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Jesus, that overhang just crumples…
man so does that truck :-/
no chance that guy made it
that was my thought too.. if they did come out of it they would be in pretty bad shape!
Darwin Award WIN!!!
He lived, actually, according to a news story I read. Dived to the other side of the car before the thing came down on him and wasn’t too badly hurt.
I believe the word is dove. Spelling fail.
I believe the word is FAIL. Both dived and dove are correct and in fact dove is the rarer of the two
You can see the driver in the front seat as the roof comes down.
He didn’t dive to the back. The truck was flattened. The guy would
have surely died. Apparently news stations said he survived unhurt,
but I don’t see how it’s possible
The driver is actually a female and, is many times, told to have survived. The driver of the truck died from the overhang collapsing on her and her truck.
The news stations are lying, a lot do that to make it seem like there is some sort of ‘miraculous’ act.
I’ve seen other pictures surrounding the story, and they show her dead body between the truck and overhanging roof; along with pictures of the part of the building that fell on her and her truck.
There are many versions of this story, but one face is true. It’s actually a bank, not a gas station. You can see the tube that sends the stuff inside.
And yes, I know I put face instead of fact. It was an accident…
Actually, it would be a grammar fail. He spelled “dived” correctly.
Also, “dived” is not the wrong word.
He didn’t misspell anything. Correction fail.
suck one
but the baby in the backseat got owned.
the word is he survived. so darwin award FAIL.
When I first saw this on the news I thought no chance he survived, but word is not only did driver make it, but he had his kid with him and they’re both fine.
umm this happend near my house that guy did live i didnt hear about a
kid tho
jalopnik dot com /398384/dodge-ram-pulls-down-bank-awning-free-checking-privileges-revoked
There’s an article and other pictures. You can see how lucky he was.
Thanks for posting that, Joe. I feel a lot less hell-in-a-handbasket for laughing now.
Umm… correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t the darwin award given to men who lose their… manliness? Biologically speakin, of course.
A Darwin award is given to a human being when they successfully remove them selves from the gene pool in the most idiotic way possible in which said being lacked the common sense to avoid it. The result is usually death, but a result in which said being can not reproduce is also acceptable. While this mostly applies to men women are not excluded from the possibility. A honorable mention is when said being can still pass their genes, but was so close to the prevention of.
Anyone who prevents permanently, either by death or sterilization, the perpetuation of their particular genetic material is eligible for a Darwin Award. If you have reproduced, and your offspring survives, you are ineligible. I contend that this fellow deserves an honorable mention for almost eliminating himself AND his progeny in the same instant,
Doesn’t it occur to anyone that if the overhang actually fell on the truck, it would not have collapsed so thoroughly? The only reason it dropped so quickly and completely to the ground was because it only just caught the door of the truck.
He’d most likely get a Darwin Award Honourable Mention, so semi-fail. Frankly, I’d rather live though.
The guy already procreated so why the hell would he even got honorable mention?
Speaking of the “gotting” of honorable mention, here’s your grammar fail award.
He’s get a good point though, the father had procreated. For him to got the Darwin Award, they’d both have to die.
“penis”
Yes, yes, that’s hilarious. “penis”. Oh man. Haven’t heard that one before!!!
MATURITY FAIL!
exactly why he would get the honorable mention because had he died so would his kid
hello
you don’t get an award if you kill someone innocent as well
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C. Dave
C. Dave Spam
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C. Me Be The Exception To My Last Statement.
But if it was his offspring, he would have removed even more of his genes from the gene pool.
He (has) GET a good point –> He HAS a good point/He DOES HAVE a god point —X He HAS GOT a good point
For him to GOT the… –> For him to GET the… / For him TO HAVE GOTTEN te…
GET = present
DOES HAVE = affirmative <–best solution
HAS GOT = before past/improper
To GET = infinitive
GOT = past
TO HAVE GOTTEN = past infinitive <– best solution
A+.
A+ revoked for a god point.
How do you get before the present?
How do you get before the past?
Pedant win!
America’s get grammar talent! Your the best!
I lol’d.
Good point, that.
Because he nearly killed his progeny too.
He could still get an honorable mention.
that was said already. read before you post
Its Amazing that He lived, It looked really close to something you’d see
on Faces of Death.
American engineering Fail (awning). American intelligence Fail (driver).
American trailer design Fail (too big to be practical).
American car design Fail (truck roof did not support awning).
Played out, blaming stupidity only on americans fail.
