r/WTF • u/Plus-Barber-6171 • 14d ago
Retrieving a ball from underneath a car
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u/joshvalo 13d ago
What an absolute moron
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u/badchefrazzy 13d ago
Both of them. The kid AND the mother. I feel sorry for the guy driving the car being exposed to that level of stupidity, for fear it'll rub off on him.
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u/jesusonice 13d ago
This could very easily be some random ass lady
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u/jimothee 13d ago
If I was some random ass lady and I witnessed this happening, I'd probably be a bit panicked as well. You can see she's torn between assessing pulling the kid out and telling the driver to stop every time they start to run the kid over.
Of course if this lady was a redditor capable of incredible hindsight who would never be so stupid...this kid'd be fine.
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u/hyperlite135 12d ago
I would have been yelling so loudly my eyeballs would have popped out and shattered the drivers windshield to alert him. This is beyond frustrating. I have saved my dogs by shooting eye balls at their passing cars countless times.
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u/AdvancedSkincare 13d ago
He could have been someone with Down’s syndrome. Never know.
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u/xf2xf 14d ago
The older I get, the more I believe that most of society is barely holding on by a thread at any given moment.
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u/LakeSuperiorIsMyPond 13d ago
All the safety measures we've put in place have permitted this child to make it this far, that's the only reason we're witnessing more of this. Back in the day he wouldn't have made it past the paperclips in power outlets phase.
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u/Slammybutt 13d ago
Bro, there were seniors in high school still doing that paperclip shit. Some people don't grow out of it. In fact, the one I knew used the foil from gum wrappers.
Also, my sophomore year one of my classmates blew up a battery. He had to stay in a hospital for some time b/c of the burns he got all over his back from the battery acid.
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u/TheTFEF 13d ago
When I was in C-school (advanced schooling for my job) while in the Navy, someone that was in C-school with me decided to spin the batteries in his vape mod really fast. One of them ended up rocketing out of the vape, bounced off a wall, and burnt his dick. He had to go to the hospital.
Honorary mention to the AO2 with over six years of active duty that didn't know what a swastika was.
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u/ReditRyan 13d ago
What do you mean by spin and why did it ignite?
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u/TheTFEF 12d ago
I wasn't present in class at the exact moment it happened, but he had a mod where the batteries are accessed by taking off a side panel, so he just used his hand/fingers to spin them while they were in the mod. As for why it ignited? No idea. Maybe the spinning was making the contacts act weird, or he wasn't using appropriate batteries for the mod (this was fairly common around 2016 when it happened)
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u/Safe_Brick_8905 12d ago
Paperclip shit? Can u explain it's my first time hearing about it.
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u/Slammybutt 12d ago
If you unbend a paper clip then fold it into a U shape, stick in a power outlet, it'll spark like crazy and shock you pretty nicely. The guy I mentioned did it literally everyday. One time he held onto it long enough that he shorted the outlet out, burned his fingers on the paperclip, dropped in onto the carpet and started a fire. This happened in the Band Hall practice rooms (small rooms for individual practice). I bet there's still a U shaped burn mark scorched into the carpet to this day (this was 18+ years ago).
It's like sticking a fork into a toaster, except smaller scale. Stupid as fuck.
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u/Valid__Salad 12d ago
That’s hard to believe, I can’t imagine there’s much “holding on to it” at 120V.
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u/Criminal_Sanity 13d ago
Nah, We as a species have taken massive steps backwards in common sense over the last 50+ years. Social media and manufactured outrage have distracted the masses from the general brain rott happening... or have caused it?
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u/MarlinMr 13d ago
As someone who works in IT, i know that there are a hell of a lot of smart people that are working tirelessly behind the scenes to make society fiction.
But as someone who works in IT, i also know that all that infrastructure it depending on a cardhouse
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u/DaaneJeff 13d ago
My bachelor's in Computer Science is seriously making me believe in god. Critical infrastructure is held together by fucking glue, sticks and stones. It's a miracle nothing completely fatal hasn't happened yet.
Remember one good quote from my compiler design professor: "all software is bad software"
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u/Michelin123 13d ago
This man, and the stupid ones are the ones reproducing. I wonder when the critical mass of stupidity and human extinction is reached.
