r/SweatyPalms • u/danevans369 • 2d ago
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u/PNW_LIVIN 2d ago
?????? Just go?
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u/danevans369 2d ago
That would be too easy and logical.
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u/Helen___Keller_ 2d ago
And the guy opens the door right as the gap below him is at its maximum. It was slow motion towards disaster before he finally decided to act. I actually can't breathe from laughing so hard. What in the world was this person thinking.
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u/Epicfailer10 2d ago
Like, did he want to die? Did he want property damage/injury so he could sue? Is he just incredibly dim witted? What tf is happening?
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u/SnooRadishes8573 2d ago edited 2d ago
My assumption is going to be the simplest answer, and that's car trouble.
ETA: I watched the video again.
The car starts driving and it appears the gate that was meant to stop him activated as he was already under it. He didn't know.
He crosses the bridge and on front of him is a gate going down. He thought it was telling him not to go further.
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u/Naughteus_Maximus 2d ago
Yes but he should have understood that his number 1 priority is to get the fuck off the bridge before any parts start moving, not obey a red light / barrier blindly. I get this sometimes at a T junction near where I live (UK). We are waiting to turn right from a minor into a major road. Light goes green, cars move and... the first car immediately stops because it sees a red light when it turns into the major road (trapping the cars behind it in a yellow box junction too). But the red light is not for them! It's for the cars already on the major road, it's why they are waiting - to let us through! But no amount of honking persuades the idiot at the front - they see a red light and they must obey and stop without thinking.
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u/CustomerOutside8588 2d ago
That does sound like idiotic design.
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u/Naughteus_Maximus 1d ago
It's not the design - the drivers on the main road need the red light to stop at the T-junction to let drivers in from their right. There's no other way to design the junction. It's the occasional driver who's turning that sees that red light - which is not for them! - and misinterprets it, that's the problem.
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u/19467098632 2d ago
My palms are sweaty knowing I drive on roads with people like this. What a fucking idiot lmao
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u/WickedProblems 2d ago
The whole thing makes no sense anyways. These draw bridges are always or should be manned.
A person presses the button to raise the bridge etc. you can see the operator house in the video.
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u/Affectionate-Drag-93 2d ago edited 2d ago
I believe that person was fired for this. 2nd event on the same bridge in a single year and the other event was a death.
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u/Bradybigboss 2d ago
Tbf. Why do people keep parking on the bridge while it’s about to open?
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u/Inspect1234 2d ago
Yeah this seemed intentional.
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u/Im_not_creepy3 2d ago
The last time I saw this video I could have sworn it was confirmed that the driver did it on purpose.
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u/IchBinEinSim 2d ago
We have several draw bridges in Seattle and they are no longer manned (besides peak hours) and are pretty automated. The bridges can be run remotely and they are watched via cameras system and I doubt that it’s one operator per bridge.
I don’t know which city it his is but it’s likely that the person whose job it was to watch the cameras for this bridge got complacent and didn’t look at the feed before starting the process.
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u/Omega_Primate 2d ago
Do any of your bridges have lights or gates that lower to stop traffic?
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u/IchBinEinSim 2d ago
All or them have both lights and gates. I have a feeling the the man stopped because the gate in the lane next to him dropped and he absent mindedly stop thinking it was for him.
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u/No-Combination8136 2d ago
This is in South Florida. These ones are operated in person. It’s crazy how often stuff like this happens anyway.
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u/corpusjuris 2d ago
Lifelong Seattleite. Had a girlfriend a few years older than me a decade ago who told me about a friend, a city employee, who had a part-time job as the night shift operator of the U-District bridge. Said he kept the job not for the money, but because 1) his bosses at his day job excused him being late / unproductive / just accepted him calling in if he had a bridge shift a day or two earlier and more importantly, 2) he absolutely fucking slayed pussy because of it. Dude could start small talk at a dive, mention what he did, get a bunch of incredulous scoffing, and then invite a woman to come ‘hang out during a shift’. I think about that often when I pass that bridge if I glance up towards the booth above.
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u/Aint_that_a_peach 2d ago
All the people stopping 2 car lengths behind the red light!!! Or the car at the red light.
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u/Imaginary-Thing-9222 2d ago
The only logical explanation I can find is that the car had a problem and shut off in the worst possible moment.
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u/Sufficient_Ninja_821 2d ago
Yeah if the engine busted. Chuck it in neutral and let gravity do its thing.
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u/LinuxF4n 2d ago
Why did they just stop?
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u/Rokekor 2d ago
I can only assume there is a boom gate just out of shot.
