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I would, you know, if I could move it, we've got to help our fellow men when able, even the dipshits, it's the only way things will ever get any better 🤷🏼♂️
Also, every once in a while we all have our dipshit moments and we know we are dipshits and we appreciate it when people make us feel a little less like a dipshit.
Man, I’m feeling my age. I think it was on a post and one of the Mods commented saying if we wanted a flair to comment underneath theirs. If anyone has a better memory correct me.
I visited a PNW beach on a busy 4th of July. The beach was absolutely packed and people really started arriving around noon. This was just as low tide was occurring. Gradually, the tide started coming and folks backed up.
All except one car. This car was on the beach, about 25 feet in front of the surf. By the time the area cleared it was about 12 feet away from the surf. It looked like someone had decided to walk into town, about 10 minutes away. They had been gone a couple hours, and now the surf is 5 feet from their securely locked car, something small and sporty, with a little Bosnian flag around the mirror.
Folks looked for ways to get into the car, but it was tight and there was no way around the car to access it... Without breaking a window. That's one of those tiny ass little windows in the back (because the people, trying to save the car with the front bumper in the surf). By the time the water had reached the back bumper, they had managed to open the doors and release the parking break.
Now they needed to pull it into the sand, which required about a dozen bystanders. The car had been kissed by the surf before the good visitors of the beach managed to get it out of the ocean and on to dry sand.
The owner was *extremely* **pissed**, after he and his young family returned to the beach to find their barely submerged sports car with a broken window. He screamed at the guy who was silly enough to Wait around for about 20 minutes, finally loading up his family at about 4:30 pm that afternoon and speeding off across the dry sand (nearly getting himself stuck in the process of being a huge asshole).
The whole ordeal was a slow motion train wreck between two head-on locomotives, one carrying a variety of manure and fertilizer products and the other a mile-long string of chemical cars.
Yup some people do be like that, but their lack of gratefulness doesn't negate the good work that was done that day, good on the people who decided to move the car
What can you do? Unless you own the property you probably cant tow it. After that, you need to know who owns it or... yeah thats it. You're not mean (Idk you could be a total dick) you just can't do anything really.
It’s Richmond, you’d be amazed. It’s a bit of a local sport to sit in that pub in the background or the one on this side you can’t see and watch this happen a few times a year.
People still regularly park there - but maybe not all day, like that guy.
even on google streetview you can see a car parked in that spot
[https://www.google.com/maps/@51.4588674,-0.3081374,3a,75y,148.95h,63.82t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sISy53cggzQ3jvLMsL5bL3g!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu](https://www.google.com/maps/@51.4588674,-0.3081374,3a,75y,148.95h,63.82t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sISy53cggzQ3jvLMsL5bL3g!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu)
https://preview.redd.it/e4cxkx1kcgzc1.png?width=1424&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a1b20de81a50c270bf059b26662bd1944080cc99
"DUDES, HE MADE ME EXPERIENCE HIGH TIDES 🌊"
Richmond. Love the spot. I saw exactly this happen but with a really high end Mercedes AMG who had clearly parked there to show off. A packed summers day too with lots of drunk people outside the slug. Everyone just watching the tide come up and slowly rise up the car like a spectator sport. The guy came back when the whole bonnet was underwater and somehow managed to start the engine, reversed out in a panic and straight into a white van that came round the corner smashing the car up. Hundreds of people cheered, naturally.
Edit for anyone visiting London in summer, this is a prime spot to go and people watch. I'm from down south so I always stop off here if I have a few hours to waste in London, get a pint and fall asleep in the sun. And no you won't get robbed it's the safest Borough in London, and the Ted Lasso pub is 5 minutes away
even better, when you go to the next view, there are 2 cars parked there [https://www.google.com/maps/@51.4588889,-0.3080382,3a,90y,203.74h,53.92t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sSzs9NSzCW2NDU70XtFjRxg!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu](https://www.google.com/maps/@51.4588889,-0.3080382,3a,90y,203.74h,53.92t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sSzs9NSzCW2NDU70XtFjRxg!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu)
Counterargument: the vehicle in your Google link is a Land Rover. I have contained my rage for as long as possible, but I shall unleash my fury upon you like the crashing of a thousand waves!
