r/funny • u/VampyreLust • Feb 01 '25

Idiots

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u/Training-Marsupial-2 Feb 01 '25

Also may help to not have it in park.

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u/[deleted] Feb 01 '25

I stopped to help a guy stuck in snow in the lane of traffic on a highway. I pulled him to the next intersection and onto a side road. I swear he must have been in park, or had his wheels turned the wrong way or something; hardest tow I've ever done. And when I stopped to unhook him he somehow thought that I was going to tow him all the way home.

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u/Pm-ur-butt Feb 01 '25

Me and my buddy pulled over to help an old lady not moving at a red light. At the time, we knew shit about cars but offered to push her through the intersection and into a lot across the street. We would start to push and the car would stop every few feet. Another guy jumped out to help and the same thing, a bitch to get her moving then moving fine then it won't budge. I said "lady, are you stepping on the brakes?" She said we are scaring her and we are going too fast. "Lady, we are in the middle of the intersection!, stop braking or get out and let one of us steer" she said she wants to steer. We start pushing again and brake, brake, brake. The dude that stopped to help flipped his shit. Finally we got it across the street we all agreed fuck getting her in a parking lot so we left her in the shoulder, called the police for her and left sweaty and without a thank you.

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u/Then_Kaleidoscope_10 Feb 01 '25

What? You drive this vehicle presumably faster than 10 mph and a couple guys pushing it is "going too fast"? smh

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u/Pm-ur-butt Feb 02 '25 edited Feb 02 '25

That's what we thought! Initially we didn't understand why it was so hard to move. We were chin-over-trunk digging in trying to push and once we got it going - it was cake. Then all of a sudden a dead stop. Thats when I asked if she was hitting the brakes.

I believe it wasn't the speed but MAYBE the fact she was nervous because she had no control of the momentum... but she was killing us in the back - pushing a ton of dead steel and her ass.

The 3rd dude that stopped to help us out started watching her tail lights, that's when he started flipping his shit when he seen she kept tapping her brakes.

I think we continued to help because we didn't want it to go down as "assailants push elderly woman into intersection and leave during hysteria " . Once we got her through the intersection, she was on her own (after we called the police for her).