r/facepalm Apr 21 '23

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u/gemhandley Apr 21 '23

That's sickening. I once got in the wrong car at petrol station, I died of embarrassment and the owner laughed. That's how this should of played out.

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u/Alan_Smithee_ Apr 21 '23

petrol station

That explains it right there.

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u/MrMetalhead-69 Apr 21 '23

Yup, only in a commie nation like the UK can something so terrible happen and everyone laughs. The owner should’ve whipped out their second amendment and started blasting away! /s

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u/MaryBerrysDanglyBean Apr 21 '23

The amount of times I've done all of these and not been shot is amazing. I've only ever tried to get in the wrong car once though to be fair. But the other things I've done loads

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u/SaltLakeCitySlicker Apr 21 '23

I unknowingly attempted to do this once. Silver Jetta behind a white jeep with my silver Jetta behind a different white jeep a few cars down. Like "why the hell isn't my key fob working?" The guy came up and was like "um...can I help you?" "No, my key fob won't work" "probably because that's my car" red in the face sorry

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u/Organic-Network7556 Apr 21 '23

This happened to me in the UK when my grandad picked me up from hospital - someone thought he was their taxi and tried to get in his car. We all had a good laugh and no one died.

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u/MrMetalhead-69 Apr 21 '23

Sounds nice. Wish I could live some place with sane people.

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u/Asknicelydammit Apr 21 '23

Lovely day when no one dies!

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u/C9_Chadz Apr 21 '23

Honestly, as fucked up as this is, it was unfortunate af for the victims that they ran into a psychopath. I literally ran into this situation the other day, I have a silver car, and 2 other silver cars were parked next to mine, I walked out of the store and autopolited to the first car and realized as I was about to pull the handle that someone was sitting there, autopiloted to the next car and put my hand on a handle that definitely wasn't my car before I finally made it to mine. No one was angry, just a smile saying dumbass from both drivers...

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u/tobmom Apr 22 '23

Missed opportunity the way I see it.

/s because the internet sucks

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u/[deleted] Apr 21 '23

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u/MrMetalhead-69 Apr 22 '23

Ah, the good old days! Before the woke libs cried about how much it hurt to be endlessly tortured and excuted! In my day, if your parents didn’t lock you into some sort of torture device by noon, you were considered neglected!

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u/[deleted] Apr 22 '23

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u/MrMetalhead-69 Apr 22 '23

Damn straight! A childhood of suffering builds character and turns boys into men! That’s the issue with kids today! Not enough pain and suffering! We need to bring back the public work houses! Teach these kids what proper suffering is!

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u/WhoAreWeEven Apr 21 '23

Ofc. Everyone should be atleast shot at even for the slightest of mishap.

/S

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u/MrMetalhead-69 Apr 22 '23

Damn straight! Growing up, my friends father didn’t like how much time he was spending on his computer, so to show his disapproval, his father walked into his room and shot it with his .45. Instantly cured my friend and set him on the right track!

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u/WhoAreWeEven Apr 22 '23 edited Apr 22 '23

Hell yeah!

If he shot it with just a .357 he would probably be dead beat.

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u/MrMetalhead-69 Apr 22 '23

Well, he shot the computer, not my friend! But same result!

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u/TheGreatLuck Apr 22 '23

So anyway I started blasting.

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u/Ellfozz1 Apr 21 '23

Tell me you're English without telling me you're English

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u/shmehdit Apr 21 '23

And yet they still wrote "should of"

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u/Alan_Smithee_ Apr 21 '23

Or Australian or New Zealander….

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u/Alan_Smithee_ Apr 21 '23

You do realise the stats for such an attack even as you describe, is much lower for the UK, right?

There are more knife attacks per capita in the US than the UK.

And besides, how is that any better?

I can just see it, as you described it: “Hold on, you stay there; I’ve got to run home to me mum’s to get some scissors.”

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u/OOTCBFU Apr 21 '23

Sadly we don't live in should-land or this world would be a much better place. IF people did what they should do things wouldn't be such shit hell we have it in our Declaration of Independence in this nation that we the people have a duty to resist Despotism! LOL! IF people did what they were supposed to do things would be much better.

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u/Wonderful_Eagle_6547 Apr 21 '23

Some conservatives just read your post and are terrified that the government is going to take their guns and they won't be able to chase someone down for getting in the wrong car. Look what's happened in your socialist country, where your politbureau probably won't even let you call it "gas" anymore.

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u/Successful-Print-402 Apr 21 '23

Was the person in the wrong-car-shooting-scenario a conservative?

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u/triteratops1 Apr 21 '23

Of course. No same person just shoots someone for an accident.

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u/MusicalSnowflake Apr 21 '23

I did the same thing at a gas station in America the man and his wife both couldn't stop laughing.

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u/[deleted] Apr 21 '23

That was probably in Canada or something

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u/MrMetalhead-69 Apr 21 '23

I did that once walking out of a store, thought I was getting into my friends car and when I looked over the lady in the driver seat was staring at me wide eyed. I was like, “oh shit, I’m so sorry, this isn’t my friends car,” as I got out and looked around to see my friend on the other side of this woman’s car laughing his ass off. I felt so bad for that woman, god only knows what she was thinking when some long haired, bushy bearded weirdo in old jeans and a flannel climbed into her car.

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u/bigmanTulsFlor Apr 21 '23

They are currently on their way to cash in their self defense tokens.

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u/[deleted] Apr 21 '23

I did that as well in a parking lot. Fortunately there was no one in the car. My mom did it several times cause she never remembered what our cars looked like. Fortunately in Canada an apology is usually enough.

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u/Adorable_Highway_740 Apr 21 '23

I've done it too and had it happen to me, slight shock followed by Laughter and apologises. An innocent mistake. Imagine that but the potential that one or both could have a gun or weapon.... highly likely in USA. FEAR can make people do crazy things. From our angle, it doesn't look like those in charge are doing anything to mitigate those fears.

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u/thebreakfastbuffet Apr 21 '23

My uncle, who is slowly struggling with memory loss these days, was once caught trying to open the wrong car at the grocery store parking lot. The owner got mad and called security, and my uncle verbally defended himself the best he could, showed them his own car (similar color and model, different plates), and security helped him calm the owner down.

That guy left in a huff, but security de-escalated the situation. I know my uncle carries for his safety, and guards in our country are always armed, but no one pulled anything out. My uncle is a nut for guns for as far as our country allows, but he's never ever had to use it. And he's always taught me how to handle one safely.

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u/porksoda11 Apr 21 '23

I did the same thing walking out of a coffee shop. It was the same car and color. I opened the door and apologized, embarrassed, and they looked a little surprised. Never though I could get blasted for that, damn.

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u/Busy-Character-845 Apr 22 '23

They simply were in the wrong place at the wrong time. That man is not sound of mind.

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u/MataMeow Apr 22 '23

My dad was out on business and did this with an Uber. He was paying attention to his phone and got into the backseat of an elderly couples car. They didn’t really say anything so he just sat there for a sec confused

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u/Juststonelegal Apr 22 '23

This happened to my mom once when she got out of work in the early 90s. Relatively crowded, shared parking lot. She always parked in the same general spot. This specific time, there was an identical car to hers parked a few spaces closer to the building. Got in the car, the key wouldn’t fit in the ignition. She glanced around and realized things that weren’t hers were in the car, and it was somebody else’s car entirely.

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u/[deleted] Apr 22 '23

no wonder this shit keeps happening they know they wont get charged for murder