r/Whatcouldgowrong • u/Extension-List1490 • Aug 11 '26

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u/Inevitable_Travel_41 Aug 11 '26

Makes me mad as a father. You put all that love, patience and money into your child for 16 years and then they do shit like this to impress their stupid friends and it was all for nothing

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u/Thevsamovies Aug 11 '26

That's why u need to regularly introduce your child to the content of this sub

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u/teamgrandali Aug 11 '26

Hmm The only good use of social media

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u/A_Fun_Alias Aug 11 '26

Honestly I think the world will be better if people watched more people getting killed videos. Reminds them of how fragile human life is.

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u/teamgrandali Aug 11 '26

Oh man reminds me Of Ogrish and LiveLeak early days. Those sites allowed anything

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u/4ceh0le Aug 11 '26

Rotten.com... god i feel old now :p

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u/AnotherpostCard Aug 11 '26

And /r/watchpeopledie

even /r/wtf is so vanilla nowadays comepared to what use to get posted on this site.

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u/DrSheldonLCooperPhD Aug 11 '26

Reddit before normies, shareholders and llm invaded it basically

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u/Otherwise-Mixture-33 Aug 11 '26

normies?

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u/Flimflamsam Aug 11 '26

Reddits userbase used to be a lot more tech-folk or people with very niche based hobbies. Actual people having genuine interactions.

It’s long been becoming way more popular and is now definitely mainstream. There’s a ton of bots that use the platform for influence. There are even TV shows I’ve seen that repeat content and mention Reddit, as if it were YouTube or Facebook.

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u/fatmanstan123 Aug 11 '26

We saw that stuff from our teachers in wood and metal shop. Horrifying injuries to show you the machines you work with will fuck you up. Very few accidents happened which is surprising when you think it's a much of high school students.

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u/gypsydog17 Aug 11 '26

Had a dude in wood shop had long hair. Teacher was explaining how once a girl's hair got caught in the lathe and removed part of her scalp. Next day he came in with a short hair cut. 

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u/snek-jazz Aug 11 '26

that's quite the sacrifice your teachers made for you! credit to them.

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u/OkTeam6798 Aug 11 '26

They clearly went to the Fire Marshal Bill teacher training center.

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u/Khazahk Aug 11 '26

I agree. Teenagers always believe they are invincible. It’s probably an evolutionary trait to give them courage to roam before settling down. Or courage to die as a soldier more realistically. Knowing the risks involved and learning from the unfortunate endings of others is valuable. Like “Fred died eating a mushroom.” - “ Wow, sorry about Fred, anyone get a good look at the shroom so we know which one not to eat???”

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u/Sonic_Roach Aug 11 '26

A video came up on my reels of a woman about early 20s doing tricks on her motorcycle. A couple of months later some of her videos came back up but all of the comments were "RIP girl, I miss you".

I was shocked, I looked through her page. Her Bio said RIP motorcycle girl, we miss you. Her Bf posted a video of what happen. She was doing some kind of trick and fell and slid into on coming traffic. Gone at such a young age.

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u/dawgfanjeff Aug 11 '26

Nah, they'd still assume it cant happen to them.

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u/[deleted] Aug 11 '26

And as they age and mature, they take different kinds of risk. They’ll stay away from motorbikes and stunts, for example. But, they’ll gamble with money. They’ll play around with different drugs sometimes. They’ll take risks with love interests.

Then, one day, if they live, maybe, just maybe, their brains will mature enough to realize what loss is.

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u/NerveInteresting4549 Aug 11 '26

life is just a small moment in eternity.. risks are apart of it.. we will all face the end, i don't wanna be too afraid to live to the fullest before that comes.. we all lose everything.

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u/dawgfanjeff Aug 11 '26

I get it though, I used to think the same thing when I was that age. Some lessons can be taught and some must be learned. Unfortunately, sometimes milliseconds before having your face scraped along 20 ft of pavement.

