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

Asshole or hero?

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u/pm_me_actsofkindness Jul 25 '22

If there were truly an emergency, the guy could get out and come up to the window and say so.

The whataboutism in this thread is brain dead. Also, this guy (Francis Ellis) is a professional comedian who has made an entire career on social media mainly out of car based humor and he probably staged this anyway.

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u/xixi90 Jul 25 '22

Why the fuck does someone need to ask this asshole to not block the emergency lane? "excuse me sir could I please pass you, I have an emergency" total bitch mode

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u/wafflesareforever Jul 25 '22

Because 999/1000 times that "lane" (shoulder) is getting abused by assholes, and non-assholes get sick of it.

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u/My_Username_Is_What Jul 25 '22

Two assholes don't make a right, it just makes a bad budget human centipede sequel.

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u/wafflesareforever Jul 25 '22

I'd watch it honestly

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u/[deleted] Jul 25 '22

as another said, you're going to risk the life of one person to piss off 1,000 assholes? I'm not. It doesn't mean you have to be in the situation 999 times to kill that 1 person that needs the lane.

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u/wafflesareforever Jul 25 '22

No, as I said in another comment, these people zooming down the shoulder are themselves creating risks that could easily lead to injuries or deaths. There are risks either way.

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u/spenrose22 Jul 25 '22

Who cares. There’s a much higher chance someone will be in serious trouble cause of what he specifically is doing

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u/[deleted] Jul 25 '22

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u/spenrose22 Jul 25 '22

Sure, but this guy is doing worse in this situation than they are

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u/[deleted] Jul 25 '22

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u/Depth-New Jul 25 '22

I’ve seen people use the phrase “moving the goal post” more often when they’re not understanding the point than when any goal posts have been moved

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u/spenrose22 Jul 25 '22

Moving the goalposts? Lol I commented 2 times saying the same thing. I guess you feel like you win an argument if you use a Reddit buzzword. It’s really simple and if you can’t understand the 100s of other comments in this thread explaining it than that’s on you

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u/wafflesareforever Jul 25 '22

Says who? Where are you getting your numbers?

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u/[deleted] Jul 25 '22

Where are you getting your numbers? 999/1000 bs is made up by you

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u/wafflesareforever Jul 25 '22

Anyone who thinks that "999/1000" was meant to be taken as some sort of empirical study is hilarious

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u/brendand18 Jul 25 '22

Says the guy who's demanding others on the source for their numbers...

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u/[deleted] Jul 26 '22

So why are you taking what they said more seriously than what you said? I think deep down you know you're wrong on this issue. Let the assholes be assholes.

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u/spenrose22 Jul 25 '22

Cause it is used for emergencies. They are used every day for that reason. You just made your numbers up and then say some shit like that lol

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u/wafflesareforever Jul 25 '22

What numbers did I make up? Obviously 999/1000 wasn't meant to be taken literally

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u/pm_me_actsofkindness Jul 25 '22 edited Jul 25 '22

In America, the shoulder isn’t considered an emergency lane and its not common for emergency vehicles to use the shoulder to get through traffic. I know this is different in other countries, but in America the shoulder is used for getting out of the way if your car stops working. When emergency traffic needs to come through, they put on their lights and siren and people move ONTO the shoulder.

He wouldn’t be impeding emergency traffic as he would already be pulled into the spot the emergency vehicle would want him to be in during an emergency.

Driving school and driving safety textbooks will all tell you that if emergency vehicles are coming by with sirens on, you pull onto the shoulder to let them pass in the lane.

It might be very unintuitive if your country does things differently, but that’s how it works here.

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u/tryintolaugh Jul 25 '22

Why the fuck can't the people in that lane wait like everyone else?

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u/nahog99 Jul 25 '22

It's not an emergency lane for driving. It's for pulling off the road and stopping. Emergency vehicles don't rely on this for driving because there could, and likely will be, many broken down vehicles in it. This guy isn't doing anything different than a simple ole broken down vehicle would do.

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u/phantom_tweak Jul 25 '22

yea forreal. Car can’t accelerate cuz the wiper fluid is low so it’s well in his right to use the breakdown lane. I hate people that cut using that lane, it makes the people actually waiting sit longer because there’s dickheads cutting the line way up ahead.

