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This is not a “fail”, this is a horrible accident. The fail blog is for fun, and there is nothing funny about a pack of cyclists being wiped out by a drunk driver, especially when one was killed and others seriously injured- the “fail” is yours for making a joke of this.
Yeah it was a horrible accident but dont click on controversial links then be surprised you see something unsettling. It was clearly your choice to look, knowing you were about to see something bad. You fail as an internet user
And you FAIL for not noticing that the comment to which you replied was made before the photo was hidden behind the “controversy” link.
In an RSS reader, there is no such linked warning.
Me caring; FAIL!!!
chill out everyone
it had a warning so skrew you guys yes its is bad but it did have a warning and did give me a chuckle
And you fail for pointing out another’s fail!
WIN!
u guys r idiots
this is one of the best FAILS out there
You’re terrible.
This is terrible.
and your a dumbass for looking at it. it says controversial, and yet you expect to see puppies or something? Retard.
you fail.
thank heavens for some common sense that seems to be so rare around here.
glorious response. You succeed.
Or you know, they might just have a freakin’ heart. :/ I understand how this can be funny, but saying it’s the best FAIL is rather terrible.
He meant it as “amen.” Understanding fail.
AHHAHAHA
You’re awesome.
This is awesome.
Chris is right; it’s just that most people can’t laugh. Sure, it’s a horrid accident and it’s sad that people got injured… But that’s an epic fail photo, funny or not.
Wow! People really think death is funny. Just hope it isn’t someone’s family. Then is it funny if it happens to you?
You’re in luck. None of these people had families. They were all pod people. FAIL.
Comment WIN
You don’t spend a lot of time in the internet do you?
“…IN the Internet?” FAIL!
As opposed to “on” it? …”Using” the internet, would actually make sense.
Things happen all the time.
You cant get upset over everything you see on the internet.
Everything is on the internet.
I’d like to know how the person taking the picture knew it was going to happen, however.
Well… there was a car coming at a bunch of bikes. It was pretty obvious they were going to collide. At logistics, you sir, FAIL.
Logistics? That’s the management of the flow of resources, you’re
thinking of logic. It is you who FAILs this day.
Death isnt funny; its FAIL. And this is FAILBLOG. So dont come here anymore if you dont like it. Nobody made you view this site.
You can also see this at Funny or Die.
Silly Bikers. Roads are for cars!
yeah, but it didn’t happen to us, so we CAN laugh
Then I would die.
If it happened to my family, maybe. Me, no.
I hope you die Manny
Death comes to us all, my friend. Sometimes even with humor and other times with epic failure. This was sad, but given the context of the site you should probably laugh and then hate yourself a little for it.
you are horrible. you think terrible accidents reulting in death are ” one of the best fails out there” you are an idiot, a true idiot.
this is the internet. get used to it.If you don’t like it, don’t click to ****ing link.
YOU are an idiot, a true idiot.
Bascially, you’re a jerk. Have fun failing at life when nobody will date you or be around you because your a jerk.
… I take it you get a hard-on when you watch the death toll on the news, don’t You?
I do
this is halarious you cant die from being hit by a car and rolling over it it may hurt but still
I agree that this was a horrible accident. There was, however, a BIG spoiler on the main page. PLEASE be responsible for your own triggers.
It was, however, an epic FAIL. I will be very disappointed if the failblog succumbs to these unAmerican demands for censorship of the media.
An active mind can only derive so much enjoyment from Windows blue screens.
After which it has to derive enjoyment from images of people being killed?
Stay classy, America.
america is too busy being fat to be classy.
DUDE I TOTALLY AGREE LIEK WHY ARE THEY ON THE INTETRNET WHEN THE COULD BE AT MCDONALDS OR JACK IN THE BOX!!!!!!!!!
“unAmerican demands for censorship of the media”…sure Sparky, that is why there’s SO many bleeps on the Jerry Springer show.
American – home of Televangelists, the “moral Majority”, the “Bible Belt” & that bastion of freedoms – G.W.Bush. You poor, self-deluding ignoramus.
Try European television output if you wish to see what lack of censorship REALLY looks like.
EPIC FAIL, both you & the driver in the pic.
Censorship is telling a man he can not eat a steak because a baby can not chew it – Mark Twain
There are over 6-1/2 billion people on the planet. Humans are a scourge! We need more killer oldsmobuicks to thin the herd.
Mom always warned me not to ride my bike in the middle of the road. Now I see why.
I have ridden bicycles for 17 years, raced for 13, and I have lost a few friends and fellow cyclists to incidents like that along the way. So let me say this, that picture was not a picture of a true “accident,” where no one is at fault, and not all fails have to be funny, cute, or pretty. That picture was as fail as it gets. Driver fail. And I can only imagine what will be-fail the dude when he ends up in Mexican prison.
Amen brother
Agreed. Mexican jail richly deserved. Big Time driver fail. I don’t think every single pic needs to be funny, I know controversial stuff is on the net, and I even u’stand how to ignore failskunks who see this and are like: lulz.
As a sportsperson, I have to wish someone just happened to have a 9 milly in his jersey pocket. Fkg up doesn’t get much worse than this.
This is in bad taste. I am all for free speech, but this is just disrespectful and unnecessary.
Something in bad taste? Welcome to the Internet.
c’mon, troll harder anon
driver did it for the lulz!!!!!!!!!!!!11111111
No, actually it was quite funny. People do stupid things, and that’s what the failblog is about: documenting those stupid things.
YEA, the IS horrible, and I CAN’T BELIEVE anyone would ACTUALLY find this funny.
What’s that? I have to smoke that? It’s the law?
uff Puff:
Ah man, i’m sorry, i was takin’ life seriously, HAH!
Who’s hungry?
Bill Hicks quotation FAIL. Time to pull out the old CD again…
I hear you. He cut right through the whole Palaton.
I’m not laughing. Who said failure was always funny? Live and learn people.
You people make me sick with your whining. I can watch it and say, ‘Oh! That’s awful!’ And in the same thought I will think, ‘Better them than me.’ And you’re all a bunch of fancy liars if you say otherwise. Death is funny when it doesn’t happen to you. My brother died, it wasn’t funny. I can still see humor in death, though. I love my brother like you wouldn’t believe. I still say better him than me. Get over it, people. False heroics don’t impress anyone.
Your mom is a horrible accident, OOOH PWNED
Fail isn’t necessarily funny. You seem to forget that a fail is something negative. Some fails are funny. Some are sad. This is a sad fail.
I hate to say it but I agree with Anon
Yeah this is pretty harsh, someone actually died in this thing.
I agree with the first post…
I agree with both. I usually think you can joke about everything but this was just too soon.
So if time passed it would be okay? hello non sequitur….
Yeah haven’t you learned anything from South Park?
Yep. After a decent interval of time, this event will only be known as “that one accident that killed someone who would be dead by now anyway, even if by old age.” Because of that disconnect, people will forget that these were actual people being comically hurled into the air.
Yay for a jaded life view!
This needs to be taken down. There’s harsh reality, and then there’s making light of the death of a person and severe injury of many others.
Americans kill a lot of people in Iraq and TV shows it all the time. Should TV networks be taken down either?
the PROBLEM is that TV DOESN’T show all those Iraqis that US soldiers kill. If they did, this war would’ve been over a long time ago.
Agreed – this is in poor taste – 1 killed, 10 injured and sent to the hospital.
Yeah, not funny.
It’s pretty funny, actually. Stop thinking about the death count and start thinking about how this is such an epic fail.
You guys are retarded trying to go all ‘White Knight’ on the internet.
The more you fail, the harder we laugh.
I dont know what you guys are talking about. This is life and failure is a part of it. This is hilarious and shouldn’t be taken down.
If the person in the car had been the one to die, it would have been hilarious (see Darwin Awards), but this is a case of a drunk driver killing someone. How is homicide funny?
manslaughter
well, in that case it’s hilarious.
You can’t spell manslaughter without laughter.
Right you are!
I suggest that the folks who can’t look at pictures of failures go over and look at pictures of furry things.
That one’s going on my bumper…
LOL, WIN! Seriously that would win a bumper sticker contest hands down
badumbum
Actually it’s “man’s laughter”.
Death is an epic fail at life.
In this picture it’s apparent… Some of the other FAILs might have resulted in death as well…
Think about all those blocked fire exits, don’t they represent thousands of burned people? Or all the wheelchair users following the signs down stairs?
And death happens, at the most inopportune moments – you seeing or not seeing the picture doesn’t improve the situation at all.
400 whining comments however, makes me sink down to the same level and respond… instead of looking at more FAILs.