I agree with Jimmy, most American’s are stupid, and considering I was born in Germany, though unfortunately the Germans want to be more like America.. I don’t really see why, Germany would be so much better without it, it’s rather annoying having things there that shouldn’t be. Though I don’t like to be in Germany due to not being able to speak German hehe.. -.-
…and you think most Americans…sorry “American’s”…are stupid?
I was born and live in America. I get to witness the general stupidity firsthand.
Well, the German people was involved in the beggining of the two wold wars. This caused de death of millons of humans, i don’t considerate this like an act of great intelligence.
Sorry for my bad english.
But bombing Hiroshima and Nagasaki? That was sheer brilliance, because no one died. Oh wait.
You’re so completely right. Wars in general are casualty-free affairs.
Oh wait.
I’m not defending Americans (in fact I’m from Argentina, a country that denotes a lack of total inteligence from this fundation)
History Fail. Germany didn’t get involved in The Great War (aka WWI) until England and France declared war on Austria for declaring war on Serbia. The military pact Germany had with Austria brought them into the war otherwise they would have stayed out of Austria’s conflict. The Great War was Austria and Serbia’s conflict that boiled over into France and Germany and dragging Italy, Russia, England and the United States into it, yet Germany pays the price for Austria and Serbia’s stupidity. *shakes head* They started it, they should have paid for it, not Germany. Might have avoided the second world war then.
The reason the Great War was so bloody was because of the trench, machine gun and mustard gas.
Now The Second Great War (aka WWII) was started by Germany for invading Poland in which England and France declare war over who in turn get their arses kicked until Germany stupidly invades Russia and Japan attacks the United States thus bringing two major countries into the war. Germany gets the medal for killing the most people in a single war but the United States gets the medal for killing the most people with a single bomb. Which is worse depends on you.
What I find funny is the people who are defending us saying ‘americans aren’t stupid’ are the same ones who go around thinking everyone around them is a bunch of idiots.
I totally agree though, Americans, on average, are morons.
I am an American and I approve this message.
Godwin
This is what is called an incompatibility failure. The truck was never designed to support part of a building, nor should there be any reasonable expectation for it to do so. The same for the canopy experiencing a massive lateral load; it is designed to support a vertical load. Therefore, Jimmy’s understanding Engineering=Fail.
Also, a word of advice: Gratuitous America-bashing, while sometimes justifiable, is getting really lame.
WIN – no reason to read beyond this point.
WIN. Gratuitous bashing against any country is automatic LAME.
I don’t think American trucks are originally designed in order to support the weight of a bank. Or any truck for that matter.
American Engineering… The U.S. invented the internet so you can post stupid posts like that (WIN)
American Intelligence (driver, Texas? Probably an illegal mexican) Either way the U.S. made it to the moon first, invented the internet, the atomic bomb, and a bunch of other stuff… (intelligence) WIN
American traler design… I’ve really got nothing…. but only the U.S. would build a trailer that big… BECAUSE THEY CAN!!!!! (WIN)
American car design (truck) Again.. only the U.S. would design a truck that big ….. (WIN)
Jimmy…. too ashamed of the country he’s from to admit it (FAIL)
BURN.
American dollar going down faster then Monica Lewinsky. For everyone who wants to go to Disneyland Win
don’t forget the manufacturing industry in the US.
… and the average intellegence of the average American would have WHAT to do with the falling dollar, exactly?
Well, yes, all these things were invented by typical Americans such as
Tim Bernes-Lee (www, British), Oppenheimer (atomic bomb, of German origin) and
Wernher von Braun (German, moon rocket)…
you forgot about the Car (Carl Benz, German) and the
TV (Paul Nipkow, German) and the Telefone (Aplle – oh wait that was
Alexander Graham Bell, Scottish). So basicly all great inventions
are made by americans
The magic of America is that our country is built on immigrants. Anyone and everyone can call our shores their home. So when they do something amazing it is easy to say “They were born German” but the fact is, the unique social and free structure that IS America coupled with their free spirit and ingenuity allowed them to do those amazing things.
If Germany was great, those amazing people wouldn’t have left your land to pursue their dreams here, the only place that embraces that kind of thinking and nurtures it instead of persecuting it.
Bash on America all you want, we have our problems, but so does everyone else. If you were as worried about how well your country was doing as you are about ours, maybe I would be coming on here posting about all your “failed” accomplishments and how they “magically don’t count”.
Bugger off.
True except Native Americans are probably the only people who can call themselves non-immigrant.
You mean the ones who researchers theorize originated in eastern asia, and traveled across a land bridge that existed at the time?
in that case we are all afican since the oldest fossil was found in africa. ps i hope no one takes offence to this
*offenSe
Offence is also correct. Brittish spelling.