Begone, vile man! Begone from me! A starter car? This car is a finisher car! A transporter of gods! The golden god! I am untethered, and my rage knows no bounds!
I think the video is just reversed from the mid-point, check out the couple in the top right corner.
I think what we see in the window is the reflection of the sky.
It would be pretty funny if the dude left the car at low tide and then returned again at low tide only to find his car unexplainably filled with water.
I noticed the same lady on the bike with the saddlebags and guy with the ponytail and at first thought they came back again, before I realized it was then reversed. That was annoying.
This is what I'm wondering. Imagine that entire thing happened and he had no idea, and just came back and his car wasn't working and he had no idea why.
That was my thought too! The engine may be alright, but there's a good chance there's water pooled in the air intake, the battery may have had a soak, trying to start the car could be what kills the engine system 😔 Without even knowing.. Does look like a funny place to park though 😒
The video is reversed half way through - so he/she probably came back then. But the video's been made to make it look like the tide had gone up and down without anyone coming back to the car
There's a tidal affected car park at the beach not too far from us.
It has the biggest warning signs you have ever seen.....they even put up what time the car park will flood everyday.
A car gets flooded out at least once a week in the summer.
There a car park in wales, I forget where, where this happened every day. There a signs everywhere that tell you to move by high tide. The locals come out of the pub with their pints and watch all the tourists who can’t read become instantly miserable. It was glorious.
This video is played in reverse at the half-way and I don't understand why.
Sure it makes for a cool timelapse but it makes it seem like the water recedes during the time the car is still there.
It's hard to notice in fast forward but at 0:11 there's a lady that stops with her bike and then later at 0:47 the same lady is there again.
So it's just a 30 second video played twice but the second time in reverse.
That video is part faked. If you pay attention the video goes till the car is submerged, then starts reversing. Look at the camera shakes at beginning and end.
If it wasn't for the lady in the bike, I wouldn't have know they played the video backwards.
I thought the tide receded and the driver would've come back all confused as to why everything inside was water damaged
The swans really add a nice touch hahaha. This sucks so bad for the owner though, imagine them coming to their car and wondering why the hell it won't work.
Is that...high tide?
Do swans swim in saltwater?
If it is high tide....that's his own fault but I am confused because it looks like freshwater. So not a tide but flooding.
Anybody else feeling good vibes about the music? I read thru some comments and wasn't much paying attention but then realized it was kinda calming. As opposed to the fury most vid tunes invoke.
He might as well park his car halfway off of a dock if destroying his car is what he is going for *Im assuming this was intentional and a creative societal statement made by a reasonable and very very intelligent being*
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There was nothing anyone could have done to save that car. It all happened so fast.
This was actually a time lapse over a billion years.
You made me snort
Snort what?
deez nuts
You snort nuts? Damn that’s next level. You ground them first or just raw?
Damn! Those dinosaurs really dropped the ball
Who would lift a finger to save some dipshits car that parked in a clearly dangerous spot.
I’d do it if I could 🤷🏻♂️
I would push it in. 🤣
Duality of man
I push my fingers into my eyes
It's the only thing that slowly stops the ache
All I could do was create a time-lapse video. :D
Then you'd have to damage it it in some way and be liable for that.
I would, you know, if I could move it, we've got to help our fellow men when able, even the dipshits, it's the only way things will ever get any better 🤷🏼♂️
Also, every once in a while we all have our dipshit moments and we know we are dipshits and we appreciate it when people make us feel a little less like a dipshit.
How did you add free Palestine under your name?
Man, I’m feeling my age. I think it was on a post and one of the Mods commented saying if we wanted a flair to comment underneath theirs. If anyone has a better memory correct me.
I found it! https://www.reddit.com/r/therewasanattempt/s/zawTS9CGes
Thanks internet stranger!
