Brasil too. Stop?! No man. Only if somebody is coming. Just do whatever you want. Everyone does. Motos splitting lanes at 80mph. Almost no accidents ever. Zero road rage. In America you try to merge and somebody will try to run you off the road and murder you. Turn signal and they speed up just to be an asshole. Part of why America is the very worst country hands down.
Not sure where, but Philippines. I've lived here for 11 years, ride all around the country and although this dude was doing it for views or having a mental episode, it's super common here.
Most roads with the exception of toll roads are so tiny with no sidewalks that walking in the road is your only option.
Sure but walking over the road while watching out for both sides and crossing the road as quickly as possible is different than standing in the road and ignoring cars
What amazes me with those kind of videos is that many of the people involved made it into their 30s in the first place. Human society provides a safety net for all. Even for the less intelligent among us.
Well I mean think how dumb we were 2000 years ago and yet our population kept growing; the only thing holding it back was child mortality and women dying in childbirth, but despite those things we just kept failing upwards. Of course once we cracked basic maternity care we were off to the races, as dumb as we were unstoppable.
I don't get the whole "we used to be so dumb" thing... Like we all stand on the shoulders of those who came before us. With the knowledge they had on hand each generation conquered the environment with the tools they had available and developed new tools for the next generation to do a little better. It's been 200,000 years of steady success. They might be "dumb" by our standards I suppose but then to a post human Dyson Swarm intelligence living 10,000 years from now we probably are "dumb" too.
Reminds me of a story I read about half a million years ago when I was half as smart as I am now, about an alien invasion of Earth. They'd been watching us for thousands of years and they noticed we were just riding around on horses, living in walled cities or swinging around lumps of metal the whole time. Their last probe was in something like 800 A.D. Then they arrived in 1943 with a colonization fleet and were completely dumbstruck by the fact we had flying planes, guns, tanks, and were on the cusp of developing nuclear weapons. The aliens couldn't understand how we had done nothing for tens of thousands of years and then suddenly jumped.
It was just a fictional story of course but the author's point was that for 10,000 years or so we just kinda vibed about and then in about 200 years a bunch of white guys in Europe ate their weetabix, huffed some spinach, stole everyone's homework and mixed it together and then did a load of crazy shit.
We were dumb. People obsessed with negativity will say we still are, but to achieve that world view they have to close their eyes to the world outside their windows. We are so inconceivably advanced, even compared to 100 years ago, that our rate of technological evolution transcends science-fiction at this point.
And yes, a hundred years from now, there will be scientists looking back on us like "to think our hivemind started in that primitive digital archetype of Raddit, how quaint"
What did he think would happen 🤣
Not that evidently but let's be honest, there was probably no thinking involved here.
Nadda
Maybe that the driver would avoid him and not damage the damn car lol
Exactly! This dude did some damage to that nice car!
this guy thinks?
He was putting faith in the driver being less of a dumbass than him.
No matter how tough you think you are, a moving car is always tougher.
Man vs Car
https://youtu.be/NcZem2OmDBk
I raise you:
As far as I see it, it’s simply a skills issue…
High five for that throwback
Michael McLick and Randy Dicknose 😂
Did the driver hit him on purpose?
Either that or they were on their phone. Both equally likely
It seems like it. They honked the guy, and then intentionally hit him
In the Philippines traffic laws are more like traffic suggestions.
Source: a Filipino.
They are not even regarded as suggestions. Traffic laws are more like an afterthought and an inconvenience to kamote riders and stupid people lol.
Want to hear a joke?
"Manila subway"
Kamote walker be kamote driver. Battle of the kamotes
Brasil too. Stop?! No man. Only if somebody is coming. Just do whatever you want. Everyone does. Motos splitting lanes at 80mph. Almost no accidents ever. Zero road rage. In America you try to merge and somebody will try to run you off the road and murder you. Turn signal and they speed up just to be an asshole. Part of why America is the very worst country hands down.
I mean we just saw a Filipino driver literally just run someone over just for being in the road. I'm gonna give it to the Philippines on this one.
Dude looked like he wanted to get run over.
Deaths in trafic per capita (per 100.00):
Brazil - 16
USA - 14.2
Sweden (because I live there): - 2.17
So Brazil is not better than the US in that regard but both statistics are still awful.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_traffic-related_death_rate
The intrusive thoughts won.
Not sure where, but Philippines. I've lived here for 11 years, ride all around the country and although this dude was doing it for views or having a mental episode, it's super common here.
Most roads with the exception of toll roads are so tiny with no sidewalks that walking in the road is your only option.
I suspect he was doing it for views while the driver was giving views watching something on the phone
Bonus point: He was watching that dude on the phone.
"Lol that's the same car model I have"
Sure but walking over the road while watching out for both sides and crossing the road as quickly as possible is different than standing in the road and ignoring cars
Yeah but what does that have to do with anything?
