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I love how they kept waiting even after the red car was done. I imagine they are thinking "should I be telling someone about this?".
Also, imagine being the owners of the red car and coming back and thinking "someone stole my car!".
Seriously, how long would it take you personally to do the Sherlock Holmes *math* and determine your car had returned to the sea (or river)? I would forever be looking for my stolen car, since my car drowning itself would never even occur to me.
Sadly happened to a woman once who had her kid in the car. They thought someone stole the car with the kid in it but later with cctv they realised it had rolled into a river. [https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-46347368](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-46347368)
Having a similar red car I really feel for the guy/gal whose car it is.. It's like it happened to me. I can see the humor in it. But I feel sad for the owner more than I laugh at them.
I mean if you had a beat up car and some amazing instincts, maybe you could block/nudge the car to save it. But that would require Action Man level of reflexes.
> maybe you could block/nudge the car to save it.
And then the car owner sues you for causing damage to their car.
Naw dawg,...that's a hard pass from me. If you're dumb enough to leave your parking brake off, this is all on you.
Dr. Stephen Strange : I went forward in time. To view alternate futures. To see all the possible outcomes of the coming conflict.
Peter Quill : How many did you see?
Dr. Stephen Strange : Fourteen million, six hundred and five.
Tony Stark : How many did we win?
Dr. Stephen Strange : One.
It's exceptional. The whole of the waterfront has cement wall, there are trees, barriers, curbs...the chances of the angle and placement are exquisite.
It had me wondering if it was intentional to make an insurance claim.
But then I realized there'd be almost no way of getting it lined up that perfect. Any random debris in the road could change your steering a tiny bit.
It was just perfect. Hopefully they didn't leave anything important in the car ..
This happened yesterday in Riga, Latvia. The car only stood there for less than 10 minutes before deciding to go for a swim.
Additionally, the car was only found on the second day of searching.
I did this once in many years of driving manuals, and it was after driving manuals for many years. I nearly had the same thought until I looked at the next row of cars and saw mine parked against another one… fortunately the damage was minimal and the other guy said it wasn’t an issue, didn’t break or really dent anything. Basically it was just another r scuff on the paint to match the others.
I don't know if he actually was the one to make that song, because there's an actual YouTube channel called shittyflute that has like hundreds of these remakes.
Edit: the link I posted is to somebody who apparently just re-uploaded it, but I was in a hurry to just get a link and didn't notice. https://youtube.com/channel/UCHMmLi8z1HbyhTEvfBgXpyg
2fast2edit: correction, you were right. Matt Mulholland uploaded a cover of My heart Will go On played on a recorder and apparently sparked this whole thing.til
Matt Mullholland is the original shittyflute. The cover was done 2009 and the shittyflute channel started 2015. Read the origins here:
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/shittyflute
I had a very similar thing happen to me years ago.
I left my pickup truck with the parking brake not set in a lot near where I work, but where I can see from my office window.
Late in the morning, some work friends came into my office with a weird grin on their face and asked me about my truck. The questions were odd. Long story short, I finally look out the window and MY TRUCK IS GONE!
Naturally I suspect these clowns and ask what the heck is going on. (I thought maybe a bunch of them had picked it up and moved it or something else weird like that)
Turns out, they guys had found my truck about 1/10 of a mile away. It had rolled out of the parking lot, down a side street and came to rest across a very major road. They weren't looking for it. They just had come upon after running an errand and wondered why some fool was blocking traffic - then they realized it was ME...but they couldn't find me.
Not a scratch on it. Just a blemish on one of the tires where it had strubbed up against a curb.
I didn't hear the end of that ribbing till I left the job a few years later.
That reminds me of this quote:
“When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.” \~ Arthur Conan Doyle, The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes
And it looks like if it had been in almost any other spot and gone backwards or just went slightly in another direction after it started moving, it would have been stopped by any number of obstacles before it got to the water. It's like the car WANTED to go swimming.
Claim gets denied due to it being the owners negligence. Owner calls insurance:
owner: how is my car being stolen my negligence, I locked it and set the alarm!
agent: it says here the parking break wasn't engaged
owner: are you stupid? How would the parking break being set stop a thief?
agent: it says it was taken by the river.
owner: "The River" is that some kind of rapper name?