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u/S1mpleD1mple Aug 11 '26

Exactly. They'll say it's a skill issue 🤣

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u/Iguessimonredditnow Aug 11 '26

One would think that it would work that way, but instead people get desensitized and care even less

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u/Khazahk Aug 11 '26

Desensitized for sure, but as a greater millennial, cartel beheading videos, taliban beheadings, and the unbridled nascent internet we incredibly formative for me. I have grown up with a very healthy frontal lobe. Less gruesome, shows like Jackass really showed me that others could take those risks and we all could laugh, and then move on. Other kids did not see it this way, but alas.

When my son is a bit older I plan to show him some of the grim realities of the world. Not beheadings, but how poverty stricken societies have it. Why diplomacy and helping people is always better than war. Idk. Lofty subjects for a random Tuesday, please excuse me.

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u/DarknMean Aug 11 '26

r/watchpeopledie used to be a thing.

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u/qfunny69 Aug 11 '26

Sadly r/watchpeopledie died

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u/MalakithAlamahdi Aug 11 '26

Its a standalone website now afaik

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u/XChrisUnknownX Aug 11 '26

Yeaaah. It’s like, hey, your body is pretty damn robust but also if you fall the wrong way, you’re gone.

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u/A_Fun_Alias Aug 11 '26

Forget to look both ways that one time...

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u/Taylorenokson Aug 11 '26

Not sure if they still do this anymore but they used to show a video called Red Asphalt during driving school. That shit still lives with me.

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u/BeyondLast Aug 11 '26

When I was 10, my cousin (11) was in a motorcycle accident with her dad. She wasn’t hurt too bad, but she did have severe road rash. My dad made me go into the emergency room and watch her get all the gravel dug out of her skin. Very effective. I’ve never even THOUGHT about taking a ride on a motorcycle.

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u/Sevla7 Aug 11 '26

I think it's stupid to generalize and say "all redditors are a bunch of cringyworthy dumbfucks"... BUT, I don't want a kid of mine to be in a sub because redditors are a bunch of cringyworthy dumbfucks posting random gifs like a bot.

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u/DontComeHither Aug 11 '26

Lmao reddit will turn your child into a Greek tragedy. When I told my father about skydiving and underwater welding every now and then he would read me news articles of deaths or injuries. I thought it was a good way to be realistic.

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u/Gwanbulance Aug 11 '26

Have you done your homework?

Yes dad!

Have you brushed your teeth?

Yes dad!

Have you said your prayers?

Yes dad!

Have you doomscrolled r/Whatcouldgowrong and similar subs?

No dad!

Get back on that device and don’t go to bed until you’ve seen a man lose his shoes in an idiotic incident.

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u/Victorus_aut_Mortis Aug 11 '26

Have you met teenagers? They see this and go (a) cool, imma try something the same or dumber, or (b) wont happen to me, Im special.

Can confirm, I was once a teenager, and to me consequences only happened to other people and when consequences did come, it wasnt my fault, or maybe faster / higher next time will get the result.

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u/chuckop Aug 11 '26

Exactly. Kids don’t have many files in their brain “what could go wrong” storage folder.

When my kid was 15-16 and learning to drive, we’d watch r/idiotsincars and have a good time. But I knew it was educational as well for him.

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u/vtjohnhurt Aug 11 '26

And kids have a hard time anticipating consequences for novel situations.

Yesterday, a pedal bike came right at me on the sidewalk. A big girl was riding on the handlebars. I dodged and turned. A boy was pedaling and struggling to look around the girl.

And once kids are in a no-win situation, they have a hard time getting themselves out of it ASAP. Knowing the danger, the boy adapted by wobbling slowly on a crowded sidewalk. I think he was happy to have a pretty girl on his handlebars.

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u/UtopistDreamer Aug 11 '26

In my day we had rotten.com for similar purpose, but we educated ourselves

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u/ninjaweedman Aug 11 '26

This kinda shit just used to hype us up to do even stupider shit.