The thing is that inventions are made by inventors, not countries. Even if all this stuff came from the USA, I wouldn’t thank *you* for it, I would thank the inventor.
Because America is the only country on earth that people can achieve their dreams. You can go else where for dreams like a good country
Too bad America is one of the few places where people can achieve their dreams of unlimited corporate backing for research, marketing and distribution of said inventions. There’s a reason why people who want to design and sell a completely new product do it *here* first. Fact of the matter is, the United States has exactly the market for shiny gadgets and experimental procedures that inventors worldwide piddle in their pants over.
Disposable income +
Corporate backing +
Unlimited marketing/advertising potential =
Inventor orgy WIN!
On second thought, most inventors are probably overweight and pasty. No orgy for them…
well indians invented the positional number system. so, yeah, india pawns all.
Especially since chess was also created in India. India pawns all.
LOL
The queens they use wouldn’t excite you.
Musical reference WIN!
Only a true American could post such an ignorant and egoistic comment.
Egotistical?
HE IS. But stereotyping is ignorance as well.
wow….congratulations you have failed yourself. in your efforts to show everyone how awesome we americans are you have fulfilled the stereotype of the arrogant american. yes i love my country too. but assuming it’s an illegal mexican? really?
also just because you can build something huge doesn’t mean you should. I live in texas and I see this bullcrap all the time. your dually doesn’t impress people.
Driver was not an illegal Mexican. No stereotype found in video.
Stereotyping FAIL
American intelligence may be good, but our overall average intelligence is pretty poor; more to the point, most of us Americans lack common sense. I mean, what else are we going to do when we come to a roundabout, turn left and go AGAINST the flow of traffic?
Oh, wait. That is what many Americans do.
Plus, new travel trailer, guy probably isn’t used to towing it, otherwise he wouldn’t have even tried turning into the parking lot.
Living in Texas myself, I can declare with total confidence that Texans just drive with their heads in the clouds, as opposed to where I used to live in New Jersey, where everyone drives with their ego(penis) at the wheel.
American components!!..
Russian Components!!…
ALL MADE IN TAIWAN!!!
Also note, that only half the trailer impacted the awning, AND he was going a speed that indicated he wasn’t trying to stop, but to just cruise on by. So chances are, he wasn’t trying to go UNDER the awning, he was trying to go AROUND. So yeah, he may be a bad driver, but he’s not a complete idiot (I think the official ratio is he is somewhere around 67% idiot.)
how many foreign cars can support a piece of a building falling on them? and how did the american engineer that built the awning fail?
Something about it collapsing springs to mind…
It was hit by a damn truck and trailer! it wasn’t going fast, but its a friggin awning.
Did you see the way it just broke off the supports? It should be MUCH more secure than that. If you keep an eye on right screen, it looks like it was almost just glued together.
Uh.. Burn? LOL
precisely, what the hell kind of car is made to withstand a buildings collapsing on it?
PS: and altho somewhat confusing and possibly out of place, the Blitzkrieg’d comment made me laugh.
what kind of truck can stand a building falling on it? a toyota hilux actually (youtube search for BBC top gear toyota pick up destruction testing or simliar lol) They hit it with a wrecking ball, they dropped a craravan on it, they drove it through an outhouse, they left it in the Bristol Channel as the tide came in and drowned it and it STILL started, then they put it on the top of a tower block which was then blown up using explosives and came tumbling to earth in a cloud of cement and bricks, and it was STILL ALIVE!
toyota = WIN
Thinking that car’s roof can support a falling awning FAIL
“At approximately 3 PM, Tuesday, July 2, a 2008 Dodge Ram 2500, pulling a new travel trailer, hit the corner of the Texas State Bank Drive-In on Tenaha Street, causing the complete awning to come to the ground. Luckily, the driver of the Dodge, Mickey Miller, of Garrison and his 10 year old son were able to exit their vehicle uninjured.
According to Miller he was circling the bank to park on the other side when the corner of his travel trailer caught the corner of the bank awning. Next thing he heard was a rumble as the awning started falling against his driver’s side door. Somehow he was able to unbuckle the seat beat and exit the other side of his truck as it was falling.
Mark Ivy of Texas State Bank stated that the main lobby would be open for business while the drive-in is being repaired.”
Well there you go. It was in Texas. That answers all of my questions.
Yeah, that was my thinking, too. LOL
“Somehow he was able to unbuckle the seat [belt] and exit…”
Wait. They wear seat belts in Texas?
