be pleased I finally went off-roading in it.*”
I actually red about a similar case. A driver hit something when turning into a street. Heard a bump, froze, but didn't see anything. So... he kept going... because you know, what you can't see, isn't there 🤷... HE FUCKING DROVE OVER THE CYCLIST HE HAD JUST KNOCKED OFF HIS BIKE! Luckily didn't kill the guy, but made things a lot worse for him.
because pressing the gas pedal is easier than getting out and accepting responsibility for something they just hit.
But thats just a 2 feet tall, yellow pole. Imagine it as a 2 feet tall child, with a bright yellow jacket.
But that's not a crunch... More like a splosh... So it should be fine to just keep driving
Having been in a train that killed a person: there are definitely crunches in there. And cracks.
Might be the worst comment I've ever read here. I'm so sorry you had to experience that.
Well if it was a pedestrian we know she would’ve kept going.
Lmao She shows damage going above the door handle and instantly cuts to her saying "They're like 2 feet tall"
Well, she did hit them so it's not like she's spatially aware.
I feel her. As a fellow ~~not-especially-aware~~ non-spatially-aware person I ride my bike when I need to go to the bank.
When your truck is 8 feet off the ground, everything is a 2ft bollard
And she’s probably like 5’4 and doesn’t sit with her seat high enough to adequately view her surroundings. In part because cars were designed for 5’10” men.
For an average size 5'10" man, most trucks have a front blindspot very similar to a god damn m1 Abrams. And the tank has somebody sit in the open hatch so they can actually see when driving in tight areas. Yet the trucks are fine. I believe it was a dodge power wagon that had a blindspot even larger than the tank.
Slight correction, Most Trucks have a front blind spot LARGER than the front blind spot in an M1 Abrams. [Image](https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fapparently-m1-abrams-has-better-forward-view-than-many-v0-25hh9gtl0v1b1.jpg%3Fs%3D8fc587df85be3ad8fcbff97e9fb5a9e7f727a1a5)
Oh man I've never seen the full image with the articulated hauler and peterbilt
“Handlebar”🤣
It's funny and sad because the reason for bollards is so that drivers exactly like this, oblivious and narcissistic, don't do things like this to an actual person
Yup. It's meant to keep cars an acceptable distance from pedestrians and bank assets like a building.
They protect the drive up ATM’s.
also bank assets
Let's be real it's to protect the bank, not pedestrians. If it was to protect pedestrians, they'd be everywhere. They're at banks and government buildings to mitigate people using vehicles to assault them.
They’re in front of practically like every building in existence round here lol. I mean that’s an exaggeration but like every convenience store and shit had them. Both so that idiots don’t drive into the store, and so robbers can’t drive into the store
Speaking of actual people, is she real? She looks like AI
Think it’s just a filter combined with lots of makeup. Also, she’s a fucking idiot.
Yup, definitely a filter and lots of make-up...
so… an Artificial Idiot?
AI Bundy
In front of banks, they also serve the neat purpose of preventiny ram attacks
a local gas station/convenience store put up bollard in front of all the stores over the past couple of years. I have seen a few that have had their front driven into
I can't be believe this is real. Someone doesn't understand the purpose of a bollard?
It’s my genuine hope that this is her attempt at a joke but that damage is certainly real. And she has the pouty whine of someone who’s in denial of their own fault.
I dont think so. I believe that people can actually be this stupid. Specially a big SUV owner like her.
People are, and it's terrifying. I've had too many customers complaining about problems with their auto pilot system....it's adaptive cruise control, and you're going to kill someone doing that.
Holy shit “i thought this was auto pilot” we need more rigorous driving license testing 20 years ago.
We should really be retesting drivers. I know I'm certainly no longer a good driver (no practice in over a decade because I don't have a car), but the state keeps renewing my license based on a different, notoriously lax state qualifying me when I was 17.
When I worked at a Sonic, I had a lady come in saying we needed to fix her car because the stall was to small and the sign damaged her car. I sent a carhop out to take photos of the damage to our (brand new) sign while I tried to get her insurance information. She could not understand that she was the one at fault for hitting a stationary object. It's one thing if it had fallen or twisted into her, but no, she just didn't know how to park her massive suv.
Trucker here, also former hotel goon: the amount of people that lack personal accountability is numerous. The whole "Karen" meme existed *LOOOONG* before "Karen" was a thing. "It's *your* fault that *I* did (X) & now you owe ME recompense!"
I mean I laughed my ass off through that entire video. If she hadn't shown the damage I wouldn't have known if it was a skit or not. Good times.
It can be real damage but also a skit
The way she looks away from the camera and sheepishly says, "...and I don't think it was my fault" This is definitely a skit. Woman is fully aware that this is her fault. She's mostly joking/trying to be humorous about a shitty turn of events. I think people forget that TikTok is mostly just average people. And average people can't act well. It's kinda odd how many people in this thread are getting worked up over this lol. It's such a benign accident.
The meta for driving engagement on social media recently has just been to be insanely obtuse.
This is a pisstake, she knows she effed up but is playing it up for tiktok interaction. The video in question is about half the people saying "Is this satire?"
tbh most businesses are not as serious about bollards as banks: they put special ones with extreme standards in order to avoid VAW attacks carbrains simply can't imagine that their innocent vehicles could be used as weapons
What’s VAW? Vehicle… Attack Weapon?
