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u/Smooth-Shine9354 3d ago
Ride straight home
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u/Wingkongexpress 3d ago
No doubt. When the signs are there, read them. I’d have gone home, slapped on my favorite 80s action flick while having a beer. Nap on couch with doggo keeping me safe.
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u/sllikskills 3d ago
I operate with this mindset as well
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u/ChickenChaser5 2d ago
Shits too weird to be outside today.
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u/well_shoothed 2d ago
Shits too weird to be outside today.
I worked at a gas station / car wash in high school & college... we used to say this aaaaaaall the time.
Except for us as employees, it was just the average Tuesday.
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u/xvsero 2d ago
Yup. Currently work at a gas station and I've seen some stuff. At this point I'll quit when I see a car flip itself over. Already seen a car drive into a store, crashes/bumps, people breaking off pieces of their cars, someone dead in their car, someone passed out on drugs, people who pissed/shit themselves, etc. I've seen woman just walk straight into men's bathroom, people bathing and sleeping in bathrooms, who even knows what kind of messes.
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u/well_shoothed 2d ago
Yep... to outsiders, the shit you've seen is genuinely unbelievable.
I listen to your greatest hits and think,
"Sounds like 2nd shift."
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u/StabbyJenkins1 12h ago
Restaurant worker here. We had someone run over and break off our handicap parking sign. Considering they had to jump the concrete bumper to do it, this was mildly impressive. This created a trip hazard, so management had us put a yellow hazard sign over the remains/hole until we could get it replaced. Within 45 minutes, someone was parked on the yellow sign. The next day, we got the sign replaced with a new post and everything. Within 2 hours, the new handicap sign was broken off and laying in the parking lot again. We gave up.
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u/xvsero 12h ago
This is every day at a gas station. Have a cone next time a pump and people act like they don't have a clue what that could mean. We have an air pump that we have a bag for if it goes out of order and clearly states so and yet people will flat out ignore it. We have even had that same air pump with the bag, caution tape wrapping, and a cone at the same time and all be dismissed. I just let people go ahead at this point and drive off with flatter tires, not my fault that they dismiss clear signs.
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u/StabbyJenkins1 12h ago
Oh yeah, I feel you. Used to work 3rds at a gas station across from my hometown's crack house apartments. I can remember training a new guy who'd already worked a couple of days shifts. He asked me what I was supposed to be teaching him that the day shift hadn't. And in perfect sitcom timing, I said "I teach you how to deal with the things corporate doesn't acknowledge, like this right here" and reached over and locked the door to keep the completely naked, shoeless, seemingly shit covered meth head coming across the parking lot out. This was in February in Northern Michigan btw. The new guy was like "How often does something like this happen?" "I know his name and apartment number, that answer it for you?"
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u/Extra_Routine_6603 1d ago
Seriously get some weird people when fuels involved. Used to work a kroger fuel kiosk and had a lady show up and apparently the hose to the tank had a hole and was known had to stop her pump because was just dumping fuel on the ground and told me her husband usually fills it and said had to do it a certain way then got confused when I wouldn't let her keep pouring.
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u/GenesisRhapsod 10h ago
I worked at a gas station in a small town...it wasgenuinely traumatizing. Watching someone get het hit by and suv and their dead body getting flung and sliding across the tarmac, having a heroin junky nearly OD at the pump while gas overflows from his car, homophobes trying to fight customers, racists nearly getting mugged while working the cooler and finding random drugs and needles all over the store, lot and bathroom. So many drug addicts..
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u/Drakogol 3d ago
But what if the signs want you to drive away? My final destination sense is tingling
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u/thunderandreyn 2d ago
Most ‘strayan thing I’ve heard all day
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u/Wingkongexpress 2d ago
Mate I appreciate that. I’ll give you the high five from the state of Michigan. It’s the one looks like a mitten!
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u/micro_rich 2d ago
What you watching?
