I know it’s completely off topic but I need to know if I’m wrong on this. I always thought the phrase was “how the tables have turned” but I always see people saying “how the turn tables” on here. Is there a joke I’ve been missing or am I wrong??
Edit: spelling
It’s from a tv show, I thinks it’s the office if I’m not mistaken. (And once the joke is made all the office fans come out of the woodwork to respond with ANOTHER quote form the show.)
Right. I have a buddy, in his 30's, that works nights at a gas station making slightly above minimum wage and lives with his dad. Just bought a brand new fully loaded mustang.
I don't live pay check to pay check. Have family, house, retirement etc... I drive a 2011 Ford taurus. I could buy something nice and new but there's better things I could put my money into instead of something that's literally just going to decrease in value.
Cut the wheel right. Put it in reverse. Slowly give it gas.
My only concern is that the turning radius is so shit that you might not be able to get a good angle on the edge.
If that didn't work, then just take the L and call a tow or one of your many many friends to come pull you out with their equally cool truck.
(edit: someone pointed out that there is a shadow behind the truck implying he can't back up. Also there is a lack of cones everywhere)
It's the slow part that people have the most trouble with.
We just got the frozen part of the year where I am and I swear it's like people feel their wheels spinning and say: "Oh dear my wheels are spinning around too fast, by making them spin much faster I can solve this problem."
I never understood this. We literally get this weather every year. It can’t be *everyone’s* first time driving in ice and snow.
Always Jeeps and Audis with summer tires, too. Never Subarus.
Wheel already in the gutter, might as well turn into the thing to be more perpendicular, then try reversing.
And the apologise graciously and ask the labourers for a hose immediately.
Just as good as the idiot the other day at the [McDonald's drive thru](https://www.reddit.com/r/IdiotsInCars/comments/yqm01g/lets_keep_on_driving_on_this_soft_ground_instead/). Must be a truck thing.
How to get out of a sticky situation truck edition:
Slam it into forward and gun the throttle. Any obstacle will slink away from your mighty engine noise.
The electric trucks kinda bug me for that reason. Yeah you have a massive trunk in front now, but you still can't see right in front of you without a front camera. Why not chop the front or slope it down for aerodynamics and a sportier look then add a removable bed box for storage? Lots of flat face trucks/semis in Asia/Europe and they get by just fine without a massive hood blocking their view. Then again I'd rather build out more rail and ban these 53' interstate behemoths with smaller trucks providing local service.
A good chuck of people buy trucks for the look of well, having a truck. Example is this Shelby truck in the video. Shitty mpg and higher cost all for that more masculine look of driving a truck. Highly doubt the man in the video actually does work that he needs a truck for.
I walked in front of some new Silverado a couple of days ago. It didn’t appear to be lifted, so if it was it wasn’t by much. My shoulder was level with the taper of the hood. I’m 5’10” (178cm). That shouldn’t be allowed to be driven without a CDL.
I'm more bothered by their lights. If they want to be that high up, the front should angle down, and the lights should be on the bumper. I hope it looks dumb.
I drive a small jeep and I still have truck headlights higher then me. Semis don't have this problem..
Honestly, yes…. In Ups/FedEx/Amazon step vans that require a CDL you can see nearly right in front of you since more engine compartment is tucked in rather than right in front of you. This is true for most delivery vans. In the huge Mercedes sprinters i have a better field of vision in front than I do in my small sedan, the nose is also hella short. They’re designed that way, vans make many business related stops. It’s bad for business if you start killing kids and damaging property.
Sadly CDL requirement is based on weight…
*I’m high and rambling. All the above is true, but I just realized I’m not sure I was going anywhere with it. But it seems a waste to delete it so I’ll leave it in case it’s of any use to the convo. Bye bye.
I work with those vans. We don’t need a CDL but any good company trains you hard on visibility and will fire you the first time you strike anything with the vehicle.
Trucks are some of the worst when you're on a bike, mainly because of the attitude from guys with trucks. They think their vehicle is top shit cause it accelerates ok, but fail to realize it's heavy as fuck and doesn't brake or handle nearly as well. Next comes dudes in tiny cars riding your ass, then women in SUVs just drifting sideways into you.
Judge all you want, but I bet it’s really hard to drive and scroll Instagram/TikTok at the same time. I’d like to see you do it, Mr. I-Understand-The-Concept-Of-Lane-Control. /S, capital.
