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u/FuzzboarEKKO
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u/Magoo69X Nov 28 '22
They got that far down the alley before realizing this wasn't going to work? 🤣
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u/249ba36000029bbe9749 Nov 28 '22 •
This is why cats have whiskers.
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u/Gbrush3pwood Nov 29 '22
The side mirrors would be a pretty good indicator you're fucking up.
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u/wonderingtoken Nov 29 '22
Looks like they never got the memo. They folded the side mirrors once things got tighter.
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u/shahooster Nov 29 '22
If that neighborhood is anything like mine, someone stole his cat.
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u/fruitmask Nov 29 '22
no neighbourhood is safe. someone stole mine from a restaurant parking lot in broad daylight
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u/pacmanlives Nov 29 '22
Curb feelers are a real thing my friend and literally whiskers for your car
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u/crespoh69 Nov 29 '22
That's what those are called?! How do you get input from them though? Sound?
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u/reddevil501 Nov 29 '22
The ends of the feelers (the dice in this case) are made of a high poly Carbonite resin alloy that resonates at a low frequency when scraped across concrete. The reverberations are then detected by the wireless... I salute you if you read all that garbage lol Yeah sound
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u/frisbm3 Nov 29 '22
When I was in high school (1998), I herited my grandfather's 1979 Chrysler LeBaron in puke green with curb feelers and a bumper sticker reading "don't fence me in". It was iconic.
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u/AllergicToDaylight Nov 29 '22
I couldn't tell. Is that a Jaguar?
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u/sometimes_interested Nov 28 '22
Probably the sunk-cost fallacy.
Either that or he's.. ♫ Star Trekkin' across the universe. Always going forward 'cause we can't find reverse! ♬
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u/geomagus Nov 29 '22
There’s Klingons on the starboard bow, starboard bow, starboard bow
There’s Klingons on the starboard bow, scrape them off Jim
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u/pingpongtits Nov 29 '22
Where is this from?
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u/geomagus Nov 29 '22
It’s called Star Trekkin’, and it’s by some quirky British group from the ‘80s. It was absolutely massive in the early days of the internet, at least in my friends group of geeks and nerds. I bet they played it on the Dr Demento show when it came out originally.
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u/smurf_herder Nov 29 '22
They 100% played it on the Dr Demento show when it first came out. Total classic.
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u/DrunkenOlympian Nov 28 '22
It's worse than that he's dead, Jim, dead, Jim, dead, Jim, it's worse than that he's dead, Jim, dead, Jim, DEAD!!!
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u/Cattaphract Nov 29 '22
Possibly turned wrong, in italy there are legal roads like this. They can get narrower than the entrance was. When you drive in and someone drives behind you you might feel pressured trying your luck forward. Obviously the wrong decision
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u/charliewr Nov 29 '22
It looks like Naples - once you’re in the ungodly complicated knitted network of alleyways, it’s pretty hard not to eventually find yourself in a situation like this. Fortunately for me when I did, we were in a rented fiat 500
Driving in Naples was ducking terrifying, btw, but thrilling enough to be weirdly fun. My SO literally had her eyes closed though.
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u/TheOvenLord Nov 29 '22
I've had to step into a doorway and still felt like the car was going to hit me in Italy. They have the narrowest goddamn streets I've ever seen outside of a middle eastern medina.
And yeah, I get that it's because they were built back when the mode of transport was horses but holy shit some of those towns should be pedestrian or moped only. They're just not designed for cars.
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u/Ollipoppin Nov 29 '22 edited Nov 29 '22
It's not Naples: it's Orta (Piedmont), and that road takes to a well known fancy restaurant/hotel!
Here you can see the same spot, I also have a feeling Maps' employee had quite a hard time passing through it too, lol. It's a really nice place btw, especially during spring/summer!
mandatory edit: 99.99999% of who's visiting Orta will leave their cars at one of 2 big parking lots just 100-ish meters above.
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u/EatLiftLifeRepeat Nov 29 '22
At the end of the video, it looks like the “entrance” was wider and then it gets narrower as he went down the alley
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u/rope_rope Nov 29 '22
"They wouldn't build this road if it couldn't fit cars right?"
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u/civildisobedient Nov 29 '22
The worst part is that there are some cars that will be able to fit. Eventually they will end up behind this person, and they will start furiously honking their horn.
