The three lights are one for each of the three lanes at that intersection. I live in this fail-town, and people are always mucking up this intersection. The real sadness is that the city just spent mega-bucks to ‘improve’ this intersection, and people still continually fail to negotiate it. On black friday, they actually had to close lanes and post cops because people failed at obeying the traffic lights in their rampant desire to get to the target that is off the left hand side of that picture.
The greater fail is I almost didn’t see the fail… until I looked a little to the left. And the really sad thing is I have no doubt Mr. Fail there noticed the problem either.
I attend the Mechanical Engineering course at BCIT in Canada.
A few weeks ago, as I was out on the street waiting for the bus home, I saw a car pull out of the parking lot, and turned left where there was a right-turn only sign, and ended up driving down the wrong side of the street, much like the car in this pic.
At first there was no traffic, but by the time he reached the intersection, there were cars whipping past him. I initially figured it must be some new student who didn’t realize you couldn’t turn left out of that exit, but as the car approached me, I saw that it was, in fact, one of my teachers.
Dr. Cheung has a PhD and has worked at BCIT for about 8 years. He’s also the most incompetent teacher I’ve ever had. It was, at least, nice to have my opinions about his intellect and competence verified by this event.
At first I was convinced this must be in my city of Atlanta but clearly the street doesn’t have the word Peachtree in it. Alas, moving away wouldn’t get me any further from the idiots.
Oh I’ve seen this happen before…But I really did think I was going the right way and the officer said that I repeated the alphabet backwards really well……..If only my exgirlfriends phone number was the alphabet……Then he picked me up off the ground.
Oh god… looks like Springfield, MO. Except the stores in the background are shifted over, maybe. Either way, the worst drivers EVER are here. A lot of old people and college kids.
Ha ha. I saw this happen on BROADWAY in New York the other day. I mean, talk about the worst street to do that on. It took me over a year to feel comfortable crossing that street! Ha ha.
cant help it id proberly do the same if i was in usa as we drive on the other side of the road down here in aus but i have seen americans driveing on the wrong side of the free way here in aus how do i know they was americans you ask im the cop that stoped them
There is a huge secondary fail here…the guy who stopped to take the picture, when he should have been getting the hell out of that lane. He’s looking at the fail driver head on.
i’ve totally done this before, only i had about 5 other people in the car screaming and i said, “dudes, we’ll be cool. we’re not going to die. people just think i’m a total dumbass right now.”
I find it hard to believe that the picture-taker is the only one on the right side of the street and all the others are on the wrong side, but then why are there traffic lights facing the picture-taker? If traffic doesn’t flow that way, there wouldn’t be traffic lights.
Ummm…the picture taker isn’t the only one on the right side of the road. The silver car facing the picture taker is the only one on the wrong side of the road. See the median, the strip of grass surrounded by concrete that separates the silver car from all of the other cars facing the picture taker? Everybody on the left side of that is facing the correct way (even though it’s the left of the picture, it’s their right). The picture-taker is, obviously, on the right side of the road (right as in both correct and opposite of left).
The traffic lights are facing the picture taker because s/he is on the correct side of the road, and traffic lights tend to face the drivers going the correct way. On the other side of the median, I’m sure there’s a set of traffic lights facing the lines of drivers on the left side of the picture, because they’re heading the correct direction and, again, traffic lights tend to face drivers who are going the right way. The lights that you see facing the picture taker are not double-sided and do not have lights facing the driver in the silver car. I think. I could be mistaken, I’m not from Springfield.
I think I covered everything…
Wait…you don’t drive a silver car with DRL, do you?
Yea, that’s Springfield MO’s Primrose and Glenstone intersection. Jam-packed full of stupid, shitty drivers because (1) the cars in the photographer’s POV are all mashed into the lane that the dumbshit is in normally backup and clog the intersection because 80-year-old grannies can’t figure out how to use a turn lane when going into that strip mall with JoAnne, Shoe Carnival and Best Buy… and (2) there are two chain restaurants that serve lots of alcohol by college students working part time. I bet you $100 that the silver SUV just left Cheddars Restaurant right there and is drunk as shit and dosen’t even realize his car’s stopped.
Another thing of interest — the Maroon Van driving off in the distance looks a lot like my mother’s van. Considering she probably has to drive through that intersection 2-3 times a day, I bet that is her. Hi mom, you’re on teh fail blog!!
WOW!… Just, WOW! I can’t believe this! I played witness to this FAIL, wishing I had a camera.
