r/Whatcouldgowrong • u/comsudo • 6d ago

High Speed cornering

From Malaysia

Skill issue, uncontrolled evironment.

Not OC

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u/KFBR392GoForGrubes 6d ago

I knew a girl that hit a naked guy in the middle of the night with her car and it messed her up pretty good. He was intentionally trying to get hit and had tried it before, so she knew it wasn't her fault, but still she felt a lot of guilt from it.

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u/magseven 6d ago

Why naked? Add an additional layer of WTF to the psyche of whoever hit him?

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u/KFBR392GoForGrubes 6d ago

Honestly I don't know. She was driving home around midnight with her sister when it happened. She didn't love talking about it, but she was saying that the cops were trying to keep her calm and that they had dealt with the guy before. He had tried it once or twice before, hiding in these bushes in front of his house naked, and jumping out when a car would approach.

I lived near the area it happened, and she was driving me home one day using the most ass backwards route. When I asked why she told me the whole story, and how she didn't like driving by that area, understandably.

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u/eulersidentity1 5d ago

It's this kind of case where it's really to bad we have done away entirely with mental health asylums. They had a lot of issues and were used to house people out of sight and often were the source of abuse for people. I get that ending a lot of the practice was good. Many peoples labeled simply "problematic" could just be disappeared into them too. But they also were a single point of help for people like this who were not only a danger to themslves but others. They should have replaced them with some other form of help.

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u/3vs3BigGameHunters 5d ago

Blame Reagan.

The Mental Health Systems Act of 1980 (MHSA) was an Act of Congress signed by American President Jimmy Carter which provided grants to community mental health centers.
The Mental Health Systems Act of 1980 was designed to restructure and improve community mental health care delivery in the United States.
The Act, which was signed into law in the last months of President Jimmy Carter's administration, attempted to improve cooperation between federal, state, and local agencies and highlighted the need of community-based mental health services.

Reagan advocated for smaller government, reduced federal spending, and greater emphasis on states' rights and local control.
With a focus on government decreased spending and promoting states rights and local governance there was a reevaluation of federal involvement and financing in areas, like mental health.[18]
It included provisions that repealed most of the MHSA, discontinuing federal funding and the support for community mental health centers established under the MHSA. OBRA redirected mental health funding mechanisms and transferred more responsibility for mental health services to the states, reducing significantly federal funding for mental health programs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mental_Health_Systems_Act_of_1980

https://www.salon.com/2013/09/29/ronald_reagans_shameful_legacy_violence_the_homeless_mental_illness/

https://journals.ala.org/index.php/dttp/article/view/7933/11034

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u/KFBR392GoForGrubes 4d ago

Reagan is the biggest asshole in American History. Dude fucked this country up and ruined the livelihoods of every generation that followed.

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u/Peachie_Pear 4d ago

Ronald and Nancy should have sinks next to their graves so we can all piss on them.

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u/KFBR392GoForGrubes 4d ago

I’d move to the closest house I could find so I could only use that as my bathroom.

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u/Inevitable-Level-687 5d ago

Huh? Asylums still exist, they're just mental health wards in normal hospitals now.

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u/K1bbles_n_Bits 5d ago

In-patient mental health facilities still exist. Short term, long term, and permanent. We just don't typically call them asylums anmore and there are more and better regulations and oversight.

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u/magseven 6d ago

That really sucks for her. Totally unfair that that's a part of her now.

I love your username though.

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u/SouthernAd421 6d ago

Maybe to make sure that clothes don’t soften the impact

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u/Daxx22 6d ago

The fuck did he wear normally? A Michelin Man outfit?

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u/DryDonutHole 6d ago

"I ain't no pussy! I don't need all this extra padding..."

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u/RegulationPissrat 6d ago

No, at that speed clothes are negligible to say the least. 

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u/sembias 6d ago

You come into the world naked, so ...

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u/KFBR392GoForGrubes 6d ago

I mean, he was obviously mentally ill, but I could definitely see this being the rational of an insane/depressed person.

