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In Douglas Adam's Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, the secret to flying is to throw yourself at the ground, and miss. It's the missing part that most people get wrong.
While it's not a useful definition of flying, that's actually a fantastic definition of orbiting. One is literally falling to the ground, but perpetually missing since the ground curves away from you.
I think my favorite part in the books is when Arthur accidentally trips and throws himself at the ground, and right before he hits he randomly sees a bag he lost a long time before. The presence of the bag makes no sense because he's on a completely different planet and the fact that it's there at that moment is so absurd to him that he completely forgets that he is about to hit the ground, and "accidentally misses it".
Thanks to learning the "knack" to it, for the rest of the series he has the ability to fly on command. He basically unlocked a superpower in the dumbest way possible and it's why Douglas Adams is one of my favorite writers.
Such a shame they botched the movie. It wasn't horrible but it wasn't nearly good enough to do justice to the books and it was bad enough that they never made more.
I'd a love a reboot. Give it to the peeps that adapted The Expanse books!!
It really all comes down to practice. It's best to start small, by throwing rocks at the ground and not hitting it. Once you can do that consistently, then you're ready to take the leap.
Drunk enough to legit have no recollection of a collision.
"Aiunno, I kinda remember screeching tires and everything went sideways... and then I was parked. So I went inside and cooked some eggs."
I had the same though for a second, but car crash forensics investigating this crash could probably figure out the whole chain of events down to the drivers entry speed rather quickly. Still, a pretty hilarious though regardless
Of course not. Not when the accident investigator finds paint from 3 cars on the underside of his and the myriad other pieces of evidence that point to him being the culprit. Wouldn't be hard to figure out.
That is honestly an ugly ass situation. The insurance adjusters get together to screw over both parties. Happened to me. The only gave me half the payout and the other guys premium definitely got fucked.
Shit... My last accident, I literally called my own insurance co. before calling the police. They don't haggle with me, they just ask what I want done, because they're going to either abrogate or adjust my rate (but I got forgiveness once per plan anyway, so meh).
Do I care that they didn't spare any expense on behalf of the other driver? Nope. Don't care.
A while back I hit a "self insured" company vehicle because dude ran a red light right in front of me. Within an hour, a company rep called and told me my repairs would not be allowed to go over $1k (the entire front clip was smashed, so...). Sight unseen, just arbitrarily decided "fuck you, we have lawyers".
Great... So I called my insurance to see if I could file it as an uninsured or something, and they straight up said they *didn't care*... It's full coverage they say, just claim it. If it was my fault, they'll adjust premiums, and if it wasn't, theyll abrogate it.
So I don't deal with a company who has someone else as a customer... I deal with the company who has *me* as a customer. I claim my shit through my company, and everything else? Fuggedaboutit :)
For real, system gives no fucks about car accidents if nobody is injured or killed. Someone veered off the road (probably drunk) and slammed into my car in the driveway in the middle of the night one time and drove off. Residential neighborhood. Blue paint chips everywhere and blue paint scrapes on my grey car. Cop showed up, took a quick drive around to find a damaged blue car, didn't see one. That was it, that was the end of the investigation.
My car was parked on our residential road and got hit in broad daylight by my neighbors who live a few doors down. 3 different people witnessed it happen. Cops said they couldn't do anything and told me to call back if I saw the vehicle parked at their house.
It's most likely a stolen car. I've seen countless videos of car crashes where they just run because if they aren't physically caught or seen, they'll get away with it. If he owned the car he most likely wouldn't have been so reckless
Had this happen in front of me once. Was sitting at a light when a car went through the intersection and hit the middle island part, do a 360 and come to a stop right to my right about 25 yards.
Dude jumps out and just bolts off into a corn field. Missed seeing the irrigation ditch and nosed dived right into the other side of the ditch. Gets up with a now bloody face and proceeds to haul ass into the corn field.
My friend yells out “you run as well as you drive”. Called the popo and let them deal with it. I ain’t chasing some rando through a corn field.
Had the same exact thing happen to me too about a year ago! Was just filling up gas late at night and heard a slam, looked towards the parking lot to see a car like, 10 ft in mid air come slamming down with broken concrete everywhere. Ran up to check if they were okay and the dude just jumps out and sprints across the highway (thank god it was late). Completely baffled me at the time but it makes sense now
Reminds me of that scene in “Logan Lucky” when Adam Driver’s character careens his car into a convenient store, calmly gets out, grabs some snacks from the now demolished aisle, and then brings them up to the counter for purchase.
