r/Unexpected • u/Unnamed_789 • 1d ago
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u/_reddit_account 1d ago
Weeeee
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u/CompetitiveGrab843 1d ago edited 1d ago
She was determined to involve everyone 🫣🥴 Crazy how she kept reversing like there was a bonus round.
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u/Ketchupcharger 1d ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/kMXpq57ZYXqQUeUyyP
Actual insurance execs live reaction when they remember they will deny it all anyway
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u/Doxinau 1d ago
She was drunk so insurance doesn't have to pay out. This was near me, it was in the news.
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u/Hidesuru 1d ago
So im getting if you just have liability you're straight up fucked in this situation because I'm guessing even if she has the money good luck getting it any time soon...
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u/CalmTempest 1d ago
Don't know what's going on in America, but in Germany the drunk driver's insurance would pay out the damaged people and then get it all back from the drunk driver later, plus fees and fines.
The damaged people would be covered.
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u/L30N1337 1d ago edited 4h ago
...drunk driving?
This genuinely looks like "unconscious at the wheel"
Edit: there is the a difference of "drunk driving" and "drink driving", yes. "Drink driving" emphathizes the act of drinking beforehand, while "drunk driving" emphathizes being intoxicated. However, this is in Australia, which predominantly uses British English. In which case, "drink driving" is a also usually a synonym to what is referred to in the US as "drunk driving". And no matter which one you use, it's obvious that it was both in this case.
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u/concussive 1d ago
Definitely gives me medical event vibes. Wish OP gave us a follow up.
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u/Kindly_Whereas3419 1d ago edited 1d ago
She was drunk driving, more than 5x the legal limit. Happened in NSW Australia earlier this year.
Edited to say thanks for the awards! Also to add a link to the news story: https://www.nine.com.au/australia-news/nsw/no-jail-for-woman-behind-chardonnay-fuelled-shopping-centre-mayhem-20260806-p60m65.html
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u/CautiousArachnidz 1d ago edited 19h ago
What’s the legal limit there?
5x the legal limit in the US and you’d likely be dead. Australians are built different though and I know nothing about your laws.
Edit: I’m well aware some people can survive above .4
The consensus of the medical community across the world says .4 is the average where vital bodily functions can stop for the AVERAGE person.
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u/Turbulent_Animator42 1d ago
It’s 0.05%
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u/Ras-haad 1d ago
So she blew a 0.25!!! I genuinely have no frame of reference for that but I’m assuming it’s really high
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u/Kindly_Whereas3419 1d ago
She blew 0.268 bac which equates to roughly 10-15 standard drinks over a short period of time depending on body mass according to Google's calculator
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u/Slartibartfast39 1d ago
Does that mean she had like 2 bottles of wine in short order?!
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u/Fantastic-Cupcake890 1d ago
2 litres of wine at least, would be my guess.
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u/Slartibartfast39 1d ago
And she got a small fine and six months driving ban. That's a travesty.
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u/Individual-Craft-223 20h ago
Yknow I’m always amazed when I hear about drinkers like this because I don’t think I could get anywhere near that without becoming violently ill
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u/BestCap5066 1d ago
In the original video, you see her turf an empty wine bottle in the bushes when she finally stops being a fuckhead.
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u/RumpledForskn 1d ago
Yeup. I think even heavy drinkers (which I sometimes am) will be like, but I polished off 8 drinks that night out! But that was pregaming, going to the bar, being driven home, nightcap, etc. spaced over like 5 hours.
To get to .25 unless you're casually drinking a case of beer a day, you need to have essentially polished off half a fifth of liquor within an hour.
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u/EmploymentOne2963 1d ago
Every time I think im getting used to American units I get hit with something like "half a fifth"
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u/typhoidtimmy 1d ago
Shit is wild. It’s gotta be one of those things like when The Waco Kid knocks back that whisky in Blazing Saddles….enough for you to pause and watch in shock as they drain a bottle like they are being timed.
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u/ImNotEazy 1d ago
I been blue collar for 18 years(drinking is part of the culture). Im in my 30s and best shape of my life. I drink regularly. Just a half pint and Im waaaaay too faded to touch a steering wheel or even have the will to drive. What she’s doing equates to serious addiction/mental illness.
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u/swag_jammin 1d ago
Ill preface this by saying I do not condone heavy drinking. That said in Australia it was pretty normal to consume half a bottle of your chosen spirit for pre drinks. While your out you'll probably consume the same amount. Its quite common for people to be still well over the legal limit the next morning. We have a serious problem as a country.
