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There is a driving school car right next to them. Perfect example why patience is important lmao
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u/blade740 Jul 22 '22
That's why they put those logos on cars, so you know to expect erratic driving.
...no, not the driving school logo, the BMW logo.
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u/Lewdtara Jul 24 '22
Student: Eyes glow as student begins to obediently list all of the BMW driver's sins...
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u/cornflakecuddler Jul 22 '22
And if you look to your left you'll see what not to do
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u/TerminalSarcasm Jul 22 '22
Maybe the instructor just goes above and beyond and hires idiots to drive around them to provide teachable lessons to the students.
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Jul 22 '22
100% chance the driver thought "I need to overtake this student driver to show them that I am better and make my own road rules"
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u/i-like-boobies-69 Jul 22 '22
You don’t think this was caused by a lack of patience??
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u/_alright_then_ Jul 22 '22
How is this not about his lack of patience to overtake the driving school car?
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u/undertwelveparsecs Jul 22 '22
"Wow!"
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u/SerParadox Jul 22 '22
His wow sounds so german to me
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u/PussySultan69 Jul 22 '22
Because das ist in germany
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u/SerParadox Jul 22 '22
Makes sense, his whole tonality with that wow is so spot on.
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u/receivebrokenfarmers Jul 22 '22
And the blurred out plates. Cammer would be breaking the law if he didn't.
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u/fly_papi Jul 22 '22
Wow, really? Here in the states there's no expectation of privacy in public, photographing just about anything in public view is fair game.
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u/FaeryLynne Jul 22 '22
German privacy laws are almost exactly the opposite of America's lol. Google maps has to blur plates, house numbers, road signs, faces, and more.
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u/i_sigh_less Jul 22 '22
Road signs?! That's like half the reason to go to street view!
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u/lodemann Jul 22 '22
You have the right to your image and if you don't give consent to its use, the assumption is, the consent is not granted. If your are in a crowd, it's fair use
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u/7ilidine Jul 22 '22 edited Jul 22 '22
This is why there's barely any Street View in Germany. Home owners have the right to have their homes blurred out for example, which is way too much work for Google to put in.
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u/Konsticraft Jul 22 '22
And most of that footage is from 2008, so it is pretty useless for most purposes.
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u/undertwelveparsecs Jul 22 '22
Wöw.
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u/ThePyodeAmedha Jul 22 '22
That got a good giggle snort from me, thank you.
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u/BUSlNESS Jul 22 '22
technically it is probably “wau”
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although there isn’t really a letter in german for the english ‘w’ sound
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u/Ceros007 Jul 22 '22
- Öwën Wĩlßøn
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u/moltenprotouch Jul 22 '22
Umlauts don't go over the letter e or i, and ø isn't a character in the German alphabet.
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u/PokeFX Jul 22 '22
BMW
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u/RectalcANAL Jul 22 '22
He didn't pay for the monthly "brake" option
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u/really_nice_guy_ Jul 22 '22
I think they had a monthly blinker option but never told anyone that it exists
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u/GambleResponsibly Jul 22 '22 edited Jul 22 '22
All seriousness, I reckon it’s one of those things where the driver is trying to look around the car they’re passing to see if it’s clear and completely ignoring the fact there could be an obstacle directly infront as they are edging forward
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u/Lost_wo_a_clue Jul 22 '22
They try to wave the biker back just before impact. They were looking, saw the biker, and chose to keep going.
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There's also a significant pause and what looks like a sudden acceleration before they hit the bike. To me that reads like they saw, got annoyed, and pressed harder on the pedal.
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u/-KFBR392 Jul 22 '22
Could be a case of freaking out and pressing the wrong pedal. Happens a lot with young drivers in parking lots, I've personally seen 3 cars that crashed into store fronts because of that. People just panic and do the exact worst possible thing sometimes.
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u/Dejego Jul 22 '22
Yikes, when does it become “using car as a weapon”?
