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weeeee, bump cars
hahahaha cars and snow = good times!
How do you like it when someone rams against your (perhaps parking) car? Rule of thumb is don’t drive when road are iced. Especially that first f!cking idiot who even tries to accelerate. That’s not funny as a fail anymore.
That’s what insurance is for. And if you don’t have insurance or don’t have enough, then it’s your own damn fault.
As for the moron who accelerated and went even more out of control? That was the best part of the damn video!
Idiots + Driver’s Licenses = Pure Entertainment
how bout the moron holding the camera instead of holding a sign saying “slow down ice ahead?????? maybe those kids wouldnt have been in danger then?
umm…then maybe we wouldn’t be flaming each other on the intrawebs
about it. . . duh poopface
stop being a moron moralist
Holding a sign up out there would be flat out suicidal. And you want the camera guy to ask these people to slow down? No matter what speed you’re at you’re in danger here. The video makes that obvious.
*ATTENTION!* we have fail in progress
i don’t think they were in very much danger seeing as they were on a roof.
wow you need to listen more if you listen the voice that said their children are in the car had an echo so in point the kids were on the ground
one can say: His lack of insurance is his own fail.
You stole my name. Bastard.
would anyone named “chewybunny” be a bastard?
It’s all because Seattle’s douche bag mayor won’t put de-icer on the roads because it is “bad for the environment.” Well I guess this is supposed to stimulate the economy because now body shops will get business, insurance agents will get business, it helps all around right? Freaking incompetent mayor. But they did get in front of his house.
What good would de-icer in Seattle do in this situation considering this video was filmed from the roof of an apartment building in SouthEast Portland, Oregon? Just wondering….get your facts straight before you post or risk looking like an ignorant fool
ok really? must you guys over-analyze this?? will u stop thinking ur soooooo clever and just enjoy the FAIL?
Buzzkill fail.
Agreed – not funny.
I agree with asd. The first daft dud that tries to drive, already failed when he woke up that morning. the 2nd guy who tries to drive, make’s a bigger fail, since he saw what happend with the first car, and so on.
If they drove on summer-tires, the hole city failed. Damn city slickers.
If they drove on winter-tires, the people at city hall failed. Damn capitalist’s.
Total disregard for they’re own and other cars, but still it’s funny.
NRD
FTW
maybe u were one of them???
HEADLINE FAIL:
it’s ice, not snow
Ah man this would never happen in Canada.
Ever been to Vancouver? It’s worse! lol
I think this was in Vancouver (standing in the YouTube comments).
People should know that they shouldn’t take the car for an adventure like this…
actually, I think it’s Portland (OR) from last winter.
Actually, it’s from Portland AND from last winter.
The person didn’t say Portland OR last winter, it was Portland (OR)egon….weetard
He was just making a pun out of the comment.
fail…
Oh my gosh Moron Portland OREGON not or
Yeah, I think K5′s an american station.
King 5 Is a Seattle WA station. But they are part of the Northwest Cable News Network. So they got this clip from Portland. I remember watching it and footage from Seattle . It was priceless.
Few in the NW can drive in the snow. And we who fear them stay home and watch the news.
King5 is Seattle, for sure! And NW drivers cannot, repeat, cannot drive inthe snow
LOL this was definitely on K5 news in Seattle about Portland. Awesome.
There are sure a lot of replies here.
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This was in Northwest Portland, on Salmon St., west of Downtown. And yes, the snow melted a bit and then we had a hard freeze. No one with any brains was driving anywhere – the entire metro area was shut down for about three days.
I was lucky enough to have a roommate from Montana, with a rock crawler rig for a vehicle. He just turned on both transfer cases and crawled wherever we needed to go.
Torque FTW.
Both transfer cases? Don’t you mean both drive axles? I’ve never seen anthing that had two transfer cases, the transfer case is what allows the transmission to transfer power to the rear axle as well as the front axle…
But I agree, most people here don’t know how to drive in the snow, I was out in that storm in my SVX yankin cars out of the ditches until it got too deep, then I went home and got my full size diesel Dodge. The problem here is the people that think that having 4WD means you can drive in any condition as if you were driving on dry pavement, which is most certainly not the case….
My station wagon has 4 transfer cases. One for each wheel.
We drive on ice a hundred times a winter, I do it for 100km per day.
We are just used to it… and used to summer driving….and spring, and fall… .
So don’t assume you can’t drive on ice just because YOU can’t.
Oh, dear Lord. And I moved from the Southeast to the Northwest.
Even people down South have more sense than to drive in weather like this.
(Comes from having nothing BUT icy snow, I guess.)
Any idea what part of Portland this is in? (Downtown, I’m guessing?) I’d like to avoid living there.
I believe this was taken in downtown Portland near Portland State. It’s on the South Park Blocks near SW Jackson and Park.
If I recall, none of the area forecasters had predicted this to happen. It started during the morning when this video was shot, and it didn’t take long for the layer of ice that’s on the road to build up.
King 5 news is Seattle. I live just south of Seattle and trust me, Seattle drivers can barely drive in great conditions, are confused when it rains and are S.O.L when it snows.
It seems your car has an extra dipstick. You. We are great at driving in the rain. Oodles of practice. The useless ones are those from a certain state to the south that shall remain nameless here. The snow side is somewhat true for a few reasons. One: we don’t get snow often. Two: since we get so little snow there is a small budget for snow removal. Three: since the moisture is fresh off of the ocean it produces a snow with a high moisture content. Meaning it is not fluffy. It is grease. As a guess I would say that you are not a native. Ever think emigrating again?
Also, there’s our lovely selection of hills to consider. It’s funny watching people who come from flat areas who say they’re snow driving “experts” flounder when they try to drive up or down one of our snow-covered hills…
Sounds like someone’s making excuses for the entire Northwest being one big driving fail.
The NW is one big driving fail when it comes to snow. It’s hilarious.
Every winter we get to see a video of a car spiraling down a big hill
because someone failed too much to stay home.
Um, Seattle drivers are NOT great in driving in the rain. Everyone drives at least 5-10 mph under the speed limit in zero traffic to begin with, and when it rains everyone slows down more. Combine that with this amazing phenomenon of an entire region of a country NOT knowing how to merge onto a freeway, and nearly every drizzle that occurs around 5 p.m. on a weekday turns my 30 minute commute into a 70+ minute road trip.
