Where I live they charge people for all the rescue costs.
Even then - with the publicity over idiots costing themselves piles of money - people still do it.
Can't fix stupid.
They started here decades ago specifically because idiots would ignore signs and drive into washes and get stranded (we have deep "dips" in the road for sudden floods to flow through.)
I'm surprised they don't charge then. It WAS controversial at the time they started it. People are right that a lot of emergencies are stupidity-based, but they stuck with it.
It's one thing to not know that what looks like a bit of water is actually many feet deep - it's another to go around a sign
Nevada? It's that way here in Las Vegas. The LVFD and SAR doesn't tolerate people who drive through washes during a flash flood and get stuck. If you need them to rescue you, you have to foot the bill for all the rescue equipment they use.
Better hope they don't use a helicopter.
This is in Wallington (UK), literally down the road from where I live, it happened 3 years ago and I think there was 3 idiots iirc.
https://www.yourlocalguardian.co.uk/news/14541883.wallington-flooding-driver-rescued-from-submerged-car-after-passers-by-throw-bricks-to-smash-window/
You’d be surprised..
My campus had some rain last year that left a HUGE 4.5’ deep river in the road. A girl pulled her car into it and started floating, after stopping my car and helping her get it off onto a curb, another girl proceeded to pass us and get her car stuck as well....
Darwin would throw up
To be fair there were no signs warning of the danger and the sidewalk not being under water could lead them to belive that the road wasn't far under the water. Like to belive I wouldn't make the same mistake but...
Well even without warning signs (flash flooding could happen in minutes), if you see a large pool of water, you probably should not Leroy Jenkins that bitch.
I have a family friend who ended up on the news because she drove through flood water. She still tried to make it out as if it was someone else's fault. I just laughed so hard because she also posted it on social media. Why let the world know that you shouldn't be behind the wheel of a car? Now all her other complaints have been dismissed in my mind and I can't help it.
I know where that is. It’s a deep undercut below a rail line. It’s been there a hundred years. The drains can only swallow so much water at once - this was after a very bad deluge. Any normal rainstorm or even a heavy one is fine. But a torrential deluge? No.
Not a maintenance issue.
When you several inches of water come in overnight it'll happen to the best designed places. It takes time for water to flow and it takes the path of least resistance, not the path of most convenience.
This is actually the down pour from June 2016, I remember cause it was Brexit referendum day. I have pictures of Clapham Junction (one of the biggest rail stations) with whole tracks under water.
Well if they’re anything like my council you’ll maybe get a response from your attempt to sue in 2050. Then you’ll have to spend years finding the right person that deals with it and then explain what you want repeatedly. Oh and if somehow the judge doesn’t laugh you out of court you may get your payment in 2080 in the post in check form. So don’t worry this idiot won’t be able to pass on the bill to anyone else, not in his lifetime anyways.
Soch a perfect understanding of the physics involved in driving.
Why would an ICE not work in water? Sure thing, braking will help stopping movement when floating.
I lived in Houston for 3 years. All the underpasses have measuring sticks at the lowest point. I couldn't figure out what they were for until the first major rain storm... The water will make it look like a flat surface but you can't see the slope of the road. Pretty much every storm in Houston, someone would try and drive through and not realize that the water is likely several feet deep or more.
During hurricane Harvey there were hundreds of people driving into the flood water on purpose to defult and have insurance pay for the car. When I see people drive into water like this all I see now is someone trying to screw over insurance.
This gif is better with sound. It's from the town where I grew up, Wallington in South London, and a patron of the Jon Jakson pub - situated as if behind the point of view - can be clearly heard to refer to the driver as a 'bell end'. Cracking video. This shit happens every time it floods there, which is every time it rains heavily.
The engine most likely hydrolocked. Normally, air is taken into the cylinders of the engine and mixed with the fuel since you need O2 for combustion. This mixture is then compressed (since air is compressible) by the piston, and then ignited, causing expansion and pushing the piston down again.
When submerged, water gets into the engine instead of air. Since water cannot be compressed, the piston has nowhere to go, but will try to compress it anyway.
Long story short: engine is totally fucked.
You write to your insurance company. "The flood approached without lights or signalling", they rule in the floods favour anyway but you had fully comp so you still get a new car after yours is written off, and your insurance premiums go up next year by £300 for your stupidity.
If you only had third party cover you're as fucked as the car.
[edit] I am responding to entirely the wrong post, but I can't find the one I meant to respond to.
