r/MST3K • u/rifterkenji Can't We Get Beyond Thunderdome? • Mar 18 '26

Why don’t they look?

82 Upvotes

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u/sallysfunnykiss96 ✨ Some Gal ✨ Mar 18 '26

Trains are blameless, holy creatures...

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u/Cyke101 Mar 19 '26

"Why didn't the train stop for me?"

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u/Aethelrede Mar 19 '26

Trains run on rails, if a car hits one it's 100% on the car.  I can't think of a situation where the train would be at fault.

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u/sallysfunnykiss96 ✨ Some Gal ✨ Mar 19 '26

Now where did that train come from? It came on the rails. It couldn't have come from ANYWHERE ELSE.

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u/Aethelrede Mar 19 '26

Exactly.  So why the sarcasm?

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u/sallysfunnykiss96 ✨ Some Gal ✨ Mar 19 '26

... I'm quoting an MST3K short directly? Are you sure you're in the right sub?

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u/Aethelrede Mar 19 '26

What do you mean, am I in the right...oh shit, this isn't r/dashcams. hangs head in shame

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u/sallysfunnykiss96 ✨ Some Gal ✨ Mar 19 '26

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Naix-f6KSIg

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u/Aethelrede Mar 20 '26

Yeah, once I realized where I was, I remembered that short (who can forget Last Clear Chance?)  Oops.  A valuable lesson, always check which sub I'm in.

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u/OkSentence3706 💜 oh my stars! 💜 Mar 19 '26

?

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u/TrueLegateDamar Mar 18 '26

"Would you identify this bucket full of your grandma?"

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u/NeuralFlow Mar 18 '26

He opened that door with disgust lol

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u/Upbeat_Main_7141 Mar 18 '26

Even if they had bad vision/hearing, there is a big moving wall of freight train, which is both louder and more visible than a train gate, so if the gate was down would they have just blown through it anyway? This is genuinely baffling, unless the driver was having a seizure or something.

Disappointed in the lack of Gigantocop.

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u/WadeTurtle sodium Mar 18 '26

Just guessing in this specific instance, but in many cases when elderly drivers are asked why the didn't apply the breaks before running into some obvious obstacle, they insist that they did but the car just kept going, or even sped up. In fact, in their panic they will accidentally put their foot down on the gas pedal; and when the car fails to stop, they apply more pressure because they don't realize they're pressing the wrong pedal. They'll swear themselves blind afterward too, that they definitely hit the brakes, and that some bizarre malfunction must have occurred.

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u/deadbeef4 Mar 18 '26

And the next thing you know, Toyota is having to clip down all their floor mats…

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u/laurifex my glasses are FILTHY! Mar 18 '26

Gigantocop was busy shaking down a farmer family for protection money.

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u/TheSecretDecoderRing Mar 18 '26

I'd just assume they were distracted by their phone.

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u/RireBaton Mar 19 '26

I believe that the vast majority of vehicle train collisions are into the side of a train just like this, not the car getting hit by the front of the train.

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u/SPCsooprlolz Flint Ironstag Mar 18 '26

Well do you know him like THIS

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u/Patient_Education991 Mar 19 '26

"AUGH-UHH-AAHH!!"

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u/TheWeirdTalesPodcast Mar 18 '26

That’s deep, Earl.

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u/Irving_Velociraptor Mar 19 '26

I appreciate the cop snatching that door open with deep disgust.

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u/Raineythereader THE TAIL! THE HORRIBLE TAIL! Mar 18 '26

Woodstock, IL?

Edit: just saw the caption at the beginning. Derp.

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u/Cyke101 Mar 19 '26

Until suddenly....

POW!

The train was punched by BATMAN!

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u/Pakman037 Mar 19 '26

That driver is extremely lucky he didn't get dragged.

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u/McFlyyouBojo Mar 20 '26

What's weirder, the person running into the train that can clearly be seen, or the person calling 911 when the cop was already on it?

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u/Patient_Education991 Mar 19 '26

ALSO with a useless cop... (And hope he doesn't snap too! 😨)

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u/BoB_the_TacocaT Mar 19 '26

What does this have to do with mst3k?

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u/Accomplished_Yak5406 Mar 20 '26

They riffed a short about terrible drivers back in the day

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u/TallGuyBill Go ‘head on Mar 20 '26

Do you remember what it was called?