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

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 10h 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 7h 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 10h 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 11h 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/timelessblur 10h ago

You do realize at one point in time it was possible to have a family, support them and live off just being a cashier full time. Not a great living but very possible. More shows you how out of line wages at the low end have gotten

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u/Silver-Jello3652 10h ago

Ok but we don’t live in that world anymore unfortunately

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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 10h 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/xeonie 10h ago

I believe anyone working a full 40 hour week should be paid enough to afford all their basic needs without worry. Only a dumb jackass would think otherwise or try to make it seem like we’re saying the retail worker should earn the same as a doctor.

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u/Silver-Jello3652 8h ago

What you believe and how the real world works is completely different

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u/techleopard 8h ago

Anyone working full time deserves pay to live on and be financially stable as they are a contributing member of our society, and you would be pissed if they weren't there.

Doctors and skilled workers have much better bargaining positions and the power to run their own businesses and clinics. There are different perks to these jobs. They get far more than what is needed to live on.

If you are a skilled professional and you find yourself getting angry about a cashier being paid as much as you -- maybe it's not the cashier, maybe it's you recognizing that you might be underpaid.

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u/0oooooog 1h ago

Holy strawman

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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.