So the logic says you SHOULD be good at driving in the rain, but the evidence shows otherwise. And it’s not even that much rain; try driving in a storm that the rain comes down so hard your wipers can’t keep up, and you wouldn’t even be able to see 15 feet in front of you if they could.
Grease? There’s something in your atmosphere, or maybe the salty water doing this. I’ve lived in Iowa most of my life and we get plenty of snow every year, some super dry, some wet as hell. And I’ve never seen any snow that was the least bit greasy. Unless you pour oil on it or something.
No, this was in Seattle. King 5 news is from there. This is also what happens to Seattlites when there’s a half-inch of snow on the ground. You’d think with all the rain we get we wouldn’t suck so much at snow driving.
This was in Portland but the best part of the video is missing when the fire truck gets nailed by another car.
Definitely Portland, Seattle, or Vancouver. King 5 is one of Seattle’s local tv stations.
its was in Seattle washington
this is actually seattle. King 5 is one of their news stations. and i actually remember seeing this a couple of years ago when I lived there. I think it was Federal Way
This is from Portland Oregon, winter 2007. I was there, it was all over the news at that point — the road is a pretty steep slant, and there isn’t often snow in that area (to help justify a little bit!) and no one got hurt — pretty amazing.
Oregon drivers = fail.
Why would you attempt to drive in the snow when you (quite blatantly) don’t know how? I have lived in New England my whole life, know how to drive in a foot of snow (non-plowed) and even I don’t go out in the snow unless I have to go to work.
Maybe some of these people had to go to work… but that still doesn’t excuse that idiotic woman for taking her kids out in that weather.
The news station is from Seattle, Washington. Those drivers are really bad, I am glad I live somewhere where people can kinda drive in the snow.
WTF?!? Why can’t people drive in snow; that was nothing I live in Northern Michigan
It’s Seattle bud. It’s right by my house, and it’s a pretty large hill. Anyhow, Seattle
and Vancouver don’t get a lot of snow so when it does snow, this is what happens.
Sorry bub, this was in portland at SW Salmon and SW 20th Ave. My GF’s apartment is very close to there. Look at the google maps street view: http://preview.tinyurl.com/6d9omx
I was up the hill while this was happening. The roads had a 1/2″ of ice on them under the snow. It wasn’t walkable much less drive-able. I grew up in Colorado and I know how to drive on snow. I also know when to stay home, and this was one of those days…
Or Britain! :p Since when do we British get snow, especially in the North West of England.
Chester has it’s own microclimate, even if it’s snowing all over the UK, it won’t be in Chester.
or Swindon, the whole town’s surrounded by high hills that save us from the worst of the weather (or best if it’s snow)
hi Spooge.
Fail!
I was in Chester, England for Easter in March …lots of snow…wet, rainy snow…and people driving on the wrong side of the road. England for Spring break was to avoid snow…I was hoping for the global warming I keep hearing about…
You went to England in the spring to avoid bad weather? Decision fail.
Just because you drive on the right, doesn’t mean it’s wrong for other countries to drive on the left.
hey, same as memphis – something to do with being on the bluff and by a river, i dunno, but we never seem to get hit as badly by major storm systems and we get about one snow per year (deepest in the past decade was four inches) even if the rest of Tennessee is covered in it.
Depends where you live. In the higher parts of Northumberland, we used to get this kind of stuff every midwinter. Occasionally, the forded river at the bottom of our *very* steep road used to freeze over. Every so often I used to have to tow our milkman’s truck up the road with our shitty old V8 Range Rover, on a glassy, iced, surface just like this. Every so often, we were snowed in, 4-wheel drive or not. We also had a Volvo, which although rear-wheel-drive, coped well with these kinds of conditions. It was equipped with and electronically-controlled limited slip diff, and ABS.
We saw regular minus 10s and 12s (Celsius), and we had to carry our dog sometimes because his paws would hurt too much when it got *really* cold.
We lived in Sinderhope, 1100ft above sea level, 30 miles south of Scotland.
Never happen in Canada? You’re an idiot. Here in Ottawa our buses don’t have snow tires, and the extended buses turn into bumper buses on some hills because the tires on the trailer are powered by the engine.
i think he might have been sarcastic–at least i hope he was sarcastic.
aaah oc transpo, nothing more fun than doing 50 into Hurdman.
I think he was talking aboot how Canadian’s know how to drive in snow. Here in the North East of the US we don’t have any problems like this. We just know how to drive on the snow. And enough sense to know that sometimes it’s better to just stay home
I’m calling a fail on Ottawa for that one. Southwestern Ontario knows that snow tires are where it’s at.
This happened in Portland, they have no idea how to drive in snow here.
lulz Would never happen in quebec is more like it , no snow tires = fine here
HAH! this is totally what would happen in quebec–and they would go back to run you down again.
Ah ha! That makes sense. We got that same snow storm down here in Eugene. I knew better than tto brave the streets with people who don’t know how to drive in the snow!
There comes a point when it’s not so much about knowing how to drive in the snow, but knowing when not to drive in the snow. This was more than just snow, I think freezing rain and therefore ice were the bigger problem. Snow by itself just isn’t that slick.
Agreed, my first thought was “why are they even trying” then I realized it wasnt Midwesterners that KNOW how to drive in ice and snow.
The fail is in the street department not doing something sooner.
Bigger fail is not watching a fire truck slide bumper car style down the hill too.
I’m from the MW and if I owned a car on that street I’d be out there driving/pushing it off the road at the very least. Splash damage from other idiot drivers . . . nothxkbai
My question is: why the hell did I hear that first guy gunning it? If you’re sliding like that, you stay on the brakes. There is really never a situation where you should accelerate while sliding on ice. Maybe on gravel or a dry surface, but acceleration on ice makes for a damage score of OVER 9000!
NOPE. KING 5 IS SEATTLE. THIS IS PROBABLY ON 1ST HILL, DOWNTOWN,
BUT I’M NOT ENTIRELY SURE. AWESOME TO WATCH THIS RIGHT AFTER DRIVING AROUND ALL DAY IN A FEW INCHES OF SNOW.. DIDN’T SEE ANYTHING QUITE THIS COOL THO.