If death happens, whether or not at the most inopportune moments, why is it an epic fail? Ashes to ashes
Touche good sir
language win.
lulz!
win
i disagree, anyone who is drunk and sits behind the wheel to drive knowingly puts the lives of others at risk. Even though the state deems it as manslaughter, i still call it homicide.
the act was not funny. but the picture is hilarious.
Yea, this is not only tasteless, it is offensive. In an RSS reader such as mine–there is no option to view it or not. I will most likely stop reading the Failblog as a result.
Jay, there is nothing funny about real homicide–this is not a Hollywood picture. go watch and praise some gory Hollywood film if you need that sort of titillation.
It should be taken down–not hidden behind a link. Its not a fail. This is f***ed in the worst sense.
It’s funny and you need to stop pissing and moaning, shit happens. It shouldn’t be taken down, you should just go away. You fail.
manslaughter
sorry. no one cares if you stop reading.
i agree it’s a little offensive
but like Ego K. said, not all fails are funny
it is still a fail.
Not funny or at all appropriate for this blog. You fail.
I agree that this should be taken down. I want to laugh at people being stupid, not at drunk drivers causing deaths.
I agree. The fails I find funny are the ones of people messing up a little, not people dying. This one is too harsh for my taste.
Unsubscribing this feed.
No one is going to miss you.
Second.
Yeah…buh-bye.
I’m still not unsubscribing to your mom….
I’d take it off, too. I understand that part of life is making fun of funny things, but it’s far too soon.
not funny at all
This is a major failblog fail.
It’s sad that someone actually died in this accident.
But that doesn’t mean that the driver isn’t made of drunk and FAIL. It’s not funny, but it is still FAIL.
But the point of this isn’t to show people that simply fail. A test with a low score wouldn’t be worthy of this blog, even though there is failure involved. A normal college acceptance letter wouldn’t be worthy of fail.
The point is humor, and there is no humor present here. It is not funny that a group of cyclists were hit by someone who was impaired while driving.
Is this FunnyBlog, or FailBlog?
Completely tasteless and insensitive. This needs to be taken down ASAP.
completely tasteless and insensitive. Who ever posted this should get a medal! XD
We can’t have that. This is the INTERNET!
Next I suppose you guys will have a picture of an aborted fetus with the text “Birthday FAIL!”
Sorry, you’ve disappointed me…not funny.
That would be hilarious!
I concur! People, seriously! perhaps the caption should have been “drivingFail” but this still definitely qualifies as a fail.
“super jesus”?!? now THAT’S funny. Birthday fail comes in a close second.
btw I think I see “super jesus” in the black shorts on the upper left. “up up and away!”
…birthday fail… … ;|… ;]…
;D HOLY CRAP THATS FUNNY!
oh, that was clever.
but on the topic of the post,
yes it’s horribly sad that somone died, and it’s probably bad taste.
And i feel bad for the person who died and the people who got injured
But isn’t this site about how tragic we are as a whole, not just the cutsie poos,
if you want that, go to Icanhascheezburger…
and also, what on this site is good taste…
so i don’t know… they gave you a warning, didn’t they?
Hear hear.
People died. yes, but some people use humour to process death and other terrible things. Think about Wakes in the traditional sense? Where you have a drunken party to celebrate someone’s life after they die.
If you’re going to be so anal then don’t bother coming on this site.
Grammar Fail
maybe i AM a horrible person… but “birthday fail” made me chuckle outloud
Shut up Super Jesus, you fail for been called Super Jesus.
hahahaha that is funny
So you’re tagging the as controversial but not removing it? That desperate for page views? Completely inappropriate.
Comon, half of the are people in fail pictures are getting hurt, you wern’t complaining about those.
Poor judgment posting this. It’s not humorous in the least. Yes, it’s a failure, but the resulting injuries and the lost human life deserve more than this. (The R.I.P. message is an attempt at kindness, but it can’t ameliorate the poor choice.) I was really enjoying this blog but this has called into question whether it’s worth reading. Please reconsider.
take a joke. this is really funny, actually. really, how does that even happen.
would this have been funny if it was your brother or father?
This shouldn’t be taken down. It’s no more “out of taste” than any of the others. Do you really think people don’t get hurt when “failboats” crash, or when people fly off of bikes? Do you really think that peoples’ lives don’t get ruined in some of the other “fail” accidents? People really need to get a life and quit picking stupid causes to fight for. Nobody is being harmed here, let the post stand.
In the case of people who get injured in failboats, they aren’t dying, and often they’re the person who made the mistake, or from the same company as the person who made the mistake.
The person who failed in this one didn’t pay the price. Someone died. Injury and death are very different.
Agreed. It’s one thing when someone makes a stupid mistake and pays the price with a bump in the head. It’s completely different when someone makes a stupid mistake and someone ELSE pays the price with their life.
How do you know no one died in any of the fails? Can you be certain that no deaths resulted from a failboat? Do you follow up the story behind every picture posted on this site to ensure that every single accident was one caused by the person who failed?
Unless the failblog has gone through and weeded out some of the older pictures, not all of the pictures on failblog are funny. Some are disturbing, some are disgusting and a great majority are flat-out tasteless.
I didn’t find this picture particularly funny, as it looked like a serious accident. However, I’d be disappointed if failblog backed down from a picture like this, because this is a massive failure.
Wow, im sure that the thought of people who crash in a boat and end up dying will some how be comforted that they didnt actualy die. Hitting water at speeds achieved in power boats could be akin to hitting concrete, but if your sure then you go with that.
Its not ‘funny’ but it is a Fail. Its a Fail of safety, but it should stay up as after all, maybe it could make someone think twice about drink driving themselves.
Last I checked, plenty of people die when ships sink.
Drowning/hypothermia/ectra = Death.
{And you know, people on the ship not at the helm are totally at fault for dying.}
You poor thing. You must have been in a horrific accident yourself that caused irreversible damage to your sensitivity nerves. We feel bad for you. You didn’t happen to vote for socialism, too, did you?
quit being such pussies, everyone.
agreed
Dude, sounds like you need to be put on time out or something. You sound like a little kid having a temper tantrum.
Now the grownups are going to talk…so you go back to your room and play your Grand Theft Auto or Halo or whatever…ok, sweety?
I don’t understand you guys, ok, one person died, to sad.
What are you guys discussing? You guys kill Mexicans EVERY DAY while they are trying to have a better life crossing the U.S border.
It’s only 1 more mexican not disturbing the U.S.
The person who died was an American.
Then that changes everything, by gum.
If you read the CNN article, Juan Campos (The guy doing the KILLING) was an American, and the man who died (Alejandro Alvarez) came from Monterrey, MEXICO.
mexicans are americans stupid!
DC – Mexicans are from Mexico. Americans are from America. Learn the difference. Geography fail
DD — Mexico is in NORTH AMERICA. Geograpgy FAIL.
What a DISGUSTING, in-compassionate thing to say. You fail at life.
Disgusting or not, this is Truth.
In your racist, hateful eyes, maybe, but not in reality.
I’m Not racist or Nothing, but in our coutry this is the reality.
That is a racist thing to say. That makes you a racist. People like you make me embarrassed to be white.
I would think all those years that your race were slave drivers would
make you embarrassed to be white, not something like that.
And I really think you guys should let the entire slavery thing go.
It’s been a while since that happened… you may not have noticed.
No, his “racist eyes” didn’t take the picture. Picture came from reality. Therefore REAL. Tragic that someone died? Yes. Still a Fail? Yes.
And btw… how is it racist? He didn’t say anything about the color of their skin.
If those Mexicans were going about crossing the border the LEGAL way, we wouldn’t have to resort to such drastic measures.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA… funny
i’m a mexican… in mexico we have a sense of humor… and we even try to take death lightly… or rather, with a bit of celebration. think of day of the dead and skull sweets…. death is a bummer, but it’s also part of life and should be celebrated. stop being such party poopers and have a chuckle… stop whinnying with indignant righteousness about one tragic death… what about all the thousand other tragic deaths we don’t acknowledge in china and whatnot…. it’s a crazy spectacular tragic picture with a clear drive fail…. let the picture stand and change your soiled panties, y’all
One death is a tragedy, a million deaths are a statistic.
Stop cribbing my lines!1!
Please take it down….
Do you really think that no one got hurt in any of these other fails. Deal. Its funny.
No.
“Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.”
- Mel Brooks.
amen
best qutoe ever.
i mean quote
I agree with Sensible. I’m waiting to see photos of the folks dying in gas chambers marked as “breathing fail”, and pics of thalidomide babies listed as “zygote maturation fail”. Hell, show us what’s really funny, post a pic of you cutting your wrists so we can label it “circulatory fail.” Lawl.
I lol’d.
