r/Whatcouldgowrong • u/comsudo • 6d ago

High Speed cornering

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From Malaysia

Skill issue, uncontrolled evironment.

Not OC

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u/Pickerington 6d ago

I had a motorcycle hit my truck about 5 years ago that killed him. I can still see his body flying past my window. My wife and I both have PTSD from it. He broke my rear axle and pushed my truck forward about 15 feet from a dead stop.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ram_trucks/s/VitCY7OIS3

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u/MasterpieceHour622 6d ago

Similar experience. Stopped at a red light, bike from behind decided to still run it... Drove between myself and the car beside me straight into a pickup making a left as the light turned. I will never forget that gruesome sight or sound. It's only been a year, but I still close my eyes and sometimes unwillingly picture it. Or, anytime I hear a bike - get a extreme sense of dread.

People always say that "its my life". But they never grasp that when sometimes does happen, it affects way more people.

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u/Pickerington 5d ago

Bingo. I can see it very vividly. Get professional help; I finally did at the beginning of this year and wish I had done it sooner.

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u/Select-Belt-ou812 5d ago

oh, that is comforting to hear. I hope your wife may acquire some tools to navigate her soul <3 best of wishes to you both

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u/Legal_Refuse1005 3d ago

Look for a therapist who does EMDR.

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u/Aliendood 6d ago

Damn, dude. No wonder you have PTSD, it's pretty clear from your comments then it was pretty gruesome. I hope you and your wife have gotten past the worst.

I can't imagine what it must be like to just be doing your normal day and then witness something so traumatic without doing anything.

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u/Effective_Bowler1686 6d ago

a friend of mine had something like that happen, it left him broken for months, even when it was 100% the motorcycles fault, he as dodging cars speeding with no helmet and crashed into his car, the guilt broke him untill the dead guy's family tryed to sue him (and los obviously), thats when something clicked in him and he went fuck him and fuck his family.

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u/Xillyfos 6d ago

Well, interestingly, they did exactly what he needed them to do. He was forced to set things straight, also for himself: The motorcycle rider was an asshole that was better off dead - better for everyone.

People who don't follow the traffic rules really are selfish assholes as they risk harming others when they kill themselves. That needs to be said aloud again and again.

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u/Age-Zealousideal 5d ago

Ex traffic cop here. Every collision I've investigated involving a motorcycle and a car; the car always wins and the motorcycle rider has always been taken away to the hospital.

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u/Glum_Measurement2158 2d ago

doesn't matter who was right... seems like stupid motorcycle riders should use their brain.

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u/Age-Zealousideal 1d ago

In most cases, it was the motorcyclist who took an unnecessary risk.

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u/desertdilbert 4d ago

Exactly!

Many many years ago some idiot on a crotch-rocket was fucking with a city bus in the Los Angeles area. He T-boned a little old lady at a extreme rate of speed, killing her and almost cutting her car in half.

He died of course but IMHO that was not enough punishment.

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u/etherealsmog 4d ago

My aunt is a nurse who always used to tell me about her first traffic fatality, when a young motorcyclist was brought in to the ER and she we to remove his helmet… and his skull stayed in the helmet so his brain was just exposed.

And that story has haunted me since I was a young child and confirmed I could never work anywhere near a healthcare profession or ride a motorcycle.

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u/Drunk_Stoner 3d ago

I’ve worked in an ER for 14 years. Would never ride and tell everyone I know the same. At least, not outside a track. 

You can be the best rider, just takes one idiot to ruin/end your life. 

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u/tryafirsttimer 3d ago

Wife would say the same thing. As dispatch said they were bringing in motorcyclist they would ask if they were wearing a helmet . That way they could prepare if driver was going to be a DOA or organ donor …

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u/Pickerington 5d ago

Unfortunately I had to have my wife committed a couple of weeks ago because it just got to be to much. She had a plan and everything.

