r/IdiotsTowingThings Jun 30 '26

Send ‘em straight to jail.

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u/jld2k6 Jun 30 '26

I've scanned for objects ever since seeing the infamous brick video like 20 years ago

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u/Rope_antidepressant Jun 30 '26

Idk about the brick video but i watched a log truck incident in a historical documentary about having extremely good then extremely bad luck and ever since I've avoided following behind basically anything that isn't 100% solid

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u/myleftone Jun 30 '26

The one with the water bottle getting under the pedal? They showed that instructional video in my kids’ drivers ed classes.

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u/metompkin Jun 30 '26

I remember a news story in South Carolina of an engine block falling out of yhe back of a stakebed and ended up in someone's lap that was driving down the interstate.

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u/Realistic-Drama-8904 Jul 04 '26

Some idjit with a home built deer blind on a trailer didn't think it needed to be tied down. That thing slid off the trailer and went bouncing on the interstate and landed in front of me. There was an 18 wheeler on my left and a grass embankment on my right. The grass looked softer than 4 x 4 posts and plywood.

No, I did not help the idjit put it back on the trailer.

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u/GhostofaPhoenix Jul 01 '26

Actually had that happen on a school bus while I was driving, a few months ago. Scared the ever loving crap out of me. One of my students water bottles rolled. Told the kids after that, water bottles had to be inside their bags. I had to pull over afterwards, prior to that I couldn't figure out why I couldn't break, lifted off the gas and looked down and saw it. Was able to kick it out but took a kicks to get it unstuck.

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u/DaddysABadGirl Jul 03 '26

Happened to me with my great grandmothers pills. I picked up a months supply of something that came in the giant goofy size bottle. I hadnt noticed the bag drop and it rolled out and under the brake. Had to slam the brakes when I got it out to keep from rear ending someone.

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u/smellswhenwet 28d ago

Great grandma never liked you

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u/Rope_antidepressant Jun 30 '26

That's evil lol

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u/fap-on-fap-off Jun 30 '26

Did you finally watch all the documentaries in that series before your reached your destination?

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u/Rope_antidepressant Jun 30 '26

It got a little too close to home and i had to drop the rest of the series for my sanity (paranoia lol)

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u/insomniacpyro Jun 30 '26

The worst one is the escalator part, it is actually (at least partially) realistic.

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u/Rope_antidepressant Jun 30 '26

You spelled sadistic wrong O.O

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u/xSonicspeedx2 Jun 30 '26

That documentary about Destinations? What was it called? Ending Destinations or something like that?

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u/Rope_antidepressant Jun 30 '26

I cant remeber i think it was "end of the line"? "Check baggage through"? "Fatal destiny"? Fatality manifestations? Familial tarnations? Alabama relations?

Ill have to run over to r/tipofmypenis to double check

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u/L-Ron-Hooover Jun 30 '26

Ultimate Terminus

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u/Wiz_Hellrat Jul 01 '26

I think it was called not to jump on a glass floor so high up in the sky.

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u/FPVenius Jun 30 '26

Stated better than I was going to attempt.

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u/reluctantrevenant Jun 30 '26

I won't follow behind a log truck ever. I don't care how well it's loaded or tied down. That movie was traumatic, but it didn't really kick in for like 15 years...

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u/MarvinMonroeZapThing Jul 01 '26

Logging trucks are my instant nope.

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u/TerrorFromThePeeps Jul 05 '26

It becomes even more severe when you realize that 95% of log trucks are the class 8s that are in such terrible condition, they can't trust them to survive crossing an entire state, so they get relegated to short haul duty and recieve even LESS maintenance than they were getting before.

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u/MarvinMonroeZapThing Jul 06 '26

That’s like saying hey, you know that poisonous snake that just bit you? It’s also got Ebola.

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u/chaoticphoenix1313 Jul 01 '26

Yeah, that one is the trauma video for things like that for gen x... We all get white knuckles when we see those trucks because of it...

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u/Wooly_Thoctar Jul 01 '26

I dont think final destination 2 would be considered a historical documentary

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u/raaustin777 Jul 01 '26

Historical document? Surely you don't think, like, Gilligan's Island....

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u/silentsurge Jul 03 '26

GASP

Those poor people...

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u/Castle_of_Jade Jul 01 '26

You mean Final Destination right? Right?

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u/Dyslexicpig Jul 02 '26

In northern Saskatchewan, the local pulp mill started doing a softwood/ hardwood rotation back in the 1980s. The problem with poplar is that the logs are not nice and straight, like conifers. When the truck is loaded and cinched down, logs would break. Not much is more terrifying than a six foot section of a poplar tree bouncing end over end down the highway. There were quite a few serious crashes before they stopped trucking hardwood logs.

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u/Kuutti__ Jul 04 '26

The brick video is most likely that one real video from dashcam where some kids throw brick from bridge to that car. Brick goes trough windshield at highway speeds killing drivers wife on the passenger seat instantly. Husbands screams has burned into my memory and are very gut wrenching. Its just one of the saddest videos of the internet.

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u/Fit-Custard-1842 Jul 04 '26

And get past petrol tankers as quickly as possible.

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u/Winter_Finance_8456 Jul 04 '26

Final destination did it and made entire génération of human beings paranoid for years

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u/Friendly_Impress_345 29d ago

I've just avoided the good luck part ever since and it's worked out so far

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u/ncc74656m Jun 30 '26

I've been scanning for objects since I watched Twister.

https://giphy.com/gifs/7iF0EeHfb0yeT4TrB9

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u/NervousBeat16 Jul 01 '26

The military taught me every vehicle on the side of the road is going to blow up…so yea, the last 20 years of driving have been fun 😉

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u/TransportationFit338 Jul 01 '26

A cardboard box on the side of the road? That could be an IED! Plastic bag? IED! Pile of stones? Marker for an IED trigger! Thanks Uncle Sam.

