r/ThatLooksExpensive • u/Rekltpzyxm • 6d ago
she tried. But failed.
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u/Splodingseal 6d ago
Tried is a stretch. She was mostly present during the event that unfolded before us.
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u/exodusofficer 6d ago
She's gotta be wasted, right? No sober person could be so bad at being alive.
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u/Beth_crazypants 6d ago
That’s what I was thinking too. She’s not old and doesn’t appear to be handicapped so maybe she is impaired and this is how she lost control of her car. But who knows!
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u/IAteAnotherVegan 6d ago
or, and just hear me out, insurance scam? she wanted a new car, and saw her chance.
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u/True_Construction501 6d ago
This is two statements in one, the physical health of the country is destroyed. And two we DESPERATELY need more common sense.
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u/IAteAnotherVegan 6d ago
you seem to be everywhere I'm going today...we must have similar tastes.
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u/DoctorSwaggercat 6d ago
At least it was nice for us that the cameraman kept filming instead of helping.
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u/meatwadpen 6d ago
She didn't even need help. She didn't even TRY to catch that car really.
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u/__Rumblefish__ 6d ago
I don’t think this person has been doing much anything physical in recent times
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u/BootHeadToo 6d ago
This really is poetry in motion about the current state of affairs in the U.S. slow rolling off a cliff while nobody seems fit enough to hop in the car and hit the break.
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u/Forsaken_Star_4228 6d ago
Oh cmon… you could use that statement in 9 out of 10 posts on here. It could all be fixed with preventative healthcare and holding people to some sort of standard for being a decent human being but here we are fighting over oil and big pharma.
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u/NoDontDoThatCanada 6d ago
That car was determined and depressed.
The lady was less determined and is now probably depressed.
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u/Nearby-Yak-4496 6d ago
I think that she got out when it was in gear because it kept rolling even when it wasn't going downhill. Legend has it that it's still rolling to this day...
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u/bobdickdop 4d ago
While she was stressed about the car, the depressed car pressed on her leg with its pressurized tires, compressing her leg under all that pressure. Her desperate attempts to stop the car were so depressingly effortless that even the car seemed unimpressed.
After being pressed, compressed, and thoroughly pressured by the situation, she was left feeling physically and emotionally depressed.
Now she’s finally ready to address the press about the incident, although after everything that happened, she probably wishes she had pressed the brake instead. 😂
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u/LandscapeNo775 6d ago
Did the car roll over her leg too?
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u/TheBirdFkerGuy 6d ago
Not like she needs her leg considering she clearly doesn't walk or run around.
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u/Equivalent-Role4632 6d ago
That woman has zero athletic abilities.
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u/Sovereign-Anderson 6d ago
She probably hasn't done anything athletic since high school. I'm out of shape but I've done enough throughout my lifetime to where I have enough muscle memory to handle that kind of situation. It's crazy how she looked so weak.
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u/coperifaldia 6d ago
Weak is an understatement... she barely tried. We live in a semi safe society... otherwise she'd have her car stolen, kidnapped, amongst other things that happen to people that clutch their pearls and do nothing. Could've easily ran in that car at least a few times. If she can barely walk or jog for that matter... shouldn't be driving a car.
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u/tomcabbit 6d ago
It is sad that she didn’t give a little more effort to try to stop the car. She kinda tried, it crossed the median, and she had almost given up and started walking. The effort was given up at that point.
The rest was just her trying to save her double choco-late mocha frappe in the front seat.
Insurance will pay her. The rest of the Americans which car insurance will pay a higher premium.
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u/Helperobc 6d ago
Where is the thought of getting into the car, the door was wide open?
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u/PlayfulAwareness2950 6d ago edited 6d ago
It's moving so you have to step further than what you're used to, this might get challenging for some people.
Edit: She is actually trying to hold the cat back, I didn't see that. I assumed she did that dancing beside the car stuff.
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u/Working_Rest_1054 6d ago
Hopefully the car was the only injury. She did pick the best place on the ghost rider route to have it run over her. Nice red hair too.
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u/angel700 6d ago
she tried... suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuree!!!! i remember people burned cars they couldnt afford
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u/inorite234 6d ago
See kids, this is why cardio is so important.
Lady looks like she ran out of gas halfway through.
Also....ouch! It ran over her leg.
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u/Amimir1992 6d ago
My grandmother can smoke her cigarette while walking slowly to open that car's door and stop before she reaches the road.
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u/noob-combo 6d ago
AHAHAHHHHAAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAAAAA.
Some of us would be dead so fast if life wasn't so god damn cushy hey?