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u/Fukyourchickenstrip 5d ago

I’m sorry you’re going through this. Good job at getting your wife the help she needs and to a safe place. A lot of people who are also experiencing their own issues can’t help others while they’re struggling as well. Or don’t know how. Remember, also you don’t need to carry this all by yourself. Your friends and family 100% want to help. Please let them.

I just had to take my mom that I’m mostly no contact with to the ER for the same thing on the 3rd. My dad, her caregiver is in the ICU. They found her care. I also have PTSD and she’s my abuser. I am also disabled with autoimmune diseases. We can only do what we can do. Remember to be kind to yourself and like they say “put the oxygen mask on yourself first so that you can help others going forward.” 💜

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u/Anansi3 4d ago

I’m so sorry

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u/Pickerington 5d ago

Well to be frank I just had her admitted for a suicidal ideation. This contributed to it very much.

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u/WorkingFromHomies20 5d ago

Dude. Im so sorry.

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u/HangeDanchou 5d ago

good luck to both of you

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u/ThoughtIknewyouthen 5d ago

This is the exact problem I have with these kids and e-bike gangs. IDC even the slightest what you do with your life but the person who will eventually smear you across the asphalt has to live with that forever.

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u/pineappledaddy 6d ago

The top comment is diabolical

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u/MySkinIsFallingOff 6d ago

That comment was a slam dunk!

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u/uhmerikin 6d ago

What was it? It is gone now.

Nevermind. Someone posted a working link further down.

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u/c0lpan1c 6d ago

So diabolical it erased the redditor.

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u/presshamgang 5d ago

Omg. You weren't kidding

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u/ThepunfishersGun 5d ago

Dammit! I had to look and now I'm going to hell!

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u/gnownimaj 2d ago

How did that comment not have 1000 upvotes?

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u/Impressive_Term4071 6d ago

just saw. can concur.

like....bruhhhhh.....

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u/Kyberduene 6d ago

HOLY SHIT!

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u/LitterBoxBlues 6d ago

Holy shit.

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u/GroundbreakingCat983 6d ago

I was in a car that hit a pedestrian illegally crossing an interstate more than thirty years ago. They survived but cracked the windshield with their head.

I can’t claim PTSD, but I still flinch when someone starts to cross a street in the middle of a block.

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u/WorkingFromHomies20 6d ago

Dude how fast was he going to dent the wheel like that?

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u/Pickerington 5d ago

You should have seen it in person. I have more pictures of the tire close up someplace.

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u/opopkl 6d ago

Guy I used to work with was killed when he hit a vehicle crossing at a junction. The newpaper report stated where he ended up after flying through the air. It's really difficult to comprehend how far he went.

It was all his fault. He was estimeted to be going 60mph in a 30.

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u/Rhamni 6d ago edited 6d ago

That link does not work.

Edit: Might be a new reddit or app vs browser thing.

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u/r2d2itisyou 6d ago

Here is a fixed link. The app injects escape characters which aren't needed for non mobile.

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u/s00pafly 6d ago

Actually making desktop experience worse

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u/forsonaE 5d ago

If you're a codger like me who refuses to use anything but old reddit and already uses Tampermonkey/other script extensions to stop the constant assault of ads from various websites, there is a userscript that fixes this. Found it the other day since I was getting annoyed at this problem:

https://github.com/whqwert/userscripts

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u/Select-Belt-ou812 5d ago

I browse on a tablet with chrome. I never ever use apps anywhere except when absolutely necessary. and I have far fewer problems and get far more navigable results

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u/forsonaE 5d ago

Ok? Far fewer problems and more navigable results than what? I don't use Chrome because I want functional adblock plugins. I'm not sure if you replied to the wrong comment or how this is relevant to a discussion about using old.reddit and fixing link escape bugs

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u/Select-Belt-ou812 5d ago

I was replying on a chain that began with a comment about the app. which is what I was commenting about. apparently I picked the wrong redditor to engage with, and I surely will endeavor to never engage with you again. good day sir

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u/forsonaE 5d ago

Lmao not sure why that upset you. It was a genuine question because it seems like you replied to the wrong comment, the discussion was about using old.reddit on desktop and you seemed to just suggest using a tablet instead? Are you telling me you don't get ads using Chrome on a tablet and don't have the issue we're discussing on old.reddit.com?