Yes, moron, people wear seatbelts in Texas. Your sarcasm sucks.
And their seatbelts have REALLY huge buckles. Sheesh, doesn’t everyone know that?
Comedy WIN!
In Soviet Russia, Huge buckles wear YOU
Repair? Ha! It’s more like rebuild!
Insurance….oh, that’s gotta kill him!
Did anyone else notice how he claims to have “caught” the corner of the awning with the corner of the truck, but in the security video you can clearly see the truck on the inside of the support beam.
Insurance fraud fail.
I like the sound of “Insurance Fraud Fail”. Perhaps this is a bigger Fail than previously imagined.
uhh, yea, take a closer look next time before you announce an insurance fraud fail. the support beams are in the center of the awning which makes your wrong. fail!
Grammar fail.
his grammar is flawless, what are your talking about?
His grammar isn’t flawless. I think Mich meant a spelling fail, which means his comment is a grammar fail fail. Work that one out.
Ha ha ha ha, the little guy doesn’t get it…
Uh, yeah…I’m having trouble understanding what your point has to do with mine. My point, to be more specific, was that seven seconds into the video clip, you see the support beam nearest to the truck falls. Now, the fact that the front of the truck doesn’t plow right through the beam, and the fact that you can’t see the beam on the (American) driver side of the truck prior to the beam falling, led me to the concusion that the driver of the truck really did attempt to drive under the awning, and it wasn’t as unavoidable an accident as he claimed.
But you know, I could be wrong.
Grammar fail goes to me!
Wow, is it bad that I really thought I proofread that?
sweetheart, s’ok, you’ve just had a little concussion
Awning fell on my head! Don’t worry, I lived.
Actually, it’s just the smudgy piece of crap iPhone’s inability to perform the smallest task.
Katiee, I have to disagree here. If by “support beam” you mean the concret columns (you can see one at the far left of the screen, and the other one crashing down on the right side), it’s clearly closer to the camera than the truck, meaning the beams are further inside than the truck. Also, if you watch at the top of the awning, you can see the corner of it hitting a small portion, less than half the width, of the trailer.
BTW, the comments box issue isn’t just with the iPhone. I’m using Firefox 4 and cannot see the last several columns of the box.
Safari as well.
Flat isn’t too bad of a shape…
Actually, he did make it. He slid over to the passenger side. I can’t remember where I saw the pic, but that driver’s side was crazy mangled.
apparently he did…
jesus that looks absolutely horrible
of course he made it. i’m confident that he would have made it even if he stayed in the driver’s seat. look closely where the awning lands–it only clips the driver’s door. so at worst, it may have had his arm grazed.
Back from the dead, fepic?
Nah, he’s just a zombie.
BRAINS!!! damn, now i wanna play the zombie mod in counter-strike: source
Don’t forget your yarmulke.
Did you hear about the new World of World of Warcraft?
There’s a story on it here:
theonion.com/content/video/warcraft_sequel_lets_gamers_play
Did you hear about the concept of a girlfriend?
no U no sex —
total irony detection fail
You are looking in the wrong place if you want brains…
he could have lost his whole arm, even his shoulder and half his torso. He would have died if he didn’t move. lucky him, truly lucky!
right. I am a hundred percent sure that person did not live.
He servived. Vid is old. Been on news actually. Dunno why.
Furthermore; ANUSBLEACH
Confidence FAIL
dumbass ftw!!! o wait
you say that that with quite a lot of conviction, confidence and… idiocy. he SHOULD have died but he didn’t, that’s a fact.
Did anyone actually notice the little text below the video?
“Note: Driver lives”
Yeah, I was thinking that… “Reading Fail.”
Read the note under the video, captain fail.
it said below the video
“note:driver lives”
it sez, “note: driver lives”
lucky duck!
Um… what does crumples mean?
“Crumple”
–verb (used with object)
1. to press or crush into irregular folds or into a compact mass; bend out of shape; rumple; wrinkle.
2. to cause to collapse or give way suddenly: That right hook to the midsection crumpled him.
–verb (used without object)
3. to contract into wrinkles; shrink; shrivel.
4. to give way suddenly; collapse: The awning crumpled after Wonder-douche drove his oversized Failor into it.
–noun
5. an irregular fold or wrinkle produced by crumpling.
It’s a dance style.
That overhang was doing it right.
They’re small cakes that the British eat with their afternoon “spot o tea.”
So more like: “Overhang-Construction Fail?”
why would u be pulling into a hotel when u have a camper?… random thought of the day
first to fail!
yeah, he’s probably dead. there’ll be hell to pay on failblog for this one.
