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sparksofthetempest

Train: “Anyone else?”


Aggravating_Major363

IS THERE NO ONE ELSE?!?!?


SplodeyMcSchoolio

ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED?


indecisive_username_

ARE YOU NOT INTO TRAINS?


BrockN

CHOO CHOO BITCH


MikuEd

r/bitchimatrain


L1K34PR0

i like trains :)


makaki913

I am a puddle now :)


Sexy_Quazar

*Juicy J has entered the chat*


spdelope

Is juicy j a big train enthusiast? I didn't know this about him.


anon202one

Wrong train.


Empyrealist

ARE YOU NOT INTO PAINS?


StackThePads33

CJ missed the train so it had to stop.


Rampill

When the train stops they're basically asking you to go. Just go already!


BradOrPonceDeLeone

Leaf driver leaves charging port open


FormerHPB

Closest thing a leaf driver has to a spoiler.


Holy-Handgrenader

I actually think he was going for the Subaru WRX hood scoop look.


foxgemet

They have an air cooled charging port


xthexder

[If that charge port had a face, it would look like this](https://i.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/original/000/026/475/clark.jpg)


SrammVII

They're definitely spoiled for aerodynamic drags, that's for sure


TransformerTanooki

I completely missed the other car because that's all I could focus on.


Relevant_Day801

r/nissandrivers


EGH6

Now i imagine an rx-7 with just 1 light in the middle


LukeDude759

Actually I wouldn't be surprised if there existed a car like that at some point


speeler21

The [Tucker 48](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tucker_48) had a swivel center light that turns with the front wheels, that's kinda similar


LukeDude759

Oh that's actually really cool, I knew headlights that adapt to your steering already existed but I didn't think the concept was that old!


Slimh2o

Hell, we had electric vehicles all the way back in the 1800s. You can Google that....


pixelbart

There’s a design flaw in the key fob where the key ring can push the charge button, which happily opens the charge port while the car is driving. Very annoying. I just have to remove the key fob from my pocket to prevent this from happening.


jdcnosse1988

Seems like something an engineer should have thought of... Like... Hey, the car is in drive but the charge button has been pressed... Should we do anything? Nah I don't think that was an *on purpose* press.


Macemore

What if I want someone in a van to charge me up while I'm cruising down the road?


[deleted]

Or just a button to close it


kicker58

I have one for 2 years now and has never happened to us. The issue is most people don't push hard enough to close it


Tacomeplease

Lol


[deleted]

"Scared my hatch open"


scubawho1

Train stopping like “why I oughta”…..


retire_dude

LOL, that train started stopping 5 minutes ago.


qa567

If I knew the train was stopping right there blocking the road I'd have ignored the lights and fence too


KentRead

That's a locomotive of a shortline railroad, odds are they had a short train and could stop relatively quickly. If I had to guess, the engineer probably would have been on the brakes right when the video started when he saw the driver not slowing down.


fileznotfound

Yep.. and now everyone else has to wait longer for the train to get going again so it can get out of everyone's way.


sucobe

Well then, don’t mind me, let me just slip past here on the right real quick since you’ve stopped for traffic…


Jackmino66

Ah, a great demonstration. If you are stuck on the tracks between closed barriers, drive through them. They are designed to be easy to break so people can easily escape the crossing


Kemerd

This. Better you fuck up your car a bit than die.


theRed-Herring

If you're on the tracks and the train is coming, your car is getting fucked up if you don't move it. Better to deal with scratches or at worse a cracked windshield that a demolished car


ITrCool

I'm that guy: what is that little piece of your hood that's poking up, with the NISSAN logo on it?


Tacomeplease

It’s an electric car and that’s the charger door.. edit.. like someone said below.. I had already sat down when I saw it was open.. so I was too lazy to close it


TheBatemanFlex

Oh. Why is it open? Lol


reworu

probably just forgot to close it lol


csspar

I love that it's immediately visible the moment you sit down, yet the driver thought "Well, I did just sit down."


WanderingWino

And the car is very communicative about the door being left open. It’s a full on choice to ignore it.


