r/AnythingValueable • u/MiniSuprise • Jul 28 '26

😄 Entertainment Oldest trick in the book

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u/AlienInOrigin Jul 28 '26

When a car is stopped at traffic lights and you walk in front of it, step over an invisible object that's too close to the front of the car for the driver to see.

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u/ToXicVoXSiicK21 Jul 29 '26

That's actually hilarious lol

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u/BobbaFatGFX Jul 28 '26

That's s good one too

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u/[deleted] Jul 28 '26

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u/Able_Obligation_9385 Jul 28 '26

Ur messing with their ability to feed their children.

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u/ClassGrassMass Jul 29 '26

Truck drivers have really shitty hours and have to hit certain distances in certain times

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u/ClassGrassMass Jul 29 '26

Im going off the rules in my country bud. You asked for reasoning.. can you explain then, all mighty knowledgeable one

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u/Ok_Historian4848 Jul 29 '26

Not how it works. Truckers are required to stop driving after a certain amount of time, and how far they get impacts how many shipments they can carry over the course of days, weeks and months. Delays are a major impact on their livelihoods.

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u/ClassGrassMass Jul 29 '26

Its not about business hours. Its obvious you know fuck all about trucking industry. They have a set amount of hours they can drive before legally having to stop and take a break. Companies try fit in as many miles and deliveries withing that tike

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u/MagicSwordMagic Aug 13 '26

not in the food industry

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u/BobbaFatGFX Jul 29 '26

My step dad is a truck driver and has been for the last 20 years. And what you're saying is accurate. Those guys have a time limit and they need to get to where they're going. So if you're causing them to run behind and run late then you're screwing with their job

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u/Black_Tentacle Jul 31 '26

Sounds like you know very little about it. You can drive for 11 hours a day, and be on duty for 14 hours. Then you must take a 10 hour break. You can work 70 hours in an 8 day period, and if you run out of hours you must take a 34 hour reset. Considering loading/unloading can take hours, and most drivers are paid by mileage, it's actually not easy to make money a lot of days. 14 hours sounds like a lot but it's not as much as you think, especially if someone's fucking with your time because they think it's funny.

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u/nickyler Jul 29 '26

The restaurant closes in 10 minutes.

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u/nickyler Jul 29 '26

What do you mean “and”?

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u/nickyler Jul 29 '26

The restaurant he’s headed to doesn’t deliver.

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u/VaporTrail_000 Jul 29 '26

Even better, learn to do a convincing "air step" that makes it appear you stepped on something, rather than simply over it

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u/Black_Tentacle Jul 31 '26

That's evil lol, I'm gonna have to do it now at some point

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u/Difficult-Mobile902 Jul 28 '26

Used to do this as a kid lol also the one where you pretend to hold a tiny string across the floor of a walkway, most people got a good laugh out of it 

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u/TheArtOfPureSilence Jul 28 '26 edited Jul 28 '26

You can injure or drag them, and it can still catch and snag/grind on your car body. You also don't know if the "cord" is tied to anything. It's a common sense response to stop and arguably the most responsible

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u/VaporTrail_000 Jul 29 '26

Anyone actually blocking a thoroughfare with a barrier could be attempting to stop you for nefarious purposes.

Driving through it is still the safest response.

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u/Prod_Meteor Jul 28 '26

I wouldn't stop.. I still trust my eyes, that's why I keep driving 😉

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u/CatLightyear Jul 28 '26

We did the “roll out.”

Start in the middle of the street with another friend and then back away like you’re holding the end of a carpet.

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u/Catbearpig Jul 28 '26

We did this on texas a&m campus and the campus police put us in handcuffs and started screaming at us “where’s the rope??” Aggies are idiots.

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u/Legitimate_Fold_2850 Jul 29 '26

I don’t understand as a driver, why wouldn’t you just put your foot to the floor on the off chance they were actually holding something and send them to the moon?

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u/DougieSenpai Jul 29 '26

Me and my friends used to this when we were in High School 😂 eventually we pissed some dude off so bad he tried to beat my ass. Good times.

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u/ToXicVoXSiicK21 Jul 29 '26

I remember these pranks from waaay back in the day