I don’t remember what car it was, but my friend’s sister was killed by one. A driver in a gas station hit the brakes, and the car jumped forward and squished my friend’s sister against a wall.
Oh, and it didn’t do it all the time. It was a rare glitch and it took them time to figure it out.
You’re thinking of the Audi 5000, and it wasn’t just that one, but a bunch of cars from a bunch of manufacturers – coincidentally ones bought by older demographics.
The government investigated it and found that it wasn’t a glitch at all, but that drivers were simply stepping on the gas when they meant to step on the brake.
But 60 Minutes ran a report on it anyway – singling out Audi, and Audi’s sales took about a decade to recover.
I think thats why my mom always taught me to NEVER get between a car that is running and a solid object, be it another car or a wall, unless I know the parking brake is on. As a kid I remember her saying something about, what if the driver hits the gas by accident. Maybe she was referencing some actual event like this.
In this fail, thank GOD no one was standing in the aisle shopping when he crashed. They easily would have been killed.
The car was the Audi 5000S. Several people were indeed killed when a 5000S accelerated uncontrollably, sometimes with the driver’s foot firmly on the brake.
This resulted in the old joke:
Q) Where’s the last place in the world you would want to be?
A) Stuck in traffic behind a Ford Pinto, and in front of an Audi 5000S.
That’s bullshit. Car brakes are not controlled by the computer, at least not in any production cars that I know of, and certainly not in any that were around in the 80’s. It’s all mechanical (hydraulic, really). That’s like saying that you sat down on a seesaw and there was a glitch in the computer and the other side went down instead of up. I’m sick of people equating computers to magic.
I don’t think it was so much a glitch as the pedals were slightly to one side of where they are in most vehicles. When drivers would press where they were used to the brake pedal being, they would hit the gas instead, often with deadly results.
I suppose these could be two different situations. The one I’m talking about was some sort of SUV.
I call bullcrap on this. Brakes are connected mechanically to a master cylinder, which, when pumped by the pedal, injects fluid into the cylinders on the drums or discs. There’s no computer involvement at all.
Only with recent hybrid vehicles is this starting to change, and there is still a mechanical linkage to the breaks in the event that the computer control fails.
I remember that – I mean, not that exact incident, but there were several similar incidents in the news over a fairly short span of time. There were all kinds of theories and IIRC a few parents even had negligence/manslaughter charges pressed for having accidentally killed their own children, before anyone started taking it seriously.
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At that ^link^, the author debunks a lot of the “sudden unintended acceleration” claims/theories, but also provides info on “stuck throttle” accidents and brake-interlock issues. He also has an email from an engineer who had problems with his Renault and its cruise control system until:
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“a directive from Renault came to our maintenance garage… This stated that a plastic sheet should be inserted between the two PCB’s that were rear-facing each other. The clearance was not sufficient to avoid contact in all temperature/ humidity conditions.”
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There was one make/model in particular, as I remember, that was making headlines for a couple of months; then it just faded away.
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Having said all that, I’m pretty sure the driver in this video was drunk/stoned/otherwise impaired.
there was a car back in the 80’s with a glitch in the computer, and sometimes it spoke to the driver and it was called kit and it could like drive on its own and like stuff
There was a crack team of commandos back in the 80’s wrongfully accused of a crime they didn’t commit. These men promptly escaped from a maximum security stockade to the Los Angeles underground………
That was the Audi 5000 that you’re probably thinking of. I don’t know of any car with a drive-by-wire throttle from back in the 80s, which would be necessary to have it be a computer glitch (otherwise the throttle plate slams shut when you let off the gas and the engine is starved of almost all oxygen).
The real culprit was that the gas and brake pedals were WAY too close together, so often people would accidentally slam on the gas when they meant to hit the brake, leading them to rapid acceleration.
That’s also where we get the slang phrase “I’m Audi 5000″ or “I’m Audi”… meaning I’m out of here FAST….
You’re almost right. It was an issue with Audi’s. They used a european pedal set where the gas and brake are the same size and right next to each other. Because it’s a power assist brake(works on vacuum) if you hit the brakes and gas at the same time when the rpm’s go up vacuum decreases in the intake manifold and you lose your brake assist. There were a few incidents like that nationally and a lawsuit was brought against Audi. Audi won the suit but only because it’s technically driver error. That’s why we have no more Euro pedals on cars in the states.
My theory is that people who accidentally hit the gas instead of the brake also use their left foot to brake instead of their right food. Your left foot should *only* be used to operate the clutch. If your car is an automatic, your left foot shouldn’t do anything.
If you’re in a panic situation and both feet are ready to hit both pedals, the gas depresses easier than the brake, so it’s the one that your foot slams the most.
At a McDonald’s back home this happened twice in the same year. The first time the brakes went out when the guy pulled into the parking lot. Several months later they replaced the glass wall. Then it happened again. That time it was a guy driving his handicapped fathers car which had special pedals. I guess he wasn’t thinking and hit the gas instead of the brake. Several months later the glass wall was replaced and there it stands to this day. Hooray!
For some people their feet are a little too big and the petals are a little to close together, my dad almost did that a while back picking me up from work, only he just scrapped the curb.
My husband works for Quiktrip in Georgia and this same thing happened to him on a Valentine’s Day at about 3:30 in the morning. Turns out the car was a rental and the teenage girl driving it stole it from her mother during the night so she and her boyfriend could go joyriding. Talk about being busted!
Ah, yes, thank you dear Eleriel. Stupid blinkers on sides. What’s the point of having a blinker on the SIDE of the vehicle? I guess we just don’t want to let the person behind us no what we are doing. Every trip I take to the convenience store is a covert mission, for sure, along with every lane change!
It looks like the car is a Volkswagen Passat. All modern VWs (and many other brands) will automatically turn on the hazard blinkers if you brake really hard. I’m guessing he hit some ice or oil … I’m guessing he really did try braking.
Has anyone noticed that when the car first went into the store the clerk was so shocked an didn’t know what to do but instead of going and checking if the dude was ok he went round in circles and then just went and answered the phone.
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Speak not unkindly of the seeker without a specific avatar. Perhaps he will yet join us! Let us not remember that the generic avatar has served us all well. I remember, all too well, my first few months hereabouts, and perhaps you remember yours as well. Alas, I too was without gravatar.com. I languished about, without direction, until at last the divine direction came to me to where I was able to find my own avatar! Holy of Holies. Hosanna. Blessed be.
*puts boards over closet door and nails them there*
*also puts several chairs and tables against door, and finally allows Boggy’s farts to slowly seep into closet*
Survival kits contents check. In it you will find one .45 caliber automatic, two boxes of ammunition, four days concentrated emergency rations, one drug issue containing antibiotics, morphine, vitamin pills, pep pills, sleeping pills, tranquilizer pills, one miniature combination Russian phrase book and Bible, one hundred dollars in rubles, one hundred dollars in gold, nine packs of chewing gum, one issue of prophylactics, three lipsticks, three pair of nylon stockings…
Shoot! A fella could have pretty good weekend in Vegas with all that stuff.
There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we know we don’t know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we don’t know we don’t know.
~Donald Rumsfeld.
…And in other news, FailParliament has voted 300 to 1 to oust King Troll from his throne. In a statement today, the Parliament stated they had “had enough of the troll and his meaningless mutterings”.
*Googles Charles I of England*
Interesting… couple of civil wars. Doesn’t say how he was executed. I was thinking of ending King Troll with a red hot poker.
Goldbach is really evil. His unsolved problem troubles todays’ mathematical minds up to the point of complete madness.
So don’t bother asking if you see a man working upon the solution to his problem, and 3 weeks later you see him running around his house naked with a plastic duck and a cowboy hat in his head screaming ‘potato’…
Only know what you know, never know what you don’t know.
~A man who turned into a nik-nak if memory serves me correctly.
*wanders off puzzled, various moominos arguing the case*
Or they’re on seperate windows to click between? You could also type both the comments first and then just click submit in quick succession. There’s no real telling who is who unless you can do something clever with ISPs I reckon.
Why wld anyone like menstruation? Five days without lasagna is 4 days more than I can bear. I can only go so long living off ______
*desperately searching for food based metaphor that implies stroking it*
Wouldn’t the either/or wording of BFF’s question proclude the possibility of BFF being the driver? Barring that, wouldn’t the fact that he refered to himself in the present tense (“Is it me”), but refered to the driver in the past tense (“or was the driver a kid?”) proclude the possibility of BFF being the driver?
..and, to quote Arthur from same (in response to several of the posters here today)
“you should send that in to the Reader’s Digest. They’ve got a page for people like you.”
