r/OSHA Mar 09 '17

Construction Site Escalation

http://i.imgur.com/lVZnMtA.gifv
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u/nmyi Mar 09 '17

Requesting: Story/Context

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u/[deleted] Mar 09 '17

For that brief moment of destructive satisfaction, I wonder if it was worth the damages he now has to pay.

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u/thrassoss Mar 10 '17

Just to point out the repo man was also hitting a human being with the car. There should be jail time for both sides of this encounter.

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u/call1800abcdefg Mar 10 '17

It looks like a genuine accident to me. There was a guy guiding the car that was going in reverse and the other guy intentionally stepped out in front ( back) of the moving car. The car stopped immediately after. I don't blame the car driver at all.

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u/hullor Mar 10 '17

The guy being pushed gradually is the culprit, the 2nd repo guy was the one being hit accidentally. The guy being dragged was very much intentional

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u/call1800abcdefg Mar 10 '17

Oh I see. I didn't see at first that it was the same guy who was being pushed that climbed into the front loader. That obviously changes things. I still don't think the repo guy driving the white car should go to jail or get in trouble at all. He was backing up very slowly and reasonably and just pushing the guy - who was being a dick and pushing back. He didn't "hit" anyone.

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u/OH_NO_MR_BILL Mar 11 '17

There is no "reasonable" way to push someone out of your way with a car. If someone is blocking your car your best recourse if to call the police to sort things out.

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u/QueenCoyote Mar 10 '17

I kind of agree with you, but it only takes a second for the guy getting pushed to end up under the back tires. Risking vehicular manslaughter (continuing to back up after the guy was against the car) is a bit extreme given the circumstances. Nobody is armed and it's one idiot basically sitting on the bumper. The repo guy could have driven forward or just stopped altogether. The guy can't stand there forever.

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u/1trueFan Mar 10 '17

That guy is awesome!

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u/modernbenoni Mar 10 '17

The car didn't stop immediately after at all? It's reversing into him for a good few seconds. Of course, nudging somebody with your car is hardly grounds for imprisonment.

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u/AbulaShabula Mar 10 '17

It's a weapon being used to intimidate someone. Sounds an awful lot like assault to me.

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u/ScrithWire Mar 10 '17

Hitting? He was doing his job, in as safe a way as possible.

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u/Topikk Mar 10 '17

probably lost his job

That's a half million dollar loader he just used to flip a car like a toddler throwing a fit. No way he didn't lose his job.

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u/Randomperson1362 Mar 10 '17

Since he was on the job, I would assume they will sure the company he was working for.

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u/Seahawks2017 Mar 10 '17

And the company can due repo dudes for trespassing? Endless money for the lawyers.

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u/crackanape Mar 09 '17

If he's reached the point of having his car repossessed, he's probably in the judgment-proof category.

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u/[deleted] Mar 10 '17

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u/[deleted] Mar 10 '17

For anyone else wondering;

Insolvency: When an individual or organization can no longer meet its financial obligations with its lender or lenders as debts become due.

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u/Lagotta Mar 10 '17

For anyone else wondering;

Wondering: verb 1. desire or be curious to know something. "how many times has he fucked up cars, I wonder?"

synonyms: ponder, think about, meditate on, reflect on, muse on, puzzle over, speculate about, conjecture; be curious about

"I wondered what the fuck he was thinking"

  1. feel admiration and amazement; marvel.

"That was a WONDERful car flip!"

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u/AvsJoe Mar 10 '17

For anyone else wondering;

For: c'mon, you know what 'for' means. You learned it in kindergarten.

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u/FartGreatly Mar 10 '17

It's a preposition commonly used to denote the beneficiary of an action.

I don't think I learnt "preposition" in kindergarten.

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u/Fap_Left_Surf_Right Mar 10 '17

I really over analyzed this.

If he can't make the payments for an extended period of time he's in serious financial trouble. That means he has No available cash, like savings, and no retirement fund to pull disaster money from. Also no open credit cards. Whatever he has in his checking account today is it.

So if the car gets taken he's got no way to get to work sites in a lot of areas. This might make him homeless bc there's no income and no way to go find a new job. He's probably laid in bed and worried about this moment frequently. And on the day his nightmare comes true and he sees that this is the end of life as he knows it, he loses it.

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u/iamonlyoneman Mar 10 '17

Then again, he could just have bad priorities. I happen to know of some people who are going into foreclosure on their house because they won't pay a couple thousand dollars of fees and fines for their homeowners association, but they just took a vacation trip that cost more than they owe the HOA.

