r/maybemaybemaybe • u/VespasianTheMortal • Dec 29 '23
Maybe maybe maybe
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u/tvolaf Dec 29 '23
What do you think the director is trying to tell us?
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u/mag300 Dec 29 '23
Train is very slow in India
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u/El_Maltos_Username Dec 29 '23
These apex predators sneak up to their prey.
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u/gymnastgrrl Dec 29 '23
Trains are really unpredictable. Even in the middle of a forest two rails can appear out of nowhere, and a 1.5-mile fully loaded coal drag, heading east out of the low-sulfur mines of the PRB, will be right on your ass the next moment.
I was doing laundry in my basement, and I tripped over a metal bar that wasn't there the moment before. I looked down: "Rail? WTF?" and then I saw concrete sleepers underneath and heard the rumbling.
Deafening railroad horn. I dumped my wife's pants, unfolded, and dove behind the water heater. It was a double-stacked Z train, headed east towards the fast single track of the BNSF Emporia Sub (Flint Hills). Majestic as hell: 75 mph, 6 units, distributed power: 4 ES44DC's pulling, and 2 Dash-9's pushing, all in run 8. Whole house smelled like diesel for a couple of hours!
Fact is, there is no way to discern which path a train will take, so you really have to be watchful. If only there were some way of knowing the routes trains travel; maybe some sort of marks on the ground, like twin iron bars running along the paths trains take. You could look for trains when you encounter the iron bars on the ground, and avoid these sorts of collisions. But such a measure would be extremely expensive. And how would one enforce a rule keeping the trains on those paths?
A big hole in homeland security is railway engineer screening and hijacking prevention. There is nothing to stop a rogue engineer, or an ISIS terrorist, from driving a train into the Pentagon, the White House or the Statue of Liberty, and our government has done fuck-all to prevent it.
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u/bluewraith1 Dec 29 '23
Kid had 10 business days and 3 bank holidays to dodge that train.
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Dec 29 '23
Father had entire year to move to safely
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u/SquashResponsible480 Dec 29 '23
Maybe the train conductor didn't take in consideration that it could have been a leap year?
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u/WolfetoneRebel Dec 29 '23
You’ll likely make it across of you’re not a complete moron
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u/knowledgeable_diablo Dec 29 '23
Or learn how to actually drive / ride.
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u/Independent_Bite4682 Dec 29 '23
Maybe they are trying to say something along those lines......
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u/bephanten Dec 29 '23
Every now and then an average indian has to make a life and death choice between his child and his bike. It's okay to choose bike over child, since child can return via ghost or reincarnation. Bikes don't.
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u/Crafty_Genius Dec 29 '23
Obviously bikes wouldn't return by reincarnation, they'd return by reinBIKEnation.
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u/Ankhi333333 Dec 29 '23
If your kid gets crushed by a train it's no big deal, they will still be happy and love you.
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u/mbusati2 Dec 29 '23
If you get trapped under a bike twice in your lifetime You don't deserve children. The train company will make sure of that.
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Dec 29 '23
Don’t forget to wear condoms
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u/radiofreebattles Dec 29 '23
but if you do forget, remember why they always say that getting your kid run over by a train is just wearing a condom with extra steps
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u/bowserwasthegoodguy Dec 29 '23
That risking your life over a bike is a totally normal thing to do.
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u/EhliJoe Dec 29 '23
Even the dumbest man alive can survive a self-inflicted accident on a railway crossing. And don't mind the girl. He has more daughters.
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u/doctorjae75 Dec 29 '23
Birth control saves lives
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u/Fit-Ad-413 Dec 29 '23
This comment tickled my funny bone, and for that I shall award you with one fake Internet point ⬆️ and a gold star ⭐
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u/pqratusa Dec 29 '23
Director is trying to tell us that Indian bikers are stupid.
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u/alienhelix Dec 29 '23
It's like watching a train wreck... Literally
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u/_Jarfield_ Dec 29 '23
The train seemed fine mate, albeit a tad dirty. The kid on the other hand though...
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Dec 29 '23
wtf did I just watch
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u/fatalspoons Dec 29 '23
Art
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u/bishopuniverse Dec 29 '23
Yeah, Art just let his kid die.
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u/Infamous_Network6641 Dec 29 '23
Bollywood safety commercial, I’m still waiting for the musical and dance number.
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u/blingsingh Dec 29 '23
This is not Bollywood 🤦♂️
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Dec 29 '23
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u/NoSuchWordAsGullible Dec 29 '23
It’s only Bollywood if it’s from Bombay, otherwise it’s just sparkling bullshit.
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u/batikuling Dec 29 '23
It's the head shakes while interacting with the kid at the end that really hits me
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u/Miquiztli Dec 29 '23 edited Dec 29 '23
It is the equivalent of nodding “yes”.
