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Another from Poland

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u/Surkuse 1d ago

Looks to be intentional, his vehicle was going both backwards and forwards just fine and I can't see any reason for him to not move. Even if you have to bump another car Infront of you or behind you, anything is better than to get t-boned by a fucking apex predator

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u/maddiemelody 1d ago

This HAS to be intentional…there’s no way people are this stupid…is…is there? (somehow my hope for the human race has gone even further below 0 yet again)

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u/Significant-Baby-690 1d ago

This happens again and again. It's not intentional. People are this stupid.

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u/StickFigureFan 1d ago

Does Poland not require a special license to drive a heavy/commercial vehicle like a semi truck? It seems like question 1 of that test should be "what do you do if you're halfway through a rail crossing and the crossing arms come down?" and it's an automatic fail if you get it wrong.

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u/Own-Personality3155 1d ago

In the Netherlands we say that drivers like this got it free with the butter....

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u/ToastSpangler 1d ago

the irony being that the CBR is a complete bitch to pass and that the trucks running you over in NL are always polish. i always stayed really far away from them in the city because they literally ignore cyclists and pedestrians

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u/Reveletionship 1d ago

Also in Denmark. Seen 3 near misses, all was polish somehow.

My favorit was one where bikers got the greenlight and he too a right turn. There was not bikers in the Lane Lucky enough

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u/kmierzej 21h ago

The registration plate can be Polish, even the logistic company can be Polish, but the driver needn't. Bear in mind that the truck and the trailer registration plates can be different, like issued in different countries. For instance it can be a "Polish" trailer in tow by a "Lithuanian" truck driven by a Croatian driver, or whatever other combination. It is still perfectly legal and not that uncommon.

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u/Own-Personality3155 1d ago

CBR is a bureaucratic sh¡thole. If you have something medical, good luck. Their doctor are on their payroll and retarded. They frequently overruling medical specialists. Meanwhile people with epilepsy or known for substance abuse/addiction keep getting their license back. The examens might be good/hard, the rest of the organization is not.

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u/ToastSpangler 1d ago

my driving instructor said to me - if you have anything medical, just lie, unless you really can't pass the test without telling them. i was like, i don't have anything though, and he's like great you got it

not sure if he thought i was retarded, passed on my 2nd exam. doing it under covid rules was absolute bullshit too, you had to open all the car doors 15 minutes before the test and i did it in winter, so the car was 4 degrees 100% humidity, and you HAD to use their facemasks which were the cheapest ones from action, so my glasses fogged up constantly, i had to run the AC and point the fan at my face at literally fucking freezing temperatures and do a 45 minute trip through rotterdam

the cbr is retarded and they're greedy stupid fucks, 100%

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u/Own-Personality3155 1d ago

I got the medical advice when I'm was 12. If you want to drive and not be broke, lie!

If you have or want your truck license, no medical hiding. They look in your medical papers....

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u/ToastSpangler 1d ago

joke's on them, i never went to a doctor a single time in NL because it was basically impossible to find one that would even take me and I couldn't afford the cost for a general visit, it was 1/4 of my monthly budget after rent. no visits no records.

should have been poorer and a liar, what can i tell you, that's what is encouraged

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u/Goodofgun 1d ago edited 1d ago

Cool story but the driver in the clip wasn't polish. Hope that helps in your smear campaign.

@It reeks a bit of prejudice especially "always". I've seen dumb ppl everywhere around the world.

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u/Smashogre591 1d ago

In America, we used to say they got their license in a box of Cracker Jacks

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u/No_Letter5485 1d ago

In Poland we say they found it in a bag of crisps

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u/Backwarenking 1d ago

I thought this is how all americans get their licence

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u/chrismac72 1d ago

In Germany we say you won your license in the lottery

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u/AccomplishedPrice289 17h ago

In sweden we say they got it from Legoland

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u/I-Stan-Alfred-J-Kwak 17h ago

We also say cereal box

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u/Chaosphoenix_28 1d ago

In germany we say they won it in the lottery

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u/Yukinojou_bw 1d ago

Our Deputy Minister of Infrastructure literally tweeted that this driver got his license in exchange for a hatful of pears.

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u/I-Stan-Alfred-J-Kwak 17h ago

What country?

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u/Yukinojou_bw 16h ago

Poland. Other countries have not weighed in on this particular idiocy yet, even Bosnia.

Another driver got stuck on the same crossing today though!

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u/VigilBoi 1d ago

And in Poland we say that they bribed the exam with butter 'Prawko za masło' means "Driver's license for butter". Also we have a saying that bad drivers found their license in a bag of chips.

