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My kid’s just finished the classroom part of driver education and it prompted a discussion of crazy things we’ve seen other drivers do.

The craziest thing I saw, many years ago now, was I came up behind a guy driving a Ford Ranger pickup and could see through his rear window that he was doing tricep extensions with a dumbbell in his right hand. I was more surprised as I passed to see he was shaving with an electric razor in his left hand. I don’t really know how he was steering.

Kiddo said they were told personal grooming was the fourth leading cause of accidents.

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[–] Vanth@reddthat.com 30 points 4 months ago (4 children)

Driving super drunk. Like, super drunk. I saw the guy getting pulled over and the officer helping him out of the car. The guy literally just folded down to the ground and passed out. I have no idea how he was moving the steering wheel and stepping on gas and brake because he seemed to have no control over his limbs.

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 22 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I know a guy who got pulled over drunk as fuck, and told the cop "you don't want any trouble officer, get back in your car and drive away". The cop told him to get out of the car, so he opened the door, forgot to unbuckle, and did a faceplant on the asphalt with his ass still in the car seat. Then he told the cop to drive away again. Needless to say, he got a DUI.

[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Locally it's not uncommon to find a vehicle abandoned on a Saturday or Sunday morning after being involved in a single-vehicle accident, usually because the driver was drunk and snuck off to sober up before collecting their vehicle and figuring out their consequences. Drinking culture and driving culture are a very deadly combination of course

[–] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

What’s this from? Zelda CD-i?

[–] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago
[–] randompasta 15 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Reminds me of a story from college when some friends were high out of their minds on various things. They got pulled over for speeding by a cop who appeared to be running beside their car. Turns out they were only going a few MPH and the cop stopped them for driving way too slow. They got arrested for DWI, obviously. No idea if it was true or not, but still a funny story.

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago
[–] norimee@lemmy.world 13 points 4 months ago

When I lived in Thailand, I lived next to an apartment building where quite a few bargirls and trans women who worked im the red light area lived.

Regularly you could watch them come home in the early morning hours, driving up with their motorbikes without any issues but then having major diffficulty walking the few meters to the door. Sometimes they didn't even manage to get off the bike properly and just fell off it. But you would have never guessed from their driving.

[–] IvanOverdrive@lemm.ee 3 points 4 months ago

Here in Japan, I saw a dude pulled over by a cop. Of course, I didn't see him driving, but the dude was absolutely legless. Like had problems standing. That was the one and only time I ever seen Japanese cops actually doing their job.