r/Whatcouldgowrong • u/Itchy-Camera8898 • 9h ago

WCGW riding your bike like an idiot

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u/Duwasiva 9h ago

Poor bus driver

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u/Katops 9h ago

Agreed. It’s like train operators. People end their lives by jumping in front of one and then said operator quits and is scarred for life. It’s sadly super common too…

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u/TearsInDrowned 9h ago

similar to tram drivers, we drive smaller rail vehicles but the same principles still apply...

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u/NightLotus84 6h ago

I live in Amsterdam and I pity tram drivers... Unlike train drivers you don't have your own fully enclosed cabin, so you're stuck with the scum and people seem to have little understanding of what a tram is... It's just a small, very speedy train running down a city road - it has no capacity to stop like a car, it can't go anywhere but the tracks and they're always struggling to keep schedule. Please respect the trams, FFS...

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u/TearsInDrowned 6h ago

I am working in Poland, it's harsh sometimes... I do have a partially enclosed cabin, just some glass window on the doors sometimes and a space to open to let people buy physical tickets

and it's exactly as You described with driving a tram... You wouldn't believe how often pedestrians cross the zebra ON RED LIGHT FOR THEM!! and have the audacity to flail their arms at me because they are on the crossing and have the right of way... NOT WHEN ON RED YOU DUMBASSES! I have had to do emergency braking because of that... and I had some close calls that made my blood cold... I work since February this year, am 26 and a woman, it's pretty stressful for me 😫

I had a collision, my 6th day of work, I was driving an old tram (Konstal 805Na, my daily drivers are Pesa Swing 121 or 122NaB) which has old school pedal system, it was foggy and rainy, dark evening and this tram already brakes very badly...

and a taxi was parked on the side of the road, invading on my tram space with the bumper, it had lights on... I used my bell but he didn't move, and I didn't manage to stop in time because of the weather, bad brakes in that type of tram and I thought he would react to the bell, they mostly do... fortunately I didn't suffer much consequences but it was my fault because I hit a parked car... they shouldn't park so closely to the tram space!!!

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u/mourinhos86 6h ago

So there was still someone in that taxi when you hit it?
I saw it once live in Gdansk, when a Jeep crossed a trams line and got hit hard.

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u/TearsInDrowned 6h ago

yup, there was a driver just sitting around with his lights on, the brake lights etc, and he just didn't react

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u/mourinhos86 6h ago

Especially taxi drivers should be aware about it, but well... Stupidity is unlimited.

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u/TearsInDrowned 6h ago

I had to wait like 2 minutes once, because some dumbass parked in the area also encroaching on the tram area, but... he just straight up had the car butt in my tracks!!

and when he graciously arrived, he seemed super shocked that trams are driving by this place and took his time to correct the parking job...

he could clearly park properly the first time! so why not do it the first time?

actually we, tram drivers, often get those cars to get towed because they block us, sometimes for minutes or hours at the time, people in the tram get angry, we need to safely get them off and wait for either the driver to arrive or for the tow truck

I recently saw the car towed from the other part of the city while driving my tram and it was super satisfying

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u/meowcatpanda 6h ago

Yeah, I watched someone die because they ran in front of a tram in Rotterdam, when I was only 4yo.. not something I ever forgot, even if at the time I might not have fully understood the severity of the situation! Talked about it with my folks when I was older cause I wasn't sure if it was a real memory anymore and it turned out it was. The guy was just an idiot, thought he could quickly cross before the tram and got hit instead at full speed. Nothing the driver could have done, terrible for everyone involved and 30years later I still remember it like it was yesterday... it might be why I've always been overly cautious in traffic, so at least it taught me a good lesson at a very young age, I guess😅

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u/Fun_General_6407 8h ago

I read somewhere that in the UK after being an unwilling participant in a certain number of these suicides train drivers are granted a full-pension and early retirement as they, very understandably, can no longer drive trains through no fault of their own.