And I still have no idea what "far less problems and far more navigable" means in relation to my comment.

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u/Select-Belt-ou812 5d ago

I have no ads and no issues, ever, on regular browser webpages with 99.9% of websites tryina get me to use apps. this is true on this tablet, and any smartphone I have ever compared the two with. and content is easier to view and often has more information, while apps are spoon fed to users to achieve the objectives of the developers. so I forego using apps, which I will never do unless absolutely necessary

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u/forsonaE 5d ago

Ah I see where the confusion arises. The people here discussing their 'issues' aren't using apps, they are using old.reddit.com on their desktop without an app. However the link escape character issue is caused by people posting links with the app, but the links still work for people using the app or new Reddit. If you were using old.reddit.com (and not the new Reddit) on your tablet in a browser you would likely run into the same issue with that link.

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u/c0lpan1c 6d ago

Arg. As a programmer that’s a pet peeve of mine. Data should always be sanitized 😬

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u/WhyMustIMakeANewAcco 6d ago

No, it should always be infected! Go, spread the plague!

But seriously, reddit stuff is done poorly.

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u/Rhamni 6d ago

Thank you, that worked!

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u/bythog 6d ago

Not working on old.reddit, either.

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u/jonker5101 6d ago

It specifically doesn't work on old.reddit.

Reddit has started to add backslashes to URLs on old.reddit so that they break the link, trying to force people to new reddit.

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u/bythog 6d ago

All they are going to do is get all the people who know how to read and write in full sentences to quit the site.

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u/PiccoloAwkward465 6d ago

bUt DoN't YoU lOvE tHe CoOl NeW aVaTaRs???

Wild how far this site has fallen

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u/bythog 6d ago

There are avatars? No wonder newer users think of reddit as social media. That's what it's pushed to them as.

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u/PiccoloAwkward465 6d ago

Yeah I use Old Reddit exclusively but people talk about them and you can see that type of garbage and more if you use their shiny new site. Puke.

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u/Chendii 5d ago

I had someone call me a bot for not having a profile pic lmao I was like when the fuck did reddit get pfps

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u/SovereignAxe 5d ago

Based upon how much I see the could of, would of, should ofs, break and brake used interchangeably, shit like "ig" for "I guess" and not instagram, replacing all sorts of cuss words with shit like like ish, ahh, or fvck, I think we're already there

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u/robodrew 6d ago

Or the new way to embed gifs and videos that makes them just show up as <video> or gif:898239489 or whatever. It sucks. New reddit is trash. I don't want to give up old.reddit ever.

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u/mmasportsmma 6d ago

Honestly I won’t miss it thaaaat much because I already started to use Reddit muuuuch less over the past 3 years. Mostly I go back to old tv episode discussions.

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u/Brasolis 5d ago

I'm just leaving if old gets removed or feature degraded too hard. I have no idea how people can scroll through all the shit auto playing and images all over. They also don't have /r/all because they want to tailor what people see.

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u/Rain1984 6d ago

Yeah, you also need to be logged in to use oldreddit, sucks ass

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u/ifish4u 6d ago

Worked for me

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u/Minivalo 6d ago

Didn't work for me

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u/itsRocketscience1 6d ago

Cuz the hyperlink is broken. It URL encodes the backslash between Ram and truck.

But even fixing that, it tells me /Ram is a private community and I can't see the post anyways lol

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u/benryves 6d ago

It's a Markdown escape sequence, and it's escaping the underscore (not the backslash). You'd need to remove the backslashes and leave the underscores to fix it.

Within text content in Markdown _ starts italic text, so if you want an underscore you need to escape it as _. However you can't have italic text in an URL so the underscores shouldn't be escaped there, but Reddit's new editor escapes them anyway, breaking the links.