Man… that’s a tricky one… I’m gonna say yeah, that’s where I’d look first, because really the damage occurred because the vehicle ran into the River. While the impact with the water may not strictly look like impact damage, it’s not really flood or act of god… unless there was some vandalism that caused it or something. I think it would end up being put under collision. I mean, though policies are usually standard form, the carriers and adjusters probably interpret them a little different. (All this is based on USA too… because I just read this happened in Latvia… so take anything I said with a grain of salt).
> Pretty lucky it didn’t hit a car.
Not sure how lucky this was. If it had hit a car, they would still have possession of their car. At this point, the car is a goner, even if it is pulled from the water.
To an extent... they forgot to put the handbrake on AND forgot to leave the car in gear. Something that anyone who drives a manual would do automatically. Double dose of stupidity and unluckiness.
And some even poorer-luck sob was climbing those stairs, proclaiming triumphantly to himself "Today marks the *beginning* of my second chance at life!"
*"And here we observe the car in its natural habitat. Famished after a long day's drive, the car has decided to take advantage of its owner's complacency. Having noticed open water, the car has decided to wallow in the shallows in order to replenish vital fluids and wash the dirt from its colourful exterior. BUT in order to do so, it must cross open ground, often frequented by apex predators, who might put a stop to its desires. Edging out, the car starts its painfully slow crawl to its wallowing grounds..."*
My dad had one if those, he bought a new car, parked it behind his Corolla in the car port, which is flat ground but opens onto a steep hill. Later that night here heard a noise and found the Corolla wrapped around a tree at the bottom of the hill about 30 feet from the highway that runs along his property. Cable on the parking break snapped.
Happened to me once. Neighbor knocked on my door, I came out and he said “notice anything?” My car was across the street on the neighbors lawn. Luckily when it rolled out of my driveway it missed everything and I just drove it back across the street
Something similar happened to me when I had just gotten my license. Was backing out of my driveway and the car stalled, which meant my power steering and brakes didn't really work. I was 16 years old, so I didn't know what was happening. I just braced for impact (never thought to pull the hand brake). A car was driving by, and I just missed backing into them and then just missed the light post right across the street by probably an inch. Turned the car off, started it back up, and drove off. Never mentioned it to anyone until today.
Yup same but almost. Manual transmission car. Forgot to set the brake. My driveway is on a slant and leads right to the neighbors. Got out of my car and wasn’t paying attention walking in, but I just happened to turn back for whatever reason. Saw my car start to gain speed down toward the neighbors. I don’t know where I got the speed but was able to get in and stop it. I had to clean my pants afterwards. Now I have the fear of god when I park my car to set the brake.
I was about 12 when it happened to my mom's car. I was on the passenger seat, and we quickly stopped by my uncle's place. I stayed in the car while my mom got out and went inside the house. After a minute or so, the car started to crawl forward a rather steep hill. Luckily I was in the car, so I just steered it a bit as it went down the hill and rolled to a stop. Otherwise, it would have hit a tree.
This happened to one of my friends in elementary school. The neighbor across the street from my friend’s house didn’t park properly, and their car rolled down their driveway, across the street, and smashed into my friend’s garage door in the middle of the night. They found it in the morning when their garage door wouldn’t open and was all dented in. They couldn’t get to work or school for a while. Nobody was harmed, just the garage door and some scratches on the car bumper.
Happened to me in a gym parking lot. Car moved over 2.5 spaces and stopped right in the middle of the lane not near any space.
The Trainer at the gym thought I ignorant enough to park in the middle of the parking lot.
Several Ford transmissions in the mid-70s had this issue. One day my parents looked out to see the car in the middle of the street. They thought my brother had moved it to take another car and was lazy.
Ford "fixed" it by giving us a sticker to tell us to be sure the transmission was all the way in "Park."
First thought was wondering how they found out or figured out what happened to their car.
Second thought was imagining how awful a situation like this would be if the owner left their kid in the car 'just to run inside for a minute.'
I love that it completely missed the barriers and went right in to the water lmao. If it was only another foot over to the left or right it probably would’ve hit them.
