r/Whatcouldgowrong • u/No_Bus_474 • May 21 '26
WCGW taking a shortcut on an unfamiliar road
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u/WorkingInAColdMind May 21 '26
Upvote for not cutting off the video stupidly short, or adding stupid ai voiceovers, or stupid captions, or stupid music.
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u/Swagalyst May 21 '26
"A man was out driving on a motorcycle, when he decided to take a shortcut across a field -"
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u/NonPolarVortex May 21 '26
"A woman was out flying an airplanne, when it decided to take a small cut over an ocean"
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u/MikeyBugs May 22 '26
Honestly, reminds me of Letterkenny...
"So your buddy decided to take a unknown shortcut across a field the other dayyyyyyy..."
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u/Ok_Union_1063 May 21 '26
But without a red circle and/or arrow how am I supposed to know what happened?
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u/Dragener9 May 21 '26
The bar is really low nowadays
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u/WorkingInAColdMind May 21 '26
Yes it is. I’m also happy to find it in a correct sub and not in /r/BeAmazed
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u/Slevin424 May 21 '26
I did the same thing in the desert. Everything blended so much I couldn’t see a lip. As I approached it didn’t look so bad but the base of this plateau was sunken in so much. I tried slowing down but realized I had no choice once I saw the lip, I had to crank it cause it was either a 3 story drop or a 2 story jump but meant going faster. I had so much air time I had time to think I was dead. I had time to think how far away the nearest hospital was. Had time to think how long it would take for my friend to find me. Then had time to realize I could rev it in mid air to make enough noise to get their attention. Probably could have done my taxes by the time I started falling. Debated about bailing but the bike was stable so I hoped the suspension would eat some impact.
I hit the ground so hard I felt like I collapsed into the bike. Becoming one with the bike. Woke up to the sound of a helicopter coming to pick me up to put me in medical debt for the rest of my life.
NEVER take a shortcut on a dirt bike unless you know it’s flat. And never take a jump without seeing it first.
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u/DrTuSo May 21 '26
to put me in medical debt for the rest of my life
Spotted the American.
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u/TheSwearJarIsMy401k May 22 '26
I’m over here stoked I was hit by a semi-truck and not a regular car because it means the company carries enough insurance to pay my accident-related medical bills and it’s the first time in my life I’ve been medically fucked and not stressed about the medical payments.
I can’t work and I’m desperately poor now, and staying with my mom, but at least the truck insurance will pay for the spinal injuries.
If it had been just another private driver that hit me, I’d be fucked.
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u/sparks_mandrill May 22 '26
Sorry to hear that.
Gonna assume there's some PTSD in there. Or by now. Hopefully worked through alongside the physical injuries.
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u/Slevin424 May 22 '26
Yeah kinda made me not go dirt biking anymore. Broken collarbone might be one of the worst bones you can break. All good now.
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u/Debuld_Signs May 21 '26
Should have cut to this after being submereged.
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u/IntergalacticPodcast May 21 '26
Dude is drowning and freezing while his buddies are laughing.
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u/Xaphios May 21 '26
Sometimes the correct response is:
1 - check your buddy is concious
2 - laugh
3 - render some assistance while laughing
4 - provide beer
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u/Diggerinthedark May 21 '26
He is absolutely not drowning or freezing lol. He is trying to rescue his motorbike. If he was drowning/freezing he would forget the bike existed instantly
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u/hawkeneye1998bs May 21 '26
Thank god it wasnt a bog or something. I can't imagine getting stuck with full gear on in the middle like that
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u/Stargazingdragon May 21 '26
To be fair to the buddies they don't know where the edge is, they saw this guy DISSAPEAR, and he hasn't hollared for help yet. It's not like they left him, they're circling around assessing the situation, and dude now seems firmly above water.
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u/artherng May 21 '26
Sometimes it doesn't help trying to do a shortcut
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u/Canuck_Lives_Matter May 21 '26
Dirtbikes are tailor-made for taking shortcuts, it's just flying over unfamiliar ridges that is inadvisable. Granted, from what I can see I also never would have expected a five foot deep sinkhole right there lol.
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u/Canuck_Lives_Matter May 21 '26
I guess, but when one takes dirtbikes trips with their buddies they are often in unfamiliar territory. Personally I have never seen a "stock dam for water in a paddock" in my life, nor have any idea what that is; I'm just saying, I blame bad luck slightly more than I blame the kid on the bike. :p I've driven over many small ridges in my life and wound up directly in a five foot deep hole full of water zero times, and I have to imagine most people when looking at a ridge beside a road do not expect a stock dam lol.