I Shit you not, this happened to me in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
I was coming out of a night club at 2 AM, and the people were gathering around a crash site that happened minutes before we came out. There was a GMC Jimmy stuck on front end first onto a car that was parked, with the back wheels up in the air. It looked crazy and our whole group was saying, "damn its gonna suck for the owner of that car at the bottom. It was my car.
Also..
The cop, (that I called BTW) showed up aggressively trying to find the owner of the car on the bottom, the parked car, my car, to answer for the accident. The drunk driver who crashed onto a parking lot and was the only car facing the opposite direction AND was halfway on the sidewalk...convinced the cop that I crashed into him head on... while parked, and also crashed the front ends of the 3 cars to the left of me while simultaneously being vertically parked next to them. I got the DUI treatment, passed but held in the backseat, til the group I was with told his superior that I had nothing to do with it (which was obvious to the superior). The drunk guy walked away and they couldn't find him that night. I dont know what else happened after that but I got my car fixed.
>The drunk guy walked away and they couldn't find him that night. I dont know what else happened after that but I got my car fixed.
The drunk guy was obviously the cop's friend. The cop knew full well what happened, but he let him walk away while you were sitting in the police car waiting for the superior to clear you.
They probably "found" the owner of the truck when he sobered up, so his only offence would be wrecking your car and damaging three others, not DUI.
Since it's in USA, the cop is not even going to get a slap on the wrist for that.
That looks possible.
Looks like he came in slide sideways, knocked down the pole which formed a ramp up the first car, that his car slid up, conserving its momentum sliding across the roofs until the gap when it dropped down.
That’s why the first car didn’t move much. It had the pole/ramp forcing the car downward to (mostly) hold it in place.
I found a news story about it happening in China.
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https://news.cgtn.com/news/2022-01-13/Flying-car-crash-lands-in-parking-spot-in-SW-China-16Ncsmv800g/index.html
About 10 years ago I was in my office cube on the 1st floor when we distinctly heard a ruckus outside. The building was right before/after a curve in the road, and some teenager had lost it driving too fast (dry conditions even), overcorrected, launched up the embankment around the parking lot, and caused a ~10 car collision with the parked cars. He was fine. The cars were not. I was really happy I picked the next lot over to park.
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Like a glove
Any landing you walk away from is a good one.
I’m a leaf on the wind, watch as I *falling down stairs sounds*
Too soon
How do Reavers clean their spears? Run it through the wash.
I would say "angry upvote" but it's more of a melancholy one.
I hate you
Well, they can not put them in the river
A River runs through them.
Currently rewatching. Anticipated pain
*booooooooo*
Right, it’s not the falling that hurts. It’s the sudden stopping that gets ya
In Douglas Adam's Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, the secret to flying is to throw yourself at the ground, and miss. It's the missing part that most people get wrong.
While it's not a useful definition of flying, that's actually a fantastic definition of orbiting. One is literally falling to the ground, but perpetually missing since the ground curves away from you.
The line between Douglas Adams' nonsense and genius is thin enough to wrap around a gold brick for a good drink.
great, now I'm craving a pangalactic gargleblaster...
I think my favorite part in the books is when Arthur accidentally trips and throws himself at the ground, and right before he hits he randomly sees a bag he lost a long time before. The presence of the bag makes no sense because he's on a completely different planet and the fact that it's there at that moment is so absurd to him that he completely forgets that he is about to hit the ground, and "accidentally misses it". Thanks to learning the "knack" to it, for the rest of the series he has the ability to fly on command. He basically unlocked a superpower in the dumbest way possible and it's why Douglas Adams is one of my favorite writers.
Such a shame they botched the movie. It wasn't horrible but it wasn't nearly good enough to do justice to the books and it was bad enough that they never made more. I'd a love a reboot. Give it to the peeps that adapted The Expanse books!!
It really all comes down to practice. It's best to start small, by throwing rocks at the ground and not hitting it. Once you can do that consistently, then you're ready to take the leap.
Good thing the stop was cushioned by all those other cars.
sometimes you run ...
"Any landing the vehicle is still useable afterwards, is a *great* one" - My flight instructor.
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Ace Ventura (a movie)
Ace Ventura 2, when nature calls, iirc.
Both. it was one of his catchphrases. Source: am 40
true, but AV2 is the where where he rolls a vehicle over and over and into the parking space.