Lol… Japanese. Based off of various things, philosophies, life styles, hobbies etc. Much less impressive when you know the world but generally it’s Ai= “Love” Ki= “Energy”, “intention” or “spirit”, waza= “technique.” I’ll let you guys interpret that they way you want.
Not yet. I will be getting it tomorrow. I have a friend of a friend that has a turkey farm here. I got my thanksgiving turkey from there, figured I would get this one there too.
Close enough anyway. It came from my study of Aikido. I like it’s philosophy and ideals. Like I said earlier… the name loses something in English, but I think sounds good in Japanese.
Funny you should say that. I was watching some show last night that described some of what was happening with the economy these days, and it mentioned that the US is borrowing a LOT of money from china. In fact, it just borrowed another (something like) $350 billion from them to help cover the bailouts. I’m starting to wonder when china (and saudi arabia) will just outright own the US.
This is not necessarily a bad thing. It means our dollar still has worth. Now China can’t afford for us to go under so it will anything it can to stop it.
*ponders how difficult it will be to learn how to spell all over again*
Let’s see – instead of “..or” it is now “..our”. And “que” instead of “k”.
Don’t think I can do it.
*wonders what the weather is like in Brazil these days*
WOW! How’d you get such a cool job! Golly! You know that Gas Station Cashier, is like my DREAM JOB! Like do you have a big Plexiglas window to stand behind or are you going to get shot?
Maybe the brakes failed? If your brakes fail or the gas pedal sticks you’re meant to turn on the hazards and honk the horn a lot so he might have been doing that before he hit. Doesn’t look like he’s all there though (who shrugs when they go through a plate glass window) so I’m going for the drunk theory.
IRC is chatting live, like IM but everyone all in one “room” (as they call it on AOL). Its very cool. But VERY addictive. I can talk you through it if you wanna try it out.
Unless someone is in the room (and by that I mean sitting right next to me) talking me through it won’t help much. I’m a tactile learner. Some stuff I can get, but when it comes to things like what you are proposing, not so much.
Also, I am experiencing extreme difficulties with my computer. I tried Firefox, but that REALLY didn’t help. I need more RAM, and a major update on my operating system. That’s what the guy at the Apple Store told me yesterday.
I wouldn’t worry too much about updating the OS. What version do you have? Sales people will ALWAYS try to talk you into stuff like that. Although it depends on what you NEED to do. I would say add more ram first and see what that does. Although, again, the OS isnt all that much. I just upgraded my Powerbook to 10.5.6 and I think it was only around $160.
I also have to say, even though I dont like macs, I’ve never had any problems with this powerbook G4 (3 years now I think) so I dont know what kind of problems you might be having. The best suggestion might be to copy all your data off of it, wipe the drive and reinstall the OS. That might fix everything. I’ve never had to do that with a mac but it’s a common fix with Windows.
No, it’s true. I need a new OS. I can’t access certain parts of the web as it is right now (like my own e-mail account) and pages take FOREVER to load. I am gonna buy more ram first, since I have a friend who speaks computer and can install it for me. I have an iBook G4, I think the G stands for Gadot. With Firefox I can get to my e-mail, but not here, the page splits down the center and it gets VERY frustrating after that.
Hmmm. Sounds sketchy, but computers are a pain so whaddayagonnado? Well, I’ll look into a mac irc client at some point anyway and what I can probably do is install the program here, configure it, then zip it up so you can download and install it there already configured. Some day!
Your posts are there – we’ve hit 300+ posts and you must now “Show all” as 1 page to see the new nested posts from p 1, or put the “?cp=all” in the URL for each post.
BTW, when you do that and find the PSU posts, you’ll see my explanation for using PSU.
I’ve been having the same problem none of my posts ever appear and my stupid avatar which I changed over a week ago is still the generic box thingy. I think failblog has something against me.
Guys, just because you have your snazzy new editor that can add text to the video doesn’t mean you have to use it EVERY SINGLE TIME. The “wins” you’ve been adding to the end are generally lame– and even when they’re okay, they disrupt the rhythm of the video. So just show us the action and leave the commentary to the comments!
Oh man…you haven’t been paying attention lately, have you?
People are more incensed about the change of format to the fail videos than about the war in Iraq, being laid off, the economy, hate crimes…you name it.
Hi folks, just wanted to let you know that a lot of the people who write in the comments section of failblog are annoyed by the new format of the videos. In particular, we do not need the 3…2…1 interruption.
Well, as you see, only one: mistaking the brake for the gas. All the others are results. And… where is the money gone that the guy at the desk was counting?
How many roads must a man walk down
Before you call him a man?
Yes, ‘n’ how many seas must a white dove sail
Before she sleeps in the sand?
Yes, ‘n’ how many times must the cannon balls fly
Before they’re forever banned?
The answer, my friend, is blowin’ in the wind,
The answer is blowin’ in the wind.
I love how the comments section turns into a circle jerk for people to just chit chat about totally unrelated shit within 5 posts. The whole internet is FAIL
Of course they don’t have to. But if guys here write such things, how can they not? And then, if they don’t read it, how can they not answer to what they have not read? But he discloses himself, this guy: he starts his comment with “I love how…”, so why prevent people doing what they love?
Ummm … no thanks. I like sex like the next guy, but, I’m not about to shell out cash to have some lady I don’t know come into my acquaintance. That’s just immoral and unethical all around.
OMG!! That must’ve hurt like hell. I wonder what happend to him after that incident??? I bet he never wanted to try that stunt again. I wouldn’t. Well im always careful when I do tricky stunts and I keep it at a minimum. Well not that small. Well That was awesome and I hope that he’s ok.
Seriously, the titles have GOT to go. Its so much funnier as the original video. The dumb sound bites at the start sound so cheap and always finding a “win” just sucks. Its really scrapping the barrel on some of these. STOP NOW FAILBLOG.
Seriously, the titles have GOT to go. Its so much funnier as the original video. The dumb sound bites at the start sound so cheap and always finding a “win” just sucks. Its really scrapping the barrel on some of these. STOP NOW FAILBLOG…
Seriously, the titles have GOT to go. Its so much funnier as the original video. The dumb sound bites at the start sound so cheap and always finding a “win” just sucks. Its really scrapping the barrel on some of these. STOP NOW FAILBLOG..
Seriously, the titles have GOT to go. Its so much funnier as the original video. The dumb sound bites at the start sound so cheap and always finding a “win” just sucks. Its really scrapping the barrel on some of these. STOP NOW FAILBLOG…..
Seriously, the titles have GOT to go. Its so much funnier as the original video. The dumb sound bites at the start sound so cheap and always finding a “win” just sucks. Its really scrapping the barrel on some of these. STOP NOW FAILBLOG……..
Seriously, the titles have GOT to go. Its so much funnier as the original video. The dumb sound bites at the start sound so cheap and always finding a “win” just sucks. Its really scraping the barrel on some of these. STOP NOW FAILBLOG.
From the contributor: THis was a Volkswagen Passat model 1996-2005. The young driver hit a petrol station store. Probably didn’t know how to drive his father’s car…
Good evening, I’d like a A Three Musketeers, and a ball point pen, one of those combs there, a pint of Old Harper, a couple of flashlight batteries and some beef jerky.
You break ‘em, buddy.
That guy almost shat himself. (he probably did)
That guy came close to shatting. (he did probably)
yes GUY, NOT a woman. so THERE!
She was navigating?
*ducks*
WOOT!!!! THE ICE CREAM IS SAFE!!!!!!!
NOT a woman, HA!
Is this one of those “I hit the gas instead of the brake” situations? I will never understand how people can do that.
I did that in 7th grade in my grandparents’ car and hit a brand-new SUV and a tree at the same time.
There was a car back in the 80’s with a glitch in the computer, and sometimes when you hit the break the gas would be activated.
Talk about a recipe for death
my first car was a ford pinto. enough said.
You’re lucky you didn’t asplode!
Oh yeah, the Ford Exploder…
ford pinto…
talk about a Symphony of Destruction
Just like the Pied Piper…
Lead rests through the streets
Dancing like the Marionettes…
Swaying to the Symphony…
How is that even legal?
Seriously? What was it? This was most definitely an 80’s car.
(Oh and by the way, Not only did I do what I said above, but I did it in an accidental reverse doughnut.)
I don’t remember what car it was, but my friend’s sister was killed by one. A driver in a gas station hit the brakes, and the car jumped forward and squished my friend’s sister against a wall.
