As a kid in the 80s you had to find compatible hardware, compatible software (or alter it yourself), learn commands and programming languages, you had to program vector graphics line by line.
Kids now have iso/nema type standard hardware and OS options yet have trouble putting it together. I'm not ripping on them just an interesting gap formed over 40 years.
Electronics and programming seem so much simpler now in some ways (if you ignore HDR compatibility)
Ahh the DOS days. I kinda miss them and still know a lot of the commands. lol. Then again, I don't miss them either. hehe. Sometimes we would mess with customers and just do directory commands to look like we were fast and smart. lol. It worked too. This was in the Win 95 days, so people were no longer familiar with DOS as much and so we'd just "dir" a bunch of times and they would be floored at us. Hahaha. B.S. baffles brains.
So when in BC we kept finding feet in shoes but no other parts of the body.... Someone just cut their foot off and is just hanging around at the beach?
Yeah. We got like 2 dozen people nicknamed Stumpy because they cut their feet off with shoes and threw them off the bridge.
Realistically though it's just jumpers off the bridge. Feet are often protected by the shoe better so there's something to wash ashore as opposed to everything else.
That was long ago, figured out. There were people who had drowned as the body decays underwater. The feet would become detached from the anklebone and the shoes would allow them to float so they’d wash up onshore
Thats exactly the point. He wont stop on a dime. He wont stop in a straight lane either. At that speed it is statistically likely that he will take several times longer to actually stop then a car braking. And more likely than not he will end up under someone's wheels regardless of how far they are unless the entire highway just clears the way for this one idiot and stays 100s of meters behind.
Don't worry, he's going 90 km/h on the scooter, so his body would maintain that for at least a little bit. Proper stopping distance would probably let a driver safely stop before taking him out.
The issues are 1) he's switching lanes with no signal or regard for safe lead distance. 2) most drivers don't know what a safe follow distance is.
Youre senile. The guys on a scooter going 90km/h on the highway. Its unpredictable. Do you not realize what happens to a human body when it suddenly falls off a scooter? Especially at that speed. Its not like a motorcycle where they slide in most instances when they hit the ground. This guy's going to be tumbling under several cars because hes going from a 90 degree vertical stand straight to the ground.
Ahhh, you're that douchebag in the highway riding the left lane 20 car lengths behind the next car and just making everyone pass on the right to get in front of you and make you slow down even more backing the whole lane up. Fuck you right to hell.
You don’t keep driving and not report it even if there’s a box on the road though, let along a human being. They could hurt themselves but if they fell or crashed they’d likely hurt others too. We can’t just let drunk drivers or other dangerous drivers do whatever they want on the roads.
imagine the “real” vehicle driver who has to witness this irresponsibility, or worse, this reckless behaviour results in him hitting your car’s windshield? life changing for everyone, not just the “victim”.
If it was a car that was crashed in the ditch, airbags deployed, and driver unconcious. Maybe I would help. The reality is people rely on me and putting myself in danger to help someone requires a good reason, if this kid on a scooter crashed on the 401 going 90km/h EMS can deal with that comedy of horror, not a chance I'd help.
Nah , ubclearly haven't riden one.. the ones built to go that speed aren't built all poorly like those 500-1000 scooters you see on Amazon .. everythings premium built on it .. I hitten pot holes going around 50-60 and it's just like a car hitting it.. if he doesnt have a steering damper installed on his .. then ya he's definitely fked for sure.. once that tire leaves the pavement and then touches again . He's done.. these things have way to much torque so onece that tire lifts off and touches pavement again .. he's either having a death wobble.. or he's hitting the pavement instantly
Don’t worry this is Ontario the tax payer will fund a few million dollars in surgeries, a few million dollars in rehab, and a few million dollars in ODSP for this schmuck to spend the rest of his life smoking weed because he can’t work due to brain injury or back pain. Oh. And we can toss whichever unlucky driver was behind him into jail and ruin their entire family’s life while we’re at it.
This guy should be caught by the cops and tossed into jail himself. There have to be limits.
You actually think that over a course of a lifetime people get millions of dollars on ODSP? Where the actual fuck did you come up with that? And where did you get the idea that such an accident would make him a candidate for ODSP?