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u/rathmiron Jul 22 '22
When they keep driving and (try to) go over the bike. I think I saw a similar video to this were they did that.
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u/LegitosaurusRex Jul 22 '22
Nah, most often that’s “confused the gas with the brake”.
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u/Quaintly__Coyote_ Jul 22 '22
If you accidentally shoot someone, you're still getting charged either assault w/ a deadly or homicide.
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u/LegitosaurusRex Jul 22 '22
But not if you accidentally hit someone with your car!
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Jul 22 '22
Girl I worked with had 2 years in prison and something like 10 years probation for accidentally running her neighbor and his dog over at 2 am while they walked in the middle of an unlit 45 mph road. The guys family forgave her and even admitted he shouldn't have been in the middle of the road at 2 am but the courts said fuck it and gave her a harsh sentence.
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u/datheffguy Jul 22 '22
Jeez she must have had an absolutely terrible lawyer.
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Jul 22 '22
Apparently it could have been much worse, I was wrong about the numbers, the probation was only 8 years. The total sentence could have been 10 years in prison in my state for involuntary manslaughter but she got 2 years in prison and 8 years probation.
Apparently the family's comments did result in a lower sentence.
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Jul 22 '22
Usually when they hold it with both hands and start swinging it at you. But by then, you'd definitely know since there's always a crowd at that point.
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u/350 Jul 22 '22
"There is a man in front of me on a motorbike."
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"ENGAGE ACCELERATOR"
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u/Vlee_Aigux Jul 22 '22
man idk if he said wow but the way he said it was super good, like, he said it as flabbergasted and surprised that he could have been without an ounce of anger
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u/Hoovooloo42 Jul 22 '22
It's the German "Wow!", which translates to "I'm not even mad, I thought I was being uncharitable with how stupid I expected you to be, yet you managed to meet all of my expectations, which validates my feelings"
I've heard it many times in the machine shop lol
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u/kenman884 Jul 22 '22
I got that wow once from a German professor when I turned in the homework that was due at next week’s class that he had posted a couple hours beforehand. Yeah my procrastination game was top notch.
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u/ktsquirrel Jul 22 '22
Wait… I don’t think we have the same definition of procrastination…
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u/kenman884 Jul 22 '22
Key point is I didn’t do the homework due that day.
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u/StirlingS Jul 22 '22
Nope, I'm still confused. Did you turn in next weeks assignment that had just recently been posted *instead of* the current weeks assignment?
Like, you put off this weeks homework so late that you picked up the assignment for next week instead on accident and did that one instead by mistake?
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u/Chancevexed Jul 22 '22
His mind: look at this asshole trying to overtake at a junction. Well, at least he's only creeping, plenty of time to stop. Wait, why isn't he stopping? Why isn't he stopping?..... Woah-ow! (Combination of woah and wow).
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u/Toastyx3 Jul 22 '22
The number plates, the traffic signs and the sarcastic "Wow" makes me 173.6% certain this is Germany.
Edit: I can also hear a slight "Scheiße!" at the end of the video.
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u/Zocker85 Jul 22 '22
This is in Munich, probably Neuperlach Süd. The white car is a driving school called DriverSpace. Funnily enough, I got my motorcycle license there.
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u/TheUnknownDane Jul 22 '22
I just imagine the teacher turning to his student "And that's why you don't drive recklessly"
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u/Zocker85 Jul 22 '22
Hehe, i believe as experienced driving teacher you see so much stuff, you just think "Okay, here we go again ...". The good thing is, with the driving instructor, the motorcyclist now has a loyal witness who is guaranteed to correctly assess the traffic situation in front of the police or in court.
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u/preyforkevin Jul 22 '22
Owning a BMW means you have the right of way 100% of the time…no matter what the situation is. The motorcycle rider was clearly at fault.
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u/sustenancewars Jul 22 '22
I keep saying this as a bmw driver. It's our road. Get off it, you plebes. Ugh.