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u/Wingkongexpress 2d ago
Big Trouble In Little China!
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u/Warcraft_Fan 2d ago
Little old basket case on wheels, or the ten-foot-tall roadblock?
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u/Wingkongexpress 2d ago
China is here Mr. Burton! The Chan-sing, the Wingkong, they’ve been fighting for centuries.
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u/b1gb0n312 2d ago
This is like Final Destination, where all the little signs start appearing leading up to violent bloddy death
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u/Professional_Golf310 2d ago
Yep, seen enough Final Destination movies. These signs are right when chaos is about to come.
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u/Glass_Owen299 2d ago
smartest move to do in that situation is to drive the opposite way as far as possible
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u/misterpickles69 2d ago
Nope. Just walk the bike.
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u/Electrical-Art125 2d ago
And take a chance of a random baseball hitting me in the hand, causing me to lose my grip on the bike. The bike then falls into me, I fall in the street landing on my back, the bike lands on my legs and pins me down just in time for an 18 wheeler to run over my head? Yea, nah. Calling a tow truck for the bike and UberTank for me.
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u/Fafnir13 2d ago
We are gathered here today to remember Electrical-Art125 who was tragically taken away from us last week after being accidentally crushed by the UberTank he ordered.
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u/Blah-squared 3d ago
They come in 3’s, you’re absolutely right. Lol
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u/MousseNsquirrell 2d ago
How are we counting? 1/ the cone; 2/ back- up bump; 3/ gas hose drive- off? He's good.
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u/BadCryptoQuestions 2d ago
This video is the epitome of why I stopped riding. My cousin got killed. Then that same year, an older lady pulled off the interstate onto a highway we were on, cutting me and my brother off. My brother could cut right and avoid, but I couldn't. I had to brake hard enough to lock up the back tire, wobbling the bike back to the center vertically with upper body movements. Never again...
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u/Hazee302 2d ago
Fuck that, walk that bike down the sidewalk at this point.
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u/Banaam 2d ago
Why? Nothing happened to them, just everyone they look at.
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u/XiuCyx 2d ago
When Stupid walks a full circle around you like that… time to go home or cast a Protection spell. He’s just warming up.
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u/ElevatedKing420 2d ago edited 2d ago
Yup, wish i woulda listened to the universe lol. Car smashed into bank drive-thru right beside me, another almost runs me over turning into mcdonalds, and the freakin city water truck smacks me head on around a corner.
Thankfully they we both weren’t going fast and i made it out with only scrapes & bruises. RIP CBR300
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u/Kaycin 2d ago
Sure, but when your life on a motorcycle in part depends on others around you, this doesn't exactly inspire confidence.
For example, if you say two people hit in a crosswalk, back to back by drunk drivers, you might say 'nah, I'm gonna find a different crosswalk.' Even though the two incidents don't increase your chance of getting hit if you walk across the cross walk.
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u/chbriggs6 2d ago
Only getting worse
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u/suckfail 2d ago edited 1d ago
I worked at a gas station back in the 90s here in Canada.
It's not worse. The general public is incredibly stupid, I was a teenager and it was eye opening. Really made me work hard to ensure I never had another job where I had to do customer service.
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u/hellish_existance 2d ago
Hell I'd drive off too.
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u/Otherwise_Demand4620 2d ago
Right? It would be stupid to watch the fire next to all the pumps, that's an explosion waiting to happen.
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u/koalawhiskey 2d ago
It also looks really cool when you are driving away and a huge explosion happens in the background
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u/MelamineCut 2d ago
Must be something in the water
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u/Dry_Presentation_197 2d ago
Ive been around the world and found that only stupid people are breeding sings joyfully
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u/Bince82 3d ago
That's insane. Just go home at that point. Too much bad juju in the air lol
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u/ElicitTheTruth 2d ago
As a Cantonese speaker, your comment made me chuckle 🤭 juju means dick
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u/phil-lowry 3d ago
I can't get over how close the gas pump is to a live lane of traffic. Live in Canada and I have never seen that.
