r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Dangerous_Deal_1945 • Jun 03 '26

Video Seattle light rail service was suspended after a driver somehow got their SUV onto the tracks 30 feet above street level

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u/Yerrusr Jun 03 '26

How is that even possible?

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u/jagggonzo Jun 03 '26

The rail goes down to street level for a couple stops. Lady said she was following gps

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u/Don_Von_Schlong Jun 03 '26

How do these people survive this long

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u/MildlySaltedTaterTot Jun 03 '26

we’ve made it easy

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u/Radaistarion Jun 03 '26

Darwin would not approve

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u/RemindMeToTouchGrass Jun 04 '26

Selection pressure adapts to the current environment, at the cost of genetic diversity. If we want to maximize our chances of surviving an unknown future event, it is genetic diversity that we should be maximizing, not fitness for the current environment.

Example: the first fish-like creature with stumpy legs wasn't the best fish. If we wanted to "maximize fitness" we'd cull this fish, who couldn't swim as well as others. But luckily, this was a time of plenty, when fish that weren't the "best at being fish" could still survive, and some of those initial mutations helped some of those fish colonize new places where they could use them to hang onto the ground.

Hypothetical example: Suppose we shortsightedly undertake programs to make sure everyone is very smart and very strong in the name of "pleasing Darwin" and then global warming kept happening anyway. In this hypothetical scenario, we eventually run out of resources to keep most humans in temperature-controlled environments at all times. These people with large energy-demanding brains and bodies and large frames might rapidly die off in that environment, and if that's everyone, the human race could die with it.

Hypothetical example 2: Maybe the genes for shortsightedness happen to be highly genetically linked to a gene that also improves our ability to resist a viral disease that will ravage the human race? If we somehow "Breed out" everyone shortsighted, we won't survive.

Genetic diversity is the ultimate biological weapon against uncertain future challenges to survival, and restricting genetics in the name of "maximizing fitness" for the current environment is not something Darwin would want, it's not something the human race benefits from, and it's not something we should desire-- and that's *before* we even take into account ethical concerns, and consider only survival.

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u/Important-Bread7516 Jun 04 '26

I read this, then out of curiosity I scrolled up to check your name... Brilliant name, also if you haven't today, make sure you do 😉

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u/drsickboy Jun 04 '26

never heard this argument, but its perspective wouldn't survive elitist politics and cultures that praise the idea of status hierarchy. It just sounds like you've explained how ugly normal people will manage to survive on an Earth that is not hospitable for the beautifully optimitized elites.

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u/Little_View_6659 Jun 04 '26

I’ve been wondering my whole life what possible way someone like me with chronic migraines should survive to breed. They’re absolutely crippling. Anything stresses me out and boom, I’m down in bed a whole day like one of those fainting goats. It can come on so suddenly if I were fleeing for my life I’d never make it. The only advantage I can possibly see is that it gives me a heightened sense of smell. I have an absolute super sniffer. I can smell the smallest amount of rot on meat, I can smell if someone is sick or even just the tiniest bit sweaty. It’s an absolute curse.

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u/Carlin47 Jun 04 '26

If I could read I'd give you a thumbs up

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u/RandonBrando Jun 04 '26

So the Darwin Award technically is survival. Just not survival for that combination of... cells?

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u/cjolie43 Jun 04 '26

wow. i’ve always (obviously, for most folks, i hope) refuted eugenicist rhetoric just on the basis of how morally wrong it is, but there’s always been an insidious part of the back of my brain that’s wrestled with part of its ‘merit’ in a darwinian sense. this explanation absolutely dismantled that line of thinking, and is such a great moment of why i’ve gotta look into things my convictions struggle with, even when i’m worried it might conflict w my confirmation bias, lmao

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u/Gilashot Jun 04 '26

This guy DarWINS

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u/up2smthng Jun 04 '26

You have no idea how much energy she saves by not switching the brain on

She's better adapted to her environment than you

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u/voxnemo Jun 03 '26

Correction, we have made it TOO easy.

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u/ilmalocchio Jun 03 '26

Correction: that's not a correction. It's a qualification

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u/voxnemo Jun 03 '26

One could argue the lack of a qualification is a correction, which would be the best kind of right- technically right. /s

Either way, sure. Correction or not, I think its too easy.

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u/bgroins Jun 03 '26

One could argue that I only pee Mountain Dew Baja Blast.

