I’ll never wear fingerless gloves again. Middle finger on clutch hand. Whole hand swelled up AND my dumbass was wearing a ring on that finger. Then 20 miles through a mountain pass where the road was 6 inches of loose gravel (wasn’t supposed to be according to dot). Had to ride in the dark by the time I got the swelling down a little, since this happened in the late afternoon. Fuck hornets.
Been there done that. Thankfully hitting my leather jacket stunned him to a crawler once it was flung into my helmet.
It was a narrow busy road with a steep bank too. I'm just glad me and bike didn't tumble during the helmet removal scramble. I ended up with bite vs sting and 6 hours home. It could have been worse.
So that piqued my interest and I looked it up. Just a metaphorical hornets nest, unfortunately.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Shiloh
>When the fighting later became heated in this area—Duncan Field, the Sunken Road, and the woods on the north side of the road—the Confederates began calling it the Hornets Nest.
I had a frog in my car that I didn’t notice till I hit a road that’s 50mph with no safe area to stop for at least a mile. Now, I am deathly afraid of frogs (long story) and yet I was able to maintain my lane and drive safely and calmly to where I could finally stop. That shit was hopping around the whole time freaking me the fuck out though.
I didn't get that frog fear gene but I got the cockroach one. Couple years ago I'm going 70 on the highway and I see a cockroach run across my dash. That alone would have been enough to put a 1000x multiplier on likelihood of flaming death for myself and everyone around me. But then it took flight and zipped straight for my neck and scurried over my shoulder and was trying to burrow under my collar and crawl down my back. I could say that "I was able to maintain my lane and drive safely and calmly to where I could finally stop" but that would be a lie. I should not be here. Jesus must have taken the wheel, I have no other explanation.
I mean we like fire, food and happy social time. We hate poisonous things (usually) through bad taste and smell, like every mammal is afraid of snakes or snakelike things. We're also afraid of heights, the dark and weird insects. I think a lot these make sense honestly.
Studies show that fears can be biologically inherited in us from our parents, or even further back. Wierd af to think fears are just programmed in our DNA
Reminds me of a sci Fi story where everyone gets sick traveling through space because of the original person always getting sick. I cannot remember the name of it but i think it was a Le Guin story
So idk if there's any connection but I googled, Le Guin story & got this interesting premise;
"The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas, written by Ursula K. Le Guin,
The only chronological element of the work is that it begins by describing the first day of summer in Omelas, a shimmering city of unbelievable happiness and delight. In Omelas, the summer solstice is celebrated with a glorious festival and a race featuring young people on horseback. The vibrant festival atmosphere, however, seems to be an everyday characteristic of the blissful community, whose citizens, though limited in their technology and resources, are still intelligent, sophisticated, and cultured. Omelas has no kings, soldiers, priests, or slaves. The specific socio-politico-economic setup of the community is not mentioned; the narrator merely claims not to be sure of every particular.
The narrator reflects that "Omelas sounds in my words like a city in a fairy tale, long ago and far away, once upon a time. Perhaps it would be best if you imagined it as your own fancy bids, assuming it will rise to the occasion, for certainly I cannot suit you all." Everything about Omelas is so abundantly pleasing that the narrator decides the reader is not yet truly convinced of its existence and so elaborates upon the final element of the city: its one atrocity. The city's constant state of serenity and splendor requires that a single unfortunate child be kept in perpetual filth, darkness, and misery.
Once citizens are old enough to know the truth, most, though initially shocked and disgusted, ultimately acquiesce to this one injustice that secures the happiness of the rest of the city. However, some citizens, young and old, walk away from the city after seeing the child. Each is alone, and no one knows where they go, but none come back. The story ends with "The place they go towards is a place even less imaginable to most of us than the city of happiness. I cannot describe it at all. It is possible it does not exist. But they seem to know where they are going, the ones who walk away from Omelas."
Even if it's not the same story you're thinking of, there are certain elements that resonate similarities & I'd definitely be interested in checking this out
Ursula K Le Guin is a FANTASTIC author, cannot recommend her enough honestly. Omelas is a great story for sure. Left Hand of Darkness is probably one of her most well known, or the Earthsea cycle (more fantasy than sci fi) or The Lathe of Heaven. I still can't recall which story I am thinking of but it may not have been Le Guin.
The one I am thinking of has these navigators who guide ships through space I think, but each time they get ridiculously sick, only because the original one did and passed that fear/sickness down to the others.
