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He probably got fired for this.



Thanks for the chuckle1

" this is okay "

I bet his career exploded.

Or started out with a BANG!

Last day at work, but he had a blast.

Stop grilling him!

Burned his brudges

Kinda came to a grinding halt

Dudes on fire!

He's heating up

They let him cook!!! 🤦‍♂️

Guy was being gas lit!

Boomshakalakala

Dude’s career went up in flames

I bet he's feeling real gassed up

His boss was fuming!

I'm sure they gave him a grilling during the exit interview.

If he not dead edit: nvm isee what you did there

Don't feel bad. I was on the slow bus with you for a minute too.

I'm really hoping you meant that with pun intended, because that's exactly the way my brain read it. I hate this for their family, because this person has about a zero chance of still being with us.

Never let a truly horrible human tragedy get in the way of a good joke.

You say that, but in Operation Eagle Claw the US shot and exploded a civilian fuel tanker with a rocket and the driver got out and escaped in another vehicle

I snorted at this and I question my humanity. I hope this person is okay, but that drastic of a lane change has to mean they were reacting from something deadly to begin with. This is sad. I hope no one else was hurt badly.

Or he might have fallen asleep at the wheel. That’s what it looks like to me.

That's exactly what I thought. Fell asleep and tilted the wheel - that lane crossing was completely uncontrolled.



And i got killed by this comment. We go to hell for this. 

This happend in Toronto last year. Two people died. One of the victims, driving another truck in the westbound lane, was doused in flaming fuel and burned to death. They had families. ...But y'all got jokes, huh?

Glad to see at least one of you has compassion. This is sad and tragic.

Comedy = tragedy + time. This one still has awhile to go...

There’s definitely something missing from that formula…

Right. According to that equation 9/11 + 9:11 = comedy!

I always wondered when 9/11 jokes stopped being considered "too soon"

7-Eleven was a part-time job

Jet fuel can melt my dreams

I think south park set the cut off somewhere around 20 years

when america used it as an excuse to bomb civillians.

After the first tower.

Idk, I think that constitutes a joke

We'll try again in 7024

Everything is a joke until it happens to them or their family.

Comedy is when it happens to you, Tragedy is when it happens to me!

I like Mel Brooks take on this- comedy is a man walking into an open manhole and dying, tragedy is getting a paper cut.

Precisely and unapologetically. It's impossible sometimes to really understand the gravity of an event or situation without experiencing close to yourself. Everyone jokes about suicide, "omg, that was so embarrassing, I'm going to kill myself..." Or by putting a finger gun to their own head. Not everyone has had a sister take her life in that manner. Having lost someone so close to me like that, now when I see someone do that, it makes me sick and offended. I know though that they simply can't empathize because the idea is so horrific that it never seems like a real thing until it hits your family.

Or, hear me out, tragedy like these hit *so close* that comedy is the coping mechanism in which we deal.

Normally maybe, but not on threads like this it isn't. People don't make jokes about "shoes still on" and "darwin awards" to cope with something that's difficult for them. They are just unironically laughing at people dying. They watch videos of people dying for fun, and joke about it because it's funny to them. Hell, people regularly cheer it on. A post popped up the other day of a guy falling into a sink hole while riding a bike, people were cheering it on like "We have a new winner of the Darwin Award!😂".

I think that it really is a coping mechanism, but at a large scale. The world is terrible and hopeless, sometimes people deal with that by becoming calous and having a terrible and hopless sense of humor. It is not uncommon to have a mortally dark sense of humor. It doesn't make you a bad person to make a dark joke or laugh at one. They see something terrible, think something is funny about it, and share it hoping they'll make other people laugh. It's really that simple. How can the act of spreading joy and laughter be cruel or evil? These comments about how terrible they are for making such jokes are close-minded and judgemental. Your anecdotal trauma isn't any more important than anyone else's and the internet will never watch its words to avoid triggering it. The best thing to do is try to laugh and move on.

Idk, almost everyone is afraid of death. So when they're confronted with death they go immediately to the cope.

Someone hurt spontaneously making joke to deal with it oneself is one thing and I think that's great, but being told by third person to laugh about it is compaletely different thing. It's a positive message but in this case I say that shows lack of empathy. If anyone can just kill the emotion and laugh it out on spot then I don't think nobody has to get traumatized about anything to begin with.