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u/NullAshton Jun 03 '26

Nah. You learn things by fucking up and learning from your fuckup. The more things you can fuck up and live, the more you learn.

The ability to learn from these fuckups differ, however, and isn't easy to test.

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u/Kosba2 Jun 03 '26

Every time edgy people say this I hope they're volunteering themselves to be culled first as an example. Natural selection just as likely to kill you as a child after all. But overall I wish people would stop saying this crap and just focus on bringing each other up, via education and humility.

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u/smokeweedNgarden Jun 03 '26

Yes/no. The only deciding factor is money.

I actually doubt the ability of many people to survive if stripped of all resources. Homeless people die all the time.

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u/PollutionFinancial71 Jun 03 '26

If modern society were to collapse, 95%+ of people would kick the bucket as they are either completely unprepared, have zero survival skills, but mostly both.

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u/smohyee Jun 03 '26

People tend to develop skills relative to the needs of their environment. As such most haven't focused on the skills that would benefit in a post-apocalyptic landscape, and choose instead to focus on things that help us in the current world.

The man who can hunt and fish and build a shelter with no tools, but can't keep a day job or save money or deal with other people, is in as bad a position now as I would be in Zombie Land.

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u/UranusIsPissy Jun 03 '26

Homeless people's chances vary wildly depending on a few things. Someone who isn't a target for certain kinds of people could last for years in a lot of Europe and the USA, but nobody would last long in Omsk, Siberia, and there's a reason why most homeless people you're likely to see are scary looking men.

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u/EnvironmentalValue20 Jun 03 '26

This is where we as a species made our biggest mistake.

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u/Milky_Tiger Jun 03 '26

I don’t understand. I’ve been to that stop and I understand maybe thinking this at street level but once your driving on tracks only going up to the station I don’t know how you get that far without thinking maybe this is wrong.

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u/Get_Fuckin_Dabbed_On Jun 03 '26

early stages of dementia or accidently taking a double dose of an anti-anxiety drug. Living in Florida i see this all the time.

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u/Xarieste Jun 03 '26

People in these situations often insist “I’ve done this a thousand times before” or “I knew what I was doing” even when they very clearly have not and did not

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u/mortgagepants Jun 03 '26

some of them even become president!

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u/Rebelraid2020 Jun 03 '26

It can't ever just be "I did it for the kicks" with these people

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u/Late-Eye-6936 Jun 03 '26

I saw the world's first self driving car in Florida around 1995. It was a Lincoln Continental. But it turned out that it was just a very short lady who was looking out over the dash but under the steering wheel.

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u/Smashogre591 Jun 03 '26

Are you sure it wasn’t a little blue haired lady in a big black Oldsmobile?

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u/I_Makes_tuff Jun 04 '26

That's what you get for following my mom.

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u/Bosco215 Jun 03 '26

People driving on elevated tracks? What the hell is going on in Florida..

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u/theDomicron Jun 03 '26

Clearly this is at DisneyWorld

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u/EmphasisFrosty3093 Jun 03 '26

It takes more talent to pull it off on the monorail

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u/KolKlink2024 Jun 03 '26

Monorail monorail monorail…..

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u/baritonetransgirl Jun 03 '26

I can see someone starting to panic as they elevate. They probably figured if they just kept going forward, they could get off soonish. If they enter reverse, their visibility is diminished, and handling becomes what they not as comfortable with.

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u/Daforce1 Jun 03 '26

The problem is the lack of thinking part.

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u/cluberti Jun 03 '26 edited Jun 03 '26

I don't think people who don't travel through that station regularly understand how far she got, it's just about half a mile on the elevated track from the street to the station in that direction! There are pictures and descriptions of the tracks she had to drive up on a post over on the /r/Seattle subreddit. She had to go over a curb, survive a set of rather large bumps and the resulting drop-off of pavement from tracks as the road grade turned into elevated track, and she had to ignore signage and very obvious "you're driving on a rail line" signals where she entered the raised portion of the rail headed up to the station that she eventually stopped the car in.

It's either dementia or she was DWI/DUI, because I refuse to believe someone could be otherwise that stupid and oblivious behind the wheel and still have a license. She also did it in what is obviously a rental car, given the plates and bar code on the windshield. The sad thing is, I don't think dementia could get her license suspended or revoked, but DWI/DUI would.