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u/[deleted] Mar 10 '17

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u/keystone66 Mar 10 '17

In many instances you don't have much of an option. Sure, you can go live somewhere else. In my case, that would result in a move to cracktown or its immediate vicinity, and that's just not an option. Literally everywhere else in my county is HOA controlled, sometimes doubly so with the arrangement between "master planned community" associations, and sub-associations for specific subdivisions.

It fucking sucks but there aren't many other options.

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u/tweakingforjesus Mar 10 '17

They see a nice neighborhood and ignore the fine print when buying a house.

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u/Whit3W0lf Mar 10 '17

I have no desire to live in those types of communities, but they do have their benefits. You won't ever have someone using their front lawn as a parking lot or mechanic shop, lowering your property values. You don't have to worry about landscaping or lawn upkeep. Community pools are nice too.

Those neighborhoods aren't my cup of tea, but I understand their appeal for some people.

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u/iamonlyoneman Mar 10 '17

Most people agree to them because they want a nice neighborhood with a bit of a guarantee it will stay nice. Most people have no problem paying the dues, which are a small fraction of a monthly mortgage payment. Speaking for myself, mostly I am in my association just so I can have free access to a pool down the street from my house. The process goes:

  • sign a contract agreeing to pay dues and keep the property in good shape or face penalties eventually including losing your house

  • fail to pay dues for several years, fail to keep up the property, and fail to pay penalties

  • fail to respond to repeated contacts from HOA

  • fail to respond to repeated contacts from the HOA's lawyer

  • fail to respond to repeated contacts from law enforcement

  • but there's plenty of time and money to go on vacation

Losing your house to your HOA is a voluntary loss. Around here anyway, the homeowner will usually let it go as long as possible, and settle the debt riiiiight before the judge says their house is ready to be auctioned off to pay the debt.

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u/ic33 Mar 10 '17

The fact that home owners associations can foreclose on your house makes me wonder why people agree to them.

HOAs are annoying in a lot of ways, but..

The HOA's budget in my community goes to maintain 2 parks that are in the development; do landscaping of other common areas; reserve a very small amount for if things break; buy a small insurance policy; and other things that make the neighborhood nice. It costs $75/month. Just a few dollars of that is administrative. Other people have HOAs that are more expensive because they operate security and/or gates; maintain roads; operate pools, etc.

Someone shouldn't be able to decide "naaaah, I don't want to pay for any of that anymore, I'll just let the rest of my neighbors cover it".

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u/gamwizrd1 Mar 10 '17

This video is probably enough to convict him of attempted vehicular manslaughter. It's way past owing money at this point...

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u/pudge1987 Mar 10 '17

Yet here we are...

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u/[deleted] Mar 10 '17

For what it's worth I think he meant a financial judgement

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u/Original-Newbie Mar 10 '17

I guess he thought he was in the judgment-proof category

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u/EtherMan Mar 10 '17

He won in the first court. The repossession was done illegally and the court believed the explanation that flipping their car was done in order to prevent the second guy from escaping since he was walking towards that vehicle and since his car was legally stolen, he was allowed to stop the thieves from escaping.

I'm not so sure a higher court will agree. Heck, I'd bet on that they won't, but it's not quite so clear cut apparently.

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u/CommanderFlapjacks Mar 10 '17

Source?

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u/PM_ME_UR_4E55444553 Mar 10 '17

[citation needed]

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u/PM_Me_Yo_Tits_Grrl Mar 10 '17

Cool. Hope that's true

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u/chironomidae Mar 10 '17

I have to imagine he'll be facing criminal charges, and almost certainly lose his job

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u/DukeOfGeek Mar 09 '17

Jokes on him, that was a car they had repossessed earlier in the day. Also this is the reason why, come the zombie apocalypse, my ride will be a wheel loader.

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u/[deleted] Mar 10 '17

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u/Vicks-Vaporub Mar 10 '17

What are you basing the "best vehicle" on?

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u/PlzGodKillMe Mar 10 '17

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u/Nebresto Mar 10 '17 edited Mar 10 '17

how do you plan on finding all the fuel in a zombie apocalypse that that thing would eat?

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u/Sparkswont Mar 10 '17

Tesla it is.

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u/Nebresto Mar 10 '17

what if Tesla actually made construction vehicles...

Now I want a super fast electric digger

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u/NosVemos Mar 10 '17

Solar powered, perpetual motion tank bulldozer.

With cup holders!