Way to yell Failer.
are all canadians this high and mighty about their precious canada? most i’ve met are?
No, most Canadians are humble, jackass.
Well, Canada _is_ better….:-)
Perhaps if they chained up their tires? I dunno. I live in Los Angeles, and we never have this problem!
Get a lot of standing ice covered in snow in LA do you now?
Nor in Wisconsin, unless the drivers were out-of-towners.
It would never happen in Los Angeles, either.
No, I’m lying. We don’t even need snow for it to get like this in LA.
man… I live near aspen… we get some idiot tourists who basically drive like that… I hope that i am not on the same insurance program paying for stupid stupid mistakes like those, (the people)… I was going down this hill once in a blizzard and there was a truck in front of me, ended up going through the corner at the bottom of the hill backwards, was on the side of a cliff up in the mountains, never broke a sweat
It would in Tennessee.
I live in Alaska. We get snow and ice every year. People get studded tires and drive slower. Not really that complicated right?
I really love the car sliding sideways down the street. “shitshitshitshit!”
Wasn’t this in Portland a year or so ago? I remember it flash snowed the roads cleared out. No one had chains on and everyone started flying around the road…
Nope, King 5 is in King County, WA. But Portland probably had the same problem.
King 5 is indeed in king county washington, but I believe the footage was indeed shot in portland. The video was merely aired in seattle.
While you are correct that King 5 is in Seattle(where I live now), this video was actually from Portland(where I grew up) as Chris indicated – from what I remember about the story this was filmed form the top of one of the buildings near Civic Stadium – what is NOT clear from the angle of the video is the slope these cars are on – for those of you not familiar with this area, these cars are sliding down a very steep grade, and what you can’t see is that there is a pretty good layer of ICE underneath the snow.
I was wondering why they were just sliding around. Makes sense now.
Do they have salt trucks in Portland, or do they not get enough snow/ice to justify it? I know in Dallas they just have sand trucks, which don’t do much of anything when you get the ice layers down and then a dusting of snow over it.
Hopefully no one was hurt.
I don’t think they do. Western Oregon doesn’t get much snow. I’ve lived here since 1990 and this was the first snowstorm I’ve seen that had snow on the ground for more than a day. (I’m in Eugene, about 2 hours south of Portland)
Thats a storm….theres like 2 inches of snow. One Saturday last winter we got 3,8 feet THATS a snow storm. This is just a snow-ing =).
Vive le Québec eneigé.
LOL – yep, 2 inches is a snow storm for us, (though on my mountain we had 2 ft drifts, and were stuck for a few days.
Oregonians: we’ll still drive competently when the road is under a foot and a half of water, but put a few inches of snow down and everyone loses their marbles.
I dunno about salt trucks but they did get crews out there salting the road soon after this, they just didn’t have time to get out there before the roads turned into ping pong tables.
Actually that’s not Seattle. That is Portland.. I remember when it happened and it was all over the news. It was just rebroadcast in Seattle.
There’s all the details. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMzeiMJQrvk
King 5′s broadcast is seen well into Oregon. It is one of the 2 NBC stations I get in the Portland area. I got the broadcast of King 5 via Charter when I lived on the Oregon coast…
Dunno if this was actually filmed in Portland or not, but I got it via email from a friend who lives in Portland, over a year ago. It’s good film, but sad that they couldn’t come up with anything more recent to post.
This is the Christmas in July special.
Indeed it was. I actually know the driver of the second car in the clip. The car belonged to his mom.
Cars can drive sideways now!? WIN!
Yeah I noticed that one accelerating sideways. must be some slope. on this kind of ice (underneath the wet snow) it doesn’t really matter if it’s steep. only a tank wouldn’t lose control.
This happened in seattle, thats where K5 (King 5) news is.
Snow driving skills have nothing to do with it…
It was a classic Portland Oregon Ice Storm. There was solid glare ice on the streets under the snow… made for disaster when coupled with a significant hill.
Once drivers started down the grade… it was all over.
Why aren’t the roads closed lol!! Thats crazy!!
The Slow and The Furious: Anchorage Drift.
lol then the fiure truck comes and dies omg
ahahahhahaha the only car that was able to navigate was the expensive car (BMW at the end) I guess more money really does get you a better item xD
Where was this? Atlanta? obviously a hill.. but wow.. that many insane inexperienced drivers all in one place… had to be somewhere that snow/ice is a rarity.
That first guy just had to be trying to total the car for the insurance.
Wow, is that guy seriously retarded? When did mentally handicapped people start getting licenses?
You’re right, only retarded people are capable of sliding on ice and snow.
No, only retarded people actually think they can safely drive in weather like this.
Eh-heh. If you’re stuck at work and need to get home for whatever reason, it’s amazing what kind of weather you’ll drive through. I live in Ohio, and a couple of winters ago, it dropped two feet of snow on us while we were working. It took about five hours just to get up the hill and onto the highway with all of the people, cars, and accidents.
Oh yea i remember that. It was either freeze in my store (everything was shut off) or drive home and have heat. It was scarier going up the ramps than down them lol
Yeah, Michigan usually sees at least one horrific snow storm like that per winter. This last winter, I happened to be driving 30 miles in it. Things like that make me glad I own a Jeep, even if it does get bad mileage.
Notice what’s actually happening in the video. This is just extremely bad weather (the car never achieves a high speed but still loses control…on a hill).
This is not extremely bad weather, this is extremely bad driving. =)
Why can’t it be a combo of both? I’ve driven in worse ice/snow conditions than this, and yes: when there’s ice, you slide. You just have to compensate by driving more slowly, not locking your brakes, and refraining from wildly spinning your steering wheel. I understand there’s a hill complicating things, but this just looks like panic and inexperience put together.
It can’t be both because it’s just a little snow and ice. This is really driver FAIL not weather FAIL.
I dunno, considering all of them have problems it might be too hard to drive in that weather whatever your experience. Of course, a sane person would have those chains that you put on wheels to increase your adherence to the ground. Especially if they live in a city with winters like that.
looks like is a fun snow day!!!
Insurance deductible win!
Remember, you are the only person that knows how to drive in the snow. No one else.
All-Season Tires FAIL.
SUV FAIL, too.
Nice
Figure skating WIN!
Needs music.
Seconded.
3rdeded.