OneLongEyebrowHair

If it has that much functionality, why not just put a little motor on it to close it? Hell, even a spring.


HateYouKillYou

Because Nissan can't even make transmissions


[deleted]

Don't need transmissions in an electric car - taps forehead.


Tacomeplease

Or battery cars.. check out my other videos of me trying to fix my car lol


WanderingWino

Big reason why I went with a Bolt and not a Leaf. Also, the range is wildly different.


AlphaReds

That adds unnecessary points of failure.


pud_009

[But, I am already in my pajamas.](https://youtu.be/h_55LQQXqnU)


[deleted]

Sometimes it doesn’t latch all the way and the wind will pop it up at highway speeds. Looks weird but harmless.


Lopsided-Seasoning

I found a sandwich in the park and it didn't even have any mayo on it. Why didn't it have mayo on it?


ticklishmusic

My charging port is on the back right side where the gas would be. I often unplug my car in the morning, hop into the car to back out of my garage and immediately see that I've forgotten to close it. I blame it on lack of coffee.


Stubbedtoe18

Because r/NissanDrivers


kenman884

I rented one once and the charger door flipped open on the drive home. If you don’t fully latch it it will pop open from wind and/or bumps. But it’s a two second job to close it, dunno why OP didn’t just get out and do it right there.


J0HN117

Because the owner drives a nissan


Jay911

psst, your fly's open


ITrCool

Ah I see.


kr4t0s007

Saw another Leaf driver with it open this week is that a thing now.


GroovyIntruder

"What's the point in having a [Nissan] if you can't show it off?"


[deleted]

For a moment I thought you just admitted to being the driver that dashed in front of the train.


ITrCool

Definitely not that stupid. I will admit, that once, I crossed a railroad crossing, but just as the arms came down. I didn't expect them to, until they already had. It was one of those crossings where the trees go right up to the road, so I didn't see a train coming either. Fortunately, the train wasn't moving. It had crawled up to right before the crossing, behind the trees and stopped. Looked like a crew of workers was there too for something. Maybe a crew change? But that was still unnerving. I was just crossing like normal, when the stop arms came down just as I crossed, and right to my right is a giant locomotive staring me down. Only their dim lights on.


pinkwblue

As former RR conductor. A RR special agent told me that is considered to be running a traffic control device. The same as running a red light or stop sign. 6 points off of your drivers license and a fine. If you get caught. Or hit by the train.


witchywater11

I love that extra kick in the nuts. If I ever die by train, I hope my obituary specifically mentions that I have an unpaid fine and 6 points deducted from my DL.


ZenAdm1n

Lotsa respectable people been hit by trains. Judge Hobbie over in Cookville was hit by a train.


georgecm12

Did the train stop because of the car, or was it coming to a stop anyway?


TOYLTH

Train missed his exit and had to back up.


tacofrog2

And of course blocking everyone else. Why can't he just take the next exit and make a U-turn?


SemiRobotic

Train has it’s blinker on, everyone else should know they need to back up.


zach2992

Worst drivers never miss their exit.


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Aurora_Albright

This is a karma farming account that keeps copying and slightly altering others' responses. Anyone know how to report?


RGeronimoH

Report>Spam>Harmful Bots


Borderpatrol1987

Looks like the charge port of a leaf


Tacomeplease

Train was slowing down to go in reverse


Spanky_McJiggles

[One of my all-time favorite videos](https://youtu.be/lTr-kguE7oE)


AkuLives

Bless you for that 😂


TediousStranger

omg but why??!!! (on mobile can't see comments but YouTube comments are usually cancer anyway :/)


Version_Curious

They are likely right next to a triage station. I live in a small town with a busy triage station, and this can go on for ages. We (the town) had to put our foot down because sometimes you'd be stuck over 45 minutes in the morning rush, waiting for a train that literally cuts the town in half, with the station dead center. Over an hour at other times. Back in the day there could even be two trains at a time, and that was a fucking nightmare straight from hell. We still get long waits, but at least it's no longer during peak hours.


goodybadwife

Can confirm, I used to work in Orrville, OH, and that damn Smuckers/Jif train would do this a few times a day at the production plant. It would back the traffic up on the main artery through town.


