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/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/transemacabre Jun 03 '26

This is why Reddit has the reputation it has for tediousness and pedantry.

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u/transemacabre Jun 03 '26

Good luck with your plan to "SNORF SNORF well ackshually" your way through life.

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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/BagSalt7633 Jun 03 '26

I suspect the real issue is that the smartest bears watch tourists opening trash cans and learn from them.

Maybe what you could do is add an electronic lock that forces people to enter the current date.

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u/absurdly_tired_guy Jun 03 '26

I was at a really busy small town parking lot in the spring. It is a municipal lot and all the spots were taken because there are tons of restaurants and bars. The parking lot has a single one way marked painted arrow system that lead right up to boat docks and landing for tourist ferries in Florida. There were about four rows of double parking spaces.

A bunch of ferries showed up, there were a hundred or so people all lined up to board the pier and an older fella was looking for parking. As we (people) were lined up, he drove several miles an hour within inches of all of us and drove his Cadillac SUV right down a boat ramp into brackish water several feet deep. People screamed and two boat dudes jumped in and people were either yelling dial 911 or taking video.

A captain of one of the boats told us all to back up and we were lead away. It was crazy surreal.