landings aren't so good.
So, dude in California rents Tesla Plaid and takes it to a meet up at a jump spot. He launches said Tesla over the jump, and hits a few things. There are videos of it all over the usual places if you want to look. One or two might be from someone who knows the guy driving, so I'm not gonna help their bottom line.
The guy in this video got his Subaru pretty much ruined by the idiot in the Tesla.
I hope that guy gets nailed to the wall for endangering people and destroying property for a YouTube video.
It seems he had three human passengers, and a cat they found, with him. Time to make an example out of him.
Rented from Enterprise and well documented, so it's not like the LAPD is going to have a lot of trouble tracking him down.
Best thing we could do to this douchebag would be to deplatform him. Take away his followers and he loses his purpose.
In reply to Keith Tanner :
Everyone wants to be a You tube star. They should Let him provide content from prison, starting with the shower cam.
They also need to go after all his buddies that were at the scene filming etc,
It was Coy and Vance, trying to re-live the glory days of their half-season on CBS.
I hope for spinal compression.
I can't wait until you can rent the 9000# Hummer EV. That's going to be interesting.
So much ugh with this.
That's not a plaid, the wheels are wrong, and the trim is chrome and not black. I think it reads 75D on the rear hatch in the video, so very unlikely to be a rental. I suspect it won't take a genius to find the morons involved.
Normally, I'd respond by pointing out how unintelligent the average person is today, but I don't want the usual suspects arguing that's not true in spite of the massive amounts of evidence to the contrary. Have fun! At least he kept the shiny side up!
In reply to mattm :
First report I saw was that it was a 2018 S rented via Turo, which makes sense. That was later updated to Enterprise which does not.
Someone owns that car and knows who was driving it. The guy monetizing the videos is claiming to be an innocent bystander, but his background would indicate not.
People have always been this stupid. What's new is the global platform for seeking adulation and making money by being stupid.
In reply to Keith Tanner :
I disagree. Only a few short hundred years ago, stupid people died. We've now created a society that caters to stupid people so they live longer and make more stupid people. I provided literacy rates for the US once to show this on this forum (only the crickets replied). It's (intelligence) on a steep decline. Of course, denial is strong. No one wants to admit that stupidity and our education system are actual problems that should be addressed. People are too worried about their coffee or favorite reality TV shows to do that. Don't just say it or hypothesize it, show actual evidence. I just finished reading an article stating that leaded gasoline, resulted in lead in the water which made most of the population dumber going back to the 70s. It's an interesting idea that should be investigated further.
I could insert something about the "smartest man I know," here but none of you all are ready to acknowledge or discuss that. I'll just keep planting acorns when stuff like this keeps happening more and more frequently. Maybe 1 out of 100 here will have an ah ha moment one day.
In the meantime, laugh on, and enjoy the trip on that big river in Egypt.
The sad part is that these stupid people are making the world a more dangerous place to live each day. See the crime rates in most big cities, and the silly DAs that do nothing about it. It'll become a self correcting problem one day. We could acknowledge it, work together, and take action on it, but nah that requires effort. I guess we are still trying to figure out why gas prices are so high too.... I'm sure it's all random. None of this bad stuff could actually be happening as direct result of anything; it's all just bad luck.
In reply to AnthonyGS (Forum Supporter) :
That was a good take. Political without pointing fingers. If people can't figure it out for themselves, the point would be lost on them anyway.
I'm not sure how you'd prove with research that kids are more likely to jump cars now than they were x years ago. Or that literacy rates are a measure of intelligence, that's a measure of education which is not the same thing. I do agree that the education system has problems, I come from a couple of generations of teachers.
What platforms like YouTube and Instagram do is allow the kids who jump cars and don't die to become internationally famous for it instead of just being local legends. And they are rewarded for this behavior with both fame and money. So there is more motivation to keep doing it and more copycats. I'm sorry I don't have a peer-reviewed study proving this, it's more of a personal observation.
