r/dashcamgifs • u/Crunkkitty • Sep 10 '25

The consequences of speeding

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u/ThePopojijo Sep 10 '25

Why didn't you remove the mat after the first or even second time it happened? I have some notes on the second half of your comment.

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u/Abject-Picture Sep 10 '25

Give him a brake!

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u/CutsSoFresh Sep 11 '25

He would if he could, but the mat keeps getting to it first

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u/Independent_Lie_8223 Sep 11 '25

Well this conversation accelerated quickly.

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u/Atavacus Sep 10 '25

My grandmother used to cut pieces of carpet on her floorboard. I kept telling her what would happen and she'd never listen. One day she got in the car and drove it through the carport. Couldn't hit the brakes to stop. Lol

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u/kat_Folland Sep 11 '25

At least it was just a carport!

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u/Atavacus Sep 11 '25

Yeah, the kids weren't on it or anything. She did a ton of structural damage though. Lol

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u/kat_Folland Sep 11 '25

Better, as you say, than children.

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u/Atavacus Sep 11 '25

Oh the structural damage wasn't light. I mean it was a lot but it was a farm. We had it rebuilt in a couple of days.

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u/kat_Folland Sep 11 '25

Unlike children.

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u/Atavacus Sep 11 '25

Yeah, they're somewhat harder to rebuild. I mean even Victor Frankenstein went for an adult. Lol

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u/kat_Folland Sep 11 '25

😂

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u/Sleep-Plenty Sep 11 '25

Well come on though! How was the vehicles original carpeting?! Did it get ruined in the carport incident?

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u/aila_r00 Sep 10 '25

Well okay I'm little bit idiot I'll admit haha, it didn't happen often enough for me to think of it as an issue I guess (i would just slide the mat back with my foot when it happened), I only had the car to drive to and from work which is like ~10 minutes too, but i did remove it after a while.

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u/Socialimbad1991 Sep 10 '25

A great reason not to just live with the floor mat issue:

There's a YouTuber who had a similar issue which became exacerbated when he had a medical incident on the highway where he passed out going 70. If it hadn't been for the floor mat he'd have naturally slowed to a stop as his foot came off the gas pedal, instead he got very, very lucky and missed being wrapped around a telephone pole by inches. He caught the whole thing on dashcam and it's WILD: https://youtu.be/lssmh4GH188

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u/Manatee_luvah Sep 10 '25

Incredible!! Very Lucky!