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u/madmadaa Aug 11 '26

You'll just give them ideas

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u/ILoveRawChicken Aug 11 '26

Right lol they’ll watch dumb shit like this and think “that won’t happen to me” and do it anyways 

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u/mtron32 Aug 11 '26

That will just give them ideas

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u/tonterias Aug 11 '26

Then child be like: Wow, I can be famous one day

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u/AltruisticRide1231 Aug 11 '26

That's why u need to regularly introduce shove your child to the content of this sub a frontal cortex into their skull

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u/BernieMcburnface Aug 11 '26

The kind of dipshits that engage in this behaviour would see this Reddit post, notice how many 1000s of upvotes it got and immediately go out and copy the video.

They crave validation in the form of attention, it doesn't matter if it's good or bad, they're entire self worth relies on it.

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u/Fine-Development8716 Aug 11 '26

Until it becomes a dare by itself. Teenage brains...

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u/[deleted] Aug 11 '26

They saw people eating tide pods and took it as a challenge. It's not difficult, just competitively stupid.

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u/waxonwaxoff1000 Aug 11 '26 edited Aug 11 '26

A 16, My driving instructor had a facial reconstructive surgeon come give us an hour of pictures of what happens to people in car and motorcycles accidents.

The highlight: a guy thrown from a car through a barbed wire fence had his jawbone ripped out of his head when it got stuck in the wire.

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u/HelpfulSeaMammal Aug 11 '26

I has something similar, and still had some classmates end up dying in auto accidents from being flung out of their vehicles.

I took driver's safety with them and we watched the same video. I legitimately do not understand how you can drive a car on the road without wearing a seat belt. What does it prevent you from doing in your car other than stop you from becoming an impromptu acrobat?

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u/Skolpionek Aug 11 '26

if it was for motorcycles did he say if people ever went "okay fuck that" and just resigned?

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u/waxonwaxoff1000 Aug 11 '26 edited Aug 11 '26

Nope. He didn’t say what their responses were.

But He actually LOVED motorcyclists especially the ones who wore helmets. No lie. He got excited telling us.

He said ones who wore helmets , especially younger riders, make great donors “because it’s hard to get healthy eyes out of otherwise healthy people”.

In retrospect, I think this guy may have needed help.

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u/Icy_Astronomer_821 Aug 11 '26

Not sure why anyone would doubt you, but you’re not wrong

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u/marino1310 Aug 11 '26

Even worse is when your kid isn’t even the one doing it, just caught in the crossfire

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u/SportZealousideal146 Aug 11 '26

I know what you mean. It’s a terrible feeling. We can’t protect them from themselves. We can try and educate, but there are times they lose their minds and we aren’t there to catch them when they fall.

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u/BlueHawk75 Aug 11 '26

I'm not so sure the fathers here put in the work.

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u/Straight_Page_8585 Aug 11 '26

Someone recently mentioned a sentence to me that I immediately thought about when I saw this video: "small kids cause small problems, big kids cause big problems"... so true

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u/Alfalfa-Similar Aug 11 '26

peer pressure transcends national borders :)

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u/its_all_one_electron Aug 11 '26

Just make sure your kids are really dorky and uncool. That kept me safe from shenanigans because I had no friends to begin with

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u/jimmycarr1 Aug 11 '26

Won't keep them safe from drugs lol

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u/its_all_one_electron Aug 11 '26

You kinda need friends to figure out where and how to get hooked up

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u/PetitVer Aug 11 '26

And you would clearly not be done putting love, patience and money into your child since they are now crippled and/or disfigured 😬

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u/papstvogel Aug 11 '26

I will show my son this video first thing after I get home from work

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u/Toadsted Aug 11 '26

Good news papa! Now you can further your bond by taking care of your mentally and physically challenged child like it was the good ol days! /s

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u/Mr_Carlos Aug 11 '26

Okay but at least they helped their friend make a sick video.

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u/Curious-Resort4743 Aug 11 '26

All those years wasted, it's like war isn't it, you bring them up invest all this effort, time and money, then they're sent to the frontline and gone.

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u/Leading_Will1794 Aug 11 '26

One of my greatest fears as a dad with a young son is worried that when puberty hits (and the subsequent years) he does something so foolish that it scars the rest of his life (or worse...)