Oh, and it didn’t do it all the time. It was a rare glitch and it took them time to figure it out.
That’s awful…
You’re thinking of the Audi 5000, and it wasn’t just that one, but a bunch of cars from a bunch of manufacturers – coincidentally ones bought by older demographics.
The government investigated it and found that it wasn’t a glitch at all, but that drivers were simply stepping on the gas when they meant to step on the brake.
But 60 Minutes ran a report on it anyway – singling out Audi, and Audi’s sales took about a decade to recover.
This guy’s car is a 2002-05 VW Passat wagon, btw.
I think thats why my mom always taught me to NEVER get between a car that is running and a solid object, be it another car or a wall, unless I know the parking brake is on. As a kid I remember her saying something about, what if the driver hits the gas by accident. Maybe she was referencing some actual event like this.
In this fail, thank GOD no one was standing in the aisle shopping when he crashed. They easily would have been killed.
The car was the Audi 5000S. Several people were indeed killed when a 5000S accelerated uncontrollably, sometimes with the driver’s foot firmly on the brake.
This resulted in the old joke:
Q) Where’s the last place in the world you would want to be?
A) Stuck in traffic behind a Ford Pinto, and in front of an Audi 5000S.
Clickie for the story on Audi 5000S.
That’s bullshit. Car brakes are not controlled by the computer, at least not in any production cars that I know of, and certainly not in any that were around in the 80’s. It’s all mechanical (hydraulic, really). That’s like saying that you sat down on a seesaw and there was a glitch in the computer and the other side went down instead of up. I’m sick of people equating computers to magic.
I don’t think it was so much a glitch as the pedals were slightly to one side of where they are in most vehicles. When drivers would press where they were used to the brake pedal being, they would hit the gas instead, often with deadly results.
I suppose these could be two different situations. The one I’m talking about was some sort of SUV.
Rubbish urban legend.
Hey, since Snopes says it’s untrue, it MUST be untrue.
Ha.
I call bullcrap on this. Brakes are connected mechanically to a master cylinder, which, when pumped by the pedal, injects fluid into the cylinders on the drums or discs. There’s no computer involvement at all.
Only with recent hybrid vehicles is this starting to change, and there is still a mechanical linkage to the breaks in the event that the computer control fails.
test
Alright: What is the average air-speed velocity of a swallow?
Wha, European or African?
Laden or unladen?
Yeah, seemed only to happen to people with good lawyers…
Sounds like an urban legend. Virtually all stories about things that happened to your friends’ sisters are urban legends.
I remember that – I mean, not that exact incident, but there were several similar incidents in the news over a fairly short span of time. There were all kinds of theories and IIRC a few parents even had negligence/manslaughter charges pressed for having accidentally killed their own children, before anyone started taking it seriously.
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At that ^link^, the author debunks a lot of the “sudden unintended acceleration” claims/theories, but also provides info on “stuck throttle” accidents and brake-interlock issues. He also has an email from an engineer who had problems with his Renault and its cruise control system until:
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“a directive from Renault came to our maintenance garage… This stated that a plastic sheet should be inserted between the two PCB’s that were rear-facing each other. The clearance was not sufficient to avoid contact in all temperature/ humidity conditions.”
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There was one make/model in particular, as I remember, that was making headlines for a couple of months; then it just faded away.
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Having said all that, I’m pretty sure the driver in this video was drunk/stoned/otherwise impaired.
I can’t believe no one remembers it was the Audi 5000.
Which is the origin of the hip-hop slang, “Audi 5000, G.”
Like I’m out of here, like an Audi 5000.
The Audi 5000?
http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/unintended-acceleration-rears-its-ugly-head/
MMMmmmmm. Accidental reverse DOUGHnut.
Doh!
A deer, a female deer!
You nut.
*Snickers*
Sorry, I think that car just took out the Snickers aisle.
*Chuckles?*
The candy aisle is pretty much gone, too.
At least he was able to get a Crunch.
more like d’oh!-nut amirite
Audi. The 5000, I think.
From the contributor: This is Volkswagen Passat model 1996-2005.
there was a car back in the 80’s with a glitch in the computer, and sometimes it spoke to the driver and it was called kit and it could like drive on its own and like stuff
It could like stuff?
That’s amazing.
My car hates stuff. Runs over it all the time. Kinda like the video.
only!!! only if the stuff was nice to it.
*tries to hold back from busting out laughing*
There was a crack team of commandos back in the 80’s wrongfully accused of a crime they didn’t commit. These men promptly escaped from a maximum security stockade to the Los Angeles underground………
A-Team ftw!
That was the Audi 5000 that you’re probably thinking of. I don’t know of any car with a drive-by-wire throttle from back in the 80s, which would be necessary to have it be a computer glitch (otherwise the throttle plate slams shut when you let off the gas and the engine is starved of almost all oxygen).
The real culprit was that the gas and brake pedals were WAY too close together, so often people would accidentally slam on the gas when they meant to hit the brake, leading them to rapid acceleration.
That’s also where we get the slang phrase “I’m Audi 5000″ or “I’m Audi”… meaning I’m out of here FAST….
You’re almost right. It was an issue with Audi’s. They used a european pedal set where the gas and brake are the same size and right next to each other. Because it’s a power assist brake(works on vacuum) if you hit the brakes and gas at the same time when the rpm’s go up vacuum decreases in the intake manifold and you lose your brake assist. There were a few incidents like that nationally and a lawsuit was brought against Audi. Audi won the suit but only because it’s technically driver error. That’s why we have no more Euro pedals on cars in the states.
we don’t even have euro pedals over here in europe?!
Knight Rider reference win!
80’s cars had computers? i have trouble believing that. can you link a reference?
Well, Shoppy, back in the day what we called computers were mostly composed of squirrels, rubber bands and very small rocks. And we liked it!
You had rubber bands?? You were lucky…! All we had were flimsy little twist-ties, and we were grateful for it!
I grew up in a very tech-savvy part of New Amsterdam.
Dang! All we had was twigs! And not any speshul twigs neither. Just the same kind as evrbody else had.
It was the Audi 5000
http://multinationalmonitor.org/hyper/issues/1987/05/wathen.html
what car was that?
WRONG- never been a car with a ‘computer glitch’ that activated accelerator upon brake application. FAIL.
Do you ever get the feeling that some people are just talking out of their ass?
Errrrm….never heard of this but most cars work on a mechanical throttle and brake system so i dunno…
and judging from the turn signal seen here I’m assuming this person was turning into the convenience store, hit the gas and just accelerated into it.
Nah, he had his 4-ways/hazards on.. Meaning he knew his car was bust?
He decided it would be far more convenient if he were already in the store. Maybe it was raining outside.
It was the hazzards. German cars do that when they crash.
Actually, many new cars have electrical throttle/brake/steering, e.g. Volkswagen
My theory is that people who accidentally hit the gas instead of the brake also use their left foot to brake instead of their right food. Your left foot should *only* be used to operate the clutch. If your car is an automatic, your left foot shouldn’t do anything.
If you’re in a panic situation and both feet are ready to hit both pedals, the gas depresses easier than the brake, so it’s the one that your foot slams the most.
That’s just my theory
Its a but I didn’t see the building officer situation.
I did that once in a golf cart…I hit a fence, but got away with it. Cause I’m sneaky like that.
At a McDonald’s back home this happened twice in the same year. The first time the brakes went out when the guy pulled into the parking lot. Several months later they replaced the glass wall. Then it happened again. That time it was a guy driving his handicapped fathers car which had special pedals. I guess he wasn’t thinking and hit the gas instead of the brake. Several months later the glass wall was replaced and there it stands to this day. Hooray!
For some people their feet are a little too big and the petals are a little to close together, my dad almost did that a while back picking me up from work, only he just scrapped the curb.
I love how the person behind the counter sees it coming at the last second.. I can almost make out the look of “OH SH*T!” on her face.
I love how the “hazard lights win” is really just a left turn signal. But at least he was courteous and signaled his intentions!
Never trust someone who’s turning to the left.
Never.
My husband works for Quiktrip in Georgia and this same thing happened to him on a Valentine’s Day at about 3:30 in the morning. Turns out the car was a rental and the teenage girl driving it stole it from her mother during the night so she and her boyfriend could go joyriding. Talk about being busted!
Yes, because all joyrides end in pain and destruction. When will the PSA ever come out?
