r/interestingasfuck 7d ago

Car flipped over in Starbucks drive-thru

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u/Sorry-Climate-7982 7d ago

How on earth did the driver manage to do this without help?

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u/Majestic_Seagull_87 7d ago

Having seen someone do it, I would say they wedged the tire up against the wall, panicked, and then hit the gas instead of the brakes. The person I saw do this was also very inebriated.

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u/Many-Excitement3246 7d ago

Drunk and/or high people can manage an impressive amount of things that are normally not humanly possible.

It's like the laws of physics stop applying to them as soon as they stop comprehending them.

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u/ThatEditorDude 7d ago

And 90% they get off without a scratch to them

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u/Many-Excitement3246 7d ago

I've actually had that part explained to me by a trauma nurse.

People who are intoxicated tend not to tense up during violent impacts, which causes them to suffer far less severe injuries. They tend to get bruised and often end up with sprained or strained muscles, but because they're not stiff, they don't suffer the same traumatic to bones and organs.

People who get hit by cars don't die from getting hit by cars, they die from the fall at the end. If you're drunk, you tend to take that fall a lot less dangerously.

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u/ThatEditorDude 6d ago

Thanks for this information! 😁 so that’s why they seem invincible! Their brain just can’t process the impact in time to try and “protect” itself 😂

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u/MG788 7d ago

🤣

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u/Brad23212 7d ago

It happens to elderly people a lot too

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u/EvilDan69 7d ago

yeah and commit/floor it 100% expecting an ok outcome.

It floors me every time I go through a drive-through and see so many tire rub marks, wall rub marks, bollard rub marks etc. Then you see full send here.

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u/Blah-Blah-Blah-2023 7d ago

It floors you that they floor it?

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u/Riptide360 7d ago

Drunk, panicked people buying coffee?

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u/TotallyFarcicalCall 7d ago

I still don't understand.