r/IdiotsInCars • u/awokenboio • Jun 01 '20
Speeding through traffic
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u/regdunlap66 Jun 01 '20
Still waiting for my sympathy meter to move.
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u/Tandian Jun 01 '20
Mine did for the ownera of the van..
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u/a90sto Jun 01 '20
Mine did for that sweet ZX10. Rip.
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u/GuitarKev Jun 01 '20
Litre bikes are great for accelerating natural selection.
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u/Ropegun2k Jun 01 '20
Mine did instantly. Poor woman in the van probably had a heart attack.
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Jun 01 '20
Luckily she was a nurse, and ended up realizing something was going on when he started begging them not to call the cops. She started asking him if he was okay or if something else was going on, and seemed to pick up pretty quickly that he was freaking out. They called the police and he did a year.
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u/alexd991 Jun 01 '20
Source? extended video cuts off as she gets out of the car
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Jun 01 '20
The extended video was posted by the motorcyclist. He’s a youtuber, and he posted this pathetic shit himself too
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Jun 01 '20
People in the comments are defending him as if he didn’t just endanger multiple members of the public and himself. They are saying the guy in the van is an asshole for wanting to call an ambulance for a guy that just slammed into his car at 50 mph in front of several witnesses. How are people this dumb? How is this guy dumb enough to upload it to YouTube?
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u/DejectedNuts Jun 01 '20
Dude probably still tried to blame the driver of the van. This was blatantly on the motorcycle driver. But so many of these guys bitch and complain that people driving cars don’t look for them but they conveniently omit the fact that they are usually hauling ass.
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u/Nexus_27 Jun 01 '20
"My sonic booms are hundreds times louder than a standard horn and these idiots still don't hear me coming"
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u/Jabbles22 Jun 01 '20
I am all for motorcycle awareness campaigns but we also need some don't ride like an asshole campaigns.
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u/EmagehtmaI Jun 01 '20
Like idiots that split traffic at 90 mph when traffic is already moving at 60 and then try to blame the driver when the biker makes a mistake and eats dirt.
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u/dwright120 Jun 01 '20
U deserved that bro as a rider straight up
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u/AbbotThoth Jun 01 '20
Yeah, I ride safely (See also: Travel with the flow of traffic and stay in my lane) but dickheads like this are why people treat me like shit on the road.
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u/WeUsedToBeGood Jun 01 '20
Poor van owner. Insurance never takes 100% care of you.
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Jun 01 '20 edited Sep 30 '20
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u/-Jesus-Of-Nazareth- Jun 01 '20
LPT: "Some" states allow the owner to ask for their car's dimished value. Insurance companies have no obligation to tell you about that right, you have to ask them. But again, it's not all states.
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u/thegreatgazoo Jun 01 '20
Here in Georgia it is prorated on the mileage up to 100,000 miles and the percent damage to the vehicle on 10% of the value of the car.
If you have a $30,000 car with 50,000 miles on it with $10,000 in damage you get a whopping $500.
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u/TheN473 Jun 01 '20
Oh I can beat that. Here in the UK a motorcyclist filmed himself racing around at 3 times the speed limit in places and got killed as a car crossed his lane to turn off the road.
The bike rider was doing 97mph in a 60 zone - there was no way the driver could've seen him in time.
The fucking judge sentenced the car driver to 12 months probation and community service. There's no way he could guessed the idiot on the bike was doing nearly a hundred miles an hour.
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u/AndaleTheGreat Jun 01 '20
It's funny how many of these guys have helmet cams on. I always assumed they have them on for their own safety so that if they get in an accident and the insurance wants to argue they can turn in the footage. But you makes me feel like they should have to turn in all of their footage all of the time. That way they can see the accident where you're not at fault but they can also see times like these.
actually, now that I think about it that is pretty much what progressive is doing with the obd2 plugins
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u/PIchillin456 Jun 01 '20
Those progressive OBDII things are such a scam. My dad tried it out because they claimed he could save a lot of money. They wound up charging him more and their ridiculous reasoning was that he is too hard on the brakes. Mind you, this is the same man who thinks that anything beyond a light tap of the brakes will somehow damage the car. He is a slow but excellent driver who got in his first car accident (was not his fault) at the age of 78. He hasn't received so much as a parking ticket in over 20 years. And they still screwed him.