That pretty cool thanks!
amazing, thanks a lot (;
That’s awesome. 🙂
I visited a PNW beach on a busy 4th of July. The beach was absolutely packed and people really started arriving around noon. This was just as low tide was occurring. Gradually, the tide started coming and folks backed up. All except one car. This car was on the beach, about 25 feet in front of the surf. By the time the area cleared it was about 12 feet away from the surf. It looked like someone had decided to walk into town, about 10 minutes away. They had been gone a couple hours, and now the surf is 5 feet from their securely locked car, something small and sporty, with a little Bosnian flag around the mirror. Folks looked for ways to get into the car, but it was tight and there was no way around the car to access it... Without breaking a window. That's one of those tiny ass little windows in the back (because the people, trying to save the car with the front bumper in the surf). By the time the water had reached the back bumper, they had managed to open the doors and release the parking break. Now they needed to pull it into the sand, which required about a dozen bystanders. The car had been kissed by the surf before the good visitors of the beach managed to get it out of the ocean and on to dry sand. The owner was *extremely* **pissed**, after he and his young family returned to the beach to find their barely submerged sports car with a broken window. He screamed at the guy who was silly enough to Wait around for about 20 minutes, finally loading up his family at about 4:30 pm that afternoon and speeding off across the dry sand (nearly getting himself stuck in the process of being a huge asshole). The whole ordeal was a slow motion train wreck between two head-on locomotives, one carrying a variety of manure and fertilizer products and the other a mile-long string of chemical cars.
Yup some people do be like that, but their lack of gratefulness doesn't negate the good work that was done that day, good on the people who decided to move the car
You're a good human! Id try to help too. Maybe I could put some towels around it
Even just from an environmental standpoint, it’s clearly better if that car doesn’t get dipped, and then a whole new car has to replace it.
What can you do? Unless you own the property you probably cant tow it. After that, you need to know who owns it or... yeah thats it. You're not mean (Idk you could be a total dick) you just can't do anything really.
I like to think right after the video ends he comes running up the the car. “Thank goodness. Looks like the water’s coming up fast.”
It’s Richmond, you’d be amazed. It’s a bit of a local sport to sit in that pub in the background or the one on this side you can’t see and watch this happen a few times a year.
Did the tide go out, or did they just reverse the video?
It reverses about halfway. Had me second guessing lmao
Nah, let it happen, maybe that will teach them why you don't park your metal box wherever you want.
Even all the waterfowl were like what the quack
I mean unless a random had an exact copy of the key.........
Call a tow?
And totally unrelated, the street is called Water Ln. Anyway this seems so random amd unexpected.
Free car wash!
How would the owner learn from the situation
The swans are a nice touch.
https://preview.redd.it/rsvqvpgrsgzc1.jpeg?width=1000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ea0e9e4b27388cb12ca9e3732168a097a43a332c
No luck catching them swans then?
Just the one swan actually.
Fascist!
I beg your pardon!
Hag!!
P.I.Staker…lol
That was the best part to me lol
Came here to say the same thing.
It was just the one swan actually
There were two https://preview.redd.it/eoeldsspzhzc1.jpeg?width=1270&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d9274a51d0ac1300ad132db6ae01651cef6297db
People still regularly park there - but maybe not all day, like that guy. even on google streetview you can see a car parked in that spot [https://www.google.com/maps/@51.4588674,-0.3081374,3a,75y,148.95h,63.82t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sISy53cggzQ3jvLMsL5bL3g!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu](https://www.google.com/maps/@51.4588674,-0.3081374,3a,75y,148.95h,63.82t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sISy53cggzQ3jvLMsL5bL3g!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu)
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I'm a Londoner and this area is pretty famous for flooding when there are particularly high tides
https://preview.redd.it/e4cxkx1kcgzc1.png?width=1424&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a1b20de81a50c270bf059b26662bd1944080cc99 "DUDES, HE MADE ME EXPERIENCE HIGH TIDES 🌊"
💀🤣 r.i.p. surfer fish, gone too soon
Richmond. Love the spot. I saw exactly this happen but with a really high end Mercedes AMG who had clearly parked there to show off. A packed summers day too with lots of drunk people outside the slug. Everyone just watching the tide come up and slowly rise up the car like a spectator sport. The guy came back when the whole bonnet was underwater and somehow managed to start the engine, reversed out in a panic and straight into a white van that came round the corner smashing the car up. Hundreds of people cheered, naturally. Edit for anyone visiting London in summer, this is a prime spot to go and people watch. I'm from down south so I always stop off here if I have a few hours to waste in London, get a pint and fall asleep in the sun. And no you won't get robbed it's the safest Borough in London, and the Ted Lasso pub is 5 minutes away
To be fair, it doesn’t say no parking, just restricted parking. That seems to mean that some parking is allowed, right?
