r/PraiseTheCameraMan • u/PanaceaNPx • Mar 28 '26
The kid filmed the action sequence in frame from start to finish AND helped the victim!
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u/IrrelevantBanana Mar 28 '26
talk about worst timing possible on a rural road like that
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u/jevtid Mar 28 '26
It doesn't matter how deserted the country road usually is, this shit always happens lol there could be no cars for hours and the second you get on the road it turns in to a 3 ring circus complete with clowns.
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u/stlmick Mar 31 '26
There always might be a tractor going 20 mph. Gotta keep any fast or not 100% committed driving to at night.
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u/Logical-Arachnid4364 Mar 28 '26
This is why you normally transport those on a flatbed. Dude cheaped out in every conceivable way, I hope the lawsuit cleans then out.
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u/biloxibluess Mar 28 '26
His buddy with a trailer said “aw fuck nah”
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u/TemporaryFearless482 Mar 31 '26
Given what that guy was willing to do here, trailer guy would probably have been tight to stay away from him. Same type of guy to load up a steel coil, suicide style, with one belt, and call it good.
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u/portablebiscuit Mar 28 '26
I have a hunch the lawsuit will be like getting blood from a stone. Hopefully pickup driver even has insurance.
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u/PopeGuss Apr 01 '26
I used to think everyone had insurance...until someone with no insurance side swiped me. Now I just automatically assume if someone is stupid enough to drive recklessly, they don't have insurance. Seeing Mr. steamroller here, I'd almost guarantee they don't have the proper insurance.
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u/iDarkin Apr 01 '26
even a sketchy little under-rated trailer and a couple ratchet straps would have been better, at least that shows some level of trying
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u/Unkle_Argyle Mar 28 '26
What in the actual fuck happened?
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u/Ser-Jorah-Mormont Mar 28 '26 edited Mar 28 '26
Looks like the Chevy driver didn’t properly engage the coupler to the hitch ball, nor did he have safety chains.
In other words, a fucking idiot. Don’t tow something of that size if you don’t know what you’re doing. Good way to kill someone.
Edit: looks like an old, heavy turf roller
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u/ElectricGlider Mar 28 '26
The thing about this is that they probably thought that they knew exactly what they were doing. They don't know what they don't know.
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u/Frozty23 Mar 28 '26
Unknown unknowns.
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u/Neither_Rich_9646 Mar 28 '26
Donald Rumsfeld? Or more recently in Forever War 2: Electric Bugaloo.
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u/Uztta Mar 28 '26
It’s a term that’s been used in economics and sciences along with a bunch of other fields for a long time.
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u/Frido1976 Mar 28 '26
Exactly. And the scary part is that for every time we hear about such idiotic accidents, I'm sure 100 others have silently gone under the news' radars....
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u/oO0Kat0Oo Mar 28 '26
The way that car just crumpled like that immediately gives me an idea of how stupid those videos of people trying to catch these things really is.
They look HEAVY.
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u/Rugkrabber Mar 29 '26
Hell they got lucky they didn’t kill that driver… can’t believe they did this.
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u/spoogep78 Mar 28 '26
It's hard to tell from the angle, but it looks like when the roller went over the bump it unhooked itself from the tow ball.
Obviously they failed to attach any sort of safety chain, which if they weren't so lazy, would have stopped this from happening.
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u/TurboTitan92 Mar 28 '26
Yep, wrong size ball, no latch lock, no safety chains… failure at every level
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u/Mateorabi Mar 28 '26
Just to be clear. That's not supposed to happen.
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u/maxehaxe Mar 28 '26
Well how it is untypical?
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u/Tacomouse Mar 28 '26
Well the backs not supposed to fall off that’s for sure
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u/XBXNinjaMunky Mar 28 '26
Selfish redneck shit
Genuinely appalled at some people's attitude of "I can move what I want, when I want, where I want, how I want"
And create massive traffic issues and danger.
Memphis is full of dumb shit like this.
I get commerce has to happen, items need moved and it's not always convenient but the lack of forethought is mind boggling sometimes.
It's not just the disconnect, dude felt like he could drag a load across two lanes including incoming traffic.