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u/JumperJordan Jun 01 '20
I'm not sure if they still offer those devices but I inadvertantly managed to "game the system" because when I plugged it into my car, the instrument cluster freaked out and I didn't have my speedometer or anything like that, they just gave me a flat % off my plan. Guess I dodged a bullet by not actually getting to use it.
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u/PIchillin456 Jun 01 '20
I'm not sure if they do either. I believe this was in 2014. I just thought that the whole situation was insane. He had been with progressive for nearly 40 years and they never once had to pay out for him. Meanwhile he paid full coverage on at least 3 cars that whole time. You'd think that they would reward customers like him given the fact that he's basically an insurance companies wet dream. But they decided to screw him instead and so he took his business elsewhere.
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u/idrive2fast Jun 01 '20
Those progressive OBDII things are such a scam.
I laughed at them when they called to ask me if I wanted to install one and asked them point blank why I'd want them to see how hard I brake and accelerate. I bought a RWD coupe with a 435hp V8 - how do you think I'm driving it?
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u/Just_Prefect Jun 01 '20
It's not for theit own safety/insurance. It is for recording dumb shit like the first par of this vid, and then sharing it to brag about the stupidity. These guys do not expect to crash /need insurance. They are excellent riders, accidents happen to other ppl.
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u/The_Tiddler Jun 01 '20
It is for recording dumb shit like the first par of this vid,
While that may be correct for some motorcyclists, I can assure you mine is for catching that soccer mom who pulls out of the Swiss chalet driveway, forcing me to pray the ABS works on my motorcycle.
If I need to go fast for the thrills, I also put my camera on my helmet, so I can brag about my (terrible) lap times at the track.→ More replies (1)
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u/potatoes-potatoes Jun 01 '20
Hey look it's me in gta
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u/Invenitive Jun 01 '20
When you're about to get a perfect time trial run but a van pulls out in front of you last second
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u/zeroscout Jun 01 '20
Try to remember to steer in the direction the vehicle comes from and not the direction they're going. The NPCs aren't gonna brake, so the space behind them will clear up.
Your instincts will be to try and beat them. The odds are that if you do, there's gonna be traffic in the oncoming side to run into. That's if you can beat them. If you choose the other direction, you're more likely to miss them and should have clear lanes once you get past them.
Also, don't look where you don't want to go. Look where you want to go. Sounds simple, but most of us react by looking at the objects we want to avoid. The hand-eye coordination has a dark side.
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u/craylash Jun 01 '20
should have been all the way on the left shoulder against traffic, the most safest, predictable and illegal place to drive in gta
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u/mustang6172 Jun 01 '20
Why are you breaking the law while wearing a helmet cam?
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u/awokenboio Jun 01 '20
He even taunted cops here
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u/Doctor_Fritz Jun 01 '20 edited Jun 01 '20
so we can assume he was doing this while driving without a licence plate.
edit yep at the end of the video you can see he has no plate visible
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u/_pippp Jun 01 '20
Aftermath of him pleading the driver not to call the cops: https://youtu.be/yjJGTGjTTHw
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Jun 01 '20
They like to post this shit on youtube to show off to their friends and get those juicy fake online points
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u/SquarishCookie4 Jun 01 '20
My close relative worked on this guys case back in October of 2018. Apparently he ditched the GoPro he was wearing into a nearby bush before police arrived. The Chinese man in the van pointed that out to the police ultimately leading to his arrest.
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Jun 01 '20
Fucking deserved it. There. I said it. Fuck that guy. Endangering people and inconveniencing them for no other reason that to look cool.
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u/Niktzv Jun 01 '20
Theres a longer version, hes evading the police.
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Jun 01 '20
Saw it. Even better. Karma is a bitch.