4ted …not “farted”.
lol, Comment clarification WIN!
seconded.
Blue Danube Waltz, stat!
Excellent choice!
I’d have chosen Skaters Waltz, but that one’s good, too.
i prefer the happy birthday song…
Automatic gears, I suppose
))
bob sled WIN
Insurance companies fail!
Mad scientist’s frictionless road… Win!
Coolness Win!
sadly, the insurance companies always win. If it’s your fault, they raise your premium. If it’s someone else’s fault, the other guy’s insurer pays yours, and then raises his premium. If the other guy doesn’t have insurance, they sue him personally, if he’s got anything they take it, if he doesn’t, his wages will be garnished until they’re happy… If they get nothing, they raise everybody’s premiums. Insurance companies don’t like to lose.
lol, this is old
An oldy but a goody . . . and on days like today (hotter than h3ll) it makes me feel so happay to LOL.
That was probably the same day all the cars on our hill went down sideways.
Good times…..
lol I lived outside of Seattle at the time this video was taken. It was all over the local news. It had poured ass rain the day/evening before, and then stopped, and the temperature dropped and it froze into glare ice, then started to snow.
Sadly, Seattle natives can’t even drive in the rain…and don’t have the common sense to stay the hell home, much less to put studded snow tires or chains on their cars before leaving in that kind of weather.
Hey! I live near Seattle too you know, and………no, wait…..never mind, Bobby”s right. We can’t drive in the rain.
But…but doesn’t it rain ALL THE TIME up there??
*note to self…cancel plans to move to Seattle*
Heh. People in Los Angeles who were originally from Seattle or Portland are always bragging that THEY know how to drive in the rain, and it’s just those stupid Southern California natives who don’t know how to drive in even a light sprinkle who cause all the crashes. Mind you, one of the ones I knew from the Pacific Northwest who was talking trash managed to skid into a tree in a light sprinkle the next November. I guess it was a stupid Southern California tree that didn’t know how to avoid Portlanders in the rain.
Chains are illegal in Michigan. I suppose with the amount of lake effect snow we get they figure we should know how to drive in it without them. They don’t exactly help our epic pothole problem either.
Agree on the “standing in the middle of the road” comment. DUH!
The other big fail is the first driver – it sounds like he guns the engine after he hits the telephone pole in order to make the turn, instead of having the brains to go “Yay! I’m stopped!” and calling it a day.
agreed
Where in MI are you, if you don’t mind me asking?
What exactly is “ass rain”?
Whay do you think it is?
It’s what happens when you eat too much Taco Bell.
Chalupa win.
gastric system fail, mexican food WIN!
mmmmm… meat sweats!
But remember! PNW-ers are intrepid, rugged outdoors people who can handle anything! The REI salesman told them so!
“It had poured ass rain the day/evening before”
ass rain, huh? that must smell pretty bad.
I would like to see what happens with the fire truck…
Probably nothing at all, as its weight is a little bit more.
Judging by the fact it got there undented (as far as I can tell), it would probably resist sliding. On the other hand, the law of inertia means that once it gets sliding, it’d be harder to stop.
If that happens, I hope there’s a sequel showing its trip down the hill.
I agree!!! That looked like it was going to be the big climax of the video, but then the video stopped. Boo! More carnage!
Why did this person KEEP trying to drive!!!
Because, according to pinball:
Bumpers are worth 50 points
Posts are worth 100 points
and, if you hit 5 or more cars before the 30 second timer runs out, you get MULTIBALL!
Excellent! And if you can keep going until all the cars are hit you get an extra play.
Congratulations! You have won an internet!
I believe he gets multi ball! Lol
Because they have an SUV, and accountability for the cars you’ve wrecked is for the plebians.
Coming soon to a theatre near you — “The Fast and the Furious: Snow Drift”!
nice
A small part of me wants to see that.
That small part of me has also died.
Died laughing.
size doesn’t matter.
It’s like the energizer bunny. “…keeps going and going and going…”
if only the fire truck had also slid down there, that would have been funny, ultimate destruction derby then lol
you’d think that they would see that the 5 cars before them that tried to drive crashed, and would learn from their mistakes… but apparently everyone needs to try it, just to see if it really is icy
>crunch!<
Ayep, Bob, it sure is icy…..
ringringringringringringring… BANANAPHONE
Sorry, man, you must get that like all the time…
If at first you fail, fail and fail again…
Everyone thinks that, well, obviously those five drivers before them just don’t know how to drive in the snow, but THEY are good drivers who can handle any road condition. *cue impending car ballet* *glide side spin bump*
…and we wonder why aliens never want to make contact with us…
Because they are probably single-cell organisms and/or live thousands/millions/etc. light years away?
totally ruined the funny of that lol
Haha science win.
must be on a hill the way the cars keep sliding like that
really? i had no idea
Mother nature’s dominating.
Yeah, nature, everything not made by people, it are bads.
Must to destroy it alls!
And remember to Vote Republicen.
…or Democrat, it doesn’t much matter which.
See y’all in hell.
I just don’t understand why he kept trying to accelerate after hitting stuff.
Hit-and-run-driving…
No. “Hit-and-FUN-driving!”
I believe the acceleration was provided by gravity, not so much the engine.
incessant determination to get where he was trying to go WIN…
however…
actually arrival at anywhere remotely close to where that was FAIL.
There has to be some kind of story as to why none of these people have studded tires.
Community-wide cognitive functioning abilities Fail
That video was from the Seattle area – odds are that most of them did. Nature > your tires.
it’s called the pacific northwest. it snows here maybe twice a year and it just isn’t worthwhile to put on studded tires (which ruin the roads on the days which aren’t snowy–all 99.999% of them). i just don’t understand why we don’t just take it in stride and take the day off since it only happens two days a year.
Studded tires? I live in Iowa where is snows a whole hell of a lot and nobody has “studded tires” or chains.
Iowa with all the steep hills and twisty roads, right?
Ever been in eastern Iowa near the Mississippi River? Yes, Iowa with all the steep hills and twisty roads – it’s not all cornfield.
I used to live in Burlington, Iowa. What part are you from?
