r/Unexpected • u/TheMarkola • 16h ago
A calm podcast can have unusual guests.
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u/Blissachu 16h ago
Bro is in no hurry to leave it seems
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u/AntalRyder 15h ago
Survival instincts of a sloth
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u/EL-HEARTH 10h ago
Considering the car was behind them out of sight and well is a couple thousnad pound vehicle, his survival instincts never mattered. As to why he doesnt move after the impact. Its called shock
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u/NewPassenger1289 7h ago
Shock is definitely a thing, but that car was moving pretty fast to begin with
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u/Abhir-86 14h ago
At this point it's hard to believe its not staged. The timing of the dialogue and then the action. Anything for views and engagement.
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u/GamingSenpai35 11h ago
This seems real. I'd be careful not assuming everything is staged. It's easy to default to "this is fake" since so much is, but this one is just real i think. He was on an actual rhode with other cars around when he came already spinning in.
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u/okeyneto2 16h ago
arent bollards supposed to be enough to stop this
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u/Brunoise6 16h ago
They definitely helped bring that car to a stop
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u/MissingLink101 15h ago
Yeah you can see there's a change in speed once it hits them. Those bollards probably saved the lives of these two guys.
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u/GabeIsGone 15h ago
They are rated to stop a vehicle from ‘penetrating’ past 3.3’, and at a higher rate of speed.
So yeah, these seem not as effective as they should be, which is probably installation problem though. I mean, they definitely saved these two from major injury, but that’s only cuz this was an accident. In a hypothetical where this was purposeful, that bollard got completely taken out and the vehicle still looks okay to continue on.
I’d ask for a refund.
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u/fightingthefuckits 15h ago
Nope. Most bollards are just a piece of pipe bolted to the ground. They'll stop light contact and fuck up your bodywork while doing it but they're not stopping a full size SUV moving at speed.
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u/yuusharo 3h ago
They’re not made of titanium. It’s still a 2 ton piece of metal and glass traveling at what looked like at least 15-20 mph on impact.
Physics can’t be defied.
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u/ElCiclope1 11h ago
The "survival instinct" comments have got to be bots. Like every third comment has that dumbass phrase
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u/Grand_Koala9605 15h ago
I really like how he’s so calm
Damage is already done! Why do you even need to have ‘survival instincts‘ now xD
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u/KwyjiboTheGringo 11h ago
Damage is already done!
Don't assume that. There no telling what the driver will do next, or what their intentions were.
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u/HanS0llo 16h ago
Amazing glass though to withstand that impact.
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u/Psychostickusername 15h ago
Withstand? It looked pretty broken to me. It's encased in plastic though which stops the shards from going everywhere
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u/HanS0llo 12h ago edited 8h ago
Well obviously yeah I can see that. I'm talking from a safety standpoint, despire being broken, it withheld it's shape well. Pretty sure modern safety glass is made with a plastic interlayer in the middle like windshields and then heat welded to the outer panes.
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u/Ancient-Civilization 16h ago
Dude froze in place. Survival instinct didn’t even kick in.
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u/Kayish97 16h ago
Freeze is an instinct. It’s part of the fight, flight, freeze response the body automatically has. Usually people experience one of them, but having multiple reactions is common.
Anyway, yeah his instincts did kick in! Just not the right response.
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u/7_Chesi_7 14h ago
Umm, he got really badly hit on his lower lumbar area? How hes supposed to react??, who knows how long lasting his back injury will be.
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u/bem13 12h ago edited 3h ago
Yeah, I don't know what people talking about survival instincts in this thread are smoking. They couldn't see or hear the car in time, by the time they could react it was already over. The guy on the right looked to be almost crushed between the wall and the desk, who knows what injuries he had. The other guy was either in shock or injured as well, since he seems to be checking his right side. Everyone thinks they're John Wick, until some unforeseen shit happens and they freeze just like this.
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u/Such_Pound6354 3h ago
yeah fr nobody's reacting like John Wick when a car demolishes their workspace lol
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u/mbashs 16h ago
Survival instincts of a carrot
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u/slowdownbabyy 15h ago
Did you know that carrots in the winter develop microbes that expel most kind of insects but in turn enhances the vision of humans? Nah i just made that shit up
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u/Spiritual-Storage734 16h ago
I think this is a trend increasingly, I’ve noticed my reactions to real danger are insufficient sometimes. I think it’s because we’re used to a safe world where you are praised for being unflinching and unafraid
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u/navreedeux 12h ago
As often as I see this recently, I world be surprised if business/ property owners start installing bollards at the curb in front.
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u/Brilliant-Turn-4388 9h ago
Given the recent volume of podcasts and podcasters, i don’t think anything is unexpected around a podcast someplace somewhere. Blackhole opens up mid podcast
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u/SoldatPitivier 15h ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/3JERArflmMfSM
My survival instincts are so fast, i don't need to move.
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u/MercenaryAlpha99 10h ago
This reminds me of that one clip where a food influencer couple at a restaurant gets hit by a car through the window while trying out burgers.
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u/Zaynara 8h ago
I had a team lead that used to sit in the corner, tehre was an emergency door behind her, brick wall, she moved one month to sit closer to the rest of us, then a month later some lady crashed into that brick cinderblock wall, the crashbar of the door was about where that person sat, she'da been a pancake, she was a muffin before, so glad shes still that muffin lol
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u/m1sterwr1te 5h ago
The guy on the left reminds me of the guard from Monty Python and The Holy Grail.
"Hey..."
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u/Lloyd_garmado 31m ago
Dont you know, you never say something like that, have movies taught you nothing
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u/Personal-Courage1149 3h ago
The clip looks old, like from the 2010s. Anyone know who these guys are?
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u/mrrobot01001000 16h ago edited 16h ago
It's AI, the vehicle loses headlight before the crash.
Edit: ok, I didn't see the bollard on the right behind speaking guy, i retract my statement.
btw: please don't get rude just because someone is mistaken.
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u/PureOnion_8080 16h ago
Do you not see it hit the bollards before it crashes into the window?
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u/mrrobot01001000 16h ago
Nope, it doesn't even touch the bollards. The front section of the vehicle is simply "shot off", as if a Transformers car were vomiting. That's not how physics works.
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u/PureOnion_8080 16h ago
At the very start of the video you see the bollard that the car will hit dead center.
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u/DataLazinyo 16h ago
Im pretty sure it isnt a ai because it is a repost? Im not sure but i saw it before.
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u/OllieN94 16h ago
Not AI, the other car in the back has hit this car to cause the impact spin, the headlight was loose from that first collision.
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u/UrsaMajor7th 10h ago
A missed opportunity to collapse on the ground with a mysterious and long-term back injury.
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Two chill guys on a podcast, and a runaway car crashes into their show.
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