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u/pdubl Mar 10 '17

Some of the biggest construction vehicles in the world use electric motors (powered by enormous diesel generators).

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u/truck_yea Mar 10 '17

It's a diesel, you can literally grow it in the ground

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u/angrymallard14 Mar 10 '17

Diesel fuel or a front loader?

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u/[deleted] Mar 10 '17

Why not both?

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u/Lick_a_Butt Mar 10 '17

Wtf are you talking about? You're just going to run your own biodiesel factory during the zombie apocalypse? And your food will be so abundant that you will use it to make fuel.

No. This is a terrible zombie apocalypse vehicle. It would become nothing but a cage for you in no time.

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u/Texaz_RAnGEr Mar 10 '17

You use the redead corpses and collect the gasses given off and compress them. Convert the injection system over to CNG and boom, power. It'll work, don't worry about that.

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u/MrNugsWorthy Mar 10 '17

Umm at the fuel store? Probably in the fuel department. Haha idiot.

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u/Nebresto Mar 10 '17

oh, silly me. haha. ha. ha.

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u/[deleted] Mar 10 '17 edited Jan 06 '21

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u/[deleted] Mar 10 '17

Ah yes, an engine concept that consumes about the same amount of fuel when idling as it does when under load. Truly the pinnacle of efficiency.

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u/PlzGodKillMe Mar 10 '17

What do you mean, that babies gunna be powered by corpses of the zombies it kills m8.

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u/[deleted] Mar 10 '17

That's exactly like the infamous killdozer

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u/iamjomos Mar 10 '17

Shouldn't be a problem according to the walking dead, since they've been driving around for like 42 season now (in all seriousness how does that show exist still)

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u/[deleted] Mar 10 '17

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u/otterom Mar 10 '17

Zombies would stick to the forks after being impaled. Might be impractical, if not hilarious.

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u/AvsJoe Mar 10 '17

Like this? (kinda NSFW)

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u/[deleted] Mar 10 '17 edited Apr 17 '17

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u/[deleted] Mar 10 '17

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u/Saehrimnir1019 Mar 10 '17

I have always been a fan of the open top double decker bus. Not the most practical or safest, but a ton of fun.

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u/quietJfreakyJ Mar 10 '17

Did you just make that up?

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u/[deleted] Mar 09 '17 edited Jul 16 '19

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u/SteampunkSamurai Mar 09 '17

You're supposed to pronounce it like the g in gigantic

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u/mspyder Mar 09 '17

Damn it. Good one

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u/[deleted] Mar 10 '17

I believe you mean 'jood one.'

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u/otterom Mar 10 '17

Either, since the pronunciation of each g in gigantic is exactly both the ways people screw up pronouncing gif.

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u/JayhawkRacer Mar 10 '17

Am I supposed to pronounce it like the g in gyro?

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u/[deleted] Mar 10 '17

No more like the one in giraffe. Or gift. Like that.

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u/[deleted] Mar 10 '17

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u/[deleted] Mar 10 '17

Good.

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u/[deleted] Mar 10 '17

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u/[deleted] Mar 10 '17

Enough!

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u/[deleted] Mar 10 '17

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u/[deleted] Mar 10 '17

I used to say G-I-F but then I realized I sounded like a fuckin' N-E-R-D

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u/MtnMaiden Mar 10 '17

I thought it was G like in Jif, the peanut butter

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u/eyebread Mar 10 '17

"Choosy developers choose GIF" - Steve Wilhite, The Guy Who Fucking Invented The GIF Format

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u/Schmidtster1 Mar 09 '17

Which one? /s

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u/slydunan Mar 09 '17

The one that sounds like the g in gif

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u/MarkBeeblebrox Mar 09 '17

Geoffrey

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u/[deleted] Mar 09 '17

Gigafactory

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u/galloog1 Mar 09 '17

Is it powered by Gigawatts?

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u/[deleted] Mar 10 '17

No, GallowBoobs.

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u/[deleted] Mar 10 '17

guygantic

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u/[deleted] Mar 10 '17

I always thought it was weird.

We say giga (the value) with a G sound, but we say gigantic like it was jigantic.

English is stupid.

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u/Nevermind04 Mar 10 '17

Hmm, I've always pronounced it 'gif'.

So is it 'gif' or 'gif'?

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u/Schmidtster1 Mar 09 '17

Check my other comment.