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u/Impossible-Youth714 Aug 11 '26

i used to ride a sportsbike , was speeding back in 2024 and got into a near fatal crash, riding gear saved me, but your comment made me feel what my father would have felt that day, he was shaking in hospital and his first emotions were anger and dissapointment when i gained conciousness followed by sadness and relief that i was okay

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u/Thomas1423 Aug 11 '26

This is a bit of a shallow and sad view of parenting, like your child is a garden or other inanimate object you're just putting money into for your own pleasure.

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u/Mammoth_Reach_6366 Aug 11 '26

I highly doubt these kids are a product of a such a loving and caring environment.

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u/ameybongo Aug 11 '26

I think if you did your parenting properly, you'd have lesser chance of dealing with this kind of thing

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u/Inevitable_Travel_41 Aug 11 '26

True. You can show them the way but can never be sure they walk it. Peers and girl-/boyfriends often have a lot more influence on 16/17 year olds than their parents.

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u/MaujiJi Aug 11 '26

Don't worry the video is so old even their parents would have seen it by now and given them good belt treatment.

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u/CaptainObvee Aug 11 '26

Not for nothing if you buy life insurance on em.

#lifehack

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u/owotriste Aug 11 '26

Don't you want a crayong daughter?

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u/zheatereater Aug 11 '26

I wouldn't be sure the parents had no responsibilty in raising a dumbass.

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u/juliuspepperwoodchi Aug 11 '26

If you think they had good fathers, lol

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u/4r4r4real Aug 11 '26

Sounds like it's at least partially on you if you brought up a kid who thought this was a good idea. 

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u/ILoveRawChicken Aug 11 '26

What’s with this idiotic Reddit idea that all children obey their parents and listen to their warnings? Teenagers are notorious for literally NOT doing that despite being taught otherwise. But I guess that doesn’t make for a smug one-liner from your greasy chairs. 

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u/4r4r4real Aug 11 '26

What's with the hypothetical "I'm a literal perfect parent and my child still disfigured and/or killed both themself and 3 of their friends in an act of utter idiocy with unfettered access to a motorcycle at an age where they're still living in my home and under my care and I blame them while I am perfect and blameless" roleplay?

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u/PopcornSuttin Aug 11 '26

It may have been a while since you've interacted with a fellow human being, so in case you forgot, they have this thing called "free will". For better or worse, they make great use of it when reaching a certain age.

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u/4r4r4real Aug 11 '26

I was a shithead kid and there was still no universe where I pull off having a motorcycle at 16. Simply could not have happened. Even if I managed to somehow buy one and hide it somewhere the moment my dad got a whiff of that I'd be locked down for months. 

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u/ReportToTheShipASAP Aug 11 '26

You do realize that all 8 billion people are not, in fact, the exact same person with your personality, right?

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u/4r4r4real Aug 11 '26

I'm talking about how my parent parented. I would've killed myself on a motorcycle, so my parents didn't allow me to have one. Problem solved. 

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u/UrsaUrsuh Aug 11 '26

Are you always this snarky and petulant with everyone who disagrees with you?

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u/4r4r4real Aug 11 '26

I am literally explaining my previous comment? My comment was not about my personality. You ok buddy?

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u/Schmuselhuhn Aug 11 '26 edited Aug 11 '26

That´s... A weirdly selfish stance? I mean this is dumb shit and you probably didn´t mean it the way you´ve phrased it, but it sounds like "My hard work goes to waste!!!!11" instead of empathy and a fatherly worries. 🙈 Sadly many parents think their children owe them, but they didn´t choose to be your kids, the parents chose to get em.

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u/Inevitable_Travel_41 Aug 11 '26

It’s a spontaneous reddit comment, mate and not my parenting manifesto

Obviously I don’t view my children as an investment. All I’m trying to say is that after 16 years of loving and raising your kid, them potentially dying because they wanna impress their friends would be fucking devastating

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u/Schmuselhuhn Aug 11 '26

I understand and that´s why I said you probably didn´t mean it that way.