This was on our UK morning programme (GMTV) a few weeks back and the guy is fine, it squished the passenger side and not him so its alright. Thank goodness. It did crumble easy though, eh? Sheesh. Makes you think.
You meant the drivers side of the car.
fail! dude above is British….They have steering wheels on the other side of the car depending on make and model.
No, British dude or dudette is looking at video of an American truck and thinking that the left side is the passenger side, like in Britain. So the fail is on the part of the Brit, for forgetting that Americans drive on the other side.
Apparently in the Windies they have a steering wheel on the same side as the side on which they drive (i.e. right-hand drive with right-side steering wheel), that’s gotta create a few failnarios if it’s true.
^ How to tell if someone has never been outside of the U.S. – example #23.
^ How to tell if someone is probably Canadian, eh? – example # 3,430
burn fail.
I’m American. Though I’ve traveled a bit (Mexico, Jamaica, Switzerland, France, Germany, Holland, Russia) I’ve never stepped foot on Canadian soil.
The individual I was responding to lacks the empathy of a well traveled person.
no sense.
How does it lack the empathy of a well-travelled person to point out the left side of the American truck that was crumpled in Texas was, in fact, the driver’s side?
Do we really have to get THIS in depth?
Albeit the statement WAS incorrect, I think pointing it out is unwarranted. I found stfu’s mistake to be endearing, while others saw it as a faux pas dire enough to require amendment. A well traveled person would understand why the mistake was made, and a person with empathy would brush it off without comment.
There is a difference between pointing something out for the betterment of one’s education, and pointing something out just to be a snot.
shut up, this is failblog, any faux pas, real or imagined, is dire enough to require amendment. and the “empathy of a well traveled person” is about the stupidest thing i’ve ever heard in my life.
Ooh, you’ve burned me bad, david. I may need a skin graft…ooh it hurts.
Does this mean that your grammar warrants amendment?
So much for human compassion.
see, you couldn’t help yourself! my FAIL-WIN strategy worked like a charm.
yeah, i planned it. really.
that’s the driver’s side. unless you think that the passenger is the one who would be making the transaction at a drive-up bank teller.
Come on, it’s a guy from the UK, for corn’s sake. Passenger=driver, driver=passenger.
THANK YOU! someone with some sense!
Math fail!
Well, the passenger side in the UK means the driver’s side in the US… ‘crossing the pond’ fail.
Check the comment threads above to get the dish on how he did get to the passenger’s side and survive.
There ya go, thanks lurrrrker, that answered it, in the UK thats the passenger side and so I automatically stated that, sorry for the confusion but no fail there on either part, just a cultural thing.
Ah, no worries… we all have ‘crossing the pond’ fails in America when we try to claim ownership of the ‘English’ language. I try to atone at a local pub with HP Sauce and a steak and kidney pie, but I know I’m only pretending.
And the crack in the pubs is ninety.
God, I wish they’d understand that over here. Of course, there’s only one place anywhere near me I’d give the honor of calling it a pub. The rest are yuppie overpriced bars or seedy redneck American beer dispensors. (May God bless Guinness and whoever first imported it to we poor yanks.)
To the point though, yeah, why was this idiot circling anywhere NEAR a bank drive through pulling that thing.
The funny thing is that American English is actually closer to original English than Brittish English is. I thought that was the dumbest thing I ever heard until the guy telling me about it informed me that he was an English major at his UK school before transferring to Japan (to teach English).
… where he no doubt learned that the Japanese ON readings of kanji are closer to the original pronunciation of the equivalent characters in Chinese.
Oh you make me laugh. At you.
That’s mostly true of some remote towns and islands in New England, where their speech and accents haven’t changed much since the 1600s when they came here from England. And the remote Appalachian towns were mostly filled with Scottish immigrants, so their accent is still close to the Scottish accents from a few hundred years ago.
My methods of atonement are reading lots of antiquated English literature, watching Monty Python and drinking. I too, is pretending.
British Fail = American Revolution
Monarchy lol
sure, American eleitist FAIL!!
That would be “American ELITIST fail!”
Please… all this is really confuding me… PLEASE SPEAK THE QUEENS BLOODY ENGLISH!!!!!
Darwin Award WIN indeed XD
legendary fail.
Buy American!
Hell yes!
freedom is the only way
freedom isn’t free.
it costs folks like you and me.
but if you don’t chip your buck’o-five, who will?
Freedom costs a buck-o-fiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiive!
At first I started to lol and it slowly turned into, “ooohhhhhhhh, that guy’s dead.”