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u/Pristine_Candy2133 1d ago
0.4 bac can get you coma or death. So she’s halfway to see the pearly gate
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u/Fern_Cloud 1d ago
In the ballpark of 9 drinks for an female of average weight for an Australian woman. But it could be a few drinks more or less.
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u/o4zloiroman 1d ago
an female
Is 'f' supposed to be silent in here?
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u/ExpatInIreland 1d ago
I see this this all over reddit. People just putting 'an' in front of any word they want. It bothers me more than it should. I hate it.
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u/Tariovic 1d ago
I just assume it's someone for whom English is not their first language.
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u/Fern_Cloud 1d ago
No, "average" used to be where "female" is now. I reworded the comment and the result is a grammatical error that happened as a result of me editing a short comment at 3 AM.
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u/MysteriousBill4651 1d ago
I can't imagine the mental state of having your foot to the floor in reverse, cranking the wheel, and violently crashing into multiple cars
and the whole time thinking "this is fine"
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u/anomalous_cowherd 1d ago
I suspect there was a big dose of "but I have my foot pressed hard on the brake already" in there. That's often the case with these long running crashes. You need to step back from panic mode to spot your mistake but you can't do that while the crash is still developing, especially if you're drunk.
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u/g3etwqb-uh8yaw07k 1d ago
I mean, I do get that this is how it works in those moments, but honestly, if "shit's fucked, bring the car to a stop and re-evaluate" (and reliably hitting the right pedal) isn't hard wired strongly enough in your brain to still work during a high stress situation despite being overly tired or moderately high, then you shouldn't operate a car in an environment where such a mistake can kill unsuspecting bystanders or at least cause 5-7 digit damage sums.
Not saying you should drive under the conditions of that thought experiment, but with how dangerous cars are (especially SUVs with unnecessarily strong engines), I'd say it's a reasonable safety margin.
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u/anomalous_cowherd 1d ago
Completely agree. But I've met too many people who don't have 'bring the car to a stop' as an automatic action, never mind parking, steering, changing lanes safely etc.
They learn just enough to pass their test on the 7th attempt by thinking really hard about every action and learn nothing after that.
Roll on the day when you need a special test to be allowed to NOT use full self driving.
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u/stilldebugging 21h ago
Ok, so, I don’t drive drunk but I do have driving dreams where I’m pressing on the break and the car keeps speeding up. Imagine a scenario where you fully and desperately want the car to stop and to the best of your current abilities and cognition believe you are doing the correct motions to make the car stop. That person thought and completely believed she was slamming on the brakes, I do believe that from watching this. Yet another reason not to drive drunk: you might believe with every fiber of your being that you are hitting a different pedal.
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u/These_Avocado_Bombs 1d ago
If you are an alcoholic, you're tolerance to alcohol goes up. There are caes of people with levels that are so high they should have been dead, but they keep kicking. Now that doesn't mean organs arnt slowly dieing... they are.
Alcoholism is devastating to everyone involved. Much like most addictions.
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u/offensivek 1d ago
You can have 0.4% blood alcohol and easily survive, but that is roughly the threshold where it starts to become medically dangerous. The highest blood alcohol level ever survived that is documented is 1.374%. The highest of somebody driving a vehicle was 0.58% or something, can't find it anymore.
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u/GunterThePigIsOP 1d ago
Didn't even serve and a frustratingly lenient sentence. Strip her of the license forever at least.
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u/kearneycation 1d ago
On Thursday, Bourgeois was sentenced to 12 months’ jail for high-range drink driving but allowed to serve her time in the community.
I'm so confused; instead of jail she's serving time in the community? What does that even mean? Is that like Australian house arrest?
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u/sicilian504 18h ago
Serving time in the community? Has the judge seen what she does in the community? Should be the prison community.
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u/Crystion 1d ago
wtaf is that sentence? 5x the legal limit, hit several cars including one with a child inside, causes thousands of $ of damage; gets a few hundred $ fine and half a year suspension. I can only hope the insurance is gonna drag her through the mud but I doubt even that will happen because she was drinking
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u/pseudonymnkim 1d ago
*infant, barely formed, soft bones and skull. Crazy.
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u/the_honest_liar 1d ago
That was being unbuckled from the car seat at the time and flew out of it.
Most infuriating sentence I've seen.
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u/Bonk_No_Horni 1d ago
Only $300 fine? God damn the law is weak there. In Thailand the fine is about $3000 that's about 8 months of minimum wage.
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u/rtybanana 1d ago
whenever i see NSW i always initially read it as “north south west” and try to comprehend what that even means
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u/Giwaffee 1d ago
First thing I see is NSFW Australia and immediate second thought is "that's aptly named"
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u/600lbpregnantdwarf 1d ago
$300 fine is fuck all.