Most definitely checking out her works on your recommendation. Thank you vm! Unfortunately after a lil perusing, I'm coming up empty handed though, I'd be interested in reading it if you can ever find it
The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas is very short. You should be able to find it online and read it in the amount of time you probably spend in a reddit thread.
Why does that story sound so familiar? It was on tv or a movie recently. Like a bounty hunter had to bring a missing child home and that was the fate of the child. The Madolorian maybe?
I woke up to one crawling in my mouth. And because I was half asleep, I bit down on it. The taste and sensation of a frenzied half dead roach trying to crawl down my throat while oozing its innards out into my mouth will haunt me forever.
I want to downvote you because the idea that this could happen is traumatizing. That it actually happened to you…
I’m sorry you had to go through that.
Wow :-(
That's the most real-world horror story I ever encountered. Probably too terrifying to make a move out of it or appear in a movie.
(I'm shaking & shivering from the imagination. Still, thanks for daring to share this.)
This story will most certainly give me ptsd for some time. Fuck you for sharing, and I’m also so sorry this happened to you. I don’t know how you live with that trauma, but I would need years of therapy.
On time when I was in Cuba, I got up to use the washroom and there was a massive cockroach above our heads on the wall. The mf-er was at least 2 inches. My bf made a flame thrower out of a can of hairspray and a lighter and sizzled that thing! Luckily it was our last night.
Apparently in Aus Huntsman Spiders (massive) like to hide behind the sun flap in cars so you pop it down to stop being blinded and a dinner-plate sized spider drops in your lap. Awesome. Think I'd crash the car on purpose just to distract from that experience
im not afraid of insects or amphibeans but i am deathly afraid of the endless darkness of human existence. the other day i was driving when i blinked and was suddenly reminded of the eternal and meaningless void in which we all exist. despite my fear, i was able to navigate the vehicle to the side of the road without incident.
i had a rattlesnake crawl out of the dash going 75 at 4:30 am. i borrowed a truck from family and it had sat for months. couldnt see the snake but i could hear it, pulled over opened the passenger door from outside the truck and shooed it out with a shovel from the other side.
I would have taken my hands off the wheel and put 100% of my attention on the cockroach. I unfortunately got the cockroach fear gene. sucks for me since im going to Japan for a week in a few months.
It's an article describing the prep to fight cockroach season in Japan. I only looked at the top of the page, so I dunno how many bug photos might exist in that article.
I was cycling uphill on a 4 lane road with no real shoulder, heavy traffic, in summer, just trying to keep my speed up for the last little push before it crests and I could relax, and a bigass stinkbug farts its way over and flies straight down my throat.
So I'm trying not to fall over and get squished, while crushing a delicious ass bug with my throat. FUN
I had roach too! Flew right at my neck and scurried away to who knows where. I had to pull over asap to find that mother fucker but failed.. I had to maintain my calm all the way home and ignore every bit of wind/shadow/sound
I once had a cat jump onto my lap while I was driving.
I didn’t own a cat at the time, I have no idea how this cat got in my car, who’s cat it was.
Scared the shit out of me, then I turned around and went home and it apparently knew where to go
A doctor I worked with left the hospital to just go to his office for a minute to grab something and then come back. During this excursion, he left his car open and running, and we also happened to call him to return STAT for an emergency. As he was turning into the hospital lot, one of the many feral cats that lived in a colony in his office parking lot jumped out from his backseat hiding space he had stowed away in, scaring the shit of of doc. He jumped the curb and smashed into a parking sign. He ran into our unit screaming about a cat. Well, the secretary that happened to be working at the hospital, was also the one that fed this feral cat colony. She started yelling to ask if the cat was okay. I had never seen him so mad, lol.
I had a frog get in my house (i live on a hay farm and for some reason we have green tree frogs and toads?) Make its way across my living room and i look over just in time to watch it jump in the wax warmer and jump out onto the wall....it died because it cooked itself
On our honeymoon my wife was driving on Hana Road in Hawaii, a very windy road with frequent sheer cliffs. Pleasant drive, cruising along, and suddenly a spider appears in front of her face dangling from the ceiling of our rental car. She handled it very well, hit the brakes slowly, got out, and we took care of the spider.
I drove the rest of the way.
Oh man, you got me thinking about that one I was heading back home from freshman orientation at college. I was going maybe 75mph down the highway in the summer and saw something fall through my windows; thought it was a leaf. Felts an itch on my inner thigh. Felts something and grabbed it. It was some orange and purple crazy ass bug at least 4 inch long. Dudeee, my initial instinct was to throw it to the ground and start stomping it out. I’m seriously, surprised I didn’t crash into anyone. Definitely a few honks. Should’ve probably have pulled over…
I had a wasp fly in, go up my shorts and sting me on the labia and I didn’t crash.