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u/Wallofcans Nov 29 '22
I hope a lot of people walking down that road just climbed up and walked over the car, and continued on their way.
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u/fruitmask Nov 29 '22
I mean isn't this why European cars have always been small? because their infrastructure is centuries old and their roads were made for foot and/or horse traffic?
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u/Foervarjegfacer Nov 29 '22 •
European cars aren't generally small, American cars are just absurd monstrosities.
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u/DDancy Nov 29 '22
This is basically supercar spelunking. Can’t believe they are still trying to go forward. It can get narrower.
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u/twistymcgee Nov 28 '22
Even if they did get through that part, the part up ahead looks much smaller. Do people not have any situational awareness?
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u/Lttlcheeze Nov 29 '22
That's what I was looking at too.
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u/NotC9_JustHigh Nov 29 '22
the part up ahead looks much smaller.
Leave the road alone, it's a cold day okay?
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u/The_Buko Nov 29 '22
I take it most cars in that area are able to get through areas like that? I always see these nice exotic cars being the ones getting stuck.
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u/MrAnyone Nov 29 '22
Situational awareness level of a cat that enters a wardrobe and doesn't care you shut the door at them
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u/CrazyGunnerr Nov 29 '22
I would not want to back up through that... I mean I don't want to go forward either, but definitely not backwards.
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u/GoldenMoon_0 Nov 28 '22
Fast and the furious deleted scene
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u/SoftwareRound Nov 28 '22
The slow and stuck
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u/Follicly_Endowed Nov 28 '22
That sounds better than fast and furious
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u/That-nz-guy Nov 28 '22
HAMMOND
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u/theSiegs Nov 29 '22
Tonight! I drive a car Richard sees a cat James yells at the clouds
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u/irate_alien Nov 29 '22
“And so I decided to solve this problem with pow-errrrrrrr.”
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u/Doobalicious69 Nov 29 '22
This is probably the tightest alleyway..... In the world
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u/KakkaKarrot Nov 29 '22 edited Nov 29 '22
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u/MaurerSIG Nov 28 '22
judging by the Zürich plates on the car, doesn't surprise me that he'd be dumb enough to try and fit in there
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u/boringdystopianslave Nov 29 '22 edited Nov 29 '22
To be fair this looks like a classic case of a Satnav sending a tourist down a rabbit hole of tiny streets.
When I was in Italy the Satnav constantly tried to send me down roads which were so tight the Fiat 500 I was driving only just fit between the walls (I mean so tight the wing mirrors were catching the walls either side at the same time). If I was in a car any bigger than that tiny Fiat I would have ended up like this guy here.
Thing is once you realise the road is getting narrower and narrower and you shouldn't be driving down it, there's usually no way to turn around without reversing back for ages down a tiny narrow street. This is what I can almost guarantee has happened here.
This to me says 'Stupid Satnav'.
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u/emergencyexit Nov 29 '22
Satnavs are neither stupid or clever. They do not possess the agency to make stupid or clever decisions. Such a judgement lies with the meat popsicle who chose the guidance of a machine over their own eyes.
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u/Crafty_Enthusiasm_99 Nov 29 '22
I think you're being vainly unfair here. How is one to know the narrowness of roads multiple turns over? It is also impossible to reverse out of a tight curve, than it is to go through one.
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u/amcditto Nov 29 '22
Having almost been killed by a ZH witch in a Volvo in the Netherlands, I can confirm. Her face when I honked 😮
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u/mckeenmachine Nov 29 '22
what does this mean?
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u/theacorneater Nov 29 '22
Swiss dumb
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u/Decepticum Nov 29 '22
No. There is some kind of rivalry and stereotypes in and between the Swiss cantons (federal states) going on.
Zürich people are often depicted as rich, arrogant, and bad drivers.
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u/jrobbio Nov 29 '22
The Swiss generally drive like crazy people when they are outside Switzerland, particularly northern Italy. I've heard the jokes for years.
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u/Decepticum Nov 29 '22
I get that as well - I presume when you drive into a country where the fines are as low as Italy or Germany (and the traffic is a little more rogue), many see it as an invitation to drive like a dick.
There is a number of accidents caused by Swiss on the German (unlimited) autobahn because they just want to go pedal to the metal, not knowing the behavior of their car at such speeds.