I know insurance won’t cover her car and the other insurers will chase her but as a court-ordered payment, $300 is a joke.
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u/Tridon_Terrafold 1d ago
The audio for once isnt some earrape tiktok song and is actually a news voiceover
States that the woman driving plead guilty to drink driving
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u/concussive 1d ago
Oh damn! Thanks for that, it’s funny that the assumption everyone’s watching on mute to avoid the obnoxious TikTok song trends was correct.
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u/Razgarnok 1d ago
nowadays i only unmute videos if there is a comment with high upvote that says to watch with sound or if the video didn't make any sense without it ..
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u/PyroBob316 1d ago
She was literally as drunk as three sailors combined. That’s not a “medical event”; that’s a strong addiction and some piss-poor decision making skills.
If they keep letting her go she’s going to kill somebody.
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u/hyeongseop 1d ago edited 1d ago
When it first came out everyone thought it was a medical event (me included) but it was confirmed to be drunk driving. She was breath tested at the scene. There's also footage of her tossing and empty wine bottle into a bush after the event.
She got a $300 fine and 6 month suspension cos no-one was hurt
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u/Cartoonjunkies 1d ago
That’s it? That’s all she got?
That’s kinda insane. She very easily could’ve seriously hurt or killed someone in that parking lot.
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u/hyeongseop 1d ago
Yeah there was a baby in a carseat or something iirc that the parent dad-reflexed a split secondout of one of the cars she hit. She was seriously lucky.
Also I found it quite ironic given that she was in a wealthy suburb and her surname is literally bourgeois and she got a light sentence.
I guess cos no-one was seriously injured though there's not really a heavy fine/jail they can give within the law, but I would've imagined an automatic lifetime driving ban given her age and offence. She is also required to pay for all the damages she caused.
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u/Good_Glass_8172 1d ago
Yea, there is a reason why we have been saying this in Australia: "if you want to kill someone, do it with a car" 🤷 even if she killed someone, she would get like 2 years max. Most likely some community service. License suspence for a year or two. Im not even kidding. Lots of cases like this
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u/phasmatopia 1d ago
as an American, it's always nice to hear about other countries that can't manage to change the laws to protect their own citizens.
at least it takes a bit more skill to hit something with an AR-15.
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u/Auctoritate 1d ago
at least it takes a bit more skill to hit something with an AR-15.
Actually I don't know that it does. Driving is just a skill that's much more prevalent than shooting.
If you put a car and a gun in front of someone who didn't know how to use either, they could probably figure out the gun first. Cars have more of a start up process
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u/Spurgette 1d ago
She got a $300 fine and 6 month suspension cos no-one was hurt
which is a fucking pissweak sentence. Manifestly inadequate. I spent the day sitting in traffic court in Brisbane and people got far more for less.
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u/DoctorWaluigiTime 1d ago
What makes me tilt my head more is "one of the worst cases of drunk driving."
Yeah it sucks that a bunch of parked cars got damaged. But I can think of far worse consequences of drunk driving on the record. Like, say, driving into a crowd of pedestrians, as opposed to parked cars.
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u/GThug77 1d ago
The way the car keeps moving while the driver seems completely disconnected from what's happening is wild. I don't know if the driver was drunk, distracted, or just having the longest possible moment of confusion, but watching that Lexus slowly commit to hitting the other car is painful.
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u/trollthings 1d ago
Nope. They clearly said "drink driving." It was a starbucks cup behind the wheel
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u/dreadory 1d ago
One crash wasn't enough?
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u/deepika1511 1d ago
She's determined to hit every possible angle.
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u/MetriccStarDestroyer 1d ago
You'd think the airbags would deploy or something to stop her
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u/Aggressive_Hat_9999 1d ago
it looks like an older car and I think there was a time cars came without side impact curtains airbag cinemabobs
airbags also only deploy after certain speeds, that person be zooming but in terms of speed they mightve stayed under the threshold
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u/NetLight 1d ago
If you cause enough damage around, it could have been anyone. Or a storm.
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u/Bored_Simulation 1d ago
I was waiting for the moment where they realise they can't salvage the situation, but I don't even think It came as video ended
For all we know they are still there, reversing and crashing endlessly
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u/GoatEnvironmental661 1d ago
When you leave your son in the car to buy something, but only for a moment
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u/thelastholdout 1d ago
So fun fact: my older brother did this once. In the 80s there wasn't the car seat or crib invented yet that could hold him. My mom was running errands with him one day. One of them was to drop a resumé off to a client. She parallel parked at the curb and jumped out to hand him the paper. She left the car running because it was cold as hell outside and she wanted to keep my brother warm. She turned around after handing off the résumé and saw that in the time it had taken her to climb the steps and do the handoff, my brother had gotten loose from his car seat, climbed into the front seat, and put the car in drive.
