Darwin award

Mar 21, 2018 4:56 PM

sadzed20

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Well, he was in a crosswalk

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Must of been a volvo

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Ok, stupid for being in the street w/o the sense of a deer in the headlights, but you are responsible for the front of your own car!

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

Weirdly glad he got hit

8 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 2

concealed by hi-beam oncoming headlights

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

What a twat.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I feel sooooo bad for the phone.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

But he was in the crosswalk!!!.....Boggan, Munns & Munns

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

He's not dead. Title is misleading.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Natural selection.

8 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 2

Do you still get points if the pedestrians aren't running when you hit them?

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Damn, that looks like it could of done some damage. hope the car makes a speedy recovery v

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 2

8 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Would have hit him on purpose

8 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 3

No one gonna say that he was standing in a cross walk?

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

If the dude who was hit was Chinese then theres a good chance it was one of those insurance fraud scams they like over there. Drivers fucked

8 years ago | Likes 14 Dislikes 4

Not if they kill the victim in the accident; less penalties for death than injury.. back up and run em over a few times to be certain

8 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 1

Good thing he's got that dash cam to proove he couldn't see the guy. Can't tell you how many times I've almost hit someone in the middle 1/2

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Of the street in the middle of the night. You can't see them half the time until your right there

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Nasty glare

8 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Fuck him. Got what he deserved. Asshole. Now he'll sue the driver and win.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

Is there a camera in the hood?

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Yes..There are tons of cameras in the 'Hood. lol jk

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

First is this street oneway ? Street’s line seems one connected line.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Appears broken line before the cross walk, solid meaning don't pass while close to cross walk. But hard to tell 100%

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I'd expect parking on both sides, if not.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

He may have been standing, but it WAS a fucking crosswalk. He was gonna get kilt either way.

8 years ago | Likes 33 Dislikes 8

Who knows how long he was standing there

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Could you explain this to me? Like after how long are you allowed to run them over?

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 4

It's not so much being allowed as it is a danger due to improper use. It's like juggling knives, that's not what they're made for and by 1/2

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

2/2 Doing so you May or may not be injured.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

As @teamrobot said above, it was a crosswalk not a stopwalk.

8 years ago | Likes 16 Dislikes 3

I too just want to help animals.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Dude is like a black hole. The light just bent around him as if he wasn't there, until you got close enough.

8 years ago | Likes 197 Dislikes 1

He's just that dense.

8 years ago | Likes 20 Dislikes 0

I think there is possibility for insurance fraud here: car with unnecessary high beams, guy on a cross-walk just standing. It's a set-up!

8 years ago | Likes 52 Dislikes 1

Yeah I’m thinking so too. That car in the back definitely had his high beams on.

8 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 0

Holy cow! Appeared out of nowhere!

8 years ago | Likes 628 Dislikes 1

Hello

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 2

A wild Pedestrian appears!

8 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

I've watched it 12 times and I still can't see him from a distance

8 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

RKO!

8 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 1

I'm more curious about who's shining that little sun on the oncoming traffic

8 years ago | Likes 142 Dislikes 0

Got budget dashcam, it does that in situations where you have actual visibility.

8 years ago | Likes 33 Dislikes 1

Who knows what a self-driving car can see?

8 years ago | Likes 122 Dislikes 1

Some lady was just killed by a self driving car

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 7

In relation to how many people are killed by regular cars, not a bad record.

8 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Uber?

8 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Why kids love the taste of Cinnamon Toast Crunch?

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

And he was in a crosswalk. Crosswalks are programmed into the self driving cars.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Irrelevant, they look for humans always at all times.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

They only kill ppl, jeez

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 7

A self-driving car will stop in this situation. They rarely fail. For all the millions of miles that lead to that fatality, many, many more

8 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 1

fatalities were caused, not just in the time, but in the exposure in miles in driving among all human drivers. The comparison isn't even

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

close when you make the comparison by average length driven.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

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8 years ago (deleted Mar 22, 2018 10:18 PM) | Likes 0 Dislikes 0

You didn't read the rest of my comment.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Actually you didn't read my comment well at all: "... that lead to that fatality,"

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

ADAS engineer here - not as well as you can. But AD veh has supplimentary RADAR and LIDAR sensors to augment the camera, & detect text dude

8 years ago | Likes 58 Dislikes 0

yeah but can the self driving car flip him off and call him a fucker?

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

The rumor is that not all AD have all of these sensors. And that causes some crashes.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

That rumor is true.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Also possible they will integrate some sort of emitter into smartphones for cars to detect. Almost everyone carries them around anyways.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

They already have those, 3g/4g modem, wifi, bluetooth, etc.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

traffic system use your cell to measure traffic patterns. Toll roads use your Bluetooth signal to time your passage

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

But can it see why kids love the taste of cinnamon toast crunch?

8 years ago | Likes 37 Dislikes 1

No I don't think it would

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

Not yet. Give us a few more years to make powerful X-Ray machines portable. Then it will see. It will see all! You will all see! MUAHAHAHAHA

8 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

????

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I don’t know why my emoji of a laughing face turned into question marks!

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

The idiot was just texting in the middle of the street?

8 years ago | Likes 534 Dislikes 4

OUR HOUSE!

8 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 2

...In the middle of the street.

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 3

"was"

8 years ago | Likes 100 Dislikes 0

No, he was texting in the middle of a crosswalk.

8 years ago | Likes 40 Dislikes 17

That's not any better

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

Yea, but it’s a crosswalk, not a stopwalk.