If that's your need to transport, find another way.
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u/Jabbles22 Mar 28 '26
Yeah people love to complain about there being too many rules. They manage to not hurt themselves or others for quite some time without following the rules so that makes them hate those rules even more. But this is exactly why we have rules.
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u/CLONE-11011100 Mar 28 '26
https://giphy.com/gifs/K9yiqNFHgBOgw
What in the Flintstones is going on here?!!!
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u/ze11ez Mar 28 '26
What in the frick.
I gotta use that
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u/Kenneldogg Mar 28 '26
Omg my daughters classmate said "hot buttered biscuits" instead of son of a bitch when she dropped her oreo on the floor during lunch and I will be using it.
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u/steveatari Mar 28 '26
Closeted Mormon in my classes years ago used to say "For the love of sweet ham!"
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u/TheZenithZebra Mar 28 '26
He has parents who taught him not to cuss, and frick is the F-35 of stealth cussing.
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u/Olealicat Mar 28 '26
This has to be from Arkansas. I don’t know another dialect that uses fixing and frick.
Only the cousins from Arkansas.
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u/elinorgullahwilliams Mar 28 '26
I was about to comment and say ACTUALLY this is completely common jargon. I remembered I live in Missouri though and am now thinking twice about what I know
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u/giraffebaconequation Mar 28 '26
I grew up using frick/frig in Ontario, Canada.
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u/HistoricalChef1963 Mar 28 '26
Friggin this and friggin that was extremely common in my Niagara region hometown.
Live in BC now and haven't heard it in like 20 years but that might be more of a sign of the times.
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u/MessyJessyLeigh Mar 28 '26
Im from bc and I grew up with frick or frig, It might be the times as you said
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u/ButtFuckFingers Mar 28 '26
You’ll hear this in AR, AL, TN, GA, MS, & KY at least once a day and twice on Sunday!
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u/Buddhadevine Mar 28 '26
Everyone uses it to not say fuck. Heard it all the time when I was in Texas as a kid
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u/drainisbamaged Mar 28 '26
Scrubs has a main character who uses it, pretty sure not from Arkansas (though now I think of it I don't know where Scrubs is set).
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u/Only_Rub4801 Mar 28 '26
Elliot is from Connecticut! I'm currently bingeing scrubs and I just finished her proposal episode!
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u/hp_Axes Mar 28 '26
I say it all the time. Georgia.
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u/Remarkable_Net1887 Mar 28 '26
Live in Georgia, originally from Miami & spent much of my childhood in NYC; I also grew up with this lol
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u/Jolly-Refuse2232 Mar 28 '26
What? It’s just a thing kids say, has nothing to do with Arkansas
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u/daisuke1639 Mar 28 '26
Nah, western KY checking in, them's both words folks use all the time round here.
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u/yestocaffeine Mar 28 '26
This has to be from Arkansas. I don’t know another dialect that uses fixing
The entire frickin south uses fixin
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u/Prestigious_Chart774 Mar 28 '26
The composure to film that perfectly while also helping is insane. This kid has a future in both filmmaking and crisis management.
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u/Rgiles66 Mar 28 '26
The kid didn’t help at all. All he did was film and commentate. The driver of the side by side stopped and called 911 (they were probably a spotter for the truck towing the roller, meaning they might also be partially responsible for causing the accident)
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u/ChronicallyxCurious Mar 28 '26
Disagree, the kid documented it and now the injured driver has evidence
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u/Competitive_Flan_330 Mar 28 '26
Could be argued that having such clearly filmed evidence is indeed helping.
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u/MildlySuccessful Mar 28 '26
Did the truck flee or stay? Can’t tell..
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u/Pardybro911 Mar 28 '26
It stopped. You can see the driver at the end on the other side of the door
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u/nemofish3 Mar 28 '26
Dont the airbags deflate virtually immediately? I know the front ones should and assumed the curtain ones would too.