Well, I also don’t think she was completely sober either to tell the truth. So that was probably a big factor too.
anyone other than me notice how foggy it is on the INSIDE of the car? and the big cloud of smoke that seems to have appeared as he opened the door?
now i have driven high before.. and it makes me more aware and makes me drive 10 miles under the speed limit and piss people off…
but it affects different people in different ways
so its possible this could be a DUI
*que “Low Rider”*
“Hey, how’s my driving?”
“I think we’re parked, man.”
after the ‘brake in’… both the left and right side are blinking.
Ah, yes, thank you dear Eleriel. Stupid blinkers on sides. What’s the point of having a blinker on the SIDE of the vehicle? I guess we just don’t want to let the person behind us no what we are doing. Every trip I take to the convenience store is a covert mission, for sure, along with every lane change!
I’m afraid I do not understand you… you’re obviously speaking english, and yet it’s a completely alien language to me.
So people on a road crossing yours can see if you’re turning.
A lot of modern vehicles, including this one, automatically turn on the hazards after the airbags deploy.
“I was turning left and this building just jumped at me out of nowhere”
“I was turning left into the toilet paper aisle”.
“I should have made that left at Albaquerque”
Hasaaaaaaaaan Chop!
Ah! A favorite of mine.
It was, indeed, a sinister turn for the worse.
Yes, wasn’t very dexterious, was he?
Ladies and Gentlemen, Elvis has left the building!
“Wet cleanup on aisles 1, 2, 3, and 4.”
“Nevermind. There are no aisles anymore”.
“Sorry, wrong 7-11″
“I should really figure out how to spell ‘Albuquerque’….”
Actually, the hazard lights go on automatically after a crash happens. This is pretty common feature by european cars
If you look closely, the hazards are on, it’s just the angle that makes the right side less visible.
It looks like the car is a Volkswagen Passat. All modern VWs (and many other brands) will automatically turn on the hazard blinkers if you brake really hard. I’m guessing he hit some ice or oil … I’m guessing he really did try braking.
And here I thought it was a guy – hah!
Do you think, for insurance, they counted all the Twinkies he squashed or just estimated?
Twinkies can be reshaped and put back on the shelf.
I bet they got creamed.
“Silly customer! You cannot hurt the Twinkie!”
aasdasdasd
Has anyone noticed that when the car first went into the store the clerk was so shocked an didn’t know what to do but instead of going and checking if the dude was ok he went round in circles and then just went and answered the phone.
did anyone notice how the driver was just like, *throw hands in the air* “whatever dude, not my problem”
haha, notice all the smoke coming out of the guys door when he opens it. he must have been stoned.
1ST
hello my naem iz jason n even tho I has an iq of les then 50 i cun stil undrestad dat ppl dat rite FISRT in comets r stoopider then me and only craev fur athenttion so pleze b a nicee fela n stup spaming n mabey u will haev moar frends n be hapier k?
What?
English mother F*&^er do you speak it?
He usually does. I think he just wanted to put closet in his/her place. But still… Please Jason, don’t do that again. It hurts.
Yes. That kind of butchered, mangled “English” is reserved for ICHC comments sections.
The what?
The lolcats section? I only watch the pics in there, I bothered looking at the comments section onlce only.
and apparently it has already altered your spelling skills. Beware.
Then you really are good in learning languages! To my untrained eye your lolspeak seems correct. But still, please don’t do it again.
I’m confused… Isn’t Jason our resident troll?
who is now on the anti-troll police (training division)?
Former?
no
He has made progress by leaps and bounds, and is now civilized. For the most part.
Agreed, not many have returned from tardville.
But he keeps his generic avatar, to remind him of his trollish roots.
Speak not unkindly of the seeker without a specific avatar. Perhaps he will yet join us! Let us not remember that the generic avatar has served us all well. I remember, all too well, my first few months hereabouts, and perhaps you remember yours as well. Alas, I too was without gravatar.com. I languished about, without direction, until at last the divine direction came to me to where I was able to find my own avatar! Holy of Holies. Hosanna. Blessed be.
*ahem* let us not FORGET…
Blessed Be? I never would have guessed that about you!
Occasional relapses may be expected. Progress, not perfection is what we’re looking for.
Aw…Kittehs can no haz dicitionary?
Oopsie–netsing fale! K,thanxbai!
Im badly offended.
*closes closet door*
*puts boards over closet door and nails them there*
*also puts several chairs and tables against door, and finally allows Boggy’s farts to slowly seep into closet*
Scary. Just scary.
B>BBLLLFFFFFPPPTTTTTTFFFFLLAPSSSSSSSST!!!!!
OOP! sowwy!
There is no place for it.
Oh, Judy…thank gawd you changed your avatar.
*smooch!*
Why so cereal
s’up, Special K?
Best. comment. ever. (at least in the last 5 minutes or so)
.
I’m STILL laughing, thanks Judy.
Don’t pay attention to this fruit loop.
He’s just out for Kix, I know.
*congregates on where DragonWriter is*
*A billiontrillion eeny teeny squeezes*
*scatters to the four winds*
*catches one of the squeezes floating by in the wind*
*puts in pocket for later usage*
Hey…! You took my wee-squeeze!
Well, that’s okay. I have plenty for everyone.
*releases wee-squeezes so they can squeeze everyone throughout the day*
Woo hoo! *squeeze*
*sneakysneakysneakysneak*
*teenytinysqueeze*
-=pif=-
Ya had a billiontrillion – I didn’t think you’d miss one.
After the dream I had last night, I kinda had to.
You dream about me honey?
Pfft. In your dreams.
Definitely not in mine.
Gotta hate morons who are still quoting Pulp Fiction. Dumbass.
Are you kidding? We still quote Dr. Strangelove! Get used to it…
He’s probably running low on precious bodily fluids – don’t be too hard on him.
You can’t fight in here! This is a war room!
Survival kits contents check. In it you will find one .45 caliber automatic, two boxes of ammunition, four days concentrated emergency rations, one drug issue containing antibiotics, morphine, vitamin pills, pep pills, sleeping pills, tranquilizer pills, one miniature combination Russian phrase book and Bible, one hundred dollars in rubles, one hundred dollars in gold, nine packs of chewing gum, one issue of prophylactics, three lipsticks, three pair of nylon stockings…
Shoot! A fella could have pretty good weekend in Vegas with all that stuff.
“No fighting in here. This is the war room”
Still quoting? Since when did quoting movies that have relevant context to blog become out of fashion?
It’s nice to have a fan.
Holy Shit! a troll used your name!!!!!! Man I am soooooo jealous right now.
You talking about your “family jewels” there, bud? :p
……. If ur IQ is lower than 50 you wont be able to type because you would be as dumb as say… a mouse.
nineteenth!
BOGGY!King Troll!
Roadkill!
Dragongirl!
Ugg!
BOGGY, ya might wanna keep an eye on this King Troll unit – the jury’s still out on his status.
Brakes, who needs breaks?
Especially when you can use the store and it’s displays to come to a complete stop!
Thats why there are so many 7-11’s where I live!
Not for long apparently.
Unless they officially turn into drive-thrus.
Die JasonK. Die.
The JasonK. The?
Why JasonK. Why?
WhatIknow.
What you know?
Well, I know who I am, and I am who I am, and I know what I know, therefore, I am WhatIKnow.
There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we know we don’t know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we don’t know we don’t know.
~Donald Rumsfeld.
Yes. (That’s all)
Knowing is only half the battle.
I know
No?
And then there is your King who decides what you know!
Not my king.
Anybody here gotta king?
No, but I know a few really hot queens.
Go FIsh
Fluffy?!??
Pillow?!?!?
Whoa!
*swims away as quickly as her little fins can take her*
This calls for an example to be set for my unwilling subjects.
*starts planning execution of WN*
It’s been tried. He has body guards of various sorts. The results of the attempts were less than encouraging.
And don’t forget the dragon at his back.
That’s funny, I didn’t vote for you.
You don’t vote for a King, dumbass.
…And in other news, FailParliament has voted 300 to 1 to oust King Troll from his throne. In a statement today, the Parliament stated they had “had enough of the troll and his meaningless mutterings”.
Some how this movement against the king just makes me think it will turn out like King Edward II.
Or perhaps Charles I?
or perhaps bowel?
*Googles Charles I of England*
Interesting… couple of civil wars. Doesn’t say how he was executed. I was thinking of ending King Troll with a red hot poker.
Charles got his head chopped off in the middle of London.
The poker thing is truly horrific, though, I’ll grant you.
Poker with the soft cushions.
Actually, he was poked between the soft cushions.
Owwie!!!
Then how’d you become king, then?
*doubts King Troll is going to pick up on the Monty Python reference*
Come and see the violence inherent in the system!
