Engagement bait.
I went and checked Facebook for notifications the other day and saw this exact post.
This is all over the place: Posts by people who are confidently wrong in some obvious way, just begging for some smart internet person to come set them straight and get their wimpy dopamine hit.
It is really enlightening, in a depressing way, to scroll mainstream social media like that and see the level of enshittification that people are conditioned to accept and keep scrolling through. It is so much worse than even ad-driven legacy media like live TV.
Problem is, we cant stop this.
I don’t like it one bit. But please do have my upvote because you are sadly spot on.
Yep. It works.
It caught my attention before I decided to ignore it, and even some of the early replies in these comments correctly pointing out the stupidity of the driver’s ways have hundreds of upvotes, which is a lot for Lemmy!
This is actually very funny tho
Reminds me of that dude that fashioned a concrete reinforced steel mailbox pole and got sued after paralysing a dude that hit it.
Homeowner won though.
Reminder that the word “homeowner” is the only English word with the word “meow” in it (except for all the different derivations of “meow” like “meowing” etc of course).
Good luck not reading homeowner as ho-meow-ner from now on
Thanks I didnt know but will spread this message IRL
The world needs to know
Cletus Snay was driving to work in December 2016 when his Ford pick-up truck crashed into Matthew Burr’s mailbox after losing traction on black ice.
What a very American sentence.
Do other nations not have ice or work in December?
The “Cletus driving a pickup into a mailbox part.”
Wtf is that article? The first 6 paragraphs literally keep repeating the same info???
Behold the rewards of not linking to source: commenters fall for engagement bait, lack of web accessibility.
Post needs link to source for web accessibility and web connectivity.
Images of text break much that text alternatives do not. Losses due to image of text lacking alternative such as link:
- usability
- we can’t quote the text without pointless bullshit like retyping it or OCR
- text search is unavailable
- the system can’t
- reflow text to varied screen sizes
- vary presentation (size, contrast)
- vary modality (audio, braille)
- accessibility
- lacks semantic structure (tags for titles, heading levels, sections, paragraphs, lists, emphasis, code, links, accessibility features, etc)
- some users can’t read the image due to lack of alt text (markdown image description)
- users can’t adapt the text for dyslexia or vision impairments
- systems can’t read the text to them or send it to braille devices
- web connectivity
- we have to do failure-prone bullshit to find the original source
- we can’t explore wider context of the original message
- authenticity: we don’t know the image hasn’t been tampered
- searchability: the “text” isn’t indexable by search engine in a meaningful way
- fault tolerance: no text fallback if
- image breaks
- image host is geoblocked due to insane regulations.
Contrary to age & humble appearance, text is an advanced technology that provides all these capabilities absent from images.
::: Behold, the most selfish way to take up
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in a comment section. :::
Behold your junk software. Shit renders right (takes little space) in a standard web browser.
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A) I don’t believe this is real.
B) Back in the ‘70s, there was an article in National Lampoon where a guy liked to put a cinder block in a paper bag and watch people swerve to hit it.
The guy’s page is full of trolling and rage bait. It’s not serious
It still appeared serious enough to be upvoted by 700 people. I guess this speaks more on how the sanity of linkedin users is perceived than it speaks on the validity of the situation. And yeh, linkedin users are a bit fucked in the head.
I mean, it’s the internet, it’s like a 70/30 chance of it being someone who’s really that entitled and stupid or just being troll bullshit
We do not know, and therefore should abstain from deducing fallacies out of air. I only commented on what was actually observable and relatable.
FAFO
If you plow through a snowman with your car, you’re an asshole. If you do it with your brand new sports car, you’re a stupid asshole.
Sometimes kids do it as a prank in the middle of the road
Let me add one more: he’s done this several times already which is the reason the kids added bricks in the first place.
Its like a honeypot for assholes.
Reminds me of my grandfather, these kids kept knocking his mailbox down with baseball bats. After the second time it was hit, he put up a new one filled with concrete. The very next morning there was half a wooden baseball bat on the ground and a dent in the mailbox. They never did it again.
I’ve heard basically the same story before from a local incident, but with the added bonus of the other side: they used a metal bat and the kid dislocated his arm and was almost pulled right out of the car.
Where are these snowmen situated?
To make it worse, if they set a boobytrap on purpose that’s illegal ( in in the US) and the kids could be liable.
Putting a brick in a snowman is not a booby trap lmao.
Depends on intent but yeah
the blocks were just there for support so the snowman stands better.
Yes
Same type of person would drive through a pile of leaves not thinking if there were kids in it.
I don’t agree with driving into snowmen, especially if they’re not in the street.
Sometimes you can’t avoid leaf piles tho.
Many kids play in leaf piles, even in the street.
Even if it was just a snowman, that would damage your pretty car.
This was my thought, you don’t need cinder blocks in the way. Ice is hard and heavy, that shits gonna fuck up pretty much anything but a bulldozer or tank.
Knew a guy who tried to drive through a snowdrift, totalled his car due to the ice buried in the snow
I’d have thought a snowman would do a fair bit of damage to a car anyway.
You could just use water to make the surfaces hard ice and it might be enough to hurt a front bumper.
i thought something was up. a snow man made of the fluffiest powder would absolutely totall my car. ain’t no way i would just hit snow men
He’s wrong though, this is objectively funny. I would love to hear the conversation with insurance, bet that’s funny too.