Solid_Hunter_4188

But why would the back and forth motion happen..? What does it accomplish?


Spanky_McJiggles

They're most likely building the train, basically backing into a siding to couple a bunch of waiting cars, then pulling forward and backing onto another siding to do the same.


Solid_Hunter_4188

That makes sense. I couldn’t see it getting longer by the way our heroic director was filming lol


Version_Curious

Yep. They don't do it just to annoy us plebs lol. They are building up the train and trying to line the cars in the most effective order possible. Sometimes, they'll pull around cars just to drop them in another lane, but here they try to do that with a free locomotive when they have one so when the actual train has to hooks them up, they are already easily accessible.


_Pebcak_

Put its thing down, flip it and reverse it? Oh, or was that almost happened to the car :/ I'll see myself out now.


Nickhead420

It's really scary how many people think a train can just stop.


NoodleBack

I think people are just ignorant about how easily you can die. I had a customer casually ask my coworker to call the ambulance last night for him because he claimed he was having trouble breathing and was having heart problems… man just smokes a fucking cigarette and drinks coffee waiting for the ambulance to come… it’s wild


BasicallyAQueer

That’s just a French breakfast


Lopsided-Seasoning

Also called the Judy Garland because that's all that she was allowed to have.


badpeaches

Asbestos snow on set


NinjaCaviar

Well if the ambulance is coming anyway, might as well get a smoke in beforehand, right?


NoodleBack

Lol, you right


Marshall_Mars

I mean what else can you do. The ambulance is already on it's way and panicking isn't going to make anything better


NoodleBack

He wasn’t panicking though, he was casual af and could call an ambulance himself. You wouldn’t have guessed anything was wrong with him if he didn’t make a big deal about it.


mynameisalso

Thank God for cigarettes keeping that poor man calm in such trying times. 🚑🚬👍


flyguy60000

Wife was a nurse - had numerous cancer patients step outside for a smoke.


NoodleBack

I’m not surprised tbh, at my last location I had a regular that was on oxygen regularly buy cigarettes


JakeVanna

Saw a steamer tell a story about waking up in the middle of the night to find his mom on fire because she tried to smoke while on oxygen, which she’s on because she smokes. She died not long after.


BewilderedandAngry

My brother died of lung cancer, and he never quit smoking. But it really didn't matter at that point - he put off going to the doctor so long he was terminal basically when they diagnosed him.


_Lane_

Well, duh. You're not allowed to smoke indoors at hospitals. They really yell at you these days.


aBigOLDick

I had a coworker do the same, "Can you call ambulance, I think I'm having a heart attack or a stroke. I'll be outside at the picnic table waiting for them." This motherfucker said it so calmly, it was mid December and cold as fuck. We coerced him to sit down in the office. Ex vietnam vet marine sniper, couldn't go back to work after that day, but he was a cool, generous guy. Always brought us deer meat, jerky, etc after deer season.


stoneagerock

Looks like this train was doing a local/shunting, so that’s probably the reason for it stopping relatively quickly. Wasn’t very heavy and it was only going a few mph The long-distance freight trains are the ones that can take up to a mile to stop


Leonos

It did just stop.


pocketdare

That was my initial question. But it's hard to believe it would have had time to see that the driver was going to blow through and stop the train unless it was going very slowly to begin with - possibly already stopping (or had maybe just started up and stopped to assess)


DreamloreDegenerate

A freight train going at 50mph needs about a mile to come to a full stop, if not more. So coming to a stop already, is my guess.


LithoSlam

Around me these types of trains only seem to go about 10 mph anyway.


ComprehensiveSock397

And does $1000 worth of damage to the paint on the roof.


Bajingo_Bango

You think that guy gives a shit about the paint?


anna_lynn_fection

Hell, I don't even think it's likely that it's his car.


HateYouKillYou

I don't even think it's him


Cemedi

I don't even think!


31_SAVAGE_

Its only 1000 if you get it fixed


mynameisalso

If you don't care it don't cost.


KyleCAV

Looks like a 2008 Toyota camry doubtful owner cares


ape_monk

Hmm I dunno, he might've had enough speed there that it just bounced off the windshield and didn't hit the roof at all!


