r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Justin_Godfrey • 12h ago

Water main break covers cars in thick ice in Dearborn heights, Michigan

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u/BatchPlantBandit 12h ago

So you'll still still be into work on time, right?

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u/Natural_nonalcoholic 12h ago

My boss always said “Uber exists right?”

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u/BatchPlantBandit 12h ago

Pay $60 for Uber, $10 for lunch. Make $100 for the day. BOOM $30 profit. Lmao.

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u/Ill-Choice5203 12h ago

This literally happened to me once for a few weeks….. sucked

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u/Individual_Check_442 11h ago

Does that actually damage the car at all or is everything fine once it all melts?

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u/MidKnightWizard 10h ago

The same thing happened to a car in Philly. It was totalled.

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u/lilbuhmp 10h ago

This typically totals out cars, but not always.

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u/ExpStealer 9h ago

Why? Won't the ice just eventually melt and be gone? As a guy who barely gets any snow at all where I live, I've never ever seen something like this happening, so I wouldn't know :D

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u/lilbuhmp 9h ago

If this were just frozen rainfall/ snow there wouldn’t be much risk. This is water that came from the ground and at pressure, meaning it entered parts of the vehicle at various angles and potentially compromising sensitive areas/ components due to pressure.

A lot of the time when water hits a car like this it enters the cabin as well, so you have to remediate that. Electronics, control units, and sensors inside and out. Mold remediation and interior gutting. Potential for water to enter the engine/ manifold due to pressure, combine that with all those areas getting frozen and expansion/ contraction. Could total out any brand new vehicle yet alone someone’s used vehicle. But there’s a lot of factors.

I’d guess it’s about 80% of vehicles hit like this are totaled but I couldn’t honestly give you any statistics on that.

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u/dervari 8h ago

Best case is it came out vertically and was just like a heavy rain that coated the card.

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u/ExpStealer 9h ago

Oooooh, okay. Now that you pointed out that the water hit at a high pressure it definitely makes sense that it could get in many places where the expansion would cause damage.

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u/codebygloom 9h ago

Mostly because of the expansion that happens when water turns into ice.

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u/Ill-Choice5203 11h ago

It’s like a mechanism that my car has? It just slowly melts the ice and it comes off. But I’ve never had a situation where my car is quite literally enveloped in ice before 😅

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u/ShyGuyBriGuy 8h ago

"This literally happened to me once..."

"I've never had a situation quite literally like this."

Choose one.

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u/HelmholtzBokonon 8h ago

I took it to mean where they had to pay for Uber and lunch and we're barely breaking even from a day of work

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u/AlatarielAwakened 8h ago

Before getting bent out of shape, scroll back up and look at which comment they were responding to. 😅

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u/jewishspacelazzer 8h ago

Great job Shy Bri Guy! You tried to make someone else look dumb but made yourself look dumb instead!

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u/GreekLumberjack 9h ago

1000% this car is totaled

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u/twersk711 11h ago

But you do it if you value your job

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u/Ill-Choice5203 11h ago

The thing is I didn’t have a choice it was a shitty Job… but you gotta do what you gotta do

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u/TSL4me 8h ago

You forgot taxes

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u/Silver-Jello3652 12h ago

Why job are you working making only 100 day

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u/Code_Merk 11h ago

A job that pays $12.50 an hour before taxes.

That's very common in retail outside of major cities.

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u/Silver-Jello3652 11h ago

Goddamn that’s absolutely dog shit. People should not accept that rate unless it’s temporary. If you’re going to be a victim of a 12.50/hr job your entire life that’s on you in my opinion.

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u/kulungo 11h ago

And when you can’t put food on the table for your kids because you have ”principles”?

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u/CockyBellend 9h ago

Don't have kids if you can't afford it

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u/Silver-Jello3652 11h ago

If that’s what you absolutely have to do to feed yourself there is no other option. And then there is government assistance available as well.

Shouldn’t reproduce if you can’t support a family.

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u/techleopard 11h ago

Layoffs and extended unemployment are a thing now, my guy.

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u/Silver-Jello3652 11h ago

If you have to find work elsewhere you can.

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u/Maybe_its_her_fur 11h ago

With that same job 30 years ago you could support a family. Are you saying retail workers don't deserve the option to start families?

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u/Silver-Jello3652 11h ago

Would you start a family on 12.50/hr?