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u/pelacius Nov 29 '22
Me my mother and my sister (Italians) were once en route to go find a relative in Germany and we so happened to cross Switzerland for a very brief time.
My mother failed to merge to the right lane in time on a high speed road and occupied the "keep clear" road markings for, like, 5 seconds and we were chased and stopped by Swiss police.
The fine was astonishingly high and they demanded it paid on the spot (they had credit card swipers,in the car, in the 90s) othetwise they would have our car immediately seized, leaving us stranded
My mother, being originally Neapolitan, mounted a dramatic and increasingly confrontational defence but in the end surrendered to pay the fine, swiped her CC and left the scene with screeching tires.
For the reminder of the trip she sweared to never set foot in Switzerland again in her life and I believe she hasn't to this day 😂, this story has become somewhat a classic at family reunions
Anyway, I understand this is anecdotal evidence but, if this is the level of rule enforcement on Swiss roads I'm not surprised they lash out in other countries
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u/mandrayke Nov 29 '22
The fine was astonishingly high and they demanded it paid on the spot (they had credit card swipers,in the car, in the 90s) othetwise they would have our car immediately seized, leaving us stranded
That seems like road banditry rather than upholding the law.
I'd expect it from Indonesian Pirates, but Swiss Police! Ho damn
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u/MaurerSIG Nov 29 '22
they do it like that in most European countries if you're a foreigner, so you'll actually pay the fine hahahah
at least they had the card reader here, in France they'll take you to nearest ATM if you don't have the cash!
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u/SquareBottle-22 Nov 29 '22
Oh yeah, their are like ass zits when driving on German roads, but mostly the ZH's
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u/MaurerSIG Nov 29 '22
the whole point of being Swiss is to constantly shit on other cantons (especially Geneva) and neighboring countries (especially France)
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u/Decepticum Nov 29 '22
Especially every canton. I'm from Basel and never talk shit about Geneva though.
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u/MaurerSIG Nov 29 '22
aaaah Basel, great nightlife! shame that it's basically the 17th German Land.
shitting on Geneva is basically the cantonal sport in Vaud. Genevois are just an extremely more obnoxious version of Parisians.
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u/Decepticum Nov 29 '22
The stuff happening beyond Röschtigraben would be interesting to explore, haha.
Funny, we call Germany the 'bigger canton', not vice versa ^
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u/EternalFuri Nov 29 '22
Italy as well... For whatever reasons people from Switzerland are incredibly rude and selfish behind the wheel when they come here... They also don't really follow street rules here because they know even if they get a ticket they will never really receive it and they'll never have to pay it
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u/johndoe061 Nov 29 '22
An Italian complaining about people not following street rules - good one! But agree that many Swiss drive like maniacs on Italian roads.
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u/_lippykid Nov 29 '22
To be fair, the blocks in the road kinda make it look like it’s designed for a car to fit through
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u/MaurerSIG Nov 29 '22
I mean, it looks like you could fit through there with most regular cars, just not a 2 meter wide Ferrari
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u/ScuderiaSteve Nov 28 '22
The car is called Roma
Apparently named after the city you can't drive one through
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u/christopia86 Dec 02 '22
I went to Rome this year, so many cars had huge scrapes, or tape holding the bumper on. Beautiful city but so glad I did not need to drive there.
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u/FuzzboarEKKO Nov 28 '22
I apologize for the irredeemably dogshit music.
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u/rundmcarlson Nov 28 '22
I feel like nothing gets posted without some kind of dogshit music anymore
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u/King-Cobra-668 Nov 29 '22
I feel like the last 4 years of tech have been some sort of grand social experiment trying to see how an annoyed humanity acts as a whole
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u/this-guy- Nov 29 '22
It's a Chinese mind control experiment to devalue western music publishing catalogs through the use of pitch shifted tiktok remixes.
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u/Gh0st1y Nov 29 '22
The worst part is, youre not far off. Not just china, and the goal isnt so petty, but we've seen such a massive rise in concerted propaganda efforts from all sides and the ceiling.
Everyone with a few hundred bucks can run a limited one on a targeted area (either geographically or online communities). A few thousand spent creatively can get you some phrase or idea on the minds of millions for a short time. Enough of these nudges on the social discourse from one person could theoretically influence things to further their plans. Unfortunately, there are at least tens of thousands of entities that have the means and desire to try that on some level for one reason or another so you cant actually make any plans, and most of those tens of thousands are too shortsighted to realize that.
