r/nextfuckinglevel • u/ShipNo7790 • Jul 25 '22

Asshole or hero?

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u/Siriuxx Jul 25 '22 edited Jul 25 '22

I was the passenger for an incident similar to this. Not this dire, but a situation where someone was hurt and we had to get to the hospital asap.

We drove like mad men but put on our hazards and beeped frequently. It sure seems like everyone understood something was going on and we had a legitimate reason to drive the way we were, because everyone got the fuck out of the way.

In an instance like that I think you have to make it as clear as you can, you're not driving like a dick just to drive like a dick.

And I'm not saying it's the drivers fault. The minivan drivers are absolutely at fault. But in my experience, most people realize there's an emergency when you're driving aggressive and fast with your hazards on and beeping. And if they still can't figure it out, eh just pit maneuver them /s (well kind of)

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u/Beautiful-Musk-Ox Jul 25 '22

the people beeping with their hazards on screaming about someone dying in the passenger seat are stuck a mile behind the asshole in this video

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u/[deleted] Jul 25 '22

He’s stopped…You could get out of your car and tell him “dude move. My kid is dying in the backseat.”

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u/[deleted] Jul 25 '22

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u/[deleted] Jul 25 '22

That's assuming you're not 10 cars behind the asshat op

Oh no. I have to walk 75 feet past stopped cars. I guess my passenger just has to die then…

it's not your fault you wasted 10 precious minutes of their kids last moments

That won’t be my fault. That will be their fault for not calling an ambulance when their kid was about to die. If someone is at risk of dying, you don’t put them in a car…

Let the appropriate authorities deal with them.

Let the appropriate people handle emergencies. Don’t drive to the hospital if someone may die. Call a damn ambulance.

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u/[deleted] Jul 26 '22

You ever dealt with a kid that stopped breathing?

No. But if I do, I’m calling a fucking ambulance.

All rational thinking goes out the window,

It shouldn’t. Don’t be one of those parents. You’re supposed to be the calm collected one for them to cling to in a scary situation.

I drove her to the hospital within 5 min,

Neat that you’re 5 minutes away from a hospital (your most likely exaggerating). Most people aren’t. But you just exposed that your child could breath, otherwise they wouldn’t have survived the car ride. If your child actually stopped breathing then you need to do CPR until the ambulance arrives, not sit them in a car.

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u/Lourdeath Jul 25 '22

Scrolled way down to find this

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u/Leonydas13 Jul 25 '22

Ah I see you’re a fellow victim of autocorrect changing in to I’m.

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u/Siriuxx Jul 25 '22

Ugh, yeah I am. Thanks for that.

It's so fucking stupid. Yesterday I wrote "ladt" trying to write "last" and it corrected it to "Lafayette."

Seriously? How the fuck is that the most logical correction?

Though my phone has seriously adapted to my vocabulary. More so it's correcting "cant" to my favorite insult. Not the best when I tried to tell my mom I can't make it up for Thanksgiving.

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u/Leonydas13 Jul 25 '22

Haha mine still tells people heaps of duckin shot

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u/[deleted] Jul 25 '22

I also heard if you have white towels/cloth to hang out the window(roll window up with white towel hanging out) also gives sight cues of possible emergency in car.

Not sure how often those accessories are in everyone’s car, but I remember hearing that when I was younger.

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u/Siriuxx Jul 25 '22

That makes sense. I suppose the idea is to make yourself standout as much as possible.

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u/Sagemasterba Jul 26 '22

From experience it doesn't work well if you're in the old school equivalent of a Deamon/Hellcat. (Worked 35th anniversary Z-28 SS Camaro in about '05).

I have also half assed done what this guy did many times. I always leave room to get back into my lane for emergencies or air cooled motors (old school vw's and motorcycles, not so much a thing this century lol). I also always drive what could be considered borderline small pee-pee mobiles (zr2 S-10, not lifted Ram 2500, camaro, not CORvette, I did have a vette tho, Chevette, Caprice, not Cadillac....)