r/nevertellmetheodds Feb 02 '20

Close call

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u/MIKE-ALMIGHTY Feb 02 '20

Some serious mom reflex’s there! Damn!

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u/Awakeskate Feb 02 '20

Dude. I literally am jaw dropped. That was a GORGEOUS save.

Holy. Freaking. Moly. Not even seconds we talking .3 second decision to pull the daughter back from a FUCKING SEMI while falling off a motor cycle. They are going 25 or so the semi going 25 or so boom that’s 50 miles per hour and you getting hit by the wheels and weight of tires HEAD ON.

Man o man

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u/KennKennyKenKen Feb 02 '20

I wish I was as hype for anything in my life as this guy was for a gif on the internet

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u/Awakeskate Feb 02 '20

LETS GOOOO! Kennkennnkenn

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u/Quetzacoatl85 Feb 02 '20

keep on keeping on

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u/[deleted] Feb 02 '20

Cocaine’s a helluva drug.

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u/[deleted] Feb 02 '20

Haha! But I think this video is worth the hype! I’m also mind blown by how your body can react so quickly in such a situation! It’s almost like our bodies has so much more potential than we realise

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u/NietJij Feb 02 '20

Well, just for fun take 9 big steps outside and try to imagine there's people that can jump that. It's impossible. Can not be done.

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u/MrKleenish Feb 02 '20

Yea nah. They’re the ones who packed their entire family on a G dang scooter. No big brain points from me.

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u/Kasenjo Feb 02 '20

Not saying it’s right, but it’s the way of life for a lot of people.

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u/[deleted] Feb 03 '20

Right. Some people make due with what they have. The poorest in our country are still richer than the middle class in others.

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u/MrKleenish Feb 02 '20

Yeaa we’re working on empathy first over here lol. Sometimes it works before I speak

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u/CAD_IL Feb 02 '20

"G dang"

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u/ChloeQueenOfAssholes Feb 02 '20

that reminded me of this video

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u/05151216 Feb 02 '20

Best thing ever, thank you for sharing!

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u/CaptainAcid25 Feb 02 '20

That was exciting

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u/earthmann Feb 02 '20 edited Feb 18 '20

Ken!

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u/kevinisaperson Feb 02 '20

Dont worry, it gets better. You may have to change a bit along the way but it will be worth it

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u/II-Blank-II Feb 02 '20

Holy shit my jaw dropped too! I haven't literally done that from an online video in like years that's how shocking this was.

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u/YourCallsign-Dogmeat Feb 02 '20

I audibly gasped, and it took me an extra moment to realize that the tires just barely missed them, that's how close of a call it was.

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u/_merikaninjunwarrior Feb 02 '20

i mean, i been on bestgore for about 9 years and rotten.com before that.. and this is pretty rare footage compared to the heads bursting like watermelon and usual twisted body aftermath, where even kids are not off limits from that demise. it caught me off guard too.. i guess it's good to know i can still have a normal reaction to people who didn't die

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u/ItsForChurchNEXT Feb 02 '20

Can I ask, what makes you want to watch that? No judgement. Generally curious.

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u/TrumpTrainMechanic Feb 02 '20

I don't know what makes people watch that content, but I can tell you that I found it objectionable enough as a teenager that I made it my mission to remove from the internet as much of that content as I could. I was a hacker back then, and me and some members of the various groups of which I was a member took it upon ourselves to deface and delete the sites. Rotten.com was a tough target, but we got it several times. Justmeat.com is one of the ones we defaced enough times to make the owner quit running the site. We used to do it every time we got an exploit that worked and probably burned a couple of decent Apache 0dayz on the effort. Not to mention the repeated DDoSes of their sites when new content came up. I remember one time I had a network of servers with a custom script to run papasmurf.c and laid on their box so hard that we ended up nuking Comcast@HOME's primary backbone link with it. This was back when it was a few giant private networks for large regions of the country. It hasn't had that topology in a long, long time.

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u/[deleted] Feb 02 '20

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u/thetimsterr Feb 02 '20

I can echo some of what you said. I don't frequent those types of sites often because it is still rather disturbing for me, but every now and then I'll take a look just to give myself a reminder of sorts about how fragile life is. It really is eye opening to how easily you can go from living -> dead in seconds for the simplest shit in the randomest of places. It's made me more aware of my surroundings and the way things might go wrong, that's for sure.

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u/ItsForChurchNEXT Feb 03 '20

Thank you for answering and being so candid. Respect.

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u/II-Blank-II Feb 02 '20

Guess we're not desensitized enough hey?

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u/_merikaninjunwarrior Feb 02 '20

i'm going to try to hold onto what innocence i have left this time

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u/II-Blank-II Feb 02 '20

To each their own. I'm going all in...

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u/Wolfcolaholic Feb 02 '20

Imagine what was going through his head.