Yeah, hopefully most people were in the trailer itself and not the truck (assuming more than one person was in the vehicle). Definite fail, but hard to laugh at unless everything turned out OK.
Yeah. This is a tad disturbing for failblog, don’t you think?
Failblog made the baby cry.
def not too disturbing for failblog. but it is disturbing..
moral of the story: don’t be an idiot
Reading fail, they lived..
Pictures came and broke her heart.
And now we meet in an abandoned studio…er, success center.
Sheer brilliance win.
Broke the roof while in my car
We can’t back up, we drove too far
News station came, now I’m a star
Put the blame on VTR
Sheer lyricism win.
exactly my reaction !!
i loled the whole tme
I masturbated the whole time
I think your doing it, um, the whole time.
Cee Cee … always right on top of things.
(She likes to sexual.)
Yeah, but it’s time for you to come down.
Hey now….
It was cialis, and I wanted to take a nap, dag nabbit!
Originality fail.
Nah, the canopy on just clips the edge of the truck… I think the fool made it to fail another day.
As much as I hate stupid people, I sure hope so.
Doesn’t look like that canopy clipped anything… Seems pretty obvious to me that this was the last fail that driver ever made.
Yeah, it clips the edge of the truck where the now dead driver is.
The whole cabin area was crushed. He could never survive that.
And yet he did survive. Look up the article (or at least higher up on the board). The clueless driver cheats death, laughs in darwins face, and then probably spawns three or four children who are going to make bank-pancakes once they learn how to drive too.
So Jim, in GB is it customary to insert “do” between the noun and the verb?
[Side Note] I hope the guy in the video made it out alright…
We looked it up. The driver and his 11-y-o son survived – they dove out the far side as it crumpled.
In that case…
HAHAHAHA! Idiot.
And the camera breaking was icing on the cake.
Fast response time win?
well that’s nice.
By the by, where’d you find this out at?
It was all over the news last week. Not hard to find.
just confirming that yes both people did survive with no major injuries…maybe they just wanted a new car
That sounds like a really good idea. I wonder if insurance covers that…
Not a good idea…you do get a new car, but you also get the biggest auto insurance premium ever seen by mankind. Not even a gecko would give you a break after this stunt.
Looks like the tube may have survived, too; so, at least they can still have internet.
Comment win.
Maybe he’s dead, but it happened just over a month ago. Move on. And dying’s the ultimate win.
Yeah that’s definately gonna leave a mark rofl.
Nah, this was on the news here in Phoenix. Surprisingly the guy was perfectly alright. Which is a bit frightening when you think about it.
Does anyone know where this is? I swear I saw this on local news.
I really don’t think the overhang gets much of the truck. I’d say, unless the guy was drunk or passed out, he was probably ok. Plus, I think if you watch closely, it looks like the passenger door opens before the overhang blocks the view.
Did that guy make it? If he didn’t I think this is pretty distasteful.
you seriously fail at life.
Cee cee WIN!
I think dead people taste pretty good
And I just thought gas prices were killing me!
hyukhyukhyuk
gas station recognition fail
Preemptive fail self-identification win!
Yeah, unless he gets his local bank teller to send him gas through a vacuum tube… just don’t pay with change, they hate that.
Another bank failure.
(Definitely something sub-prime about this one.)
fuzz’s comment: funny fail
humor insolvency
Now THAT was win.
Looks like a construction fail too if that’s all it takes to bring it down. If that’s how they are all built, I don’t think I want to be driving under one. It looks like something a kid would build with blocks and the top block is way to large for the supporting blocks.
Well, consider how solid that trailer apparently was (very little crumple when it smacked into the awning)…. and then consider how fast the truck was going.
10MPH or such might not seem like very much at all, but that’s still a very lethal speed for something that massive and solid to be moving.
Just think about it this way. Would you want to be hit by a truck going at any speed?
Anyone have a link to the news story from this?
Shoot…I have a link but the filter won’t let me post it. I’ll cut and paste.
Here’s the blurb from Shelby County Today:
At approximately 3 PM, Tuesday, July 2, a 2008 Dodge Ram 2500, pulling a new travel trailer, hit the corner of the Texas State Bank Drive-In on Tenaha Street, causing the complete awning to come to the ground. Luckily, the driver of the Dodge, Mickey Miller, of Garrison and his 10 year old son were able to exit their vehicle uninjured.
According to Miller he was circling the bank to park on the other side when the corner of his travel trailer caught the corner of the bank awning. Next thing he heard was a rumble as the awning started falling against his driver’s side door. Somehow he was able to unbuckle the seat beat and exit the other side of his truck as it was falling.