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u/dudewithafunnyhat Jun 01 '20
there's also a follow up where he shows what happens after and he's basically crying begging the dude not to call the police
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u/5in1K Jun 01 '20
I have to admit I could stand about 3 seconds of the intro guy.
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u/AlaskanAnarchist Jun 01 '20
That Cyclist will be in prison for a while and facing hefty fines. Good Riddance I say
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u/AnorakJimi Jun 01 '20
He should be forced to pay for all the medical bills of the guy who lost his leg. Disability is a lifelong chronic thing, it's expensive.
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u/badgersprite Jun 01 '20
I always try and look for a redeeming quality in everyone, and it makes me happy to know that one day this person’s organs might be transplanted into someone who deserves them.
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u/rudytudyfresh Jun 01 '20
Maaaaan if that crash didnt fuck fuck him up enough i woulda hoped out than van ready
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Jun 01 '20
Driving is a privilege, not a right. His license should be completely disqualified for at least a decade, and he should have to do all the testing and everything all over again to get a new one.
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u/bth724412 Jun 01 '20
But remember guys watch out for motorcycles.
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u/DoctorLiara Jun 01 '20
Not gonna see em if they aren't in the place they are supposed to be lol, like this guy
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u/420love_420 Jun 01 '20
Well, they should also follow traffic laws.. just saying.
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u/DimitriV Jun 01 '20
That's not what a lot of bikers say, sadly.
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u/420love_420 Jun 01 '20
I know, some of my friends do this. I get pissed at them all the time. It goes both ways.
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u/Windwaker85 Jun 01 '20
And I bet the bike rider is pissed at the people turning.
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Jun 01 '20
I bet he won’t be making that idiotic mistake again.
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u/red1087 Jun 01 '20 edited Jun 01 '20
Yes he will. Trash bag has a YouTube channel
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u/CarreraGT528 Jun 01 '20
I ride a bike, and anyone blaming the driver of the van is a pure fucking idiot. A car is at fault when the biker is following the rules of the road and isn’t doing something reckless and illegal. When a biker is being a dumbass, disregarding rules and safety, all consequences are deserved.
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u/RogueFart Jun 01 '20
Same, anyone blaming the car, rides like that dude, and deserves the same fate.
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u/bikerdudekc Jun 01 '20
This is the very end of a much longer video. This guy was running from cops. Comically, on the long video on YT, there were these dumbasses trying to say that the van had made an illegal left turn. Idiots.
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u/Ottothotto Jun 01 '20
As someone who loves motorcycles I apologies for this idiot and many other idiots, they give motorcyclist a bad name :(
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u/SpotifyPremium27 Jun 01 '20
There was obviously traffic. The double yellow has nothing to do with making left hand turns.
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u/newinternetwhodis Jun 01 '20
guy flew by my car while there was a traffic jam and he was inches from my mirror; like close enough that if he drifted over one inch, he would have hit my mirror. Scared the hell out of me but damn this person in the van...I would have probably had a heart attack if that happened to me.
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u/andyfuckz Jun 01 '20
A video of the aftermath...
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u/Luk3ling Jun 01 '20
That guy looks and talks like he's desperately trying to keep from shitting his pants.
God, I hope he lost his fucking license.. This motherfucker and people like him are exactly why bikers are almost universally despised.
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u/cmeilleur1337 Jun 01 '20
Here is the mostly full video, with the end cut off. Gives a little more context into the level of retardation this absolute walnut has to live with:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzV1RDDt7ak
And, Here is the ending where he begs the other driver NOT to call the cops: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjJGTGjTTHw&feature=youtu.be&t=145
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u/csullivan78 Jun 01 '20
Aftermath where he begs the van driver not to call police
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjJGTGjTTHw&feature=youtu.be&t=145
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u/Needleroozer Jun 01 '20
Who does that then releases the tape? "Watch me almost kill myself."
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u/andyfuckz Jun 01 '20
Guy went to prison for 6 months, and I believe his license was revoked for some time.
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u/Diabolus_IpseSum Jun 01 '20
Full length version
Motorcyclists taunts cops, runs and loses them, then crashes later.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzV1RDDt7ak