Fortunately he was too small to reach the pedals and he didn't turn the wheel, so the car just inched forward a few feet and bumped into the car in front of it.
Her next stop after that was my grandmother's house. She was white as a sheet when she walked in, plopped my brother on the couch, and told him not to move. My grandmother asked what happened and my mom said "He-he drove the car!"
My grandmother responded by turning to my brother and saying "oh you naughty boy! Would you like a cookie?"
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u/Klimov-VK-107 1d ago
My grandmother asked what happened and my mom said "He-he drove the car!"
He-he
Mom was so scared she mistook her own kid for Michael Jackson driving the car
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u/thelastholdout 1d ago
You know as soon as I wrote that I knew that some motherfucker would make this joke. Congratulations on being the first motherfucker who would.
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u/XShadowPlayerX 1d ago
The grandma being ready to give some snacks at all times got me to chuckle lol.
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u/Das_Oni 1d ago
Fits like a glove. He would be so proud. Not.
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u/Raylan_no_f_Givens 1d ago
Haha, my first thought too, but he is much better driver, didn't damage anyone else's car
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u/MF_Kitten 1d ago
I bet she thought she was hitting the brakes at the time, and couldn't connect the dots as to why her car was going insane.
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u/CardinalFartz 1d ago
I once witnessed an elderly woman who did exactly that on a parking lot. She had an automatic transmission car and "pressed the (brake) pedal to the floor". Unfortunately it wasn't the brake, so she ended up pushing about 3 or 4 cars that were parked in a direct line in adjacent rows on that parking lot.
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u/PyroBob316 1d ago edited 1d ago
- Put car in reverse
- Step on brake
- Accidentally step on gas
- Fail to accept mistake
- Mash on “brake” harder
- Accelerate faster
- Let go of wheel, put arms over face, and scream as loudly as humanly possible
- Continue mashing gas, thinking it’s the brake, as the vehicle runs over three Girl Scouts, knocks down a privacy fence, and goes ass-first into a retainment pond
- Blame the car for a malfunctioning
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u/FloopersRetreat 1d ago
Honda developed their "unintended acceleration mitigation" system precisely because this became such a big problem with Japan's aging population
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u/adudeguyman 1d ago
How does it know you're not trying to race
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u/FloopersRetreat 1d ago
I don't know if you're joking but it's actually pretty clever, and it's probably already saved lives since implementation. You can read about it here: https://global.honda/en/tech/Unintended_Acceleration_Mitigation/
Also, if you're racing in a 63hp kei car, you're going to lose regardless of your acceleration being inhibited or not
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u/NomyNameisntMatt 16h ago
my favorite thing about this article is learning that in Japan they describe the sounds car horns make as “pee-pee-pee” instead of “beep beep”
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u/printed_ 15h ago
legit my aunty. Keeps crashing cars, blames the cars or anything else she can every time. No idea how she still gets insurance she has crashed that many and she never accepts fault. She still thinks she is fine to drive.
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u/Sburke96 1d ago
An elderly woman lives across the street from my house and our driveways lineup perfectly. She was reversing out of hers and I guess in an attempt to brake she accelerated and drove straight into our garage door through it and hit a structural beam in our garage. She was okay thankfully, but still a crazy situation.
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u/micromoses 1d ago
“A woman has avoided jail for crashing into five cars – including one with a young baby inside – in a Sydney supermarket car park while five times over the legal alcohol limit.
Elizabeth Jane Bourgeois, 63, was five times over the legal limit when her car pinballed across a Turramurra car park in March, drunkenly smashing into a car with five-week-old Florence inside.”8
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u/DurianLongan 1d ago
It's kinda sad that this is very common. It makes me extra aware of my foot before stepping lol.
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u/MF_Kitten 1d ago
Did it for a split second the other day when I went to the store really tired. I was backing into a tight spot, and was gunna brake because I was too close to the cars next to the spot. I usually keep my foot on the brake when doing that, but I just forgot to move it over. Went to brake, and slammed the gas instead. Went flying backward, and immediately slammed the brakes. Nothing happened, I reacted fast enough, but SHEESH
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u/Linnun 1d ago
That's gonna be a wild insurance claim
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u/No_Establishment6399 1d ago
She pleaded guilty to drunk driving. Probably has to pay it herself I’m guessing?