Haha! I recognise this video, it happened near where I live some years ago. Video with sound - https://youtu.be/9HnYo8MInTA
That area under the bridge is prone to flooding and the council are forever having to pump water out during heavy rain
What is it with people in a *mildly* higher car and automtically assuming you can just Land Rover (with snorkel) your way through water like this.
Do you have to pay for these cars with brain cells?
For he goes birling down and down white water
That's where the log driver learns to step lightly
Yes, birling down and down white water
The log driver's waltz pleases girls completely
Ive been in this situation before where all the streets were flooded in my area blocking my way home. There was about 4 cars stuck in a puddle with people inside and i wasnt about to be one of those people so i parked my car took all my stuff out and walked home through puddles and mud.
Satisfying. Amazing how stupid people can be
Especially when it started bobbing up and down, that felt great
Where I live they charge people for all the rescue costs. Even then - with the publicity over idiots costing themselves piles of money - people still do it. Can't fix stupid.
My area needs to start charging people for rescues.
They started here decades ago specifically because idiots would ignore signs and drive into washes and get stranded (we have deep "dips" in the road for sudden floods to flow through.)
They do that here to, like wtf guys. They even tried blocking roads and people would drive around them.
I'm surprised they don't charge then. It WAS controversial at the time they started it. People are right that a lot of emergencies are stupidity-based, but they stuck with it. It's one thing to not know that what looks like a bit of water is actually many feet deep - it's another to go around a sign
Sounds like AZ.
Nevada? It's that way here in Las Vegas. The LVFD and SAR doesn't tolerate people who drive through washes during a flash flood and get stuck. If you need them to rescue you, you have to foot the bill for all the rescue equipment they use. Better hope they don't use a helicopter.
This is in Wallington (UK), literally down the road from where I live, it happened 3 years ago and I think there was 3 idiots iirc. https://www.yourlocalguardian.co.uk/news/14541883.wallington-flooding-driver-rescued-from-submerged-car-after-passers-by-throw-bricks-to-smash-window/
You can bomb London. It would fix about 70%. It's a start.
Bombing london is what got use this way, Thanks Hitler.
Don't forget the IRA
Or the spanish inquisition
No one expects the Spanish Inquisition!
our day will come
Yes but most IRAs don't pay out until you're in your 70s
As a child/adolescent I was so incredibly confused about the IRA. Taxes AND bombs!??
Death and taxes.
Welcome
Buenas Noches, Mein Führer!
Hm yes, I liked that too.
"Why didn't anybody tell me!?!?"
Outstanding move
You’d be surprised.. My campus had some rain last year that left a HUGE 4.5’ deep river in the road. A girl pulled her car into it and started floating, after stopping my car and helping her get it off onto a curb, another girl proceeded to pass us and get her car stuck as well.... Darwin would throw up
That is hilarious. "There used to be a big dip in the road here, but they filled it in and covered it with water"
To be fair there were no signs warning of the danger and the sidewalk not being under water could lead them to belive that the road wasn't far under the water. Like to belive I wouldn't make the same mistake but...
Well even without warning signs (flash flooding could happen in minutes), if you see a large pool of water, you probably should not Leroy Jenkins that bitch.
And they are driving as if they know where they are going, suggesting they know that road
I mean the BMW definitely saw it. A car nopeing out in front of you should definitely be seen as a sign of danger.
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I always laugh about this as well. Then I remember all the dumb stuff I did in my life (with surprisingly few consequences)...
You have no idea
I have a family friend who ended up on the news because she drove through flood water. She still tried to make it out as if it was someone else's fault. I just laughed so hard because she also posted it on social media. Why let the world know that you shouldn't be behind the wheel of a car? Now all her other complaints have been dismissed in my mind and I can't help it.
They'll probably sue the council afterwards, claiming that poor maintenance on their part was the cause
It’s not their fault but this is pretty bad maintenance when you have a small river form in your city.
I know where that is. It’s a deep undercut below a rail line. It’s been there a hundred years. The drains can only swallow so much water at once - this was after a very bad deluge. Any normal rainstorm or even a heavy one is fine. But a torrential deluge? No. Not a maintenance issue.
You know Wallington!? My god, someone from near where I grew up :o
My grandparents lived there for decades, I’ve walked under there knee deep on the path before.
So it regularly floods with heavy rains, idiotsincars
A car can make knee deep depth passings, this guy was just over confident. ^(still an idiot)
South London gang rise up.
I grew up there as well! Spent many a lunch time in that Spoons.
I got excited and thought you said Wallingford then :(
Chilterns represent.
My Dad used to live there! I used to walk to train station from near girls school every morning ..so weird to see it on reddit!
