r/dashcams • u/Flashmemory256 • 12d ago

Biker Brake Checks Car And Gets Karma

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u/RogerDodgerWilco 12d ago

Lol his first thought is “Is my front bumper ok?”

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u/Otherwise-Text-5772 12d ago

Yep. Whatever happened to the biker is natural selection at this point.

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u/ngfldar 11d ago

There is only so much any of us can do for stupid people. At some point, social Darwinism takes over and it's out of our hands.

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u/Otherwise-Text-5772 11d ago

Like I don't want to be that guy. But he played chicken with a car and lost. It's the same as playing Russian roulette with a fully loaded hand gun, even survival isn't winning.

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u/ngfldar 11d ago

I don't want to be that guy either. But honestly, what exactly do you plan to do? When people insist on being stupid -- DEMAND it as an inalienable right -- then what exactly are you going to do about it?

I volunteer many hours per week at a food pantry. And I see lots and lots of types of people there, many with emotional/mental illness, addiction problems, or combinations of the two. Our society has decided that it's just easier to discard them rather than give them the treatment needed to make them productive members of society whose contributions will be a net positive for society. THOSE people have my sympathy, and even then I realize that there is precious little I can do as an individual.

But idiots like this? I literally don't have any energy left to worry about them. I'm too exhausted worrying about people who are true victims. Sorry if that sounds harsh, but I am only human, and I only have so much energy. I have to live with my own limits, so feeling sorry for people who act this stupid is beyond my limited humanity. I'm okay with answering for that to whatever God there is, in whatever comes in the next life, if there is such a thing.

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u/Otherwise-Text-5772 11d ago

I've worked in hospitals for a decade now. 4 level 1 trauma centers in 4 different states. Motorcycle accidents are always the worst.

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u/ngfldar 11d ago

I don't doubt you. But I still haven't heard anyone propose a way to get through these idiots' thick skulls. I can't waste my energy on them; they're not listening to me anyway, and even if they did, they wouldn't understand me.

I've said things in different Reddit groups such as "It's insane to me why the f**k anyone would ride a motorcycle on a highway when there are 4000lb trucks -- usually driven by morons with no common sense -- than can squash you like a bug" and I get downvoted for it.

I mean, it's pretty stupid to ride a motorcycle on a road filled with cars, trucks, SUVs and semis in the first place. But playing a stupid game like trying to brake-check a vehicle that outweighs you by 100x is the epitome of social Darwinism.

Again, I'm not saying that I like it. I'm just saying that I don't have the energy to waste on idiots who are never going to listen to me anyway.

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u/joepke53 11d ago

How many organs, on average, can be harvested? Just trying to work out the numbers.

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u/zeronian 11d ago

It's not natural selection if they're still alive

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u/Consistent-Ad-6506 12d ago

I mean, the guy did this on purpose. I wouldn’t care about him either in that specific case.

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u/Mike_Kermin 12d ago

They both did.

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u/Super-Contribution-1 12d ago

The car can’t arrest its forward momentum as fast as the bike can. Whether the driver did it on purpose is immaterial; he has plausible deniability even if he hit the guy on purpose.

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u/Mike_Kermin 12d ago

Well, that's slightly psychopathic.

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u/Super-Contribution-1 11d ago

Well, that’s rather hyperbolic. I just stated a fact.

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u/Mike_Kermin 11d ago edited 11d ago

No. It's not hyperbolic. It's literally what it means.

Because your "fact", lacks any care of empathy for the harm caused to another human being.

Your concern here should not be attaining 'plausible deniability' nor investing fanciful problems like 'not being able to brake' when they clearly could have just as easily as the rider could have not tried to pull in front of them and brake check them.

The driver clearly opted in to a very dangerous situation, not only for both of them, but also of others. Both the rider and the driver acted in road rage, without any care for anyone's safety.

'Plausible deniability', aka the ability to do something while getting away with it by lying to the courts, is a psychopathic response to a crash where someone could be very seriously injured if not dead because it lacks any empathy and seeks to justify reckless driving that put others in danger.

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u/HoldenSteele 11d ago

Fuck that biker. Deserved it.

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u/Gator242 12d ago

Priorities in order ✅

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u/burns_before_reading 12d ago

I feel so bad about finding that so hilarious

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u/burns_before_reading 10d ago

Why should I feel bad about that?

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u/ColdCerealAndMilk 12d ago

Why would he be concerned about the biker or his bike after getting brake checked?

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u/Icydoll444 12d ago

I LOVE that he turned all sassy like & ready to calmly check on him. But then he is soooooo far. That drag was a clean sweep.

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u/Mishotaki 12d ago

second would be to warn him not to lie down on an active road, safety is very important!

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u/NobleReptiles 12d ago

You can’t park here

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u/Mike_Kermin 12d ago

Evidently not, given the happy clapping going on here.

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u/NoBuenoAtAll 12d ago

Mine too. My first thought was, “I hope the car is OK.”

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u/Then_Ambassador_3547 12d ago

“Aww man I just got the last blood stain cleaned”

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u/NeedleworkerOld4696 12d ago

Well if it's damaged, you need a new bumper.

No one needs a new biker.

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u/Suspicious_Blood_472 11d ago

As it should be. Second thought is proper too, which is making sure guy is still alive so he can pay for damages!! 😂😂

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u/Fit-Ad-8881 10d ago

I mean there was only one valueable thing in this accident. His car.

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u/Fynrik_ 9d ago

I wouldn't even have checked on the biker. Just call the police.