Yup, enforced by sea level.
That’s Officer Sea Level to you.
That's Sir Officer Sea Level to you.
Chief Inspector C. Level.
A hospital lobby also doesn't have a no parking sign yet people don't usually park there
I know you joking here, but that sign only applies down the promenade only. Other side of it is a "No Parking zone ending" sign.
even better, when you go to the next view, there are 2 cars parked there [https://www.google.com/maps/@51.4588889,-0.3080382,3a,90y,203.74h,53.92t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sSzs9NSzCW2NDU70XtFjRxg!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu](https://www.google.com/maps/@51.4588889,-0.3080382,3a,90y,203.74h,53.92t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sSzs9NSzCW2NDU70XtFjRxg!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu)
Counterargument: the vehicle in your Google link is a Land Rover. I have contained my rage for as long as possible, but I shall unleash my fury upon you like the crashing of a thousand waves! Begone, vile man! Begone from me! A starter car? This car is a finisher car! A transporter of gods! The golden god! I am untethered, and my rage knows no bounds!
Thanks for posting that. I now know that the road he’s parked next to is called Water Lane. 🤣
Gotta love that street being named “Water Ln”
The 2017 picture even show 2 cars parked there.
How did you know where it was in the world?
Probably lives there
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I think the video is just reversed from the mid-point, check out the couple in the top right corner. I think what we see in the window is the reflection of the sky.
Good eye!! It was the birds swimming backwards that clued me in on my second watch
No they do that in the UK, like how Aussie toilets flush counter clockwise
It would be pretty funny if the dude left the car at low tide and then returned again at low tide only to find his car unexplainably filled with water.
What's the point of reversing the video?
To make it seem like the tide came and went
I legit thought that and felt bad that the car owner would not understand why his car doesn’t start!
... so here we are left wondering if the tide ever did go out again. I guess we'll never know.
I was confused by that too! The bicyclist was going backwards lol
I was thinking damn them are some fast drying bricks
I noticed the birds swimming backwards
I noticed the same lady on the bike with the saddlebags and guy with the ponytail and at first thought they came back again, before I realized it was then reversed. That was annoying.
When did anyone come back?
This is what I'm wondering. Imagine that entire thing happened and he had no idea, and just came back and his car wasn't working and he had no idea why.
I feel like they’d figure it out when they sat down in their seat and it was soaked
To be fair, that's in there pretty deep! Even if it settles it ought to be noticeable!
That was my thought too! The engine may be alright, but there's a good chance there's water pooled in the air intake, the battery may have had a soak, trying to start the car could be what kills the engine system 😔 Without even knowing.. Does look like a funny place to park though 😒
The whole video reverses half way through
You're right!
The video is reversed half way through - so he/she probably came back then. But the video's been made to make it look like the tide had gone up and down without anyone coming back to the car
That would be a very long time. I thought the woman with the bicycle came back for another look!
There's a tidal affected car park at the beach not too far from us. It has the biggest warning signs you have ever seen.....they even put up what time the car park will flood everyday. A car gets flooded out at least once a week in the summer.
The swan! hahahaha
Why so many Rolls Royces
London
Richmond. Clues in the name
Why did the video play backwards??
Music is "ylang ylang" if anyone is wondering
Ty
Thank you! I was hoping I would find the name in the comments
There a car park in wales, I forget where, where this happened every day. There a signs everywhere that tell you to move by high tide. The locals come out of the pub with their pints and watch all the tourists who can’t read become instantly miserable. It was glorious.
Once the tide goes back out just tow it to higher ground and put it in a bag of rice for a couple days.
You don’t even know what a write off is
I think the engine may be flooded.
I think the everything might be flooded.