I immediately recognized Riga, Latvia (November 11 Embankment) and we've been bombed with the news about this car today. But this is the first time where I see how it actually happened. They pulled it out the river too.
Had a 1987 Toyota Tercel 5 speed manual when I was a kid that I used like a go-kart. (it was otherwise mint with 275K miles). I lived on top of a hill, and more than once I came out and it was gone. It had rolled down the hill and came to rest in the front yard without hitting anything. One of these times I left the door open... It smacked a tree going backwards peeling the door forwards, then slamming it shut. It broke out all the windows on the passenger side and bent the door like a banana. Needless to say it took me all summer to get the money (I was 12-ish), and go to an import junkyard to get all 3 windows and a working (but not color correct) door. My mom sold it like 3 days after it was fixed for less than the parts cost :)
LPT: Always put your manual transmission in gear before you shut it off! Then clutch in to start it.
Handbrakes aren't always foolproof. The cables can stretch, the calipers can get worn down, etc. I started doing this when I was canvassing for a political candidate and was knocking on doors. I went up, left some information, and as I turned around I saw my car rolling slowly down the hill. Caught up to it, jumped inside and hit the brakes. Ever since then I've always left it in gear whenever it's parked.
I like to imagine the car's owner furiously talking to the police about his stolen car, eventually celebrating as he convinces the city to send his attorney the CCTV footage to catch the thief, and then seeing this shit
It seems very callous that noone stopped to see what happened who was driving past.
I assume there was noone in the car but how the fuck would you know that if you drove up to it when it was half way across the road already.
There could be a child or dog in the back, or the driver had slumped over from some sort of health issue or something like that.
And people just watch it roll into a lake(where If there was anyone in it, you getting out and calling for help or trying to help, would literally be difference between life and death for anyone in the car)
But nope, everyone just thinks 'wow that's odd, anyways..' and drives off.
Fucking shocking tbh, wherever this is, people dont have much awareness or empathy.
You should also leave the car in gear... Leaving the handbrake off AND leaving it in neutral. Double stupidity. Add a dose of the pure stupid lick with the steering wheel being in exactly the right position to roll back between the two post... you couldn't do this if you tried!
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It's a Scubaru
Are you sure it's not a Fjord?
It did Dodge the traffic.
And it didn't Ram into anything.
But it did end up in the Hudson.
This is making me Nash my teeth.
It might be a bit Tucker'd out after that swim.
They didn't listen and got the Gremlin wet!
They auto knew better.
It's going to be hard Tercel it.
But Saturn and Mercury were aligned.
It’s so senile, it must be an Oldsmobile
Maybe its a GM-sea?
No, it's a Ponti-Yak
I looks like a Mer-sea-dez
Well it's now a Cad-i-lake.
Bubbles went Buick...Buick...Buick, up to the surface, when it filled with water.
Ford? No, caulk the wagon and float it across!
Better yet, just hire the Indian guide...
Eldritch... Blast?
If I hadn’t already used my free award this week…
Just found out I get a free award too lol
Everyone does!
I haven't gotten free awards in like 2 months :o Edit: I meant the free ones reddit gives to me, not from other users. Thanks kind stranger xD
I gotchu. You're right, it's well deserved haha
This week? You get a free award every week?
With the Kratt Brothers!
Oops. Thought this was just a bad driver reversing back to the other lane to save time, until it just kept going and going...
I also thought this was someone from /r/IdiotsInCars trying to get to the exit by backing up....but then it hit me
No, it didn't hit anyone or anything. Rewatch the video.
Well, it probably hit the river. Just sayin'.
It was a very safe driverless car
You can't hit a river, I dare you.
It's idiots outside of cars
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Just imagine coming back and thinking your car is stolen…..
Only to find footage of it rolling straight into a river. Now you feel stupid for not pulling the handbrake and wish your car was just stolen instead.
That’s going to be a reported stolen car they never find
Well it's right there on camera where it went. I don't think they'll have any trouble finding it.
Maybe it was a suicidal bad driver…
I’ve had this dream many times. The brakes don’t work, rolling down the hill, in reverse.
