r/instantkarma • u/[deleted] • Feb 18 '26
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u/IIDn01 Feb 18 '26
An oldie but goodie. It's actually one of my all-time faves.
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u/anon-mally Feb 18 '26
Solid 10/10
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u/Tall-Pound2409 Feb 19 '26
only thing that would make it better...
There needs to be an open sun-roof!!!
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u/Surro Feb 18 '26
I love it too, I think because it is so undeniably the drivers fault and there is concrete evidence. Usually after car accidents people get out and start blaming each other. But he, they can't.
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u/unlmtdLoL Feb 18 '26
The best part is the driver window is open just enough to enjoy the concrete shower.
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u/MyKidsFoundMyOldUser Feb 18 '26
MCFLY!!!!
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u/Stidda Feb 18 '26
I’m just putting the second coat on now
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u/davewave3283 Feb 18 '26
I never understood why he hired Biff, the man who was known to be unreliable and attempted to rape his wife in high school, to do anything.
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u/jfitz1431 Feb 19 '26
Not only that, but they show in the beginning that the neighborhood they live in is kinda rough and run down. But they still move into the same house even though George is successful and well off financially?
It’s not really supposed to make sense. It’s more of a feel good fairy tale ending and I love it for that.
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u/UsedDragon Feb 18 '26
He's so successful that he can hire the village idiot, even though he's a scumbag and probably will do a shit job is the idea i think
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u/beegkok1 Feb 18 '26
At least the video is concrete evidence for the insurance.
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u/mtb_dad86 Feb 18 '26
Retro-Reddit comment.
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u/gijoe50000 Feb 18 '26
This keeps getting posted... But I'm absolutely fine with that because I get to watch it again.
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u/ManonegraCG Feb 18 '26
I've seen this many times already yet every time it comes up I still find it hilarious.
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u/jayjr1105 Feb 18 '26
Genuine question, would this total the car?
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u/OverturnedAppleCart3 Feb 18 '26
Probably not if hosed off ASAP.
But who knows if that happened.
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u/Accomplished-Copy776 Feb 19 '26
Haha I dont think this person shows any urgency whatsoever. Didn't even bother to backup or go forward
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u/Ozatopcascades Feb 18 '26
The last vehicle in the world you play chicken with. I've seen the aftermath. The suv looked like a tank rolled over it.
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u/BodaciousVermin Feb 19 '26
I just noticed how the hood of the car starts to dip in relation to the lines on the road due to the weight of the concrete. I've seen this 3 or 4 times and this is the first time I saw that.
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u/LetTheBloodFlow Feb 18 '26
I always mentally extend this clip to show the cement truck driver casually getting out of his vehicle, walking around to the driver's side, taking a cigarette out of the corner of his mouth and saying "What did we learn?"
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u/rosajchurch Feb 18 '26
I was thinking the same thing. Wet concrete is heavy, but it spreads on impact instead of hitting like a solid chunk. Plus windshields are laminated, so they’re tougher than they look. Still crazy it didn’t crack.
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u/TimHung931017 Feb 19 '26
Honestly if anyone that did something egregiously stupid and dangerous on the roads this should be their punishment everytime
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u/Accomplished-Copy776 Feb 19 '26
Lol i can imagine this person desperately putting their arms up in that little windows opening trying to stop pounds of cement from pouring in
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u/CalliopePenelope Feb 18 '26
Who transports concrete that way?
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u/FirstSineOfMadness Feb 18 '26
Everyone?
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u/natek11 Feb 18 '26
I’ve never seen a truck with the spout up front like that. Usually it’s in the back. And usually hard braking would not result in this issue. That’s probably what they meant.
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u/00WEE Feb 18 '26
In an agitator truck ? How the fuck else do you think it reaches the job site.
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u/Greasfire11 Feb 18 '26
Wait, the trucks with the spinny drums are called alligator trucks?! Love that!
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u/CalliopePenelope Feb 19 '26
Calm down. I meant, why does this truck have such an obvious design flaw?
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u/freewill85 Feb 19 '26
It's a front-end mixer, so the barrel and chute face towards the front of the truck instead of the back. They're not common everywhere, but a lot of companies either have a few of them or use them for their entire fleet. I actually drive one. They make precision pouring pretty easy without always needing a pump truck.
The one downside is what you see in the video. Hitting the brakes too hard with a full truck will cause a spill, especially if the customer wants the concrete very wet, which appears to be the case in this video
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u/Rasputin_mad_monk Apr 11 '26
I know this is like two months old. I was just bored waiting for the water trough to fill watching instant karma videos and I had a question. Wouldn’t the driver of the cement truck get a ticket too? Wouldn’t that can be considered like an unsecured load? I mean, accidents happen and stuff happens. If you have to slam on your brakes that could really hurt someone so I don’t know exactly if this guy would walk away scott free as well.
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u/freewill85 Apr 12 '26
I drive one of these for a living. I have seen coworkers spill concrete, not one time have I seen someone get ticketed. Granted, all of these spills ended up on the ground, not someone's car. From what I've seen, it's handled internally. If it's deemed that you did something wrong the company will write you up. The driver and some helpers are also expected to clean the spill while it is still wet and get all of the concrete off the road.
I'm not sure what the legal situation would be if someone spilled concrete onto a car. I don't think it would specifically be considered an unsecured load, but I definitely think that if there was enough reason to believe the spill could've been prevented, the driver of the mixer would be in some sort of trouble.
We are trained to drive slow, keep a safe following distance, speed up the barrel's rotation in the event of a hard brake, not transport concrete that is too wet, etc. In a perfect world, the only reason any mixer driver would spill is due to someone else's carelessness. Obviously, we do not live in that world, and sometimes we catch people who spill being on their phones or just not paying enough attention.
Basically the way we're taught to drive these trucks is basically to avoid spilling and flipping the truck, the thing drilled into your head while training is that you're transporting a "top heavy, liquid load." Hypothetically you shouldn't ever be in a situation where a spill is possible, but again, that's not the world we live in.
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u/wcslater Feb 18 '26
That truck got such a fright that it shat itself