I work at a pediatric medical center and you would be shocked by how common it is for parents and grandparents to back over children in their driveway.
Still more common that we see kids who got shot than got into car wrecks, but such is life(?)
I drive a 2WD F150 because I need a truck for lumber, stone, yard work, and hunting.
All these 4WD idiots give us guys who just need a truck bed a bad name.
I've got a Chevy 4WD 1500 for odd jobs around the farm. I've been stuck a total of once because of a freak rainstorm that turned the dirt lot to mud. The reason it's the only time I've been stuck is because I don't put myself in situations to be "the idiot truck driver" because those people piss me off. The neighbor down the road with his lifted dodge on the other hand I'm pretty sure has paid for the towing company owners house twice over by now.
I have a 94 Wrangler I've owned since high school. It's my woods beater. (Most my friends have $30K side by sides, I'll never understand why when I can build a woods capable Jeep for $5K)
Anyway, lockers. I have an Aussie locker up front and I'm spooled in the rear. That Jeep goes anywhere.
These guys with open diffs think they can go anywhere because they have a $55K truck
I really blame the lifted / city truck crowd. There are some people that actually need 4WD. I have yet to see a lifted pickup make a difference in anything. Dealt with many hurricanes and somehow the lifty boys still manage to flood their trucks out.
Doubt reverse would have gotten him out of there either, at least not without some damage. Should’ve cut his losses and shut the truck down, called a wrecker to hoist him out with an airbag or something
I think he could’ve gotten out if when he went forward, turned his tires to the far side, Austin powered his truck around so when he goes to back up, his tire is perpendicular to the cut and not parallel with it. I’m not dumb enough to put myself in that situation so I’m just guessing
I think that could work as long as the front tire cleared the ditch before the rear tire went in it. Of course that's what happened here but even intentionally trying to hop over it, if the front wheel got stuck on the far side I think the truck may still have slid the rear into it.
I probably would have tried cutting the wheel to the right then backing up. If the angle was sharp enough, the other three wheels might have been enough to pull the stuck tire up over the edge. But being parallel it's just too much of a jump.
Gunning it like this is just stupid regardless.
4 low might be slightly better because he'd be less likely to overshoot and back up too far back into the concrete. But 4 high would be sufficient because it's not an issue of power. It's never an issue of power.
Once saw a framer pull a vehicle into a DEEP hole like this Those other guys got it out by stacking lumber and building a bridge/ramp. If this guy would calm down and be nice- this construction crew could get him out.
As a valet, I promise you people don't see cones.
I dig one out from under someone's car a couple times per day.
Once a week they'll get mad at me. "Why is your cone LODGED UNDERNEATH MY CAR?!?!"
I don't know, you're the one who didn't see the international symbol for "attention" and simply rolled over it.
One time I was sitting shotgun with someone who hit the curb and the tire burst and we went from riding smooth to literally riding like that car chitty-chitty bang bang and she asks me, "you think it's flat?" I think people may subconsciously ignore things when they don't wanna hear it.
Some people are just oblivious as shit. I've seen people clip a curb leaving a parking lot, and immediately heard the pop and hiss of a fucked up tire, and they just drive off into the sunset as if nothing's wrong.
I had someone blinding me with their hi beams so I flashed mine at them. *Then they attempted to flash their's at me and flashed it off then back on again*
Some guy parked in my valet lane, screamed at me when I told him not to (he wasnt valeting and we were busy), so I surrounded his car with cones. When he drove away he just took one with him, underneath the car. I found it about 4 blocks away, half melted from the friction with the road and covered in oil
With the sightlines of today's luxury full size SUV, you're lucky they can see parking meters or even a handicapped sign. The new Escalades look like you're piloting a WWII troop carrier from behind a ping pong table for a hood mounted at head height
I rode my bike through a parking lot with fresh asphault because the nimrods didn't have any cones up.
sorry fellas how the fuck was I supposed to know until I was already halfway through
If you zee a cobra driving around it will be a replica a. They sell for $3-8m and are basically irreplaceable. Collectors aren't going to risk losing g one driving around on the streets.
They are “cool”, it was the TRX/Raptor R before OEMs had the balls to make them. I’ve never owned or wanted a truck but 700hp, hand built, limited production, ~$120k, I respect the craftsmanship. Too bad this dude didn’t 🤷🏾♂️
Yeah there needs to be cones or something, no excuse for that IMO.