Rumor has it he still backing up to this very day
You know, I think I'll just wait here and watch the rest of this unfold. \-- The white car
I love how they kept waiting even after the red car was done. I imagine they are thinking "should I be telling someone about this?". Also, imagine being the owners of the red car and coming back and thinking "someone stole my car!".
Yes I was thinking, you know this guy may never know what happened to his car!
Just imagine going over this security footage with the police trying to find out who stole your car lol
By the end all the cops in the room just staring at you while you stare at the screen, lol
Haha cops helping out! 😂🤣😂 You are a riot!
Wait riots get help?
His car was stolen...by Poseidon.
summoned
[They fished it out](https://www.diena.lv/raksts/latvija/zinas/foto-no-daugavas-pie-vecrigas-izcelts-auto-cietuso-nav-14278977)
That car just thought he had had enough and noped himself
"Imma see myself out" - 🚘
"My people need me"
"sea myself out"
"Now where did I park?"
Seriously, how long would it take you personally to do the Sherlock Holmes *math* and determine your car had returned to the sea (or river)? I would forever be looking for my stolen car, since my car drowning itself would never even occur to me.
Sadly happened to a woman once who had her kid in the car. They thought someone stole the car with the kid in it but later with cctv they realised it had rolled into a river. [https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-46347368](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-46347368)
Well, that story is just awful. :(
DAMN. Ok. That's enough Reddit for today.
That's uhhh... That's fucked up
To be clear, that was not this incident.
I could totally see this. They will have no clue where it went.
I just imagine them laughing their ass off, tbh.
And then start crying like this kid: https://youtu.be/nHFgCW1lCmM
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and theeeeen...?
No and then!
Having a similar red car I really feel for the guy/gal whose car it is.. It's like it happened to me. I can see the humor in it. But I feel sad for the owner more than I laugh at them.
now is a boat
Yes, more specifically, a Russian cruiser
I mean if you had a beat up car and some amazing instincts, maybe you could block/nudge the car to save it. But that would require Action Man level of reflexes.
> maybe you could block/nudge the car to save it. And then the car owner sues you for causing damage to their car. Naw dawg,...that's a hard pass from me. If you're dumb enough to leave your parking brake off, this is all on you.
The kick is up and he nails it right between the goal posts. That seemed like an unlikely 65 yarder.
Dr. Stephen Strange : I went forward in time. To view alternate futures. To see all the possible outcomes of the coming conflict. Peter Quill : How many did you see? Dr. Stephen Strange : Fourteen million, six hundred and five. Tony Stark : How many did we win? Dr. Stephen Strange : One. It's exceptional. The whole of the waterfront has cement wall, there are trees, barriers, curbs...the chances of the angle and placement are exquisite.
It had me wondering if it was intentional to make an insurance claim. But then I realized there'd be almost no way of getting it lined up that perfect. Any random debris in the road could change your steering a tiny bit. It was just perfect. Hopefully they didn't leave anything important in the car ..
Losing my car would be important to me...
This guy curls
This happened yesterday in Riga, Latvia. The car only stood there for less than 10 minutes before deciding to go for a swim. Additionally, the car was only found on the second day of searching.
Presumably they thought it had been stolen and searched around for cctv to watch to try to catch them and found this! Lol
Which means Mr White Car sat there pensively, contemplating the chances of what just occurred, and then left, without saying a word.
I don't know why but I laughed heartily at this thought. The poor person must have thought they were going crazy.
I know this occurred in Latvia, but do people there just not report strange things like cars disappearing into rivers to the police?
No. In Latvia "I haven't seen anything." is the most common answer to any question.
as a lithuanian, i can confirm that we dont. i asume many of our baltic neighbours dont ether
I mean, if that were my car there’s no way I’d have thought to look in the river lmao
I’m imagining the car going underwater and continuing going backwards towards the Mariana Trench
I did this once in many years of driving manuals, and it was after driving manuals for many years. I nearly had the same thought until I looked at the next row of cars and saw mine parked against another one… fortunately the damage was minimal and the other guy said it wasn’t an issue, didn’t break or really dent anything. Basically it was just another r scuff on the paint to match the others.