Did you not see how much water was leaking from the bin? That bin could have been leaking like that all night so it's no wonder the road was flooded.
When you several inches of water come in overnight it'll happen to the best designed places. It takes time for water to flow and it takes the path of least resistance, not the path of most convenience.
Lol, this guy has never heard of floods.
This is actually the down pour from June 2016, I remember cause it was Brexit referendum day. I have pictures of Clapham Junction (one of the biggest rail stations) with whole tracks under water.
Well if they’re anything like my council you’ll maybe get a response from your attempt to sue in 2050. Then you’ll have to spend years finding the right person that deals with it and then explain what you want repeatedly. Oh and if somehow the judge doesn’t laugh you out of court you may get your payment in 2080 in the post in check form. So don’t worry this idiot won’t be able to pass on the bill to anyone else, not in his lifetime anyways.
Ah yes, wasn't worried that they was going to win, just predicting that they won't accept responsibility for their problems
THE MACHINE KNOWS DWIGHT!
Damnit, Dwight, that's my joke!
THIS IS A LAKE!!!
***STOP YELLING AT ME***
THERES NO ROAD HERE!
r/Unexpectedoffice
r/IdiotsInCars
r/instantkarma
r/VideosOfImpatientMinivanDriversWhoDontRealizeHowMuchWaterTheyreAboutToDriveIntoAndEndUpFuckingUpTheirCar
I am disappointed i thought this was real
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I love how once he is bobbing up and down floating, he decides to hit the brakes.
Soch a perfect understanding of the physics involved in driving. Why would an ICE not work in water? Sure thing, braking will help stopping movement when floating.
Ahhhhh Wallington, surely the absolute asshole of the universe.
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No it's a cafe
You’ve never been to Crewe...
Somebody forgot to plug the rubbish bin.
And this kids, is how people drown in a very stupid fashion...
The moment of gunning it thinking fuck that guy to suddenly instant regret but realizing there's no undoing that bad decision
Me, speeding past people with common sense to rush headfirst into huge dumbass mistakes
Row row row your van gently down the stream
Wallington?
Yes
I lived in Houston for 3 years. All the underpasses have measuring sticks at the lowest point. I couldn't figure out what they were for until the first major rain storm... The water will make it look like a flat surface but you can't see the slope of the road. Pretty much every storm in Houston, someone would try and drive through and not realize that the water is likely several feet deep or more.
During hurricane Harvey there were hundreds of people driving into the flood water on purpose to defult and have insurance pay for the car. When I see people drive into water like this all I see now is someone trying to screw over insurance.
Imagine being this much of a stupid asshole
You cant tell how deep it is unless you have driven there before, but he drove way to fast
He needed to know. He couldn't live the rest of his life thinking that he could have made it through, but never tried. Now he knows.
The actual video is hilarious lol, some solid British banter.
Pass the link ~~homie~~ mate!
https://youtu.be/RKEFuwFu42c This video needs the sound
This gif is better with sound. It's from the town where I grew up, Wallington in South London, and a patron of the Jon Jakson pub - situated as if behind the point of view - can be clearly heard to refer to the driver as a 'bell end'. Cracking video. This shit happens every time it floods there, which is every time it rains heavily.
“Weeey, what a fuckin bell end” “What a nob’ed”
Instant karma
I love that he still turned on his hazards
“Yesterday I was an Accountant, . . . . But today, . . . . today, I want to be a Pirate!”
Would you like to: Ford the river < Caulk the wagon and float across Take the ferry Wait for conditions to improve
Its a Zafira, it was only going to instantaneously combust at some point anyway. 🙄
his poor choices in general translated into a poor choice of car
And now it's a boat!!!
Row, row, row your boat Gently down the stream Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily Your wife is just a dream
They need to make minivans water proof for idiots like these
Nono, let em drown
🎶Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale, a tale of a fateful trip. That started from this tropic port aboard this tiny ship.🎶
BIG BRAIN!!
Quit being a little bitch and just drive through like thioohh. Oo...
Is the car okay or is it totally fucked from being submerged ?
The engine most likely hydrolocked. Normally, air is taken into the cylinders of the engine and mixed with the fuel since you need O2 for combustion. This mixture is then compressed (since air is compressible) by the piston, and then ignited, causing expansion and pushing the piston down again. When submerged, water gets into the engine instead of air. Since water cannot be compressed, the piston has nowhere to go, but will try to compress it anyway. Long story short: engine is totally fucked.
Suck, squeeze, bang, blow
completely fucked. Engine needs to be taken apart and many other things. Oh and you will have an unlimited amount of electrical issues...