“Did you see him oppressin’ me?”
Oh, Donald Rumsfeld and his amazing figures of speech.
Hmm…this looks like it can apply on Goldbach’s theory. Wait a bit.
*waits*
*bits*
I much rather prefer Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle.
I’m leaning toward the Large Hadron Collider, myself.
Don’t lean on it, it’ll fall apart.
Goldbach is really evil. His unsolved problem troubles todays’ mathematical minds up to the point of complete madness.
So don’t bother asking if you see a man working upon the solution to his problem, and 3 weeks later you see him running around his house naked with a plastic duck and a cowboy hat in his head screaming ‘potato’…
The hat in his head is what would bother me…
kinda like me except I scream YAHTZEE
I should rather like that, JK.
I used to think so to, until I observed it. Now I’m not sure.
*a’s*
Only know what you know, never know what you don’t know.
~A man who turned into a nik-nak if memory serves me correctly.
*wanders off puzzled, various moominos arguing the case*
I was wrong, Moomin. My assumption. They posted on the same time in the last fail. Either he’s really quick or (see first sentence).
You know, What you know makes you knowing that you know alot of things.
~The Moomino Horde’s mom in 00:34
Fresse, Arschgeburt.
Your accent makes me all warm and fuzzy.
beavershaver dawt com
good advice WN!
Pubic service?
*hears a whooooooooosh*
Or they’re on seperate windows to click between? You could also type both the comments first and then just click submit in quick succession. There’s no real telling who is who unless you can do something clever with ISPs I reckon.
True. And he is pretty good in avatar changes and all that.
There’s a definite possibility that there’s less people on failblog than you think.
Sad, that.
I know.
*squeeze*
Makes me want to stop coming at times.
????
Doesn’t make me want to stop coming here, but it does make me less trusting.
And that makes it a little less fun.
Oh! He was talking about coming to FailBlog!
*slinks away, embarrassed by her own dirty mind*
I thought the same thing too… Don’t feel bad Judy.
Hee! Me too.
And me too about the sad, though I tend to feel more pity than sympathy towards such folks.
Well, you can rest assured there’s only one of me!
Eeebygum can you imagine having a multijam?
I’d feel sorry for everyone else.
Hee!
*sends jam a wee-squeeze*
Jam, if you had been here for that one, you wouldn’t feel sorry for him!
Dragon remembers him I’m sure.
*floors the accelerator*
*crashes into the thread*
*leaps out of car and squeezes the Moomin*
*staggers away towards the hospital*
So long as you had your four-ways on when you did this it’s alllll ok.
(*please note four-ways is what we call emergy lights ’round my part of the planet)
Oh, ok. I was wondering…
I realized there was a good chance that’s not what most people call it so thought I’d save us all some trouble and explain.
Really, I though you were talking about a 3 way +1.
… if that’s how you want to play it
Oh cool! You got a button in your car that activates it?
Let’s just say it’s not the first time it has come up in conversation before.
I did NOT crash because I was in a four way!
(Though…the mental image did make me giggle.)
I drive around with a gimp in my trunk, for just such occasions.
Hey…! Untie me and let me out of your truck, dammit! :p
Back in the 80s there was a car that when you pushed the emergy light button the trunk would open.
And we were grateful!
*hands Dragon a margarita for the pain and general trouble*
*and a cookie, just becuz*
Awww. Tanks!
*munchity-munchy-munch-siiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiip*
What I am is what I am
Are you what you are or what?
But then, I’m not aware of too many things. I know what I know if you know what I mean.
King Troll King Troll. King Troll?
Is gay Is gay. Is out of the closet?
I’m a troll You’re a troll. Join forces?
Im too hot to be trool.
But not to be a troll.
Maybe this will help…
*dumps bukkit of ice on Closet*
*sweeps ice into closet*
*closes door*
Too cold now.
Thx alot.
Well then, you might as well be a troll.
In fine Jeff Foxworthy style, show me some “You might be a troll if…”
You might be a troll if the first thing to come to mind when you post a comment is “FIRST!”.
You might be a troll if the letters “t-r-o-l-l” are in your name.
You might be a troll if you came from a frozen swamp.
You might be a troll if you can’t think of anything better than that one.
You might be a troll if you find serious business on the interwebz.
2QT2BSTR8?
IH8YTE
You break it you bought it.
That’s what my fiancé said our first time.
*snork*
Oh yes, I laughed long and hard too, what a clever girl. That’s why I am marrying her.
I think my husband married me for my lasagna.
Did he divorce you after he’d eaten it?
No, he just requests more.
What happens on the days you make meatloaf?? Does he threaten divorce then?
Giving the innuendo machine a test drive Dragon?
Well, we DID just install a new one.
Just as a point of reference, where is this one located?
The cad. How can you be sure he’s not devouring other pasta based dishes behind your back. Strong is the man not swayed by tagliatelle.
We are still talking about lasagna right?
*wipes up puddle of drool gathering beneath Jules*
WIK, her lasagna is one of the reasons I hope to be marrying my GF one o’ these days
Uh, Judy…I hate to be to one to tell you, but that wasn’t drool.
Jules still isn’t housebroken.
ewwwwwww!
I’ll go get the ShamWow…
That’s an interesting pseudonym for it!
“Hey Baby! I wanna heat and eat yo’ lasagna!”
I think you mean euphemism.
No, it’s a palindrome:
“Go hang a salami, I’m a lasagna hog.”
You married Garfield?
!
(wish I’d said that)
“Lasagna”, huh? I’ll have to give that a spin in the ol’ Urban Dictionary…..*spin* And here we are:
n: Lasagna
The slang description of a yeast infection.
I was gonna eat her out, but I think she had a wicked case of Lasagna.
Thank you. I’m going to go find the brain bleach now.
Hey, I’m just the messenger here. Don’t bleach me, bro!
Psssst! I wouldn’t call Dragon “Bro” if you’re not into char.
I guess that bit of pop-cultural reference is a little dated now, huh?
Were you in Menstruation?
eww, and ewwww.
I absolutely love how he capitalized that…
My guess is: She.
This thread took a very unexpected turn.
Rofl.
Finally a comment here made me laugh.
Guys; Leave msns here D:
What you got against Menstruation?!
Communist bastard.
What on earth would that have to do with it?
Menstruation has anything to do with anything.
Its godly.
No, it’s a royal pain!
Its twisted. I like it.
Quit stringing Avis along.
I’m new to it.
Margaret?
Oh, how I WISH you had used “God” as your name in that post…!
I thought about it.
Why wld anyone like menstruation? Five days without lasagna is 4 days more than I can bear. I can only go so long living off ______
*desperately searching for food based metaphor that implies stroking it*
Just another day at the store.
This looks like a deleted scene from Clerks
But no Silent Bob… Unless… he is under the car!
He was outside waving his arms frantically trying to get the clerks attention. He jumped out of the way at the very last second.
*imagines Silent Bob jumping… Sees him land and light a cigarette nonchalantly.*
that happened to me the other day
Brakes fail, or drive-thru win?
Come on, everybody knows the brakes are the long skinny pedal on the right.
Then why doesn’t my car go when I hit the big wide gas one?
You may have a problem. Best to take it to the shop.
Guess so.
You were stepping on the handbrake…duh.
Ohhh…
Obviously troll cars run strictly on frowns.
What I like is that he doesn`t even hit the breaks…
He certainly can’t get a break…
Maybe he wanted a Kit Kat
Scary to think what he would’ve done for a Klondike Bar!
That was an insult to fat pedals everywhere.
Brakes? Where we’re going we don’t need brakes!
Ooh, Funyuns, my fav.
Funyuns, neither onions, nor fun.
But, oh, so good.
*shudders*
*shivers*
*squats*
*gets out the pooper-scooper*
*hands it to closet*
*takes back the pooper-scooper. Hand closet a sandwich bag.*
Biscuits go right thru me.
I thought they were serving Funyuns?
*sniff mess on floor*
Could be but I guess we will never know for sure.
But are they yun?
GOD GIVE ME THE STRENGTH AND THE NERVES TO POP A ZOMBIE’S HEAD LIKE A ZOMBIE DESERVES
Bop it over the head. It splits open like an orange.
Is it me or was the driver a kid?
You were the driver?
Let me rephrase that:
Are my eyes fooling me or was that driver a teenager?
Nice recovery. I think the driver is young. And once again, I think the driver is drunk.
Definitely probably.
He was the one they volunteered to go on the beer run.
I like how he has to squeeze out of the car. But is it really the hazard lights on or just the left turn signal?