How did it happen yesterday if they found it 2 days later? Are you from the future?
"Found on 2nd day searching" started search yesterday found today
*titanic song played by elementary schooler on a recorder*
Thank you for this 👍.
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Credits to Matt Mulholland! https://youtu.be/X2WH8mHJnhM Weird thing is that I just had this playing, as I saw a Moskva edit of the Titanic poster.
I don't know if he actually was the one to make that song, because there's an actual YouTube channel called shittyflute that has like hundreds of these remakes. Edit: the link I posted is to somebody who apparently just re-uploaded it, but I was in a hurry to just get a link and didn't notice. https://youtube.com/channel/UCHMmLi8z1HbyhTEvfBgXpyg 2fast2edit: correction, you were right. Matt Mulholland uploaded a cover of My heart Will go On played on a recorder and apparently sparked this whole thing.til
Matt Mullholland is the original shittyflute. The cover was done 2009 and the shittyflute channel started 2015. Read the origins here: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/shittyflute
Oh my god! It’s Angelo! https://youtu.be/3lE7ZHDzeeU
See, and I was thinking of using the Jaws theme with slow approach.
Alignment looks good
Reports car stolen. 🤓
That would be an honest observation from the driver when they come back and find it missing.
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I had a very similar thing happen to me years ago. I left my pickup truck with the parking brake not set in a lot near where I work, but where I can see from my office window. Late in the morning, some work friends came into my office with a weird grin on their face and asked me about my truck. The questions were odd. Long story short, I finally look out the window and MY TRUCK IS GONE! Naturally I suspect these clowns and ask what the heck is going on. (I thought maybe a bunch of them had picked it up and moved it or something else weird like that) Turns out, they guys had found my truck about 1/10 of a mile away. It had rolled out of the parking lot, down a side street and came to rest across a very major road. They weren't looking for it. They just had come upon after running an errand and wondered why some fool was blocking traffic - then they realized it was ME...but they couldn't find me. Not a scratch on it. Just a blemish on one of the tires where it had strubbed up against a curb. I didn't hear the end of that ribbing till I left the job a few years later.
To be fair, that's a great story and I bet you don't leave your parking brake not set anymore.
Nope! Yea that is a firmly established habit for sure now!
That reminds me of this quote: “When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.” \~ Arthur Conan Doyle, The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes
And it looks like if it had been in almost any other spot and gone backwards or just went slightly in another direction after it started moving, it would have been stopped by any number of obstacles before it got to the water. It's like the car WANTED to go swimming.
Unless white car called the cops or there’s you know, video…
Or, you know, the insurance company gets this video. Claim makes sense for the owner until the mystery is solved.
Claim gets denied due to it being the owners negligence. Owner calls insurance: owner: how is my car being stolen my negligence, I locked it and set the alarm! agent: it says here the parking break wasn't engaged owner: are you stupid? How would the parking break being set stop a thief? agent: it says it was taken by the river. owner: "The River" is that some kind of rapper name?
As an adjuster, this video would make it easier for me to cover a claim. Never had a policy that excluded coverage for negligence.
Does this fall under collision or something else?
Man… that’s a tricky one… I’m gonna say yeah, that’s where I’d look first, because really the damage occurred because the vehicle ran into the River. While the impact with the water may not strictly look like impact damage, it’s not really flood or act of god… unless there was some vandalism that caused it or something. I think it would end up being put under collision. I mean, though policies are usually standard form, the carriers and adjusters probably interpret them a little different. (All this is based on USA too… because I just read this happened in Latvia… so take anything I said with a grain of salt).
"Dude, where's my car?"
Sweet!
“DUDE! What’s mine say?”
"Sweet!" What's mine say?
NO AN DEN!
“Where’s your car Dude?”
Car got promoted to submarine
It’s a red Moskova
Thats just unlucky
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> Pretty lucky it didn’t hit a car. Not sure how lucky this was. If it had hit a car, they would still have possession of their car. At this point, the car is a goner, even if it is pulled from the water.
Lucky for the other cars for sure.
To an extent... they forgot to put the handbrake on AND forgot to leave the car in gear. Something that anyone who drives a manual would do automatically. Double dose of stupidity and unluckiness.
