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Fur-Frisbee t1_j6fnd33 wrote

Lucky it was found before it was jarred loose into traffic...

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residentweevil t1_j6fqth9 wrote

No doubt. Wasn't that the cause of the video where the woman takes a brick to the face on the interstate? I've never seen it but people talk about it as if it is completely horrific. Imagine that stone getting whirled around to escape velocity and fired to the rear. shudder

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Fur-Frisbee t1_j6fr6bk wrote

Bricks, rocks, bolts, nuts, bits of cars that fell off, the piece that took the Concord out on a runway...

happens way too often.

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I_AmDaVikingNow t1_j6gsi9h wrote

I had the misfortune to see that video in its early days, if I could go back in time and stop much younger me from watching it, I wouldn't even stop to think about it.

But unless someone invents a time machine, the sound of the guttural screams of someone realizing they just lost someone they loved forever will stay burned into my memory.

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KappuccinoBoi t1_j6j3bs0 wrote

Yup. I watched it and I urge everyone to not do that. I watched it years ago and I can still vividly hear it all.

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youinanotherlife t1_j6g2i1c wrote

It was a truck carrying bricks, presumably loose bricks. One fell off, bounced and goes right through the windshield of an oncoming car in the opposite direction. The video is a dashcam of said car. All you hear is the driver or passenger screaming right after.

Happened in Russia I think

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Mohingan t1_j6g62fk wrote

Isn’t there also one from the states where some kids threw a brick off the overpass and killed someone’s wife

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EvlMinion t1_j6g8xnd wrote

It's not as rare as it should be. I remember it happened in TN a few years ago because it hit a Nissan GT-R. The driver died.

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KorgX3 t1_j6itiq0 wrote

Right after I moved to Boise, there was an accident on the freeway where some truck hauling steel pipes had one come loose. Went right through the windshield of the person behind them and impaled them. Some real Final Destination type shit.

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Crescent-IV t1_j6jj3tw wrote

IIRC you don’t even see the woman. Just the screams and despair of the family in the car with her. Dismal stuff

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OskaMeijer t1_j6gavof wrote

We have a road through our neighborhood with roundabouts at the entrance and exit to the neighborhood. For some reason semis like to take this road and many of them just drive right over the center sections of the roundabouts. One of them is full of rocks this size and the semis have a tendency to throw them out into the road and it is really obnoxious.

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FriesWithThat t1_j6fry3w wrote

I hate having to repair those rock chips on a windshield.

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Phillip_Graves t1_j6gai6y wrote

That rock hits your windshield, someone will be cleaning YOU chips off of theirs.

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