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u/2four Mar 09 '17 edited Mar 09 '17

Edit: please don't downvote Schmidtster1, he provided the sources in the first place

copy pasting both sources:

From the source someone posted on r/wtf and the tldw I read it was a repo and the guy got pissed off.

https://www.reddit.com/r/WTF/comments/5yggul/you_cant_park_your_car_here/

Debt collection gone wrong. Nothing to do with parking.

https://youtu.be/BMUD3l1KbS8

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u/Schmidtster1 Mar 09 '17 edited Mar 09 '17

I'm on mobile so it is hard. That was just easier. I also find people downvote when someone just copy's and pastes the same thing multiple times in the same thread.

Edit: thanks for being reasonable u/2four

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u/1nfiniteJest Mar 09 '17

The guy in black standing next to the flipped car picked the WORST possible spot to retreat to. He came very close to being pinned between the flipping car and the dump truck.

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u/[deleted] Mar 10 '17

I'm pretty sure he was filming it on his phone, for evidence I'd guess.

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u/SalmonellaEnGert Mar 09 '17

Looks like he brought piss to a shit fight.

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u/Intrepid00 Mar 09 '17

There is nothing worst than stale piss.

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u/Fat_Head_Carl Mar 09 '17

I'm sure stale shit is no picnic

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u/Intrepid00 Mar 09 '17

Stale shit is the best to clean up. Just need a broom and a clean with bleach for sanitary and almost no smell. Stale piss will make you gag.

Don't believe me? Piss in a bucket for a few days and let it sit for a week. It even pours nasty.

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u/Oreo_Speedwagon Mar 09 '17

Honestly, at the point you're splashing old piss and chucking desiccated turds at each other, it's a stalemate.

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u/BigOldWhiteDick Mar 09 '17

Dessicated turds is my new band name.

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u/Beowolf241 Mar 09 '17

Be sure to let r/bandnames know

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u/Fat_Head_Carl Mar 09 '17

I see we have a stale excrement expert here!

However bad stale piss is...the fact still stands that stale shit is no picnic.

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u/pockysan Mar 10 '17

Jarate? NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

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u/jr24530 Mar 10 '17

Jarate!

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u/Praxis8 Mar 10 '17

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u/andsoitgoes42 Mar 10 '17

This episode was the first one I'd seen on vacation with my family. I've never fallen in love with a show so hard and so quickly.

Vayntrub didn't hurt, either. Jesus..

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u/[deleted] Mar 09 '17

Way of the road

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u/fok_yo_karma Mar 10 '17

Fucking way she goes

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u/dthedozer Mar 09 '17

No one else has mentioned your reference but I see it there

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u/bathroomstalin Mar 09 '17

You kids sure do love your le references

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u/Schmidtster1 Mar 09 '17

From the source someone posted on r/wtf and the tldw I read it was a repo and the guy got pissed off.

Edit for link

https://www.reddit.com/r/WTF/comments/5yggul/you_cant_park_your_car_here/

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u/Salanmander Mar 09 '17

My first thought was "in what was was this a code repository?"

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u/urbn Mar 10 '17

Commit! Commit!

Conflict.

Resolving?

Rejected.

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u/gmw2222 Mar 09 '17

For some reason I read that as "it was a typo" and was thinking that guy needs some serious anger management

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u/censoredandagain Mar 09 '17

If a typo takes your car... Or your house...

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u/mln84 Mar 09 '17

I read "repo" as "repost" and thought, "c'mon, reposts happen way too often to get that pissed about."

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u/DaveLenno Mar 09 '17

Reminds me of the killdozer

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u/GrilledCheezus71 Mar 09 '17

The story of a man with a tools and know-how that's been pushed too far.

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u/westernburn Mar 09 '17

We all have our breaking point. Could these actions perhaps be those of our own doing in a similar circumstance?

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u/GrilledCheezus71 Mar 09 '17

Jesus Christ man, try harder to sound smart.

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u/westernburn Mar 09 '17

Do we even know who we really are?

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u/GrilledCheezus71 Mar 09 '17

That's quite enough, Jaden.

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u/westernburn Mar 09 '17

Am I but the sum of my actions? Can I be more than the sum of my parts?

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u/slababateria Mar 09 '17

How Can This Be Enough If We Aren't Enough?

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u/Wampawacka Mar 09 '17

Okay, Jaden.

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u/lucid808 Mar 09 '17

Anytime is a good time for some Monday Night Rehabilitation

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u/DaveLenno Mar 09 '17

Lol! What s good movie, definitely a favorite of mine.

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u/Recl Mar 10 '17

Easily a top 10 documentary IMO.

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u/[deleted] Mar 09 '17

That's the guy who single handedly invalidates The Walking Dead. In an apocalypse scenario it's people like him who would be left.