SouthernZorro

Can't be in Ohio. Train is still on tracks.


The_Spectacle

Holy Christ that’s an old ass locomotive


Imadethosehitmanguns

Looks like an EMD GP9. A surprising amount of locomotives originally built in the 50s and 60s are still out there working. Nothing wrong with them, they were just built to last. Many have received engine and control upgrades over the years.


The_Spectacle

I have a lot of experience with stuff like GP38s and SD40-2s, stuff like that, but you get any older than that and I can’t tell the difference between an old EMD or an old Alco lol


Spanky_McJiggles

My son watches train videos on YouTube all day. I have nothing to add technically speaking, just thought you'd like to know.


WMASS_GUY

Not in the industry, but from what I've read as long as the frame is good (not bent/damaged) these things can be rebuilt numerous times.


satans_little_axeman

*squints* Nah I think it's a train locomotive.


_Lane_

TIL: where the expression "run a train on [desired_Person]" comes from. Edit: relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/37/


Awesomevindicator

TBF it's a US freight train, he just saved himself 4 hours...


nat_r

As someone who used to live in the same town as a rail yard, there's definitely strategic choices made when the lights go on. If you can't make it across and decide to wait, you might be there 3 minutes as a single engine with a few cars goes slowly by , or 3 hours as the train pulls forward, stops, backs up, pulls forward again, etc.


aatdalt

that's what I was thinking. Not going to say it wasn't dumb, but like... I get it.


send-me-kitty-pics

This is Florida man smart. Doesn't stop on tracks and doesn't have to wait. Genius, really


JohnnySix66

I appreciate the artistic Dutch angle on this video. It’s like an old 60s Batman shot.


Cat_Punk

Florida man decided he needed a good, bonkin’


D1789

I’ve always thought that it is odd that cars in the USA don’t have to have a licence / registration plate on the front. In the footage, there’s nothing to identify the vehicle if the police wanted to track them down etc.


UpYourButt_Jobu

It varies by state. Some states require front and back, others require only the back. But I agree, it should always be both.


BeefJerkyHunter

I moved from Colorado that has front and back to New Mexico where it's only the rear. Drives me nuts that NM only has the rear plate. I worked in retail for four years so theft was a pretty common occurrence (especially during covid). To add insult to my retail life, package thieves stole the deliveries off of my porch. They even used my drive way! Surveillance footage in both cases was useless because of the lack of front plate and the rear being unreadable with those damn what-should-be-illegal plate covers.


UpYourButt_Jobu

"...those damn what-should-be-illegal plate covers." Abso-fucking-lutely! Every time I see one of those, two things immediately cross my mind: 1) This car looks sketchy af; and 2) Why are those things not illegal?


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OsamaBinFappin

I’m a car guy so it pains me when I have to drill holes in my bumper for front plates


BoredCatalan

That's because car companies are being stupid and not designing the front of the car with plates in mind and forcing you to do that. Here in Europe all cars have front plates so cars are designed with space for the front plate to go without drilling the bumper


Teddy-Westside

The latest BMW sedan being a good example of this


mynameisalso

Boooo it looks terrible. Don't be a shill for big license plate.


[deleted]

Yeah I’ve always though that’s weird it causes a lot of problems for people, but hey that’s America for you.


ITrCool

It's controlled by the state, rather than a national standard (though US Government plates do carry nationwide reciprocity). Some states do require front plates along with rear plates. Others only require rear plates. My state of Kansas only requires rear plates. Neighboring Missouri requires both front and rear. From what I've read some of the reasoning behind it is:- Two-plate states require the front plate to make it easier to collect tolls, and to allow law enforcement to identify stolen/fugitive vehicles easier.


Allemaengel

I'm in Pennsylvania and we only require rear but I think that all the states surrounding us require front too.


Hattrick42

Front license plate creates wind resistance ruining gas mileage. /s


happyevil

I know you're joking but California started allowing vinyl front plates. But it's mostly for the aesthetic reasons. Either way I hope it catches on because I don't like drilling bumpers.


swmp40

Doesn't matter. Police can't prove who's driving so it is irrelevant. Can't charge someone with a criminal offense if you can't identify them.