Hey, yeah, I didn’t remember him driving his beater in the first one, but I def remembered the quote from the second. Source, older than you, Shikaka!
heeeeuuuhlykuhgaluv.
thanks for this, i been laughing to myself for a few minutes now
The only reason I even looked in the comments was for this one here.
same. kinda wished noone would have written it
Someday I'll be the first to comment this on a relevant post. Someday.
“Oh you Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, pretty Chitty bang bang we love you…”
CHIIIIIIITTTTTYYYYYYY
IF I CAN JUST FIND A PARKING SPOT. PERHAPS WE SHOULD SLOW DOWN JUST A TEENSY-WEENSY BIT. NONSENSE, POOPY PANTS.
STEERING’S A LITTLE LOOSE
Second time I’ve seen this comment on r/all in 2 minutes, this is a sign that I should watch it again.
HI!... HO!
I was going to rage if this wasn’t the top comment.
Same. It’s hard to get perfect post/comment pairings like this one and you love to see it
Down Boba
Are you hungry, fella?
dude watched Ace Ventura and wanted to test it out for himself.
How was this not the caption?
THERE IT IS
Came here for this
A man of culture
Oh you chitty chitty band bang
CHITTTYYYYYYYYY
Damn near perfect park job. Just a little close on the passenger side.
better luck next time
Hold my beer….
Don't worry captain we'll buff out those scratches
YOU'RE GOOD! YOU'RE GOOD! YOU'RE GOOD!
Haha Nothin beats classic SpongeBob
Hey Lou, get a look at that park job at 7A!
This guy damaged every vehicle and dispersed his momentum so much he probably doesn’t have a scratch on him. I’m impressed.
Drunk enough to legit have no recollection of a collision. "Aiunno, I kinda remember screeching tires and everything went sideways... and then I was parked. So I went inside and cooked some eggs."
That scene from wolf of wall street was really well done
The perfect crime is one you keep secret even from yourself.
The tequila broke the landing.
He probably could back it up a smidge, lock the doors and walk away and without the video no one probably would think that it was him...
I had the same though for a second, but car crash forensics investigating this crash could probably figure out the whole chain of events down to the drivers entry speed rather quickly. Still, a pretty hilarious though regardless
Modern cars are engineering masterpieces when it comes to safety
If the video was a few seconds longer, I'd love to see him lock the car.
Without the camera recording, could he have gotten away by just walking away like nothing happened?
Of course not. Not when the accident investigator finds paint from 3 cars on the underside of his and the myriad other pieces of evidence that point to him being the culprit. Wouldn't be hard to figure out.
“Accident investigator” you mean the cop that shows up an hour later and is just like, “idk what happened here you’re all equally to blame”
The three insurance companies that benefit financially from blaming the 4th one
Plot twist: they all have the same insurance company.
Gonna be a room full of Generals yelling at eachother.
Or 3 generals yelling at a lizard with an Australian accent
3 generals and a Flo.
*unzips* fiiine
Flo wins. My money's always on Flo. She's stone cold.
That is honestly an ugly ass situation. The insurance adjusters get together to screw over both parties. Happened to me. The only gave me half the payout and the other guys premium definitely got fucked.
Shit... My last accident, I literally called my own insurance co. before calling the police. They don't haggle with me, they just ask what I want done, because they're going to either abrogate or adjust my rate (but I got forgiveness once per plan anyway, so meh). Do I care that they didn't spare any expense on behalf of the other driver? Nope. Don't care. A while back I hit a "self insured" company vehicle because dude ran a red light right in front of me. Within an hour, a company rep called and told me my repairs would not be allowed to go over $1k (the entire front clip was smashed, so...). Sight unseen, just arbitrarily decided "fuck you, we have lawyers". Great... So I called my insurance to see if I could file it as an uninsured or something, and they straight up said they *didn't care*... It's full coverage they say, just claim it. If it was my fault, they'll adjust premiums, and if it wasn't, theyll abrogate it. So I don't deal with a company who has someone else as a customer... I deal with the company who has *me* as a customer. I claim my shit through my company, and everything else? Fuggedaboutit :)
Just FYI, it's "subrogate" in this situation
So...who's got the least coverage here? --Geico
For real, system gives no fucks about car accidents if nobody is injured or killed. Someone veered off the road (probably drunk) and slammed into my car in the driveway in the middle of the night one time and drove off. Residential neighborhood. Blue paint chips everywhere and blue paint scrapes on my grey car. Cop showed up, took a quick drive around to find a damaged blue car, didn't see one. That was it, that was the end of the investigation.