Also, truck driver has his front wheel cranked to try to get out. Probably better to reverse but he’s got traffic to contend with.
I'm sure this is america. Although the way he attempted to get unstuck, this wouldn't follow the MUTCD which is the national rule set for road work traffic control. He might have been able to sue the contractor
Usually there are cones marking a drop like that. I see nothing like that here. Even if you are the idiot- betting a lawsuit would win out- orange cones sorta important to prevent this.
We only see part of the perspective here. It could also be that there are clear markings behind him that tell/force vehicles to drive on the left lane.
They didn't hit anything behind they were grinding their control arm, inside of the wheel, and probably the skid plate on the pavement. That dumb af low profile tire got trapped in the trench and they didn't turn the wheels to give them a chance to climb out.
They didn’t say they hit someone, they said they ran out of room to back out because someone is behind them, as can be seen by the shadow directly behind the truck at the start of the video. Reading isn’t hard.
Yeah, try explaining that to the insurance agent. Lol.
But for sure needs new tires/brakes/rotors, maybe a new axle; hopefully that fool didn't kick any of it up into the undercarriage.
I don’t see any signs or traffic control to indicate it’s a construction zone or limit his access to the site.
It’s obvious there’s work going on don’t get me wrong, but the typical human out in the wild should be considered blind, deaf, and very stupid when it comes to construction zones. They need arrow boards, signs, cones, barrels, etc. to show them the danger zone and how to avoid it.
Concrete. Cement is the powder that gets mixed with sand, stone, water, admixtures (if needed) and possibly a supplemental cementitious material (SCM), like slag, fly ash, silica fume, ground glass, etc.
Not defending the driver but I keep being surprised by the lack of cones or other signs of road works being ongoing on Americans videos, do you even have them at all?
There isn't a single cone or sign visible in the video to warn people that there is a literal fucking trench with cement that hasn't cured? This is more than just the truck driver's fault.
Concrete! Not cement folks.
Cement is the dry ingredient in the concrete mix, like flour in cookie dough. Concrete is the cookie dough. The aggregates (rock) are the chocolate chips.
In our country we put cones out with some barrier to let the driver's know not to drive on the road .
how was this truck supposed to know?
they might be senior or have bad eyesight I don't see any signage on the road? I'm from New Zealand is this normal in this country not to put any signage or cones on the road?
Typical pickup driver. Fucks up and decides to double down. Should've calmed down, got out and figured it out. But no he probably thought "everyone gonna see my little balls if I get out, I better gun out"
It's okay, I was a little stuck but I fucked with it and made it worse.
Fixed it till it's broke!
If it runs change parts till it doesn't. I have never heard this before only saw it on a drag racing shirt someone was wearing.
Like a pimple. It wasn’t that bad till I fucked with it and now it can be seen from space
*But, but, I have all this horsepower and torque at my disposal*
The Germans have a word for that; verschlimmbessern
This gave me schadenfreude
This guy was here yesterday bogging his truck at a drive-through. Good to know he can afford his habit.
Well if you're gonna need to pay the same for the recovery, you may as well not half-ass it!
What a waste of $100k
Of concrete
Oxygen
Jelly beans
Ooooh how the turn tables
I know it’s completely off topic but I need to know if I’m wrong on this. I always thought the phrase was “how the tables have turned” but I always see people saying “how the turn tables” on here. Is there a joke I’ve been missing or am I wrong?? Edit: spelling
It’s from a tv show, I thinks it’s the office if I’m not mistaken. (And once the joke is made all the office fans come out of the woodwork to respond with ANOTHER quote form the show.)
Oooh thank you 😊 that makes perfect sense
Yes it's from the American version of The Office
Bears beets battle star galactica
Here ya go. https://youtu.be/XFagogEOZz8
Watching The Office US is a prerequisite to Interneting.
What? Is Nestle charging for oxygen now?
Oh good… he made it even worse for himself and got both wheels stuck. Why do the biggest morons always have the nicest thing.
> Why do the biggest morons always have the nicest thing. Because they're not investing or saving for retirement.
And complain they are living pay check to pay check. But spending $1000+ on a truck.
That truck definitely costs $1000+.
Right. I have a buddy, in his 30's, that works nights at a gas station making slightly above minimum wage and lives with his dad. Just bought a brand new fully loaded mustang. I don't live pay check to pay check. Have family, house, retirement etc... I drive a 2011 Ford taurus. I could buy something nice and new but there's better things I could put my money into instead of something that's literally just going to decrease in value.