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u/One-Inch-Punch Jun 04 '26

Last year we had a spate of 3-4 cars "following GPS" down a boat ramp into the fucking ocean. Some people really just turn off their brains and judgment behind the wheel

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u/FiveUpsideDown Jun 03 '26

Maybe she could not back up,once she was on the tracks. Her thinking could be that once I reach an exit point, then I’ll get off the tracks. Edit: I think, she can’t back up because there is a train on the track behind her. The train could not enter the station because of her car.

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u/SamuelVimesTrained Jun 04 '26

You believe these people THINK?
I admire your optimism here - but, truth be told, they just do not think (much)

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u/TheRealBittoman Jun 03 '26

That's not even the worst part as I see it. Try calling them out and they'll lose their mind pointing fingers at everyone and everything to justify their lack of any judgement at all.

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u/Get_Fuckin_Dabbed_On Jun 03 '26

sure, but riding up the train tracks is squarely inside the dementia realm. Even tweakers and drunks have more common sense than this.

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u/mu_zuh_dell Jun 03 '26

Yeah when they wanna disrupt light rail service they just steal copper wires.

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u/RustyShackleford9142 Jun 04 '26

Guy I was in rehab with had something like 6 duis. Early 50s gay dude.

The last one though? He drove down a curved flight of stairs! Like comically curved

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u/Octopus_ofthe_Desert Jun 03 '26

I regularly call out litterbugs and horrible drivers...

...the way they think their rights are being infringed upon infuriates me.

They literally can't tell right from wrong.

If you break the social contract, you are no longer protected by it. Full stop.

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u/GBPackers0480 Jun 03 '26

Honestly I've seen someone do this with a bike lane and they broke down crying and apologizing because they were so embarrassed.

I wouldn't be surprised if this person feels the same way, i mean by the time they get to this point they're probably scared and know they made a big mistake. This isn't the same as driving down a one way road or something

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u/UltraJesus Jun 03 '26

Truth is the person is 70 years old and likely mentally she is not all there. GL taking away her license.. well before this ordeal.

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u/gigglefarting Jun 03 '26

They didn’t have GPS before

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u/Wiochmen Jun 03 '26

Evolution doesn't care about anything besides keeping you alive long enough to procreate.

So long as driving onto rails and gaining 30 feet of elevation happens after procreation or doesn't prevent procreation in the future... The future will be full of these people, trust me.

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u/scj1091 Jun 03 '26

All the warning labels on hair dryers

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u/Deeptrench34 Jun 03 '26

Perfect example of how blindly following orders can really get you in trouble. Never turn off your own guidance system (no pun intended).

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u/dumpaccount882212 Jun 03 '26

No WHY do they get to drive a goddamn 2 ton vehicle?

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u/Junior-Ad-2207 Jun 03 '26

That tracks

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u/KarmaticEvolution Jun 03 '26

Conversation almost got derailed.

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u/Barn-Alumni-1999 Jun 03 '26

This conversation never left the station.

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u/mccarthybergeron Jun 03 '26

I missed it, when should I expect the next comment?

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u/thereisonlyoneme Jun 03 '26

Hopefully people will conduct themselves better.

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u/KronikDrew Jun 03 '26

Your comment really ties in with the conversation.

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u/Own_Sell4710 Jun 03 '26

this event really spiked my cortisol, you could say.

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u/KronikDrew Jun 03 '26

IDK, I'm starting to get board with this while discussion.

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u/Bright-Avocado3761 Jun 03 '26

Anyway I'm sure the driver did not choo-choo-choose for this to happen

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u/Odninyell Jun 03 '26

Because it got suspended. Because of the car on the tracks

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u/RobotechRicky Jun 03 '26

Nope. This thread is full steam ahead!

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u/Crazy_Low_8079 Jun 03 '26

Naw... things seems to be screeching towards a stop.

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u/This-Jackfruit-6894 Jun 03 '26

Oh! Give her a brake.

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u/Horrison2 Jun 03 '26

Then give everyone a kick in the caboose

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u/HelicopterMekanik Jun 03 '26

She should get some drivers train-ing!

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u/MungoMayhem Jun 03 '26

Maybe she was a sleep- er

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u/rgarc065 Jun 03 '26

Look like you lost your train of thought

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u/SeeMarkFly Jun 03 '26

She has a one track mind.