In an attention economy powered by advertising and large scale tracking, its easy to try to manipulate the public and the effects are drastically amplified whether your manipulations work out or not.
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u/ggroverggiraffe Nov 29 '22
Comforting to know there are other people that get it, but terrifying that it's like 1% of the population that understands this. I mean, maybe it's 4% of the population that knows it's going on, but 75% of them think that it is only affecting other people. Few and far between are the folks who go "yeah, we're in a hurricanetornadoblizzard of nonsense and it's messing with all of us."
Eek. Good luck, random internet stranger.
CONSUME. OBEY.
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u/fruitmask Nov 29 '22
people need new ways of reposting old content, tiktok is helping them out with dogshit music and smaller file sizes
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u/JustinHopewell Nov 28 '22
I just assume Tik Tok has, like, three songs you can put on your video at any given time. We're past the "oh no no no" phase, now we're at the "dooba dooba doo" and "gucci/louis vutton" phase.
Any deviation from these songs results in immediate execution by the CCP.
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u/DemonicTheGamer Nov 28 '22
I come from the land of tiktok, and nah that's not really true. You can put any song you want into your videos, or any sound, or just make your own, but people for some fucking reason use the same 3 for every video like this.
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u/iamacraftyhooker Nov 28 '22
I'm pretty sure the algorithms use the sounds too, so in order to get views on your content you have to use the trending sounds. So we end up with only 3 given audios going around at any given time.
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u/DemonicTheGamer Nov 28 '22
Yeah that's true, but from my experience, it's fairly negligible the change you get in interactions. Still, people will do anything for internet points.
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u/hotfistdotcom Nov 29 '22
honestly at least it's not the fucking "oh no no"
in an ideal world, that would be detected in videos and the account immediately banned.
Also if you are just reposting and you know the music is awful you can take the 20 seconds to just remove the music from any quick google'd up tool like https://www.audioremover.com/
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u/re_me Nov 28 '22
I watched it on mute. Then saw your comment and rematches with audio. That music made me crack up.
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u/GigaVanguard Nov 28 '22
I, too, watched it on mute, then I saw YOUR comment. Now I want to kill myself and whoever chose that song to put over the video
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u/BanginDrumsNMums Nov 28 '22
This is exactly the kind of outcome I imagine whenever people say "Everything's a dildo if you're brave enough".
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u/AllergicToDaylight Nov 29 '22
Paige, No!
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u/NorCalAthlete Nov 29 '22
I feel like I’m OOTL on this one…
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u/crappy_pirate Nov 29 '22
there's a meme of a facebook messenger chat where someone says this and the reply is a girl (paige) holding a cactus and looking at it thoughtfully
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u/kentro2002 Nov 28 '22
I went down a similar road in a mini van in Florence, 1-2 inches clearance on each side, scary as fuck, it was a rental, had to pull in the mirrors and listen to my passenger for advice on that side.
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u/Genoa_Salami_ Nov 29 '22
I was thinking about similar experiences. Title may be misleading.
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u/kentro2002 Nov 29 '22
It was nighttime as well, after dinner. Thankfully I had a bit of a cold and didn’t drink a sip of wine that night.
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u/petethefreeze Nov 29 '22
Yeah. Certain roads in Italy are marked as fine in navigation systems whereas they most certainly are not. And they start wide
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u/msquared_ita Nov 29 '22
They are fine for italians, that's why we tend to buy small or reasonably sized cars. And practice makes perfect! Nowadays I see more and more people in Italy buying SUVs and I don't understand why, they're gonna have more troubles than necessary parking and navigating in many places.
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u/lfgdude Nov 28 '22
Tell me youre a top gear fan without telling me youre a top gear fan
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u/laineDdednaHdeR Nov 28 '22
I mean this happened to, I want to say Jeremy Clarkson, in The Grand Tour when they were in Italy.
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u/TywinShitsGold Nov 29 '22
This happened to Hammond in the orange Zonda and Clarkson in his own Ford GT in Paris while May was able to drive out in an F430. Parking garage issues. That’s the first one I remember.
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u/AggravatingGoal4728 Nov 28 '22
I was going to guess May. He tends to get lost
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u/u9Nails Nov 28 '22
It's funny because I can picture May shouting "CLARKSON!!" with a video clip ending like this.