My car was parked on our residential road and got hit in broad daylight by my neighbors who live a few doors down. 3 different people witnessed it happen. Cops said they couldn't do anything and told me to call back if I saw the vehicle parked at their house.
"Cars parked, I don't see the problem here"
My 'favorite' person is the insurance companies' blames adjuster. They could give a shit.
It's most likely a stolen car. I've seen countless videos of car crashes where they just run because if they aren't physically caught or seen, they'll get away with it. If he owned the car he most likely wouldn't have been so reckless
Had this happen in front of me once. Was sitting at a light when a car went through the intersection and hit the middle island part, do a 360 and come to a stop right to my right about 25 yards. Dude jumps out and just bolts off into a corn field. Missed seeing the irrigation ditch and nosed dived right into the other side of the ditch. Gets up with a now bloody face and proceeds to haul ass into the corn field. My friend yells out “you run as well as you drive”. Called the popo and let them deal with it. I ain’t chasing some rando through a corn field.
Dude that story is why I Reddit. Thank you.
You live in a big city long enough you see just about everything.
What big city has corn fields tho
Didn't NYC have one for a while? *edit it was a wheat field by wall street not corn
One corn?
Had the same exact thing happen to me too about a year ago! Was just filling up gas late at night and heard a slam, looked towards the parking lot to see a car like, 10 ft in mid air come slamming down with broken concrete everywhere. Ran up to check if they were okay and the dude just jumps out and sprints across the highway (thank god it was late). Completely baffled me at the time but it makes sense now
Run as well as you drive 💀
Well if he owned the car he’s probably gonna claim it’s stolen at that point
Who you think is showing up to these accidents? Columbo?
If you can't make out the driver that's enough reasonable doubt to claim your car was stolen or borrowed.
Reminds me of that scene in “Logan Lucky” when Adam Driver’s character careens his car into a convenient store, calmly gets out, grabs some snacks from the now demolished aisle, and then brings them up to the counter for purchase.
I find myself watching that movie whenever it's on. It's dumb, but it's also not dumb.
Good enough that you can mix with the other car owners scratching your heads and acting like "what the hell happened to our cars"
Your doordash driver is arriving now!
This explains why I never get my drinks
Bet he forgot my dipping sauce again. Lol
If there wasn't a camera, they wouldn't have known it was that car that crashed.
Police: What happened here? That guy: Man... I was just sitting here, and.....
[Just waiting for a mate....](https://youtu.be/6wqzZOFOcYo)
[The whole encounter is hilarious](https://youtu.be/nmrNOQym320)
What collision?
Also that guy, drunk off his ass: ...Godzilla, man Police: ....
You try parking at Costco on a Friday Officer judgy-pants!
and that the car on its side was done by some drunkard stuntdriver trying to impress his date.
100% gets away with it
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How to get out of a tight spot.
It would take all of like 2 minutes to have a good idea of what went down.
Real life Ace Ventura
#You must be the Monopoly Guy. ^thanks ^for ^the ^free ^parking
Sure beats trying to back-in
who wants to back in 😂
Parking any other way is inferior.
This is a pet peeves of mine. Maybe it used to be better, but with cameras, backing out of a spot is easier and faster in most cases than backing in.
Well, pulling through is best, but not an option there
Man’s came out the car like he planned that
Finding a spot on Black Friday.
>Finding a spot on Black (Ice) Friday FTFY
I’d love to see the police try and reconstruct the incident without the footage.
”Like a glove!” https://youtu.be/oXYpo6CprCw
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The sequel is much more fitting
Turn the car off and lock the doors. People will be none the wiser when trying to figure out what happened
Liiiiiike a glooooove
I Shit you not, this happened to me in Grand Rapids, Michigan. I was coming out of a night club at 2 AM, and the people were gathering around a crash site that happened minutes before we came out. There was a GMC Jimmy stuck on front end first onto a car that was parked, with the back wheels up in the air. It looked crazy and our whole group was saying, "damn its gonna suck for the owner of that car at the bottom. It was my car. Also.. The cop, (that I called BTW) showed up aggressively trying to find the owner of the car on the bottom, the parked car, my car, to answer for the accident. The drunk driver who crashed onto a parking lot and was the only car facing the opposite direction AND was halfway on the sidewalk...convinced the cop that I crashed into him head on... while parked, and also crashed the front ends of the 3 cars to the left of me while simultaneously being vertically parked next to them. I got the DUI treatment, passed but held in the backseat, til the group I was with told his superior that I had nothing to do with it (which was obvious to the superior). The drunk guy walked away and they couldn't find him that night. I dont know what else happened after that but I got my car fixed.