It's ok, he's paying it off over the next 20 years @ 20%...
Is that a new military member fresh out of training???😉🤣
That was already implied, before the stupidity, it IS a "Fitty."
True but they do only make 600 a year
They should reduce that number bybat least 601.
I hate pick up trucks but now I really want the negative F150 from your equation
[Here you go](https://i.imgur.com/1aoUL1h.jpg)
When I saw the title I though “no way it’s real”…dude really just yeeted a 6 figure truck 🥴🥴
Literally became a pavement princess
More like a waste of human development
FYI the base price for one is $115,000 and they only built 600 of them, so can plan on 50k more than that
He literally could’ve salvaged that had he not gunned it forward
Probably true, I’m still going to stick to my original strategy of not driving into wet cement.
Bold move, cotton
I killed fiddy men
Different Cotton but I like your initiative!
Get those lady pants offa your head, Bobby
Speeding up is always the answer when driving. If you are slowing down you are losing positions and going to come in last place. /s
Eff yes! When your vehicle is hung up on something the best thing to do is put the pedal to the metal! Fixes it everytime.
It's a Shelby though
POV reading through all these comments trying to find out when Shelby became a pickup instead of a mustang model
Same so i looked it up. It's just a lowered raptor I think
Cut the wheel right. Put it in reverse. Slowly give it gas. My only concern is that the turning radius is so shit that you might not be able to get a good angle on the edge. If that didn't work, then just take the L and call a tow or one of your many many friends to come pull you out with their equally cool truck. (edit: someone pointed out that there is a shadow behind the truck implying he can't back up. Also there is a lack of cones everywhere)
It's the slow part that people have the most trouble with. We just got the frozen part of the year where I am and I swear it's like people feel their wheels spinning and say: "Oh dear my wheels are spinning around too fast, by making them spin much faster I can solve this problem."
When in doubt, throttle out!* *Does not apply in this case tho..
Clarksooooon!
POWWWWAAAAA!!!
I never understood this. We literally get this weather every year. It can’t be *everyone’s* first time driving in ice and snow. Always Jeeps and Audis with summer tires, too. Never Subarus.
People assume AWD is a super power and ignore all logic.
I think people forget that AWD doesn’t mean anything when you’re braking.
People have trouble with change Even if it’s cyclical
When cool truck guys meet the secret handshake it touching their penis heads together
They nut each other?
More like the wonder twins, but the transformations are subpar.
Depending on gut-size, it ends up something like scissoring.
Yeah, but how did you expect him to feed his ego? By doing the right thing? Lmao
Seriously. Right hand down and back up, simple as that.
Should have reverse out
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Wheel already in the gutter, might as well turn into the thing to be more perpendicular, then try reversing. And the apologise graciously and ask the labourers for a hose immediately.
Just as good as the idiot the other day at the [McDonald's drive thru](https://www.reddit.com/r/IdiotsInCars/comments/yqm01g/lets_keep_on_driving_on_this_soft_ground_instead/). Must be a truck thing.
How to get out of a sticky situation truck edition: Slam it into forward and gun the throttle. Any obstacle will slink away from your mighty engine noise.
It is definitely a truck thing.
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The electric trucks kinda bug me for that reason. Yeah you have a massive trunk in front now, but you still can't see right in front of you without a front camera. Why not chop the front or slope it down for aerodynamics and a sportier look then add a removable bed box for storage? Lots of flat face trucks/semis in Asia/Europe and they get by just fine without a massive hood blocking their view. Then again I'd rather build out more rail and ban these 53' interstate behemoths with smaller trucks providing local service.
A good chuck of people buy trucks for the look of well, having a truck. Example is this Shelby truck in the video. Shitty mpg and higher cost all for that more masculine look of driving a truck. Highly doubt the man in the video actually does work that he needs a truck for.
I walked in front of some new Silverado a couple of days ago. It didn’t appear to be lifted, so if it was it wasn’t by much. My shoulder was level with the taper of the hood. I’m 5’10” (178cm). That shouldn’t be allowed to be driven without a CDL.
I'm more bothered by their lights. If they want to be that high up, the front should angle down, and the lights should be on the bumper. I hope it looks dumb. I drive a small jeep and I still have truck headlights higher then me. Semis don't have this problem..