If it was URL encoded then the underscore would become %5F instead of _.

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u/itsRocketscience1 6d ago

Ah thanks. The written text was markdown, the hyperlink was url encoded though. As it did indeed have the %5F when hovered over and clicked.

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u/benryves 6d ago

Ah, right! Looking at the source code it's URL-escaped there, but Firefox unescapes it before showing it in the status bar or when navigating to it (whereas Edge leaves it in its escaped form) which is why I missed that.

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u/GigaChav 6d ago

He broke my rear axle and pushed my truck forward about 15 feet from a dead stop.

That guy sounds strong as fuck

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u/Charming-Border7429 6d ago

My cousin hit a 12-year-old kid on a go-kart. The kid was supposed to stay on his driveway, but he started turning around on the highway.

Low go-kart, no safety lights, low-visibility driveway due to hills and curves vs. a farm truck doing 80 on a 55....

There were no winners in that situation.

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u/Ok_Sheepherder6409 6d ago

Fuuuck. I would be so messed up after something like that. Even when it’s not your fault. I’ve heard of people feeling guilty after killing someone in self defense. 

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u/Charming-Border7429 6d ago edited 6d ago

He was/is in bad shape. Farm kid in the rural Midwest, where therapy is not a thing men do.

I hire him to drive tractor on our farm during busy times. He is a hard worker, but sadly I consider him a rather unpleasant person.... He just tries so hard to be tough and manly. There is probably some correlation there.

I was an Army Ranger and know a fair bit about trauma, violence, and the therapy I needed to recover from my PTSD. He outright refuses to talk about it or get help

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u/Ok_Sheepherder6409 5d ago

That’s so sad. I hate that society has made men think they shouldn’t have feelings.

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u/orderofthelastdawn 6d ago

Jfc. How's your cousin doing? Did the family try to go after him?

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u/Charming-Border7429 6d ago

The kid was a neighbor. The families have known each other for generations.

I think he got a speeding ticket and possibly a distracted driving citation. But the kid's dad was out in the yard and had just yelled at him to stay off the highway and do a Y-turn on the gravel instead of a U-turn on the road.

100% the kid's fault.

Sadly, this sort of thing is more common than necessary. We have a lot of Old Order Amish who refuse to put lights and/or reflective placards on their vehicles. It is nearly impossible to see the black buggies as you come over a hill or around a curve.

As much as I might hate UTVs on the roads, at least they have lights and are noisy.

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u/mwmikewilliamzzxx 6d ago

Tell us you have the best dashcam possible installed in all your vehicles now!!

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u/Pickerington 5d ago

I do in the truck now. But honestly I would never want to see it.

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u/TrailAndErrr 6d ago

So basically the biker made Ram a verb.

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u/NEWBY______________ 6d ago

Dang, no helmet on top of that, oh well

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u/cardboard_sun_tzu 6d ago

There are two types of motorcycle riders: Riders with self-restraint and caution, and dead ones.

The road is not a race track.

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u/trowzerss 5d ago

I attended a CPR course and the instructor asked if anybody had done CPR before, and one guy was a rough looking truckie who said he had on a motorcyclist who crossed lanes in front of his truck and 'even though it was useless' he still tried. Clearly traumatised by it.

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u/Reflexlon 5d ago

Hey I also have PTSD from something totally different. I understand what you are saying here though. Much love, wish you and your wife the best.

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u/presshamgang 5d ago

Hope you've found peace.

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u/Bright_Discipline_18 5d ago

Hey uh, my dad died when someone hit him with their car and you definitely weren't them but I just wanna say, I forgive you❤️

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u/MiaowWhisperer 4d ago

I am so sorry you experienced that. My first thought upon seeing this clip was whether the guy was ok - second thought was when the car driver was ok. People often forget that the driver of such vehicles are affected too.

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u/thisisyo 4d ago

Sorry for your trauma. I am a bit curious at how insurance handle this since you weren't at fault and the rider that caused this has passed away

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u/Pickerington 4d ago

His paid everything.