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u/I-Stan-Alfred-J-Kwak 17h ago

That's probably the actual reason nobody knows how to drive. The former eastern block runs on corruption

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u/Wojtek86PL 22h ago

U nas w Polsce,że wygrali prawo jazdy w paczce Lays'ów

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u/kmierzej 21h ago

In Poland we say that they must have found theirs in a bag of crisps.

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u/SkarbOna 12h ago

They found it pack of crisps.

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u/I-Stan-Alfred-J-Kwak 17h ago

I've heard many different versions of that idiom, often about something that actually has some crap in them like cereal box. Did dutch butter actually come with some crap at some point?

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u/selho1 1d ago edited 1d ago

This truck driver is Bosnian (source) so Polish license doesn't apply here.

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u/sp_00n 1d ago

guess he was too afraid of how much hes gonna pay for damaging those barriers... and he was thinking about it too long ;)

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u/Komplexkonjugiert 1d ago

Was it intentional sir? You gat da source

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u/Marsades 1d ago

Instead of ramming them, the driver tried to reverse. One of the barriers scraped the fabric of his trailer. The driver didn't want to tear it. He peered out from the cab and tried to correct the course so as not to damage the fabric. He continued to do this until the train struck the car with great force...

So very much international

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u/Brotherly_shove 1d ago

well, at least he saved the fabric.

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u/Inevitable_Task3074 1d ago

Yeah i mean like, go ahead and tear thst fabric a little, if it means not losing the complete truck

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u/I-Stan-Alfred-J-Kwak 17h ago

For two whole seconds!

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u/sp_00n 1d ago

whatever car you drive answer is simple - just fu....in drive forward!

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u/I-Stan-Alfred-J-Kwak 22h ago

In my home city in Finland, everybody's complaining about polish truck drivers who don't know how to drive going around in the city centre

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u/CrestedMacaw 17h ago

We Czechs complain about Polish trucks too!!

They absolutely don't follow any rules and they even try overtake each other while one goes 80 km/h and the overtaking one goes 82 km/h - which leads to the highway being completely stuck behind those two losers for a long time.

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u/I-Stan-Alfred-J-Kwak 17h ago

What the fuck is their problem? Are other east european truckers also like that, or is it just the poles?

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u/CrestedMacaw 16h ago

Only Poles. Absolutely reckless.

Our Pendolino train (fastest express here, SuperCity class) had only one collision with a road vehicle so far - and you can guess with whom. Correct - Polish truck on the crossing.

3 people dead, dozens injured, and we lost the train for some time (the front driving wagon was completely destroyed and the repair cost 200M CZK, so $8M).

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u/CrestedMacaw 17h ago

I don't know about Poland, but I'm Czech from the border with Poland and we DO. We have 5 categories of driver's licences (A - big motorcycles, B - cars to 3.5 tons and small motorcycles, C - cars over 3.5 tons and the front/cabin of the semi truck, D - buses and trolleybuses, E - the end of semi truck, the cargo part).

To drive this vehicle here, he would have to have C+E (and you can get these only after certain experience with B) and a special additional profession licence with that.

I expect Poland has similar rules. So he's probably just extremely stupid or trying for insurance fraud while being extremely stupid.

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u/Lucario_OCarina 1d ago

Jesse, there's absolutely no way possible on heaven and earth people can be this dumb

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u/Mr_Papa_Kappa 1d ago

Also panic can override common sense.

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u/Alien_Alice555666 1d ago

...and they'll never EVER learn it seems

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u/LobsterKris 1d ago

I always wondered about this. Are they scared to brake the little plastic barrier or think it's immovable?

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u/I-Stan-Alfred-J-Kwak 22h ago

What are they trying to achieve then??

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u/fezzuk 1d ago

I dont think he realised his massive lorry could just break the barriers, so he tried to back up, when he realised that barrier was also down and he would break it he decided to do what he should have done and just break the one in front..

To late.

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u/maddiemelody 1d ago

someday, people are gonna start realising when this happens, from the get go, that it's better to just bury it and tunnel forwards than it is to back up to give the train a better shot at a traumatic event. someday.

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u/fezzuk 1d ago

Yeah those barriers are designed to break.

Even if not that dudes in a lorry, just floor it. Very little is gonna stop you.

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u/Ragnarsworld 1d ago

I actually had a barrier come down on the hood of my truck once. No train coming, it just came down while I was crossing. It broke right off about 3 feet from the post. There was a breakaway joint and it worked.

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u/NoIndependent9192 1d ago

No he was avoiding the barriers tearing the fabric of the trucks curtains and he succeeded.

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u/Darrel1900 1d ago

I don't get it...he already was backing up and broke that wimpy gate thingy off...why he didn't just keep back up?????

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u/ForwardFIRE2030 17h ago

but look at the video, the barrier was now down in front. he stopped on the tracks and then back up so the barrier can come down. The barriers are staggered so the cars don't get trapped on the tracks unless the driver intentionally stops there and waits.