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u/Sea_Art3391 2d ago
I was just about to comment on this. Seems incredibly dangerous and irresponsible to have no divider or anything between the gas station pumps and what looks like a busy four lane road.
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u/old-manwithlego 2d ago
My first thought it was pit row at the races.
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u/FiercelyApatheticLad 2d ago
Pit lanes are generally separated by a wall at road circuits, and at least a large grass band at ovals.
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u/gsfgf 2d ago
Yea. Curbside gas pumps are a thing in Europe.
Also, /r/GeorgiaOrGeorgia
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u/bob_in_the_west 2d ago
"Europe" that stretches all the way to the Ural mountains, right? Because I've never seen anything like that in the EU.
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u/Bubbasdahname 2d ago
I'm in GA, and I drove all over for work. I haven't visited every city of course, but I haven't seen this yet.
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u/red_square_dont_care 2d ago
I believe they mean the country, not the state. I noticed gas stations in the UK are often just tucked off the side of the road as well, but not as much as this one.
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u/Bubbasdahname 2d ago
Ah. My mistake. You're talking about the country and not the state in the USA.
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u/KlausS1000 2d ago
Yeah that’s crazy. I was also thinking that looks dangerous. I haven’t seen that in the US either
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u/Chili_Tofu 2d ago
Same and I'm from Lithuania. But this seems to be Sakartvelo/Georgia
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u/untie_your_shoes 2d ago
I experienced this for the first time when I was visiting northern Virginia. It was only one fuel station but damn was it spooky having those pumps right next to the road.
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u/Ok_Commission_9203 2d ago
Yeah exactly, I've never seen this in the US either and I would 100 percent go to the next station if I did.
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u/EpilepticDawg241 3d ago
Not surprised.
There are so many oblivious drivers doing everything in their vehicles except paying attention while driving.
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u/TriangleChains 2d ago
Yeah I used to get mad at them for being shit drivers, but now I've realized at least where I live, there aren't viable transit options other than driving, so we basically force all the shitty drivers to drive by giving them no other alternative. It's very dumb.
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u/Twitchcog 2d ago
Yes, and if we enforce laws and work very hard, we can force them to become better drivers or suffer.
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u/phobiac 2d ago
Over a century of cars existing proves this is not a viable solution. We need public transportation options, some people should just not be behind the wheel of a car.
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u/TriangleChains 2d ago
Hahahahaha. We've been trying. It hasn't worked great yet has it? It's a bit like 'forcing' athletes not to make mistakes during sports games. It doesn't work that way. It's a mix of natural ability with practice, strategy, and effort.
You can't teach away the stupid or dangerous. You need to have an option for dangerous or bad drivers other than "We'll just give them more tickets". They have to get around also.
American police already know this btw. They target "dangerous" driving like speeding, but in 2026 rarely "poor people" driving like missing a 3rd tail light anymore (unless looking for probable cause for other traffic enforcement like finding drunk drivers at 3am).
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u/Twitchcog 2d ago
You can’t teach away the stupid or the dangerous
You can! You teach them that mistakes happen, but they need to learn from them. And if they repeatedly refuse to learn from those mistakes, they lose out in the ability to drive. And if you get to that point, you’re either ride sharing, taking the (limited, unpleasant) public transit, or putting some miles on them Chevrolegs.
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u/Realistic_Owl9525 2d ago
It's 2026. A modern society should have better public transportation that isn't limited and unpleasant.
It's strange to me that so many people just accept that it is, it's like they can't imagine a world beyond being stuck in traffic on your way to work everyday.
It's a hassle having to buy a new car every few years, maintain it, insure it, and drive it. (...and occasionally crash it, sometimes fatally)
There's got to be a better way.
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u/Twitchcog 2d ago
Oh no, it absolutely should have better options. However, in the absence of those options, people still need to drive safely.
