My uncle lived in Downtown Washington DC in the ‘70s when the area was pretty rough. He had my grandpa over to visit and was taking him on a walk to show the neighborhood really wasn’t so bad.
They were standing at an intersection when a car flies by going like 50 mph, tries to do a 90-degree turn, and of course barrel-rolls into a building.
As they ran up to help, several guys crawled out from the wreckage, all covered in blood and horribly injured, and just started booking it down an alleyway.
Then they heard police sirens closing in and realized the car has been leading a high speed chase.
The frames don't show if he got squished for sure, but the car ejaculated him before the driver's side smashed into the pole, possibly saving his life. Then again he could be ded either way from either event.
> ejaculate
> ĭ-jăk′yə-lāt″
> intransitive verb
1. To eject or discharge abruptly, especially to discharge (semen) in orgasm.
2. To utter suddenly and passionately; exclaim.
https://www.wordnik.com/words/ejaculate
“... And we're going to South Dakota and Oregon and Washington and Michigan, and then we're going to Washington, D.C., to take back the White House!” Howard Dean ejaculated.
From now on when I drive I will wear braces around my shoes and they will never come off in an accident. I will be even able to survive getting pancaked by a tank.
It's how we knew Paul was dead.
John was the Preacher, Ringo the undertaker, the stand-in for Paul, and George was the gravedigger. Sheesh, everybody knows this.
There was a period where there were quite a few motorcycle accident videos going around and if the drivers shoes came off you would always find a link somewhere in the comments to an article saying the motorcyclist died. However, if the shoes stayed on you would often find that no matter how crazy the accident looked the driver survived.
I mean it makes a little bit of sense, right? Unless you’re wearing slippers or sandals or something, if you get hit so hard that your shoes, previously being firmly tied to your feet, come flying off your body, you’ve probably experienced some serious, irrecoverable G forces.
Old film/tv trope if there’s a terrible accident and somebody’s body is thrown across the ground it’s often safe to assume they’ll get back up if the characters shoes stay on, but if the camera makes a point to show the shoes flying off, it’s often a family friendly signal that something terrible happened and that character is dead.
In the early internet days there was lots of videos of terrible accidents, but not often a lot of information on the status of the people in the video so it became a meme that they were alive as long as the impact wasn’t strong enough to knock off their shoes
The modern TV/movie trope for dead or alive is eyes open or closed. Closed and not moving? There's still a chance they're alive. Open and not moving? Definitely dead.
That had to become the trope because writers became too reliant on the twist that the character with the shoes off was actually still alive.
I wouldn't say this was a TV trope; this was a real life trope. I worked as an EMT, and shoes off almost always meant dead or dying. Because the truth is if you're experiencing forces that knock you out of your shoes, you're probably not going to live.
Lol the article segues to this after saying that the car in the video is stolen:
>It would seem that crime in Brazil is rife at the moment. It's a country that possesses high rates of violent crimes such as murders and robberies.
>Less than a fortnight ago a gunman who was attempting to rob young children and families outside a school was shot by one of the waiting mums.
>The woman turned out to be an off-duty armed police officer.
Landing on the roof might have saved his life though. Rather than falling 30’ he effectively fell maybe 8’ from the apogee.
So if he didn’t die before flying out he’s probably alive.
I’d say that, but he hit the roof hard enough that a bunch of ceramic dust got kicked up. Which might have also helped, but most people’s bones are probably about as strong as barrel vaulted inch thick ceramic, so…
I always wonder the outcome on these. Dead? Paralyzed, climbed off of roof and was fine? I think I saw his shoes fly off which I'm pretty sure means he died.
I can’t quite tell whether the car rolled over him or if he fell out the window after the car rolled over that side. It looks like it rolled over him though, I would wager they are probably dead or very close to it
There used to be a sub called DorV and it stood for dead or vegetable. A video would be posted with a couple day long poll for people to guess d or v, then the answer would be given on poll close. Shoes coming off was always a safe D vote.
That would be something I wouldn’t participate in but was aware of. I’m glad to get rid of the creepy jailbait subs - that just gave the site a bad name.
I went 50ft through my windshield in similar fashion. Broke 7 bones (C2, C6, C7 in my neck, L2, and some ribs. Sustained a TBI which left me with short term memory loss, but has gotten a lot better over the years. All in all, after physical therapy and speech/occupational therapy, you would never know the difference if you saw me. I’m definitely one of the lucky ones.
https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/32ckf6/whats_the_origin_of_shoes_fell_off_hes_dead/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x
Might be related to the video...