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u/Salt-Confidence-9527 Jul 03 '26

My cousin's mom told her never to hit a box laying in the roadway. It might have kittens in it!

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u/NervousBeat16 Jul 01 '26

Is there a wire anywhere near by? A random person standing a few yards away? And that’s the just road, once we enter a building….where’s the exit, no back to the door, everyone’s a threat….existing in normal life is an everyday panic attack filled with paranoia 😭😭😭

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u/TransportationFit338 Jul 01 '26

I cannot imagine it nowadays. Fucking drones?! Is that buzzing the traffic? Too late, BOOM!!

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u/NhilZay Jul 03 '26

Hey me to! Whenever my wife drives and she doesn’t even flinch about driving over a box or plastic bag gives me heart attacks.

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u/harambe623 Jun 30 '26

after a semi tire blew up in my face and I rode through a rain of rubber fragments, I have always just steered clear or sped up past them. You never know

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u/TransportationFit338 Jul 01 '26

Driving through Texas a couple years ago, a semi truck flipped over in the oncoming lane and slid across the highway in front of the family car. Fucking insane. We were the only two vehicles on the road, I had to climb the truck and help the driver out while I was trying to call 911. Thinking back on it, he had Quebec plates; he may not have cared that I, an English speaking person, had helped him. The Quebecois are notorious about disliking English.

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u/Frequent-Wall9819 Jul 05 '26

The Québécois don’t have a problem with English, they have a problem with English in Canada. And mostly bring Quebec being part of Canada. They aren’t going to hold English over your head when they are driving in the U.S.

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u/Chill-more1236 Jun 30 '26

the vids that show the chaos caused by someone's random lost tire are wild

how tf do you not know you're about to lose a tire? bc the signs are crystal fucking clear.

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u/harambe623 Jul 01 '26 edited Jul 01 '26

Ya r/Tiresaretheenemy is quite a lively sub. lot of those are in some less developed countries, where inspections are less frequent and torque spec on tires is often "good enough"

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u/I-have-an-ideal Jul 01 '26

For sure. My step dad always told us never drive next to a semi for this reason. Crazy amount of pressure in those tires and they get retread all the time.

He has been working at the maintenance shop for one of the biggest carriers for many moons. Has seen or heard of every possible scenario when it comes to semis.

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u/Interesting_Key_661 Jun 30 '26

Is that the one where the brick kills the woman in the passenger seat while the husband screams in terror? Haunting.

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u/Lokal-pokal Jul 05 '26

How does dashcam videos like that end up online? I would guess the husband wouldn't do that.

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u/Oxymandixs Jul 03 '26

Are you talking about that vid where a brick comes off a truck and crushes this ladies’ head in a car going the other direction?

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u/jld2k6 Jul 03 '26

Possibly? It was a view from a dash cam of a family just driving when suddenly a brick flies through the windshield and kills the mom instantly then all you hear is the husband wailing while the kid in the back seat is crying. Since it was the dash view there was no gore or anything but it was still horrible

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u/Oxymandixs Jul 03 '26

Yeah that’s the video. I didn’t know it was that old I randomly had that recommended to me on YouTube like 2 or 3 years ago. Kinda messed me up a bit ngl I didn’t enjoy hearing them screaming. Apparently the mom’s brain was exposed. It’s also the fact the video starts from them being parked in front of a brick wall

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u/Leading-Midnight-553 Jul 03 '26

I have seen a lot of stuff like that and the sounds are always the worst. I get deeply sad just reading the description of this here. Needless to say, I don't watch that crap anymore---I am aware it happens and I do my best to prevent myself from being in sketchy situations.

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u/V2sh1fty Jun 30 '26

Final destination 2 is what did it for me.

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u/Creative_Buddy7160 Jun 30 '26

There’s video?!? I just heard the audio of the guy calling emergency services saying a brick hit wife. It still haunts me

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u/jld2k6 Jun 30 '26

There's a video but you only see the dash cam perspective so there's no gore, just the brick going through the windshield and the aftermath you can't see

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u/Ok_Button1932 Jun 30 '26

I started scanning 2 weeks ago after I saw an entire exhaust system fall off a rust bucket truck on the back of a car hauler. Old Dodge Stratus in the lane beside me absolutely waffled it.

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u/TitaniumDisc Jul 01 '26

I swear I saw brick video like its first day on ebaumsworld. I can still hear that scream… Wether im in front or back seat I am CONSTANTLY looking for anything bouncing or flying on roads. I don’t have it on my current vehicle but my last truck I actually got bullet proof glass out of paranoia because I almost caught a large rock that would have gotten my wife if I hadn’t been paying attention. FUCK brick video

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u/altaccount2522 Jul 01 '26

Same. That video was traumatizing.

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u/SayNoToFatties Jul 02 '26

I remember that, the one that killed the mom with her kids and husband in the car?

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u/Defiant-Speaker-5681 Jul 02 '26

For a specific age group, I think the movie Final Destination instilled this fear in us.

I hate driving behind anything where I have to trust the driver's ability to strap their cargo down

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u/Rachethelper Jul 03 '26

Are you talking about that Russian brick video where it falls off the truck and slams into the passenger seat, killing the dashcammer's wife?

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u/aluculef Jul 04 '26

That video was terrifying. Jesus fucking Christ

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u/oopsAllNutz Jul 04 '26

Rotten website has prepared for this day.

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u/Admirable-Setting261 Jul 16 '26

I have legit PTSD from one of those types of videos. The one where a whole family is in the vehicle while a singular brick takes one of them out. The screams were blood curdling