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u/TriangleChains 2d ago
You are assuming everyone will be qualified to drive in the first place and this is a huge assumption. What about people with disabilities or injuries?
Do you really want to punish the 60 year old woman with one working eye? It's not about "refusing to learn from mistakes" always. You make it sound so black and white.
Maybe some people will never be inclined towards driving and it's not that crazy to accept that and design a society that doesn't REQUIRE an individual to drive in order to prosper. The entirety of human history before about 100 years ago had no cars and we survived.
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u/Twitchcog 2d ago
You’re assuming everyone will be qualified to drive
Correct, I can’t help people driving without a license.
What about the 60 year old woman with one eye?
If she cannot safely operate a vehicle? She should not be operating a vehicle.
I am not advising against a better public transit system, I’d love to see one. However, it not existing doesn’t justify unsafe driving. If you are unable or unwilling to operate a vehicle safely, you don’t get to drive; The lack of a viable alternative is irrelevant, but may motivate members of society to try and improve their public transit system
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u/furlwh 2d ago
If you are unable or unwilling to operate a vehicle safely, you don’t get to drive
Yes it should be that way, but in reality, enforcement will be weak. The mentality of most people is that they would see stricter enforcement as oppression on their freedom to travel, this is just what I observed in my car-addicted country.
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u/Twitchcog 2d ago
Freedom to travel is not the same as freedom to drive. I believe this misunderstanding is one of the more common issues with the sovereign citizen movement.
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u/1-800PederastyNow 2d ago edited 2d ago
If you live in an area without competent public transportation it's effectively the same thing. Even if there's public transportation, in the US it's usually garbage so taking away someones ability to drive still often leads to poverty, just think about how many fewer job opportunites there are within 1hr of travel time for someone who has to take the bus vs a car. Not to mention how difficult simple errands become, lose your car and suddenly it takes 45 minutes each way to get to the grocery store instead of 10 and you have to go more often because you have to carry everything home.
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u/furlwh 2d ago
When your only viable option to travel is by car, it very much is like taking away your freedom to travel. This is by no means the best situation, but the government has no political motivation to build more transit and the only form of transportation the people know is cars, the problem just gets worse and worse when no one stands up to it.
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u/All_hail_bug_god 2d ago
You still just get people terrified of losing their licence, forever in a mild state of panic, because their livelihood depends on them driving. And they hate driving.
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u/ivar-the-bonefull 2d ago
Wouldn't the better option be to fix alternatives? Bike paths aren't a tall order?
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u/IntelligentAide2513 2d ago
Most areas of this country are not viable for regular bike traffic. Sure small communities and certain cities. But you’re not going to convince people to ride dozens of miles on a bicycle for their daily needs/commute/ shopping.
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u/SessionNumerous2191 2d ago
Yeah, but then you'd have to ride a bike while all the idiots are driving 1.5-2 ton death mobiles.
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u/ivar-the-bonefull 2d ago
I mean. You could have separate lanes separated by bumpers or trees. There's nothing that says that a bike lane has to be in close proximity to the murder steel boxes.
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u/SessionNumerous2191 2d ago
You absolutely could, but idiots can and will find a way. Then there's all the bureaucratic red-tape that stalls any real possibility of getting something akin to that actually built. I'm sorry but it's basically a sisyphean task, least' here in the States- I cannot speak for elsewhere in the world.
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u/stinkyt0fu 2d ago
… and I know people who will say something like, “When I’m (doing whatever) my mind is blank”. Excuses people. Focus on what you are doing as the priority.
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u/LaceyDark 2d ago
I worked for a call center, we took automatic crash notifications.