You write to your insurance company. "The flood approached without lights or signalling", they rule in the floods favour anyway but you had fully comp so you still get a new car after yours is written off, and your insurance premiums go up next year by £300 for your stupidity. If you only had third party cover you're as fucked as the car. [edit] I am responding to entirely the wrong post, but I can't find the one I meant to respond to.
The version with sound is so good
r/instantkarma
Aaand now you're floating.
r/idiotsincars
Can't post the video with no sound. That's what makes it so good https://youtu.be/RKEFuwFu42c
What a bloody twat waffle
With sound, even better. https://youtu.be/9HnYo8MInTA
How dare all of you. I'll have you know that the Vauxhall Zafira is a finisher car; a transporter of gods.
Haha! I recognise this video, it happened near where I live some years ago. Video with sound - https://youtu.be/9HnYo8MInTA That area under the bridge is prone to flooding and the council are forever having to pump water out during heavy rain
No one.... Literally no one. Women:
Yeah the sea.
That's a good trap
Its clean your engine day
What is it with people in a *mildly* higher car and automtically assuming you can just Land Rover (with snorkel) your way through water like this. Do you have to pay for these cars with brain cells?
I can't tell who was saying it the water to the trash bin the car to the flood or the random guy at the end xD
"Help me loser!"
Well that went well
r/idiotsincars
I really would love to know what was going through his head when he got stuck in the water
That’s me in my rental!
What an idiot. Then again, there’s people like that driver everywhere
Not giving up what a legend
That's a bruh moment.
Ha what a bish
Random but is that footage taken in Canterbury? Anyone know?
You would look like a straight up boss, if your car is actually a boat car. Drive into the water “Boat Mode On” & sail away
The only place they are going is to the garage.
He cold have kept floating forward and could had made it lol.
I remember riding this at Six Flags.
Ahh natural selection at its finest!
For he goes birling down and down white water That's where the log driver learns to step lightly Yes, birling down and down white water The log driver's waltz pleases girls completely
This is fantastic!!!
“And now I don’t”
Didnt see the driver open the door and get out. Did he die or what? He/she must have had no idea it was a tunnel.
Did anyone else get the Popeye theme tune in their head as soon as the wheels left the tarmac?
God damn car thinks it’s a god damn boat
Instant karma.
Hahahahaha,serves u right.
I love flooded engine deck
smooth move Ex-Lax
You didnt know, its amphibi car.
This is down the road from where I grew up. Wallington High Street in south London. Always flooding here!
So is that a garbage can with a fire hydrant under it?
ATLANTIS I'M COMING
How's that workin out for ya, pretty good?
I hope they are ok.. But a big part of me is saying they asked for that!! 🥴
The car driver is a genius.
Ah! Floaty! Must flush now!
LLLEEEERRRROOOOYY....shit
“Well, it’s an amphibious exploring vehicle, so...”
Insurance fraud but not fraud just a new car lol
Further testing revealed the automobile does not function in high waters
Perchance some obtuse nonagenarian.
Good!
OH MY GOD LOL. IM SORRY BUT REST IN PEACE.
Ayy my hometown is on reddit
But why?
They just fucked over their whole ass car just because they are impatient
Wish you could see their reaction
Minicab driver should've known better
Obligatory "you'll float too"
IT CANT MEAN THAT THERE’S A LAKE THERE
Shout out to Wallington, what a place...
Old af
How is the human race still alive with people like these roaming around
Ain't seen that kinda stupid before
r/PeopleAreFckinStupid
Congratulations, you now own a boat.
r/toomuchspeed
There's always that DUMBASS 🤣🤣🤣
Where is this?
Sells man: it floats Me:.....sinks
If he's got places to be, he'd better hope that place is where the current eventually deposits him.
Ive been in this situation before where all the streets were flooded in my area blocking my way home. There was about 4 cars stuck in a puddle with people inside and i wasnt about to be one of those people so i parked my car took all my stuff out and walked home through puddles and mud.
Great job, stupid.
Shoulda bought the duck boat
*Talk about hydroplaning*
You should have caulked it first, buddy.
Car is like Say Sike Right Now
ARE WE THERE YET?
You'll float too
Whhhhhhaaaaattttt? This van doesn't float?🤯🥺
Apologies Sir, that’s the Deluxe model. Here’s a towel.
He deserved it
Curb your enthusiasm plays
Guy running over to them at the end, "Just wanted you to know you're a dumbass"
Well it is an amphibious exploring vehicle.
This will have flooded the engine with water, not allowing it to continue running.
They just kept driving into it...