You’re missing the point. The image isn’t saying that the bikers are failing, as they are clearly doing nothing wrong. It’s showing the drunk driver failing at driving. I don’t think it’s inappropriate to show this image because its empowering the victims by highlighting the fail of the aggressor. Somebody who kills by drinking and driving deserves all the public shaming that the failblog has to offer.
Amen
This is completely tasteless and insensitive. How dare people laugh at this.
aristotle calls it Catharsis… look it up
And Aristotle was so RIGHT about everything. NO.
science has proven time and time again that catharsis is worthless.
this blog is not funny. it is disgusting, speaking as someone whose family member was killed by an intoxicated driver. keeping it up is tasteless and pathetic.
“Circulatory fail” .. that’s classic! I want to see a Viagra add with “erection fail”.
unsubscribing from this feed. Desperate for attention?
no, are you?
If this pic were posted a year from now with no accompanying article/memorial, everyone here would find it hilarious.
True story.
yup. you got em there.
As a biker, I certainly wouldn’t. You can tell from this picture some serious damage is being done, including some that’s potentially life ending.
Exactly. I found it hilarious until I read the comments as I didn’t know anything about the accident.
I found it hilarious, read the story, and laughed even harder. I mean come on, a mexican “american citizen” passing out at the wheel drunk and doing his best impression of carbowling ball? And that picture looks straight out of a cartoon!
If this image is removed then we have a “freedom of speech fail”.
censorship is different. this is community feedback.
here’s my vote for “not funny”. posting this wasn’t evil or edgy, just immature.
Yes, but this “community feedback” is calling for the removal of this picture. If that happens, that’s cencorship. This is a blog where the community is able to post what they like. Everyone has the same voice here. Your opinion about how that voice is used is yours, and you are always entitled to voice yours just as freely as they are theirs. removing one post and not another is the only wrong that can be done here.
It’s someone’s personal blog. How can removing a post be censorship when it’s not some other authority (webhost, government) doing it?
If you remove a post from your own blog, it might be *self* censorship, but it’s not really censorship.
I disagree that this blog is personal when the content is provided by the public.
An editor chooses what makes the cut. He chooses something that makes the cut, then removes it. Still a personal blog.
The definition of censorship in the U.S. is:
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”
Taking down the picture in the community is not by the government; therefore it’s not censored — it’s following the community’s wishes.
The legal definition of censorship and the dictionary definition of censorship are very different beasts. If I choose to withhold my opinion on a given topic, it is self-censorship, but censorship nonetheless.
Do I think the image is in poor taste? Yes.
Would I have posted it myself? No.
Would I remove the image, once posted, had I the power to do so? No.
I believe that any form of external censorship is wrong. The creators/editors of this site chose to post something controversial. If people don’t like it or don’t want to see that sort of thing, they are free to create their own publications; easier than ever in today’s world.
oh yes, THAT’s why we come here. so we can get ideas of how to make our OWN publications. because we have nothing better to with our time. get a grip – some of us come here for some comic relief in our otherwise-stressful lives.
Oh, and BTW… if you say or do something without thinking it through very well, and your friends point out that it hurt their feelings or otherwise was “not cool,” apologizing (some call it “taking it back”) would be good sense, not censorship.
Oh, and congrats for falling onto the bandwagon of “all censorship is bad.” Who told you that? Your favorite emo band? Self-censorship = good social skills. The censorship that we are talking about in those anti-censorship rants… is when a higher authority censors someone under their rule. If YOUR post were removed without your authority, THAT is censorship. It’s also called moderating. I don’t know if you’ve realized it, but un-moderated public forums are an annoying waste of time and space.
Comprehension FAIL
The definition of censorship doesn’t change based on the country, censorship is still censorship, it’s just whether (and to what degree) it’s legal. All you stated was the first amendment, which, by the way…is not a definition…it’s a constutional amendment.
Definition Fail.
That is the first amendment. The first amendment =/= censorship. The two are related, but censorship is the act of blocking some or all content from public view. To call for the removal of the post would be an act of censorship.
Excuse me for not believing that tragedy is funny. Someone lost their life in this accident.
I agree with Sensible. There’s posts on here of boats crashing into houses or bridges, or pictures of car accidents. You think people didn’t get hurt or killed in THOSE? And yet you protest THIS picture because you can actually SEE the people. If you’re going to get upset over this, go complain about the car wrecks and the failboats.
lets not forget other historical fails:
WTC on fire – “fail plane”
A chinese man being shot in the head in the middle of the street from the 60′s – “protest fail”
Hiroshima mushroom cloud – “picked the right side of an argument fail”
Kennedy assination – “duck fail”
Jesus Christ on the cross – “original fail”
He wasn’t Chinese and he wasn’t shot for protesting. That was during the Vietnam War, he was a suspected member of the Viet Cong, and the shooter was a South Vietnam policeman or military officer.
http://www.digitaljournalist.org/issue0410/faas.html
Thank you for the correction, I couldn’t think of the right area of conflict. I just had
the image in my head.
Whilst on the subject of the Vietnam war:
I suppose you could put VIETNAM, Americas failure to prevent the spread of communism!!
But to be honest I find the post funny and should stand, human life is full of accidents and disasters, if you can’t laugh what can you do?
Jesus Christ on the cross – “original fail”
I WANNA SEE THIS ONE !!! I’m actually half dead laughting…
Luv it, too
haha, stop it, these is the ultimate fail collection. Rofl
“these is…” plural fail
Leo and PK FAIL at guilt-inducing!
I laughed so hard at “duck fail” and Jesus – “original fail”… No disrespect to Kennedy and Jesus, it’s just funny.
Leo failed. I was being sarcastic and making fun of his attempt at guilt. I rather enjoy the idea of “Original fail” myself. Glad you laughed!
“Jesus Christ on the cross – “original fail””
genius.
Shouldn’t ‘Original Fail’ be Eve handing the apple over to Adam?
Btw, thought it was funny, even though I knew the backstory. It’s sad, but it happens. And it is a great example of Epic Fail.
“Jesus Christ on the cross – ‘original fail’”
That one was more like “fai… oh, wait… wait… wait… win!”
also unsubscribing from this feed – should have thought through this one – later
Taking personal offense to something is a subjective experience. Everyone has the right to that experience, but what I don’t think they have the right to is asking somebody to take back something like this. Where do you draw the line? “OK, this is offensive, but that is not.” Great. What about me? What about that guy? What about the guy who hasn’t even entered the situation yet?
Be offended if you must, but leave it at that and move on.
Sorry, I meant to reply to http://failblog.org/2008/06/03/tour-de-fail/#comment-13328 with this..
“I want to laugh at people being stupid, not at drunk drivers causing deaths.”
… and a drunk driver causing somebody’s death is not stupid?
That was my comment, I’m not saying that the two are mutually exclusive, just that some stupid is funny, while other stupid is not. Agreed it is a pretty major “fail”, it’s just not what I wanted to see at the time. Kudos for hiding it behind a link imo.
you find it in poor taste because you have knowledge of harm and/or death?
what about all those FAIL BOAT pictures, people might have died there
where were all you bleeding hearts then?
take it with a bit of humor, and this is just your average fail.
as b. said
quit being such pussies, everyone.
besides, how many fails aren’t user submitted?
i dont find the blog at fault
even provided a link to the article
good job fail blog
Someone died from this, have some respect for his loved ones and take this down please.
Yeah, this is a horrible accident, but Random Passerby sums it up best. You all are leaving because you see the injured and dead in here, yet you won’t leave the feed over things like the ‘failboats’ (btw, go read the Pop Sci back issues – neat story about a guy who died recovering one)?
You all are hypocrites.
Leo, way to describe awesome fails in your attempt to discredit them.
That would be failing at fail criticism? How meta.
unsubscribing from this feed. i’m not going to make some thin argument about how this is different than all the other fail pics on this site. this blog has just been going down hill. I subscribe to feeds like this and the stupid cheezburger stuff for a lighthearted escape from the daily harshness of life, such as this very picture. i dont need it any more.
have fun.
Life is harsh, our false* or conditionated feelings of sadness can’t change the fact that someone’s dead. So laugh…remember…”A Laugh’ll bury U all…”
Maybe too son, but not inappropriate.
*false intended as not necessary because i doubt that someone witing here knowed one of the victims. And the empathy for not lovers or relatives is a social construct. Nothing real. Even MNR tell the brain activates different areas than the real grief does.
Have a nice Götzen-Dämmerung day.
A mans balls should be as big as his heart and not the other way around. grow a brain.
also, irregardless isnt a word.
“irrigardless ” isn’t a word dummy.
