Kind of a car accident:
I was on a smoke break on my job as a chef at an imitation Waffle House one day and I saw a police officer take his cruiser into one of those automatic drive-through car washes.
The spinny brush thing ripped the antennas off the top of the car and turned them into a flail rotating at 40 RPM.
His car looked like it had been attacked by an angry jackhammer by the time he jumped the curb and drove it out of the car wash.
It smashed out the back windshield completely, left dents all the way across the hood and trunk, and had sprayed soapy water into the cab of the car.
I heard not too much later that that police officer no longer worked for the city.
He was supposed to take it to that car wash but he was also supposed to use the little jet-powered sprayer to hand wash the car and him choosing to be lazy destroyed a police car with less than 10,000 miles on the odometer.
I would have loved to see this, sounds like it looked cool
Imitation waffle house…?
Yeah there’s a bunch of companies that duplicate The Waffle House model like huddle House and Waffle King and places like that. I’ve worked at a bunch of them but this one was a Waffle King.
I’ve seen a huddle house before but never been in one… never seen a waffle king though :D
It’s been a long time since I lived in that area and I don’t even know if the franchise still exist but they tend to be typically in the very Southeast, like Georgia and parts of Alabama stuff like that.
For being a place that calls itself the waffle king, their waffle mix was watery and pretty shitty and I do not recommend it’s not worth the effort.
Ha! I am from the south but haven’t lived in the US since 2009…. I do still go to waffle house when I go visit my family though 😅
It’s the A1 on the hashbrowns that draws me back.
Not the most outrageous story but I saw two guys get into a head-on collision at 10mph. I still wonder how neither of them saw it coming.
I ran over a Rottweiler, who later got his revenge by destroying my alternator.
I was throwing newspapers at 6AM, going 20mph, if that, and dodged a 2x4 in the road. Felt a thump, thought, “Crap! Was there another one?”
Got out and didn’t see anything in the road, looked under the car and there’s the dog. Oh shit. Jacked my car up to get him out, expected blood and biting. No blood and he was completely chill.
Got him in my backseat and palpitated him all over. Looked like a broken or cracked rib or 2 and a mangled pinkie. Hauled him home and called around. Some hippies in a rescue van pulled up and took him for treatment.
Went back to the hood and knocked doors until I found the owners. Went back and saw him again!
The wreck continues… Month later my alternator dies. Mechanic replaced it and showed me the air intake. Jammed with a fine layer of fur.
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I pulled up to a crossroad, stopped at the stop sign, and waited for the 2 vehicles on the main road to pass. Another car pulled up across from me and came to a complete stop at their stop sign, they waited for a moment, then started to go. They looked again, saw the other vehicles coming, stopped (not yet in the main road), then started to proceed again. They stopped again (this time in the main road). They started to go again and got hit by the first vehicle on the main road. The next vehicle on the main road was an ambulance who saw the whole thing and stopped.
Honestly not sure why you would stop at a sign, see traffic coming then go and stop multiple times if you weren’t on something or trying for some fraud.
Friend of mine was passing by on his moped, waving at me while he drove into the back of a car waiting at the traffic stop, launching himself over the cars roof, landing on his back on the bonnet, then sliding off the front of the car. Luckily he was fine.
I was driving North on a long mostly straight road with nearly no other cars on the road. Up ahead around a bend, another car comes in the other lane driving South, way too fast no less.
When the other car was probably like 50 feet in front of me, their hood flew open and immediately broke the hinges and went flying in the air. It probably flew like 50 feet high, peaking out right over my car and landing like 50 feet behind me.
I was kinda scared, but there was an extra wide shallow ditch off to the right, I would have ended up driving off the road into the ditch if I thought it was gonna hit me, but luckily I drove right under the flying hood at it’s peak in the air.
I bet it scared the other driver shitless LOL! Glad nobody was hurt, hopefully in the future they make damn sure their hood is properly latched, and they really should chill out on the speeding.
Saw a minivan that was wedged under an overpass vertically with its front bumper on the ground.
How tf
No idea. Only guess I had is that maybe it got knocked off the top of one of those 2 deck car transporter trailers.
Some guy who got a load of wire wrapped around his rear wheels and the car just sat up on its rear end like it was standing to attention.
Watched a hummer slowly spin through an intersection due to ice once, it was hilarious. Took like 10 seconds, end over end full 360 straight through on a standard 35mph road
I’ve also seen a food truck accident where the ENTIRE back end dumped out onto the interstate, I think I ran over a skillet
Back when I had my 04 GTO, I was driving down a 2 way, 4 lane road and randomly spun out on slush, ended up spinning 3 times through an intersection I meant to turn right at, wound up in the left lane, on the other side of the road… So I just took a left instead.
I didn’t see it happen, but I saw the aftermath. A small car was crushed between two large trucks in the left lane of the highway. When I drove by, the crushed car was completely unrecognizable as a car. Just a pile of compacted metal and plastic. You couldn’t even tell what was the front or the back.
When I got to work, I checked the news to see what happened to the driver of the car.
No significant injuries, just some scratches. She laid down across the front seat and slid down under the dashboard and managed to find the one space that wasn’t completely compacted.
Like one accident that was in the news here some time ago: A truck smashed into a stopped truck without any traces of it breaking (They assumed later that the driver had fallen asleep), and it took a moment for them to notice that there actually was a small car completely crushed between them.
Couple of drunk kids managed to ramp off a curb and get their car stuck like 6 feet up in an oak tree. Right side up. Front and back of the car were both smashed in right at the middle points so they must have got more air. Not sure how they got the car out without cutting at least one major tree limb but they did. Tree was still alive and fine as of 2023.
one time, i saw somebody try to sneak by a big truck making a necessarily wide right turn, and get the whole left side of the car sheered off like a pad of butter.
Was it a Lambo, was it in Vancouver, where you driving the truck I was riding in delivering appliances? If so, that was absolutely hilarious, and I hope you’re doing good 👍
I have not seen the accident itself, but…
I was working in the XRay department as a clerk back then, when the EMT guys brought up a customer straight from ER. This was the first unusual thing, because that is normally not the job of the EMTs. The second unusual thing was the order form for this patient - basically any standard XRay-job on the form was selected.
And then, I was called in, too. Absolutely not in the book. Both EMTs, one of the two radiology assistents, and I had to don lead and hold this guy down. He had taken drugs, left his group, and hugged a driving trucks’ front. He had broken about everything you can have broken without croaking on the spot, and was so far away that he tried to hit and kick with his busted limbs at the people who were trying to help him. Imagine four men holding down one guy without damaging him even further.
A Toyota embedded, like a javelin, 6 feet off the ground in the side of an abandoned building.
They made the first 90° turn of a dog-leg, but missed the second and, with the help of a ditch, launched into the air at the building.