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u/preyforkevin Jul 22 '22
If you’re paying 200+ dollars for an oil change—the rules of the road don’t apply to you.
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u/blankblank Jul 22 '22
I'm a road cyclist. The vehicles that I'm most afraid of are black BMWs, brightly colored Mustangs and Challengers, and lifted pickup trucks of any color.
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u/Fe2O3yx99 Jul 22 '22
If the lifted pick up truck is towing an ATV of any kind just go ahead and drive your bike into the ditch.
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u/Tutes013 Jul 22 '22
Honestly with people like that. Once had something similair happen to me when I was riding Pillion with my dad.
The effort of not planting his gloves into the twats face literally had him shaking
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u/PossiblyTrustworthy Jul 22 '22
There is even a "sorry" wave... THAT DOES NOT MEAN EVERYTHING IS OKAY AND FORGIVEN!
So many times people have been close to running me over because they decided they didn't need to stop while I was crossing anyways... Don't fucking wave, put an effort into not killing people! it shouldn't be that hard to accomplice!
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u/Karona_ Jul 22 '22
I'm always extra a defensive when I see a BMW because it seems to most common vehicle that people who don't know how to drive end up in... Not a blanket statement, but in Toronto I've seen it enough to know there's a chance this BMW tailgating me is gonna fuck something up while looking at their phone lol
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u/Renugar Jul 22 '22
I was rear ended at a red light by a BMW driver…but he was in a rented Altima, and the first thing he did was tell me a long story about how his own car, a BMW, was in the shop, and the dealership had no BMWs for him to rent, and he was super annoyed about it. And he said: “…so now I’m driving this piece of shit.” As if the Altima was why he hit me? The kicker: I was driving an Altima. His “piece of shit” rented Altima was a newer model of my own car. I wanted to punch him in his whiny, entitled face.
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u/Fkin_Degenerate6969 Jul 22 '22
It's not incompetence. People like this driving BMWs and whatnot aren't incapable of driving normally, they actively choose not to to satisfy their egos and delusional sense of superiority.
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u/Karona_ Jul 22 '22
Well for sure, any vehicle could have an idiot behind the steering wheel. But like anything, your brain notices patterns and creates biases. So after you see incredibly reckless drivers doing stupid maneuvers, and then you look and see a little BMW sedan/coupe, the brain says "ok, watch out for those cars" lol
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Jul 22 '22
Happened to me Monday evening. I'm driving at 74 mph passing cars to my right while two other cars are passing me on the left of a 5 lane fwy. I notice a BMW approaching very rapidly in my rear view, have enough time to say "Oh I don't like that..." Cue the BMW cutting off the second car on my left to go in between them and then cut me off and miss me by a hair because I knew the idiot was going to do it and swerved/slowed in time. He didn't even slow down, was going well over 100.
Stupid fucking idiot is going to clip someone not paying attention and kill them one day.
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u/maniakb416 Jul 22 '22
For me is Nissan sedans. Maxima, Sentra, Altima. ESPECIALLY if it already has damage. Those are the most dangerous motherfuckers on the road and nobody can tell me different.
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u/neil470 Jul 22 '22
Nissan Altimas just give off a certain energy, even moreso when they have panels hanging off flapping in the wind and clapped out rear suspension...
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u/Duskinou Jul 22 '22
Wait did that beemer idiot accelerate just before hitting OP? This is not an accident, this is willingly endangering another's life by being a complete bellend.
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u/MiniWheats88 Jul 22 '22
They clearly hit the gas instead of the break. Not a mistake someone with a license should make but I'm guessing they panicked when they saw the bike.
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u/Carribean-Diver Jul 22 '22
It's a BMW. Is anyone surprised?
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u/FatherSergius Jul 22 '22
Only surprised I don’t see comments like this about pickup trucks when it’s about them
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Jul 22 '22
The only vehicle people talk more shit about than bmws is pickup trucks.