To everybody saying take it down: What do you think we’re doing in Iraq? Planting flowers and trees? This shouldn’t be taken down. This should stay up. People die every day. That’s life. Boo-hoo, one guy died. It’s not like everybody involved died. This is an idiot failing. Homicide can be funny if done correctly, as this was done.
oh i’m sorry. how stupid of me. i meant to go to the fail blog, not CNN.com.
oh and btw, good for you for going “anonymous” when you post something so absurd. very telling.
Your mastery of the written word confirms you as an authority in FAIL.
Yes, please remove. Tasteless. “Take away the death”, indeed — take away the death and I bet you think the Hindenberg was hilarious too.
Blimp Fail?
Do you have any idea how many people DO find the Hindenberg funny? “Oh, the humanity!” clinches it for them.
Have I mentioned that I love you?
This post — yeah, its sad what happened — but if people knew “you” personally, they wouldn’t be that upset. The picture is a great money shot. Horrible situation though. But good shot : )
Love you!
Cuando hay muertos en un accidente le quita toda la gracia al Fail.. bastante de mal gusto
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When are people death on an accident, all the fun of Fail is lost… preatty bad tase
This belongs on a faces of death video, not this site
Another feed subscriber lost.
I just signed up.
This is wrong. It’s tasteless, and doesn’t belong here.
The first poster said it best. Take this down.
AO
Subscription feed fail. Real classy. Later failblog losers.
I agree, take this one down. Controversial implies naughty, not fatal. Not something to be laughed at.
controversial does not imply naughty at all.
controversial has the connotation of that which can cause emotional unrest or estrangement.
i will admit…i was one of the people to submit this photo.
i saw it on cnn and started laughing, prior to being aware anyone had been seriously injured.
if you are offended by it, that is completely within your right.
as for guessing what failblog posts will be next (ie: the holocaust), this is a slippery slope argument that is logically flawed, because one post that you find questionable does not equal a pattern or overall degeneration.
also, as mentioned, this was the most submitted picture in the history of failblog, so obviously it is not the just the web masters who have, in your opinion, such hideous taste.
in my opinion, the picture, as it stands, is funny. the incident surrounding it is not humourous, and the loss of life is saddening–i dare say no one, except for a possible small minority of individuals, disagrees with this.
if anyone chooses to stop reading the blog, that is their own personal decision and they should not be insulted for such. humour is an opinion based concept, and, as such, there can be no single definition. personally, i will continue to read the blog.
fail on.
well, i certainly hope no one you care for dies and others think it is funny. even if someone wouldn’t have died, this would still not be funny in my tastes.
you, my friend, are a wise zen-master in completetyety…ed
we all need to laugh at the accidents of others whether someone is hurt, killed or just fine. If we couldn’t laugh at misery of others we would never laugh again. Need I remind people of America’s funniest videos? Jackass? outrageous moments caught on tape? How many were hurt with those? And we just sat there and laughed at them. Maybe a good laugh will help people recover faster.
most of you people are scum bags. Why is this even listed as controversial. This website is founded on looking at videos and pictures making fun of people for things that they do or their misfortunes. A motocross rider flipping off his bike crushing himself is ok. A baseball player taking a fastball to the face or the nuts is fine. But now that a car crashing into bikers is not. How about this if you can’t look at things in the context of comedy don’t visit here. I bet that most of you that are complaining about this picture are the same type of people that would laugh at the movie Norbit. In closing to the people that have issues with this you can blow me.
I’m a bicyclist, and I’ve had severe injuries from accidents. Physical therapy isn’t fun.
I’ve also lost two very close family members to a drunk driver.
That said, DON’T GIVE IN TO THE PUSSIES, KEEP THIS UP!!!
you know what? PEOPLE DIE IN WORSE WAYS EVERY DAY!
For one thing, the people that are wanting this to be taken down are lame, hippocrytical, pathetic, lilly-livered, easily offended and slightly communist.
for the editor of the site to put it on a pop-up is a sign of him/her having a lack of self-confidence. THIS IS THE FAIL BLOG. where you can see countless GIANT boats full of likely HUNDREDS of people possibly drowning to their deaths. Its human nature to laugh at tragity. Those of you who want to take this down are DECEIVING YOURSELVES into thinking the world is near-perfect and tragity shall always be adressed with solemn silence and anyone who uses their rights to make a (funny) joke out of it shall be shuned and smited.
YOU LOSE. GOOD DAY SIR.
heh, I agree completely
Someone’s life being cut short by murder is never funny. I’m done with this blog.
Very bad taste. One of the people in that picture is dead.
How do you know? Maybe he has already been launched out of the frame. Just saying.
Epic win for that last comment. ROFL.
R U KIDDING ME!
that is freakin hilarious
bikers piss the hell outta me, if they wanna share the road, goes as fast as cars do!
every single person knows when they pass by a group of bikers, they just wanna ram them, and this manly man decided to go for it
i wanna live like he lives
Chris = human fail.
i’m guessing after killing someone d/t being drunk, his life isn’t so great. i want you to live like he lives, too.
why yes, yes i do?
u dont?
too bad i dont have a sister tho, that would be some goooood times if ya kno wut i mean
Here we have the poster boy for birth control.
Yeah. I love this blog, but I do 120 miles of bicycle commuting a week, do charity rides for cancer and MS, and race. Not funny. You fail.
I loled. After that I realized that someone died. Next, I realized that’s the only reason you people are complaining. Then I loled again.
Yeah, it’s horrible that THAT happened. And I guess it also makes a horrible person for seeing a little bit of humor in it, but oh well.
ps: not un-subscribing to this feed quite yet.
I found out something else about this photo, if you listen to the benny hill theme music while watching it, it’s so much funnier.
AWESOME!! Theme song- WIN!!
this one should be removed as this is only recent and its a bad incident and it isnt a fail at all
take it down.
Take it down? THIS IS FAIL BLOGGGGGG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Poor taste: Yes
Should it be posted: No
Am I going to say take it down or leave it up: No.
Well, maybe we’ll get lucky and someone who sees this will think twice about getting behind the wheel after a few too many and call a friend or a cab.
BTW, when and where did this happen?
Whine whine whine.
I’m a biker and I’ve had my share of close scrapes with cars, so this picture is actually pretty terrifying to me. That being said, this is one of the most hilarious fails I’ve ever seen and I even was one of the submitters of this as soon as I read the story. I don’t agree, though, that the Fail is on the shoulders of the bikers, as is implied by the caption, but rather the Fail is by the driver of the car.
Responsibility Fail or Sober Fail, is more like it.
Also, I second Kevin’s “Chris = human fail”. Share the road.
Also, you unsubscribers are super-lame for having to advertise to everyone that you’re unsubscribing. Do you think the blog-owner cares? Keep it to yourself and just go if you suck that much.
um yes the blog-owner cares how many hits his website gets, as do his advertisers. in brick-and-mortar businesses they would call it voting with your pocketbook. feedback isn’t lame… i mean, unless they disagree with YOU.
agreed with the other guy who replied. i will also add that you are a twat
tragic. hilarious. amazing photo.
It was a bicycle race, and the driver fell asleep at the wheel because he was drunk. Not the cyclists’ fault.
I might have thought it was funny, except that the first time I saw the photo I was desperately searching to see if one of them was my husband. He’s safe. And this is a really, really bad idea of a joke.
Take it down. Really.
Oh- so if it’s NOT your husband dead then it’s okay? YOU=COMPASSION FAIL.
Post whatever you want, just understand that you — and the people who reflexively laugh at this stuff or defensively attack any critic are the ones who have lost your sense of humor. I’ve laughed hard at dozens of images on this site, over the past several months, though I was never a fan of the dead or suffering animal pics, or those of people who were truly terrified and in pain. I’m just not that into aggrandizing the egos of people who are so totally lacking in empathy. Some people think things like The Darwin Awards are funny. Personally, I don’t think it’s amusing — or just — that someone should die just because they are stupid or made or mistake or have an addiction etc. This site has become increasingly infantile as people have dug ever lower for material to submit. I’m leaving before this turns into a site for snuff-films and autopsy photos.
Oh man..I love the internet…
this is great ^^ tour the fail, hahah
You can joke about everything, but not with everybody. That’s the only thing to take in account.
You people saying it’s too early are the wrongest in this debate.
There is no “right time” to joke about certain things. Racial jokes can hurt people independently of the moment they are told.
Have you watched “Achmed the Dead Terrorist” ? To my mind it’s funny as hell. Some people, probably mostly families of 9/11′s victims, won’t find it funny at all.
So, the context of this pic can shock some people, and it’s understandable. The grotesque of the situation can surprise some other and provoke hilarity, and it’s understandable, some people have a darker sense of humor.
And then there are the hypocrites that laugh at the failboat because they don’t know if there are casualties.
