r/dashcams • u/wronghoIe • 18h ago

Flipping your car at 5 mph

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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/1sthomehelp 17h ago

Lmao imagine trying to "brace" a vehicle from fallingšŸ¤£šŸ¤£šŸ¤£

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u/dyslexicAlphabet 17h ago

realistically you would go into a ball but i think his instincts because it was so slow was to put his arms out.

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u/1sthomehelp 17h ago

Omg, such a wrong move. But that's awful that he lost 7 fingers though šŸ˜¢

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u/Square-Singer 16h ago

I know a guy who did basically the same when the folding chair collapsed below him. Cut off his middle finger.

20 years or so later his son lost his thumb to a circular saw when building his sauna.

That guy's son is now fearing for his fingers.

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u/hendergle 16h ago

Are these people the direct descendants of the first high school shop teacher or something?

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u/Uglyyellowfrog 14h ago

You mean 'Chop Teacher'?

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u/clammajamma96 14h ago

for real, im over her thinking sure ive lost a few nails here and there and my fingertips have met their fair share of doorjambs but when the hell is going on in these peoples lives

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u/SquirrelFluffy 13h ago

Ice fishing, drunk, come home lose your fingers in the table saw, shop teacher.

Oh wait, that was my high school.

The teacher's wives shut down a lot of ice fishing at that point.

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u/Nearby-Yak-4496 7h ago

Every shop teacher I have ever known was missing at least a part of at least one digit...

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u/OberonDiver 11h ago

"Quit screwin' around!"

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u/AFecklessWeasel 2h ago

I had either the laziest or smartest wood shop teacher. He wouldnā€™t demonstrate anything. Heā€™d just give directions and then call up a student and talk them through it. Had all 10 fingers too. Always explained that just because he could do it didnā€™t mean we could so it was better for us to learn while he explained the steps. I never figured out if that was his way of keeping everyone focused and involved or if it was bullshit so he didnā€™t have to have his hands near the machines in case one of us leaned too closely and bumped him.

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u/firemanjuanito 15h ago

Losing a thumb catapults you down an entire stage of evolution. That's awful.

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u/OberonDiver 11h ago

My thumb didn't want to get lost. In fact, it was opposed.

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u/CopperBlitter 6h ago

Can we assume you'll see yourself out?šŸ¤£šŸ¤£

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u/Inswagtor 12h ago

Instant 30% disability

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u/1sthomehelp 13h ago

šŸ«ØšŸ«ØšŸ«Ø a series of unfortunate events!

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u/Square-Singer 3h ago

What an incredibly frustrating, unsatisfying and addictive series of books! I read all of them when I was 12 or so.

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u/1sthomehelp 16m ago

šŸ¤£šŸ¤£ you're not wrong!

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u/AdnorAdnor 10h ago

Fearing4Fingers would make a great band name

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u/Comprehensive_Dog780 7h ago

please stop, its 11:53 pm and am laughing hysterically like a horse and my house is shaking and dogs are hiding in the corridor and bladder is about to burst. please, I cant anymore

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u/longshanksthefoyth 4h ago

A new HBO special....a family dromedy....the fingerlings.

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u/zdena1970 11h ago

People used to think you didnā€™t need to wear a seatbelt in a car because you could just grab the dash and keep yourself in your seat. Some people still think that. With enough velocity, a Kleenex box sitting on your dash or in the crevice by your back window can do some serious damage to your head. I think basic mechanical physics should be required in public school, rather than the Ten Commandments.

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u/Bansheefaerie 4h ago

7 fingers all on one hand šŸ¤”

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u/MaleficentPapaya4768 16h ago

Thatā€™s absolutely the ā€œIā€™m fallingā€ instinct. The top part of your brain doesnā€™t usually have time to interrupt the lizard/monkey level reflexes in this sort of situation.

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u/dyslexicAlphabet 16h ago

thats what i hate about his situation when i think about it i just imagine myself doing the same thing. gives me that funny feeling that doesn't feel good w/e its called.

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u/Its-ther-apist 15h ago

Sympathy pains? Second hand embarrassment?

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u/disktoaster 15h ago

An underappreciated mechanic is also that your head is remarkably heavy and tends to try to pull your upper body ahead during slow falls. He might have felt, physically, like he was about to go through the window and be way worse off. It does feel that way in the kind of slow rollover that happens while offroading. Not that I'm speaking from experience... šŸ¤

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u/Aurora_Uplinks 10h ago

apathy helps

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u/HispanicAtTheDisko 14h ago

Realistically, you'd probably try to brace yourself too. If you are falling, and you curl into a ball, then I can only imagine you've trained it for some silly sport.

Falling and extending your hand out to catch yourself is a reaction inherent in us all.

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u/drunkeymunkey 11h ago

True, I learned the ball trick from roller derby.

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u/HereToTalkAboutThis 12h ago

The human brain is not wired for cars. Evolution could not have prepared us for some things

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u/hanks_panky_emporium 4h ago

Back in the 2010's someone in church's son flipped his truck drunk driving through a farmers field that he hated. Was trying to ruin as much of their yield, I think alfalfa or something. Windows open, truck flips. Arm goes out, crushed under the roof when it hit the ground. Didn't shear it off but broke the hell out of it.

Since his dad's a cop he wasn't charged for the DUI or reckless driving or destruction of property. He was bragging about all the damage he'd done and his intent but the 'real' story is he had a terrible rollover accident all the way from the highway into the damn near middle of the field. No one bought it except the judge, I guess.

He died drunk driving a few years later. Speared a telephone pole at like 40mph. No seatbelt. DIdn't get many details there, had already moved towns for dads work.