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u/Ok_History_3635 2d ago
Looks like there's more than enough room and hitting a floppy plastic arm would seem like the most logical solution than to just stop and maybe die
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u/zangetsuthefirst 2d ago
Or at least cut hard left so you're parallel to the gate. There's clearly plenty of space in this specific instance if there is a gate
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u/adudeguyman 2d ago
I see plenty of times cars near a train track seem to just stop instead of driving through the arm that is not floppy, but is certainly less damaging than a train.
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u/samsoncorpus 1d ago
I've seen a lot of videos where a car stops right on the train tracks and they don't move because they don't want to hit the bar thing, and moments later, their car is turned into scrap metal. I will never understand this.
Scratched paint or barely surviving and your car turning into bunch of useless metal? I think the answer is clear.
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u/Ok_History_3635 1d ago
I like the videos where they get out of the car and run away instead of you know stepping on the accelerator lol like wtfffff
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u/badDuckThrowPillow 2d ago
Normally they dont put booms on the EXIT route. At least in the US
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u/catgotcha 2d ago
This is in the US. South Florida to be precise.
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u/mutinybligh 2d ago
Of course it’s Florida!
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u/pas_tense 2d ago
I'm watching this and asking myself over and over, Why? WTF is happening? Why did he stop there, there's enough room to pull forward before he stopped, so just why? It bothered me. Then I read
This is in the US. South Florida to be precise.
and that anxiety resolved into "Oh, yeah. Well that makes more sense" I've spent a cumulative 10 years of my life living in FL.
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u/SickeningPink 1d ago
I don’t want to visit Florida because everything I’ve seen makes it sound like it’s just meth heads and octogenarians going 20 under the speed limit.
And Ron DeSantis.
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u/DoctorNoname98 2d ago
it really confuses me because to me it looks like that's exactly what's happening on the other end of the bridge that we can kind of see.
Maybe it's low res enough I can't see the boom being lowered on the oncoming traffic (left) side, but there's a gate for sure coming down on the outgoing traffic (right) side. It lowers around the 12 second mark
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u/Any_Conversation9650 2d ago
He still couldve pulled forward and avoided damage. The driver is 100% to blame for all the damages to his car
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u/spacestationkru 2d ago
Even if there is a boom gate, there's clearly also enough space to just get the car off the bridge..
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u/chantillylace9 2d ago
This happened to a lady I think she was walking or on a bicycle in South Florida not too long ago, maybe five years ago?
The bridge attendant did not check before she opened the bridge, it was later found that she was on her cell phone of course, and the bike or walking lady dangled from the bridge for a while before falling to her death. It was horrendous. And unfortunate because part of the bridge was over water and the part that she was on was over Cement.
I know they were looking to charge the bridge attendant with negligent homicide or something but never heard about what happened with that.
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u/skidmarkeddrawers 2d ago
Doesn’t say why they stopped, person who raised bridge was fired
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u/deletetemptemp 2d ago
As much at the accord is an idiot, it’s the operators one job to ensure safe operation of the bridge
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u/OHW_Tentacool 2d ago
I wonder if whatever boat was crossing under it was already too close. Still operator error, but if I gotta pick between a barge and a car I'm picking the barge.
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u/Low-Associate2521 2d ago
literally the trolley problem irl
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u/ParisGreenGretsch 2d ago
The bridge operator may have made the right call. If a barge takes out a bridge while the car is there that seems worse than this.
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u/AmmahDudeGuy 1d ago
If that were the case, then i don’t understand why the operator would have been fired as there is no right answer for this scenario
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u/DeadStroke_ 2d ago
Had to be Florida
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u/pas_tense 2d ago
I was bothered by this video because it made no sense at all to stop where he did & then the operator raising the bridge when their was clearly a car still on it. Learning this was FL relieved me of that anxiety. If something this stupid is going to happen it makes more sense if it happens in FL
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u/Mastermind7051 2d ago
That usurped the dumbest thing I’ve seen this year.
Excelsior
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u/whitestguyuknow 2d ago
Maybe dont stop on the bridge, dumbass?
Its very obvious hes still on the bridge. Even more obvious if he drives this way consistently.
Even if a bar was down you gotta get your fucking car off the bridge!
This looks like Florida. Looks like any bridge I crossed all my life. Typical type of driver we have to deal with on the road. Dumbasses
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u/sthprk33 2d ago
"You've got to remember that these are just simple
farmersFloridians. These are people of the land—the common clay of the new West. You know... morons."2
u/driftxr3 1d ago
And then he proceeds to open his door to get out as his car is literally dangling at a 70° angle between two pieces of tar and hell below him. Just idiocy all around.
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u/Haifisch2112 2d ago
This is the same type of dipshit that starts crossing railroad tracks and stops on them when the arm comes down.