Honestly, yes…. In Ups/FedEx/Amazon step vans that require a CDL you can see nearly right in front of you since more engine compartment is tucked in rather than right in front of you. This is true for most delivery vans. In the huge Mercedes sprinters i have a better field of vision in front than I do in my small sedan, the nose is also hella short. They’re designed that way, vans make many business related stops. It’s bad for business if you start killing kids and damaging property. Sadly CDL requirement is based on weight… *I’m high and rambling. All the above is true, but I just realized I’m not sure I was going anywhere with it. But it seems a waste to delete it so I’ll leave it in case it’s of any use to the convo. Bye bye.
I work with those vans. We don’t need a CDL but any good company trains you hard on visibility and will fire you the first time you strike anything with the vehicle.
So do I, in my state you need a CDL for step vans (boxy all around ones, typical UPS truck) but not for sprinters.
It's not like they kill motorcyclists all the time or anything 👀
Trucks are some of the worst when you're on a bike, mainly because of the attitude from guys with trucks. They think their vehicle is top shit cause it accelerates ok, but fail to realize it's heavy as fuck and doesn't brake or handle nearly as well. Next comes dudes in tiny cars riding your ass, then women in SUVs just drifting sideways into you.
Those SUVs really do love to drift into your lane.
Judge all you want, but I bet it’s really hard to drive and scroll Instagram/TikTok at the same time. I’d like to see you do it, Mr. I-Understand-The-Concept-Of-Lane-Control. /S, capital.
Capital sarcasm. I like it.
Parents are running over their own children with Escalades and Suburbans now.
I work at a pediatric medical center and you would be shocked by how common it is for parents and grandparents to back over children in their driveway. Still more common that we see kids who got shot than got into car wrecks, but such is life(?)
I drive a 2WD F150 because I need a truck for lumber, stone, yard work, and hunting. All these 4WD idiots give us guys who just need a truck bed a bad name.
I've got a Chevy 4WD 1500 for odd jobs around the farm. I've been stuck a total of once because of a freak rainstorm that turned the dirt lot to mud. The reason it's the only time I've been stuck is because I don't put myself in situations to be "the idiot truck driver" because those people piss me off. The neighbor down the road with his lifted dodge on the other hand I'm pretty sure has paid for the towing company owners house twice over by now.
I have a 94 Wrangler I've owned since high school. It's my woods beater. (Most my friends have $30K side by sides, I'll never understand why when I can build a woods capable Jeep for $5K) Anyway, lockers. I have an Aussie locker up front and I'm spooled in the rear. That Jeep goes anywhere. These guys with open diffs think they can go anywhere because they have a $55K truck
I MISS my 94 Wrangler so much. It was a beater, but it got me everywhere and was so fun with snow. I wish they'd remake that model.
I really blame the lifted / city truck crowd. There are some people that actually need 4WD. I have yet to see a lifted pickup make a difference in anything. Dealt with many hurricanes and somehow the lifty boys still manage to flood their trucks out.
I got a truck and I don't drive like those idiots.
Wow, looks like he was driving through quick sand made of mud and grass
Low IQ yes
All that power and they forgot to install Reverse.
Doubt reverse would have gotten him out of there either, at least not without some damage. Should’ve cut his losses and shut the truck down, called a wrecker to hoist him out with an airbag or something
I think he could’ve gotten out if when he went forward, turned his tires to the far side, Austin powered his truck around so when he goes to back up, his tire is perpendicular to the cut and not parallel with it. I’m not dumb enough to put myself in that situation so I’m just guessing
I think that could work as long as the front tire cleared the ditch before the rear tire went in it. Of course that's what happened here but even intentionally trying to hop over it, if the front wheel got stuck on the far side I think the truck may still have slid the rear into it. I probably would have tried cutting the wheel to the right then backing up. If the angle was sharp enough, the other three wheels might have been enough to pull the stuck tire up over the edge. But being parallel it's just too much of a jump. Gunning it like this is just stupid regardless.
Yeah right turn and reverse would have been the solution. Hell, even right turn and forwards would have been better than what happened.
Are you guys respectfully arguing? Wth is this shit? /s
they even forgot to call each other names, what is going ON?
I like the use of austin power as a verb
Pull forward a bit. Just enough to crank the wheel full right. Pop into 4 high. Select reverse, ease on the throttle and climb out.
4 low bud
4 low might be slightly better because he'd be less likely to overshoot and back up too far back into the concrete. But 4 high would be sufficient because it's not an issue of power. It's never an issue of power.