Keep the pic, and keep the debate. That’s interesting.
/me is gone. Stupid fatals may be funny, murder is not.
Anyone who didn’t feel sick looking at the pic is inhuman and this site fails.
I’m inhuman.
I don’t cry every time there is an earthquake, I don’t feel sick watching rotten.com.
It doesn’t concern me. My brother would be in the pic, I’d probably feel like shit. But he’s not.
And as 90% of you I don’t feel sad.
It suck for the guys, yeah. Certainly. The drunk driver deserves jail for a long long time, yeah, true.
Where am I here ? In MY thought, with MY sense of humor ? Anywhere I want to be cause it MY point of view.
Anyone who wears Nike is a monster.
Ouch! I didn’t feel sick while looking at the picture, you don’t HAVE to feel sick.. -.-
It’s All Fun And Games Till Somebody Gets Hurt
It was amusing to see so many get hit, but the silent laughter died when I realised this picture shows how one person died.
But what about the boats ?
I mean… you don’t know right ?
And… and the mustard guy ? And all the stupid degrading moment caught on a pic ?
inhuman, huh? It’s not only human, but it’s natural.
I feel horrible , and give my regrets to anyone who knew the person who died,
but you know what? I DON’T KNOW ANYONE WHO DOES! And thats why me and the other 80% of the people here truly, at the center of their hearts, aren’t dramatically affected by us making humor of tragety. I don’t feel sick, I LOVE the darwin awards, it’s natural selection, lets go with that. This pic isn’t. Not in the least, but it’s still funny. Want to know why? BECAUSE WE’RE HUMAN.
you know what? i read through all of these, and none of them made me feel like a hypocrite until this last one (seriously, not being sarcastic). i was just of the “that is so wrong” mindframe before but wasn’t giving up on the site. now that you point out all of that… you are totally right. i see enough suffering and death at work and come to these sights for self-preservation laugh therapy. now i feel like a jerk. i’ll be sticking with the lolcats/dogs. they don’t allow pics of any harm being done.
Agreed, pal.
You guys are wearing clothes very often manufactured by people who live under the poverty threshold, even in their country standards.
You guys use oil that’s sometimes extorted from some country through corruption, slavery and/or war.
You guys eat the meat of animals treated in the worst conditions ever.
You guys probably have neighbors who’d make you cry to no end if you knew how they live.
So I ask to everybody who’s disgusted buy this pic: do you spend your day hating the world you live in ?
Or maybe it’s the fact that this picture puts you right in front of it and you have to disagree because it makes you somehow feel better ?
I’m asking without any aggressivity, I just wanna know…
I’m not disgusted by the pic as much as I’m saddened by it. It is the ultimate fail–the actions of one resulting in the death and injuries of others. But to answer your question, do I spend my dating the world I live in? Yes. Absolutely. The older I get and the more I know, the more I’ve come to despise the human race–and not just the people who commit the large atrocities, but also the people who judge them while committing small atrocities of their own.
But that’s just me.
Look, I laughed like hell when I saw it and yelled PWNED. People live and Die everyday, at least these guys get their flying torsos immortalized as somthing other than tragic.
I’d love to see a picture of Robert Mugabe looking all chimp-like with the caption “Zimbabwe fail.”
I think the most interesting part of this discussion is that nobody has questioned the integrity of the photographer or the newspapers or the blogs that are profiting off the original photo. There are a couple of people who admit in their comments how they saw the photo in other publications and that’s why they know the context…
So what these commenters are saying is it’s okay to point and gawk, but as soon as you snicker you’re an evil bastard that should be tar and feathered.
I remember when there were editorial boards who wouldn’t print photos like this – I think they called it sensationalism and viewed it as an unethical practice. Now the same publications claw at each other to see who can pay the most so they can cash in on the IRL circulation or internet traffic produced by these images.
FailBlog’s main function is to post user-submitted photos of fail – this happens to be the most highly user-submitted photo in the history of the site’s existence – and everyone is demonizing FailBlog for it?
This site pales in comparison, both by circulation and profit, to the original propagaters of this photo! Where’s the indignation over that?
Quoting:
“So what these commenters are saying is it’s okay to point and gawk, but as soon as you snicker you’re an evil bastard that should be tar and feathered.”
Essentially, yes.
While it may be sensationalist, widespread publication of this picture in the proper context may actually save lives if it reminds a single person not to drive when drunk or without enough sleep. Pointing and gawking is insensitive to those involved, but in the larger scheme of things it helps people to remember this photo next time they consider driving while drunk. Laughing at it shows that you’ve failed to internalize the lesson that can be learned here and brushed it off as somehow inapplicable to your own life.
At the same time, I have to agree that we can’t demonize Failblog for publishing the most-submitted photo yet. We should instead take a closer look at ourselves.
Although I am still wiping the tears out of my eyes regarding the hiroshima fail etc. I must concur with GomerPhyls.
If you’re blaming someone, blame the photographer. The action journalism is leading to the fact that our perception of what is funny and what is not going down the drain. Our senses are being castrated and sites like rotten.com are really burning down moral.
There is no doubt about this whole situation being tragic. And I must admit that that was my initial thought was the same. Even now I can’t really laugh about the picture. Yet I would not go as far as requesting a removal because humans are, in the end, individuals. As is their individual perception of humor.
The link which has now been added is a good compromise between free media on the internet and a disclaimer stating that what you are going to see may turn out to be touching and can’t be handled by everyone.
Gods, I love teh internets.
This reminds me of something…
http://www.howtonotsuck.com/assets/images/arguing_on_the_internet.jpg
(just to stir the pot a bit)
Smarten up failblog…you can’t joke about peoples deaths even with a disclaimer…smh
Yeah, I’m unsubscribing as well.
oh, look at me, i’m unsubscribing because ONE picture offended me. while you’re at it, don’t forget to tell mommy too. pansy.
Humour IS kinda relative. A rascist joke isn’t funny to minorities. Borat isn’t funny to his victims and Kazakhstanis. This picture isn’t funny to death-sensitive people. It makes sense that a lot of pictures here on Failblog isn’t funny to some people.
But it just so happens that a lot of people who commented here are death-sensitive.
But sure, this picture isn’t particularly funny to me because I know the story, but I wouldn’t mind not asking the owner to put this down.
Fail on, Failblog.
if people in the pic are still in the hospital, and the funerals haven’t even taken place yet, it’s too soon for this this pic.
OH- but when they get out of the hospital it’s Okey-Dokey? Hey, can you type us up a timetable of when it’s acceptable to post death pics?
You know, a real schedule so we can all feel good about ourselves for laughing at the RIGHT time? Because life should be sanitized for our protection, and we should NEVER EVER challenge our beliefs or ethics, and we should ALL sit down in a committee like good little comrades and vote on the concrete, absolute rules of humor.
You ass.
One of the funniest pictures on this site
Controversial implies naughty, not fatal.
According to what dictionary? Ass.
Just as I wouldn’t break up with someone awesome for making one stupid mistake, so I am not going to unsubscribe from this site for showing this unfortunate picture.
not in the slightest bit funny – fail blog is light humour, or is this going to turn into just another rotten.com ?
Tasteless, this is it!
Frankly, I don’t find any of the failboat/bridge things funny. I didn’t find the “kneefail” funny, just amazing/painful.
Internet humour fail.
anyone thinks this is funny think how totally freeking unbelievably hilarious it would be to be one of the guys who survived, or the policeman who has to tell the father, the mother, the sister, the wife, the child.
Go and laugh it up with the drivers father who, for the rest of his life has to look at his child and realise that his irresponsible off spring failed to be a good citizen and took the life of an innocent.
Laugh out loud when your son says he wants a BMX bike for his birthday because you just know one day, maybe, his death at the hands of a irresponsible moron could be the source of humour for empathetically retarded people the world over.
failblog fail
“It’s all fun and games until someone loses an eye.”
I think it’s interesting that most people posting here are unsubscribing from this blog based on ONE post.
Everything you do could lead to death. Chill the f@%$ out.
Does no one really think about the fact that many of the actions photographed on this site could have resulted in death? All we are seeing is the before picture, not the after. I agree with “InsertNameHere”, why unsubscribe because of one post? On the other hand, if Failblog knew it was going to be controversial (and it is pretty unsettling), why post it in the first place? Just because it was “the most submitted” doesn’t mean it should have been posted. That’s the discretion of the people who run the site, but a little more common sense may be necessary.
A lot of it is because we know that someone died. In all the other pics we have the luxury of not knowing.