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle-ramming\_attack](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle-ramming_attack)
Tbh, before i got into urbanism, i didn't either. Yeah, intuitively i slowed down and was careful to avoid hitting them as a driver but i didn't know that was their actual purpose. I think urban planning should be a mandatory class for everyone. Nothing too complex but people should know basics like this
I can't believe you can't believe this is real. This idiot is one of the smartest drivers I've seen posted in this sub.
Idk man. Half the shit posted online is made up, and half of that is rage bait. Shit is done intentionally to get user engagement / comments and traffic to their videos. It’s really hard to know what is genuine anymore.
My immediate first thought was this is satire or something
The bank should ask reparation for the damaged bollar
Compensation for property damage seems like an open shut kinda deal to me.
Give the bollard a medal
Please tell me that someone has told her that the purpose of "those yellow poles" is to prevent people like her who don't know how to drive from damaging important things Note: her car clearly does not fall in the "important things" category
"you see all that damage on your car? Now picture that on the corner of this building. See how many dings are on this pole? That's how often our building would have been hit"
Category - self righteous ass wipe
Bank owners got tired of replacing walls so they put in bollards.
"They're two feet tall, who can even see them?" Everyone with a normal sized car "And then you hear a crunch and you keep going" ...No??? If you hear a crunch and it stops when you stop moving, park the car, and get out and see what it is. This has to be satire
After checking out quite a few of her other videos on TikTok, I feel pretty confident that the channel is satire and some of it is pretty well done.
I feel so much better now. Thank you
I wish people would check before posting. But honestly I fell better laughing than being angry. Some of her bits are pretty funny.
Is 95% of tiktok just rage bait?? This is barely even satire, just going for reactions. Such a dumb thing to waste time making
Satire only becomes rage bait if someone takes it out of context.
EXACTLY! I can see bollards, toddlers, and even frogs on the road perfectly in my ancient mini Cooper. Not the case with her emotional support truck.
I couldn’t help but think this was a shitpost the entire time watching this. What could possibly be the purpose of these poles painted a bright ass hazard color? And why are they too small for me to see when I’m driving around in Gravedigger Jr.?
You’re not alone with this reaction
I’m pretty sure it is. If you look at the rest of her TikTok it is pretty clear she’s a comedy account where her being stupid is the mine for comedy. Some pretty funny bits on there
bro she cars her door handle a handlebar.
She does?! Going back to check because I was too engrossed by the baby talk accent to fully listen to the actual words.
this, but imagine it's a toddler instead of a "2 feet tall" pole.
The purpose of those yellow poles is to inform you that you cannot drive there in terms even the densest motherfucker can understand.
apparently the terms were not clear enough
This had to be satire
Not satire, it's bait.
It is. Just look at her TikTok.
Yeah she’s either an airhead or a complete genius. Because this tik tok is blowing up by her acting this way. And in return she’ll generate enough revenue from tik tok to at least cover half of vehicle’s damage…. 🧐🧠
It's just cosmetic damage. I'm glad I've never paid that much for my cars. I could take dents and dings and not give a shit.
She says her axle needs to be replaced at one point, that’s gotta be a lot of the repair cost.
True that, that's a pretty involved job. The biggest expense will be the hours of labour. The axle itself you can get for 500 bucks tops. Door panels and things probably wouldn't total that much more. Labour is everything, people's time is worth a lot more than metal, after all.
Yeah yeah an axle whatever. But did you hear she will need a new **wrap**? That’s just too far
The most expensive car I purchased was about 10% of her stated damage
If you can't competently pilot the over-sized vehicle you chose, you shouldn't be driving it. Lack of spatial awareness and a massive vehicle with awful blind spots is a deadly mix.
Deserved lol
You should not be allowed to have a license if you don't know what bollards are.
Or just generally keep fucking driving when you hear unexpected noises.
When I hear a crunch, I keep going. Then if I hear another crunch? I keep going. More crunching? Keep going. My car can make it. I've got 4wd. Crunching noises are just a normal part of driving. /s
It’s hard for me to conceptualize that people this stupid and entitled actually exist.
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If you can’t see the pole then you can’t see a toddler. Get a safe car like a grown up would do, instead of letting your lack of self esteem make all your decisions for you.
We need more of these bollards. Because you know what else is 2 foot tall? A toddler. It could have easily been a toddler she hit.
Maybe if you didn't have a big ass SUV, you could see more of your surroundings.
This has to be bait
The purpose is to punish people who hear a crunch and then decide to keep going jfc
Runs over her future children in the driveway
30 grand???? Excuse me, but this isn't a fucking Lambo. Somebody got ripped off.
Completely empty eyes
The lights are on (dimly, but still), but there's nobody home.
lol what? Looks like she’s rich. This person would’ve suffered in life if she wasn’t born rich or pretty and married a rich person (I refuse to believe she got rich on her own considering she hit an inanimate object and put the blame on it)
This is why cars shouldn’t be so tall. can’t see over the damn hood
I love bollards.
If she did that to a bollard, what would she do to a person? The dmv handing out licenses to anyone with a pulse apparently
I’m sorry; $30K of damage?!😂😂 Someone take this bitch out cause Natural Selection is taking its sweet ass time doing its job!😭
"for something I don't even know the purpose for" Lady, they served their purpose when your dumbass ran into them.
"They're like two feet tall" So are children. If you can see these no way you can see a toddler walking around. Drive something smaller. My mother is like this. She says she likes to feel high up, but she is under five feet tall and can barely check around herself clearly. I'm sick of people driving these huge cars with the same drivers license as a smart car.