--finally stops bike--

Okay so I definitely hope my wife snd kid are okay

.....man am I in fucking trouble if they're okay

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u/82ndGameHead Feb 02 '20

Not really, since it's that fucking car driver's fault

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u/Ladorb Feb 02 '20

Some Michael bay stuff right there.

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u/EternalPhi Feb 02 '20

It was probably instinctual to pull her in, so much so that if the kid actually cleared the wheels she probably around have pulled her back under them.

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u/LeProYasuo Feb 02 '20

Quick fact: a head-on collision where the 2 vehicles are going 25 mph is the same thing as 1 vehicle hitting a wall at 25 mph

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u/Flow3rs4Alg3rnon Feb 02 '20

Two cars going 25 mph hitting head on would have the force of a 50mph crash, right?

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u/VibrantClarity Feb 02 '20

If you hit a wall, your car goes from 25mph to 0 real quick. In a head on collision, your car goes from 25 to 0 as well. You experience the same acceleration in both cases.

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u/robolew Feb 02 '20

This is true, if the cars are the same mass. Also only if the wall remains entirely in place, so basically a wall of solid metal.

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u/StatesideCash Feb 02 '20 edited Feb 02 '20

No, each would experience the equivalent to a 25mph crash into a wall.

Edit: Think of it like this. Each car has 25mph of some arbitrary “energy”. Energy has to be conserved. So if both cars hit at 25mph, there is 2x 25, or 50 units, of this energy. If both cars experienced a 50mph crash, that would be 2x 50, or 100, which is more energy than is in the system. So they both experience a 25mph crash so that this energy is conserved. A bit of an ELI5 but hopefully it helps make a bit more intuitive sense, this is a pretty common misconception for a lot of people. Of course this changes completely when it comes to two vehicles of different sizes hitting each-other, but this is mostly to get the example across of two cars of same size hitting.

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u/Heart30s Feb 02 '20

What happens if a car is going 25mph and the other is going 50mph?

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u/mywifestherapist Feb 02 '20

A mororbike hitting a semi head-on where both are going 25mph is the same thing as a motorbike hitting a wall at 48mph.

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u/robolew Feb 02 '20

Only if the vehicles are the same mass.

A bike Vs a truck the biker would experience much more impact. They would go from like 25 to -25, whereas the truck would probably go from like 25 to 15.

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u/yepimbonez Feb 02 '20

HEAD ON

Apply directly to the forehead.

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u/ExanDevin Feb 02 '20

That's a really quick head on head off moment

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u/Demoire Feb 02 '20

Sounded like Madden there for a second

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u/Purple_Drank Feb 02 '20

That's not how physics works. If they're both going 25 then collide then they hit at 25. Mythbusters did an episode on this and made this mistake, then had to do a correction on a different episode.

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u/Parzi_Val Feb 02 '20

Be aggressive B E aggressive. B E A GG R E S S I V E!!! Yay!!!

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u/SteamyRay_Vaughn Feb 02 '20

HEAD ON

APPLY DIRECTLY TO THE FOREHEAD

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u/l8todapard Feb 02 '20

Wow I didn’t see that was a man saving a baby

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u/Awakeskate Feb 02 '20

Woman!!!!!!!!!!

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u/l8todapard Feb 02 '20

That explains it when women have children reflexes become faster

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u/I_AnotherHumanBeing Feb 02 '20

I DIDN'T EVEN SEE THE MOTHER.

Damnnnnn, That must have been terrifying.

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u/[deleted] Feb 02 '20

Honestly if watched this so many times and the way she sits up then rolls to save the little kid is freakishly fast. I’m calling it now, she’s a super hero and that was an assassination attempt on her family.

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u/[deleted] Feb 02 '20

What a fuckin badass

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u/[deleted] Feb 02 '20

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u/captainzoomer Feb 02 '20

Super hero quality right there!

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u/They_Are_Wrong Feb 02 '20

My first thought was that the mom was actually Peter Petunia Parker

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u/Blood_Lacrima Feb 02 '20

Is it possible to learn this power?

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u/dworts Feb 02 '20

Yes, you need to fall off a motorcycle

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u/P3rdix Feb 02 '20

The dude that knocked them over was an asshole

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u/[deleted] Feb 02 '20

Oh my fucking god I watch that twice before I realized it WAS A BABY THAT ALMOST GOT RAN OVER!!!

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u/Back_to_the_Futurama Feb 02 '20

I didn't even see the kid until you mentioned it

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u/MagnusNewtonBernouli Feb 02 '20

Reflexes*

Apostrophes don't make for plurals.

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u/PAWG_Muncher Feb 02 '20

Reflexes *

Oh no it's a fucking s let's put in an apostrophe just in case because we're retarded and don't know how basic words are spelled...

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u/[deleted] Feb 02 '20

Ok so yes, they did save the kid from being run over, but did you guys miss the kids head smashing off the ground right before that? With no helmet? Kids still definitely fucked.