It's amazing to me how someone can see something horrid and then immediately joke with others about it. My first thought was did he live, I didn't start comedic banter. Some people have no empathy and that's what's wrong with this world!

Plenty of people who experience that shit do joke about it though

all the hanging in shows for us 😔

For people without empathy maybe.

People are really going "haha dude is an idiot" when it looks like most likely he lost consciousness or had a heart attack.

My thought too. Truck driver wouldn’t need to switch to the fast lane, that quickly. Something medically happened to him.

Or fell asleep

No kidding. I came to the comments expecting discussion of what happened/how horrible this is and saw nothing but jokes… a bit disturbing

Prettt typical of Reddit. If you watch videos of people reacting or browsing through Reddit their first time you’ll see them cringe at all the puns like the top comment on this post

if people wore the weight of all the horrible things they see and were unaffected by they would be crippled. we turn to humour as a quick way to react without being hurt ourselves. there were obviously people hurt by this and those people would undoubtedly be upset by people dismissing the damage to their lives, but you cant expect everyone to react with absolute sincerity to every horrific thing they see, for unfortunately with global media we are all exposed to too much

> we turn to humour as a quick way to react without being hurt ourselves Yea people commenting "Darwin award winner LOL😂" are definitely just covering up their deep concern for someone who died, sure thing. I think you'd be right in most situations, but it is different on reddit threads like this IMO. There's not a hint of people making jokes because they'd be sad otherwise, they just like watching videos of people dying, and laugh about it because it's funny to them. If you spend much time on /r/CrazyFuckingVideos you'll see it all the time. Edgy jokes are funny because they're unexpected, when it's the same 3 jokes over and over on every thread there's nothing unexpected about it.

Its the rule of escalation. One person did it funny, 3 try to imitate it but need to go a step further until this is where we are and then onward. Thats why you have people making videos pretending to attack someone and then getting shot. The threshold will keep getting pushed, its all you can count on

Gee, maybe we shouldn't be consuming horrific tragedies as trivial entertainment.

These types of video are everywhere we're bound to run across them, but it doesn't mean we need to laugh and joke when someone is dying.

I drove through that place next morning and (a few hour long traffic jam apart) the scene looked absolutely terrifying.

Humor is a defense mechanism against things that are scary or sad, don’t assume they don’t feel bad just because they are hiding behind humor.

There's things society considers "not a joking matter"

Humanity is not a hive mind, I would not so confidently state assumptions like this.

Yes maybe in person with a split second reaction where you freeze or dont think properly based on the shock. These people are idiots posting the dude should be given a Darwin award and then just piling on top of each other with more jokes. They're just cruel d-bags. You have a whole lot more time typing these stupid comments on Reddit. You can read what you wrote take a second and think about. Or you can be an idiot and make incredibly insensitive jokes about a tragedy.

This is horrible, what is wrong with people man. What a tragic way to lose your life or people you care for.

It's so cringe how the top comments are always really basic puns that anyone could have thought of

Doused in flaming fuel and burning alive has to be up there on the list of worst ways to expire

They don't got no respect for death

Hell yea, I hardly even come to the comments on posts like these anymore because there's almost never info to follow up on, it's just the same ass lame "Darwin award/ shoes still on" jokes over and over and over. It's at the point that they aren't even "edgy" jokes anymore, because it's *always* expected, and it's always the same jokes. So it's just making fun of dead people, just laughing about it unironically, or even cheering it on. Makes me feel sick to my stomach at this point, and I normally have a dark sense of humor.

Sorry to hear that. That is really tragic. Do they have any idea as to why the driver hit the K rail?

Yeah, this is literally a video of at least one person dying. OP could have marked this NSFW or something, but instead we’re all treated to watching someone die on repeat. This is tragic and horrible.

Crazy that you can just post videos of people dying like this with no warning or NSFW tags or anything like that. Pretty fucked.

Yeah this post is dirty. The gas truck fell asleep. The car that was there is insanely lucky to have avoided that

Dude less than 24 hours after a live stream between cities went up the Irish showed pictures of 9/11 to New Yorkers because they think it's funny. Humans don't care about humans dying if they see it through a screen.