I bought a car in Colorado that had studded tires, they’re great. You may be able to do w/o them in eastern Iowa, but they (or chains) are actually required on many roads in the Rockies. I drove that car back to Boston, and I intended to take the studded tires off, but it slipped my mind. When I arrived in Boston, it was cold and icy. It was early morning, and I was rather groggy, so I didn’t notice how icy it was, when a cop pulled me over for “speeding”, I was only going 25 or so, and it was probably a 30 zone, but he cited road conditions as the reason why it was speeding. I gave him a blank look, like “what road conditions?”. He said, “Do you have any idea how slick this road is?” I opened my door and put my foot out, sure enough it was a sheet of ice. So I told him I hadn’t noticed, my studded tires hold the road quite well. “Well, those are illegal here.” In the end he left the tires off the ticket, but he got me for speeding, the cracked windshield, loud muffler… and a suspended license
They also plow, sand and salt in Iowa, something they don’t do in Portland.
I live in alaska, and everyone uses studded tires (“studs”) in the winter.
I remember this. There are still tire tracks in the ditch at the intersection of I-405/WA-167 where people tried to drive around the massive pileup caused by sliding cars…and then got stuck in the ditch.
I was raised in Alaska, so watching people failing to drive in the snow fills me with a very special kind of glee. Mmm…schadenfreude.
Schadenfreude = WIN.
Snowplow fail? ice on the road couse the plower failed att his job.
Not so much. This is in Portland OR. They don’t believe in snowplows there.
It’s Seattle, there’s probably only like 2 snow plows.
On another note, anyone else find the Tag cloud at right kind of a fail of it’s own?
Even if there were plows in the area, they couldn’t have helped much with such a thick layer of ice.
lol, real life car pinball!
Paris, Amy, and Lindsey drive home after another stint in rehab.
everyone knows when you start sliding, just slam down on the breaks and don’t let go at all costs. especially effective while sideways.
Advice and spelling: fail. Slamming the brakes while sliding will remove any chance of recovering from the slide, and instead almost assure you of having an accident. Instead, you should look and steer where you want to go, and lightly apply the gas/throttle (not floor it). This will stabilize the car and usually correct the slide.
Ice like this is nearly impossible to drive on. Snow tires make it slightly better, but still not great. Studs would make it much better, but they are illegal in most parts of North America.
The first driver was clearly trying to destroy everything in his or her path. No idea why though…
Psst! It was sarcasm. ;D
Sense of humor-FAIL
Oblivious to sarcasm-WIN
If you need to put that much thought into how to handle a skid, you’re already doomed. Better to have a $hitbox car, a wide open space, go crazy and figure out what works.
Advice and spelling: FAIL. Slamming the BRAKES will only ever erase almost all chances of recovering from the slide.
Good advice: when sliding, look and steer where you want to go, and lightly apply the throttle. This will stabilize the car and will usually steer it out of the slide.
getting of sarcasm fail.
awww… timely comment fail.
double posting fail
you’ve got me. i… i was wrong. i’m so sorry!
youve never had a car without abs have you?
my car has abs of steel
sorry, couldn’t resist
This always happens in seattle when it snows. Keep in mind that it only snows one or two days a year, so when it does people don’t understand how to deal with it and slide their cars down hills. The news keeps cameras pointed around any hilly streets anticipating this kind of thing.
That’s so thoughtful of them! LOL
At least you have a good excuse for it in Seattle. This happens just about ANYWHERE it snows (I live in PA), and it doesn’t matter how much or how often, people still think that the snow is only slippery for everyone else. Idiots.
I just can’t believe how stupid these people are. Of all of the fail vids and pics I have seen, this tops it for sheer stupidity causing damage.
Outstanding.
you have got to be kidding me. why would each of these people try to drive one after another as they are witnessing this?
The first guy is a definite win. There is no way anyone could be that stupid, thus I think he was trying to do most of the damage he did
zomg! I just re-watched this while listening to Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairies and nearly wet myself.
Holy crap, that’s hilarious. I’m off to try it myself.
Lol, I was humming that same tune through it. I normally hate the Nutcracker, but it just felt too fitting.
Being from Colorado, I know how to drive hills in snow. I remember when I was a teenager, my mom took me out on a snowy night to the high school parking lot to teach me how to “snow drive” or rather how to drift and do doughnuts on snow. Theory being if I could do such tricks on snow, I could logicly avoid doing them on accident in the street.
But yeah, never drive in Downtown Denver in the snow…it sucks. Traversing the incline of capitol hill from a red light at the bottom is as hair-raising as anything.
and don’t they have light rail tracks in the street in some places? those are fun when wet
Even the Batmobile struggled.
I would kill the driver if he hit my car xD
GTA Style, throw him out of car and beat him up
i have 2 points to make about this
1) i love pinball
2) don’t they have gritters in this country?
Why is nobody using chains on their tires! These are the reasons why they make those chains!
Why would you use chains on you tires? If you lived in a part of the country that would make chains or studs reasonable, then you know how to drive, and thus would not need studs or chains.
To drive them in deep snow. Barely covered streets are not made for chains. You use tires with a softer rubber mix. They will not keep you from sliding but give you more grip.
ah good to know.
They were all on their way to the chain and studded tire store.
Because they wanted to return them at the end of the season for a full refund.
No shit. I live in Eugene, OR and most people get chains for going skiing. The local tire centers have this deal where you can buy chains, but if you don’t use them you can return them for a full refund in the spring.
This compounds the hilarity, because when people finally break down and get the chains out, they can’t figure out how to put them on. Or they put them on the wrong wheels.
Oh, Oregon. You so crazy. Don’t ever change.
NOBODY buys snow chains anymore. living in the middle of nowhere fail.
Ahahahaha, I love the big bad tough SUVs that were gliding all over the road. Good ole American know-how
Sadly, part of that problem is that most jackasses who drive SUV’s without the actual neccessity for them, don’t pony up for actual 4-WD ,because they don’t actually need…(oh, never mind, you get it…)
even with 4WD, it helps you get going, it doesn’t help you stop!
I think it’s the ’4WD=Invincibility’ misconception…
OMG
it’s funny but… i can’t help but hoping that no one was hurt!!
Especially those idiots who stood in the middle of the road watching the cars come gliding by sideways.
…Because we won’t be able to see them fail again.
Keeping insurance rates low FAIL
Sometimes, it’s just better not to drive.
Seriously. After hitting the first car, just stop. You’re done. Game over. Just stop driving.