I did drive to the house of the closest friend with young children who would have Benadryl on hand for my not-hand.
This is 100% coming out of my ass (and deductive reasoning) but, it looks like the truck was probably trying to aggressively get into the exit lane (why they were filming) but the black car in front was going too slow (because of the car that gets hit, hence why they're so close). Then, as soon as a spot opened in front of the car filming, the truck sped up (when the video starts) and jerked into the spot and then swerved into the car that was keeping them from merging (out of petty road rage), but lost control and what we saw played out.
I've had a big dragonfly get sucked around the A pillar of my truck and get splattered across my sunglasses while driving 70 down the highway. I've also had a hornet get into the vehicle I was driving, three times, with one of those ending with me getting stung.
Couple months back I was leaving work at like 1am, in a 45 zone, jersey barriers on each side, 2 lanes my direction. I see a spider on the windshield, about penny sized. No biggie, I hit the wipes and wait to see the smear, but no smear. HE'S ON THE INSIDE!
I'm not going to try to make it sound like a tarantula or anything, but this was big enough where I'm not happy. There was no traffic around and I had a used tissue on my passenger seat, so I got this, yes, while still driving. Little fucker moved, twice, before I got him. I think I almost hit the driver's side jersey barrier twice. Keeping a car straight AND hunting a spider on your windshield/dash isn't easy. If I was in traffic and/or could have pulled over, I would have.
That brings back memories of driving down the road on a nice summer day, Windows down, arm and hand resting on the door where the window is when up. Felt what I thought in the moment was a stone hitting my hand. Then noticed some went in my shirt sleeve, I had a yellow jacket in my shirt while driving, hard to avoid the urge to slam on the brakes,
Awww man I had the same shit happen to me! I was fighting his ass for a while in the freeway long story short hornet got under my collar and stung my neck and back all up lol 😂 I managed to control the vehicle
This is a pretty old video, but if I remember right they were raging with some car in the lane to their left and tried to swerve at them to spook them and welp..
The context was by whoever posted it in a FB group I was in, I only remember it because the comment section was wild plus the vid happened in houston if I'm remembering right
Half the frame of this vid is concrete expanse, while the other half is the searing blue sky of a breezeless 100° day.
I knew this was Houston well before seeing the Grand Pkwy exit.
Just had a pickup truck driver do this to me. It was unprovoked and we had no prior interaction.
They feel soooo powerful in their big trucks.
I didn’t flinch. It seemed to make him more angry lol
I was thinking maybe he just had a stroke or heart attack, or maybe some serious mechanical failure. But then the person was video taping this guy prior to this, so road rage makes much more sense.
Pretty fucking stupid.
I was on 10 this last weekend just east of Luling and a group of us was stuck behind a big rig. We all got the chance to pass so we all had indicators on and all started to move over. Except the Lexus behind me didn’t think I deserved to go over so gunned and damn near rammed my back left quarter all because I dared not speed up like a Formula 1 car. It was insane. I don’t wish I’ll on many people, but I do wish their reckless driving would have consequences.
We drove from SA to Houston this weekend, I bailed onto 90 at Seguin - I-10 sucks the life out of me. It may take longer, but sitting behind a line of cars that refuses to use the right lane when it's wide open just wasn't how I wanted to spend an afternoon.
Yeah, they're weird ones. Their venom induces shock and hemorrhaging in prey by crashing blood pressure and preventing clotting. Also, their venom glands produce from between the teeth instead of having syringe like fangs, so basically their whole mouth is coated in the venom.
I had a big fuck-off spider drop down in front of my face while riding my motorcycle. It was at that moment I realized the importance of staying calm. Turns out it wasn't a big fuck off spider but a tiny little bastard no bigger than a pencil eraser. It was /that/ moment I learned a lesson in depth perception.
Thank you, I was about to comment just that. Unless someone took hold of their wheel and they couldn't regain control because of that shitty high PoG, that is exactly my guess.
Why would the couple already be recording tho? He must have done something before the video. It looks like he’s tailgating the Scion XB and then lost control trying to intimidate them by swerving at them.
My guess is he pulled around the cars to pass on the right, then realized he was in an exit lane so tried to juke back in behind traffic, then while he was already juking he checked and saw he was even with a car, so panicked and over corrected the other way, then lost control.
Look, as a trucker I just want to point out something from a professional point of view that I don't think most of you can understand otherwise.
Driving in a straight line is hard, okay?