Wouldn’t the either/or wording of BFF’s question proclude the possibility of BFF being the driver? Barring that, wouldn’t the fact that he refered to himself in the present tense (“Is it me”), but refered to the driver in the past tense (“or was the driver a kid?”) proclude the possibility of BFF being the driver?
In short. Maybe.
OK, as long as that’s cleared up then.
First
Here’s your prize! A slightly used potato! Have fun now.
You forgot to include the slightly used rubber fist, minimal stains!
Oh, and you were so close too! Only about nine minutes off.
This isn’t just old, it’s ancient. This clip’s been around for ages.
An aged fail is a good fail. Never forget that.
Like wine.
Like good wine.
Like fine wine.
* starts whining *
Hehe… Like an awesome bottle of wine!
Wine?
It’s about as old as my relationship with your mom.
Wow, that was mature.
Since when do trolls have to be mature?
With a name like King Troll you were expecting maturity?
Not at all. I was merely making a statment.
That really wasn’t a compliment.
That made me chuckle.
Damn, me too.
Ho ho ho ho ho!!!
he he he he:!:
Little brown bug singing off key…
.
Wait, what?
Now you’re getting it…
It’s bad when you have to teach the trolls.
What is up with your name? That has always driven me nuts.
Always?
I’ve been coming here for a long time but would post under different names.
The funny part is I haven’t been here all that long.
It’s Japanese, you philistine.
Not on Google translate.
Oh, sure, because Google translate is the answer to EVERYTHING.
No, Google is the answer to everything.
42 is the answer to everything.
*hands My required name a ceegar*
Light?
..and, to quote Arthur from same (in response to several of the posters here today)
“you should send that in to the Reader’s Digest. They’ve got a page for people like you.”
Lol… Japanese. Based off of various things, philosophies, life styles, hobbies etc. Much less impressive when you know the world but generally it’s Ai= “Love” Ki= “Energy”, “intention” or “spirit”, waza= “technique.” I’ll let you guys interpret that they way you want.
You love to have energetically good technique when you do it?
Doesn’t everyone with a clue?
Aikiwaza, you buy that turkey yet? I recommend getting a fresh one, not frozen.
Not yet. I will be getting it tomorrow. I have a friend of a friend that has a turkey farm here. I got my thanksgiving turkey from there, figured I would get this one there too.
Ok, now I’m a little jealous! That has got to be some fresh turkey!Please, please tell me how it turns out!
No prob. If you were closer by I’d invite you to try yourself! I just hope I have the patience for it.
LOVE SPIRIT TECHNIQUE!!!!!! LOL, sounds something an anime character would shout as an attack name.
Close enough anyway. It came from my study of Aikido. I like it’s philosophy and ideals. Like I said earlier… the name loses something in English, but I think sounds good in Japanese.
*flips*
I heard that Hanii Puppy’s mom was a bitch!
Hazard lights? Looked more like a turn signal, to me. I think he meant to do that. That’ll teach the manager to black-list him in the bad checks file.
Haha at the gas station I work at we have a big list on the wall labeled “Bad Checks” for everyone to see.
You work at a gas station? BIG surprise. really.
Hey now, I’m still in school.
Oh, ok. Not so bad then.
So today Arthur Eld thinks I work at AIG and you’re not surprised I work at a gas station.
Nothing surprises me anymore.
Ever.
Not even pickles?
No, not the pickles
Not any more.
Shock, yes.
Surprise, no.
That happens with electric pickles.
*tries to think of a comment to surprise WN*
*Fails miserably*
Frankly, I’m not surprised.
Nothing personal, aiki!
Given my track record the past week… none taken. Must be a permanent case of writer’s block.
No one expects the Spanish Inquisition.
I thought you said college…
Since when is a college not a school?
When it’s Penn State!
Well I don’t go there, so I’m fine.
I went to PSU
Sorry Malicite, I confess it was a completely random choice,
a humor MacGuffin…
Classic logic flaw:
P implies Q does not mean Not P implies Not Q.
The absence of evidence is not evidence of an absence!
I went to Penn State! *sad face*
Gee thanks. *graduated from Penn State and is now making a sad face*
I graduated from Penn State…gee thanks… *sad face*
And I fail…over and over again.
Um…I think we get it, sweetie.
…almost wish I hadn’t confessed that it was a MacGuffin…
Say, does anybody know which college Malicite went to?
Um…Ohio?
*ducks*
*gooses*
FINALLY I got the chance to get you back!
When I was posting them, the nesting wasn’t showing and I thought that it simply wasn’t posting. Sorry to college bomb…

I’m still a Fail Blog newbie.
it’s “Cheques”.
Not in the states.
Well, it WILL be when we take over! Which shouldn’t be long now!
Perhaps you’ll get the little parts that the Chinese don’t want.
Funny you should say that. I was watching some show last night that described some of what was happening with the economy these days, and it mentioned that the US is borrowing a LOT of money from china. In fact, it just borrowed another (something like) $350 billion from them to help cover the bailouts. I’m starting to wonder when china (and saudi arabia) will just outright own the US.
zzzzz…..
This is not necessarily a bad thing. It means our dollar still has worth. Now China can’t afford for us to go under so it will anything it can to stop it.
How can you say or dollar is worth anything when $.02 = .02 cents???
*ponders how difficult it will be to learn how to spell all over again*
Let’s see – instead of “..or” it is now “..our”. And “que” instead of “k”.
Don’t think I can do it.
*wonders what the weather is like in Brazil these days*
WOW! How’d you get such a cool job! Golly! You know that Gas Station Cashier, is like my DREAM JOB! Like do you have a big Plexiglas window to stand behind or are you going to get shot?
It’s better than McD’s I used to work at.
*notes to self*
Never piss off Judy.
Not to fear, Jules. I’m a dog lover. Now roll over so I can rub your belly.
I want my belly rubbed too! Please?
Do butterflies even have bellies? Okay, well, roll over. *rubs*
Hey! That doesn’t look like a belly!
*runs over*
*lays down*
*rolls over*
*gives cute puppy dog eyes*
I just can’t resist a pair of cute puppy dog eyes!
*rubs*
*tail wags*
*leg kicks*
Ah, yeah that’s the spot.
*rubs WIK’s belly*
Make it nice and warm to receive lasagna.
Yeah, I thought it was a turn signal too. But I looked again and the other light sorta looks like it’s flashing.
Hazard lights go on as soon as the airbag opens. And the airbag definitley opened unless the smoke in the car was pot…
Maybe the brakes failed? If your brakes fail or the gas pedal sticks you’re meant to turn on the hazards and honk the horn a lot so he might have been doing that before he hit. Doesn’t look like he’s all there though (who shrugs when they go through a plate glass window) so I’m going for the drunk theory.
Did someone call for Koolaid man. OH YEAH!!!!!
“Ummm …. Whopper, whopper with cheese, no onions, pickles, bun seeds, extra pickley pickles…”
(get it? DRIVE THROUGH! Ahahahahah shut up, it’s funny)
*snork*
I laughed (but not until he told me it was funny)
Bun seed? You mean sesame seed bun? Extra pickley pickles? What does that even mean??
Sorry, I can’t address this comment. I’ve gone back to a mouse. Otherwise, …. *shudders*
Dear God!!! Is that what you were??!
The beauty of it is, one day you will hear what I’m referencing and laugh even more hysterically. (hopefully!)
And then you will want some yourself.
Sorry to tell you, but when you explain your own jokes you make them un-funny.
The “something win in” on the videos has got to go. It runs them.
No, I think it ruins them.
I completely disagree. I think it ruins them.
Pickles anyone?
AAAAAHHHHH!
*runs away*
Boggy – - hold me! I’m scared!
*kidnaps Judy*
Ha! No one come near or I’ll kill her!
Give me what I demand or she dies!
*flies overhead, plucks Judy from Trolls grasp, flies to safety with Judy*
*turns and GLOWERS at Troll*
Overdo FAIL
*GLOWERS at Closet*
*GLOWERS, but not necessarily at anyone in particular*
*swoops down, steals Troll’s crown, douses him in lighter fluid,
and lights him on fire.*
Um, no.
Well I think it was.
No one listens to a troll’s opinion.
But if they’re the King?
Not even then.
And self-proclaimed kings don’t count anyway.
Well that didn’t work.
*bursts from behind and breaks King Troll’s neck, then throws him into Boggy’s playpen*
*unties Judy*
Are you alright, Judy?
Ditto
BZZZZZZZZZZT.
Nope. Sorry. Please try again.