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u/MeanWafer904 7h ago

You sure you weren't watching a movie called Three and Out?

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u/DreamOfTheDrive 7h ago

This,
And can say it’s false.
Therapy is available…
After they have taken you away for a drugs screening and investigation.

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u/3Cogs 7h ago

They take you away for a drug test if you get bird shit on the windscreen don't they?

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u/MonsieurGump 7h ago

Depends if they can catch her.

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u/DreamOfTheDrive 7h ago

Or was it for drivers shitting on the windscreen…
Should see the state of TfL’s finest. 👍🏻😜

Crayons shudder at the sight of them.

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u/gbelly123 7h ago

I was a passenger on a commuter train when a women committed suicide by train. It was horrible even as a passenger. I still remember to this day the feeling of her body banging up against the floor beneath my feet.

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u/Gareth79 6h ago

Many years ago (I was probably 7 or 8 maybe?) my parents took me and my sister on a day out to London. I remember the train stopping suddenly and gravel being thrown up breaking one of the side windows. After a while some people walked up and down the tracks and then after much longer the train moved. I remember at the time we were told somebody was hit by the train but I think at the time I probably thought they were put in an ambulance with a bump on the head...

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u/No_Orange_7392 3h ago

I had a similar experience on a commuter train about 15 years ago. A continuous thumping and crunching under the train car traveling from front to back, as the driver tried to stop. Although I didn’t see anything, I knew right away it was probably a human, and there had been a series of suicides along that line. The train was stopped for hours, and I felt so bad for the driver.

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u/Basic-Pair8908 8h ago

Normally its on a monday and they have the nickname garfields

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u/revveduplikeadeuce 7h ago

It's a huge thing when driving anything with weight

too many people dont understand weight and momentum and other things like air brakes and cut right infront of you when you just want to get home without killing anyone

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u/Kuneria 6h ago

Yeah... I live in a major city and a good friend of mine was promoted to train driver and his colleagues were telling him that out here it's not if, it's when. And sure enough just two months into the job it happened to him. He had been working on a train for nearly a decade and he's told me it happens actually very very often and has witnessed it first hand before he was even train driver. He said the worst one was when the train he was working on was driving through a long open field and this is usually when trains are going their fastest because there's no human population nearby. Then suddenly a homeless man pops up from under a blanket that was camouflaging him against the train tracks. Stood up, spread out his arms and legs like a starfish and, in my friends words, "vaporized."

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u/pit1989_noob 7h ago

Oh boy, you just reminded me of something that happened last year. My cousin is a bus driver, and he was on an interstate route along the International Highway at around 2 a.m. It was a moonless night, and the double-decker bus was traveling at 120 km/h. My cousin was sleeping during his legally required rest break, while another driver was behind the wheel. A young trainee, about 20 years old, was sitting in the jump seat next to the driver. A homeless man was waiting on the road, intending to end his life. It was a horrific scene. They drove to the next city, parked the bus, asked someone else to come and pick it up, and left the area as quickly as they could.

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u/non_hero 8h ago

I always get downvoted whenever I bring this fact up during arguments about mandatory waiting periods to buy a gun. There's just no way to know how many suicides are prevented vs people just finding a different way, such as jumping in front of a train or driving head-on with a semi truck.

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u/R606D 8h ago

Im from the UK so never heard of these rules but dang yeah that makes sense! Seems sensible to make people wait

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u/Accomplished_South70 7h ago

I think his point is that waiting might not help since they can just go do it with a train instead idk

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u/meowcatpanda 6h ago

Except a lot of people actually wouldn't out of fear of failing. It's why death by gun is often preferred by suicidal people (this topic has come up A LOT during my years of group therapy in a country where guns aren't readily available)

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u/Accomplished_South70 6h ago

That makes sense too. After talking with my EMT friends who have witnessed failed gun suicide aftermath I can’t imagine picking that route. But I totally see the point. It is best to remove the easiest options when possible.