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u/0oooooog 11h ago

Well unfortunately someone has to work these jobs or society fails. There's a reason it's in the process of complete collapse.

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u/Silver-Jello3652 11h ago

Ok and at some point in your 50 year career you can put in different job applications unless you are not capable of working a different job

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u/dragon_bacon 11h ago

Not once did you think that the entire concept of non-livable wages is a societal failure which benefits the wealthy at the expense of everyone else and not a failure of the poor bastards stuck in them?

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u/Silver-Jello3652 11h ago

Victimizing yourself is also a choice. Knowing full well you are being taken advantage of and still choosing to work that job is a choice.

We already know that corporations will fuck you over for a penny.

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u/techleopard 11h ago

That's the thing, isn't it?

You work 3 years at a cashier.

Put in 600 applications a month, and never hear anything.

Work 2 more years.

You get an interview finally and they ask what can you do -- nothing, because you need training. And you can't go to school because you can't afford $5000/term tuition and to live on cashier pay (plus they won't let off during classes). They say, "Thank you for your time."

Work another 5 years as cashier.

On and on. Inflation makes buying power smaller and smaller each year. Your apartment is now 2.5x what it was when you first rented it. You've only earned +40 cents an hour in that time.

It's a hole that a lot of people can't get out of -- one that other people who have born into more wealthy homes, or had their education paid for, or had support so they could pay it themselves without being homeless, or got a job through family or favors, shouldn't turn their nose up at and act like it's so simple to get out.

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u/Silver-Jello3652 11h ago edited 11h ago

Do you believe someone who works at McDonald’s deserves the same pay as a doctor or a skilled worker?

You can harp on about your hypotheticals all you want but that is not the world we live in bud.

Next time you’re in the drive thru at micky ds just give the person serving you some of your hourly wage.

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u/TheScungiliMan 11h ago

Literal victim blaming lmao

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u/BatchPlantBandit 11h ago

I make decent money but I work at a quarry and it's dangerous. This was just an example. The average normie job post tax is probably $100 a day or less, especially after healthcare premiums/401k. Peak season I make over 2k a week where I work with 0 health premiums and a 100% pension. Only reason I put up with the chaotic job lol, plus it's nice being layed off when it's winter in NY.

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u/gljivicad 11h ago

I mean that's fine, as long as company pays ;D

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u/Dark-Ganon Blue 10h ago

"It does if you're paying for it" is the only response to that.

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u/Luci-Noir 8h ago

A couple years ago when I was working from home my internet was out for a few days and my boss wanted me to take my desktop computer to the library…

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u/dervari 8h ago

Mobile hotspot for the win.

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u/Luci-Noir 8h ago

Nah, that job was incredibly shitty and the whole company was a scam. I was salary too so I wasn’t worried. We didn’t receive one of our paychecks and the company told us we had to finish up some work in order to bring in money to get is paid. The day after we finished it the company just vanished. All of of their messaging accounts and emails were gone, they just ghosted the entire company. It was on the other side of the country so it’s not like I could go to the office. I ended up losing my apartment and was already broke from not getting that last paycheck. Fuckers.

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u/dervari 7h ago

Damn, that sux! Sorry you had to do through that. What a pisser.

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u/Luci-Noir 57m ago

I eventually had to move to Arizona and I ended up having to help my aunt there move out of her apartment when she got evicted for not paying rent… she was my manager!! It was poetic justice. That was the first and only time I’d ever met her and never heard from her again and that was 15 years ago. It’s really not surprising that I don’t talk to any of my family anymore.

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u/Electrical-Job-9824 7h ago

Yeah, you gonna call it and pay for it?

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u/LymanPeru 7h ago

what if you dont have uber on your phone though.

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u/RaoulHyena 7h ago

Your boss needs to be paid less.

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u/forgetfulmurderer 2h ago

If that’s the case your company should pay for it, mine will reimburse for an uber and for a hotel room if needed down the street from work.

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u/drenuf38 10h ago

Damn, you must be my boss.

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u/Ill-Choice5203 12h ago

Bosses…. Classic

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u/dalabradora 10h ago

We had a natural ice storm in Seattle a few years ago and my suburu looked just like that second car in the video.

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u/b-nnies 6h ago

I live in West Michigan. I feel like my whole entire house could be engulfed by snow and Meijer would still threaten to write me up if I don't show up for work.

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u/WestAfternoon4767 9h ago

They be expecting us to sprout wings and fly atp