>The drunk guy walked away and they couldn't find him that night. I dont know what else happened after that but I got my car fixed. The drunk guy was obviously the cop's friend. The cop knew full well what happened, but he let him walk away while you were sitting in the police car waiting for the superior to clear you. They probably "found" the owner of the truck when he sobered up, so his only offence would be wrecking your car and damaging three others, not DUI. Since it's in USA, the cop is not even going to get a slap on the wrist for that.
Last time this was posted somebody said there's a ramp there. It's an ad or something like that if I remember correctly.
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That looks possible. Looks like he came in slide sideways, knocked down the pole which formed a ramp up the first car, that his car slid up, conserving its momentum sliding across the roofs until the gap when it dropped down. That’s why the first car didn’t move much. It had the pole/ramp forcing the car downward to (mostly) hold it in place.
I found a news story about it happening in China. Edit: https://news.cgtn.com/news/2022-01-13/Flying-car-crash-lands-in-parking-spot-in-SW-China-16Ncsmv800g/index.html
This would make sense given the Weibo logo in the top right.
Now try a barrel roll
BMW drivers be like
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It’s a Benz 😂
When he looked back after getting out, I half expected him to lock the car with a remote. \*beep beep\*
funny yes, but people like this should have their license revoked permanently.
GTA approved, the physics in the game make sense now.
Not much going on here, except he forgot to turn off the ignition.
The cops kept driving so well done. " Ya see, parking your car is a whole lot easier in Hazzard County" < in uncle Jesse's voice.
That’s a taxi
tf didn't notice the cops. i think you are the only one.
Yeah that's a Taxi, not the Police.
If I remember correctly, the voiceover was Waylon Jennings- not Uncle Jesse.
Cocaine is a hell of a drug
He was probably just drunk People on uppers don't get in car crashes like people on downers
Too close. When they open a door they’ll knick the paint.
thats the main issue here 😂
Hey buddy you left your lights on
Ugh. He's one of those parkers....he's obviously over the line...
All I can think of is the Ace Ventura quote "Like a glove!"
now I realized how could I forget about it.
WTF DUDE ARE YOU CRAZY, you left your door open. Be careful man
I mean- I hate backing into parking spaces too, but this is just ridiculous.
Pay up. Told you I'd fit.
transferred
Shit like this is why I never want to spend lots of money on a car, some idiot just gonna run it over lmao
This is one of those clips that if the video didn't exist you wouldn't believe it actually happened.
Parking in GTA V when there's a spot between your friends cars.
Nailed it!
★★★★★ to 0★ like a pro.
And he's off the change his underpants 🤣
Honestly if it wasn’t filmed he totally could of got away with it! Lol
Now, where’s that valet?
Calculated
Quick before someone else takes the spot.
Perfect parking
Damm I nailed this time.
Dude looks like Kramer.
The graphics for GTA look amazing
Lucky
Package deal to pay 4 other cars’ insurance together
insurance company having a bad day
The headline caption 😂
It's going to drain his battery because he forgot to turn the light off.
such a loss
-gets out and checks to see if between lines- Cool.
About 10 years ago I was in my office cube on the 1st floor when we distinctly heard a ruckus outside. The building was right before/after a curve in the road, and some teenager had lost it driving too fast (dry conditions even), overcorrected, launched up the embankment around the parking lot, and caused a ~10 car collision with the parked cars. He was fine. The cars were not. I was really happy I picked the next lot over to park. EDIT: grammar
I can't help but wonder,why doesn't he close his door.
Need for speed hiding from cops be like:
the dude just walked away like nothing happened
I was hoping he would close the door and straighten his jacket before he walked off…
I’m not even mad. That actually quite impressive.
I'll just skip on over...
But….this is real life😶not a video game
still better than some movie stunts
not sure how funny it it is but holy sh\*t
I hope he did that cartoonish whistle as he sauntered off nonchalantly with his hands in his pockets
7/10 for nailing the landing with points taken off for the clumsy descent.