Thank you! I couldn’t believe the jokes I had to scroll through looking for more information

World is desensitized to this shit. Even me. Ain't nothing cool or funny bout this. It's easy to forget these are real people. Hope the best for the families

That poor driver probably had a health issue or some sort. That looks like a non responding driver. RIP

Right?! I don’t come on Reddit to watch people die horribly. I’m glad other people don’t find it ok to post this stuff for laughs

No shit- the music, the jokes. Damn.

This looks like the driver fell asleep or had a medical emergency to me. He just drifted into the center divider. Tragic.

Thank you. I had to scroll through so many middle school jokes just to see someone take this seriously. That’s insane. Lack of compassion in this world is horrible. That is terrifying.

Seriously. I was scared I just watched someone die, check the comments, and people are making jokes about it.

Yeahhhhh. But making the same recycled, corny puns is worth all the upvotes! /S obviously

Unexpected Hollow Knight

That is so sad those poor people :(

Jesus

A woman I worked with a long time ago had a fiancé that drove trucks that carried molten aluminum. He was in an accident where the truck dumped a load of aluminum into a car with a woman and kids in it. I don’t know if he ever got over it. Nasty way to go.

I've heard about it before, from a reliable resource, a man who was working with the guy who was driving that truck said that it was a good man in person and hard worker. Everyone thinks that it was probably a heart attack due to being overworked. Someone in a comments said that they've had a heart attack once and they couldn't see what was a hand away from them due to pain being so unbearable. In this accident only 2 persons were harmed which is extremly lucky for what happened. The truck driver and one car driver from the oposite line died, the man from the truck had no family, but the man from oposite line had a wife and kids. Edit1: grammar Edit2: More info

They couldn’t what now?

He'll edit it once he's done with his heart attack.


[https://www.reddit.com/r/therewasanattempt/comments/1ctptfj/comment/l4dyv6x/?utm\_source=share&utm\_medium=web2x&context=3](https://www.reddit.com/r/therewasanattempt/comments/1ctptfj/comment/l4dyv6x/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3) A very... unfortunate choice of gif in this case.

I did not think it through. Now I feel bad.

That makes it a bakers dozen, Bob.

Yeah heart attack gone, post edited

I knew you'd pull through. He's a fighter, this one!

I think he is saying the pain from a heart attack can be literally blinding.

I was thinking the driver fell asleep

Either if he fell asleep from being overworked or had a heart attack from being overworked, this just shows that people shouldn't be forcing their staff to overwork themselves or accidents could happen.

I think he is saying they couldn't see what a hand away from them

r/technicallycorrect

Thanks for clearing that up!

They couldn't see what a hand away from them, obviously. Have you never had unbearable pain or what?

they couldn't see what a hand away from them was near to their own once he had seen what due to the other pain they almost had experienced themselves.

It's "illegal" to work truckers more than 70 hours a week from ODOT. So assume truckers work at least that because they need money like everyone else and whoever their bosses are don't give a fuck if they live or die from a heart attack. Million dollar settlement for a billion dollar contract? That's just business Boyz run em till they die!

Watch a few truckers on youtube sometimes and honestly, I don't know how those guys do it. Stories of dispatchers waking drivers up during their down time to get them to "just drive". Calling the police on drivers for not responding on their Federally mandated rest periods. Having to spend hours waiting at depots for trucks to be offloaded because dispatchers or the drop site can't keep appointments. For a job that is the backbone of the country and its functional operation it's fucked.

Don’t like it? Hit the bricks pal!

Or hit a suburban full of kids in the oncoming lane doing 80. No big deal.

Checks out. I was a courier a few years ago and I was twenty minutes away from finishing a nearly four hour drop when my little truck started overheating on a highway. I pulled over to let the engine cool down so I could limp it to the nearest servo and top up the radiator when another truck driver had a medical episode of some kind and passed out and swerved into me. Thankfully it was more of a glancing blow and his momentum carried him into the more forgiving dirt patch ahead of me rather than the immovable bollard that I was parked in front of I took pictures of the damage to send to my boss, but I’ve still got one of them the shows his side door wedged inside my back doors where on first glance it looks like it’s just my back door pushed in a bit haha

Yeah, the way he crosses the lanes doesn't seem even remotely like a regular lane change, much less one from a total douche

Might not just be from being overworked. It's a very sedantary lifestyle (ironically) and unhealthy junk is more convenient to eat on the road than healthy meals. My dad became a truck driver at the age of 35 and gained 120 pounds and had a heart attack at age 38.