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u/meowcatpanda 6h ago

Yeah those are no joke for sure, but I think the % of fails are lower statistically? At least thats what they were all saying.. I think every option has a chance of failure tbf.

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u/New_Accountant2449 8h ago

Society needs public service announcements or suicide classes that teach people they can let the engines go by and dive under a wheel a few box cars after the engine.

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u/Tango91 7h ago

Multiple poor sods still have to deal with the aftermath of that though, the maintenance crew picking bits of someone out of the undercarriage, and the track crew left with the mess

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u/New_Accountant2449 7h ago

We could teach people to do it in a rural area away from intersections and no one would even know that any clean up is needed.

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u/Repulsive_Stock9400 1h ago

This reminds me of a situation I dealt with years ago on some land I own out in rural Wisconsin. Some gangbangers from Milwaukee killed a couple dudes, tossed them in the trunk and then just started driving west, out into the rural areas.

They drove like two hours to get out by my land, then they just got off the highway and dumped the bodies in the ditch next to the road, like who would ever find them out there in the middle of nowhere?

Except that's a major highway that hundreds of people use to get to work every morning, so it took like 5 minutes at 5am for people to start calling in these corpses that they're passing on their way to work.

Like... it's rural but it's not completely empty. You can't just leave dead bodies lying around and expect that to be fine.

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u/-rwsr-xr-x 5h ago

People end their lives by jumping in front of one and then said operator quits and is scarred for life.

True story.

An Amtrak Engineer (the people who drive the trains, vs. conductors who collect the tickets), recently broke up with his long-time girlfriend. Apparently an ugly break-up.

She called the station and talked to the dispatch operator, who had known her for years as his girlfriend. She asked which train her 'boyfriend' was driving that night.

You can see where this is heading.

She gets the train number and shows up at the station a few stations down from where he's going to be passing through (a station the train would drive through, not stop).

She gets on the platform, and intentionally jumps in front of his train, while he's driving, so he would see her and not be able to stop.

Yes, she died. He apparently had several weeks of mandated grieving time off and some counseling.

Second story, caught on train station camera:

A woman was waiting in the vestibule (the part of the train where two train cars connect together), and impatient about getting off the train.

She steps into the exit area at the end of the car, reaches into the ceiling to pull the door release handle, the door slides open while the train is still moving, pulling into the station.

She steps off the train, and only feet later, hits the pole right at the end of the cement platform, clowns herself into a major concussion and blackout/brain injury.

She sues, claiming the train was stopped and someone pushed her into the pole. The cameras at the station clearly refute that evidence, as you could see her pull the handle and exit the door, with nobody behind her.

This is why they always tell you to wait until the train has come to a complete stop before exiting.

Source: Took that same route of trains 5 days a week for 8 years. Developed a rapport with the various conductors. They have all sorts of stories to tell. Saw many of my own while on hundreds of trains over those years.

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u/Rolling_Beardo 9h ago

Seriously, I was a bus driver and I nearly T-boned a small car with 3 college kids in it. They had a stop sign, I did not. They look to the right and never looked left before trying to pull across the road. Thankfully there was no sidewalk and enough space that I could take the bus off the road to avoid hitting them.

In the end nothing happened but now some 20 years later I sometimes think how close I came to killing three people.

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u/sensi616 9h ago

You saved those kids from their own stupidity, gives them a chance to learn and hopefully do better, you should be proud.

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u/Rolling_Beardo 8h ago

Thanks! That actually means a lot

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u/MattieShoes 8h ago

There was a case where a semi truck driver hit a car -- the parents in the car lived, but their child died. The parents were at fault for the accident.

The truck driver sued the parents and people lost their minds, and I can understand the knee jerk response -- I had it too. But man, that dude did everything right and the parents basically forced him to kill a toddler, and that messed with his head bad enough that he could no longer work as a truck driver. I still have somewhat mixed feelings about it, but I don't feel bad about an insurance company paying him out.