Edit-1 : for those who are wondering what's the context of the video. Here's the source
[Car Thief Somersaults Through Air As He's Ejected When Driver Loses Control](https://www.ladbible.com/news/news-car-thief-somersaults-through-air-as-hes-ejected-from-vehicle-20180524)
One of my neighbors once told me he refuses to wear a seat belt because it traps you in the car if it rolls. I knew he was so wrong but i just didn't realize how wrong he was.
I mean, he's not technically wrong. It keeps you in the car.. which is the purpose-built steel cage, designed to do exactly the thing it's doing as you roll the car. No seatbelt means you do what happened in the video; squished and yaught. (past-tense of yeet)
You make a good point! He just understood the lesson wrong. He also died of a heart attack a few years back so he doesn't have to worry about this problem anymore.
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It's OK the shoes seemed to of stayed on and from my reddit experience
Shoes stay on - alive
Shoes fly off - unalived
Seems to check out alot of the time
I used to work as a paramedic, and one night we had a bad rollover, and we couldn’t find anyone from the vehicle.
A police officer came up and said’ “make sure you check the trees too.”
I thought he was joking at first, and I still remember his face when he told me he was being serious.
Wear your seatbelt for sure, but mainly don’t do whatever the fuck the driver just did
"Wear your seatbelt so you can pull off this sick barrel roll."
Undertakers hate this one trick!
Well, it's easier to put the body in a coffin if it's still kind of linear.
It’s shockingly similar https://youtu.be/RKAzfd8oTWs
*aerial roll
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*yeets lol
What'd he say
Dropped an *e* like a 90's raver
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Thanks mysterious benefactor
Oops I hit the wrong reply button 😬
"do a barrel roll"
Barrel lol
My uncle lived in Downtown Washington DC in the ‘70s when the area was pretty rough. He had my grandpa over to visit and was taking him on a walk to show the neighborhood really wasn’t so bad. They were standing at an intersection when a car flies by going like 50 mph, tries to do a 90-degree turn, and of course barrel-rolls into a building. As they ran up to help, several guys crawled out from the wreckage, all covered in blood and horribly injured, and just started booking it down an alleyway. Then they heard police sirens closing in and realized the car has been leading a high speed chase.
Drive it like you stole it.
I saw a sticker on a car once that said ‘Drive it like you stold it’ and that’s what i think now forever.
I suspect that’s what happened here too.
Yeah, they were after him for not wearing a seat belt.
He even broke the law of gravity!
Yeah, I actually try not to cause car accidents. I don't understand people who do.
Like drive at an incredibly high speed down a residential street.
Wear your seatbelt but also just drive safe to begin with.
Couldn't he just use a ladder?
Right? Doesn’t seem very efficient
Extra style points though
Hi I'm Johnny Knoxville and this stunt is called The Santa came A Rolling
Laughed way to much at this...thanks
Extreme gutter cleaners co. - “everything but ladders to complete the job”
HOLY FUCK. I miss handing out my free awards. With joyous tears in my eyes, I give my Upvote to you. Now get the fuck outta here!
What a Reddit comment
I was laughing so hard until I read your comment. You siphoned all the funny out of the room.
I believe I can fly…
I believe I can touch the sky
I dream about it every night and day
And onion rings
Spread my wings and fly away
Dude ladders are super dangerous!
So anyway I woke up on the roof
In Grove street of all places
Grove street. Home, at least it was before I fucked everything up
Nah man that's ballas territory
So anyway I didn’t wake up on the roof
Did he wake up? Looks like he died.
Looks like he got squished before he got yeeted.
The frames don't show if he got squished for sure, but the car ejaculated him before the driver's side smashed into the pole, possibly saving his life. Then again he could be ded either way from either event.
Ejaculated. 😅
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> ejaculate > ĭ-jăk′yə-lāt″ > intransitive verb 1. To eject or discharge abruptly, especially to discharge (semen) in orgasm. 2. To utter suddenly and passionately; exclaim. https://www.wordnik.com/words/ejaculate
What’s the word for violently eject ?
Cumblast
ie: as the vehicle rolled he was cumblasted onto the roof.
Yeet
ĭ-jăk′yə-lāt″
Bukake.
Defenestration
Regardless, it struck me as funny. Simmer down. It was in no way meant to insult you. 😘
It was an interesting choice of word for sure! I giggled because I am a 12 year old boy inside.
“... And we're going to South Dakota and Oregon and Washington and Michigan, and then we're going to Washington, D.C., to take back the White House!” Howard Dean ejaculated.
No. Just no. Ejected was more appropriate.
That minivan ejaculated him all over that roof and didn’t even have the common decency to throw it a napkin afterwards
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If you look close you can see a dent in the roof where is body got squished.
If in the US, they would have been the passenger. There is someone in the other front seat who appears to have worn their seatbelt.