Stopping requires friction, which was in short supply.
On that ice-covered steep hill.
Driver of that first car better hope they don’t find him, that was like 10 hit and runs
Been there, done that, got away
playing Burnout Revenge in real life fail
Oh those wacky Americans, a little snow and they have to declare a state of emergency. *L* In Canada we have these crazy little things called snow tires.
and yet, people still can’t drive in the snow here.
america is not the only place that declares emergencies during a snow storm, i mean at least they didn’t call in the military…
Toronto doesn’t count.
Not that we don’t forget how to snow-drive every summer, but it’ll be a cold day in hell before Winnipeg would call in the troops for a few feet of snow
geez… americans and their cars…
very clever.. damn, every moron gets a driver`s license
nice job posting under two different names with your little “stupid americans” gimmick, probably should have waited a few minutes in between though. TIMESTAMP FAIL
hahahahaah. BURN WIN
Uh, fail – I am definitely not that alex guy. In fact this was the first post I ever made on failblog. I may not be YOUR mother, but I really am somebody’s mother, I swear. *L*
bullshit excuse fail.
honestly, why would you even comment if you were legit? if somebody accused me of using two user names and I wasn’t, I wouldn’t respond on a message addressed to the one I “wasn’t” in a completely understanding manner. kthxbai.
Sweep! Sweep! Hurry hard!!!
Real life Burnout Revenge crash mode WIN!
Crashbreaker!
Press B repeatedly!
I don’t think chains are legal in all states, but i’m not sure. You can’t get studded or snow tires for some cars. I can only get all weather tires for my car.
They aren’t legal in Michigan, so you are correct.
FAIL. Tire chains are indeed legal in Michigan.
http://www.michigan.gov/msp/0,1607,7-123-1586_27094-73839–,00.html#equipment
I’ve seen people use chains in Michigan, but I don’t know if they were doing it legally or not.
If it was that icy, I don’t think the cops would have minded. You could have run from the cop car and watched in satisfaction as his unchained tires led him into a telephone pole at 10 miles an hour.
Hahahahahah! Love it! This is the ultimate in real life bumper cars. I dare you to deny wishing you could have been there to participate. H3ll, I would have gone to the bottom just to drive up and do it all over again. Forget the damage to the cars, Good Times WIN! It’s like a really big slip and slide for your car!
I would have totally dominated that situation.
I know, big boy
Son, I know you would have!
talking to self = purple people WIN
sigh…That was a quote from EVERY SINGLE DRIVER who left his garage that day.
Dang Nabit! I failed at posting a comment! (and at swearing apparently) This is one of the coolest videos I have ever seen! Total Driver WIN! You are all complaining about the stupidity of the people driving, but i bet given half a chance you would have gladly been one of the drivers. H3ll, I would have ridden to the bottom just so I could go back up and do it all over again. It’s like a Slip and Slide for your car!
Living in N.California, watching this is like watching a very odd but very fascinating tribal ritual.
haha California weather WIN
bumper car WIN
I would hate to be a padestrain out there.
I would hate to be a padestrain, period. Sounds contagious.
Sounds illegal. Don’t you think, padeobear?
i’d rather not be a padeobear either. it sounds german.
Oh man, I remember that storm, Seattle doesn’t normally get snow like that
In Soviet Russia, snow drives YOU!
and apparently everywhere else as well…
I’d bet dollars to donuts that first driver was a woman! No offense to women who can actually drive. All 5 of you.
DIAF JERK!
wow. yer goin’ to hell for that one, biatch.
Oh yes, and then I shall retort by pointing out that fact that I, unlike you, are getting the chicks.
Oh, I’m in fact not a lesbian. And I am also a very good driver. I was just making a statement about generalizations. Get your facts right before you spew anymore shit from your mouth. Kthnx.
Are you all the same person, or do all lesbians stick up for each other? You sound like Rain Man. “I’m a very good driver.” Get my facts right. Too funny. ALL the best drivers are men. FACT. The five best female drivers of all time 1) Janet Gutherie, 2) Shirley Muldowney, 3) Danica Patrick, 4) Female Driver #3, and 5) Sassyfailsinstyle. That sound about right? (I had a really hard time coming up with five)
Do all homophobic idiots make stupid comments?
Oh wait. They do.
Cheers, pumpkin.
Who’s homophobic??? I have no problem with pu$$y lickers. If it makes them happy, have at it. Cheers, (insert favorite vegetable here).
that has to be why woman pay lower insurance rates based on accident statistics and driving records.
if you’re going to try to pick fights at least make it a 70 year old asian female driver, you’ll get a larger insult to response ration.
lol. thanks for the tip.
Considering men pay a high insurance rate and cops pull them over more often, I don’t see women as the “worst” drivers there, woodstack.
Wow, it just kept going and going. That WAS pretty epic. O_O
acceleration while on low traction surface=fail. It’s hilarious how the most populated place in oregon is the place where no one knows how to drive in cold weather.
Don’t worry, none taken.
THAT WAS AWESOME. You have redeemed yourself failblog
that whole town is apparently retarded. Just take a snow day!!! Quit trying to drive when you can clearly see it doesn’t work!
‘I have 3 little children in my car. Can you help me get them out?’ (35 seconds) WTF are you doing going out in the first place in conditions like this, especially with kids? What is that important?
I thought the exact same thing. Nothing is that important. Parenting fail. And I love how panicked she sounds–yeah, now’s a fine time to reflect on what a bad idea that was.
Ahahah!! This is so awesome
It wouldn’t be a bad idea to just keep these cars in the condition they’re in for the next time some idiots need to go for a slide. Keep your “good” car in the garage or find a nice gated parking lot for the winter….
You gotta admit that if it weren’t for the bumper car factor, it’d be a hell of a lot of fun.
woods is right. definitely a woman, probably asian. all except that part early on when the car goes straight sideways like the gadgetmobile … they booted the woman to film that, since only a man possesses that kind of wheel skill
After laughing out loud at the first one, it soon became sad as people just kept trying… Really, what makes a person think that their minivan or suv is so much better at handling to attempt driving in conditions like that.
But that first one was hilarious. I thought the vehicle was stolen at first.