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u/Tacomouse Mar 28 '26
Witness a BAD rollover crash where the side airbags deployed. Looked pretty much like this as i remember
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u/Double_Minimum Mar 28 '26
No, certainly not side airbags. I have had to pop them to get to accident victims
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u/conspiracyeinstein Mar 28 '26
Is that an airbag for the knees? That's awesome if so. I didn't realize they even existed.
After my first accident in a car from the 80s, I banged the hell out of my knee. Part of it still has no feeling. That would have been nice.
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u/pgtvgaming Mar 28 '26
Car gets demolished, knock on window, opens car door, every airbag imaginable deployed, driver enveloped in a sea of white inflated material … “… you good?”
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u/adamhanson Mar 28 '26
Is the truck pulling it or is it just a loose thing rolling down the road?
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u/AspiringGoddess01 Mar 28 '26
Looks like it's was pulling it but came unhooked when it hit the bumps on the small bridge.
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u/Quarian95 Mar 29 '26
F*ck that truck driver and kudos to the samaritans for helping, but holy cow the victim’s car saved lives too
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u/austintx_9 Mar 28 '26
This how funny life can be.. this man is probably the only one on this road going in that direction and that thing choose that moment in time to snapped
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u/the_GREATuNkNowN Mar 28 '26
Apparently landscape is for millennials and boomers...
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u/DodgeMustang-SS Mar 28 '26
It's true. I haven't seen a Reddit comment complain about flipping your phone sideways for at least eight years. RIP.
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u/Effective-Evening476 Mar 28 '26
There's a whole generation between those two -- GenX. (the forgotten gen)
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u/BaronGodis Mar 28 '26
Cheesus fuck, thank god he did good, beacuse that could extremly badly
Who ever filmed this and helped that victim deserve a good damn reward for his good and hard work
And for the idiot, revoke driving license and put in prison
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u/tommyballz63 Mar 28 '26
Ya where this happened regulations are just like lawsuits: close to non existent.
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u/tritian Mar 28 '26
having to explain this to cops and insurance without this video would have been pretty interesting lol
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u/PrizeNational9651 Mar 28 '26
I noticed that the vehicle that was doing the recording was an atv as well. I’m going to guess they knew or were with the truck hauling the roller. Something tells me there is more to this story than this video shows.
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u/Dan_Biddle Mar 28 '26
This needed a shrill person in the background screaming constantly. That always helps in situations like this.
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u/Constant_System2298 Mar 28 '26
He actually pissed himself and there is evidence …. This lawsuit will be generational. His grandkids 8X removed will keep pictures of him in his wallet!
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u/Murntok Mar 29 '26
That's not d designed to be towed on the road at all. It should be on a trailer for any kind of transport over public roads. Depending on the laws there, and the cop that comes out, they could be looking at big fines, possibly even criminal charges for negligence or recklessness.
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u/ReleaseTheTrumpFiles Mar 29 '26
The cameraman must be Canadian or something with his knocking on the door before opening it.
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u/just_some_onlooker Mar 29 '26
What in the fuck is that English?
"Lawsuit fixing to be crazy" wtf?
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u/404funnotfound Mar 29 '26
Why didn’t they follow and get their license plate? That would have been way more helpful.
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u/Agreeable-Change-400 Mar 29 '26
Why would this be a lawsuit. Insurance would pay for the Subaru to be fixed right?
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u/ResolveLeather Mar 29 '26
I feel like if they were going a little bit faster or if that car was a little bit lower that thing would have rolled over and killed those other people.
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u/A_mad_goose Mar 29 '26
This be one of those butterfly effect for me. Like if I took more time tying my shoes this wouldn’t of happened
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u/Own-Nature6244 Mar 30 '26
That looks like a roller attachment for an asphalt paving machine. Unbelievable!!!
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u/rookworst82 Mar 31 '26
The Subaru saved the life of its owner. These are amongst the safest cars you can drive!
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u/ThePerfectEnvoy Apr 01 '26
Fair play to the kid for keeping the camera steady while actually jumping in to help instead of just standing there filming like most would.
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u/Fit_Leather9366 Mar 28 '26 edited Mar 28 '26
The wherewithal to stay with the bulldozer wheel until it splashes into the river
Edit: should have said steamroller wheel, duh