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Well, make it real rather than fiction and add a plane.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-us-canada-59946362
it reminded me to look this up - I was going to post it on the gifs thread
Kudos to the white SUV lending a hand.
That plane one ,you can count maybe 4 seconds from when they actually got him out to when the train hit. That was seriously close 😯 (time is on the camera- top right)
the car jumping the red light i see a lot of in the YT bad driving vids. WTF is it about Americans that makes them speed through lights like that 😕 Not even a slow down and sneak through, they come barrelling down the road and blast through like they've a death wish or something.
If this was in a movie it would be included in the other thread on...
Stupid things that they do on tv and films
What a stupid place to park a plane 🙂
Plane was there for 20 minutes before the train arrived, nobody at the scene thought to make an emergency call to the railroad...
WTF is it about Americans that makes them speed through lights like that 😕 Not even a slow down and sneak through, they come barrelling down the road and blast through like they’ve a death wish or something.
Failure to embrace the infinitely-betterer roundabout? Isn't it a function of the grid-based town planning (which we don't have here) and loads of (massive) cars? We don't really have crossroads like that in the UK, at least not many. Occasionally people don't see the stop sign and careen on through, making for great gifs.
Of course, they miss out on these moments:
https://metro.co.uk/2018/09/13/heart-stopping-moment-van-flies-through-the-air-after-crashing-at-roundabout-7940449/
WTF is it about [s]Americans[/s] stupid people all over the world that makes them speed through lights like that
We don’t really have crossroads like that in the UK, at least not many.
We've got loads around here, with at least one RLJ car per red light as well. Last time I checked I wasn't in Minnesota! 😀
Isn’t it a function of the grid-based town planning (which we don’t have here
American were late comers to the grid plan city. The Edinburgh Newtown, Glasgow and Derry gridded layouts were there long before
the car jumping the red light i see a lot of in the YT bad driving vids. WTF is it about Americans that makes them speed through lights like that 😕 Not even a slow down and sneak through, they come barrelling down the road and blast through like they’ve a death wish or something
Stroads.
Basically huge roads masquerading as streets in residential areas that are managed inappropriately along with poor driving.
Failure to embrace the infinitely-betterer roundabout?
Wow, some proper big-air thrill-seekers on some of those roundabout clips!
My ex (a Louise) had a drink drive habit after we split although she claimed it was because she parties in town and I wouldn't let her stay at mine (yes a called police several times)
She hit a roundabout so hard it smashed all 4 alloys and set off every airbag. Wrote the car off.
Apparently she stashed it got a lift and went back to it when she'd sobered up.
Any landing you walk away from is a good landing.
the last one from the series 11mo ago is a gem. WTF you think.....got away with it!
and then......creeping back into shot
Seem to recall on one of those Police Chase Traffic Interceptor Cops shows there was one where a car had gone airborne on a big roundabout with some decent sized trees and bushes in the middle and it took several hours to find it - no obvious entry into the undergrowth as it had dropped in from above
My zombie out in front of the TV over xmas has been Caught on Dashcam on Sky.
This one was on there. Soooo close! (Ignore the weird thumbnail!)
Isn’t it a function of the grid-based town planning (which we don’t have here) and loads of (massive) cars?
Woefully poor driving standards as well. And a very patchy "system" of vehicle testing for road worthiness.
We've had senior test engineers from the US actually *fail* ordinary driving tests in Sweden, Germany and the UK. Despite having literally thousands of hours of road test work on roads all over the world, and hundreds of hours of track time.
And at a previous employer we had a spate of buying second hand used cars (6-24 months old) from other markets for teardown, probably a quarter of the ones from the US (usually sold to a local employee acting as a private individual) had a major fault that should have been picked up on. You know, like brakes that didn't work, bald tyres, bent suspension components. TBH, i'm amazed that people a) managed to do that much damage in that short a time and b) that the faults weren't picked up, even taking the cars off the transports was (occasionally) terrifying.
This is the YouTube video above GIFified.
He actually looks like he's holding his arse after he shat himself!!
Maybe he's checking he's still got an arse! 😆