Wow. You’d think people would realize they shouldn’t attempt to drive if the roads are that bad… Guess the world is full of more idiots than I realized… Though, it is funny as hell to watch these morons. ^^;
THIS FAIL IS EPIC!! I WILL LAUGH AT IT, IN HELL!!
WilliamCA
Geez, how many people need to comment “LOL get chains LOL”? FAIL for failing to recognize the obvious fact that it makes no sense to have chains on your tires in climates where it almost never snows? Next, are you going to LOL at Nigerians for not owning a sturdy enough winter coat?
With that having been said, trying to drive in those conditions = huge fail.
this is simply a ballet of fail
a faillet?
Haha, fools! Its like the dumb people we have in the northeast. you’ve lived here all your life, it snows like crazy every year, but yet every storm YOU DRIVE LIKE YOU’VE NEVER SEEN THIS WHITE SHIT FALLING FROM THE SKY!
I can’t help but think I could pull off the sweetest moonwalk ever on those streets…
LOL…Everybody should be required to pass their drivers test in MI/WI/MN SOMEWHERE…during winter conditions. Then they would #1. Know how to drive in the snow and ice. #2. Know when to stay the h3ll home!!! Nothing teaches winter driving like doughnuts in a parking lot! (I love the sideways slide!)
Whether or not this particular video was filmed in Portland, this also happened in Seattle. I watched it happen from my office building (73rd floor of the Columbia Tower, between 4th and 5th Avenues and Columbia and Cherry. Cars were sliding down Madison and James from the top of Capital Hill (from Boren or 9th) all the way down to 1st Avenue, which is close to the waterfront.
I had driven to work the night before (I was working overnights), and ended up stranded in the office building for 3 days. It was either stay at the office or slide down the hill like the rest of the fools.
I believe it was in 2002.
What they fail to mention in the video is, Seattle drivers are like this even when it isn’t snowing.
This is why I have snow tires. Mind you, when I drove to work during the worst blizzard in 5 yrs, I didn’t have them…
Ya know, I understand losing control on ice, but what’s with that first driver that could not lay off the gas? Yes, making your tires go faster while skidding will help… yeah.. and I got a bridge to sell ya, too.
My dad didn’t get that concept either when I was 9 and our up-hill-going-out driveway was iced over. “No dad, don’t use first and mash the pedal! You lose all grip! Put it in second and ease on the gas. Sudden movements make you slip!” He didn’t listen. He just put the Volvo back in the garage and we took our Suburban in 4Lo. Which reminds me: One summer in Maine, while at a town dock at the end of a winding dirt road, a woman was stuck from parking on the side of the road in her Suburban. Her tires kept sliding and digging themselves deeper. Assuming that she had already put it in 4lo, I told her to try using the brakes to balance power and try using a floor mat for extra traction. Someone else came up and pressed the 4lo button and drove it right out of the ditch like it was nothing. The woman had no idea that her Suburban had 4 wheel drive despite the large, clearly marked buttons on the dash board by the steering wheel. FAIL to know your own car.
interesting story fail
constructive comment fail
if you don’t think it’s interesting, don’t respond. simple.
hockey with cars. woo.
Car Drifting FTW!!!!
bumper cars. you’re doing it right.
Grand Theft Auto : The Movie.
Global Warming Fail
Understanding Global Warming Fail
getting the joke fail.
he doesn’t mean a fail due to global warming, he means global warming failed to make it warmer. duh
Continually understanding Global Warming fail.
continuing to be oblivious win
Understanding scientific method fail. (Perhaps a reading of Karl Popper would help.)
Why do I feel a sudden urge to go to the nearest arcade and play pinball?
If you listen, you can clearly hear driver #1 accelerating DOWN THE HILL after hitting the parked cars. After hitting the pole, he acclerates again.
DOWN THE HILL???
Yes, DOWN THE HILL.
It happened in the Seattle area, King 5 is a news station in Seattle. I used to live there.
Nope, this happened in Portland (it was rebroadcast in Seattle) on January 16th, 2007. It was at the corner of SW Salmon and 20th. Check the google map at street view and compare to the video if you don’t believe me.
http://tinyurl.com/5eklde
Help!!
priceless xD
To correct an earlier post: Disproof of Global Warming WIN
“F-it, I’ll just walk home.”
Correct version :
“F-it, I’ll just SLIDE home.”
Pinball!
this is a massive failure, i remember something like this happening in montreal.
Was there alcohol involved here, or is everyone in this town just stupid?
If one guy failed to control his car down an icy road, why didn’t he just stop before he crashed into every car and pole within a 200 foot radius?
And then why did everyone else think they could do such a much better job of negotiating the same icy road?
Failtown.
snow chains any one? on sale at wal-mart
I was half-expecting the fire engine to start sliding too.
this is sick !
Impromptu Demolition Derby WIN
New Winter Olympic sport: Car Curling.
Lmfa0o0o. omg i wonder what it was like for that driver. hahah :S
Snow Tire Fail.
just stop driving…walk home
thats what it’d be like if it ever snowed heavily in east texas
This one needs to be titled (for the first car, anyway):
“Gunning your engine when your car is already out of control FAIL”
I hate to laugh at this since I know it’s totally scary and some serious damage was done, but man… I’ve never seen cars slide around like that before… it never snows where I live.
I want to kick every person whos driving a car in that video in the face!
There is snow in the ground half of the year where i live and i havent ever seen driving like that… But maybe something like that will happen if you are not used to it… (snow i mean…) Hillarious anyway
Wow, I guess living in canada, you stop on a dime with zero friction!
I’m suprised this took so long to be posted. This is from a Seattle storm two or three years ago. Yes, quite funny, and I really hope that person had insurance.
Either way it is a Fail that is quite fun.
lawls. Seattle drivers ftl.
Parallel parking fail!
I saw a clip of this on Mythbusters too
first, next is gay!
These guys are idiots! Why didn’t they learn from the first guy who just span around like a twat? Once the guy stopped I would grab him out of the car.
This would never happen in Vancouver, it only rains here, everyday, forever.
vancouver, wa or vancouver canada? i grew up in vancouver, wa. and it does rain everyday forever.
If you thought people who are regularly exposed to these driving conditions are better at this, you are wrong. Similar stuff going on in Russia:
Learn how to WALK
Holy Crap, is that person drunk??
Probably. They’re Russian.
oh come on.. we call those road conditions Tuesday where I’m from.