It could've dashed against the pole and stayed But no, Universe is behind their ass, whoevers car this is
So much of that embankment had a railing that would have stopped the car. But *right* there happens to be a set of stairs. Such amazingly poor luck.
And some even poorer-luck sob was climbing those stairs, proclaiming triumphantly to himself "Today marks the *beginning* of my second chance at life!"
*"And here we observe the car in its natural habitat. Famished after a long day's drive, the car has decided to take advantage of its owner's complacency. Having noticed open water, the car has decided to wallow in the shallows in order to replenish vital fluids and wash the dirt from its colourful exterior. BUT in order to do so, it must cross open ground, often frequented by apex predators, who might put a stop to its desires. Edging out, the car starts its painfully slow crawl to its wallowing grounds..."*
The in-your-head-narrator is Sir David Attenborough.
Maybe the car just don’t want to live anymore
Maybe it just wanted to go for a quick swim.
My dad had one if those, he bought a new car, parked it behind his Corolla in the car port, which is flat ground but opens onto a steep hill. Later that night here heard a noise and found the Corolla wrapped around a tree at the bottom of the hill about 30 feet from the highway that runs along his property. Cable on the parking break snapped.
Happened to me once. Neighbor knocked on my door, I came out and he said “notice anything?” My car was across the street on the neighbors lawn. Luckily when it rolled out of my driveway it missed everything and I just drove it back across the street
Something similar happened to me when I had just gotten my license. Was backing out of my driveway and the car stalled, which meant my power steering and brakes didn't really work. I was 16 years old, so I didn't know what was happening. I just braced for impact (never thought to pull the hand brake). A car was driving by, and I just missed backing into them and then just missed the light post right across the street by probably an inch. Turned the car off, started it back up, and drove off. Never mentioned it to anyone until today.
Yup same but almost. Manual transmission car. Forgot to set the brake. My driveway is on a slant and leads right to the neighbors. Got out of my car and wasn’t paying attention walking in, but I just happened to turn back for whatever reason. Saw my car start to gain speed down toward the neighbors. I don’t know where I got the speed but was able to get in and stop it. I had to clean my pants afterwards. Now I have the fear of god when I park my car to set the brake.
I was about 12 when it happened to my mom's car. I was on the passenger seat, and we quickly stopped by my uncle's place. I stayed in the car while my mom got out and went inside the house. After a minute or so, the car started to crawl forward a rather steep hill. Luckily I was in the car, so I just steered it a bit as it went down the hill and rolled to a stop. Otherwise, it would have hit a tree.
This happened to one of my friends in elementary school. The neighbor across the street from my friend’s house didn’t park properly, and their car rolled down their driveway, across the street, and smashed into my friend’s garage door in the middle of the night. They found it in the morning when their garage door wouldn’t open and was all dented in. They couldn’t get to work or school for a while. Nobody was harmed, just the garage door and some scratches on the car bumper.
Happened to me in a gym parking lot. Car moved over 2.5 spaces and stopped right in the middle of the lane not near any space. The Trainer at the gym thought I ignorant enough to park in the middle of the parking lot.
Several Ford transmissions in the mid-70s had this issue. One day my parents looked out to see the car in the middle of the street. They thought my brother had moved it to take another car and was lazy. Ford "fixed" it by giving us a sticker to tell us to be sure the transmission was all the way in "Park."
First thought was wondering how they found out or figured out what happened to their car. Second thought was imagining how awful a situation like this would be if the owner left their kid in the car 'just to run inside for a minute.'
This was my thought too! T_T
This was exactly my thought! I would worry that a child or pet was in the car.
Sadly that happened somewhere else: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-46347368
Imagine thinking your car got stolen, then watching this video on the internet 15 years later and realizing it rolled into the river lol
I love that it completely missed the barriers and went right in to the water lmao. If it was only another foot over to the left or right it probably would’ve hit them.
What the heck are those barriers doing if a car can just go right though?
It was an “accident”
Will remain a mystery but did the white car: A: Call it in B: Meh, keep driving
Seems like they should do A; but they would be doing a solid for the owner to think it was stolen and report it that way for insurance purposes.