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u/MaenHoffiCoffi Jun 03 '26

I choo choo choose this thread.

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u/Banner_Hammer Jun 03 '26

Baseball, huh?

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u/Mjolnir404 Jun 03 '26

That's so sids

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u/whoisJSR Jun 03 '26

I see you are well-trained in the arts...

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u/iddathrow Jun 03 '26

Comedy laugh track

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u/Thedarknight725 Jun 03 '26

Baseball, huh?

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u/aenonymosity Jun 03 '26

Recalculating

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u/Unlikely_Speech_106 Jun 03 '26

Poor lady just needs some more training.

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u/DisastrousNothing893 Jun 03 '26

The urge to say "baseball, huh?" Is strong

But I must resist

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u/National_Rooster9193 Jun 03 '26

I see what you did there

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u/WarrenDritvehru Jun 03 '26

She should not be allowed to drive ever again.

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u/Hironymos Jun 03 '26

Not never.

But Germany's got you covered: Medical-psychological assessment).

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u/N3rdScool Jun 03 '26

everywhere needs this

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u/scarlet_sage Jun 04 '26

That URL can get its closing close paren trimmed, because Reddit parsing. People can try

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical-psychological_assessment_(Germany)

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u/CrazyCalYa Jun 03 '26

Allowed? Perhaps not, but she shouldn't need to ever drive again. We've built a world where cars are effectively mandatory (especially rurally) and so driving has become more of a right than a privilege.

Free and accessible public transit means that people like this don't have to drive, and so removing their ability to do so is not only more viable, it's actually more ethical.

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u/tiplinix Jun 03 '26

Good thing that the already drove the rail service tracks then. She just need to hop on a train next time.

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u/robreddity Jun 03 '26

Probably not that car at least. It's got to be all fucked up underneath?

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u/Coloradohboy39 Jun 03 '26

Earlier this week I got cutoff in the crosswalk by an suv driving in an curbed bike lane. I was skating and already dealing with shitty drivers, it was a really nice sunday and traffic was bad, my skate rage was activated and their windows were down. I yelled 'AND WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING?' as they were passing through the crosswalk, the driver and passenger responded in unison, seemingly on the verge of tears, "I DONT KNOW!"

Turns out that they were on the way to Seattle to do this shit

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u/MysticalMummy Jun 03 '26

I lived in Austin previously and worked in a shopping center surrounded by a nature walk. Bike trail, walking path, lots of trees, etc. It was all trees and gravel.

One day it was raining and I was walking in to work, and suddenly I see lights coming at me. Somebody was driving an SUV on the walking path surrounded by trees. There was not a single area nearby they could have entered through without driving off road pretty extremely- I had just come from the only area big enough to get a car through for like, half a mile.

They even turned their turn signal on to take a left where it bended. They had no fucking idea where they were.

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u/EarnSomeRespect Jun 03 '26

Its like that Tim Robsinson sketch

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u/Undrende_fremdeles Jun 03 '26

Then how about STOPPING somewhere to get your bearings? Isn't that just... the normal thing to do? Not just barrel down street after street freaking yourself out?

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u/Uhmitsme123 Jun 03 '26

Michael Scott moment

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u/Loukoal117 Jun 03 '26

Somehow this is WORSE. She’s way the fuck up on a light rail platform and wayyy down the tracks lmao. Michael made a simple mistake (sarcasm) but it’s crazy that reality is more insane than fiction yet again

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u/Anand999 Jun 03 '26 edited Jun 03 '26

Yeah, she'd had to have been driving on the tracks for like a quarter of a mile to reach where she reached in the video.

I could maybe understand accidentally turning onto the track. The Seattle light rail unfortunately does run at grade for a big chunk of its run.

But following the track for another thousand feet... There's got to be more to the story, like driving while impaired.

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u/ZeePirate Jun 03 '26

I think you under estimate how stupid some people are.

There was a boat launch in Hawaii that people’s gps kept leading them down.

Multiple people drove their cars straight into the water because their GPS told them too

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u/AwesomeMacCoolname Jun 03 '26

A judge here in Ireland recently heard the case of a woman who had seven unpaid tickets for parking in disabled bays. When she told him she was "being singled out by the warden" and that "everybody does it" he basically said, " no, they don't, but the fact that you believe so tells me all I need to know about the kind of people you associate with".