8 years ago | Likes 58 Dislikes 2

Got em!

8 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

Oooh, this is getting shamelessly stolen and used.

8 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 1

Well as far as law is concerned, he might as well be taking a dump there. He's on the crosswalk, driver failed to notice him.

8 years ago | Likes 77 Dislikes 8

Might as well finish him and destroy the memory card

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

Unfortunately for him, the laws of people don't cancel out the laws of physics.

8 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 1

He's also keeping pace with car in front, and you can see the car begin to 'slow' down when he comes into view, so the driver hit his break

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

Looks like it's in China. Crosstalk means nothing in China.

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

So if this were China, shouldn’t he have kept running him over then? Don’t want him living to have to pay his medical bills for life

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Gifs that ends too early.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

good thing there's video. He doesn't even show up on the video until right before impact.

8 years ago | Likes 36 Dislikes 6

doesn't matter, lens flare

8 years ago | Likes 16 Dislikes 6

Lens flare in his fucking eyes.

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

Lens flares only exist on video, not to the human eye. Driver should have been able to see him

8 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 4

yeah, but you gotta prove he was visible with this kind of evidence present

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I believe most places have laws about not blocking traffic as well and the fool would indeed have been blocking traffic.

8 years ago | Likes 23 Dislikes 5

Doesn't mean you are allowed to run them over.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Where did I exactly advocate running them over?

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

If a car was for some reason stopped, and another car slammed into it from behind, the car behind that does the slamming is at fault. (1/2)

8 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

We can fault the texting guy for being stupid (and he is) but responsibility for the accident is the driver's. (2/2)

8 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

He got hit while he was in the middle of the crosswalk by a car that didn't even slow down when approaching. Blocking the traffic isn't the

8 years ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 1

Looks like he was slowing down to me but w/e

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

case in this situation.

8 years ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 1

He was standing, not walking.

8 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 3

True, but he was not walking, he was just standing there, but of course it is the drivers fault

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

As a driver you have to have more responsibility than a pedestrian. You can't kill someone by walking into them.

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Counter-point: A crosswalk with no signal lights means the driver has to make sure it's safe to pass.

8 years ago | Likes 56 Dislikes 14

The tail-lights in the same lane ahead indicate this is a one-way and he isn't passing.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

he couldn't see the dude until he was within feet of him. 100% dumbasses' fault

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Username checks out.

8 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

"crosswalk" not stop and text spot.

8 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Someone being a fucking idiot doesn't really justify manslaughter

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

^ This. Instead of an inconsiderate idiot, it could have been an elderly person who fell crossing the street, or a child could suddenly...

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 4

jump out from behind a car. There's a reason drivers ought to slow down when approaching a crosswalk.

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 4

Yeah, coulda, woulda, yada, yada... fact of the matter is: He had right of way. the crosswalk is only if clear, dont stop and text, morons.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

Sorry, but that is patently wrong. On a crosswalk, pedestrians have right of way. Of course they're not supposed to just stand on it, but...

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

You must be an American. Welcome to the rest of the great wide world. Crosswalks only have right of way when signaled as such.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

I live in Germany,where failure to slow down at a crosswalk costs up to 120 Euro.But I checked the legal situation in the US before posting.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

that's no grounds to run them over.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Counter counter-point: Gross tonnage ALWAYS has the right of way.

8 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 2

Gross tonnage always has to pay extra attention, especially when approaching a crosswalk. Because unlike gross tonnage, people are squishy.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

You can be right and angry, or you can be right and dead. Fucking choose.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

The law decides what is literally right. It requires drivers to always slow down when approaching a crosswalk &, if necessary,come to a stop

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

not even remotely my point but thanks for the response. And the law decides what is LEGALLY right. Physics decides who's right literally.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

That's the point. You might legally have the right of way, but the laws of physics don't care about the laws of men.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

The laws of physics are a great reason to slow down enough for an emergency brake when approaching a crosswalk, esp. when you can't see well

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Counter-counter point, not everyone thinks that way. Everyone does however think standing in the middle of a crosswalk to text is moronic

8 years ago | Likes 37 Dislikes 14

Counter-counter-counter point, when mom texts you, you must stop everything you're doing and reply immediately or face the sandal's wrath...

8 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 2

However she shall take 3 to 8 business days to reply to your texts

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Doesn't matter. The idiot who stands in the middle of a street is not the one commandeering 2 tons of accelerated steel. He might as well...

8 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

be a playing child or an elderly woman who fell crossing the street and can't get up. Always drive as if there's someone on the crosswalk.

8 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

but... it's the law? like it doesn't matter what you think it's the law?

8 years ago | Likes 16 Dislikes 5

It's also the law to drive exactly the speed limit, not 5 over. Do you really think EVERYONE follows that law too

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

"Not everyone thinks that way" So your saying not everyone thinks you shouldn't run people over at crossings?

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Here's what you sound like

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

But seriously, if I don't see anyone, I'm still driving. He was standing right in front of that light, and he's the moron in this situation

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

"not everyone thinks that way"? Not everyone thinks punching people after 15 pints is wrong, but it's still the law.

8 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 1

It was also the law to make sure Jews were caught in Nazi Germany

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 2

Is that going to be your defende in traffic court? "It was wrong to gas jews so it's wrong to prevent me fron running this fucker down"?

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

No, my defense would be the man was jaywalking, so it's his fault that he got hit

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 2

"Take your hands off me you fascist, driving down people who text is my constitutional right, attica, attica"?

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0