I wouldn’t have had that point-of-view, though, as I was driving the gold Alero in the picture (third car back in the left lane… on the CORRECT driving side of the road! *sighs in relief that he wasn’t the one performing said FAIL.
Who knew my first visit would show me a hometown fail!?
Boy, the comments by the locals are overwhelming!!! I also live in Springfield and am well acquainted with the intersection (as I am more so of this kind of driving). I drive on them for a living and have become utterly ASTOUNDED by some of the stunts I’ve witnessed. It’s painfully obvious that Ozarkian cars are custom-made. Unlike cars from any other part of the nation, ours have two distinct features: 1) each car has one-way glass and three guesses (first two don’t count) as to which way it’s faced and 2) each one comes equipped with stealth turn signals – they’re on, you just can’t see the affects of it. I transplanted from the Chicago area 7 years ago but noticed after a short time of living here the major difference between Chicagoland drivers and Ozarkian drivers. Both have lousy drivers but Chicagoans suffer from arrogance and an innate desire to be first and Ozarkians suffer from ignorance and have no clue what to do with the optional (on some cars) accelerator. If you’re not from around here and ever come to visit, be sure to have a camera charged and ready to go!
Words cannot express how much I hate this city, but this picture certainly helps illustrate it. I worked at the officemax that was there for a few years, and if somebody has a spare week I will tell you all of the stories about clueless whitehairs and rednecks that are too oblivious and self-righteous
DUDE. I saw the picture and laughed at the stupid driver, then I took a second look and went, “WTF?! I RECOGNIZE THAT PLACE!”
Win for all the people from Springfield on here.
Fail for all the lousy drivers – luckily, neither of my parents are Missourians by birth, although my mom’s from Arkansas which is probably worse. But, my dad’s the one who taught me how to drive – I can actually drive a car properly (yeah, like that stick on the left side of the steering wheel? The one that everyone thinks is there for decorative purposes? It’s not…).
lawl. this happened once when my family was driving home from dinner, and we were at an intersection without a stoplight. so my dad suddenly noticed there was an old lady facing us, and smiling (like she didnt know) and so we were all like, ………….
I can haz first?
No you cannot has first. But you cans drive this car at me
what’s the fail i don’t get it
nevermind i got it after a couple min
i fail at failing to fail to notice thefail which makes me a failure
(i just confused my self hmmm how ironic)
wait i still dont get it
The single car across the intersection is going the wrong way
both of u r complete fail capp vision fail… smt jus fail
I see a double fail.
The car on the wrong side of the road AND…
The fact that there are 3 stoplights on one pole, they are practically 2 yards away from each other.
The three lights are one for each of the three lanes at that intersection. I live in this fail-town, and people are always mucking up this intersection. The real sadness is that the city just spent mega-bucks to ‘improve’ this intersection, and people still continually fail to negotiate it. On black friday, they actually had to close lanes and post cops because people failed at obeying the traffic lights in their rampant desire to get to the target that is off the left hand side of that picture.
basic drivers ed fail
triple negitive?
lol
First!
LOL First FAIL
faillll!
The greater fail is I almost didn’t see the fail… until I looked a little to the left. And the really sad thing is I have no doubt Mr. Fail there noticed the problem either.
lol, I did the same thing xD
we fail at failing
And yet again you fail..
Here, let me help; You fail to prevent failing!
If you fail at failing, you’ve succeeded.
Ooohh!. lol
Direction fail
I didn’t see it either until I looked at the other cars… we drive on the left here in Australia so it looked normal at first
Legitimate mistake.
He’s just in the HOV lane. He should get where he’s going in no time. And to check out my CARTOONS click on my name link.
oh my god seriously, don’t advertise your blog on every comment, especially because it sucks. yes, both the comment and the blog. mostly the comics.
@irritated,
Thanks for the head’s up, especially in such a polite tone. You’ll go far, my friend.
You wont, your cartoons suck.
Ohhh career fail
career-fail win.
Whats awesome is this is a local fail…. about 1 miles from my home
Springfield, MO?
Oh, yes. This is Springfield. Which makes it funny, because nobody in this town can drive for shit.
You know what I’m talking about.
advertising his blog
HOV lane, you must be joking! Looking further up the road you can see a car going the other way.
FAIL.
Sensing sarcasm Fail.
cartoon fail.
I attend the Mechanical Engineering course at BCIT in Canada.
A few weeks ago, as I was out on the street waiting for the bus home, I saw a car pull out of the parking lot, and turned left where there was a right-turn only sign, and ended up driving down the wrong side of the street, much like the car in this pic.