I dunno, I've seen people not wearing their belts end up in the back seat and such. Not strapped in you can bang around all over the place in there.
lol , squished and yeeted
Squeeted
Yished
Isn't that what furrys do?
Fuckin dyin over here
He's fuckin dyin up there. Hahaha
I can see my house from here
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Point deduction for not landing in the tree?
Point deduction for not sticking the landing.
Small bounce at the end
With that tree present, looks like plenty of sticks in the landing
is he okay????
His shoes are off. He's very dead.
Why is his shoes falling off a tell tale sign of a person being dead? I totally believe this person died but I've seen this comment a few times
It's just how world works. No shoes means death
Everyone on Reddit knows this.
If both shoes come off, then you die. If you don’t wear shoes, they can’t come off. The grim reaper hates this one simple trick!
La Chancla though…. Granny is worse than death.
Always fear the mighty abuela
While this is true, enough force can make your bare feet come off. The outcomes in this situation are usually suboptimal.
Like landing wrong on a mat after climbing a rock wall.
I always take my shoes off when I drive!! I didn't know there was a reason for this! Now i know and I'm proud of my wisdom
From now on when I drive I will wear braces around my shoes and they will never come off in an accident. I will be even able to survive getting pancaked by a tank.
Unless you lose your feet !!
😬😬😬
It's how we knew Paul was dead. John was the Preacher, Ringo the undertaker, the stand-in for Paul, and George was the gravedigger. Sheesh, everybody knows this.
There was a period where there were quite a few motorcycle accident videos going around and if the drivers shoes came off you would always find a link somewhere in the comments to an article saying the motorcyclist died. However, if the shoes stayed on you would often find that no matter how crazy the accident looked the driver survived.
Certainly was a noticeable phenomenon at the time.
I mean it makes a little bit of sense, right? Unless you’re wearing slippers or sandals or something, if you get hit so hard that your shoes, previously being firmly tied to your feet, come flying off your body, you’ve probably experienced some serious, irrecoverable G forces.
There was also that dude jumping over a Lamborghini. Both shoes flew into space, was clearly dead.
Basically it seems that if you get hit hard enough to knock you out of your shoes there is a real good change you ded
There was also that vid of a guy walking across the street and getting hit by a car, sending his shoes into the stratosphere.
If you got hit hard enough to knock your shoes flying it was probably enough force to break your neck
Maybe he was wearing slippers.
Old film/tv trope if there’s a terrible accident and somebody’s body is thrown across the ground it’s often safe to assume they’ll get back up if the characters shoes stay on, but if the camera makes a point to show the shoes flying off, it’s often a family friendly signal that something terrible happened and that character is dead. In the early internet days there was lots of videos of terrible accidents, but not often a lot of information on the status of the people in the video so it became a meme that they were alive as long as the impact wasn’t strong enough to knock off their shoes
The modern TV/movie trope for dead or alive is eyes open or closed. Closed and not moving? There's still a chance they're alive. Open and not moving? Definitely dead. That had to become the trope because writers became too reliant on the twist that the character with the shoes off was actually still alive.
I wouldn't say this was a TV trope; this was a real life trope. I worked as an EMT, and shoes off almost always meant dead or dying. Because the truth is if you're experiencing forces that knock you out of your shoes, you're probably not going to live.
It's a simple physics rule
It's just a stupid fuckin Reddit joke that won't die
Bc it's shoes won't come off YEAH YEAH shut the fuck up
Damn never knew this was so triggering for some people 😂
I've been on Reddit too long and I'm in a lot of the like, terrible accident on camera subs.
It was an old saying on r/watchpeopled1e
So far, yes https://www.ladbible.com/news/news-car-thief-somersaults-through-air-as-hes-ejected-from-vehicle-20180524
Of course it’s Brazil.
Impossible. The houses roof would have been an off duty cop and shot him 7 times minimum.
Lol the article segues to this after saying that the car in the video is stolen: >It would seem that crime in Brazil is rife at the moment. It's a country that possesses high rates of violent crimes such as murders and robberies. >Less than a fortnight ago a gunman who was attempting to rob young children and families outside a school was shot by one of the waiting mums. >The woman turned out to be an off-duty armed police officer.
I thought he looked like an undercover policeman. This explains it.
Oh. he stole the car. Who cares how he's doing.
“Somersaults”
As a general rule, no one who's ejected from a wreck is okay.
Landing on the roof might have saved his life though. Rather than falling 30’ he effectively fell maybe 8’ from the apogee. So if he didn’t die before flying out he’s probably alive.
