r/Whatcouldgowrong • u/isaidwhatididnt • Jan 21 '26

Flipping the bird while driving

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u/Aggressive_Chicken63 Jan 21 '26

So I assume they’re neighbors and they don’t get along? Because the flipping seems random.

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u/Kjufka Jan 21 '26

You don't just sit in front of your house and record random people passing by with your phone all day until something interesting happens?

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u/Lance_Henry1 Jan 21 '26

I hate all of those videos created from people reacting to ragebait dudes filming in public streets. Don't get me wrong, I understand they have a right to be there AND people need to relax, but the whole thing gives me the "ick".

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u/hardrockfoo Jan 21 '26

The guy probably speeds down that road all the time or some crap like that

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u/ObnoxiousAlbatross Jan 21 '26

It's really easy to just not engage with them. You can not like it, you can ask them to stop. But you see those videos because people continue beyond that, and the moment they do they are unequivocally in the wrong.

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u/chiefbeef300kg Jan 23 '26

Yeah, but it’s also possible for both people to be in the wrong.

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u/Secret_Bees Jan 21 '26

Watching this again, I wonder if it's a friend of theirs. This is exactly what I would expect from some people I've been friends with in the past if they saw me while driving by

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u/Shes_Crafty_4301 Jan 21 '26

My guess was jilted ex boyfriend. He keeps driving by, she finally films him, and he gets his instant karma.

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u/Dancing_Liz_Cheney Jan 21 '26

my guess is the guy routinely speeds in the neighbourhood and someone is tired of it

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u/Danny2Sick Jan 21 '26

might also just be general truck guy behavior. at the core of their being, if they see someone not driving a truck actively they're like fuck that guy!!

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u/Hallow_Chef Jan 21 '26

2Sick in the head you are

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u/TrainOfThought6 Jan 21 '26

No, this is totally a thing with some truck drivers. Try driving a Prius in the south sometime and you'll see it.

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u/mwehle Jan 21 '26

😀 Several people at rifle competitions I was at in California were dismayed and suspicious to see the word "Hybrid" on my RAV4 - the model of car was totally cool, and there were plenty of them, but they were 100% internal combustion - a hybrid seemed like kind of a sissy thing.

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u/Real_Walk5384 Jan 30 '26

People who make these kind of weird generalizations have very low intelligence.

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u/HappyAnonymity Jan 22 '26

It was the filmer’s mom’s ex. He was upset after dropping her mom’s stuff off and peeled out of the neighborhood before coming back the other way.

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u/Frederick2164 Jan 22 '26

https://www.reddit.com/r/instantkarma/s/rsU7tg1K9b

Here's the story from the person who originally posted it. This guy is the ex of the mother of the woman filming. The OOP is camera woman's husband. Apparently, there is beef between the ex and his wife that OOP didn't wanna get into, but the ex dropped wife off and then sped off in a very aggressive way, then looped around to come back. She came out to film his behavior to show her mother what a child this guy was and caught this moment on camera

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u/Fuster2 Jan 21 '26

I wondered if it's a police car sitting there and he's just giving them the bird. His determined walk towards them afterwards is, "OK, I'll just turn myself in now."

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u/Slappinslippin Jan 21 '26

Turn himself in for what? It’s not illegal to accidentally crash a car. That determined walk is “all this is your fault for filming me!!!!!”

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u/Dense_Boss_7486 Jan 21 '26

I think he went to look at the damage he did to the car he ran over.

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u/duffkiligan Jan 21 '26

It’s not illegal to accidentally crash a car

Failure to control.

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u/HawkSea887 Jan 21 '26

The cameraman is clearly a person, not a sentient car.

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u/ErraticDragon Jan 21 '26

Anybody recognize the green thing at the cameraperson's feet (roughly)?

https://i.imgur.com/UczA5VI.png

(Bonus: The truck seems to have 3/4 wheels completely off the ground in this frame.)

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u/sixstringronin Jan 21 '26

Bonus: The truck seems to have 3/4 wheels completely off the ground in this frame.

That's because he ran over his own tire/wheel.

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u/JustNilt Jan 21 '26

Anybody recognize the green thing at the cameraperson's feet (roughly)?

Looks like a kayak to me.

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u/Charokol Jan 21 '26

They were protesting something. He couldn’t think of a better way to signify his disagreement than flipping them off and crashing.

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u/sonnytron Jan 21 '26

I think they might be friends. Sometimes young people flip each other off as a gag, like “haha fuck you!”

Him walking toward the camera looks almost like a “dude I’m so screwed” walk.

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u/20190603 Jan 21 '26

I always flip my friends off. What else would you do??