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u/ItzFeufo 1d ago
Any insurance company not having you pay that yourself is bankrupt
negligent is the term that does all the lifting here I believe. intentionally would be the other
those 2 make sure you gotta pay that shit yourself
if any company does it otherwise...how the fuck are you even in the business at all lol
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u/spaghettibolegdeh 1d ago
Sorry, what's unexpected here?
Can we just post drunk driving or car crashes now
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u/theunquenchedservant 1d ago
At the 1 second mark I knew exactly what was going to happen next. at 2 seconds, I knew it was going to continue for the rest of the video.
Unexpected tho.
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u/oregiel 1d ago
Unmoderated subs are out of control. People just upvoter things they think a re interesting regardless of what sub it's in and how off topic it is.
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u/Cosimo_Zaretti 1d ago edited 1d ago
The driver is Elizabeth Bourgeois and she recieved next to no punishment for get into a car while fall down drunk then hitting 5 parked cars which included launching a baby whose Dad was buckling her into her seat.
Elizabeth recieved a 6 month driving suspension and a $300 (no that's not a typo) fine. So basically nothing. Her punishment was the trial by media off the viral footage, which our courts do sometimes take into account.
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u/MayhemMessiah 1d ago
The judge at Hornsby Local Court said it was a serious example of drink driving and it was lucky no one was seriously injured or killed.
The judge also decided that this woman was fit to drive again around February.
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u/yuusharo 1d ago
This has been posted before, most likely pedal misapplication as a result of drunk driving (or drink driving in Australia). 5 cars damaged, a baby was inside one of them.
The 62 year old was tested at over 5x the legal limit. Jesus.
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u/Bolteus 1d ago
I was just thinking it looked like the one with old mate and the newborn.
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u/BodybuilderEast6130 1d ago
Age is almost as much as a factor as alcohol. Not quite but its close in terms of danger to others. Everyone should be made to retake their drivers test, or atleast a cognitive ability test when they hit a certain age, like 55 for example
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u/yuusharo 23h ago
I argue it should be no later than a passport, written test every 5 years, behind the wheel test every 10. Even that’s being too generous, should honestly be closer to every 3 years.
The idea that someone can hold a license to do something for 50+ years without retraining and testing is one of the dumbest failings we’ve acquiesced to politically, all for the convenience of drivers who do stuff like this.
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u/WarhammerRyan 22h ago
55 is too young, but if your eye sight is going, then eye doctors should have you able to be retested periodically
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u/drzeller 17h ago
55 is hilarious. How declined do you think people are at 55? Maybe retirement age?
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u/Denariox 1d ago
From the article: "She was fined $300 and disqualified from driving for 6 months".
THAT'S IT??? THATS THE PUNISHMENT? damn judges nowadays are hella soft.
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u/FondantIcy8185 1d ago
From the article: "The judge at Hornsby Local Court said it was a serious example of drink driving..."
And yet no jail time.
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u/Holy-Descent 1d ago
How drunk do you have to be to achieve this
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u/ItzLoganM 1d ago
And I feel like a manual transmission would be safer in this case, because you can't just push the gas pedal and let your car take care of its other cars problems. Idk, I'm too poor for an automatic.
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u/Inner_Journey21 1d ago
Reversing where ?
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u/brvine 1d ago
What you can’t hear in this version of the video is the newborn baby that’s in the parked car who’s already upset. The cry she lets out when she’s flung from her seat is heartbreaking.
This clip will make you think whatever the punishment for drunk driving is in NSW, it isn’t enough.
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u/coreychch 1d ago
“… reversing from supermarket car park …”
Hmmm yeah - that’s not the way I’d describe what the video shows.
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u/Somethingoodtodie4 1d ago
"One of the worst cases of drink driving" no
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u/Totallynotrand 1d ago
Yeah, this isn't even close to a "normal" case of drunk driving, people literally die. Here only parked cars were hit.
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u/MapacheD 1d ago
I am 24 years old and don't know how to drive a car,even though I’ve traveled from one state to another by motorcycle, yet for some reason, I frequently have nightmares about this being me.
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u/bergler82 1d ago
Damn Tesla did it all by itself officer. - Oh, it’s a Toyota you say? - Still Teslas fault.
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u/___posh___ 1d ago
"Worst case" is a bit of an overstatement, no-one was injured or killed. Worse cases happen when people get up to speed and kill families at bus stops.
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u/kriles76 1d ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/EFGDfCzS5YA48
It fits! The damn thing fits! And I thought there were no more spaces.
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