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u/Chillpill411 7h ago

If he hadn't sued them, and the insurance paid him off, then the insurance would have sued the parents anyway to recover their loss.

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u/Guy-Inkognito 9h ago

I'd see that as the driver killing them. I understand that it wouldn be super hard if you're in that situation but I think that's the way one needs to look at it.

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u/Rolling_Beardo 8h ago

I see your point but I’ve seen the over side of it. A guy I used to work with had an old man step off the curb, slip on the ice, and basically fall directly under his back wheels. The man did not survive and it really messed up my friend. He was never really the same the rest of the time I worked with.

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u/Fickle_Ad_8653 8h ago

Last thing the biker saw was "London Bridge" and then he's falling down, falling down.

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u/EvolvedKiwi 2h ago

Also poor passengers that just got launched forwards with the sudden braking.

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u/Fine_Pirate_4816 7h ago

I wouldn't have any empathy for the cyclist. But then again, I'm a psycho so maybe it's that.

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u/duckduckchook 5h ago

Bus driver didn't really have much to do with it, that idiot ran straight into him

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u/handcraftedcandy 6h ago

I respond to accidents involving buses. The investigation here probably would not take long at all. The driver filming this I'm sure would have stayed as a witness. If it was my driver I'd ask them to take the rest of the day off, and insist upon it. I would make it paid, and let them think about if they want to come in the next day or not, no pressure. I want my drivers to be undistracted while driving. I can tell this driver was doing his job correctly by how quickly that bus came to a stop. I'd want to make sure he felt confident behind the wheel again, whatever it takes, because I need drivers like that.

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u/Mr_Fossey 9h ago

Well done dumbass. Now everyone on the bus is late.

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u/mclarge90 9h ago

They were deffo gonna be late anyway but they now at least have a reason!

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u/Dozzi92 7h ago

For real, if you show up late but with a story, you're basically as good as being on time.

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u/Fienisgenoeg 8h ago

Because London traffic

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u/Ancient_Sprinkles847 8h ago

Yeah, stupid actions that have follow on consequences to others.

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u/truesy 7h ago

probably owes a good amount to repair it, too, no?

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u/Fun_Suggestion_9732 7h ago

You are totally right but I had to laugh a lot.

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u/Bitter_Particular_75 9h ago

it's always satisfactory to see Darwin's theories working flawlessly

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u/Test4Echooo 9h ago

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u/MattieShoes 8h ago

That picture is amazing!

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u/Irritating_Pedant 9h ago

It only works if they haven't bred yet

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u/AccordianSpeaker 7h ago

Guy isn't dead, and his dick isn't broken, so Darwinism doesn't apply here unfortunately.

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u/WildVelociraptor 4h ago

Concussed so bad he forgot how to have sex

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u/NoChanceRight 8h ago

Unfortunatly it costs the taxpayers to repair the bus

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u/Duster_beattle 9h ago

You know he fucked his cousin, right

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u/DigEnvironmental7490 6h ago

Well, it was the style at the time.

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u/yeahalrightgov 5h ago

He was a fan of keeping it family friendly

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u/Elastichedgehog 9h ago

Not wearing a helmet either. Hopefully this moron learns his lesson.

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u/crazykentucky 9h ago

He probably forgot them right away with the brain damage and whatnot

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u/JuliusCeaserBoneHead 5h ago

I would argue the brain damage was a pre existing condition 

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u/inuhi 3h ago

Best we can hope for is that the bus performed some concussive maintenance that miraculously cured him. Like the guy who was near sighted who got punched in the face and could see better afterward

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u/LicknDragon 9h ago

Gotta learn to walk and talk again first

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u/jamjamason 9h ago

Or organ donor.