At first there was no traffic, but by the time he reached the intersection, there were cars whipping past him. I initially figured it must be some new student who didn’t realize you couldn’t turn left out of that exit, but as the car approached me, I saw that it was, in fact, one of my teachers.
Dr. Cheung has a PhD and has worked at BCIT for about 8 years. He’s also the most incompetent teacher I’ve ever had. It was, at least, nice to have my opinions about his intellect and competence verified by this event.
hehe.. asian driver…
Racist.
all he said was “asian driver”
and the driver was asian. i don’t see any racism.
phd? fail!
At first I was convinced this must be in my city of Atlanta but clearly the street doesn’t have the word Peachtree in it. Alas, moving away wouldn’t get me any further from the idiots.
There are idiots everywhere, we have to learn to live with them. Moving just brings you to new idiots.
amen! can i sign that somewhere?
It’s actually Springfield, MO! LoL I used to work at that Shoe Carnival!
HOMETOWN FAIL!!!
they were probably trying to come out of that cheddar’s that’s right there…either way, springfield drivers SUCK
i agree.
Lol, I knew when I saw this it was Springfield. I knew we had dumb drivers here. Now there is proof, lol.
yess! springfield win!
That’s Springfield, Misery. I mean Missouri.
plus theres the whole “driving on the left side of the road” thing…
I wonder what happened when the light turned green?
Actually the silver car in the middle is the only one that is not fail.
Oh I’ve seen this happen before…But I really did think I was going the right way and the officer said that I repeated the alphabet backwards really well……..If only my exgirlfriends phone number was the alphabet……Then he picked me up off the ground.
Oh god… looks like Springfield, MO. Except the stores in the background are shifted over, maybe. Either way, the worst drivers EVER are here. A lot of old people and college kids.
That’s the Primrose Center, you know, Borders and Best Buy there, that’s the corner of Glenstone and Primrose. The guy in that car is me…
Ha ha. I saw this happen on BROADWAY in New York the other day. I mean, talk about the worst street to do that on. It took me over a year to feel comfortable crossing that street! Ha ha.
this is springfield mo, and there are a lot of stupid drivers here!!!
this is indeed springfield, and i’ve seen dumbshits do that exact thing at that intersection at least 10 times…
I would bet it’s a female driver. Just saying…
probably just a man who didn’t stop for directions you sexist pig!
lol
owned
cant help it id proberly do the same if i was in usa as we drive on the other side of the road down here in aus but i have seen americans driveing on the wrong side of the free way here in aus how do i know they was americans you ask im the cop that stoped them
Cops don’t use punctuation or caps in Aus either.
or correct spelling
LOL!
That’s hilarious…I actually recognize this street. It’s in Springfield, Missouri. (Glenstone Ave+Primrose Rd)
There is a huge secondary fail here…the guy who stopped to take the picture, when he should have been getting the hell out of that lane. He’s looking at the fail driver head on.
The fail is that this is japan and the only guy how’s driving on right road is the one who’s right. So all the others are wrong !
oh so the guy whos head on with the driver is on the wrong side? thats why the traffic lights face him right?
Japan?! WTF?!
You fail at Martin and you fail at life.
lol thats what i do all day…
NOT!
i’ve totally done this before, only i had about 5 other people in the car screaming and i said, “dudes, we’ll be cool. we’re not going to die. people just think i’m a total dumbass right now.”
“hoovopolis”?? should be “noobopolis”
I’ve done that fail. Wait? Am I in that car?
I find it hard to believe that the picture-taker is the only one on the right side of the street and all the others are on the wrong side, but then why are there traffic lights facing the picture-taker? If traffic doesn’t flow that way, there wouldn’t be traffic lights.
Ummm…the picture taker isn’t the only one on the right side of the road. The silver car facing the picture taker is the only one on the wrong side of the road. See the median, the strip of grass surrounded by concrete that separates the silver car from all of the other cars facing the picture taker? Everybody on the left side of that is facing the correct way (even though it’s the left of the picture, it’s their right). The picture-taker is, obviously, on the right side of the road (right as in both correct and opposite of left).
The traffic lights are facing the picture taker because s/he is on the correct side of the road, and traffic lights tend to face the drivers going the correct way. On the other side of the median, I’m sure there’s a set of traffic lights facing the lines of drivers on the left side of the picture, because they’re heading the correct direction and, again, traffic lights tend to face drivers who are going the right way. The lights that you see facing the picture taker are not double-sided and do not have lights facing the driver in the silver car. I think. I could be mistaken, I’m not from Springfield.
I think I covered everything…
Wait…you don’t drive a silver car with DRL, do you?
