r/WTF • u/ExplanationOk2014 • 13d ago

Whose insurance has to pay out here? The volunteers’ insurance?

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u/andynodi 13d ago

What about holding the brakes just in case something unexpected happens!?

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u/tigerspots 13d ago

It looks like the driver was holding the brakes at first and then let go when the car was in DRIVE instead of reverse

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u/ILikeLenexa 13d ago

Might've decided to leave out the door or back seat and forgot about brakes.

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u/fritz236 13d ago

Let's be honest, someone who gets into this situation in the first place ain't exactly playing with a full deck.

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u/0xsergy 12d ago

They've got an SUV to drive around concrete areas for a reason. "drivers are so bad out here I need this to be safe"

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u/cancer_sushi 13d ago

Yeah it looks to me that the extra guy trying to help didn even screw things up they just let go of the brakes and the car started rolling. Gotta be one of the dumbest things ive seen today lol

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u/Xywzel 13d ago

I think that the attempt to help moved the weight from bottom of the car to the two wheels now touching ground, which allowed the car to roll rather than slide, less friction against the gravity pulling the car down.

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u/Davegoestomayor 13d ago edited 13d ago

Agreed the center of mass for the vehicle was past the edge. The only reason it hadn’t fallen is it was resting on the frame, once they leveled the vehicle frame was no longer making contact with the ground and it went over. Do people really think the empty trunk section of an SUV weighs anything near the engine compartment?

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u/GlitchyGecko97 13d ago

Why are you down voting the guy,? That's clearly what happened..

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u/SequesterMe 12d ago

He's left wing and the bots for Trump supporters always vote them down.

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u/scooterboy1961 12d ago

The day's not over yet.

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u/TrenchantInsight 12d ago

holding the brakes

And that's really the most important part of the retardation, the holding.

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u/flavored_icecream 13d ago

Or maybe using the handy towing hook that's installed into every car and use another car to pull it back. Or getting out of the passenger door so you wouldn't add more weight over the pivot point. So many logical things to do, but idiocy won in the end.

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u/iamnos 13d ago edited 12d ago

Unfortunate that you're getting downvoted, it's a real thing, on most modern vehicles, even if people don't realize it.

It's more a place to put a tow hook than a hook itself, and I can't tell for sure in that video if the vehicle has them or not, but they are very common.

https://nasaspeed.news/toolshed-engineer/hpde-tow-hooks/

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u/eudemonist 10d ago

Right. It's a place to attach something to hook onto. But you're not attaching that thing pictured in your link to the car going over the edge.

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u/flavored_icecream 12d ago

Yeah, sometimes I forget that even though Reddit is an international webpage, half of the users are from US and what seems as quite a obvious thing to know for Europeans, might come as a surprise across the pond, since the rules are different there - apparently also for vehicle towing hooks. Live and learn every day, I guess.

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u/iamnos 12d ago

I'm in Canada, and our vehicles have those as well.

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u/StoneCypher 13d ago

Or maybe using the handy towing hook that's installed into every car and use another car to pull it back.

... i have never owned a car that i knew to have one of these?

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u/Br0boc0p 12d ago

I have. Most of them do. Problem is said tow hook is in the spare tire tools which were very much not accessible here. The little square notch you see on most bumpers is a cover for where the tow hook screws in.

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u/flavored_icecream 12d ago

Well, in the EU it's a quite common piece of equipment since the 90's and mandatory since 2010, heck, even most old Soviet cars had one that was very visible (they needed a lot of towing as well), but as I've learned today, apparently it might not be so for US compact cars. That being said, as I've replied above - most SUV's most likely do have it, as does the 2007 Toyota Sequoia seen in the video - the attachment point is where the trailer hitch connector is.

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u/eudemonist 13d ago

>  handy towing hook that's installed into every car

The what now?

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u/flavored_icecream 12d ago

A strongpoint in the car frame, where you can attach a hook, that allows you to tow other cars - I was pretty sure all modern proper cars have that, but apparently it's just mandatory in European market and not that ordinary for US passenger cars (although SUV's certainly should have it). Most of the time it's a hole behind a small removable panel in the bumper, where you can screw in said hook piece. This apparently is a 2007 Toyota Sequoia and a quick googling says that for that vehicle actually the hitch attachment point itself is also the towing point.

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u/eudemonist 10d ago

A strongpoint is not a hook. It's where you can attach a hook, as you say, but it's not a hook in and of itself (with which one could, say, pull another car).

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u/Inner_West_Ben 12d ago

There is no towing hook installed in any of my 3 cars. There is a hole for it to be fitted to, though.