This is actually very funny tho
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”
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!
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.
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.”
Agree on the first two, but dumbasses/drunks hitting shit is a global tradition
I thought roadside mailboxes were mostly an American thing. No? All the places I’ve lived in Europe had them at the door or in a common area like a lobby.
That just means you have never lived rurally
Correct, my friend.
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
Wtf is that article? The first 6 paragraphs literally keep repeating the same info???
Sorry, maybe you’ll like one of these better.
https://www.matassinilaw.com/fortified-mailbox-results-in-personal-injury-lawsuit/
https://www.supremecourt.ohio.gov/rod/docs/pdf/0/2021/2021-Ohio-4113.pdf
https://www.courtnewsohio.gov/cases/2021/SCO/previews/0615-16/0615-16.asp
https://www.courtnewsohio.gov/cases/2021/SCO/1124/201057.asp
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
FAFO
I wanna see the zoom video of that court hearing. I don’t think a judge is gonna be on your side, buddy.
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.
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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.
I’m mad because a child’s creation caused damage to my newly bought, overpriced 2026 Redneck Sports Car™ and I’m going to resort to litigation! /s
The defendant has been found guilty. The plaintiff is awarded $4.37 to be paid directly from the defendants allowance over the course of the next year.
Something similar happened several years ago with a tree stump base:
What if there was a baby sitting and chilling in the snow man? Stay on the road, you dipshit, I recommend property seizure of this man and termination of driving license and perhaps an art course on snowmen and how to avoid driving over adventurous babies by staying on the fucking road and not being a piece of shit.
And $10K fine and put him on the sexual offender registration list.
That’s a lot of effort…just lock him away forever. He already admited to murdering a man.
Only assholes drive white cars.
But it takes a special kind of asshole to drive a white Mustang.
This is ridiculous. White is the most common color for fleet vehicles so there are plenty of white used cars. Sometimes the color of the car is not that important. You just need a car because you live where public transportation is terrible.
Stop fighting! You’re both right! I drive a white fleet car and I am an asshole.
Also, statistically, white cars get in fewer accidents. They’re easily visible during the day and more visible at night. And as you stated, white is a common fleet car color (maybe for this reason) and so it helps have a sense of anonymity, which some prize. There are far more white ford f150s than bright blue f150s.
Reminds me of a short story.
“What’s it for?” Princess asked.
“It’s a lie detector,” Cross said.
Thanks for sharing.
Damn that was good! I’ll have to read some of the author’s other works
Funny
I enjoyed that story, thanks