OMG! Thanks to all of you! I luv you guys!
heer am BOGGY! whut U needs Judy Mowse?ClosetBOGGY saves you fum bad
Troll!*STOMP STOMP STOMP*CloseTroll
*picks up closet pancake*
*tosses into BOG*
I aint go no pancakes
Dude, you ARE a pancake.
Maple leave soon.
The sooner the butter.
Don’t get all in a flap, Jack.
Yeah, you’re crêping me out.
Boggy – please take care of the King, too? I thought he was going to be nice, but I was wrong. He scared me!
Hazard light win fail
“oh shit” face expression win
Pickles anyone
*slits closet’s neck*
If you’re not my troll, you’re no one’s troll.
Cut my breathing and slit my throat.
I must be emo.
o:
Your pain turns me on. *fap* *fap* *fap* *fap* *fap* *fap*
Not right now ok? We have trolling to do.
Knock it off.
*knocks King Troll off*
*and not in a good way*
How pickley are they?
I think that’s the blinker, not the hazard lights…
I JUST HAVE TO SAY:
I really hate how you guys are setting up the videos now. >:| Opening, ok, but lame, but counting down and shit is dumb.
Reply in
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We are not the ones who set up the videos.
Thank you!
At least there seem to be less and less of these comments each day.
That’s epic win all the way. Convenience Stores are for drunks. You can’t get rave supplies at a Convenience Store.
Wise words Zaula
You know, it would be MUCH more convenient if this comment section was actually an irc channel!
Ummm… I am not in any way computer savvy. What do you mean?
I run cocks.
Its a slang for Im gay.
Basically another form of chat.
Internet Relay Chat. Would allow people to also have private chats, eliminate the 300-post “show all” problems, etc.
Q.Q
IRC is chatting live, like IM but everyone all in one “room” (as they call it on AOL). Its very cool. But VERY addictive. I can talk you through it if you wanna try it out.
Unless someone is in the room (and by that I mean sitting right next to me) talking me through it won’t help much. I’m a tactile learner. Some stuff I can get, but when it comes to things like what you are proposing, not so much.
Also, I am experiencing extreme difficulties with my computer. I tried Firefox, but that REALLY didn’t help. I need more RAM, and a major update on my operating system. That’s what the guy at the Apple Store told me yesterday.
Ohhhhhhh you have a mac? That’s too bad
(TEE HEE)
I wouldn’t worry too much about updating the OS. What version do you have? Sales people will ALWAYS try to talk you into stuff like that. Although it depends on what you NEED to do. I would say add more ram first and see what that does. Although, again, the OS isnt all that much. I just upgraded my Powerbook to 10.5.6 and I think it was only around $160.
I also have to say, even though I dont like macs, I’ve never had any problems with this powerbook G4 (3 years now I think) so I dont know what kind of problems you might be having. The best suggestion might be to copy all your data off of it, wipe the drive and reinstall the OS. That might fix everything. I’ve never had to do that with a mac but it’s a common fix with Windows.
No, it’s true. I need a new OS. I can’t access certain parts of the web as it is right now (like my own e-mail account) and pages take FOREVER to load. I am gonna buy more ram first, since I have a friend who speaks computer and can install it for me. I have an iBook G4, I think the G stands for Gadot. With Firefox I can get to my e-mail, but not here, the page splits down the center and it gets VERY frustrating after that.
Hmmm. Sounds sketchy, but computers are a pain so whaddayagonnado? Well, I’ll look into a mac irc client at some point anyway and what I can probably do is install the program here, configure it, then zip it up so you can download and install it there already configured. Some day!
1) /join #failblog somewhere
2) advertise it to the world
3) ???
4) profit!
…and on the Internet, you don’t even need storage space for the underpants!
No one there on efnet
No banner ads on IRC.
So, no money to be made.
I can’t seem to post anymore…bugger.
Ahhh what the hell…I don’t get this…I haven’t been able to reply to any comments all afternoon.
Your posts are there – we’ve hit 300+ posts and you must now “Show all” as 1 page to see the new nested posts from p 1, or put the “?cp=all” in the URL for each post.
BTW, when you do that and find the PSU posts, you’ll see my explanation for using PSU.
Ohhhhh…doh…
Thank you, btw!
I’ve been having the same problem none of my posts ever appear and my stupid avatar which I changed over a week ago is still the generic box thingy. I think failblog has something against me.
I see a picture, not a generic. I think I heard someone say you have to do something with your cookies or internet files. I am not sure…
Guys, just because you have your snazzy new editor that can add text to the video doesn’t mean you have to use it EVERY SINGLE TIME. The “wins” you’ve been adding to the end are generally lame– and even when they’re okay, they disrupt the rhythm of the video. So just show us the action and leave the commentary to the comments!
Thanks for the suggestion. We’ll get right on it and email you when we’ve changed the format. Sit tight ’till then…
That’s my worst nightmare.
wasting twinkies?
“Gah!!! Save the Twinkies!!!” *scrambles to pick them up from under the car*
TWEENKEES!
*obliterates car with club in order to get to twinkies first*
Whoopsie. On the phone, perhaps?
Perhaps, either way I’d say that was not planned.
No left turn unstoned.
Those aren’t hazard lights, it’s a turn signal. Notice the right side isn’t flashing.
The right side is shy and does not go around flashing as much.
Yes, it is. It’s a little hard to see, is all.
Thank you! I was wondering when somebody would finally mention that! What a witty and observant person you are!
[/sarcasm]
Cashier WIN.
PLEASE REMOVE THE INTRO AND THE WIN, LEAVE THE VIDEOS UNEDITED.
Reply if you agree.
IGNORE THIS COMMENT, REPLY TO THE SECOND.
NO!
Caps don’t make your point any different.
Who really cares?
Oh man…you haven’t been paying attention lately, have you?
People are more incensed about the change of format to the fail videos than about the war in Iraq, being laid off, the economy, hate crimes…you name it.
PLEASE REMOVE THE INTRO AND THE WIN. THEY ARE NOT NESCISSARY.
Reply if you agree.
Oops, ignore the double post. I thought that it didn’t work the first time.
OMFG people! Is this so hard to figure out?
from [your email address]
to failpictures+contact@gmail.com
subject Videos
Hi folks, just wanted to let you know that a lot of the people who write in the comments section of failblog are annoyed by the new format of the videos. In particular, we do not need the 3…2…1 interruption.
TIA for listening. Luv the site in general!
I’ve given up telling folks where the “complaints” department is. But I’m glad to see I’m not the only one frustrated by them.
I’ve just started telling people that I’ll get right on that…should be fixed in a couple of days.
EPIC LAWSUIT.
Cleanup in isle 6.
I think its abit worse then little kid puking.
How many grammatical mistakes can you make in one sentence?
How many mistakes does it take before the entire sentence is one big mistake?
Well, as you see, only one: mistaking the brake for the gas. All the others are results. And… where is the money gone that the guy at the desk was counting?
Did you read ANY of the other comments?
Answer: No.
They don’t, you know. That’s why we get sixty gajillion comments that all say the same thing down at the bottom of the fails.
I’m not entirely sure he read MY comment, as his answer doesn’t really fit.
I was just guessing on the basis of nesting and that (s)he used a derivation af “mistake” in the response, but yeah. It could have just been chance.
Gah! *o
How many roads must a man walk down
Before you call him a man?
Yes, ‘n’ how many seas must a white dove sail
Before she sleeps in the sand?
Yes, ‘n’ how many times must the cannon balls fly
Before they’re forever banned?
The answer, my friend, is blowin’ in the wind,
The answer is blowin’ in the wind.
what, the money he was counting is blowing in the wind?
Now now…no man is an aisleland.
whu nidz gremer whan u iz gut hut bums???
Do you post merely because you can?
I actually don’t think that he CAN, really…I’m thinking it’s blind luck that these random arrangements of letters gets posted.
I think you might be onto something there.
I just typed a random sequence and it got eaten.
It’s comment #342302 in case it ever shows up again.
I love how the comments section turns into a circle jerk for people to just chit chat about totally unrelated shit within 5 posts. The whole internet is FAIL
What is it with trolls who complain about the comments section? It’s not as if they HAVE to read the comments.
Jealousy, BFF. These are people whose sole mode of communication is talking to their guild members on World of Warcraft.
Dragonwriter, I just laughed very hard. Thank you.
Yer welcome!
DragonWriter, That was brilliant.
I got a wood now.
Marry me ?
*sits down with giant bowl of popcorn (with pecorino romano and truffle salt)*
This ought to be… interesting.
I have a hatchet if you want it Dragon!