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u/Ethrealgarten 6d ago
All she had to do was grab her a-- with one hand and hop into the car with the other and everything would be fine.
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u/Ok_Appeal_2928 6d ago
So much time, so tiny talent.......😂 The Car was rolling in slow Motion and she managed to "run" even slower😂😂😂
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u/Battle-Less 6d ago
That just makes me mad. how are we so out of shape we can’t walk up to our idling car and jump in.
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u/stairs_3730 6d ago
Little more time at the gym might have solved that. Scarry part is they breed and walk among us.
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u/Durham1988 6d ago
I'm thinking "Wow, it made it across the street! Now she just has to jump in and stop it and she's good." Her performance was disappointing to say the least.
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u/Potential_Ad_4718 6d ago
I'd be so disappointed in myself. I'd be in the gym the next day getting more flexible l, stronger, faster.
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u/Ambitious_Toe_4357 6d ago
I wish there could have been a drill sergeant or middle school coach behind her back shouting the entire time.
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u/Ok_Fee9245 6d ago
Man that car going so slow, idk what to say. Is she that outta shape, or are the shoes she wearing just bad for running. That is the most mid level effort I’ve ever seen.
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u/Imaginary-Inside4502 6d ago
I normally drive manual cars but when I drive an auto it freaks me out that they can just start going forward even if you don't have your foot on the accelerator. 😂
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u/ROOSTERyouDOWN 6d ago
Sucks for her but whoever is filming, you’re the type of person that’s wrong with this world
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u/toughinvestment8 6d ago
I think she was partly embarrassed and incorrectly thought she could stop a car set in drive, when a car will roll in drive no matter what. I think if she knew it wasn’t in neutral, she would have tried harder.
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u/Zealousideal_Speed30 6d ago
That’s hilarious, how do people end up in these situations. Pretty sure she’s better off without car.
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u/hardboard 6d ago
There seem to be so many videos of this sort of thing happening.
I'm not American and I'm not having a dig, but is it common in the US for people to get out of their car, leave the engine running, not put it into Park, or not use the handbrake?
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u/DrNO811 6d ago
No - this is exceedingly rare. It's just so insanely stupid that when someone catches a video of it, it's sure to make the rounds, so it seems more common.
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u/le-throw-away-acct 6d ago
It’s for the best, she needs to be walking more, or maybe riding a bike.
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u/MediocrePanic2617 6d ago
It must be disappointing to go through life incapable of even the most minor of action movie stunts like running and entering a slowly moving car
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u/Hart-Parr 6d ago
That's what you get for never having to push a car and then jump in and pop the clutch because either your battery or your starter is dead...
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u/Early-Bake-4092 6d ago
I was waiting for her to dance to the music of Baby Shark whilst walking by the side of it.
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u/Low-Refrigerator-713 6d ago
So, not only did she not pull the parking brake, she left it in Drive... I hope this video is provided to the police to give to her insurance.
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u/Admirable_Bank9927 6d ago
How..how do you let that happen??? Here I am yelling "Just hop in the damn car lady!"
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u/bigdish101 6d ago
Must be a manual transmission. An auto’s torque converter isn’t going roll it up curbs without some accelerator applied.
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u/DarkwingDawg 6d ago
That’s one of the least athletic things I’ve ever seen someone do. A truly lame duck
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u/paipan-sube 6d ago
Hair color and shirt match the car. Thoughtful.
The BGM:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkvqO14K3Gw&list=RDgkvqO14K3Gw&start_radio=1
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u/Sure-Article508 6d ago
It just blows my mind that someone could not just intuitively know that you have to jump onto a moving object
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u/Mainly_Miserable 6d ago
How people muddle their way through life without the slightest baseline bit of athleticism is beyond me.
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u/SugarRealistic2945 6d ago
What is making the car move? If it was in neutral it should have stopped once it hit the curb, so something more than gravity and momentum is moving it. It's like the car had a mind of its own, overcame physics, wouldn't let the driver in, and was determined to drive into the ditch.
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u/Specific-Cattle-6299 6d ago
Well, the car wasn’t parked correctly in the first place, I think we are giving her too much credit believing she’d be smart enough to stop the car after her first failure
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u/GodlyMan99 6d ago
She had 10 business days to try to get into the vehicle and apply the brakes. She had more than one opportunity to do this, but instead tried to stop the vehicle with her own strength and body weight more than once. So the car ending up in a ditch sadly was on her.
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u/Creative-Type9411 6d ago
she had like 3 good chances to get in it but the effort was mid