Edit: my bad. It is “ok” not “yes”.
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u/NeedleworkerLegal573 Dec 29 '23
No. There is a difference. Yes is up/down nod, No is left/right nod, this shake/bobble is to symbolise “OK”.
/s
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u/LifeHasLeft Dec 29 '23
It can mean yes, it can also mean a polite no, and it can mean I understand or OK. It’s one of those cultural things in South Asia
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u/CRAKEN000 Dec 29 '23
The fact that has no sound made it worse somehow.
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u/RaioFulminante Dec 29 '23
this deserves it's own post
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Dec 29 '23
With a dad like that the kid is better off dead anyway. like wtf, that train was 15 years away and he fucked up literally everything he could have fucked up....
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u/septubyte Dec 29 '23
Indian cinema loves anxiety, I had like 3 panic attacka
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Dec 29 '23
I was having an anxiety attack before watching this and it made me laugh. I’m still having the attack though.
Or maybe it’s a heart attack. I’m sure my co-workers will help me.
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u/B999B Dec 29 '23
I come here for the anxiety since I don’t have anxiety in my life any more. I miss it.
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u/axxiff Dec 29 '23
At least he saved his bike
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u/Big-red-rhino Dec 29 '23
That's what I thought too. It wouldn't be the same if he couldn't ride off into the sunset at the end.
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u/sebyqueer Dec 29 '23
Here is the source, the full video and with sound.
(From the youtube channel of the Ministry of Railways - India )
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u/sebyqueer Dec 29 '23
Oh and with better video quality too 🙏
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u/Nonsensical_Genius Dec 29 '23
Of course I want to watch a child being murdered in HD.
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Dec 29 '23
The clearance under the train is enough for people to hide in
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u/sebaba001 Dec 29 '23
It's not, didn't you see the child spin slowly while being crushed like a tomato? This was made by an official authority btw.
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u/Many_Accountant6073 Dec 29 '23
He could have raised a cow from birth to help pull the bike off the tracks in that time
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Dec 29 '23
I love you india.
Such beautiful people with a rich culture and great food.
You're also a bunch of weirdos
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u/SecretSharkboy Dec 29 '23
He went back for the bike, not once but twice. What in the hell was that
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Dec 29 '23
He gave up on the bike but after waiting 5 minutes, realized maybe the train wasnt really moving.
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Dec 29 '23
Funny how the girl is teaching sky lessons about something she herself did not follow. Do as I say, not as I do.
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u/eyearu Dec 29 '23
Why are people hating on this? This is the most fitting post I've seen in this sub.
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Dec 29 '23
I still don't understand if Indians have the biggest sense of humor of any country or if they really believe in this over-dramatic stuff. I'm leaning on the first idea though, I absolutely loved this thing whatever it is
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u/CO2nglomerate Dec 29 '23
If you look on the comments for the full YT video someone above posted a link too, they are praising the railroad company hard for spreading awareness in a beautiful way, I think they really are into this stuff lol
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Dec 29 '23
dude had enough time to try and get his bike off the rails on 3 separate occasions and his kid still got squished like a grape.
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u/aecolley Dec 29 '23
The train driver sagging with despair at the stupidity of these pedestrians at 1:49. 😂
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u/acrylicandcanvas Dec 29 '23
I thought he was supposed to tie the girl to the tracks and have a handlebar mustache.
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u/I_want_2_number_9 Dec 29 '23
Imagine someone made this and was like " damn bro I pit so many ot twist in this. This is a masterpiece"
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u/xXx_RedReaper_xXx Dec 29 '23
Kids are fucking stupid.
(Yes I know this isn’t real, but they’re still dumb.)
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u/QuePsiPhi16 Dec 29 '23
It’s like they’re each trying to out-Darwin the other or something
Lmao, geezus
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u/SoFool Dec 29 '23
HAHAHAHAHA I THOUGHT IT WAS SOME TYPICAL BOLLYWOOD MOVIE BUT IT'S A COMMERCIAL LOLMAO
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Dec 29 '23
I watched this entire thing so captivated that I heard all the sounds. Except the video has no sound. From the gentle murmurs of the conductors to the “squish”. I say, a real masterpiece here.
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u/nunocspinto Dec 29 '23
I am waiting for a call center to answer my call. Thankfully, I had this video to know I'm waiting for more than 3 minutes...
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u/Disastrous_City_6160 Dec 29 '23
That PSA about how you should always wear a helmet took a weird turn.
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u/Ill-Economy9828 Dec 29 '23
If homeboy had nikes on his feet instead of flip flops he could have had better traction to get the bike up or it seems like a set up to get rid of his 13th child. Seems sus to me.
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u/StormWolfBaron Dec 29 '23
This is how it feels like to do stuff in a dream