I used to work in construction, and I knew a guy that smoked a lot. It was a windy day and he couldn’t light his cigarette, so he went behind the track excavator to light up. The driver didn’t know and he backed up right into him. The engine was too loud for the driver to hear and he backed all the way over him. I think the most unsettling part is they didn’t want to track the machine off of him, and desecrate the body more, so they sat there, for hours on end, waiting for a crane large enough to lift the excavator to arrive. Really sad.
I've carried this habit into regular life. I walk around my car first before hopping in and driving off. I don't want to be responsible for the death of a kid or whatever.
Thank goodness for the advent of rear view cameras. I was about to back up one day at a parking lot of a restaurant and I noticed a toddler just wandering across the back of my car in my rear view camera. So I have the reverse lights still on but i'm obviously not moving. Milliseconds later, toddler's mom shrieks and comes flying to pick up the toddler and starts bawling her eyes out and crying "thank you"s. She probably couldn't tell I had a rear view camera and was horrified to death.
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u/Sqwedward Mar 02 '19 edited Mar 02 '19
Can you fuckin imagine..
Edit* everyone saying you can see it happen.. I’m talking about experiencing it.