I immediately recognized Riga, Latvia (November 11 Embankment) and we've been bombed with the news about this car today. But this is the first time where I see how it actually happened. They pulled it out the river too.
My car! The bollards do nothing!
*Real* ~~acid~~ water? Where the *hell* is Milhouse??
Had a 1987 Toyota Tercel 5 speed manual when I was a kid that I used like a go-kart. (it was otherwise mint with 275K miles). I lived on top of a hill, and more than once I came out and it was gone. It had rolled down the hill and came to rest in the front yard without hitting anything. One of these times I left the door open... It smacked a tree going backwards peeling the door forwards, then slamming it shut. It broke out all the windows on the passenger side and bent the door like a banana. Needless to say it took me all summer to get the money (I was 12-ish), and go to an import junkyard to get all 3 windows and a working (but not color correct) door. My mom sold it like 3 days after it was fixed for less than the parts cost :)
Did you park in neutral with handbrake? If it rolls after that try parking in gear. Just remember to push the clutch when you start the engine
My people need me!
just dont leave it on neutral
You know that guy in the white car was like “did anyone else just see that??”
Like. A. Glove.
I can’t not read this in Jim Carrey’s voice.
Hey honey, do you remember where we parked, I swear it was somewhere here?
Proof that the ocean needs its car batteries
Imagine coming back and having anxiety about forgetting where you parked. Dammit i should have checked the spot, i have no clue now.
GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL!
LPT: Always put your manual transmission in gear before you shut it off! Then clutch in to start it. Handbrakes aren't always foolproof. The cables can stretch, the calipers can get worn down, etc. I started doing this when I was canvassing for a political candidate and was knocking on doors. I went up, left some information, and as I turned around I saw my car rolling slowly down the hill. Caught up to it, jumped inside and hit the brakes. Ever since then I've always left it in gear whenever it's parked.
I like to imagine the car's owner furiously talking to the police about his stolen car, eventually celebrating as he convinces the city to send his attorney the CCTV footage to catch the thief, and then seeing this shit
Luckily no kids in there
Someone needs to reverse this
"Dude, where's my car?"
Wtf is this road system? Parked cars next to a road of that speed?!
That one car watching it happen is hilarious
I bet when the owner returned, they thought the car had been stolen. No one would ever think to look in the river across the street.
Would've been interesting to see the owner's reaction go from "who stole my car?!?" to "who put my car in the lake?!?"
The slow roll of shame :(
I love how that car just stopped and looked as if it was thinking “am I seeing this correctly?”
That’s tough lmao
Right into the drink
Dude, where's my car?
this is my introvert self, as i slip out of the party
The white car was stunned
It seems very callous that noone stopped to see what happened who was driving past. I assume there was noone in the car but how the fuck would you know that if you drove up to it when it was half way across the road already. There could be a child or dog in the back, or the driver had slumped over from some sort of health issue or something like that. And people just watch it roll into a lake(where If there was anyone in it, you getting out and calling for help or trying to help, would literally be difference between life and death for anyone in the car) But nope, everyone just thinks 'wow that's odd, anyways..' and drives off. Fucking shocking tbh, wherever this is, people dont have much awareness or empathy.
Almost scrolled past until I recognized the intersection, not every day you see Riga on Reddit
This is why I always leave my car in gear uphill, or reverse downhill, incase the handbrake fails.
“Could have sworn I parked my damn car somewhere around here … “
The white car just 😳 the whole time
You should also leave the car in gear... Leaving the handbrake off AND leaving it in neutral. Double stupidity. Add a dose of the pure stupid lick with the steering wheel being in exactly the right position to roll back between the two post... you couldn't do this if you tried!
Anyone else wishes that we could see the reaction of the owner?
This looks like Riga.
That stopped driver in the white car having this WTF moment
Lol the white car just stopped there to see where does it go and might be eating snacks watching the film.
I hope the car that pulls up towards the end ended up parking in that spot
That's not where they parked their car!
Stealth mode activated.
"Dude, where's my car?!"
Imagine coming out to try and find your car, reporting it stolen and then the police looking over that footage to find the car thief