In my opinion this picture is in the right place. There are other pictures of tragic events on this site, the boat that crashes in a bridge and goes on fire afterwards for example. Its the circumstances that makes it funny, considering consequence is not part of the amusement. And even if, laughing isn’t the worst way to deal with tragedy. The anthropological roots of laughing at someone, by the way, are a ritual of excluding and separating an individual from the group. Now that doesn’t seem very nice, does it? Also Freud’s analysis of the “joke” is that it brings out what we really think, but because of social conventions we hide it behind the pretense of humor. So, making fun of someone is never harmless. Its often cruel. Thats the concept of Schadenfreude. But there is no reason why we shouldn’t enjoy it. Moral boundaries for jokes are hypocritical and by itself obsolete.
I can’t frigging stand bicyclists.
It’s lol cause we’re making fun of Mexicans. AND THEY SAY AZNZ ARE BAD DRIVERS! LOLOLOL
Epic sense of humour fail.
God, all the concern trolls out there. “This should be taken down.” Come on. Sure, it’s disturbing. Okay, it’s sad. But if you don’t find it funny, don’t try and stop others from enjoying. Or seeing. It’s almost as bad as the “We don’t like your cartoons of Mohammed/Jesus/Vishnu, so we’re going to bomb you.”
agreed. i have had lots o’ fails in my life and seen them everyday. if we can’t look at things and laugh, this would be a terrible place to be in.
you all fail at life. haters.
sucks about the dude who died, but it is still funTIMES.
and BTW: curiosity killed all of you. they gave you fair warning.
take heed next time.
FAILblog, don’t take it down. i is a biker too. drivers suck.
Ok, I bike 15 miles a day to work and back, everyday … through heavy traffic etc. The first thing that came to my mind was “How the HELL did they NOT see a car coming straight at them?”. I often find a difference between “cyclists” and “bike commuters”. Cyclists tend to go where they want, when they want, through stop signs and red lights (I yell at them)… and apparently they also go straight into cars in front of them (FAIL). A bicyclist who is not aware of their surroundings is guaranteed to get into a fatal accident eventually, either by a driver blinded by the sun, playing with their stereo, talking on their cellphone, drunk, etc… or the cyclist will be too busy peddling and go straight off a cliff. Seriously, were these guys blind? This is a tragic FAIL of the greatest magnitude… and this isn’t “murder”, I would confidently assume the driver did NOT intend or plan on hitting them. **Notice in the picture one cyclist pulled to the side of the road, and another was about half way there… Safety FIRST, ALWAYS! Its not worth the damned “medal” in a race if you get KILLED!
Wow 15 miles…That’s cool…say.. btw…where would that route be…you know…the one you take everyday?……I’m uhhh…just curious you know….(heh heh heh…as I weld a spike to the grill of my car) Just kidding.LoL
it’s even more funny now that it’s behind a link
it sort of hits you (oh man) in the face
another funny song to listen to while clicking the link to see this is Holiday Road from National Lampoon’s Vacation.
PWNED!! EPIC THEME SONG WIN!!!
Jesus…enough righteous indignation on this topic? CNN showed the pic, when they didn’t need to. Failblog isn’t responsible. It’s a major sense of humour fail though, by everyone who sent it in.
Maybe the whole story is a cover up. I saw that this was on a highway near the mexican-american border. I think the driver of the car was really an undercover immigration agent. It is good to see heroic people like him protecting our border. God Bless America!
Too bad the one who died was American!
his name was Alejandro Alvarez. this story is from monterrey mexico. it said he was from monterrey. he’s as american as all of the other Alvarez’s in front of Home Depot.
Aw, all of you with your indignant cries of CENSORSHIP and heh heh it’s fecking funny, man. Look, death!
So adorable how you use your self-loathing for excitement over the tragedies of others. Not at all predictable. Not even a little shocking…which I’m sure will make you cry, what with calling people pansies and heartily guffawing about a drunk driver plowing through a group of humans your FAILED attempt to be edgy and shocking! Look at me, I’m a badass! I’m tough! I’m wacky in that devil may care way! TELL ALL YOUR FRIENDS ABOUT ME!!!!
Whatever. The picture is amazing for composition. It is fully unnecessary to cheer it on as a hilarious piece of art. No one who isn’t madly in loathe with themselves and needing to feel good at the misfortunes of others could be so callous. Sad, really.
I’m not saying take it down. I’m seeing let’s strip breeding rights from those who think it’s pom pom worthy.
While I’m on the fence of whether or not I like this picture, I could see it as an opening door for more offensive pictures – so my vote is to take it down.
You don’t get a vote. It’s not a democracy.
It’s not Whining Central either, but that doesn’t seem to have stopped anybody on either side of the argument so far.
To emblazon the word “FAIL” over any picture showing an unusual or horrific event is to deprive the word “FAIL” of its meaning.
The picture above fails at “FAIL” not so much because it attempts to score a cheap laugh with the picture of a human life ending, but because it just doesn’t make sense.
who gives a F if a human life is ending? There’s far too many humans as it is, as cyclists suck. They think they own the road – I have to drive 25 behind those A holes.
It looks like a great many people have forgotten the idea behind the phrase “None of us is as cruel as all of us.” This relates to the dark humor Anonymous is known for.
This is funny. It’s freakin’ hilarious. Darkly so, but it is. Yes, someone died in it. Someone’s mourning. Are we all that someone? Let’s mourn when someone we love dies. Let’s mourn if it was a tragic preventable accident with no potential humorous overtone.
But this is IRL Looney Tunes. It’s funny. And those of you who are crying out “OMFG EVIL” – get a sense of humor. Wal-mart’s selling them for $2.95 US. You can afford that.
I saw this picture before they put the link up, and I’ll admit that I laughed pretty hard. Hearing the story behind it, well, that makes it less funny, and I’ll agree that labeling it ‘Controversal’ is appropriate. But really, people die everyday (even here in America) in horrible ways, worse than this.
As may people pointed out, this site is full of pictures of people getting hurt, or about to. Do you really think everyone walks away from the things shown on this site?
If my opinion mattered I’d say leave it as is (with the link in front of it), yes its sad, but its funny in its own way too.
I wonder if the person who posted this would be comfortable telling loved ones of the person who died from this accident that their son, brother, father etc. is a failure.
i just read ALL of that. afternoonFAIL
lets face it all comedy is at someones cost. like every other fail isn’t at the expense of someones pain? i see it as making the best of things.
So apparently people seem to think this is insensitive and in bad taste. Why? Because somebody died? Listen up folks. There are so many damn “fail boats” on this blog I skip right past them. Do you think everybody is safe and sound for those? I’m sure many of those are just as tragic as this, but because you don’t actually SEE it it’s ok? Hypocrites! Loosen up. By laughing at the picture you aren’t disrespecting the dead or their families. You are just finding humor in a bad situation. Sometimes laughing at something bad is a means to deal with it.
laugh ABOUT someone’s suffering, definitively, is NOT a way to “deal with it” -.-
The photographer who took this horrific picture was wrong to send it to all the news organizations that gladly took and published it (for the sake of sensationalism). But that’s his personal moral failure, which he’ll have to wrestle with himself.
I don’t think Failblog should take this down, because the discussion an interesting exploration into the sort of human being that populates this place.
Those who actually find this hilarious are having an EMPATHY FAIL. You are failing to place yourself in others’ shoes. If your reaction involved only mirth and no sense of the pain or upset of others–and, contrary to what some of the previous posters have said, it doesn’t matter if they are distant to you–then you have damaged or desensitized your ability to empathize.
I don’t that it’s entirely wrong to have this photo here, since there is a MAJOR failure here–that of the drunk driver. While there is somewhat of an “awesome factor” involved in the photo, the caption perhaps is misconstrued–perhaps it should be something like “CARING ABOUT OTHERS FAIL” or “HUMANITY FAIL”. Or just with a more straightforward approach, since people have judged the photo redeemable if it convinces people not to drink and drive…
“DON’T DRINK AND DRIVE. IT HAS CONSEQUENCES. THIS WAS A FAIL.”
….also people were curious because it was labeled “controversial” in the link. “Controversial,” to me (and probably a few other people), implies something that would involve, say, racial epithets or sexual content, for example. It did not imply the loss of human life onscreen. That’s why there’s a labeling failure here too.
how is the photographer wrong in sending the picture to news organizations? was he wrong for taking the picture? no. was he wrong for sending the picture? no. i am a photojournalist, its our job to show the news. happy or sad. was eddie adams wrong for taking the picture of the viet cong executed in the street? its our job, to communicate what is going on in the world, with the world. i dont see any “maral failure” with the photographer. but i do not think that this should have made it to this blog. i come here to be entertained, and this is no means entertainment.
Oh I get it….You have a degree in “Humor blog analysis”..Hmmmmm… Didn’t know they had classes for that.