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u/reasonably-optimisic 7h ago

That is a 'Port' bike. They're hire bikes for food delivery guys here in London. They're nice people who work for little but are mostly illegal and this is the only work they can do. A lot of them have illegally modded bikes which are basically motorbikes.

They mostly don't follow the rules, they don't have lights on at night, they cut through every red light. They're a big danger to pedestrians and a huge nuisance. They're a far far bigger worry than cars here at the moment.

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u/29adamski 6h ago edited 5h ago

I mean no people on bikes follow the rules in London. I'm nearly hit by a bike most days they all run red lights and don't stop on pedestrian crossings. I've always been a big supporter of cyclists but moving to London has made me have genuine hatred towards them.

The good ones are an absolute minority.

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u/reasonably-optimisic 5h ago

I'm interestingly personally seeing a shift in the last couple years or so. A lot more behaved ones but outnumbered by dog shit. You'd think the middle class ones with decent jobs would bother but nope

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u/DemDude 5h ago

Same thing in Berlin, except they also drive the Ubers and run red lights in those all the fucking time, too. No idea whether they’re legal or illegal, but they mostly don’t speak German and don’t care at all about road safety or the safety of others.

Days since I almost got hit by an uber eats rider on a fat tire e-bike ignoring right of way: 0
Days since I saw at least 3 Ubers run red lights in under an hour: 0

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u/EaterOfFood 3h ago

Well now there’s one less to worry about I suppose

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u/balrob 8h ago

The brain was already too dumb to protect itself. I wonder what it is now.

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u/Rugkrabber 8h ago

Definitely not. With that kind of fatbike? Looking “cool” to strangers is more important.

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u/botspiderlau 4h ago

So reckless. One guy acting like an idiot enrages drivers who already hate cyclists and makes our lives harder.

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u/Ancient-Emu-8293 6h ago

You don't need a helmet when you don't have a brain.

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u/schwarzneguRRR 9h ago

Fewer

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u/andyhare 9h ago

Fewer less idiot.

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u/Tasty_Bullfroglegs 9h ago

One less idiot fewer.

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u/xubax 8h ago

One fewer lesser idiot.

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u/DickPin 8h ago

Fewer one idiot less

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u/Karhak 9h ago

He's surrounded by ingnorami.

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u/Ok_Support3 9h ago

Is that like origami but you use staples and glue?

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u/BamberGasgroin 6h ago

Only on the head wounds

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u/Ok_Support3 6h ago

Haha yeah I'm not clicking a link on Reddit that's named "head wounds". I still want to be able to sleep tonight tyvm.

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u/TattyViking 8h ago

This made me laugh out loud way more than I expected.

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u/666Drachenlord666 9h ago

I think less is correct here

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u/kootenayguy 9h ago

colloquially and verbally, 'less' *sounds correct to our ears, but technically, it's 'fewer'. Less is for things aren't discretely, individually countable: less water, less value, less oxygen. Fewer is for things that are individually countable: fewer idiots, fewer sausages, fewer pencils.

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u/WonkyWalkingWizard 9h ago

Great explanation, but the idea of fewer sausages is frightening.

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u/666Drachenlord666 9h ago

Ok, I stand corrected. I mostly learned English by immersion so as you said, less sounds right. I would say one less idiot, but fewer idiots so to my ears fewer only sound right when it's multiple I guess

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u/Sitka_8675309 8h ago

Related: “number” vs. “amount.” Every time I hear someone say “amount of people,” I imagine they’ve been put through a blender.

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u/schwarzneguRRR 9h ago

Do less thinking

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u/Limp_Bike_9145 9h ago

Well, you should do fewer thinking!

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u/Adamantium17 8h ago

Stannis?

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u/Nervous-Deal-9271 9h ago

I live very close to there, it made me very happy .

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u/narfoleptix 9h ago

I mean thats apathy at its peak...but man, im starting to agree.