I think the translation is something like: "You think you're the tough one." 🤷🏼♂️
The dude wasn't walking on the road, though, he was standing still on it.
What amazes me with those kind of videos is that many of the people involved made it into their 30s in the first place. Human society provides a safety net for all. Even for the less intelligent among us.
Well I mean think how dumb we were 2000 years ago and yet our population kept growing; the only thing holding it back was child mortality and women dying in childbirth, but despite those things we just kept failing upwards. Of course once we cracked basic maternity care we were off to the races, as dumb as we were unstoppable.
I don't get the whole "we used to be so dumb" thing... Like we all stand on the shoulders of those who came before us. With the knowledge they had on hand each generation conquered the environment with the tools they had available and developed new tools for the next generation to do a little better. It's been 200,000 years of steady success. They might be "dumb" by our standards I suppose but then to a post human Dyson Swarm intelligence living 10,000 years from now we probably are "dumb" too.
Nah no shot, "steady success" my arse.
Reminds me of a story I read about half a million years ago when I was half as smart as I am now, about an alien invasion of Earth. They'd been watching us for thousands of years and they noticed we were just riding around on horses, living in walled cities or swinging around lumps of metal the whole time. Their last probe was in something like 800 A.D. Then they arrived in 1943 with a colonization fleet and were completely dumbstruck by the fact we had flying planes, guns, tanks, and were on the cusp of developing nuclear weapons. The aliens couldn't understand how we had done nothing for tens of thousands of years and then suddenly jumped.
It was just a fictional story of course but the author's point was that for 10,000 years or so we just kinda vibed about and then in about 200 years a bunch of white guys in Europe ate their weetabix, huffed some spinach, stole everyone's homework and mixed it together and then did a load of crazy shit.
We were dumb. People obsessed with negativity will say we still are, but to achieve that world view they have to close their eyes to the world outside their windows. We are so inconceivably advanced, even compared to 100 years ago, that our rate of technological evolution transcends science-fiction at this point.
And yes, a hundred years from now, there will be scientists looking back on us like "to think our hivemind started in that primitive digital archetype of Raddit, how quaint"
Yeah I think it’s time for your meds
You disagree with the very well documented history of human civilization?
How very Reddit of you.
standing on road bad etc. but literally 5 meters away is a crosswalk. tf was the driver doing
Blocking the road. bold move, terrible Sequel.
Lmao amazing how people don't look past 10ft in front of car..
That one didn't look past 0ft.
I thought it was one of those optical illusion videos
He stood so perfectly still, he became invisible...woah
Hitting that person with the car was 1000x worse than what that person did. But then you go to the comments and it's a bunch of idiots saying "FAFO".
🤣 🤣 🤣 play stupid games win stupid prizes
Reddit children will cry when you tell them it's illegal to deliberately hit someone standing in the road.
Is it? Oh no! Boo Hoo.
I'm 13 and so edgy
That was uncalled for, honestly
Death race 2000 vibes 👍👍
when a stoppable force meets a movable object
Standing in the middle of the road at night with cars coming is wild. That’s a fast track to ending up on the wrong side of this sub.
Always good to wear black if you're going to stand in traffic at night! 👍
Translation "You think you're the tough one." 🤷🏼♂️
He went down like 7 pin.
To be fair it was dark and hard to see for driver 🤷♂️
Did the fog light fall on the road and still working?
I hope the damage to the car isn't too bad.
Works for me.
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
Play stupid games...
so funny....
Many other parts of the world are not like the United States where if you're standing in the road people will stop for you
Tough to decide which person is the stupidest.
Don't warn him or anything, just film!
i understand giving a "hey, idiot" tap, but that was a bit much lmao
I hope he paid for the damage to the car..... doubt it.
Every time I open this sub there’s an entry from the Philippines on here lmao
Classic case of I’ll just park here, what could go wrong fate answered immediately.
Cross on the green, not in between.
Mf standing there, posing like he's an Avenger.
Looks like a robbery set up to me 🤷🏽♂️…. I’d hit him too
Weeee..... I'm going to k××l myself Weeee. Weeeee...
Standing in the middle of the road at night thinking you’re untouchable is how you find out cars don’t care about your ego.
It's one more way to find out that drivers don't care about anything outside of their car
He definitely fafo lol
Good Job.
Nothing went wrong. He got what he was asking for.
Insurance fraud..?
That was so satisfying I think I came a little bit.
100% deserved. They should hit the laugher next.
ok lng ba yung kotse
yeep, that leg's broken af...
Fuck around and find out at it’s finest
Cant believe reddit heroes are saying its deserved. Guy is a dick but you dont fcking hit someone on purpose. That should be jailtime.
Fair, depending on the area, if someone's blocking the road - don't stop for them.
Now imagine he would stomp on gas.
Don't pedestrians have right of way?
If they're actually in the process of peding sure. This dude was just standing there like a dumbass.
Not walking wherever you want! Looks like a Crosswalk was feet away.