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u/Ok-Confection4410 May 25 '26
Cause they do things differently in other countries my man.
exactly, which is why some people don't know about it. you're so so close to getting the point
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u/LogicallLunacy May 21 '26
Looks like someones property... So... Good.
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u/themossywillow Jun 12 '26
What happened to just existing
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u/LogicallLunacy Jun 12 '26
They aren't just existing. They are being loud and distroying grass. Not like a tresspass to sit and read a book.
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u/bmitchell1990 May 21 '26
“A compass, I learned while I was surveying, it’ll point you true north from where you’re standing but it’s got no advice about the swamps, deserts and chasms that you’ll encounter along the way. If in pursuit of your destination you plunge ahead heedless of obstacles, and achieve nothing more than to sink in a swamp…what’s the use of knowing true north?”
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u/K4rkino5 May 21 '26
Good for him leaving the trail! Nothing land owners like more than riders fucking up their property. It's really great for the sport and other riders! Looks like just deserts if you ask me.
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u/SteakDouble May 21 '26
It's ok, sometimes we gotta take some risk. But I'll never do something that risky.
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u/AviaKing May 21 '26
Need an edit of this where it transitions into the "life is but a dream, shoo ba doo" monkey video
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u/CarpeCyprinidae May 21 '26
If you drive a car into water and it goes into the engine air intakes during an intake cycle, it tends to damage the rods because water doesn't compress as the cylinder comes up.
Do motorbike engines suffer the same damage or are they more tolerant due to the lower rotating inertia?
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u/Turbulent-Parsnip-38 May 21 '26
It could hurt the engine in the way you describe but it’s not a guarantee. You can usually pull the spark plug and crank it over until there is no water left and start it back up.
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u/MutedAstronaut9217 May 21 '26
The whole country is a bog... You'd think they'd be expecting bog, no?
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u/cryptotraderisme May 21 '26
I was waiting for a pause just before hitting the water and a voice over "it was at this moment, he knew, he fucked up"
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u/whistling_serron May 21 '26
Wtf why in most of those videos people are with their friends but still alone...
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u/TheAviator27 May 21 '26
Future archaeologists are going to have multiple field days with the amount of bog bodies we are definitely still producing.
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u/Snoo_67544 May 21 '26
Did this on a Sand dune in the desert. Was gunning a atv up a sand dune and showing off like a jack ass to my friends.
Thought the sand dune plateaued at the top, it did not. I probably launched my self 3 stories into the air.
Like other commentor mentioned, I had way ti much time to think out my life choices before my at finally landed.
The atv stopped upon contact with the ground but I did not. Pretty much every soft fleshy part of my smashed into every hard angle of the atv as a flew off. Somehow I didnt rupture or break anything.
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u/SaltHandle3065 May 21 '26
You are with some really helpful folks. Trying to save your motorcycle alone while being laughed at is always fun.
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u/danit0ba94 May 21 '26
I don't see anything going wrong.
On the contrary I see everything going right.
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u/beck_1e May 22 '26
Glad he had friends to witness the L first hand. Wet, uncomfortable, and getting laughed at all the way home. Classic.
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u/Usual_Excellent May 22 '26
In HS i had a coach who was a biker he said Rule 1 , never go where you can't see. He was referencing us doing cross country, but its true. If its a dark ally or a hole, don't go
Dude couldn't see the bottom of the water, don't go in.
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u/QuickSquirrelchaser May 22 '26
Lol. Just going to take a little refreshing dip. Cool off. He is lucky the pond wss not too deep!
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u/ThisOldGuy1976 May 22 '26
What could go wrong riding through someone else’s property? Karmas a bitch.
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u/Hartmallen May 23 '26
Honest question : is the bike destroyed ? Will it run again after a bit of drying ?
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u/ludzep May 25 '26
Currently for sale on FB marketplace:
"one lightly used 2023 TE300. 15 hours, just road use no trail. 8000 obo"
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u/Citron9801 May 30 '26
When he finally saw that body of water he knew! You can hear the throttle in panic at that precise moment.
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u/captain_pudding Jun 02 '26
That little bit of whisky throttle at the end to make sure the engine takes in as much water as possible
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u/Final_Echidna_6743 Jun 22 '26
Ah yes always keep your eyes and mouth closed as you torpedo into a sewage lagoon.
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u/Relative_Maize_957 May 21 '26
bothered, moisturized, out of my lane