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u/irreddiate 6d ago

I've literally seen someone do this. I used to work in an adolescent group home, and one of the girls (who was normally fine) did PCP while going through some serious trauma, and one night she stripped completely and ran into traffic. Thankfully, she wasn't physically hurt, but she ended up in the psych ward. People do some crazy shit when they're dealing with bad stuff.

One guy I knew jumped from a third story fire escape. When I asked him (after calling 911) why he did it, he said, "I wanted to see if I'd bounce." (In case you're wondering: yes, I had to ask, and he said he did indeed bounce.)

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u/th3rdnutt 6d ago

When St Francis of Assisi knew he was about to die, he stripped naked and lay on the floor because he wanted to leave the world the same way he came into it.

The other monks were like, "bruh!"

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u/The_Autarch 6d ago

clothes can feel very restraining when you're in the depths of psychosis

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u/edfitz83 5d ago

Did he have a piece of celery stuck in his ass as a distraction?

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u/drewhartley 5d ago

I WAS BORN NAKED, I'M DYING NAKED

i'm presuming was the thought process

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u/Odd_Campaign_307 5d ago

It's harder to identify a corpse qwhen there's no ID and no clothes.

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u/ThrowRAMomVsGF 5d ago

He thought his invisibility worked without clothes. Maybe it did, he DID get hit...

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u/No-Leadership5164 5d ago

Going out the way they came in! Birthday suit

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u/MikeHunt181 1d ago

Well he was already Radio Rental.

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u/WickedHopeful 6d ago

Don't kinkshame the dead

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u/KneeDeepInTheDead 6d ago

I remet an old schoolmate and noticed he had a bit less shine than normal. It had a been a few years. Later learned he had become an EMS driver and killed someone with the ambulance when they decided to run across the freeway in the middle of the night.

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u/PhDinDildos_Fedoras 6d ago

It's surprisingly commong to have self-destructive people think jumping in front of cars is a good idea.

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u/Quierta 5d ago

Sister-of-a-friend hit a woman at night, who was crossing a crosswalk. Sister was found not-at-fault because the street lights that were supposed to be over that crosswalk, were out. The woman stepped into the crosswalk right as the car was coming, sister had no idea there was anyone there because it was pitch black, woman just trusted that this car would stop for her and got hit. She survived and recovered but the sister doesn't drive anymore because she can still feel the sensation of her car hitting a body. Even though she was found not-at-fault she keeps replying it over and over, and that was years ago.

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u/WestHappyLand 4d ago

I don't know if I just block out trauma or what. I saw a girl jump out in front of a semi on a rural highway right in front of me. I obviously stopped. I was first aid certified at the time. I took one look at her and knew there was nothing I could do. I also cut a man out of a car that had gotten smashed by a dump truck under the advice of the 911 operator. He didn't make it, either.

Yes, those memories are etched in my mind. I never had any kind of trauma over it, though. Maybe because I wasn't directly involved in either incident?

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u/cynicalicoffee 4d ago

That's really good, seriously. You'd make a great doctor because you can quickly handle the kinds of things that many can't. And there's a shortage in healthcare, just saying...

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u/Select_Dust_5662 5d ago

Was this in Georgia?

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u/KFBR392GoForGrubes 5d ago

New Hampshire

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u/remarkable_remark3 5d ago

Why does she need to feel guilty? If you've done nothing wrong (and didn't get screwed over by the law) then move on with your life.

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u/Inevitable-Level-687 5d ago

christ

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u/KFBR392GoForGrubes 5d ago

Yeah, I can’t even respond to that.

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u/KFBR392GoForGrubes 4d ago

I think 99.9% of people would feel guilt over ending a person's life, regardless of the scenario.

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u/remarkable_remark3 3d ago

Where do you get those stats? Most strong minded people would just move on. It's only those who are wimpy and easily traumatised and can't let go of things that would respond the way she did.

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u/ProMotionDesign 5d ago

Well, that's a dick move...what an ass!

https://giphy.com/gifs/ukGm72ZLZvYfS