Wow, thanks for posting this. It’s incredible he was able to unbuckle himself and get out.
You’re welcome. I was a little perturbed by this one and had to find out if anyone was hurt. I really didn’t like the idea of watching someone get squooshed.
However, for a silver lining, the bank gave him an excellent rate for a new truck loan!
For future reference, the little note to the bottom left of the movie is a dead give-away… “Note: Driver Lives.”
Posting in bold doesn’t make you cooler than us……. ok, yes it does.
8)
What is a seat beat?
lol, idk
fapping in a near bench
A seat that hurts after a few hours driving I guess…
Or some kind of special weapon to keep the seat in a good path without rebeling…
At least I tried to guess ^^
www(dot)kltv(dot)com(slash)global(slash)story(dot)asp?s=8694140
At first, I was like ‘lolololol’ but then i was like ‘…damn.’ That guy must have been smooshed flat as a pancake.
Whoa! The guy apparently LIVED through that! Holy poo!
Yeah, too bad, huh? Stupid people shouldn’t live. Then again, neither should anybody else.
misanthropic WIN!
Raise your hand if you think the grammar Nazis should be persecuted in their own holocaust!
holy shit!!! is the guy still alive?!
If the guy driving was Superman, then yeah, I’m sure he’s ok.
failer = fail trailer
nice …
puts him on the fast track to the fail trail
natural death fail
The room for lease above will probably be made into another Starbucks.
404′d!!
Page Fail
attend a Success Center
The saddest thing is that the comment would have been funny on the correct post. Oh, Chuckles…
Chuckles must be pretty good in bed to get that kind of sympathy from Sara J…
Hah…understanding women fail.
Hmm… perhaps an invitation to ride the short bus would have been more appropriate.
Rethinking my sympathy fail.
Not an understanding women fail… understanding Sara J win.
upon watching this a second time, it looks like the roof only smashed like the side of the truck not the entire cab.
go figure: happened in Texas. Can’t say I’m surprised..
only in omeriga
omerica will be less fail once it’s an obamanation
white guilt fail
Photoshopped. Somehow.
lol
Oh-my-Gosh.. This is impressive! And thinking they were able to leave the car uninjured is more impressive!
He was dropping off the truck payment.
The following article has some great pictures from the bank:
http://www.shelbycountytoday.com/article2.php
If you look carefully at second 8 of the movie (clicking once the pause butten, then double clicking to advance by a fraction of a second) you will see the vehicle was not crushed.
Actually the corner of the awning struck into the truck window, torn it down, and provided the near-subliminal glimpse of folded sheet metal. The only things that were crumpled are the truck doors. Just staying inside the truck would have been (moderately) safe.
Well…it almost pains me to say it, but I would sue the builder of the awning. Yes the driver was stupid, and made a mistake. But if it a little bump brought the the whole thing down like that, it was a disaster waiting to happen. It looked like a equivalent of a brick balanced on toothpicks. Properly built, the trailer should have torn away, or the corner of the awning.
Thank God he did it alone, with nobody else under there. My bet is a high wind would have eventually knocked the thing over.
I vote a new title…building code fail.
And a new awning color — I vote for puce.
Hey…weren’t we roommates in geek college??
I vote for chartreuse.
I’ll drink to that.
the video makes it look a lot worse than it actually was. check out the link from the dude above. It really wasn’t as bad as it looks
Stop posting fails that are painful! =|
Daang, for a sec i was like ouch! then realized he didnt get hurt (how he managed to survive i dont know..) but yea. Pretty funny when u look at it.
It looked like that guy driving was seriously damaged. Maybe even fatally damaged. Shit.
reading prior comments FAIL
HAHA, My favorite part is at the end where it says “NO VIDEO”
That was one weak overhang. XD
… and a driver underhung.
Ouch…
At nine seconds does it look like an eye blinking? Just… looks like it.
dude that guy totally died, its kind of creepy to watch the video with that in mind
Damn, he lived?
Darwin award FAIL!
Is it just me, or did that seem like a crappy overhang? I mean, he wasn’t going that fast…
Construction fail?
Would make a good Dodge commercial!
I like the “No Video” text after the camera broke, too.
http://jalopnik.com/398384/dodge-ram-pulls-down-bank-awning-free-checking-privileges-revoked
Instant Darwin Award
Darwin Runner-Up Award win.
Construction FAIL.
anyone find it odd that there is an autozone directly across from the bank?
In Russia, all the autozones are across from the bank.