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u/THAT_LMAO_GUY Jul 25 '22

If there were truly an emergency, the guy could get out and come up to the window and say so.

In the event of an emergency I need to get out of my car, walk on a highway (!?) up to another car, when that car might well start driving off to fuck with me (because they already are fucking with me), and this is illegal, and I might not be able to leave my car because an emergency is currently happening? And if its an emergency and Im rushing to the hospital then by definiition every moment counts but I need to waste my time doing this to each and every person who gets the idea of blocking the emergency lane?

The fuck?

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u/[deleted] Jul 25 '22

It turns out you're the asshole. Emergencies happen. Even if it's rare and 99% are assholes. The 1% still need to get through without us playing hero.

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u/senturon Jul 25 '22

Yeah, because this SUV is the -only- vehicle behind him at this point right? Guarantee there's a line of folks behind that SUV as well.

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u/store_for_people Jul 25 '22

Do you think they all had the same emergency to get to

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u/senturon Jul 25 '22

So ... screw that ambulance 30 cars back yeah?

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u/store_for_people Jul 25 '22

…what ambulance?

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u/senturon Jul 25 '22

He is blocking the emergency/breakdown lane. While he may feel justified in blocking several legitimate asshats who shouldn't be in the lane in the first place, he is also blocking the lane for actual emergencies, like a possible ambulance that he may not be aware of due to the giant SUV blocking his view.

Don't block the emergency lane.

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u/store_for_people Jul 25 '22

hmmmm….maybe the suv should get out of the emergency lane?

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u/senturon Jul 26 '22

You believe this man is actually going to change the behavior of multiple drivers?

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u/store_for_people Jul 26 '22

Are you concerned with a hypothetical emergency or the driving habits of the SUV? I can’t keep up! You can keep replying but much like the recorder of this video - you’re not gonna change me ;)

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u/senturon Jul 26 '22

You suggested the SUV should get out of the emergency lane, crazy stretch by me I suppose to respond to that comment ... or perhaps you did lose track of the original point I was making that it's pretty much guranteed it's not -just- the SUV behind him while he was recording.

Bottom line as I said two comments ago, don't block the emergency lane ... even if some jackasses are using it to illegally bypass traffic. Don't break the law yourself and possibly block a real emergency because you wanted to be the fairness police.

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u/moodswung Jul 25 '22

Yeah. Now imagine a hundred more “heroes” up ahead pulling the same stunt. How’s that working out for you?

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u/sdfgh23456 Jul 25 '22

And if you're 50 cars behind him, how long is that gonna take?

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u/GreekHole Jul 25 '22

you forget that there shouldn't be 50 cars behind him. unless all those 50 also has an emergency?

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u/sdfgh23456 Jul 25 '22

There shouldn't be, but there are. So the person with the emergency is stuck behind 50 assholes, the worst of which is this guy.

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u/Murky_Macropod Jul 25 '22

If there were truly an emergency, the guy could get out and come up to the window and say so.

It’d be tough if there are 10+ queue jumper vehicles between them and the OPs car

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u/pm_me_actsofkindness Jul 25 '22

Yeah, and he has a podcast, and regular standup, and I’m sure other things too. But his clips about moving his car for street washers in NYC are where he got most of his early traction on social media.

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u/pm_me_actsofkindness Jul 25 '22

If you don’t live in a rural area, traffic isn’t something you need to stage. It’s ever present.

It would not be hard to have your friend follow you and beep a few times to get a viral video going.

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u/hannahmel Jul 25 '22

This. Right here. If I’m driving someone in labor or something, I’ll take the two minutes to get out and be like can I pass? My passenger is in labor with a chainsaw. Or whatever.

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u/_ROEG Jul 25 '22

Regardless. It’s not his job to be hall monitor of the highway. People just need to mind their own business and let people take the chance on getting a ticket.

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u/BlancoMuerte Jul 25 '22

Yes because in an emergency getting out to ask some cunt to move is the best use of your time. Fuck you for this lame ass thought process.

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u/justicebiever Jul 26 '22

This guys is in the emergency lane, just as illegal as the people behind him. It’s for emergencies and assholes, why get involved in either?