“So you intentionally drove off the road to hit a snowman that was, unknown to you, filled with bricks?” “Yes” “Okay, were there children present near this snowman?” “Uhhhhhhh, no” “Okay, you do see how stupid this was, right?” “Uhh no” “Okay, well your claim is denied for reckless driving, to start”
So Mark Majeski purposefully crashed his car into a static object and blames someone else for the consequences of his own actions?
Great example of american values.
Validity of his anger depends on where the snowman was placed before the hit: if it was on the road…
If you can’t stop for a snowman, you can’t stop for a child.
Hmm. Put cinder blocks in kids?
I’ve just been adding powdered lead to their eggs. They’ll be a dead blow hammer if someone tries that shit!
How?
Snowman has about the same visibility as a child. So if you can’t avoid hitting a snowman, you’d also hit a child on the road.
I suspect he was clearly seeing that it’s a snowman and hit it deliberately.
Quite beside the point, don’t you think?
I wanna see the zoom video of that court hearing. I don’t think a judge is gonna be on your side, buddy.
Reminds me of a short story.
“What’s it for?” Princess asked.
“It’s a lie detector,” Cross said.
Thanks for sharing.
I enjoyed that story, thanks
Funny
Damn that was good! I’ll have to read some of the author’s other works
Unless the snowman was built in the road, the driver is at fault not the people that created the snowman.
I think the fact he doesn’t explicitly mention it is an admission that it wasn’t built on the road.
The “if I find out who did this” does bring that into question, though. If it was in front of a house it’d be very obvious who did it.
But given the vibes the car owner is giving off, it’s more likely it was in a park or field or the sidewalk next to a road, and he thought it’d be okay to hit it because there was almost no chance of the creator catching him.
You could be right. Still, the asshole driver not knowing who to blame just makes it funnier.
He is to blame. He doesn’t know that indeed.
Yeah I was guessing a park or something. Which means the “kids” might have spent considerable effort to get the cinder blocks there in the first place.
It makes one wonder how many times he’d done this before that they’d go to the trouble.
If the snowman was build on the road, the driver is at fault for driving carelessly, not paying attention.
Nobody else was hurt. Nobody else’s property was damaged. There is no one to be held liable.This guy drove into a snowman, regardless of where it was.
A static object that only moves in Christmas music.If it was a snowbank, same deal.
If it was a parked car, same deal.
If it was a fallen telephone/power pole, same deal.
If it was a pile of cinderblocks that fell off the back of a truck, same deal.The guy either wasn’t paying attention, or was being an asshole.
Either way, driving carelessly. Asshole is at faultYeah, even if it was in the road it could have been a kid dressed up in a snowman costume…
In a trench coat, sneaking into a PG-13 movie.
His car damaged the snowman and cinderblocks
That reminds me of the time during a huge snowstorm, we got about 3 feet of snow. Not safe for driving. But I went for a walk to my buddy’s house.
A bunch of college kids built a giant snow family in a four lane intersection of a major street. I cheered them on.
An hour later, I went back home to check. Those kids were taking apart the snow family. There were two cops behind them, supervising them.
Even in case of a “usual” snowman, you can easily crack plastic bodyparts or dent metal ones. This is not GTA, where you just have to remember which items are breakable and which are not
A large pile of uncumpressed snow can fuck up a car. Compressed snow used to make a snow man? Yeah you’re smashing into basically a wall of ice.
Uncumpressed
I wanna be Cumpressed uwu
I’m sure you do
There’s a website you can order a cum press.
I’m honestly wondering if he made up the cinder block to try and make this someone else’s fault.
Good point. Hitting cinder blocks would probably leave scratches on the bumper, no? I don’t see any scratches in the photo.
Looking at that bumper, it really looks like the work of something soft but heavy.
Also notably absent: a picture of the cinder blocks.
Come to think of it, has anyone seen that guy and a cinder block in the same room together?
I can confirm that hitting large objects can sound like hitting straight concrete or cement. I hit a black bear one night when I was going about 70mph on the freeway. Would have sworn some truck lost a load of cinder blocks or something. There was at least one fur tuft on my car.
Oh no, was the bear okay? Tell me you saw him scamper off!
They took the body to central park (or whatever weird thing RFK did)
Look, I TOLD you what to tell me!
Its ok it scampered off! -source: I was the bear
It went to live at a farm upstate.
Fun fact if you hit a living animal in the road it would only be covered under comprehensive insurance. If you hit something like a bear, just to use a completely random animal, because that bear had already been hit by another car (possibly as little as mere minutes before), then it’s covered under collision insurance. Ask me how I know.
When you say “it,” do you mean repairs to the car or to the animal? Like, if I hit a dog, I’m certainly going to get it to a vet if I can, (although the owner would probably rather take it themselves than trust my driving) is my insurance going to pick up the vet bill?
Oh wait, we’d want more help to the dog than “slap a coat of paint on it.” I better just get out my credit card.
Not sure how a dog would be handled. Pretty sure it would fall under property, but might have some extra legalese around it. The it I was referring to in this case was the car. The bear was very unlikely to survive, but it did in fact scamper off. If you recall I said it sounded like I hit a bunch of cinder blocks. Well I got out and went back to try to see if the other driver was alright. Never saw anything in the road. The state troopers didn’t see anything either. The first driver that hit it said it must have been about a 500lb black bear.
or he had buyers remorse and tried to get it totaled, by saying it was blaming someone else. because he was stupid enough to buy an expensive car.
Yeah I involuntarily hit a small boulder of snow on the road and it cracked the plastic of my front bumper