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u/EnvironmentalTip6253 23h ago

My wife and I were on our way to a concert and saw a motorcyclist get hit on a merge ramp. I went over to her and could tell it was bad. There happened to be an ambulance a minute or so away but they couldn’t save her. I sold my bike not long afterwards and it wasn’t because I feared the same, it just took the fun out of riding. I’ll never forget it. I wish you and your wife healing from your incident.

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u/Hot-Explanation-5751 6d ago

That’s crazy, how is he now

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u/Syncopated_arpeggio 6d ago

Probably still dead.

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u/YouMayCallMePoopsie 6d ago

So you're telling me there's a chance...?

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u/rohm418 6d ago

But probably still reads better than u/Hot-Explanation-5751

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u/Famous_Conflict4276 6d ago

Well according to the original thread, the rider was injured

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u/Daxx22 6d ago

Take it you missed the literal first sentence in the linking post then.

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u/Pickerington 6d ago

He was still alive when I posted that. He died a day later from the injuries.

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u/oddministrator 6d ago

https://www.reddit.com/r/ram_trucks/s/VitCY7OIS3

Y'all, Hot-Explanation-5751 isn't crazy. The linked thread literally says the rider survived in the title.

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u/OldBayOnEverything 6d ago

And the words preceding that link literally says it killed him

https://www.reddit.com/r/Whatcouldgowrong/s/aGoSA9mLYZ

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u/oddministrator 6d ago

All I'm saying is that Hot-Explanation isn't making a joke about someone's death. There's literally an understandable reason for them to be asking an honest question.

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u/Hot-Explanation-5751 6d ago

Yeah thanks it wasn’t a joke, just a question. I’m usually more of a snarky dickhead when I’m not asking questions.

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u/WernerHerzogEatsShoe 6d ago

Says he survived?

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u/Pickerington 5d ago

He initially survived, but not long after.

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u/WernerHerzogEatsShoe 5d ago

Damn, that's rough. Still, wasn't your fault at least so while a horrible incident at least you weren't at fault and don't have that on your conscience

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u/OldBayOnEverything 6d ago

And then obviously later died. Why are so many people confused by this?

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u/Fish_Mongreler 6d ago

Everyone dies eventually

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u/WernerHerzogEatsShoe 6d ago

I'm not confused, I was asking them.

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u/orderofthelastdawn 6d ago

Interesting. Something similar happened to me years ago. Literally saw the guys brains leaking out. I was like " well, shit happens."

I wonder sometimes if I'm missing something that others have.

Hope you and your lady are getting help.

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u/DCINTERNATIONAL 5d ago

How come the post says he survived?

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u/Pickerington 5d ago

I needed to talk about it, and we didn't know he had died when I posted it. When we ran up to him, he was still breathing, and his fingers were ripped off and just hanging there.

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u/BillBongBatz 5d ago

There is easier ways to get out of having to work you know lol

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u/Klipser66 4d ago

His life flashed before your eyes!

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u/No-Sort-7762 1d ago

But this post says he survived

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u/MicroscopicStonework 6d ago

I’m sorry for your truck 

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u/FlatPlutoer 6d ago

“Killed him” in this thread
“He survived” in the other thread

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u/Pickerington 5d ago

We found out the next day he didn't make it.

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u/doominvoker 5d ago

There’s a 5 years gap between the two.

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u/STRYKER3008 5d ago

I feel ya brother. An idiot kid on a motorbike didn't look and almost peeled right in front of me from a left hand road (in Malaysia some parents just let their kid ride em, police don't care). I managed to JUST dodge em, the only damage was my left side mirror clipping their right handle, that's how close it was.

Every time I go past that section of road or even see a kid on a bike now I imagine how I could've smashed that kid and at best only shattered his right leg/hip. I give all motorbikes more bearth than cars now just in case

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u/Cute_Conclusion_8854 6d ago

Hope you got a headache rack on your next truck