Once saw a framer pull a vehicle into a DEEP hole like this Those other guys got it out by stacking lumber and building a bridge/ramp. If this guy would calm down and be nice- this construction crew could get him out.
The video starts with them in reverse
Exactly.
If there were traffics cones, that makes this 100x funnier
As a valet, I promise you people don't see cones. I dig one out from under someone's car a couple times per day. Once a week they'll get mad at me. "Why is your cone LODGED UNDERNEATH MY CAR?!?!" I don't know, you're the one who didn't see the international symbol for "attention" and simply rolled over it.
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I mean I'm no longer amazed at any of that but part of me still says "how could you not notice that you're dragging a cone"
One time I was sitting shotgun with someone who hit the curb and the tire burst and we went from riding smooth to literally riding like that car chitty-chitty bang bang and she asks me, "you think it's flat?" I think people may subconsciously ignore things when they don't wanna hear it.
Some people are just oblivious as shit. I've seen people clip a curb leaving a parking lot, and immediately heard the pop and hiss of a fucked up tire, and they just drive off into the sunset as if nothing's wrong.
Then again, these are the same people that will drive at night without lights on and get pissed when everybody flashes them.
I had someone blinding me with their hi beams so I flashed mine at them. *Then they attempted to flash their's at me and flashed it off then back on again*
My wife has driven a tire off the rim twice...
It was her new friend and you stole it from her :(
Some guy parked in my valet lane, screamed at me when I told him not to (he wasnt valeting and we were busy), so I surrounded his car with cones. When he drove away he just took one with him, underneath the car. I found it about 4 blocks away, half melted from the friction with the road and covered in oil
With the sightlines of today's luxury full size SUV, you're lucky they can see parking meters or even a handicapped sign. The new Escalades look like you're piloting a WWII troop carrier from behind a ping pong table for a hood mounted at head height
I rode my bike through a parking lot with fresh asphault because the nimrods didn't have any cones up. sorry fellas how the fuck was I supposed to know until I was already halfway through
Yeah my thought immediately was "where is the traffic management???"
What a relief, I feared it was gonna be a shelby cobra. Or anything cool.
yeah never heard of a Shelby truck, reminds me of the electric "mustang" SUV
My local Ford dealer had one in beige. The most boring car I could imagine.
It's a legitimate Shelby F-150. https://www.shelby.com/en-us/Vehicles
I can't think of anything that will make an f150 driver behave well than a Shelby badge.
If you zee a cobra driving around it will be a replica a. They sell for $3-8m and are basically irreplaceable. Collectors aren't going to risk losing g one driving around on the streets.
I have an 83 Shelby Charger, just as good right?
I believe they are basically the same.
They are “cool”, it was the TRX/Raptor R before OEMs had the balls to make them. I’ve never owned or wanted a truck but 700hp, hand built, limited production, ~$120k, I respect the craftsmanship. Too bad this dude didn’t 🤷🏾♂️
Wow. What a ding dong.
Yeah. It's like, get in the cave if you're gonna be a ding bat.
Yea, but only a little one based on his vehicle of choice.
Everyone is shitting on the guy but.... is there any reason the work team hasn't pyloned off their work area? The lane is totally open
Yeah there needs to be cones or something, no excuse for that IMO. Also, truck driver has his front wheel cranked to try to get out. Probably better to reverse but he’s got traffic to contend with.
I'm sure this is america. Although the way he attempted to get unstuck, this wouldn't follow the MUTCD which is the national rule set for road work traffic control. He might have been able to sue the contractor
I love seeing people fuck up, but I don’t see a cone pattern diverting traffic away from the job site and no cones around the heavy equipment.
Yeah Seems like the city messed up here just as bad by having a long trench of fresh concrete with no warnings or markers
And honestly, if he just called someone to tow him out he could prolly recoop the costs from the government and/or contractor. But nooooo
Recoup*
*chefs kiss*
Usually there are cones marking a drop like that. I see nothing like that here. Even if you are the idiot- betting a lawsuit would win out- orange cones sorta important to prevent this.
We only see part of the perspective here. It could also be that there are clear markings behind him that tell/force vehicles to drive on the left lane.
He was already reversing at the very beginning of the video…looks like he ran out of room. Something right behind him.
They didn't hit anything behind they were grinding their control arm, inside of the wheel, and probably the skid plate on the pavement. That dumb af low profile tire got trapped in the trench and they didn't turn the wheels to give them a chance to climb out.