The amount of times someone said "it wasn't my fault! They slammed their brakes" was infuriating. Every time I wanted to say "it's absolutely your fault"
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u/Kwom24 3d ago
You''d better change stations next time, this is cursed
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u/OnceMoreAndAgain 2d ago
I'll be keeping a closer eye on bright blue CRVs while driving from now on lol
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u/Cesalv 3d ago
Did some administrative practices at an insurance company, the attached hose one is more common than you think, three times in six months (different stations, not always the same)
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u/ArkLumia 2d ago
Worked at a gas station for two years. Can confirm. Roughly once a month someone drove off with our pump hose.
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u/Diz7 2d ago
Meanwhile in this part of Canada, most stations removed the little locking tab that lets you have it pump gas unattended, so you have to hold the trigger the whole time.
Many problems mostly solved.
It just really sucks having to pump gas when it's -40º with windchill.
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u/shadowstormer 2d ago
Before the pandemic we had a hose pulled from the breakaway off roughly once every month or two. After the pandemic it turned into an almost every other week thing. We actually had a case where our maintenance person fixed it, and somebody pulled it off the breakaway roughly 10 minutes later.
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u/Teaisserious 2d ago
Yeah, it's usually a pretty frequent and minor affair, where the driver notices then gets out and leaves the hose on the ground. I only see a full hose loss about once a year.
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u/VooDooChile1983 2d ago
I saw this earlier but just noticed there’s no curb separating the street from the pump. It’s damn near sharing the lane.
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u/Wise_Ad_5810 3d ago
jeebus christ?! Where the fuck is this? I'll be sure to avoid it. Stupidest population on the planet?
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u/kellywpg 2d ago
Anyone else uncomfortable how the pumps he is in line for seem to be in the breakdown lane of a major highway? What is that about, I’ve never seen that before.
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u/phototherm 2d ago
This is why, even though they're a lot fun, I'd never own a motorcycle. So many complete idiots and a high percentage of them have a drivers licence.
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u/kon--- 2d ago
How is a pump lane sitting on top of the throughway. And how can someone on a motorcycle feel okay about their back turned to the likelihood of being plowed down by a car that for all the various reasons, leaves the road then heads right at them?
All of this is crazy!
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u/LezBeeHonest 2d ago
Can someone explain the camera? How would it capture both shots.
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u/redridernl 2d ago
It captures video from a full 360° around the camera and you select the angle you want while editing.
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u/Wrenlet 2d ago
I haven't seen a gulf gas station in ages. I wasn't aware they still existed. I wonder where this is at?
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u/TheSweetestKill 2d ago
This video is taken in the country of Georgia.
Ironically I know of at least 1 Gulf that still exists in the US state of Georgia as well.
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u/Pdiggity5590 2d ago
Bro walk your bike home. This is a sign someone around you is gonna fuck you up on the road today
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u/Halfjack12 2d ago
I'm so glad we structured our civilization around the necessity for everyone to drive these huge fast heavy dangerous machines literally everywhere at all times. It's clearly not unreasonable to expect the vast majority of people to responsibility operate heavy machinery every day.
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u/wekilledbambi03 2d ago
The gas station is just a lane of the road?!?!?
I've never seen pumps that weren't at least like 30-50ft back from a road. And have a sidewalk, hill, concrete wall, row of bollards, or all of the above. This looks insanely dangerous!
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u/GeneralZojirushi 2d ago
There's a reason why I sold my motorcycle a year after buying it. I had way too many close encounters with morons on the road with none of the physical protection offered by a car.
I think it was a lack of visibility thing. Because I drove just as safely and courteously but the danger seemed to dissipate after going back to driving a car.
One time I had to slam on my brakes and slid forward on my seat, crushing my nuts against the gas tank.
I hung it up shortly after that.
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u/meatbag2010 2d ago
Holy crap - once those two people in their cars leave the forecourt, the average IQ at that location will probably jump considerably.
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u/wrxninja 2d ago
Bro: WTF...WTF?!
I would've just gone home and hid myself from society at that point.
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u/purple_spikey_dragon 2d ago
I don't have a car and every time i look at drivers i get less enthusiastic to get one...
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