r/dashcams • u/wronghoIe • 18h ago

Flipping your car at 5 mph

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u/Wardogs96 18h ago edited 16h ago

Lets be honest here that car flipping was the best outcome here as they can no longer be a danger on the road until whatever the fuck is going on in there is handled.

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u/Square-Singer 18h ago

Also, flipping at that speed isn't all that dangerous, as long as he doesn't dangle his arm out of the window.

And the chances that he'll continue driving this car are very slim.

He basically DIY confiscated the car.

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u/dyslexicAlphabet 17h ago

i work with a guy who flipped his jeep over on its side off roading and he put his hands out to brace the crash because it was so slow and he lost 7 fingers.

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u/Illustrious-Line-984 17h ago

On the bright side, there’s a 70% chance he can’t ever flip you off.

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u/dyslexicAlphabet 17h ago

this guy is still incredibly handy even missing so many fingers still works with his hands with no help. he does still kind of have nubs.

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u/Much-Revolution5152 15h ago

Disabled/injured people can figure some things out. 🙂

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u/Si_Es_Contigo_Mejor 15h ago

OMG that made me snort coffee out of my nose! lol

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u/firemanjuanito 15h ago

Look there's no need to point out the obvious. Thats a touchy subject to a three fingered man.

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u/Illustrious-Line-984 12h ago

Chances are he won’t be pointing out anything. There’s a word to describe that, but I can’t put my finger on it.

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u/aerdvarkk 16h ago

Np. He has 3 fingers left, where one would be considered a "middle finger".

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u/Critical_Ad_7380 15h ago

I was thinking the same thing, lol! I love dark humor.

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u/ThinkAThirdTime 14h ago edited 4h ago

Assuming uniform probability for each finger (unlikely, you're not likely to lose finger A and finger C but keep finger B between them, but we'll assume it for ease of calculation):

That's the probability he can't flip you off with his right hand only. (Basically for any finger you choose, it has a 70% chance to be lost, and a 30% chance to be kept.)

There's a 6.6_% chance he keeps both middle fingers.

A 23.3_% chance he keeps left but not right.

A 23.3_% chance he keeps right but not left.

For a total of 53.3_% chance he keeps at least one (but possibly both) middle fingers.

So a little worse than 50/50 he can't flip you off anymore.

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u/CySnark 10h ago

Modern prosthetics could enable him to flip you off.