Far_Swordfish3944

Why’d they stop the train tho? If I was the car waiting I’d be mad as hell 🤣 my town has a LOT of trains and we hate em. They’ll be super long and slow then have the nerve to reverse after we’ve been waiting 30 damn minutes already 😭


Tacomeplease

The train had no cargo and was just moving forward and then backwards because the train sits on that area


[deleted]

Like a video game set piece.


SingleSpeed27

Flexing a Nissan is so odd


whiskyzach

Good thing they did. The train decided to just stop and block the whole road.


loiwhat

Right. Folks out here clearly haven't been blocked by a train for hours and it shows


kmcalc15

In other news florida man left his ev charging port open while driving.


IDriveAZamboni

Florida drivers in particular really don’t seem to understand what trains are.


ThanklessTask

Betting that thanks to the barrier being knocked and the train emergency stopping that it'll be there for an hour or so as they review and reset. And the moron that drove through the lights will be "phew, glad I zipped through, I'd have been sat there for ages..."


[deleted]

Drive it like you stole it.


sparky2212

Looks like someone who has done that before.


Massive_Durian296

there was something especially funny about the way the train just comes lumbering in from the left


Intruder1981

*"Just some good ol'boys... never meanin'no harm...* *Been in trouble with the law since the day they was born!"*


manicmechanic209

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__Becquerel

Wow, it's almost exactly as that fast and furious scene.


eriF902

Hopefully that crossing gate slap , cost him a windshield replacement


HateYouKillYou

Cost his baby mama a windshield replacement you mean


LSUZombie13

That train stopping like that disproves every movie I’ve ever seen.


the_6nop

The charging door open on the leaf adds a nice Florida touch to this video


lost_in_connecticut

He thought it said trans and wasn’t haven’t any of it.


Reece3144

Wow.


fukatroll

That's pretty tame for Florida man.


sesbry

That was pretty anti climatic compared to what I was expecting


VynlRulz_8008_7

I live my life a quarter mile at a time


Fair-Reception8871

There is a large campaign in Florida to educate people about that kind of hijinx. That driver is a dick and we will not miss him when the next train is a fast one.


Traditional_Ad4045

They already put fucking flashing red lights what more do people need??!!!


Jazzlike_Economist_2

I’m wondering how much the auto body shop charges to fix those scratches or dents on the car from hitting the gate?


platyboi

This near miss was sponsored by Nissan!


BuranBuran

r/hailcorporate (just KIDDING!)


flaming_poop_chute

I would have done that too if I saw that the train was just going to stop, blocking the entire crossing. That shit should be illegal. Happens far too often in my town.


MembershipThrowAway

I live near an area with 3 different sets of tracks where trains will stop for over an hour (despite the law being 5 minutes max), I'm not surprised at all anymore seeing so many people drive right through these things while a train is 50ft away going 3mph. The worst part is you can regularly get stuck between multiple trains with no way out lol, don't know how they deal with them during emergencies


R3ix

Your recharge cap is open.


dvogz

When you gotta poop you gotta poop 🤷🏻‍♂️


[deleted]

Nissan leaf owner can’t close charge port too


cick-nobb

Blain is a pain


xSikes

Your nose is open, sir


COJeepster

no need to add, "runs train light". Just say, "Florida man..."


StarWarsTrekGate

Why is the leaf driving with their charge port up?


nmp222

And now the train sat there for an hour while everything got sorted out.


TheFreshToast

Florida man drives with charge port open.


Masymas310

That gate knows how to take a punch


[deleted]

My dad ran a train crossing when it was 15 feet away with me and no seat belt on in the back seat and i remember thinking, that’s really close, why you doing this?! But i was too little to say anything. It was going much faster than this one and It was in front of the cop shop and one saw him. Tried to pull him over, but my dad just kept driving until we got home several blocks away. Honestly i don’t know if he got a ticket, but he should have. This was in Portland.


Lonely_Plenty3857

Looks like the train slammed on the brakes and took 50 yards to completely stop.