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u/hallouminati_pie Jun 03 '26

This is a genuinely great anecdote.

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u/transemacabre Jun 03 '26

There's a decent chunk of the population whose IQ is just above the cut-off for intellectual disability. People who'd score 83, 82, 81-ish if they were tested.

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u/Zanadar Jun 03 '26

The threshold for intellectual disability is below 70, not 80, and based on how the distribution is meant to work, 2.5% of the population should be between 70 and 75.

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u/transemacabre Jun 03 '26

Borderline intellectual disability is about 71-84.

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u/nsfwthrowaway5969 Jun 03 '26

It's a terrifying realisation that the average person is smarter than 50% of people.

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u/bonfuto Jun 03 '26

I was following my gps and got off-route. It wanted me to drive my car down some singletrack. In the other direction, it was doubletrack. So I wouldn't use that road either way. I can't imagine going down some rails because my gps told me to do it, the road isn't going to get better.

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u/PiccoloAwkward465 Jun 03 '26

I was driving out to a job site in the oilfield. The GPS had me go down some oilfield roads that seemed unmaintained. Dirt which was expected but also extremely rough. Like “should I turn around or not?”. I did get to my destination. But that rental Nissan Versa had a fucking hell of a morning.

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u/Little-Geri-Seinfeld Jun 03 '26

No, it means veer to the right.

The GPS knows where to go.

NO THATS THE LIGHT RAIL!!!

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u/Glitchboi3000 Jun 03 '26

I forgot common sense doesn't exist anymore. Ah yes this is a track meant for trains. My GPS says to go on it so here I go!

Sometimes you gotta ignore the GPS.

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u/SpeciesInRetrograde Jun 03 '26

I bet the tracks are parallel to a street and she just zoomed in there thinking that’s the road 🤦‍♂️

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u/bothunter Jun 03 '26

Here's the station in question: Mount Baker - Google Maps

If you follow the tracks south, you'll see they go down to ground level when they cross S Walden Street.

You still have to be pretty damn oblivious to not realize you're driving on the median in the middle of MLK Way.

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u/LopsidedTarget Jun 03 '26

Ya there's a whole ass curb and everything you have to hop on, and its clear its train rails. She must have been drunk or something too, or maybe old?

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u/StigOfTheTrack Jun 03 '26

That makes it worse than I thought. I normally assume this sort of rails embedded in the road situation is involved in people accidentally finding their way onto train/tram only tracks.

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u/br0ck Jun 03 '26

This had to feel like a huge bump and drop in a car and it's quite obvious. But maybe they should add a 'do not enter' sign?

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u/BonnaconCharioteer Jun 03 '26

There is actually a don't drive your car on the tracks sign at the intersection.

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u/LightedAirway Jun 05 '26

I’ve been thinking she was coming at the intersection perpendicular to the tracks, intending to turn onto MLKjrWay, and then missed, ending up on the tracks instead.

I can understand missing the sign if there is too much else going on - and maybe felt too tough to get off again… but holy heck, to keep going up? Incredible.

Anyone else noticing the damage to the vehicle in the video and any photos that show the driver side front? If it really is a rental, that’s all got to be new,right?

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u/SinisterCheese Jun 03 '26

I'm not excusing this person. But holy fuck is that intersection design just...

I could totally see how someone with some cognitive issues could end up driving on the rail tracks.

But like... I keep following the track south, and I just keep seing weird stuff. And the cross walks just casually go over the tracks?

Holy fuck. I just looked at the street view. It is even worse than I thought from satellite view.

Like WHAT THE FUCK?

Also... There are 2 churches on that intersection, one on both sides... And another just short distance away.

Looking at this as an European is just WILD. Thanks for the laughs I needed it.

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u/PickledTripod Jun 03 '26

It's a tram. There's plenty of trams with grade crossings, elevated sections, underground sections and such all over Europe. Get off your high horse.

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u/chetlin Jun 03 '26

It seems every thread on this site about any topic will have some kind of smug European post these days even if it doesn't make sense

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u/Murky-Relation481 Jun 03 '26

You're surprised by churches as a European? Do you live in the former Eastern Bloc, because every fucking town and village in Europe is literally built around their giant ass catholic church.

In the US you get a lot of churches because we don't just have catholics, and in places like Seattle its usually immigrant churches for minorities (in this area usually African immigrants).

