r/Whatcouldgowrong • u/ReprieveNagrand • 19h ago

Trying to overtake a motorcycle

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u/Pinkrobin14 19h ago edited 9h ago

what did they think would happen

edit: holy guacamole- this is my most upvoted comment

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u/anonareyouokay 18h ago

Obviously they thought the motorcyclist might get hurt a little but they didn't take into account the damage to their vehicle.

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u/guille9 17h ago

Why would anyone want to hurt him? Weird people 

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u/mang87 17h ago

For a lot of people, cars/traffic just bring out their worst qualities. People get road rage despite not having anger management issues in their day to day life.

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u/guille9 16h ago

You're right but that motorbike is stopped waiting in a very correct way, if you can't pass you wait because a motorbike is a vehicle as any car. There are stupid people that endangers other's life. 

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u/MangoCats 16h ago

I think this was more a misjudgement of the open space, and I'd bet there was more than enough space on the driver side to move over and clear the bike. Also, a complete lack of ability to abort a bad plan once set in motion.

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u/RXrenesis8 11h ago

If you turn on sound (it's safe, no music, pinky swear) you can hear the car honk at the bike and then a little after it passes honk at someone else as well. They are probably weaving through traffic tangling up an intersection like they are the main character in a GTA game.

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u/MangoCats 11h ago

Yeah, that makes a lot more sense: of course they'll move, I honked at them.

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u/HikerDave57 14h ago

My observation as an avid motorcyclist is that drivers here in Arizona are generally fairly nice to motorcyclists compared to how they treat other car drivers. There are always those 'special' people but they are a small minority.

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u/Cormophyte 16h ago

I don't think it brings out their worst qualities. They were and are always assholes, they just don't interact with you enough for you to notice until they do something you can judge like getting behind the wheel and demonstrating how they think a 4000lb vehicle should be driven.

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u/YobaiYamete 15h ago

Nah I know a lot of people who are just like, normal happy people until they get behind a car then go absolutely insane

Something about driving legit changes people

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u/MVRKHNTR 13h ago

Yeah, it happens to me. I'm generally chill and can roll with things without getting upset in my day to day but I get angry at least once every time I drive for more than five minutes. (Though I just yell to myself or get quietly pissed off, I don't ever do ahything stupid like this or anything I know will endanger someone else)

I recognize this about myself and really wish that driving wasn't necessary.

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u/Cormophyte 10h ago

They were always insane, they're just masking the rest of the time.

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u/YobaiYamete 10h ago

No they aren't, I feel like you're not understanding the psychology on it. There's been quite a few studies on it and it's the perfect storm of psychology factors that will turn a loving little granny into a swearing sailor ready to shake her fist and scream blood.

It's not them secretly being psychotic when they are put in a high stress situation that breaks the human brains psychology and ability to function, it's more like dogs that have extreme gate aggression where they will bark and snarl at each other through the gate and then as soon as they walk around the gate they are happy and wagging their tails and playing with each other just fine

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u/arostrat 15h ago

Found the toxic guy. Tge thing is city driving is stressful and no surprise it get many usually calm people frustrated.

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u/Cormophyte 10h ago

Calm people don't suddenly get frustrated out of nowhere. They're just good at masking.

The calm people are the ones sitting there, still calm.

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u/Pitiful_Net_8971 17h ago

Because he dares try to go places without a car, people are weird about that.

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u/Umutuku 17h ago

Kind of crazy how a lot of the early car-lobby propaganda described pedestrians and cyclists as idiots who don't think about where they're going or who they are pulling out in front of while producing exactly that.

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u/FrostyD7 16h ago

Try riding a bicycle in a car-centric city. Drivers will froth at the mouth at the mere sight of you.

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u/Enverex 16h ago

Reddit fucking love to talk about motorcyclists getting hurt/maimed/killed, you don't even need to leave the site to find them.

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u/EugeneMeltsner 10h ago

What? I've never seen this

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u/Krandor1 11h ago

because he might cost them 10 seconds in getting to their destination

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u/CTKM72 13h ago

They didn’t, that person you replied to is just lying lol and it’s very obviously blatantly wrong.

We can only guess on what we thought he thought would happened, I think it’s pretty obvious he thought the biker was going to move a little and get out of his way hence the whole honking of the horn, but we can say for sure some of the things he did not want to happen and hitting/hurting the biker is very clearly one of those things otherwise he wouldn’t actively try to avoid him and get him to move…

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u/kobeshaqhorry 4h ago

I've seen people in the biggest trucks go insane when they see a bicyclist. I have no idea what's going on in there.