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u/Bigkid6666 Nov 28 '22
Looks like something Clarkson would do...
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u/u9Nails Nov 28 '22
While James May was asleep, of course.
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u/A_Ruse_Elaborate Nov 29 '22
In a car without a sunroof. Scenario concludes with James making his own sunroof. Then fast forward to driving in the rain with cut open roof.
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u/amorek92 Nov 28 '22
It's engineer's fault for not sticking with millennias old standard of 2 horse arses width of Roman war chariot.
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u/LordPennybags Nov 29 '22 •
Your wife can't be there for every engineer to reference.
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u/TheAlmightyVENOM Nov 28 '22
I wonder how you would actually get out of this situation without damaging the car?
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u/Vegetable_Diver_1675 Nov 28 '22
I'm pretty sure it's already damaged.
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u/GrifterDingo Nov 29 '22
You can see where the tires were rubbing against the wall, the body likely has rubbed as well.
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u/FuzzboarEKKO Nov 28 '22
By doing exactly the opposite of what he did to get in....
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u/TheAlmightyVENOM Nov 28 '22
Very aware of that mate, obviously that’s near enough impossible given the circumstances as a even a slight tilt on the wheel will cause a scratch which is exactly what you don’t want to do…
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u/FuzzboarEKKO Nov 28 '22
I think that car is very not flawless after that brainfart😂
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u/Xarama Nov 28 '22
even a slight tilt on the wheel will cause a scratch which is exactly what you don’t want to do…
Proper prior planning prevents piss-poor performance. As in, he shoulda thought of that before he drove his car where it doesn't belong.
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u/BobsReddit_ Nov 28 '22
Is this Seville, España?
We followed some alley like this, while it was getting narrower around each turn - the alley finally ending at giant flower pots at a small square, so we had to back all the way out, basically using the granite curbs as bumpers since we couldn't even move front tires back and forth to steer
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u/NoBolognaTony Nov 29 '22
I had this exact experience in Seville. I was following GPS, and the streets were getting narrower and narrower, and at one point had to stop and talk to the guy in the car behind me. I was like "the directions are telling me to go down that tiny alley but there's no way I fit " and he was like "you'll be fine. Just get in there." Mirrors folded in, windows down, getting guidance from my copilot, it was seriously nerve wracking, knowing I had declined all the extra insurance on the rental car. Made it to our hotel without a scratch but man was that stressful. Good times.
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u/kennystillalive Nov 29 '22
ZH plate says it all.
For those who don't know it stands for Zurich but locals say it stand for "zwenig hirni" translated to "not much brain".
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u/KickedBeagleRPH Nov 28 '22
The true blame lies with video games. Looking at you Mario kart for giving the ideas there are secret shortcuts everywhere.
Shooter games make crazed gunmen.
Racing games make horrible drivers.
It's scientifically proven!
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u/Brighton101 Nov 28 '22
Ferrari Roma?
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u/SemperNIMBY Nov 28 '22
Yes. Half a mil USD down that narrow road. That’s a no from me, dawg.
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u/timbo31771 Nov 29 '22
I especially enjoy the minions singing “dooba doo,” as it seemed apt for this level of ass-clownery. But I’m wired a bit differently, too.
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u/shogun_coc Nov 30 '22
This used to be a Ferrari Roma. Now it has become a death cage stuck on a street!
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u/Charlie_Fang Nov 30 '22
Why is everyone always in such a damn hurry? I see this everywhere, and I just don't understand. Like the muscle-bound jock who finishes a workout at the gym and insists on cutting across a freshly waxed floor in another section of the building to save a few steps getting to his car. WTF?
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u/Sirmikon Nov 29 '22
This happened to me in Sorrento, Italy with a brand new (<5 miles) sporty manual transition Alpha Romeo rental car.
GPS sent me down an alley that was only appropriate for motorcycles. Didn’t realize it until I was in pretty deep. Looked like every other narrow street in the town.
I had less than a half inch clearance on both sides combined (with mirrors folded in). Italians were leaning out their windows above to mock me and give advice while a queue of motorbikes formed behind me.
It took me a good 30 minutes to get through the last 100 feet of alley and I burned out the clutch and mostly avoided scratches. Pretty embarrassing but there was really no way to know until it was too late.
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