‘Controversial’ DOES NOT MEAN racial epithets or sexual content. That would be ‘racial epithets’ or ‘sexual content.’ Maybe it would be ‘racial slurs’ or ‘racy’ if you want another word.
‘Controversial’ means ‘creating controversy or dispute.’ i.e. SOME PEOPLE WILL NOT LIKE IT!
So, Congratulations! You’re one of those that doesn’t like this picture.
Me? If I were one of the cyclists, I’d be pointing myself out in it from the hospital bed.
I think failblog fails at this one, even with the warning.
Not classy. Not classy at all.
Soooo…You thought people come to the failblog to be classy????… Failblog Noob!
It’s in bad tastes but I think FailBlog shouldn’t be blamed because they did put the picture behind a link. As for the people who accidently saw it for whatever reason then get over it and realize that Failblog did the best they could while trying to keep everyone happy. Like they said, it was the most submitted picture.
I don’t see why that’s controversial. Accidents happen. What is controversial, is having to scroll down through 222 comments to make my comment.
Ed zachary!
dear god!! ya’ll need to grow up!! Nobody forced you to look at the picture. Nobdy forced you to laugh or not. so the next time you come here and I know you will…. don’t look at the things that might upset your delicate little minds
Now that’s a real fail. fail of the government, to allow that kind of stuff to happen.
Fail of the car driver, to be such an ass and drive drunk.
Fail of the sick ppl that commented here like if this kind of death was something “natural”, because everyone should know that this is NOT EVEN CLOSE of a natural death. Maybe for you kids, it was just “another” dead guy, but for him, it was the most bitter event of his life. Can you guys imagine this kind of thing happening to you? No? So get to the psychoterapy -.-
actually it was prolly the best thing that happened to him. He won’t have to live on this screwed up planet anymore. And yes let’s just blame the government oh yeah real intelligent! like they had anything to do with it. The were not there biking or drinking or driving! and who knows maybe he was meant to die like that. Maybe to send a message to people or maybe even start this ongoing arguement here.
Totally uncool, I am not upset by it, but it shows a massive lack of respect for…well for humankind really. Disappointing.
take it off the page
Ironic fail, failblog.
I can’t believe all this arguing over a photograph. One of the cool parts about being human is that we are all living under our own ‘perception’ of reality. Whether you LOL’d or were outraged, you felt exactly as YOU were meant to feel about it.
Where we all seem to go wrong is in trying to convince each other that OUR perception is the ONLY correct one. By and large, how necessary is it to argue this point, really? You know you aren’t going to change anybody’s mind, regardless of your grasp of grammar or your feelings of humanity…right?
As for myself, I have my own opinion about the photo, but I’m not going to share it because…NOBODY CARES!
It is what it is. Taken down or left up, the photo has sparked a debate that has brought lots of attention to the blog. And that’s good for business. Way to WIN, Failblog!
I agree with Delphi, trying to force your beliefs on someone is how wars are caused. haven’t any of you heard of the crusades.
As soon as I saw this pic in the paper, I thought “This is absolutely perfect for Failblog”.
This is exactly the sort of picture I expect to see here.
“Controversial” means something that would upset a lot of people. Methinks the reason some people were underestimating what typ of controversy they were expecting fell victim of the overusage of the word “controversy”, some of which used for something that really isn’t controversial at all.
Instead of getting outraged over a picture on the freaking internet, how about applying your outrage to something practical in your life? Like the lack of recycling? Global warming? Not carpooling? etc, etc.
Lots of sides to this issue. But the picture is on the front page of AOL.. so there was no way NOT to see it.
It’s a terrible accident and the driver DID fail, so I don’t disagree with it being on the FailBlog (which I love by the way!)
I do disagree and am disappointed with some of the inhuman and unfeeling comments I’ve read. Come on people! There was a death and many injuries! Grow up.
If you don’t like the show change the channel!!!!
If you don’t like the show change the channel!!!!
If you don’t like the show change the channel!!!!
If you don’t like the show change the channel!!!!
If you don’t like the show change the channel!!!!
agreed. Win.
Fail.
So….
Why is THIS omgsowrong, yet I can recall several pictures of hurt, injured or dead animals posted here without a warning?
this is funny as hell xD …
and for sure it’s funny more “a kick in the balls” which most Americans find it funny o_O; …
more than*
typo..
I bet TV ratings for cycling would go way up if this happened more often. They should try this in golf too. Ratings gold, I tell you.
Show the peeps a bit of the reality of driving and they complain about the fact that it is an ugly pic and should not be shown. WHY NOT? I have to ask. I say remove the controversial tag and show people one of the real consequences of driving.
This is a real fail people. It should be headline news.
You should all die, and guess what? You all WILL die. I take endless comfort from this obvious knowledge. IDIOTS.
The fact that you have to resort to using a gender-specific expletive to insult others (i.e., calling them pussies) tells me you probably haven’t and won’t get any in a LONG time. If ever.
Funny? Yes.
Tragic? Absolutely.
FAIL? Is there any room for doubt?
Yes this is one of those kind that people who are too stuck up find horribly disturbing or something. The point is, that it is a fail, and while it was tragic, the fact that something so serious is put in this context also makes it a bit funny.
I can already see myself catching hell for this.
11 people died in the oil rig fail that is on this blog…I didn’t hear people whining about taking that post down. Stop QQing
pathetic how you all come here crying for people you maybe don’t know and you will completly forget abaout in a week or maybe less…
The adverb irregardless has one meaning:
Meaning #1: (informal) regardless; a combination of irrespective and regardless sometimes used humorously
Hey, does this mean that as long as we put a FAIL label on the pictures, failblog can become the new Ogrish.com?
I came here to laugh, not be depressed. Move this to a site for people who like watching people die. There are plenty.
youre an idiot.
…but mostly correct.
This is too sad to be in the blog. Whoever submitted this fails at being a non-murderer.
Uh…yeah. Because laughing at a funny caption = killing someone.
WOW YOU’RE DUMB.
i think it’s HILARIOUS because i have a sense of humor, even with situations like this.
does this make me some sort of sick, twisted person?
probably.
but i don’t really care.
lots of lolz from meh!
Okay, I need to say — I did see the “bad taste” warning, but my experience on the rest of this site led me to believe that it would involve nudity or tackiness. Not death. This was indeed disturbing. I’m not saying it needs to be taken down, but if I’d been making the decision, I wouldn’t have posted this one.
So…everyone is pissed off that someone found this picture and added a funny caption and yet NO ONE has said anything about the fact that a photograph was taken in the first place? Wow.
yea, BS. get your panties out of a wad. noone whined about any of the other tons of FAIL pics where people are getting seriously hurt, or are about to be…
who cares. its funny. macabre, morbid, and wrong, sure. but hilarious.
and obviously a FAIL.
This is hilarious. I love how people try to make themselves feel self-righteous by acting like they care about a guy that died that they dont even know. Get real. Of course it would suck if it was your family, but its not, so laugh and move on.
There’s nothing funny about this? Are you sure? This is hilarious. In fact, I live very near where this happened. FAIL Blog seems to me to be pointing out mankind’s ultimate FAIL: living stupidly. Drunk driving is pretty stupid. Killing and injuring people because of your stupidity is a horrible thing. But you know what? It’s also pretty funny. In fact, the sickest thing about all of this is that it IS so funny. It’s not like it’s really funny…what’s funny is that it’s so absurd because of the stupidity of people. People are stupid. Why do you think we invented the Darwin Awards?
“it’s all fun and games until someone gets hurt”
the saying goes something like that, shrugs.
but yea, that’s why this photo’s so controversial. it’s fuked up.
we can poke fun at all the stupid things people do that’s caught in film, but there’s a limit to everything.
Says someone who can’t even swear correctly. Man, you people are asking us to cover up this picture when you can’t even cover up your swearing.
Having been hit by a car myself – I in NO way find this “funny.” Sure there was that dumb warning, but honestly – that just creates curiosity and everyone is still going to look at it. The warning does nothing. Laughing at something like this is completely immature.
Whoever said fails have to be funny to be fails, And was whining about how this should be taken down because someone died, please GTFO. You had the choice to click the link. You did. Now suck it up.
I think…maybe this has gone a bit far. Yeah, it’s controversial, but a guy died. If nobody had died it wouldn’t have been bad. When it said controversal I naively thought it would be injury, not death. Death is not to be mocked.
Hey you tool, this average guy is king of the world now that he has so much publicity on the internet!
Hilarious cyclist fail. Hope this teaches them to GET OUT OF THE FSCKING ROAD when I’m driving.
Wow, I dunno what I thought it was going to be but I didn’t see that coming. It was funny until I read someone died. :/
death is pretty funny to me.