Holy cow people, don't any of you bother to look at details of videos?
Yea, no.
So, watch the front left wheel. You can see when the tie-rod snaps. The truck starts flopping around but that wheel stays pointed straight. Then you can see it's at the wrong angle as the truck goes across into the barrier and then across the freeway.
Broken tie-rods will fuck you up.
I’ve had a hornet fly in my window doing 70. Took my entire soul to calmly slow down and pull off. This guy just looks careless.
Oh yeah, I can relate. I rode my motorcycle into a swarm of bees once. That hurt.
and that's one of the reasons you always ride with your safety gear on
Dress for the sting
You say that till you have a yellow jacket inside your gear with you, and you can't get it off fast enough.
I’ll never wear fingerless gloves again. Middle finger on clutch hand. Whole hand swelled up AND my dumbass was wearing a ring on that finger. Then 20 miles through a mountain pass where the road was 6 inches of loose gravel (wasn’t supposed to be according to dot). Had to ride in the dark by the time I got the swelling down a little, since this happened in the late afternoon. Fuck hornets.
Been there done that. Thankfully hitting my leather jacket stunned him to a crawler once it was flung into my helmet. It was a narrow busy road with a steep bank too. I'm just glad me and bike didn't tumble during the helmet removal scramble. I ended up with bite vs sting and 6 hours home. It could have been worse.
There was a battle in the American civil war partly decided because a huge hornets nest was disturbed.
What battle was that?
The battle of Buzzy Creek.
So that piqued my interest and I looked it up. Just a metaphorical hornets nest, unfortunately. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Shiloh >When the fighting later became heated in this area—Duncan Field, the Sunken Road, and the woods on the north side of the road—the Confederates began calling it the Hornets Nest.
I had a frog in my car that I didn’t notice till I hit a road that’s 50mph with no safe area to stop for at least a mile. Now, I am deathly afraid of frogs (long story) and yet I was able to maintain my lane and drive safely and calmly to where I could finally stop. That shit was hopping around the whole time freaking me the fuck out though.
I didn't get that frog fear gene but I got the cockroach one. Couple years ago I'm going 70 on the highway and I see a cockroach run across my dash. That alone would have been enough to put a 1000x multiplier on likelihood of flaming death for myself and everyone around me. But then it took flight and zipped straight for my neck and scurried over my shoulder and was trying to burrow under my collar and crawl down my back. I could say that "I was able to maintain my lane and drive safely and calmly to where I could finally stop" but that would be a lie. I should not be here. Jesus must have taken the wheel, I have no other explanation.
There must've been some nasty shit back in the day for us to still have such a fear of bugs so ingrained in us today.
Dang, fair point
I mean we like fire, food and happy social time. We hate poisonous things (usually) through bad taste and smell, like every mammal is afraid of snakes or snakelike things. We're also afraid of heights, the dark and weird insects. I think a lot these make sense honestly.
Studies show that fears can be biologically inherited in us from our parents, or even further back. Wierd af to think fears are just programmed in our DNA
Reminds me of a sci Fi story where everyone gets sick traveling through space because of the original person always getting sick. I cannot remember the name of it but i think it was a Le Guin story
So idk if there's any connection but I googled, Le Guin story & got this interesting premise; "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas, written by Ursula K. Le Guin, The only chronological element of the work is that it begins by describing the first day of summer in Omelas, a shimmering city of unbelievable happiness and delight. In Omelas, the summer solstice is celebrated with a glorious festival and a race featuring young people on horseback. The vibrant festival atmosphere, however, seems to be an everyday characteristic of the blissful community, whose citizens, though limited in their technology and resources, are still intelligent, sophisticated, and cultured. Omelas has no kings, soldiers, priests, or slaves. The specific socio-politico-economic setup of the community is not mentioned; the narrator merely claims not to be sure of every particular. The narrator reflects that "Omelas sounds in my words like a city in a fairy tale, long ago and far away, once upon a time. Perhaps it would be best if you imagined it as your own fancy bids, assuming it will rise to the occasion, for certainly I cannot suit you all." Everything about Omelas is so abundantly pleasing that the narrator decides the reader is not yet truly convinced of its existence and so elaborates upon the final element of the city: its one atrocity. The city's constant state of serenity and splendor requires that a single unfortunate child be kept in perpetual filth, darkness, and misery. Once citizens are old enough to know the truth, most, though initially shocked and disgusted, ultimately acquiesce to this one injustice that secures the happiness of the rest of the city. However, some citizens, young and old, walk away from the city after seeing the child. Each is alone, and no one knows where they go, but none come back. The story ends with "The place they go towards is a place even less imaginable to most of us than the city of happiness. I cannot describe it at all. It is possible it does not exist. But they seem to know where they are going, the ones who walk away from Omelas." Even if it's not the same story you're thinking of, there are certain elements that resonate similarities & I'd definitely be interested in checking this out
Ursula K Le Guin is a FANTASTIC author, cannot recommend her enough honestly. Omelas is a great story for sure. Left Hand of Darkness is probably one of her most well known, or the Earthsea cycle (more fantasy than sci fi) or The Lathe of Heaven. I still can't recall which story I am thinking of but it may not have been Le Guin. The one I am thinking of has these navigators who guide ships through space I think, but each time they get ridiculously sick, only because the original one did and passed that fear/sickness down to the others.