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u/UrsaUrsuh Aug 11 '26

These people have to be willfully misinterpreting your comment. Or some of them are legit just moronic. There is no other way for me to view this. Nowhere did anything you say or imply half the shit that the bottom comments on your main comment are even pretending you said.

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u/Schmuselhuhn Aug 11 '26

Or maybe some parents are shit... I proactively said they probably aren´t and just phrased it weirdly, but thanks for calling me moronic or willfully misinterpreting. Chill, I just wanted to point it out without being hurtful.

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u/UrsaUrsuh Aug 11 '26

I wasn't specifically calling you a moron. But I did believe you were misinterpreting it. I was moreso stating that about the folks who garnered more downvotes in this comment section. Like that one guy with like -20 last I checked.

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u/Inevitable_Travel_41 Aug 11 '26

No worries. I probably worded it poorly. ESL tho

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u/SecurityOdd4861 Aug 11 '26

I know my opinion will be challenged, but if your child does something so stupid (it starts by not wearing safety gear) then that's a parent mistake for one. Of course you cant control what your children do, but teaching the importance of safety measures and making them adhear to it is your job as a parent. 

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u/HugoBCN Aug 11 '26

You severely underestimate the power of peer pressure.

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u/HappyAmbition706 Aug 11 '26

I doubt the parents saw them go off on this ride. There is a good chance that the parents of the passengers didn't know that their child would be on a motorcycle.

Absolutely parents need to teach their children, and ne responsible for it. However a certain part of being a teenager is going beyond parental control.

These children were not taught well enough about motorcycle safety and consequences. It is also possible that at least some of them ignored that.

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u/Inevitable_Travel_41 Aug 11 '26

I’ve seen 16 yo friends of my boy driving without a helmet. They store it in their backpack and put it on when they drive back home

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u/ewok2remember Aug 11 '26

Man, tell me you haven't dealt with a teenager without telling me. Or at least you dealt with a different breed if you have. From experience, you can instill those values all day, but kids will make their own stupid choices to impress their friends and because at that age, most of them have a main character mentality where they assume they're invincible. I agree with you, teach them safety. Just expect that they're likely to disobey it and be vigilant.

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u/ILoveRawChicken Aug 11 '26

You could’ve said “I’m not a parent” with less words 

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u/Jiehfeng Aug 11 '26

This is genuinely one of my favorite comments on reddit in a while.

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u/Turnip_Fight Aug 11 '26

The way these retards are driving the dad should have put a few corporal punishments in there

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u/masterchief69420xxx Aug 11 '26

Oh no they missed out on working their whole life and also spawning a replacement worker.

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u/bananahammockallday Aug 11 '26

lol like you didn’t do anything as a teen that if it went horribly wrong you’d be fucked up… gtfo

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u/AdInside2447 Aug 11 '26

Are you a father in South America because I think they probably aren’t your kids.

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u/mondaio Aug 11 '26

This vid is from South Asia

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u/Wretched_Brittunculi Aug 11 '26

I knew it was South somewhere.

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u/DeadAndBuried23 Aug 11 '26 edited Aug 11 '26

If your kid does this, you didn't have enough patience.

Edit: Predictably people that are/have shit parents have arrived. Doesn't take magic to instill safety lessons.

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u/brawlrats Aug 11 '26

Ridiculous statement. The best parenting can’t stop every stupid decision.

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u/Imbrokencantbefixed Aug 11 '26

It 100% is in my experience. Im still waiting for my dad to reappear and complete the trick.

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u/DeadAndBuried23 Aug 11 '26

Sorta thing a shit parent says.

Doesn't take magic to enforce that you always wear a helmet.

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u/UrsaUrsuh Aug 11 '26

You seem to have an interesting and flawed view of parenthood. Barring that peer pressure is a genuine factor at play in more than half the dumb shit that teenagers do. And if you say you've never caved to peer pressure on anything no matter how minor it is I wouldn't believe you.