The whole "I know something you don't and you'll all figure it out when you're as smart and researched as me someday" tone is not a compelling way to make an argument, although it has become more familiar over recent years. As someone once said, don't just say it or hypothesize it, show actual evidence.
Gas prices are easy. Until someone started a war, they were at historically normal levels. But if you only look back a year, it looks catastrophic because the price had collapsed during the pandemic. That's not the baseline you use for comparison. They should be around $3.30 or so. Obviously, a shooting war is causing some problems right now.
https://www.usinflationcalculator.com/gasoline-prices-adjusted-for-inflation/
Right, nobody ever jumped cars or damaged other people's cars before the internet.
As long as we have been human we have sheltered and protected the less able. You even see it in animals. There was no magical time in history where "stupid" people were killed, and I'd hate to live in that world. The world is a better place when we look out for each other and help each other. A careless "stupid people should die" attitude is what leads to people abandoning one another and leads to violent people.
Violent crime rates are down now versus the 70s. But there are a whole lot more of us. The link to lead in gas and brain damage has been known for decades - actually we've known TEL was toxic since the 19th century. Blood lead levels have been on the decline since the 70s.
Maybe just say "this guy's an idiot" and move on rather than using it as an indictment against the entire species.
Two high school friends bought new pickups and jumped the local dyke when I was in grade 11, so 1982. They met in the middle. So based on my very small sample group, jumping things is not a new sport.
AnthonyGS (Forum Supporter) said:I just finished reading an article stating that leaded gasoline, resulted in lead in the water which made most of the population dumber going back to the 70s. It's an interesting idea that should be investigated further.
Okay: here's some evidence that you're wrong. The best available data shows that over time, humans are getting more intelligent. Hard to know what you mean by crime rates since even with recent upticks we're still at historical lows in the U.S. You're suffering from a simplistic form of observer bias--it's just a lot easier to notice the stupid now than it was in the 1970s. What's probably more relevant isn't average stupidity but rather how long that tail of stupid is. I'd guess that hasn't changed all that much, either.
Keith Tanner said:The whole "I know something you don't and you'll all figure it out when you're as smart and researched as me someday" tone is not a compelling way to make an argument, although it has become more familiar over recent years. As someone once said, don't just say it or hypothesize it, show actual evidence.
This should be a sticky on every forum and social media platform on the internet.
Berck said:What's probably more relevant isn't average stupidity but rather how long that tail of stupid is. I'd guess that hasn't changed all that much, either.
Makes sense, there are significantly more people in the world so even at a lower percentage of the total population, there are probably more stupid people now than there was in the 70s.
dculberson said:Maybe just say "this guy's an idiot" and move on rather than using it as an indictment against the entire species.
People sometimes read too much into these things. To paraphrase Freud, "sometimes a cigar is just a cigar."
There used to be idiots, there are idiots now, there will be idiots in the future. Shake your head at this guy and get on with your life.
People (as a whole) enjoy seeing carnage / misfortune happen to people who aren't them. So when people see someone else do dumb things, they want to watch it, and show their friends "look what this idiot did!" and they in turn tell their friends etc. See also motor sports crashes. Same thing happens with car accidents on highways, most people need to slow down to a crawl to see what happened from 3 lanes on the other side.
There is the same number of dumb things happen, just a much much larger audience. I saw this same video re-posted on instagram by 8 different accounts.
That said, seeing the 'aftermath' of the car, it seems to have held up decently enough for a landing that was a heavy nose dive, onto concrete, on a steep downhill slope, at speeds beyond posted limit, and probably not something in the design documents for crash testing.
All I have to say is ignorance will bite you in the ass every time. The driver probably didn't have a clue what he had done until that car left the ground and he probably shat himself before it landed. If nothing else, he will have learned something before this is over.
I'm glad there weren't many video cameras around when I was younger. The only evidence of my shenanigans is in my memory and replacing several sets of ball joints in a 78 Chevy C10. Luckily we played on dirt roads in the middle of nowhere and nobody got injured.
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