Ooh, that stuff’s good!
*munches*
Nah. Taking a hatchet to that wood would be like squashing a flea by dropping an ocean liner on it.
*SNORK!*
Hehehe!
Ok, fingernail clippers then?
Which, as years of watching cartoons have taught me, should be both effective and entertaining.
And yet, slightly unrealistic.
But funny!
Yes, but why let reality stand in your way? I’ve personally never been a fan.
Opposed to people whose sole mode of communication is a childish blog?
Of course they don’t have to. But if guys here write such things, how can they not? And then, if they don’t read it, how can they not answer to what they have not read? But he discloses himself, this guy: he starts his comment with “I love how…”, so why prevent people doing what they love?
I hate these rhetorical questions in the comment section.
Anal anyone
lana all
Wow that was funny. Oh no wait, no it wasn’t.
Same thing about your mother NOT getting an abortion.
You are so grotesquely unfunny that it’s indescribable. Now please, for the sake of everyone here, f*ck off.
BFF, why are you talking to the wind?
Who are you talking to, BFF?
Here…I brought cookies. Have one?
Hee!
Can’t you see this-
*turns and faces a gust of wind*
Oops. My imagination. Never mind.
*takes cookie*
Thank you.
Cookies plz
Good luck.
Nice the way they show the crashed car in the still shot before you even watch the video. Dramatic Tension FAIL.
It’s almost as dumb as the video comments. Almost.
Almost.
Eeh .. Portugal Again xP
submitted by consistency fail!
Somebody definitely misunderstood “Drive In”
I’d say they’ve got it better than anyone else.
hi
Santa claus is only so jolly cuz he knows where all the bad girls live..
Wait, IT IS december now isnt it?
Closet, your kindergarten teacher is looking for you.
I think he’s at the “spa” with Sam.
Shit, Not again.
@Bondfan
Just for naming yourself Bondfan you fail.
Its an automatically failure.
Hey Closet, Shut Up.
That’s dumb! Why did he left the car in the store?
took you time to come up with that?
nice going *claps*
I did wonder where he thought he was going to wander off to after that little gaff. Of course, he was prolaby drunk and in shock.
pregnancy FAIL!
http://beefandsage.com/2009/03/manbabies/
European Geography Fail:
So is it submitted by HREB or HSEB?
Submitter identification fail!
Oo, well spotted.
Now, what’s the answer?
The world depends on it.
What is with all the videos having gay wins?? They are never funny!
You’re never funny!
Why did someone put the “brakes” on this CBS News bulletin?
http://michaelfury.wordpress.com/2008/08/16/black-box/
Strange clock “fail”:
http://michaelfury.wordpress.com/2008/12/18/clock-stoppers/
*slips a note full of sweet nothings into honeypot*
*hands honeypot to AA* This must belong to you.
*hopes he has finally done a good deed.
Yes, indeed. Now when he checks in to find me…he’ll find YOU here. He’ll love that.
I won’t waste my precious time on him. Your sweet nothing mean everything to me.
*SMOOOOCH!*
At least the ice cream is okay.
O crap did not think of that fail on my part again. Shall I light the fuse for you? *References the above DW comment*
FAILblog FAIL — not posting my comments. >:( And, it’s not the first time it’s been doing this either.
Actually, your comments ARE being posted. You just have to know the trick.
This trick can only be learned after you have passed the Failblog inauguration ceremony.
Ooooo! Tell me more of this wondrous power!
If you already know it, what’s the point?
I finally figured this out! I never understood what was going on sometimes.
Ummm … no thanks. I like sex like the next guy, but, I’m not about to shell out cash to have some lady I don’t know come into my acquaintance. That’s just immoral and unethical all around.
Wrong kind of trick.
And do you really know much about the girls you meet in bars?
HAR HAR, SUMWUNS GOTS THER MIND IN THE GUTTERR!
Nice try. You may be on the right track.
OMG!! That must’ve hurt like hell. I wonder what happend to him after that incident??? I bet he never wanted to try that stunt again. I wouldn’t. Well im always careful when I do tricky stunts and I keep it at a minimum. Well not that small. Well That was awesome and I hope that he’s ok.
Trust the Midas touch!!
Lolz
“drive thru”
Mikki Sixx?
yes
I thought it said Nikki Sixx at first
No unfortunately i have not been that blessed, so i’ve had to settle for the
slightly inferior position of “mikki” sixx
i idolize him like a small fat child idolizes cheezeburgerz (Y)
Haha almost as good. Course much more people have heard of nikki.
one day people will also know mikki, probably not sixx thou lol, “believe me dat”
Well as Self Proclaimed King of FAIL Blog and all its Territories, I will try my best to promote ‘mikki’ sixx.
Much love, thank you and good night
Good night.
Though his word means nothing along with his power of word of mouth.
At least the Ice Cream survived
Reinforced chassis win!
Stop showing win when there’s not.
Working on it.
I think about food when I masturbate
PIZZA ARRIVED!!!!
And the Twinkies remained on the shelf, proving once again, Twinkies are indestructible.
I love how he got out and was all “Whatever, I’m not cleaning it up.”
What can the guy say? He just really, really, *really* wanted some Ho-Hos and a Mountain Dew.
I wish that had happened to my college. On second thought, my head of department is so insensitive and retarded it probably will
That car is a 2001-2005 VW Passat Wagon. All VWs after 2000 automatically turn the hazard lights on when the airbags deploy. So there you go.
The store didn’t have a drive through so the guy made one.
wasn’t there an advance auto parts commercial like this?
Seriously, the titles have GOT to go. Its so much funnier as the original video. The dumb sound bites at the start sound so cheap and always finding a “win” just sucks. Its really scrapping the barrel on some of these. STOP NOW FAILBLOG.
Seriously, the titles have GOT to go. Its so much funnier as the original video. The dumb sound bites at the start sound so cheap and always finding a “win” just sucks. Its really scrapping the barrel on some of these. STOP NOW FAILBLOG…
Seriously, the titles have GOT to go. Its so much funnier as the original video. The dumb sound bites at the start sound so cheap and always finding a “win” just sucks. Its really scrapping the barrel on some of these. STOP NOW FAILBLOG..
Seriously, the titles have GOT to go. Its so much funnier as the original video. The dumb sound bites at the start sound so cheap and always finding a “win” just sucks. Its really scrapping the barrel on some of these. STOP NOW FAILBLOG…..
Seriously, the titles have GOT to go. Its so much funnier as the original video. The dumb sound bites at the start sound so cheap and always finding a “win” just sucks. Its really scrapping the barrel on some of these. STOP NOW FAILBLOG……..
Seriously, the titles have GOT to go. Its so much funnier as the original video. The dumb sound bites at the start sound so cheap and always finding a “win” just sucks. Its really scraping the barrel on some of these. STOP NOW FAILBLOG.
It was at this moment that the convenience store clerk knew it was time to suggest a drive-thru window.
All hail the fail.
soooo….light identification fail….
that was a blinker, not hazard lights.
that’s a double fail.
how convenient. a drive in convenience store. right next to the slurpee machine
OMG THIS IS NOT FUNNY THIS IS TERRIBLE AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
yays
wowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!!!!!!!!!!
LOL SUBMIT FAIL. the video claims that the video was submitted by Hseb but it’s clearly Hreb.
Thank goodness the ice cream is untouched!
From the contributor: THis was a Volkswagen Passat model 1996-2005. The young driver hit a petrol station store. Probably didn’t know how to drive his father’s car…
What?!?! It wasnt a woman?!??!
na thats the kinda thing a hasidic would do, no regard
ummmmmmmmmm those werent his hazard lights it was a left turn signal but ok……… actually, I geuss you failed too.
FAIL
thats is so not a hazards win….. its the left blinker!
This guy was 90% under influence of Drugs (alco, pot etc.) When he got out of the car..he was just pissed nothing more…
Like in “BACK TO THE FUTURE” part 1 !
the hazard lights never came on…. that was the left blinkers
well at least he had his turn signal on : p
Good evening, I’d like a A Three Musketeers, and a ball point pen, one of those combs there, a pint of Old Harper, a couple of flashlight batteries and some beef jerky.
#51
you can actually see that the celling light doesn’t work. but they start working after he crashes xD
He can consider himself lucky he was in a german car.
The guy in the car was trying to act normal after he crashed in the car
At least he signaled…
In the video at the end it says Submitted by: HSEB
And under the video it says Submitten by: HREB
So who is the guy who submitted this vid.? hseb or hreb??
I guess that dude really wanted his slurpee
LMAO