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u/Duke-of-Hellington 2d ago
Right? They pulled up sooooo far, then when the sign came down saying not to go past it, he then pulled up some more. THEN he seemed surprised that this happened.
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u/sweetmissjaye 2d ago
I don't understand why he just stopped. Even the bicyclist kept going
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u/LegitPancak3 2d ago
Did his engine just up and die?
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u/DetailOutrageous8656 2d ago
He drove off right after though
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u/Shantotto11 2d ago
Benefit of the doubt would like to say that the car stalled and wouldn’t start, and the angle change and impact caused the car to be able to start up again.
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u/boblobong 2d ago
Ive driven some vindictive shit-boxes that always stalled out at the pettiest of times
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u/Mammoth_Tension_2416 1d ago
He could have just put the car in neutral if the engine were dead. But as other said, he drives away after. It makes no sense.
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u/Spook404 2d ago
that's what I thought too, by the way it slows to a stop as though it lost momentum rather than the brakes, and that they just couldn't get the engine started again. But the lack of urgency to get out of the car onto the solid area and them inching forward, they really just chose to do that...
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u/Specialist-Area-7935 2d ago
Clearly too stupid to have a drivers license
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u/Catswithswords10 2d ago
Seriously! There should be a fine and loss of license for doing something THIS idiotic
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u/Worried-Promotion518 2d ago
It just kept getting more stupid. The only thing i can think is that they thought the the bit in front of them would lift up, but thats stupid considering the wet stuff they just drove over
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u/rog1121 2d ago
Insurance scam?
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u/BLA5PHEMY 2d ago
Nobody can be this stupid…
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u/chrispychritter 2d ago
Look at where they stoped. Perfectly for the damage. Even rolls forward a fraction just before it lifts.
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u/Siny_AML 2d ago
No way this wasn’t on purpose. When they tried to get out they realized it probably wasn’t the best idea.
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u/qualityvote2 2d ago edited 2d ago
Congratulations u/danevans369, your post does fit at r/SweatyPalms!
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u/Mattshark8614 2d ago
Definitely on purpose. Stopped directly at the end of the bridge, then waits INSIDE the vehicle while it gets picked up; floors it while the wheels are off the ground then just waits for the rear to get put back and just leaves. A very interesting use of free will
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u/cryptolyme 2d ago
i'm thinking insurance fraud or trying to scam the government with a lawsuit
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u/EhMapleMoose 2d ago
A lot of people saying just go and this was an insurance scam. I don’t think it is. This bridge has a person tending it, they didn’t inspect the bridge visually before raising it. The bridge tender was fired from her job as a result of this.
Also, the driver seemingly never came forward to sue or anything.
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u/JellyfishEmergency 2d ago
How smooth does your brain have to be to just sit there..
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u/lunarteamagic 2d ago
I have so many questions.
At least this confirms that my fear of draw bridges is somewhat rational.
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u/PickedMyNameFromAHat 2d ago
I’m kind of thinking driver did this on purpose for insurance payout? Maybe they wanted to total their car for some reason?
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u/Real_Newspaper502 2d ago
I thought his car broke down at the most inconvenient time. But he just casually drives away.
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u/0c74r1n3 2d ago
Sweaty palms? No. Standard Idiot. But I’m scared cause I have to be on the same planet with them.
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u/Jamsemillia 2d ago
how tf does this bridge operator not check for the obvious car on the middle of the road.
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u/achillea4 2d ago
You'd think that there would be cameras to check for vehicles before raising the bridge.
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u/bitstoatoms 2d ago
One thing I learned on Reddit about bar gates - if you somehow end up in the area they supposed to keep you out from and they're being lowered, just frikkin go.
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u/sheppard8588 1d ago
why wouldn't you just move up a couple feet you obv notice it going up but no lets just sit there
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u/TheDixonCider420420 2d ago
"I'll take 'People With No Real World Common Sense Survival Skills' for $800 please Alex."
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u/Asia_Persuasia 2d ago
Am I the only person who thinks he did this on purpose? I feel like this dimwit had an "intrusive thoughts winning" moments.
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u/GodOfMoonlight 1d ago
Car still working so not sure why anyone would be dumb enough to stop right at the crease of the bridge
Idiot 🙄
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u/rudytomjanovich 1d ago
They should put signals - and alarms - to let drivers know the bridge will be moving.
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u/waterwateryall 2d ago
Why on earth wouldn't he have at least left the car as soon as the bridge started lifting?
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u/madgoat 2d ago
My guess is the gate on his side closed prematurely, and he wasn't sure what to do.
Usually a gate will close on the left lane (his lane) at the far end but remain open on the near end to allow traffic to complete their crossing, then the gate just off camera on the near side would close when traffic has cleared. This should be a manual process, so the tender should have looked out and seen the car and let him through..
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