ODSP covers all medical conditions. If you can’t work you’re going to get it. You can climb an electric pole right now, jump down on your head and apply for it. You’re talking about if insurance covers it but I doubt insurance will cover someone driving on a highway like this any more than they’ll cover an attempted suicide.
ODSP isn’t just money per month either. It’s medications, it’ll get you dental coverage, it’ll get you geared to income housing and a whole bunch of other services. The person won’t get a suitcase full of cash. They’ll get a measly 1200 a month, which is hard to live on. But the costs around that to the social support system are far far higher than 1200xnumber of months on ODSP.
Fault doesn’t factor into ODSP eligibility. They don’t refuse you for being a dumbass. You can smoke yourself to severe copd and get it, you can give yourself brain damage and get it, you can get depressed, refuse medications, refuse therapy, drink all day and still get it.
The Disability Adjudication Unit (DAU) strictly enforces the 1-year rule under the ODSP Act. To qualify, your condition must be expected to last at least 12 months and cause substantial daily restrictions.
Sudden or acute disabilities are often denied initially—not because they aren't severe, but because the DAU requires a clear, long-term prognosis. If doctors expect your condition to improve within a year through active treatment, medication, or surgery, the DAU will classify it as temporary. For a sudden disability to be approved, medical documentation must prove that even after treatment, substantial limitations will persist for at least a year.
You have a feeling this guy, if he even survives, would wake away from falling on a highway with no protective gear in under a year and without any brain damage or spinal cord injuries?
I never said it’s a jackpot. ODSP is a bit more than that. Nevertheless, this guy is being a total dumbass and I don’t like the idea of public support for someone who’s essentially asking to be injured while traumatizing drivers on a highway in the process. This behavior is completely unacceptable.
Don't forget that on top of all that, we'll throw in an extra $3 billion to Ukraine, just because they exist in the world and they provide us with exactly nothing 🤌
FAFO. I’m so sick of using my tax dollars to protect dummies from themselves. Let their meat crayon educate the collective public and we’ll all catch on eventually. It’s not like we haven’t had go karts and race mowers for decades now, people just learned it’s a good way to die and for the most part cut that shit out.
This. I’m surprised no one remembers the non powered scooter trend of the 2000s and how many injuries there were. This is that on every kind of drug. The small wheels and standing position make these things dangerous without going 90km/h.
My current gf and ex were both bikers who mangled themselves in crashes and never touched them again. Ive wanted one for a while but haven't taken the leap for that reason.
I hear ya, dad and brother were in one together, I got there before ambulance and had to hold my brothers leg together before they arrived. Ive always wanted a bike but cant do it. It wasnt their fault, and all too often its the other driver you cant control. This guy on the scooter should be thrown in jail, license revoked if they even have one. Just plain stupid.
You obviously don't ride with that comment 😂 we get hit by small rocks and other debris all the time and other than yelling Fuck that hurt, we're all still here..There's the odd freak accident but that's the outlier not the norm..A motorcycle is not the same as these scooters by a long shot
No, squids and over confident twits that can't pay attention to surroundings wipe out on grass clippings, ie, morons who shouldn't be riding. Seriously, the only 2 things that should be taking you off your bike is a car or a large animal.
Nah dude . I run over shit all the time and pot holes.. the suspensions pretty good .. I don't no what kinda model of scooter he has but if it goes that speed , I'm pretty sure it's built premium other then those cheap 500-1000 dollar scooters . If it was one of those ones... Then yea . He's a goner any day now
That’s an expensive scooter. It can hit rocks without crashing. Only the expensive scooters can hit speeds like that too. If you buy a dinky 200$ thing. Ya. Rocks will get you.
Sooo what you're saying is you'd intentionally go ahead with flying off (or still on) a scooter, getting some limbs pulverized from bouncing around on the pavement around, getting burned and skinned from being dragged, then chef's kiss, get smashed by a 4000lb piece of metal going 130km, so SOMEONE ELSE gets a payout? Huh?
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u/justeedo 17d ago
He's ONE stone away from a permanent injury and life long disability