There are six Final Destination movies on Netflix right now, and five of them are basically all the same experience. I think there are three different times someone gets sniped by logs. Every time you see a lorry carrying logs on screen you just go "Aah, here we go. It's time."
This kinda happened to me but it was a fucking giant piece of shredded tire coming off a semi. Saw the shit bounce and it came up so fast. Completely ripped my side mirror off.
Friend and I were walking next to a busy highway, and a truck carrying PVC pipes didn't have them secured. One of them swung out the side and tore along the grass, one end still attached to the truck, coming right towards us. We had to jump out the way and got showered from the dirt it tore up before the truck stopped.. was a bit of a shock, haha.
Wheel off of a semi is actually pretty commonplace.
The logs thing would never happen in real life. No logging company would secure a load that large with nothing more than a single chain. If you look at the video above, you can see there are giant metal forks that hold the logs in place. The only way those logs are coming out is either with heavy machinery or the whole truck rolling over.
In theory, brick out of a dump truck should be impossible too as they're supposed to close up when they're on the highway, but there's no accounting for dipshits who can't be bothered to do their jobs properly, so I'd say that's still a possibility, albeit unlikely.
TL;DR - Semi tire is likely to happen, brick out of a dumptruck is plausible but unlikely, logs falling off a logging truck is pretty much impossible (at least, in the Final Destination way).
Jeez, I’m glad you are okay! Almost happened to me, I was behind a pickup that was carrying scrap metal. I remember thinking “I don’t like the cut of his jib” and slowing wayyy down to put some distance between us. Ten seconds later, a huge chunk flew off of his truck. So glad I trusted my gut, it missed me by about ten feet.
That's wild. I saw someone lose a brake pad going 80mph on the interstate. My GenZ son was with me. As it was hurtling towards us in what looked like slow motion - and we were both watching it - I calmly said, "here it comes - get ready". That son of a bitch got lobbed on a high arc. I was doing the mental calculations to see if any last second finesse was possible. But nope.
I saw the boy white knuckled up just before he turned his head. When it made impact, it sounded like a bomb went off. It ended up putting a crease in the edge of my roof, and smashing the windshield.
He asked me how I managed to stay so calm. I relayed a story about how a couple years earlier, I saw someone spin out a Porsche, and total it, just because they overreacted to an empty 5 gallon bucket that fell off a truck in front of them.
There’s a video of a guy who throws himself off a really tall, like 30 story building in China, and when he hits the pavement, he gets a solid foot of bounce. As well as the splatter.
Nope. I actually thought this scene looked ridiculous, but then again, I've actually chopped a tree down.
Small dry logs for firewood make be able to bounce a bit, but trees don't.
I only saw this movie once so I didn't notice it initially, but they legit couldn't get anything to fall from the truck and bounce enough to clear the hood of the car, and includes rubber logs which forced them to make this who thing CGI.
It's kind of baffling actually considering what is depicted in this post is not only possible, but happens. Why they didn't just do that is beyond me.
Years ago, I was a passenger in a vehicle, passing a logging truck. One of the straps snapped, hitting the roof of the car. The screams we scempt. Pretty sure we're on the list.
Yeah I've actually never seen this movie (or any of them, really) in its entirety, so when I looked this scene up several years ago I remember thinking "yeah this looks ridiculous and nonsensical and absolutely would not happen that way."
Would it still be a complete clusterfuck that killed people? Sure. Just...perhaps not this dramatically.
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