I live near there! I use to work in this shopping center and this is a normal happening, which is sad.
lol but this happens everyday here in the Dominican Republic.
eyz had tew lewk at dis fur kwite sum tiemz befoar eyz saws teh fail xD
put meh on teh shawt-boos!
humanity has failed me… they seem to be getting dumber every day. how can anyone be so freakin stupid?
Wait…… what about the sign? Right underneath the A in FAIL? Isn’t it facing the wrong direction?
No.
Yea, that’s Springfield MO’s Primrose and Glenstone intersection. Jam-packed full of stupid, shitty drivers because (1) the cars in the photographer’s POV are all mashed into the lane that the dumbshit is in normally backup and clog the intersection because 80-year-old grannies can’t figure out how to use a turn lane when going into that strip mall with JoAnne, Shoe Carnival and Best Buy… and (2) there are two chain restaurants that serve lots of alcohol by college students working part time. I bet you $100 that the silver SUV just left Cheddars Restaurant right there and is drunk as shit and dosen’t even realize his car’s stopped.
Another thing of interest — the Maroon Van driving off in the distance looks a lot like my mother’s van. Considering she probably has to drive through that intersection 2-3 times a day, I bet that is her. Hi mom, you’re on teh fail blog!!
Maybe they’re from a country that drives on the proper side of the road
I assume you mean all those people on the left side of the photo
This is in Springfield, Missouri.
I bet it is a woman
I fail because I don’t get it.
(I don’t drive yet)
damnit i dont see the fail
sigh
i fail at noticeing failure
and probably at spelling noticeing
wouldve been sweeter if the lights to this side had been green =D
WOW!… Just, WOW! I can’t believe this! I played witness to this FAIL, wishing I had a camera.
I wouldn’t have had that point-of-view, though, as I was driving the gold Alero in the picture (third car back in the left lane… on the CORRECT driving side of the road! *sighs in relief that he wasn’t the one performing said FAIL.
Who knew my first visit would show me a hometown fail!?
Man, thats in my hometown, a block from where I grew up.
This is in good old Springfield, Missouri… I love how stupid people are here…
why is this funny or fail>?
Boy, the comments by the locals are overwhelming!!! I also live in Springfield and am well acquainted with the intersection (as I am more so of this kind of driving). I drive on them for a living and have become utterly ASTOUNDED by some of the stunts I’ve witnessed. It’s painfully obvious that Ozarkian cars are custom-made. Unlike cars from any other part of the nation, ours have two distinct features: 1) each car has one-way glass and three guesses (first two don’t count) as to which way it’s faced and 2) each one comes equipped with stealth turn signals – they’re on, you just can’t see the affects of it. I transplanted from the Chicago area 7 years ago but noticed after a short time of living here the major difference between Chicagoland drivers and Ozarkian drivers. Both have lousy drivers but Chicagoans suffer from arrogance and an innate desire to be first and Ozarkians suffer from ignorance and have no clue what to do with the optional (on some cars) accelerator. If you’re not from around here and ever come to visit, be sure to have a camera charged and ready to go!
he’s on the correct side of the road. everyone else is on the wrong side!
how is this fail????
At first, I thought the fail was the traffic lights being placed the wrong way. But then I noticed that car’s at the wrong side of the road XD
Words cannot express how much I hate this city, but this picture certainly helps illustrate it. I worked at the officemax that was there for a few years, and if somebody has a spare week I will tell you all of the stories about clueless whitehairs and rednecks that are too oblivious and self-righteous
whats the fail?
Darn Europeans driving on the left. You should’ve seen the people driving back from NASCAR last weekend.
Whoa. This is in my town.
Springfield, MO: Smartest People You’ll Ever Meet.
haha wrong way!!
DUDE. I saw the picture and laughed at the stupid driver, then I took a second look and went, “WTF?! I RECOGNIZE THAT PLACE!”
Win for all the people from Springfield on here.
Fail for all the lousy drivers – luckily, neither of my parents are Missourians by birth, although my mom’s from Arkansas which is probably worse. But, my dad’s the one who taught me how to drive – I can actually drive a car properly (yeah, like that stick on the left side of the steering wheel? The one that everyone thinks is there for decorative purposes? It’s not…).
shutup you stupid c*nt.
Im pretty sure I was there
lawl. this happened once when my family was driving home from dinner, and we were at an intersection without a stoplight. so my dad suddenly noticed there was an old lady facing us, and smiling (like she didnt know) and so we were all like, ………….
dumb old people. this is actually a common occurence in florida
They grow like orange trees down there.
Go back to England!
WHAT KYLE SAID!