Could someone tell me if this guy died or not? I just scrolled down past 125 comments worth of discussion on this topic and can’t be bothered to read any of them…
Self-sufficiency fail.
Durrrrrrr. Can’t be bothered to do dat der readin. Can’t skim…what’s that even mean? Plz just answer me so I can just read dis here comment.
ctrl f might help.
Nearly a death by fail. You have to either be Indiana Jones, a ninja, or perhaps a Vegas magician to escape such certain death.
Indiana Jones can even survive a nuclear blast.
Chuck Norris can survive a nuclear blast WITHOUT hiding in a fridge.
Speaking from personal experience: You instantly become a combination of all 3 when confronted with impending death. The trick is suppressing panic enough to take advantage of it.
Can’t believe how many people are asking if or assuming that the guy died. Don’t comment if you can’t read the comments above yours first! Self-importance/oblivion fail.
i can only hope that this jackass was from another state. retards like that give texas a bad name…
“W” has taken care of that.
This riposte so completely and totally wins…
Dead horse beating fail
*sigh* so unfortunate…you gotta admit though, he makes for some good laughs
I’m never going to a bank again.
I bet the architect was fired a few hours later: who’d be dumb enough to think of building something so fragile? Just look at the pilars (I mean before they’re down T_T ).
It couldn’t have decently passed a tornado.
The car (may his engine be praised) finaly help showing the dangerousity of the structure.
Your use of the word “dangerousity” is dangerous.
Or do I mean “you’re use?”
*headdesk* It’s all so confusing.
Sorry for not being a native english speaker, would hazardous be more accurate?
(I’d hazard that the word you’re looking for is “dangerousness.” )
Dangerousness is my middle name.
Does the “J” stand for “Jiggawatts” then?
Bingo.
But, really, there just isn’t any way to avoid being indecent when you’re passing a tornado.
Oh man… I just had some bad pizza and passed a tornado.
Cee Cee’s stuck her next out. Who wants play twist her?
Should have thought of this one…
T_T”
made me laugh though
DRIVER FAIL..FAIL & FAIL
oh… boy.
fake
It’s as fake as your girlfriend not being a virgin.
nice!
… now let’s put your right hand on something red
I’m not married, I found her on the streets.
A new FAIL of epic proportions!!
WilliamCA
Lol classic…
I love how at first it just looks like a normal ute and then you see the great big caravan.. lol.
I just thought of two things. In Texas, bank crushes YOU! And Toonces the driving Cat goes to the Bank!
WilliamCA
Well, it certainly is one bank hold up that went south.
Video’s gone.
Update the links, plox.
that is teh difinition of EPIC FAIL!
If you look carefully at second 8 then doubel click to get the next frame you can clearly see that no one gives a fuk.
YouTube fail, apparently.
looks like he broke the bank!
What’s with the driver? Masturbating while driving?
they need to make the overhangs stronger
u’d hope that natural selection would have weeded these people out by now
My favorite part is how the trailer, advertising its bonus height, has the model name / brand name / word “Everest” on its side.
wow that gets 5 stars!
Here is a link showing the aftermath of the collapse.
http://www.shelbycountytoday.com/article2.php
Not wearing seatbelt, WIN!
if he did he would have surely died.
I love the “driver lives” tag… even though the cab was folded to the ground like a Chinese takeout container, he lived. Sure just like the dude that got sucked into the jet engine.
Has anyone said “Structural Fail”? That thing shouldn’t have fallen from that hit.
adds extra taste that you can see the autozone in the background they might see a truck in there soon!!
you guys are making me tired
what kind of truck can survive a building being dropped on it? a toyota hilux of course
(go to youtube and search for top gear: killing a toyota part 1)
They drove it into a tree, a wall, the bristol channel (and left it there underwater for a few hours), drove it through an outhouse, dropped it from a height, dropped a caravan on it, hit it with a wrecking ball, set it on fire, AND IT STILL LIVED AND STARTED AND DROVE!
Not content with that, they tried harder to kill it – youtube search for top gear: killing a toyota part 2(a) and then part 2(b)
They put it on a tower block which was being demolished by controlled explosion and blew it up. They dug it out with a JCB AND IT LIVED!
keep your dodge rams
I know for a fact that the two people (husband and wife) in the car died instantly when the ceiling collapsed.
Epic Fail! That would hurt… good thing they’re alive
“no video” lol wtf
WTF HAX
poor guy, that crushed him…
Extreme Makeover should use this guy to help the demo team. “Just hitch up the camper and drive right on through!”
PWND
Darwin lost that day
NO VIDEO!
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