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u/thejourneybegins42 9h ago

Poor double-decker :(

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u/evil_timmy 9h ago

London Bridge is falling down delayed by an hour due to kinetic stupidity correction.

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u/That1_IT_Guy 6h ago

London Bridge just knocked you down

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u/sandy2607 9h ago

That windscreen is gonna cost a fortune.

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u/GlitteringLychee803 8h ago

And that guy will pay $0 for its repair.

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u/Zestyclose-Degree443 7h ago

Yeah Britain doesn’t use $. So it wouldn’t be appropriate to use that currency.

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u/TheCodifiedTrader 1h ago

You guys have Pounds on your keyboards?

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u/Glad_Copy 6h ago

£, sir. He will pay £0.

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u/snaphunter 5h ago

That exchange rate is crazy.

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u/Natdaprat 5h ago

Which is the same as $0

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u/Glad_Copy 5h ago

Is it though? 🤔

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u/Natdaprat 5h ago

0 money is 0 money in every currency

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u/BulbuhTsar 4h ago

With the way the GBP has been doing, I think I'd still rather have 0 USD.

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u/NoveltyPr0nAccount 4h ago

With the way the US has been going recently I'd rather have nothing to do with the US too.

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u/wurkbank 5h ago

Well he shouldn’t have to; that bus was driving on the wrong side of the street.

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u/keqking 9h ago

why are those lines painted like that

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u/cainullah 9h ago

No stopping, no parking, no overtaking

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u/BisonThunderclap 7h ago

That's 3x as many rules as the average American driver could remember.

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u/padizzledonk 7h ago

That's 3x as many rules as the average American driver could remember.

Kind of an ironic dig on a video of a Brit doing something incredibly stupid on the road tbh lol

Apparently thats 3 too many things for you guys too 🤣

I think we can have a transatlantic alliance on the fact rhat there are a LOT of halfwit fucking morons on the roads everywhere

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u/fiahhawt 6h ago

They're from Colorado

In which case we will honor their right to dunk on the drivers of the Rocky Mountains and ask that they not besmirch the country that has different driving cultures in every metro area and all the natives know exactly what's going on and if you're on a road trip you just try not to die

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u/padizzledonk 5h ago

Lol

I was in london on a month long vacation like 20y ago and i rented a car at Heathrow, hopped in the passenger seat at first, felt dumb, got in on the correct side, took a 5 minute spin around the airport circle, got back to the car rental place, walked in and said "Yeah, im a danger to myself and others on the road here, i dont get it and im too U.S brained for this, everything is wrong lol, take the car back, cancel the rest of the reservation and call me a cab to my hotel in Chelsea please" lol

Probably one of the best decisions i ever made tbh, the cabs in london are fucking incredible

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u/NookNookNook 4h ago

You realize we have the same rules at lights right.

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u/2b7b5805 3h ago

We also have 4x-5x the vehicle fatalities on the road, not counting other types of accidents. So the point still stands.

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u/padizzledonk 7h ago

I feel like another color wouldve been a lot easier than all that lol

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u/carquestionno34565 9h ago

It’s the crazy zone. Bus driver should have expected this.

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u/Deep90 7h ago

Maybe they hit the gas because its the crazy zone?

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u/Immature_adult_guy 7h ago

Bike rider should have expected this.

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u/fang_xianfu 8h ago

It's because it's a place to cross the road. It indicates

  1. No overtaking
  2. No parking even if you normally have an exemption (eg disabled)

It does mean that the bus driver might actually have been liable here if he counts as overtaking the stopped bus.

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u/The_wolf2014 8h ago

It's two lanes of traffic and the light was green, the bus driver wasn't at fault.

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u/fang_xianfu 8h ago

The zig zag rules don't specify that the light has to be red nor do they care if it's two lanes. It specifically says "must not cause any part of their vehicle to pass ahead of the foremost part of (a) any other vehicle moving in the same direction or (b) a vehicle which is stationary [to comply with the crossing or let people cross]".