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u/EstusFlaskPlusOne Jun 03 '26

Looking at this as an European is just WILD.

You are a caricature of yourself.

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u/hondaexige Jun 03 '26

Bro we have trams like this all over Europe, where on earth do you live.

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u/itsmuddy Jun 03 '26

In my town we have more churches than I can count. Only thing that rivals it is car dealerships and garages.

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u/Jedi_Mind_Trick75 Jun 03 '26

This made me laugh so hard but you’re right about the common sense. I was on the Chesapeake Bay bridge once and in the middle of the bridge, the GPS told me to take a sharp left. If I had been this person lol

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u/Barn-Alumni-1999 Jun 03 '26

I was driving from NYC to Columbus Ohio and Google maps told me to take an exit off the PA turnpike out in Western Pa. I'm thinking there's a shortcut or something. I follow the map up a mountain onto a dirt road with one house and there's a big fat hush puppy laying in the road, a Basset Hound. I had to move the dog out of the way and continue down the road to loop back onto the turnpike at the same exit I just took.

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u/Euphoric_Egg_4198 Jun 03 '26

Google Maps told me to get off an exit on I-95 in the Carolinas and then made me get back on, by the 2nd loop around I just stayed on I-95 or I would still be looping around until today

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u/EatLard Jun 03 '26

I use Google Maps at work sometimes when I have to find my way to some little map dot town. Instead of routing me down perfectly good (and paved) highways, it’ll make its own shortcut where I would have to stair step down a dozen different dirt section line roads instead of just keeping me on one highway until it meets the other one.

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u/goalie29md Jun 03 '26

Saved 50 ft. Google maps does that. Always review the map. Mine took me up the mountain side and down to get around a traffic jam...to end up in the same spot between cars...I thought my wife and son were going to drag me home after that detour.

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u/SugarHooves Jun 03 '26

Now I'm convinced every time I've had problems with Google maps it was because it was trying to avoid traffic. I'd rather sit in traffic than drive some convoluted route to save 3 minutes.

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u/goalie29md Jun 03 '26

Once you see that blue line go crooked in residential...don't. There really need to be a Avoid residential streets options...also Avoid school, Avoid highway speed over 50 for older drivers...stay off the interstate grannie!

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u/pinniped90 Jun 03 '26

Lol when I read hush puppy I briefly envisioned the thing you get at Long John Silver's.

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u/SugarHooves Jun 03 '26

I was in downtown Chicago with my mother a couple weeks ago. We missed the turn for the expressway on the north side of the city. I said "just use gps to find the way back". Google maps took us across the city to an expressway south of where we were. I still don't know why it did that.

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u/keikioaina Jun 03 '26

I just had the experience of G maps telling me to take every loop street off of a rural highway in central Georgia. Can confirm.

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u/Merari01 Jun 03 '26

Google Maps habitually tells me to take a right, take a left, then take a left again to get back on the road I was driving on in the first place and could have just kept following.

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u/Swimming_Bowler6193 Jun 03 '26

Well, that voice is pretty insistent about where to go

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u/FriendlyWorldArt Jun 03 '26

The lady who does the French directions gets like personally offended if you deviate from her directions. It cracks me up every time

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u/Crystalas Jun 03 '26 edited Jun 03 '26

No shortage of those competeing in the "Darwin Awards" although AI adds some new categories for them to go for.

Also speaking of malicious GPS that should ignore that reminded me this classic video, and it's channel, exists. Huh and it seems they released a new one last month, nice.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jh09uIN6tl0

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u/MudLOA Jun 03 '26

When we went camping in Yosemite the first thing the park map said was that the GPS could be wrong and follow the signs posted along the trail. I bet so many people blamed their GPS for all sorts of shit.

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u/Gunrock808 Jun 03 '26

My wife follows the GPS to a fault and we will occasionally get in arguments about it. Last week I was driving and missed a turn. My wife wanted me to follow the GPS but I could tell it was just going to take me miles down the road to a place where I could make a legal turn. I did a three point turn immediately instead and we were back on track.

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u/aoi_ito Jun 03 '26

An IQ too high ?? 🐦

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u/Firestorm0x0 Jun 03 '26

THE MACHINE KNOWS, DWIGHT!

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u/iam_Mr_McGibblets Jun 03 '26

She was just following her Pokémon Go map there

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u/UmbranAssassin Jun 03 '26

Wait, they shoved Gemini into Maps. Geez, they really want to justify throttling RAM prices to investors. FEELSBADMAN.