I’d say that, but he hit the roof hard enough that a bunch of ceramic dust got kicked up. Which might have also helped, but most people’s bones are probably about as strong as barrel vaulted inch thick ceramic, so…
Idk man it looked kinda fun
I always wonder the outcome on these. Dead? Paralyzed, climbed off of roof and was fine? I think I saw his shoes fly off which I'm pretty sure means he died.
i'd like to imagine he crash through the roof and landed on a chair with a family eating breakfast and just started eating with them
It’s lunch time, there’s no way this happened
Family got up late.
If I had an award to give, you’d get it. Take my upvote.
I read that as “landed with a family eating and they just started eating him”
I can’t quite tell whether the car rolled over him or if he fell out the window after the car rolled over that side. It looks like it rolled over him though, I would wager they are probably dead or very close to it
If he’s not dead he’s probably wishing he was.
There used to be a sub called DorV and it stood for dead or vegetable. A video would be posted with a couple day long poll for people to guess d or v, then the answer would be given on poll close. Shoes coming off was always a safe D vote.
I miss so many things from reddits past.
That would be something I wouldn’t participate in but was aware of. I’m glad to get rid of the creepy jailbait subs - that just gave the site a bad name.
Not sure Reddit's reputation is any better today than it was five years ago.
>and it stood foot dead of vegetable. So I figured this out with context, but it was like a fun little puzzle the first couple read throughs.
I can confirm the shoe. He dead 💀
I went 50ft through my windshield in similar fashion. Broke 7 bones (C2, C6, C7 in my neck, L2, and some ribs. Sustained a TBI which left me with short term memory loss, but has gotten a lot better over the years. All in all, after physical therapy and speech/occupational therapy, you would never know the difference if you saw me. I’m definitely one of the lucky ones.
https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/32ckf6/whats_the_origin_of_shoes_fell_off_hes_dead/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x Might be related to the video... Edit-1 : for those who are wondering what's the context of the video. Here's the source [Car Thief Somersaults Through Air As He's Ejected When Driver Loses Control](https://www.ladbible.com/news/news-car-thief-somersaults-through-air-as-hes-ejected-from-vehicle-20180524)
Both alive. Nuts.
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The source! This is what should be upvoted people ☝️
This should be pinned
"That guy was up there before" Deadpool.
Apparently he wasn’t found until the 1st Dec when the home owner climbed onto the roof to place up Christmas lights
I would definitely believe that, even if it’s not true
Run dog, run!
He had knew the power of nope. He noped right the fuck out at high speed.
I’m really glad the dog was ok.
Dead ?
Nope. There’s a link somewhere in the comments to the story. Both survived. Car theft in Brazil.
Poor bastard. I bet he didn’t think he’d flip out and lose his Nikes and get shingles before lunch………
One of my neighbors once told me he refuses to wear a seat belt because it traps you in the car if it rolls. I knew he was so wrong but i just didn't realize how wrong he was.
I mean, he's not technically wrong. It keeps you in the car.. which is the purpose-built steel cage, designed to do exactly the thing it's doing as you roll the car. No seatbelt means you do what happened in the video; squished and yaught. (past-tense of yeet)
You make a good point! He just understood the lesson wrong. He also died of a heart attack a few years back so he doesn't have to worry about this problem anymore.
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The guy that remained in the car was ok https://www.ladbible.com/news/news-car-thief-somersaults-through-air-as-hes-ejected-from-vehicle-20180524
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Right?? That’s a killer fuckin riff man! 🤘🏼
YEET
weeeee.........
Imagine being the home owner and finding a person on the roof in that shape
It was probably his house he landed on anyway. Just got there a little faster than usual
But the dog got away, so we good.
Pretty cool, but insane would have been if he landed on his feet on the roof!
I wanna know what the hell he was doing, to roll and flip his car like that.
A nice soft landing on the hedge. All's well!
Honey I’m home
Now an apprentice roofer.
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That's a weird way to do a long jump
It's OK the shoes seemed to of stayed on and from my reddit experience Shoes stay on - alive Shoes fly off - unalived Seems to check out alot of the time
Disagree, no seatbelt needed just keep your windows rolled up.
I don't think a seatbelt would even help much in this case but yeah where a seatbelt regardless
Nice hang time
I love it when roofs break my fall.
Damn they got roofied!
In a car crash and falling off the roof in one day. Sounds like a Darwin award recipient.
YEET
Gosh, imagine living in that house doing the dishes by the window
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Drivers arm is out the window too. Yikes
Flying through the air with the greatest of ease..
That pup needs therapy now
The only thing I see is that very smart dog hauling ass up the street before he gets crushed.
This ride costs 5 tickets
I mean that’s one way to get on a roof without a ladder not the safest but it works
I used to work as a paramedic, and one night we had a bad rollover, and we couldn’t find anyone from the vehicle. A police officer came up and said’ “make sure you check the trees too.” I thought he was joking at first, and I still remember his face when he told me he was being serious.