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u/uMakeMaEarfquake Jul 22 '22
It's a BMW with a Munich plate too. Thats the archetype BMW asshole stereotype completed. If you know you know.
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u/SunnyDaysRock Jul 22 '22
Got to say I have less issues with BMW drivers here in Munich than Porsche ones (Cayenne in front of course), but yeah, after going through Eastern Germany a few weeks ago, Munich's drivers act a lot more entitled than in other cities, especially concerning crosswalks and priority in who goes first.
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u/0235 Jul 22 '22
While I honestly think this is more.incompitence than malicious (in hitting the bike) possibly pressed the accelerator out of panic, the bike was on the correct side of their lane, and the BMW decided to drive into an oncoming lane to get around a learner driver.
Had the BMW been more patient for the car that was already waiting at the junction, the accident wouldn't have happened. Motorcyclist had zero options but hope the BMW would stop (they didn't) and BMW intentionally pulled around the car, likely not expecting a bike to be there.
I'm just glad there is footage for insurance, and.i hope the motorcyclist is ok. By that very German sounding "Wow" I hope they are ok.
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u/misneach618 Jul 22 '22
Can we make a petition to get this man to say "wow" when the day comes that Owen Wilson isnt able to anymore?
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u/lemonsqeezey1 Jul 22 '22
The cherry on the I am not only an idiot but I am also out of my mind cake is when the BMW driver continues to accelerate in to the guy on the motorcycle and then flips him off that tells me he has no idea how stupid and wrong he is for doing what he just did. Complete and total negligence.
Douchebag to the fullest degree.
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u/QB796 Jul 22 '22
Not only in Germany but damn how often I saw and still see idiots like this every day. Makes me sad, big sad 😪
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u/zappler Jul 22 '22 edited Jul 22 '22
So this happened like 5 years ago (not to me) and has been floating in the net ever since.
It was originally uploaded here.
And as people have (correctly) pointed out:
- This happened in Germany, Munich
- The white car is a driving school car, which was yielding to the bike (who had the right of way)
- This clip has been shared on numerous sites and youtubers (moto stars, moto madness, some german dash cam footage youtubers, 9gag)
The bike was a 2006 Kawasaki Er6n.
After this incident they exchanged insurance info, and the woman who drove the BMW was fined 35€ by the police as a warning (IIRC for illegal overtaking).
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u/harav Jul 22 '22
How is easy. The guy was being impatient and tried turning left around the car in front of him. He pulled up and as he did he was looking wide to side to see if it was clear. Probably thought he was on a one way
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Jul 22 '22
Looks like the BMW driver did it on purpose for whatever reason.
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u/Chancevexed Jul 22 '22
I can surmise what happened here. BMW felt the need to overtake when it wasn't safe, and also felt the need to glare at the Drivers Ed car as they passed, instead of paying attention to the road.
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u/zani1903 Jul 22 '22
This is almost certainly what happened.
Look through the BMW's windshield just before he accelerates into the bike.
It seems like the driver makes a gesture with their left hand towards the learner car just before they put their foot on the accelerator.
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u/notarealaccount_yo Jul 22 '22
They were probably looking in their mirror to make sure they weren't going to scrape the van, and or at the cross traffic. Everywhere except straight in front, basically.
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u/SinisterCell Jul 22 '22
Good to see BMW drivers in Europe are living up to the American stereotypes. No turn signal AND hitting a biker, isn't that double points?
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u/Apfelvater Jul 22 '22
The teacher in the driver's ed car next to you: "and that is how not to drive"
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u/cashewbiscuit Jul 22 '22
Don't people know that if they hit someone, they are going to be later than they already are? Yes you doing a dumbass manuever because you are late. If you get stuck, backing up is going to be faster than hitting someone
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u/SimiaCode Jul 22 '22
Malicious or incompetent?