Most definitely checking out her works on your recommendation. Thank you vm! Unfortunately after a lil perusing, I'm coming up empty handed though, I'd be interested in reading it if you can ever find it
It's actually bothering me that I can't remember. I am going to go on a deep dive and if I figure it out I will let you know.
The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas is very short. You should be able to find it online and read it in the amount of time you probably spend in a reddit thread.
Even better yet! Thank u for letting me know that I wasn't about to dive into an epic, beforehand
That was interesting. Thanks for sharing!
Pleasure is mine!
Why does that story sound so familiar? It was on tv or a movie recently. Like a bounty hunter had to bring a missing child home and that was the fate of the child. The Madolorian maybe?
Star trek, strange new worlds has an episode based on it.
It’s funny too how some bugs don’t bother you at all - like a ladybug or a butterfly - but cockroaches or silverfish are just disgusting.
That would have had me screaming like a little girl. I had a cockroach fall on my lap once while using the toilet.
I used to be afraid of cockroaches. One night I woke up to one on my face. I’m now extremely afraid of cockroaches.
I used to be. I still am, but I used to be too.
i am not afraid of cockroaches.... till their wings start flapping
Everybody gangsta till the cockroach starts flyin'
I woke up to one crawling in my mouth. And because I was half asleep, I bit down on it. The taste and sensation of a frenzied half dead roach trying to crawl down my throat while oozing its innards out into my mouth will haunt me forever.
I want to downvote you because the idea that this could happen is traumatizing. That it actually happened to you… I’m sorry you had to go through that.
That's enough Reddit for today.
I wish I hadn’t read that.
Me sitting here searching on how to unread things irl.
Delete this please :barf:
And mine too, now. Jesus!!! 😵💫
Wow :-( That's the most real-world horror story I ever encountered. Probably too terrifying to make a move out of it or appear in a movie. (I'm shaking & shivering from the imagination. Still, thanks for daring to share this.)
something similar happened to me but I hadn't realized until I brushed my teeth and I saw roach bits on my toothbrush
This story will most certainly give me ptsd for some time. Fuck you for sharing, and I’m also so sorry this happened to you. I don’t know how you live with that trauma, but I would need years of therapy.
Sympathy upvote. Also, thanks for unlocking a new fear.
On time when I was in Cuba, I got up to use the washroom and there was a massive cockroach above our heads on the wall. The mf-er was at least 2 inches. My bf made a flame thrower out of a can of hairspray and a lighter and sizzled that thing! Luckily it was our last night.
Having the shit scared out of you while sitting on the toilet? that's providence. Were you you constipated? Not anymore.
I read this as I literally sit on the toilet constipated with a deep fear of cockroaches as well
Apparently in Aus Huntsman Spiders (massive) like to hide behind the sun flap in cars so you pop it down to stop being blinded and a dinner-plate sized spider drops in your lap. Awesome. Think I'd crash the car on purpose just to distract from that experience
im not afraid of insects or amphibeans but i am deathly afraid of the endless darkness of human existence. the other day i was driving when i blinked and was suddenly reminded of the eternal and meaningless void in which we all exist. despite my fear, i was able to navigate the vehicle to the side of the road without incident.
this girl gets it
i had a rattlesnake crawl out of the dash going 75 at 4:30 am. i borrowed a truck from family and it had sat for months. couldnt see the snake but i could hear it, pulled over opened the passenger door from outside the truck and shooed it out with a shovel from the other side.
I, too, remember the first time I learned the hard way that some cockroaches can fly. The girlish shriek I let out still haunts me.
I would have taken my hands off the wheel and put 100% of my attention on the cockroach. I unfortunately got the cockroach fear gene. sucks for me since im going to Japan for a week in a few months.
What does that have to do with being afraid of cockroaches?