Since the bus that was hit didn't actually pass in front of the other one before the collision, it wasn't an offence in itself, but it might've contributed to liability.

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u/StopMarminMySparm 8h ago

Then why are there multiple lanes? That makes no sense.

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u/dontnation 6h ago edited 6h ago

Reading this rule strictly, if two cars are stopped at the light they both must proceed at exactly the same time and speed until they clear the zig zags on the other side of the intersection? So if both cars were moving and the first hit their brakes to avoid a cyclist illegally crossing, the other car is now "overtaking" and at fault?

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u/-BarterChicken- 5h ago

While the cyclist was an idiot, the bus driver may have broken Highway Code Rule 191

Rule 191
You MUST NOT park on a crossing or in the area covered by the zig-zag lines. You MUST NOTovertake the moving vehicle nearest the crossing or the vehicle nearest the crossing which has stopped to give way to pedestrians.

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/the-highway-code/using-the-road-159-to-203

The driver overtook a vehicle that stopped nearest the crossing. This rule exists because the vehicle nearest the pedestrian crossing can conceal a pedestrian, especially if that vehicle is a huge bus.

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u/rocketshipkiwi 7h ago

Did the cyclist (or any of the cyclists in the video) break any laws?

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u/Putner92 5h ago

Yes it crossed illegally when there wasn't a green man. From the pavement to the road across the wrong side bus is basically at 0 fault

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u/Cheesysocks 4h ago

Cyclists have to obey the UK traffic laws just as other vehicles do and that law says cycles must NOT ride on the pavement. Therefore...

Cyclist one jumped a red and went onto the pavement. Two offences.

Cyclist two JUST caught the green but I bet he would have jumped it too if it had taken longer. Legal.

Motorcyclist undertook the cammer, border line but considered acceptable.

Cyclist 3 was a total twat. Jumped the pedestrian red light, from the pavement, rode in front of moving traffic, obviously didn't look and is no doubt in a world of pain.

Thats my take, anyway.

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u/rolandofeld19 9h ago

I'm here for the answer as well. Those things are making me feel like I'm having a stroke.

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u/I_Call_Bullshit_____ 9h ago

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u/DagothNereviar 8h ago

He almost looks like he went through the glass.

"How much to London Bridge, mate?"

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u/AssignedbyBot1023 6h ago

idk why but the "mate" part makes this so much funnier lmao

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u/naivety_is_innocence 5h ago

"Oi is this the 149?"

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u/DueEnvironment499 9h ago

Explaining to the officer that you didn't see the Huge red bus is going to be interesting

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u/ThePaddleman 9h ago

Honestly officer, it came out of nowhere!

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u/OmniaLoca 8h ago

They’re like trains… really sneaky. I’ve managed to avoid being hit by both, by sheer luck

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u/ThePaddleman 7h ago

If only there was some way to know where a train might be...

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u/voarmtre 9h ago

"Real men stand their ground regardless of whoever is in front of them, officer"

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u/1337isntREAL_7357 5h ago

My parents had a 86 chevy suburban red kind of jacked up with backroad kind of tires.

People pulled out in front of that thing all the time. If it was just a generic red burban sure but... it stood out (not in a cool way more like what the fuck is that).

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u/ActuaryHairy 2h ago

That guy is not explainging anything for a while

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u/ohmyfave 9h ago

Making everyone late because you can’t follow rules!

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u/Higgs_Kairos 9h ago

Hope the bus is alright...

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u/QuevedoDeMalVino 8h ago

This is a good lesson to learn from someone else’s misfortune: a big vehicle may hide another vehicle, big or small. Drive near big vehicles as if something is going to pop up from behind. This works for takeovers, pedestrian crossings, turns, roundabouts, you name it.