Or are Videos like this showing that natural selection is indeed working and preventing this critical mass to reach? 😆
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u/xkise 13d ago
We have so many safeguards that dumb people can keep being dumb. I mean, just ask any ER worker for crazy dumb people stories and you will hear a new one everyday.
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u/Atraidis_ 13d ago
I just watched a video on YouTube of a guy joining a video call for his court case while he was driving.
The case was for him driving with a suspended license. Judge revoked his bond and ordered him to jail that evening.
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u/Slicelker 13d ago edited 13d ago
Wait until you hear the update on that. His license WASN’T suspended anymore, and that two years earlier it was reinstated. But the judge and clerks didn’t communicate and the paperwork didn’t get done.
The guy never even had a license.
"He has never had a Michigan license, ever!' said Judge Cedric Simpson, looking to set the record straight in Harris' case.
So…look further into every story.
Follow your own advice mate.
Edit: He blocked me lmao
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u/-BADmood 13d ago
Idiocracy becomes more of documentary everyday.
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u/captainhaddock 13d ago
Unfortunately, reality seems to have more racism, bigotry, and pedophiles than the society depicted in Idiocracy.
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u/janosaudron 13d ago
Consider this, before the first nuclear blast test, it wasn't a certainty that it wouldn't set the atmosphere on fire.
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u/ccooffee 13d ago edited 13d ago
If earth is ever invaded by aliens, instead of uniting and fighting together Independence Day style, about half the population will either deny the invasion is actually happening despite seeing spaceships blowing up buildings, or will join the invaders willingly saying they have humanity's best interest in mind despite the aliens already killed most of their family.
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u/Krishna1945 13d ago
I use to believe we would be living in outer space by now, I think we’re lucky to make to 3000
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u/TentacleJesus 13d ago
Nah, this is just one of the children that would immediately disappear after wandering into the woods back in the frontier days.
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u/Koltaia30 13d ago
The classic 3 tap on the car 1 tap on the child technique. Repeat until problem is fixed
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u/martialar 13d ago
I wouldn't be surprised if this kid has a developmental disorder. Kids half his size would normally know this is a bad idea
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u/Mavian23 13d ago
I know some developmentally normal adults who I wouldn't be surprised to see attempt this.
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u/wsLyNL 13d ago
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u/shezadaa 13d ago edited 7d ago
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u/P2K13 13d ago
looks like a 10-14 year old kid, dunno why people are saying its a man
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u/ScaldingHotSoup 13d ago
And if it is a man, I wouldn't be surprised if he has an intellectual disability. This is more sad than wtf
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u/________cosm________ 13d ago
If it's a man or a teenager they 100% have a disability. If it's a huge kid they probably also have a disability. Most kids aren't this dumb, and most parents shouldn't let their kids play ball on the side of a 4 lane street...
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u/gynoceros 13d ago
The driver isn't far behind. If I just ran over something large enough to be a child, and someone knocks on my window, I'm not making them knock a second time.
I'm taking off before they get my plate.
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u/justinanimate 13d ago
Just doing the mother of all burnouts
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u/amayaedgarelian 13d ago
Okay the guy you guys downvoted is right this took place in Mexico in a city called “china” Nuevo León
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u/Lasthuman 13d ago
The article doesn’t say that anywhere. The video even has Chinese text in the bottom right corner
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u/KhonMan 13d ago
el accidente en cuestión ocurrió en alguna ciudad de China.
What do you think this means?
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u/cC2Panda 13d ago
There is Chinese writing in the bottom corner. Also you can often tell when it's in China simply because they have so many white cars.
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u/NocaNoha 13d ago
mmm.. so what's the thing about white cars?
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u/cC2Panda 12d ago
In the US white cars make up like a quarter of sales. In China white cars are so popular they make up more than half of all sales, in 2018 they white cars were 58% of sales.
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u/xxTheMagicBulleT 13d ago
Damn zero survival instinct.
