BMW vs potatoes
  • 77 points djluminol

    The world can be so random at times. You're just walking along headed to work. You turn a corner and there's a sea of potatoes and BMW stuck in the middle. You shrug, that's odd, and off you go.

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  • 184 points cattermelon34

    Once again, the people in the south just don't know how to drive through potatoes

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    34 points ReadditMan

    We're used to driving through grits, it's a different consistency.

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    7 points Thykothaken

    You see a person from the south, I see a bmw.

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    4 points Wiwwil

    It's in Belgium. Plate in belgian, lion logo is ING, Belgian bank and they spoke french

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    1 points UpboatOarKnotUpboat

    Should have paid more for the bounce package.

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  • 36 points dab745

    He mashed down hard on that accelerator

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    6 points hello_raleigh-durham

    Creamed it, one might say.

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  • 27 points Calm_Ad5588

    Imagine having to explain to your boss that you were late to work because you got stuck in a pile of potatoes.

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    6 points soonistik

    Nothing to explain, just have to show the video 😂 btw, his license plate begin by a CD, mean that he his a "Corp Diplomatique". Pretty sure he was fast out of there just by calling some friends 😂

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    3 points BI6pistachio

    Will have to create a believable excuse for spud incident

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  • 42 points Magicdesign

    Few chips on the paint from that encounter

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  • 30 points cognitiveglitch

    boil them

    mash them

    stick them in a stew

    drive through them

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    3 points GalickGunn

    And then you drive on through!

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    1 points macst34

    With a bmw

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  • 13 points dirtyforker

    French fried when he should've pizzaed.

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  • 8 points AnnoyedVelociraptor

    Should've gotten the xDrive.

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  • 3 points PupLondon

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  • 8 points bonemonkey12

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  • 3 points zg6089

    What a spud

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  • 5 points BadApplesGod

    Why potato? Protest? Truck lost its meal?

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    12 points rastaman1994

    Farmer protest in Brussels. Produce from south America is way cheaper because it's less regulated, and I think the EU just endorsed/allowed this to happen (not sure here). Real kick in the face to the people that provide food on our plates.

    Farming is one of the most important jobs in existence, yet governments keep shitting on it, so the farmers are getting real aggressive trying to defend their livelihood for our sake.

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    9 points Dutch_Rayan

    Government give them many subsidiaries, and they always want more and complain.

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    -8 points CountWubbula

    So fucked up, eh? People feeling their livelihood disappear as they put food on the table for you, and they have the gall and nerve to want better for themselves! Fucking LOSERS!

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    7 points Tilt-a-Whirl98

    But they don't necessarily put food on the table because you can buy it cheaper elsewhere.

    However, you do need to keep farmers in business even when they need to be subsidized because if something happened to cut off trade, you will really need those farmers! Same with other infrastructure like steel.

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    1 points Dutch_Rayan

    In my country more than half is for export.

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    1 points CountWubbula

    What is the point you’re trying to make?

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    1 points Dutch_Rayan

    That they don't need that many subsidiaries if they just don't produce for the rest of the world, exploiting and draining the ground from nutritions.

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  • 2 points TheBupherNinja

    Should have put on your potato tires.

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  • 2 points Ok_Photograph2557

    Such a waste of

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  • 2 points Humble-Search-282

    Next time they'll think twice before ignoring the salesman's, potato storm, X-Drive, up-sale pitch.

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  • 4 points mjace87

    Why aren’t the front wheels spinning

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    5 points Genuinescatterbrain_

    BMWs are rear wheel drive

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    -1 points kallekilponen

    Yes, but the front wheels should still rotate freely unless they’ve slamming the brakes and they clearly aren’t as the rear wheels are turning and the brake lights only light up at the end.

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    5 points Genuinescatterbrain_

    The potatoes are stopping the wheels from rotating, they are to slippery for the tires to lift over it.

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    0 points kallekilponen

    I’ve never seen that happen even in the most slippery icy roads, and am having a hard time believing potatoes could be even more slippery.

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    1 points Genuinescatterbrain_

    Well the smashed potatoes are quite soapy. The unsmashed ones are acting like rocks or high enough snow, if seen similar stuff before. Also depends on the weight on the tires.

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    1 points Year3030

    It's not that the potatoes are stopping the wheels. The car is low enough and there is enough potatoes that the car is essentially sitting on top of them, and the wheels can't make contact with the road. The car's inertia carried it forward onto the spuds for it to get stuck like that. Or you can imagine the spuds underneath rolling with the car until it was high enough and just right so that the wheels don't touch.

    In other words the undercarriage is hung up and the wheels can't touch the ground.

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    0 points mjace87

    Yeah as the other people said even if it is rear wheel drive you would think they would move a little. There would have to be no friction at all for them not to roll. Or something actively stopping them from turning.

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    1 points alejandriasumeria

    Safe systems in new cars

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    -3 points kallekilponen

    Made me think this might be an AI video.

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    6 points Pal_76

    No, it happened two days ago in Brussels, after a strike from farmers from Europe

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  • 4 points TheHomieAbides

    Where’s the “no”?

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  • 1 points ChildoftheApocolypse

    "Make a right on potato street."

    "Ha, that's a funny name for a street."

    "You'll understand in a moment"

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  • 1 points Popal24

    Spudplaning?

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  • 1 points Cyke101

    Car on Carbs

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    1 points cognitiveglitch

    Definitely putting the car in carbs.

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  • 1 points neverfrybaconnaked

    Looks like they spud out.

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  • 1 points Matt99v

    "Can you explain to me again why you were late?"

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  • 1 points seansy5000

    No turn signal either.

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  • 1 points Chi_Cazzo_Sei

    r/nonononoyes

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  • 1 points kendragon

    That must be a record.

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  • 1 points smarmageddon

    All eyes were on this idiots driving through the potatoes.

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  • 1 points jillvalenti3

    high center on potatoes is a new low

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  • 1 points mothzilla

    Once they get in your air intake you're fucked.

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  • 1 points senpaistealerx

    there was never a yes here. why are there so many potatoes in the street?

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    1 points xXxWhizZLexXx

    Simple answer:

    Yes.

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  • 1 points Trickmac04

    Vut da fuck

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  • 1 points asuperstar

    Needs a nice American truck.

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  • 1 points JDCam47

    Ma! Ma the mashed potatoes!

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  • 2 points Mobkinslayer

    Imagine true famine in the world and people out here doing this with food!

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  • 1 points BI6pistachio

    Mashed potatoes for anyone that can help themselves

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  • -1 points snapp0r

    nope, thaz not an suv.

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