How is that possible? Are those people using studded snowtires? Don’t think so.. Here in Finland we have to drive in those kind of conditions (and even worse) about 5 months during winter and I’ve never seen any one speeding after hitting something. Why they speed up? Shouldn’t they be braking? Looks pretty stupid.. After getting our driverlicenses we have to pass a driving test which is done on a slippery track (polished stone and water or some other lubricating method). We drive with different speeds up to 50mph to a turn and then try to control the car. One must pass this test to get a permanent driving license.
it’s already been pointed out several times, but in this region of the US, it might snow once or twice in a year.
Why don’t they have chains on their tires??? Your not in the far est of Russia anymore… Won’t happen in France ^^
I hope it was bad drivers… If no one tells you to drive really slow and with chains, then the driving licence is “learn how to read signs”… Bad point.
EPIC incoherent drivel WIN!
I could learn how to speak a coherant english once in my life (sorry I’m french… Did you guess?)!
oh, don’t mind me. it’s what i do.
The woman with three kids in the car driving down an icy road is an idiot.
Parenting fail.
This is precisely why we shut down the city and stay inside whenever there is even the chance of show here in Atlanta.
Notice how a german made car actually made the turn. Jap and American crap crashed, go figure.
Right. The make of the car is responsible for the lack of accidents.
You: fail.
Thats why I live in florida!!!
You should learn how to drive, or not drive at all.
anyone else see a pinball machine while watching this?
HAHAHA i never thought this would get here. I live in portland and this is right next to the Multnomah athletic club. AND THAT’S MY NEIGHBOR
It appears in the first 7 seconds of this video that there is gunfire traded between the two cars … Does no one else see this?
no there isn’t any gunfire, people would be running more. It is just the car hitting the first cars.
That’s what I thought initially (someone else pointed it out to me). If you watch, the first car hits the second and spins off and there’s a bunch of sparks. But then, there’s some sort of flash of light in the passenger-side windshield and out the passenger-side window, and a sound when the light goes off. It happens right before the car disappears for a split second underneath the railing.
I’ve been watching it again and again and I still see it.
I mean, that would make more sense as to why that guy is driving like a freaking maniac down an icy road.
That would be the air bag? They use explosive force to deploy.
The hilarious part of all this is that a literal hit and run would be much more effective.
All you need now is someone to sweep all the crap out of the way in front of the cars and it’d be curling.
Only cooler.
HEY BUDDY! I think the OTHER pedal is the brake!
This is kind of like what happens when it rains in California.
DO A BARREL ROLL!
take your foot off the gas retard
I remember that. We were sitting at home watching the news (it was snowing in Puyallup) and the roads everywhere were slick with ice. My dad was off from work, there wasn’t any school, and we couldn’t go outside because we kept falling on our butts.
All I can say is:
Cars + Ice + Idiots = Curling with cars
Newsflash: Latest sport added to Winter Olympics, Car-curling!
Lets just hope the insurance company people doesn’t saw this video eh.
… that is the most epic video of what happens when stupid people decide to drive in terrible weather.
i couldn’t stop laughing!
Oh man, I really hope that no one was hurt! They shouldn’t have been driving to begin with!
This is most likely in Seattle (KING 5 is one of their news stations)…nobody knows how to drive in the snow over here. Even if we just get an inch of snow, everyone panics and the city pretty much just shuts down. Talk about failure =P
Hahaaaaa….retards.
I’ve never had this issue before, and I live in New England where we get f*cking 30 feet of snow a year. All these people should just stay the hell of the roads. DON’T BREAK IN THE SNOW. DON’T BREAK ON A FU*KING HILL IN THE SNOW. GET THE HELL OF THE GODDAMN ROADS IF YOU DON’T KNOW HOW TO GODDAMN DRIVE.
People like that deserve to be in accidents. At least there will be less drivers with shitty driving ability out there.
Censorsh*p fa*l
This must have taken place somewhere where snow rarely happens….otherwise there’s just no excuse.
…..Except “Fun”.
CAR CURLING!!!
For anyone wondering, King 5 is a Seattle news station (just Google it!). I remember watching this live a few years ago. I think it was on Queen Ann Hill, but Seattle has MANY hills down by the water. Trust me, the snow turns to ice here after one car has driven on the roads.. We generally shut everything down just because of 1 inch, lol.
Actually, this happened in Portland (it was rebroadcast in Seattle), but you are correct, it was a couple years ago. January 16th, 2007, to be exact. And it was at the corner of SW Salmon and 20th. Check the google map at street view and compare to the video if you don’t believe me.
http://tinyurl.com/5eklde
Idiot Seattle drivers. That is pathetic.
This is why snow tires are mandatory where I live.
chains???
“Heads up!” hahaha!
man,those guys sure know how to play bumper cars in their backyard
Regardless of whether there is ice under there or not, that first guy is retarded.
It took me a while to get to DRIFT KING, but these people will never get it
It’s like a slow motion-slippery-ballet of fail
And it cracks me up.
Wow. Looks like where I live…
Lol its like some sort of computer game… XD
You gotta love snow driving in Seattle… That shit happens every damn time the ground is white. You’d think people would know better than to be tryin to drinve when it’s like that by now!
Stupid Americans, do never lock the brakes whem it’s slippery. And if you tell me that it would not make any differens. You are an idiot and should never drive a car again!
Woo… bumper cars… this happens every time it snows here. people are stupid drivers… you just have to drive slower and brake earlier.
I lol’d at the women… EEH HAEV FREE KIDS and at the end eehehehehe
hahah this is one of my favorite fail videos!!! lol the first car just kept on going and hitting things. So funny.
This video makes me want to play a game of pool!
Ice Raod Trucker try-outs FAIL
Can anyone tell me how the hell a fire truck is supposed to help on iced roads?
That was the best fail video ever lol
geez, learn how to drive!
You mean: “Learn how to stop being a retard and/or a jew and buy snow-tires and save thousands!”
Sorry, sir, but your right head light is out.
And the car-repair shops became millionaires the following day.
Haven’t you people ever heard of SNOW TIRES??
Who ever was in the first car was a complete dumb ass.
lol
you know what’s great this was in Seattle WA……you would think snow tires would be yes
I laughed my ass off wathing this!
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