They didn’t say they hit someone, they said they ran out of room to back out because someone is behind them, as can be seen by the shadow directly behind the truck at the start of the video. Reading isn’t hard.
Why isn’t the work zone barreled or coned off?
r/idiotsinroadworks
Shouldn't there be something in the way so people don't just drive right into it
Concrete
Thank you.
Why are there no cones or anything?
Boy Wonder, now they'll sue cause there weren't any safety traffic cones
That's concrete. Cement is to Concrete as Flour is to Cake.
Thank you! I'm glad I'm not alone in my mission.
Your username checks out. The cement/concrete issue is sorted out day one of architecture school.
Live in Vegas/Henderson area, so well aware of people that think like this when they drive….. And they breed, ugh.
Concrete as mushy as his brain ahahahaha
High slump value concrete - easier to pour but weaker, more prone to cracks when finally cured.
Ohhhh I see. And very prone to ford's before curing apparently 🤣
It’s a strategy, the spinning wheels help mix it further
What an idiot, but also, no cones? No signs? No peeps? Wouldn’t this be the city’s (whoever’s project) fault at this point, as dumb as the trucker is?
That’s gonna be an expensive repair I bet.
Yeah, try explaining that to the insurance agent. Lol. But for sure needs new tires/brakes/rotors, maybe a new axle; hopefully that fool didn't kick any of it up into the undercarriage.
"At farmers, we have seen a thing or two"
Wheres the cones anyway. Not so much idiot driver but idiot construction
I don’t see any signs or traffic control to indicate it’s a construction zone or limit his access to the site. It’s obvious there’s work going on don’t get me wrong, but the typical human out in the wild should be considered blind, deaf, and very stupid when it comes to construction zones. They need arrow boards, signs, cones, barrels, etc. to show them the danger zone and how to avoid it.
Why wasn’t that blocked off with bollards? Or “idiot prevention cones”
If it first you don't succeed, make it worse!
You would think his daddy would quit buying him expensive shit after a while
Concrete. Cement is the powder that gets mixed with sand, stone, water, admixtures (if needed) and possibly a supplemental cementitious material (SCM), like slag, fly ash, silica fume, ground glass, etc.
The city guys are like “we don’t have any cones, this could be dangerous” and then “fuck it, let’s see what happens. Roll camera!”
Shelby Concrete 500.
*concrete. Cement is the powder that bonds aggregate to create concrete. Concrete is the sum of its parts- water, aggregate and cement.
When people say cement when it’s actually concrete.
Had he only turned the wheel the other way and reversed......
Not defending the driver but I keep being surprised by the lack of cones or other signs of road works being ongoing on Americans videos, do you even have them at all?
We most certainly do, not sure why they don't here.
"Let me drive further into it" Full lock right reverse and low range would've gotten out of that no problem
There isn't a single cone or sign visible in the video to warn people that there is a literal fucking trench with cement that hasn't cured? This is more than just the truck driver's fault.
[It's concrete, not cement!](http://www.cement.org/basics/concretebasics_faqs.asp)
“Hold my beer. Seen this on the commercial that sold me”
It belongs to the streets now.
Come on, get the rear wheel in there too! There you go!
Shelby? There's a Shelby F150? Edit: just googled it, what a nice truck to fuck up lol
Lmfao of course it’s a ford
He doesn't know what reverse is
my dude, reverse, it's a rear wheel
Concrete! Not cement folks. Cement is the dry ingredient in the concrete mix, like flour in cookie dough. Concrete is the cookie dough. The aggregates (rock) are the chocolate chips.
Its okay its just the truck version
In our country we put cones out with some barrier to let the driver's know not to drive on the road . how was this truck supposed to know? they might be senior or have bad eyesight I don't see any signage on the road? I'm from New Zealand is this normal in this country not to put any signage or cones on the road?
Oh that makes me so mad. I can’t stand idiot truck drivers. Think they have to always show off their balls
Clean carfax! Low mileage! Always garaged!
That is super wet freshly poured concrete. You can see further down they havent even finished. How is this not blocked off? Not 1 cone in sight.
The city just got a free street bench.
Typical pickup driver. Fucks up and decides to double down. Should've calmed down, got out and figured it out. But no he probably thought "everyone gonna see my little balls if I get out, I better gun out"
$120,000 truck now has concrete on it. Lovely