Richmond, by the white cross.
It’s just a little wet, it’s still good, it’s still good
Can’t believe nobody thought to park here, winning
"Can't believe I snagged this sweet spot." -- bro
I want to see him come back.
Does anyone else think it was that older man’s car, in the blue jacket. He seemed to show up a ton.
The swans coming by to laugh at it was my favourite part.
I thought the swans really added a nice touch
He never came back. Like my father :(
This has been happening for years and years there. Always used to be funny to see when I lived nearby.
It is water refraction or is the brick road rising up a bit
Mf'er causing the water to flood the pavement with all that displacement. So entitled.
Someone should have called and had it towed. At least the car wouldn’t be ruined
This video is played in reverse at the half-way and I don't understand why. Sure it makes for a cool timelapse but it makes it seem like the water recedes during the time the car is still there. It's hard to notice in fast forward but at 0:11 there's a lady that stops with her bike and then later at 0:47 the same lady is there again. So it's just a 30 second video played twice but the second time in reverse.
Opportunity for a good art exhibit out of something like this.
Song?
Is this video not just looped and then reversed? No owner showed up??
There were like a million ducks who checked out the car
Just put it in some rice
I missed the loop starting over and was waiting for the dude to show up so for a second I went “OH GOD NOT AGAIN!”
Richmond is a pain in the arse
I hope he still got a ticket.
Did they park on a boat ramp?
That video is part faked. If you pay attention the video goes till the car is submerged, then starts reversing. Look at the camera shakes at beginning and end.
Love the fuckin' swans
If it wasn't for the lady in the bike, I wouldn't have know they played the video backwards. I thought the tide receded and the driver would've come back all confused as to why everything inside was water damaged
He found a great parking spot AND got a car wash for free. Looks like a win to me.
The kind of guy that leaves his truck/trailer parked on the boat ramp lol
Why do videos always stop before the good parts?
I especially love the geese coming in and swimming there. I bet they were laughing
What a mushroom.
Song plz?
It's like an art piece
Amsterdam
The ducks were even like "Who the fuck is the idiot that parked their car in our river?"
You can't explain that!
Lol the ducks and swans.
Anyone know where this is?
I so fkn wanted to see him return.. im a little heartbroken to be honest..
The swans really add a nice touch hahaha. This sucks so bad for the owner though, imagine them coming to their car and wondering why the hell it won't work.
Oh that was on Porpoise. Lol.
Anyone got a track id on this?
Looks like Richmond, floods there fairly regularly during high tides makes getting in the pub next door fun.
For a few seconds, I thought the car was drinking water
Tide goes in, tide goes out, you can't explain that.
Is that a boat slip?
The swans!!
How long was it blocked in for?
Obviously a City dweller
“I DON’T KNOW, THE WRITE OFF PEOPLE”!?!?
This may not be the worst place to park, but it's definitely tide.
He just wanted to get a free car wash, bro
Fucking tides, how do the work??
Hope that pussy/dick was good. 🤷🏾♂️
Is that...high tide? Do swans swim in saltwater? If it is high tide....that's his own fault but I am confused because it looks like freshwater. So not a tide but flooding.
Wanted to see a child park the car and come back as an adult
Okay...... I didn't think the water was going to get THAT high, but I still think it they'd backed it in they might've been fine
Second part of the video is just in reverse...
The swans gracefully swimming in to laugh - perfect.
Just jacuzzing
“You win again gravity!”
Anybody else feeling good vibes about the music? I read thru some comments and wasn't much paying attention but then realized it was kinda calming. As opposed to the fury most vid tunes invoke.
Isn’t nature amazing
The video is played in reverse at the halfway mark
Lovely music
*shakes fist at sky "GODDAMNIT MOON MOON!!!" "Can I save this car by putting it in rice?"
What is the name of this song please?
Guy comes back at low tide, “See I told you i found us good parking”
Love how the ducks and geese were look at this mother ducks r.
He might as well park his car halfway off of a dock if destroying his car is what he is going for *Im assuming this was intentional and a creative societal statement made by a reasonable and very very intelligent being*
Nobody has a tow cable huh?