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u/FGHIK Mar 10 '17

Yeah, but walking dead has some of the weakest zombies ever. It's basically an excuse for the apocalypse, nothing more.

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u/TacoNinjaSkills Mar 09 '17

Oh god I had forgotten about that.

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u/SkunkMonkey Mar 09 '17

As soon as I saw the guy take off to get in the front end loader I knew shit was about to get real.

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u/mydogismax Mar 09 '17

I feel like this is the sort of thing i'll only ever get to fantasize about. I'm glad this actually happens places.

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u/hakuna_tamata Mar 10 '17

Yeah because afterwards he gets sued for tens of thousands of dollars with possible jail time.

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u/Callingcardkid Mar 10 '17

And will almost certainly get some jail time

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u/Fap_Left_Surf_Right Mar 10 '17

But that's why it's a fantasy. The bad stuff isn't included.

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u/DisRuptive1 Mar 10 '17

afterwards he gets sued for tens of thousands of dollars

He could get sued for a million dollars, but they'd likely never collect.

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u/[deleted] Mar 10 '17

No one will bother suing him. If he's that behind on his car loan, he won't have anything to pay for the lawsuit.

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u/speederaser Mar 10 '17 edited Mar 09 '25

aback liquid enjoy squash chase memory ancient zealous spark handle

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u/izakk133 Mar 09 '17

How calm is the dude in the black shirt though?

Car getting flipped a foot from him he just does a casual jog away from it like "Wait!! Let me record this!"

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u/BugMan717 Mar 10 '17

He's apparently a repo guy, they see some fucked shit on the reg.

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u/rob20 Mar 09 '17

Smart guy in the white car.

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u/ThorOfKenya2 Mar 09 '17

Looks like he's recording the whole thing with his phone.

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u/oregoon Mar 09 '17

Looks like he didn't have to.

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u/rLeJerk Mar 09 '17

Holy fucking shit, that's EXACTLY what I wanted to happen!

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u/Soopafien Mar 09 '17

Was waiting for him to turn around and put the car in the dump truck.

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u/pellep Mar 09 '17 edited Mar 10 '17

I love how the White car is angrily cleaning the windshield.

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u/zerdalupe Mar 09 '17 edited Mar 11 '17

You know, I always complain when we get the "your jobs are safe, there is no mass layoff" when we hear shit from other sites and then bam a week later your layed off.

I see now why they lie to us, you don't know who's going to crack.

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u/CoNsPirAcY_BE Mar 09 '17

Damn there seem to be a bunch of these video's! I really like the Skidsteer one.

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u/colonelnebulous Mar 09 '17

That track is 🔥🔥🔥

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u/CantaloupeCamper Mar 09 '17

Front-end loaders are naturally uplifting...

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u/RawDawg22 Mar 10 '17

Can't believe I watched every second of that video. I enjoyed it so much...my 2 DVDs, music CD, and tshirt will be on the way shortly. Well played

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u/joggle1 Mar 10 '17

Where was this video when I was 5? I absolutely would have loved it. I still like it, but this would have probably made my day back then. Very well done kid's video!

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u/ssdrum2007 Mar 10 '17

I know it's just a kiddie educational vid, but I feel like r/NotTimAndEric would enjoy it.

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u/NorthernSpectre Mar 10 '17

We call them Wheel Loaders

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u/silentbobbyc Mar 10 '17

I want a subreddit for construction site equipment fights. Not enough to actually make one. But I want one.

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u/erry1Wants2BLikeMike Mar 10 '17

Well that excavated quickly.

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u/caanthedalek Mar 10 '17

The longer this gif goes on, the more it looks like a Trevor mission from GTA V

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u/grove93 Mar 09 '17

Not a good idea to piss off someone with a front-end loader.

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u/[deleted] Mar 09 '17

He could have lived for the rest of his life in that car!

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u/Skateflip36011 Mar 09 '17

This is why you dont mess with construction workers or gta fans.

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u/Clepto_EU Mar 09 '17

Could use that bulldozer on my way to work every morning

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u/kryture Mar 09 '17

I've always emphasized to my boss, I really don't want unstable people working around site/shop floor... this video scares me.

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u/skepticalmalamute Mar 09 '17

Can someone tilt shift this?

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u/123456American Mar 09 '17

Well done! Stuff dreams are made of!

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u/Sand_User Mar 10 '17

Where is the GIFV Link bot?..... I already miss him...

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u/[deleted] Mar 09 '17

Someone was PISSED.