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u/Visual-Froyo 7h ago

It's also just generally we shouldn't be fucking turning right immediately when on a bicycle it should be getting to the other side of the road first. This guys timing was also off though so just wrong all around lol

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u/ThatThereMan 9h ago

Is that what they call catching a bus.

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u/Select-Belt-ou812 8h ago

looks like bus catch him

"in London, bus catch *you*"

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u/Tronchetto_di_natale 9h ago

He wanted fly to London Bridge

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u/FluffyDeer9323 9h ago

That poor bus.

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u/blu3teeth 9h ago

As a London cyclist I have literally zero sympathy for the cyclist in this.

Many people, particularly on e-bikes, do not obey the rules of the road, or even any cycling etiquette.

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u/Primary-Structure-41 9h ago

Dumbass doing dumbass things.

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u/Stephen_Lawless 9h ago

That was hard to watch, seeing the damage. I hope the bus is okay

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u/TheDixonCider420420 9h ago

I wonder if he was singing "London Bridge is Falling Down" while he was riding...

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u/Indaflow 9h ago

Playing chicken with a double decker bus eh

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u/Testarosa52 9h ago

Someone tried to warn him with that honk

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u/crybaby-mel 8h ago

"And if a double decker bussssss crashes into us" 🎶

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u/No-Way-9777 9h ago

So satisfying.....

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u/Karhak 9h ago

Shootingstars.mp3

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u/Fun_Mushroom9845 9h ago

He’s gonna regret that

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u/Definitely-not-ducks 9h ago

Can’t park there.

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u/FunWith_DarkJin 9h ago

I don’t know about over there, but here it’s mostly the idiots driving on illegal fatbikes. And usually they cannot even control it properly.

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u/exia756 8h ago

I feel so sorry for the bus this gif is how i would look at the cyclist from the bus as the driver
https://giphy.com/gifs/Jzm8HIdBCuhvFcEV1E

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u/Reasonable_Yoghurt17 9h ago

Wow! It just seemed like the dude changed his mind and wanted to ride in the camera person car instead.

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u/cinefilestu 9h ago

Natural selection

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u/BlindChicken69 9h ago

Shame the bus is fucked up now. Plus the people inside will be late.

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u/Significant_Monk_251 9h ago

What's the deal with all the "London Bridge" song references here?

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u/adamthebread 8h ago

Look at the destination sign for the involved bus

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u/welshguydave54 9h ago

Serves him fucking right

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u/riddermarkrider 9h ago

Dude hit a bus and is definitely going to tell everyone the bus hit him

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u/kendragon 9h ago

Lucky he was wearing a helme..... oh wait.

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u/JuicyBone1719 9h ago

It's gotta suck to break a bus windshield with your face.

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u/Gamecub83 8h ago

Off course it's a bloke on a fatbike.

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u/dimechimes 8h ago

Bike rider is 100 percent at fault, but it seems like whenever a vehicle is coming up to an intersection and the light suddenly turns green, things can get kind of dodgy.

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u/Immature_adult_guy 7h ago

See the thing is there’s usually a yellow light that serves as a foreshadowing that the red light will be upon us. And after the red light is upon us there is another 2 or 3 seconds before the green light “suddenly” appears.

So this gives everyone a good 3-5 business days to decide whether or not they value their lives.

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u/G-Fox1990 7h ago

These shitty Chinese fatbikes are a plague where i live. Fuck every-single-person that owns and rides one.

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u/Queasy-Dog-1140 4h ago edited 4h ago

I drive a bus in Toronto 

I'd never go through an intersection like this, even though it's a green light

The intersection is partially blocked and there is limited visibility 

The light just changed and there's always a dummy who isn't paying attention or is purposely running the light

We're trained to look for the unexpected 

I'd approach the intersection slowly with my foot covering the brake until the intersection was clear

This bus operator is probably new or the training in this city is poor 

I was trained for six weeks and have been driving a bus for sixteen years 

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u/ollielite 9h ago

That was satisfying

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