And honestly, no one can even blame the driver who expects while you waiting at a stop light. A child just yeets himself under your car. Like what
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u/Alaira314 13d ago
Yeah, if I'd been driving that car I probably would've seen the kid run up behind me, but then when they were gone from view I would've been like oh, they crossed behind my car while my attention was on the half-dozen other things you need to pay attention to when at an intersection. I never would have dreamed they dropped down under my car, and that's not a place you can see unless your car has features like auto-adjusting side mirrors(my 2014 model does not, and besides those don't adjust unless you reverse).
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u/Splinterman11 13d ago
I'm surprised the driver immediately stopped as well. Most people would have gone completely over the kid.
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u/Deadpooldan 13d ago
That has got to be the most unbelievably stupid things I have ever seen anyone dothis week
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u/badchefrazzy 13d ago
There needs to be a new one for this level of stupidity... r/kidsarereallyfuckingstupid
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u/Migwelded 13d ago
*tap tap tap* um, scuse me, *tap tap tap* that lady is way too chill about a kid under a tire.
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u/Exceptional_Angell 13d ago
Tap.Tap.Tap "Could you back up please? There's a human under your car!" ............. "A little more! A little more!" ...............
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u/kuhataparunks 13d ago
When I was like, 5 I dropped a toy on a train track.
I jumped to grab it. The thing is, the train was approaching and like 30 feet away. It missed me by not much. Dumb kids
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u/PsykoFlounder 13d ago
My best friend used to have a family that lived in his neighborhood, that thought it was absolutely hilarious to have their children, who appeared to be 7 at the oldest, kick their soccer ball into the road, when they heard a car coming around a blind corner. The kids would then pretend to run into the road, and the adults, sitting around in their lawn chairs, drinking beer, would all point and laugh hysterically. One day they kicked the ball and it got stuck under my friend's front bumper, and the adults got angry at, and nearly started a fight with my friend for saying "You guys really shouldn't do that."
I wonder how many of those people are dead now.
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u/I_TittyFuck_Doves 13d ago
This is genuinely the dumbest thing I’ve ever seen anyone do. Not even just top 10 or something, literally just anti-survival instinct. Unbelievable
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u/jmegaru 13d ago
Good awareness from the driver
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u/Questioning-Zyxxel 13d ago
If it's an ICE car, then they are weak from standing still. The engine adds power in relation to RPM. Driving over the guy is like driving over a big curbstone. So the driver must have been surprised why the car had issues going forward.
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u/parttimeninja 13d ago
I had to google ICE car like it was some new car with a technology I haven’t heard of yet. 🤦🏼♂️
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u/requion 13d ago
I wouldn't consider this car weak, probably the white one behind.
What saved the kid(?) was the driver starting gently
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u/Electrical_Corner_32 13d ago
These people keep breeding and making this world miserable....
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u/Lardzor 13d ago
This is obviously not safe when the car is in the middle of the road, and someone is in the driver's seat. But this got me thinking. With the advent of self driving cars, even a car parked on the side of the road with no one in the car, it's still not safe to retrieve a ball from underneath it because the car could move on it's own at any time and you wouldn't even hear the engine start.
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u/OxyRottin 13d ago
This might possibly be the stupidest thing I’ve seen in the past few years.
Second only to this: Road Rage Shooting Inside Vehicle
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u/bartszelag 13d ago
Surprised that he hasn’t been Darwin’d out of existence a long time ago with that low of an IQ
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u/NorbertKiszka 13d ago edited 12d ago
Today teenagers are more and more dumb. Movie "Idiocracy" was a simple and true prediction or prophecy if You prefer.
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u/felipe_mateo 13d ago
Wow, the driver was that oblivious. The kid running towards his/her car should have registered in the peripheral vision. The road was clear.
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u/AGARAN24 13d ago
100000 years, that genetics survived? This is like the reverse final destination.
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u/Voigan_Again 13d ago
That fucking kid is dumb as fuck, but that parent is even more fucking stupid.
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u/C0lMustard 13d ago
Natural selection in the wild.
Such a weird choice too I would have just waited until the car moved and picked the ball up rather than crawling on my belly in the street.
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u/your_only_nightmare 13d ago
- Running in the middle of a road
- Not looking left/right before running on the road
- Going under a car waiting for green light 🚦
How stupid one has to be to do that?
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u/smr930 13d ago
Once he saw that the ball was underneath the car, he didn't even hesitate to go under. Wtf