Death sucks, but that was pretty damn funny
this is a FAIL
a ‘CLOSED COURSE’ FAIL
yes people who understand!!!
traffic win!
The least funny fail ever. Not even funny.
i agree
eveyone, get over it, stop whining and complaining that its not funny. i was laging so hard and do you know what you lack? The anser is a sense of humor/
WOW!
HUGE FAIL!!!!!!!!!!
Before anyone says SPELL FAIL at me, I will correct myself. It’s “You’re” a jerk. And that was directed at all you people saying “F you, this is hilarious, have a sense of humor” Well, have a heart.
There is no end to the fail, you cannot escape it, it is all around you, FAIL
Good job on pointing that out!
I think that its HILARIOUS and the people just need a sense of humor
all the whiners fail epically.
d’accord.
just stop crying about the death of ONE human beeing
Hitler was one too
but the pic is very funny
Well, it’s still a fail, even if it was a horrible accident. Nothing that you should make a joke over, though.
ok the jerk who considers hitler human, get lost. this is not funny.
I learned something from this:
A ramp isn’t always needed to make a bike fly!
I’m also kind of curious: Was he doing the posted speed limit? And did the police also ticket him for changing lanes without using his blinker?
Oh my gosh. I have never seen a picture quite like this. I’m ging to puke. I am absolutally horrified. Please take this photo down. I have very much enjoyed looking at this site, but this is unacceptable. UNACCEPTABLE! Take this pic down!
OH NO!!! Hey everybody, have you heard?! SAYRAY says this is an UNACCEPTABLE picture!! We must take it down RIGHT NOW!!! He says so!!
BTW, Sayray, when you puke, can you take a pic and post it so the rest of us can have a laugh at your epic self-importance fail?
Ass.
i do think this was funny sorry about all your crying but at least one person thinks this is funny, i know it is in bad taste but i some ways you have to admit this was kinda funny.
Forget what everyone is saying. This is funny. Yeah, a guy died in it. People die every day. Big deal. No, I loled pretty bad at this, and I don’t regret it one bit. ^^
Disgusting.
Have some respect for the poor guy’s family and take it down.
Remove “tour-de-fail” now!
uhm.. youre saying this site fails when its called Failblog?? That my friend is Fail. Youre getting butthurt over a pic hidden? That is Fail. Dont want to see it dont look :3 dont bother hatin cus i dont post here – this is special occasion …heh how crude.
Who said failure=funny? Again, live and learn people.
its an epic driving fail. a fail is a fail, and this belongs.
Ok, i’m sorry to say that when i first saw this picture was rolling on the floor. But the thing is that it was sad and tragic and SHOULDN’T be considered funny, but as bad as this is, its still kinda funny
Oh well life goes on. EXCEPT FOR THEM!!! lol
omg, even though the picture is hidden behind a link it should still be taken down. This blog is meant for entertainment, no? So I “fail” to see how a picture of a driving fail can still be funny when someone tragically died. Damn man, it’s alright if someone injures themselves through idiocy, not when that idiocy results in the death or serious injury of others. :-/
failblog go f— yourself
You are on a sight built for laughing at the failures of others, its kind of hard to be too self righteous here. You are an ass just like the rest of us for being on here (failblog) , the only difference is you’re a hypocrite for thinking Now you’re too good to laugh at this image.
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.
Mel Brooks
I can’t believe you people think this is funny. If you had been one of the cyclists, would you be laughing? While you’re at it, take down the sinking boat ones. Those aren’t funny. I don’t know if they’re fatal, but they’re not funny at all.
My dad was killed by a drunk driver and i still laughed at this pic, it’s a good example at how dumb people can be and you don’t have to get so mad about it.
Its not funny when anyone gets hurt. You think this is the ONLY photo/video showing death? Go back and looks at some of the things posted on here…. most of this stuff is horrible bad but yet we still laugh at it. Who are all of you to draw the line at where the laughter starts and stops? Its different for every person. If you are going to be a willing party to any of this take it all. Take it all. And if you cant, get the hell off this blog.
I agree with the first post, but we should be able lo find a picture funny without letting it affect how we value human life. I mean yeah I feel terrible for the family, I know my family would be devastated if something like that happened to one of us. However, we should all be able to laugh because it looks really funny. Oh and I have my own version of drunk driving rehab: Desert Eagle round through the temple. It’s 100% proven effective! WIN!
WARNING BAD TASTE COMMENT AHEAD:
If youve even been stuck behind these spandex warriors then id say it was a WIN!
(unfortunate that one died though)
Notice the Helmet fail in top left?
LOL
cars vs bikes
never gets old
Heh, nice pic. Go ahead and leave it up – no matter what you say / do in this life, someone is gonna whinge. Ignore the whiners and do whatever you wish – this pic rocks, and should stay up.
This thing is HILARIOUS! Yes, people died, but that doesn’t change the fact that it’s funny. I guess years of physics insensitivity from video games has change me.
Guy driving car = EPIC DRIVING FAILURE!!!
poop
BAWWW fail.
It may be in REALLY poor taste, but it is still a huge fail if you had no backstory. Hell, it’s a pretty big fail WITH a backstory.
SERIOUSLY?
lol that is just too funny!!
Not funny at all… Why the hell there is so many stupid guys all over the world ?! 10 wounded, 1 dead ! What is fun in that ? They were all young, all promise to a good future, and now, one is dead and some will live in a wheelchair for the rest of their life.
The people who laugh fail…
ok, for 1.) they warned you that it would be bad and crontreversial.
2.) yes someone died, and that is sad, but if you thought it would be a picture of something like you normally see on fail blog you obviously can’t read
3.) maybe by putting it up, you see how the driver did fail- he failed at life and no one should drive drunk or they could kill a bunch of people. it sends a message.
I love how this country works. We are governed by a constitution that affords us the right to freedom of speech and freedom of the press, but yet everyone is over sensitive about things they see or hear. Just because you don’t agree with something, doesn’t mean its wrong. Its a picture, nowhere in the caption did it say, hey look at this death, laugh at it. No this is a site dedicated to failure, and this picture is clearly an incident of failure. It is not written as “freedom of speech unless it offends me” so get over yourself. Thats the power you have as a human being, if you see or hear something that you don’t like or agree with, you have the power to walk away, or not listen. So instead of trying to push your tenets on everyone else, just walk away, find another website, I promise there are a lot more. Fail American Public at Large. Fail Hypocrisy. Fail people screaming “intolerance” when they are infact the intolerant individuals. Win Failblog for keeping picture up.
I agree +
I agree too
Agreed!!! Well said…
That wasn’t a fail. It looked intentional.
failblog never said it was funny, they just said it was a fail, which it is
Thank GOD someone said it! Cyclists are a bane to the roads. If the speed limit is within your pedaling abilities, then ride all you would like, BUT, a pack of 50 @-holes blocking the road for god knows how long is a large moving target.
why no comment
Security measures for the race FAIL.
Police FAIL.
EPIC DRIVING FAIL.
I’d like to remind everyone present that arguing over the Internet is like participating in the Special Olympics – even if you win, you’re still retarded. (Or in this case, made of fail.)
Now, everybody (pro- and anti-removal) please kindly get your panties/boxers/briefs/etc. out of a bunch and move on with your lives.
wow, a lot of ppl think that death is such a horrible thing. everyone that lives dies eventually. They just had theirs early. the severe injuries are another subject…
either way, terrible event DX and yes, get on with your overdramatic lives…plz
I’d be happy if people laughed instead of cryed over the picture of my death.
My heart just hit the bottom of my stomach when I saw that. Oh my God.
Me also. This is just awful.
damn, article page not found. I wanted to know if that guy was drunk or what.
Tour de jail. (hopefully)
What if the post was about de attack of the twin towers? Obviously it’s not funny. This isn’t also; still I believe that I can think like this and want to keep reading the posts; why I should leave it? I think the ones who think it’s funny had a bad sense of humor, that’s all.
S-t-t-e-e-e-r-r-r-i-i-i-i-k-k-k-k-e!!!
U guys deserve to die if u laugh at this, even when i know nothing about this accident it is obvious it was a serious accident.
You scratched the paint off your car!
Greatf stuff. failblog.org is killer.
Too soon?
ASS CAKE!
Hahaha…I don’t know who failed worse, the guy driving the car or the group of cyclist getting hit by the car. Wait, this must be one of the rarest kind of fails. The wonderful, the awesome, the amazing, THE DOUBLE FAIL!!!! Oh and Javier’s got a good point. Why are there no 9/11 fails? I mean how are some big ass planes, taken way off course and then forced to crash into two giant towers, which fall like a house of cards 45 mins later? I mean that’s gotta be in the top 10 fails of all time, right?