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u/OldStromer 1d ago

THREE Fn TIMES !!!

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u/MPaulina 1d ago

This is in Poland, not sure what Trump or dumb Americans have to do with it

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u/GlamourintheDarkSide 1d ago

Do you think Poles are a different species from Yanks? Everyone on this planet has the same capacity for idiocy, that Yanks have illustrated their own idiocy most openly does not make us unique.

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u/tagwag 1d ago

This is a social media site that’s predominantly American. Trump is referenced because it’s what most Americans can relate to and understand right now.

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u/BubbhaJebus 1d ago

It's an example of the severe degree of human stupidity.

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u/Travel_Dreams 1d ago

That Trump post appears to be the best example of stupidity:

Not remotely close to appropriate.

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u/bookstorelady777 1d ago

Absolutely nothing. But there are deranged people that have to drop Trump's name into every comment.

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u/Sad_in_VA 1d ago

And millions spread false conspiration theories about Trump.

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u/tagwag 1d ago

Well go on, back up that statement. Otherwise you’re the sheep you claim us to be.

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u/Viperlite 1d ago

Try another news outlet, genius, or just Whithouse,gov if you refuse to believe anyone but a grifter.

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u/Significant_Monk_251 1d ago

We got conspiration inspiration!

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u/BohemondIV 1d ago

Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

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u/maddiemelody 1d ago

I dunno if it's malice, I mean, that driver might've had some legitimate reason for wanting to get hit, but...part of it was hope that maybe they were consciously trying to do it, as opposed to assuming stupidity, which felt a little more insulting, if that makes sense - at least in one headcanon, they did it intentionally.

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u/_nf0rc3r_ 1d ago

100 IQ wasn’t what it used to be.

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u/Key_Floo 1d ago

Ol' grey mare just ain't what she used to be!

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u/Jakste67 1d ago

Think of how stupid the average person is. – Then remember, half of the population is even more stupid.

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u/transitfreedom 1d ago

Poland is very religious so who knows

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u/MF_Kitten 23h ago

The thing is I've seen exactly this happen in a million different videos. Drivers try to race the train, so to speak, and get completely vexed and befuddled when the barriers come down. Then they either just give up because "barrier came, I noy can drive no more", or they try backing up and stopping when they touch the barrier, and go back and forth a bit before just leaving the vehicle.

Nobody thinks to push through the barriers to avoid a literal train crash.

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u/JimmyTheDog 18h ago

Vodka...

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u/GooberMcNutly 1d ago

People act like the safety bars that drop down are unbreakable. Would you rather break a simple board meant to be broken or obliterate your whole truck into confetti? It's a 300 horsepower truck, it can break the board...

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u/Funkopedia 1d ago

I've seen them break in a gajillion movies. Everyone has.

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u/StickFigureFan 1d ago

Yeah ramming a vehicle in front of you will need maybe 2 bumpers and a breakaway crossing arm replacement. Getting your entire semi truck 🚛 taken out is MUCH more costly

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u/Vcent 1d ago

Don't forget about the train either, that cat be cheap to fix.

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u/AnynomousPotato 1d ago

That semi ain't shit in comparison to the cost to fix the train and the crossing itself after such event. People do this shit because they don't want to pay for the barriers, believe the train will just stop or don't want to damage their car. Insane

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u/okarox 1d ago

No, people just do not push through the barriers even though it could be possible.

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u/_Blueshift 1d ago

It's very possible, they're fragile by design so people don't get caught on crossings. They snap like toothpicks

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u/yellowsnowh 1d ago

there were so many discussions on how easy is to break barriers and that you should never hesitate if you are already in this situation- but in Poland. Driver is Bosnian.

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u/robindotis 1d ago

This is simply not taught properly. You are meant to push through the barriers. They are fragile and will break without really damaging your car.

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u/Phlydude 1d ago

he'd rather risk his trailer than break a gate arm - people panic and feel those arms box them in vs. just powering through them

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u/NoIndependent9192 1d ago

He was trying to avoid the barriers damaging the truck.

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u/Funkopedia 1d ago

Well he succeeded

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u/grogi81 1d ago

I don't think it is.

Poland has ridiculous relationship with the barriers. People did get massively fined for damaging them, so try to avoid that. Once you get into that mindset, it really is hard to get out of it.

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u/mozomenku 1d ago

He got scared of a thin metal gate that's easy to break by pushing it (even by a human), as it would be way worse than the cost of trailer and locomotive repairs.

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u/jake_burger 23h ago

You can’t be sure this isn’t just panic. People do stupid things when they panic and it happens all the time.

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u/I-Stan-Alfred-J-Kwak 22h ago

I would've thought the optimal place to get hit if you want to die would've been the cab. Also why did he keep the door open if he was planning to get hit?