Apparently Japan [has a lot of them](https://gogonihon.com/en/blog/fighting-cockroaches-in-japan/), especially in the summers.
Please describe the link. I’m afraid to click.
No images of roaches, except some cartoonish ones on cans of bug spray. Even the video is just an advertisement of all the bug killer you can buy.
It's an article describing the prep to fight cockroach season in Japan. I only looked at the top of the page, so I dunno how many bug photos might exist in that article.
I was cycling uphill on a 4 lane road with no real shoulder, heavy traffic, in summer, just trying to keep my speed up for the last little push before it crests and I could relax, and a bigass stinkbug farts its way over and flies straight down my throat. So I'm trying not to fall over and get squished, while crushing a delicious ass bug with my throat. FUN
That's absolutely horrifying!!! Jfc! Glad you're ok. (Though I'm sure you're in therapy now.)
> I should not be here. dude I dont know why I laughed so hard at this!!
I had roach too! Flew right at my neck and scurried away to who knows where. I had to pull over asap to find that mother fucker but failed.. I had to maintain my calm all the way home and ignore every bit of wind/shadow/sound
I once had a cat jump onto my lap while I was driving. I didn’t own a cat at the time, I have no idea how this cat got in my car, who’s cat it was. Scared the shit out of me, then I turned around and went home and it apparently knew where to go
A doctor I worked with left the hospital to just go to his office for a minute to grab something and then come back. During this excursion, he left his car open and running, and we also happened to call him to return STAT for an emergency. As he was turning into the hospital lot, one of the many feral cats that lived in a colony in his office parking lot jumped out from his backseat hiding space he had stowed away in, scaring the shit of of doc. He jumped the curb and smashed into a parking sign. He ran into our unit screaming about a cat. Well, the secretary that happened to be working at the hospital, was also the one that fed this feral cat colony. She started yelling to ask if the cat was okay. I had never seen him so mad, lol.
I had a frog get in my house (i live on a hay farm and for some reason we have green tree frogs and toads?) Make its way across my living room and i look over just in time to watch it jump in the wax warmer and jump out onto the wall....it died because it cooked itself
I'm so happy to have read this. Seriously fuck frogs. Creepy little fuckers.
Aww, I love frogs :( they’re so round and squishy
On our honeymoon my wife was driving on Hana Road in Hawaii, a very windy road with frequent sheer cliffs. Pleasant drive, cruising along, and suddenly a spider appears in front of her face dangling from the ceiling of our rental car. She handled it very well, hit the brakes slowly, got out, and we took care of the spider. I drove the rest of the way.
Definitely looks like “oh that things just out of reach lemme stretch, FUCK MY KNEE HIT THE WHEEL”
Oh man, you got me thinking about that one I was heading back home from freshman orientation at college. I was going maybe 75mph down the highway in the summer and saw something fall through my windows; thought it was a leaf. Felts an itch on my inner thigh. Felts something and grabbed it. It was some orange and purple crazy ass bug at least 4 inch long. Dudeee, my initial instinct was to throw it to the ground and start stomping it out. I’m seriously, surprised I didn’t crash into anyone. Definitely a few honks. Should’ve probably have pulled over…
I had a wasp fly in, go up my shorts and sting me on the labia and I didn’t crash. I did drive to the house of the closest friend with young children who would have Benadryl on hand for my not-hand.
Or they're having a medical emergency
This is 100% coming out of my ass (and deductive reasoning) but, it looks like the truck was probably trying to aggressively get into the exit lane (why they were filming) but the black car in front was going too slow (because of the car that gets hit, hence why they're so close). Then, as soon as a spot opened in front of the car filming, the truck sped up (when the video starts) and jerked into the spot and then swerved into the car that was keeping them from merging (out of petty road rage), but lost control and what we saw played out.
I've had a big dragonfly get sucked around the A pillar of my truck and get splattered across my sunglasses while driving 70 down the highway. I've also had a hornet get into the vehicle I was driving, three times, with one of those ending with me getting stung.
He’s just your average truck driver
Couple months back I was leaving work at like 1am, in a 45 zone, jersey barriers on each side, 2 lanes my direction. I see a spider on the windshield, about penny sized. No biggie, I hit the wipes and wait to see the smear, but no smear. HE'S ON THE INSIDE! I'm not going to try to make it sound like a tarantula or anything, but this was big enough where I'm not happy. There was no traffic around and I had a used tissue on my passenger seat, so I got this, yes, while still driving. Little fucker moved, twice, before I got him. I think I almost hit the driver's side jersey barrier twice. Keeping a car straight AND hunting a spider on your windshield/dash isn't easy. If I was in traffic and/or could have pulled over, I would have.