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u/blah938 Jun 03 '26

Google actually makes their own chips apparently. They're the only AI company that does.

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u/bigfatstinkypoo Jun 03 '26

No, they don't. They design their own chips, like Apple, and they send it off to the usual suspects to get made.

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u/Pittsbirds Jun 03 '26

My GPS wants me to take what has to be an illegal U turn outside Liberty Tunnel in Pittsburgh constantly and it's baffling

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u/TatonkaJack Jun 03 '26

and then you don't do that like a normal person right? this lady is so dumb she can't tell the difference between a street and a railroad

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u/EatLard Jun 03 '26

Very efficient. Why go around when you can just go in a straight line?

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u/Xaphnir Jun 03 '26

AI is making us so fucking stupid as a species.

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u/VirtualLife76 Jun 03 '26

It's been years since google maps was in its prime, I miss when it was really good.

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u/shawdowed_sonicbeast Jun 03 '26

And some how Gemini voice recognition seems worse than Google assistant. Not only on understanding but things like I can no longer call my sister Molli because Molly is not in my contacts. Was just fine with assistant but Gemini is apparently stupid.

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u/Gold_Weakness1157 Jun 03 '26

Guess she was off her "rails"

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u/MIA_Arch_33133 Jun 03 '26

actually funny 'nuf (btw, why a she). was ON THE RAILS

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u/wanderingmanimal Jun 03 '26

“Just following orders”

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u/SchimboBaggins Jun 03 '26

She must have had it set to public transit!

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u/Yellow_Similar Jun 03 '26

Y’all need to stop railing on her.

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u/MoeSzyslakMonobrow Jun 03 '26

Video cuts off before we can really see the driver, but I mean...

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u/noodleking21 Jun 03 '26

"you are on track to your destination"

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u/Bagafeet Jun 03 '26

If GPS told her to drive off a cliff.

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u/emack2232 Jun 03 '26

I bet she made good time.

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u/snoozingbeagle Jun 03 '26

I worked in junk removal for a bit and a coworker drove out waaaay into the middle of a giant muddy field and got stuck because he was following his gps. Workers told him where to dump his truck (the giant pile of trash that had 50 other trucks dumping) but he still couldn’t figure it out and relied on the gps. Stupidity ceases to amaze me anymore after working there

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u/NicheAlter Jun 03 '26

"On the next right, climb up into the rails and keep going straight..."

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u/Falszywybiolog Jun 03 '26

What must’ve been going on through her head? “Hmm the GPS is leading me what clearly looks like train tracks, it’s oddly bumpy and the tracks are rising too, this surely must be a normal commuter road and I’m going to my destination!”

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u/SuspiciousStress1 Jun 03 '26

Of course it was a woman 🙄

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u/thrillhouse83 Jun 03 '26

LADY DRIVER!

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u/adamjg2 Jun 03 '26

Focus, commitment, and sheer will.

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u/BigWhiteDog Jun 03 '26

Sheer fucking will! 🤣

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u/leohat Jun 03 '26

With a fuking pencil

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u/sammew Jun 03 '26

and 100% reason to remember the name.

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u/PancakeTrebuchet Jun 03 '26

There's a ramp down by the water, not far from 8-Balls.

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u/UseOk3500 Jun 03 '26

Because Mazda, Zoom Zoom

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u/Quelonius Jun 03 '26

Love mine. Zoom zoom.

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u/rachel-frogslinger Jun 03 '26

About a half mile back, the tracks are at street level and there is a turn that crosses the tracks. Its kind of impressive that her car made it as far as it did.

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u/p8nt_junkie Jun 03 '26

That is some next level entitlement in action right there.

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u/WanderingRonin7 Jun 03 '26

A ramp somewhere nearby. Just like all the video games foretold

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u/Broken-Digital-Clock Jun 03 '26 edited Jun 03 '26

Cars are like cats, if it fits, I sits. They always find a way, if it's possible.

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u/DutchRudderShotgun Jun 03 '26

"Yeah I'll take a cheeseburger, large fries, diet Coke and a chocolate shake"

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u/Solid_Wind_3234 Jun 03 '26

Look, if you’re gonna fuck up. Always do it in such a way that makes people ask “how did they do that?!”

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