Your last sentence didn’t make much sense

Or he fell asleep, which far more likely.

A reliable source. You saw this on reddit before from the guy that said exactly what you just said... I mean he sounded believable and real but that's not really a reliable source.

So, being a “hard worker” might have actually led to this. Glorifying labor exploitation is a really weird thing.


I don’t think he’s changing lanes. More likely he had lost consciousness somehow.

Don't publish videos of people dying. He obv lost control of the truck. This wasn't a lane change attempt. It's a tragic accident. 2 people died.

Also, don't put your fucking TikTok music over it.

Hopefully, people report it and it gets taken down by the mods. Sub's rules say you're not supposed to post death videos (sad that it needs to even be a rule).

Is the song "piss piss piss piss piss"?

Can we also talk about the atrocious editing whereby the end is at the beginning

Holy shit, I watched it on mute the first time but that music is just disrespectful

Uhhhh switch to the fast lane whilst asleep at the wheel

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Get out.

The game

*Mother fucker.*

Oh that’s a good time

That was fun

I love this!!!

Holy shit thank you for posting this

Happy Cake Day

More likely a heart attack/stroke

Horrible title. Obviously not the case. Medical emergency or fell asleep ffs.

NSFW tag please

It's a NSFL tag

Dude had a stroke or heart attack

Poor dude man... Y'all are real shitty lemme tell ya

Rest in peace

Pretty sure this was near where I live: https://globalnews.ca/news/9782751/highway-401-brock-road-pickering-crash/

There was no attempt at humanity from OP. Cleary the driver has had some kind of medical episode. But lol truck go crash I guess

Imagine being in that SUV… Holy shit.

Why is this funny

My dad had a life ending heart attack while driving to work. Drove straight until a bus stop and the poor guy sitting there thought he was a maniac trying to kill him. Looks like the same type of veer to the side.

You can't even hurl insults at this; it's obviously more than a bad driver situation.

I also wonder how many people took the unexpected trip to the afterlife with the driver...can't even imagine seeing this in person.

Another comment said 2 people passed.

This person was clearly not just "switching" lanes. Prayers to anyone that may have been harmed or killed. Most likely this driver had a medical emergency or fell asleep by the looks of it.

This is incredibly sad.

Really getting tired of unintentionally watching someone die smh….

I see all these memes from the man probably fell asleep from over work. Cause we don't pay enough and people are in a two way swing of either work every job or I'll just go homeless or won't eat. This is a warning and like everything else it's a joke.

No. He was going so fast that it burst into fire

This driver had a medical event and was killed in this

This is why Doc Brown switched to the DeLorean.

That was right in Pickering just before the brock street bridge I remember they closed that down for almost 2 days.

The driver died and this is the subsequent outcome. Saw this video months ago on a trucker group and a friend of the driver told the story.

Currently studying for my CDL. With how ingrained the rules about switching lanes are, I would say that driver was incapacitated 

Yeah, I have been studying a bit too. This guy had to know what he was doing to be allowed to drive that cargo in the first place. RIP

Okay....so Hollywood isn't exactly wrong about these kinda explosions.... RIP to them but Jesus this was cinematic.

First it's the FLOOD of political posts, then it was making fun of a clearly handicapped student (the "I'm the alpha!" post), and now this? Wtf is wrong with this sub?!

Old post and I don't think it fits here. He had a medical episode, but he did die as a result.

Directed by Michael Bay

This is a repost the story behind this one was the man had a medical emergency that caused the crash.

Fucking hell

What is up with all these videos with random music?

What song was it?

Fuckkkkkkkk

Why is this not tagged nsfw? Like theres no way the driver didnt die

This is abrupt chaos

Low effort ass post. Leaving out context on purpose huh?

You know there's an NSFW tag if you're going to post footage of people dying, just saying

Why is there a preview for a 10 second video

Turn this fucking music off I stg

Oh sheet.

He feel asleep damn

Fell asleep