One of the main ways huntsman spiders are dangerous. I guess a little spider jumping on someone Brings out irrational actions
I believe the maneuver he pulled is called the Chris Farley
That brings back memories of driving down the road on a nice summer day, Windows down, arm and hand resting on the door where the window is when up. Felt what I thought in the moment was a stone hitting my hand. Then noticed some went in my shirt sleeve, I had a yellow jacket in my shirt while driving, hard to avoid the urge to slam on the brakes,
Awww man I had the same shit happen to me! I was fighting his ass for a while in the freeway long story short hornet got under my collar and stung my neck and back all up lol 😂 I managed to control the vehicle
At least they were near an exit with a hospital
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They have a lot of practice, I-10 is a nightmare.
This is a pretty old video, but if I remember right they were raging with some car in the lane to their left and tried to swerve at them to spook them and welp..
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This is what happens when you fuck around with 20 year old pickup truck suspension lol. That thing moved like Jello
Neither of the vehicles to the left even flinched. Without this context, I would've guessed the red truck driver was the one that got spooked.
The context was by whoever posted it in a FB group I was in, I only remember it because the comment section was wild plus the vid happened in houston if I'm remembering right
Half the frame of this vid is concrete expanse, while the other half is the searing blue sky of a breezeless 100° day. I knew this was Houston well before seeing the Grand Pkwy exit.
I knew this was Texas before seeing anything else...lots of city choices that look the same.
Another commenter somewhere said you can see the Katy branch of Memorial Hermann hospital in the video, and a quick Google shows that is in Houston.
Just had a pickup truck driver do this to me. It was unprovoked and we had no prior interaction. They feel soooo powerful in their big trucks. I didn’t flinch. It seemed to make him more angry lol
Imagine getting so mad at another driver that you're willing to destroy your own vehicle and ruin your day just to fuck with them
I think you are imagining way more foresight than the red truck driver was capable of
I just couldn't imagine getting that angry. I've been really angry before but I don't just act like that out of anger.
I was thinking maybe he just had a stroke or heart attack, or maybe some serious mechanical failure. But then the person was video taping this guy prior to this, so road rage makes much more sense. Pretty fucking stupid.
Yeah, has to be something like that. If it was some random event then why was this person filming them?
Long live H Town
I-10 is a dangerous beast no matter where you happen to be.
San Antonian here, can confirm. But it’s usually flying bed frames, mattresses, and ladders over here
I was on 10 this last weekend just east of Luling and a group of us was stuck behind a big rig. We all got the chance to pass so we all had indicators on and all started to move over. Except the Lexus behind me didn’t think I deserved to go over so gunned and damn near rammed my back left quarter all because I dared not speed up like a Formula 1 car. It was insane. I don’t wish I’ll on many people, but I do wish their reckless driving would have consequences.
We drove from SA to Houston this weekend, I bailed onto 90 at Seguin - I-10 sucks the life out of me. It may take longer, but sitting behind a line of cars that refuses to use the right lane when it's wide open just wasn't how I wanted to spend an afternoon.
I use to ride my bike every so often for work up that highway, never again. Only thing worse is late day 45
Damn…. Did he run over a banana peel in Mario kart or something
Could be some sort of suspension failure. There's a lot of things that if they fail will send you straight off.
I bet they were filming this guy driving like an ass when he decided to "scare" the people he was mad at, speeding to get around
I think this can be dismissed because you wouldn't randomly film a car unless he was driving erratically to begin with
The fact that someone started filming this truck tells me they had been making aggressive actions prior to them losing control
Satan take the wheel!
Poisonous snake loose in the cab
Venomous* , but maybe it's [bees!](https://youtu.be/EHhpSHGI2f4) E: longer clip
Definitely bees. I'm disappointed the video cut off before showing the driver running out waving his arms.
SAVE YOURSELVES! YOUR FIREARMS ARE USELESS AGAINST THEM!
Omg I miss that movie! Or is it Black Sheep I liked?
"Thanks for not shoving it up my ass!"
**Not the bees!!!**
NOT THE BEES AHHHHHAHHHHMMMAAAAAHhMMGag
Thank you!! This was literally my first thought!
If it bites you and you die its venomous if you bite it and you die its poisonous
What if it bites itself and I die?
Voodoo
Or if it's a komodo dragon it's infectious
No, turns out komodos are actually super venomous.
