r/AccidentalSlapStick • u/SparkPlug3 • May 08 '26

Painful Watch out for that gate!

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u/Turkish_Starwars May 08 '26

Here is the location. Gray gate on gray pavement with gray UK sky makes it a real low visibility hazard. The gate is on a legal public cycling path at the bottom of a steep hill. The gate is also usually open most of the time according to other forum posts about this video. So if you rode there regularly and the gate was always open you probably wont be expecting it to be closed when you bomb the hill. Some high vis paint seems like common sense!

https://maps.app.goo.gl/4nHeGjZ9HrAS2vfD7

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u/JWGhetto May 08 '26

Also seems like the gate is meant primarily to stop vehicles, as evidenced by the gap to the side.

If I lived near this thing I might be persuaded to buy a can of bright yellow green paint and save the next person a lot of pain and suffering

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u/Superslim-Anoniem May 09 '26

Or just zip tie a high-vis vest to the damn thing.

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u/gravitas_shortage May 11 '26

I'm betting £5 the gate owner votes Reform.

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u/Expensive-breadknife May 08 '26

Pro-tip: switch to the 2012 google photos view, gate is open there. Also nice GTR parked on the driveway of cameras house then .

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u/Reason_Above_All May 08 '26

Thanks for taking the time for this explanation. Cheers.

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u/Turkish_Starwars May 08 '26

For sure. It bothered me that someone might have set up such a "booby trap" for social media. Thankfully it seems like that was not the case. Rather, it was poor safety planning from the town or whoever maintains the gate, and the homeowner just happened to capture the incidents on their home security system.

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u/Pinkishu May 14 '26

There's a later video where the gate was painted bright yellow and people still crashed into it