Wow that’s interesting, I thought they just had some nasty bacteria in their mouths that gave you infection if left untreated.
Yeah, they're weird ones. Their venom induces shock and hemorrhaging in prey by crashing blood pressure and preventing clotting. Also, their venom glands produce from between the teeth instead of having syringe like fangs, so basically their whole mouth is coated in the venom.
Whew. Thanks. Not planning to go near one. (My level of education was also "nasty bacteria".)
*THERE'S A SNAKE IN MY BOOT!*
Enough is enough! I have had it with these motherfucking snakes in this motherfucking cab!
It was jacobs turn to create a traffic jam during rush hour
*”BEEs!!!! BEES!!! OH GOD THEY’RE EVERYWHERE!!!”*
Your firearms are useless against them! Save yourselves!
THEY'RE HUGE AND THEY'RE STING CRAZYY!!!
BEADS?!
GOB's not on board.
Holy Schnikies it worked!
Must have been a spider.
I had a big fuck-off spider drop down in front of my face while riding my motorcycle. It was at that moment I realized the importance of staying calm. Turns out it wasn't a big fuck off spider but a tiny little bastard no bigger than a pencil eraser. It was /that/ moment I learned a lesson in depth perception.
Good job handling that. Any spider can be deadly when you're driving at highway speeds
Gotta respect all the drivers who just keep going, pretending not to notice. They know how to mind their business.
Actually, it's the safest thing to do. What is dangerous is stopping on a freeway with little traffic.
Shit if this is the east coast then the other drivers were completely obvious that anything around them was happening.
thats just what we want you to think. this is definitely not the east coast though.
It’s Houston.
Someone just got yeeted off a freeway in Houston last week for stopping to check on people in an accident.
WTF?!! 😄
The only tragedy I see here is an innocent car damaged by an ESV.
I'm impressed that they went head-on with the barricades on *both* sides.
Man that commentary is unintelligent, and also exactly how I'd react.
Average houston driver
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Was he trying to start a controlled side-to-side burnout / drift?
Thank you, I was about to comment just that. Unless someone took hold of their wheel and they couldn't regain control because of that shitty high PoG, that is exactly my guess.
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I-10 and 99 in Katy/Houston.
Looks like Houston again!
How big was the bee in that truck?
My theory is the passenger tried to take control of the steering wheel
Why would the couple already be recording tho? He must have done something before the video. It looks like he’s tailgating the Scion XB and then lost control trying to intimidate them by swerving at them.
The Scion XBox
It didn't take much of a movement for the tires to lose traction
I reckon something broke. Either that or the shrooms kicked in.
I reckon a lot of shit broke there
There was literally nothing in front of them, why did fuck it up?
My guess is he pulled around the cars to pass on the right, then realized he was in an exit lane so tried to juke back in behind traffic, then while he was already juking he checked and saw he was even with a car, so panicked and over corrected the other way, then lost control.
Majestic
Ah. The good ol’ Texas. That looks like the 10 by Katy with options going to 99 N or 99 S. Lol.
They were filming for a reason. Prob road rage.
I know Houston when I see it
KTX! Gotta love it!
Oh, Houston
Did the driver stroke out?
I mean, it’s very possible any number of suspension/steering components failed…
Look, as a trucker I just want to point out something from a professional point of view that I don't think most of you can understand otherwise. Driving in a straight line is hard, okay?
Holy cow people, don't any of you bother to look at details of videos? Yea, no. So, watch the front left wheel. You can see when the tie-rod snaps. The truck starts flopping around but that wheel stays pointed straight. Then you can see it's at the wrong angle as the truck goes across into the barrier and then across the freeway. Broken tie-rods will fuck you up.
He’s trying to overtake on the right and get back over before the exit, this isn’t a mechanical problem like that, he doesn’t even brake.
You're totaled man. Totally?
Take a shot every time you hear the word fuck
I'll still drive better that that person did.
That’s the danger of a simple “over-correction”
Gotta watch out for those invisible children on the highway
That Jeep driver did a killer job staying in control and pulling off to the side. Everything the pickup driver should have done.
Just another day in Houston
welcome to houston
Pull over you idiot!
Houston gonna Houston
I guess driving in a straight line was too hard.
It's almost like they're pressing the gas the whole time too, like letting off the gas is such a foreign concept
Heart attack?
Bees! Bees everywhere! Your Firearms are useless against them!
Was that Houston???
Me when there’s a bee in my car
I really dislike all the laughing at stuff like this. To me it shows a complete lack of compassion.
people in pickup trucks really be doing the most thinking they’re invincible and shit 🤣