@Platypus Man: I think he played stunt man too much the night before.
Thats hilarious though because he didnt seem the least bit worried. I probably would've tried to get up asap.

SneakerFiend

He is superman in disguise, who else would you think he is?

Dynasty

The guy looks like the Drivers Ed teacher I had.

velvetwoodstock

One word... Gangsta~

radikaled

@zenpoet: Yeah, we are odd creatures. I was hit while jaywalking across a street a couple of years ago (I got the jaywalking ticket in the hospital a few hours later!). I rolled up on the hood of the car, then back onto the pavement until I came to a rest in the middle of the street. But the funny thing? I never let go of my coffee mug until the paramedics took it from me.... had it in my hand the entire time.

I mean it was a nice insulated mug and all, but you'd think I'd have let it go in that situation!

Burgundy Corningstone

@Tim Faulkner: hmmm...i like irony...lol...

chizelord

@evangelistc01: Shout out from NJ, our drivers may just be worse than NC.

comfortablesofa

Unbreakable.....check to see if he can bench 500 lbs.

Noobs-R-Us

@LittleJon: Didn't they tell you over there? Hats are the cure for baldness.

robotleawesome

@jcy: This really brought back some memories for me.

I was involved in a wicked accident with a 4x4 mule that broke my nose and gave a bad concussion. To make a long story short, I was driving, dropped the front end into a hidden ditch in a field, and was popped up into the role cage above me where I hit my head and nose very hard on all for bars (picture a pinball, only with eyes).

I was bleeding, confused, and very disoriented. First thing I did? Looked for my hat. I didn't go find help until I located my hat. People do very strange things in extreme and unexpected circumstances.

zenpoet

this has to be the first internet video that I've see on CNN before gizmodo.

danmandle

hah! That dude was awesome!

nachobel

@evangelistc01: And in the Triangle, the problem is most of those sucky drivers are from NY and NJ.

Yes it looks like snow, but it's ice. No, your 4k+ pound suv cannot stop on it when you are driving 70 mph. Yes, Bubba and Earl will be dragging your dumb arse out of the ditch in about an hour.

LoganSix

@atomx: I've actually had my brakes fail while driving. Not fun. Didn't hurt anyone, or hit any buildings. Didn't do the car a lot of good though. Oh yeah, not a woman.

soggy_cheerio

@chizelord: And I'll tell your (theoretical) kids it was really the cigarettes that saved his life.

Tim Faulkner

Why can't Helen Keller drive?

soggy_cheerio

Uh, check puhlease!

That driver seriously needs to update their GPS software.

misterwho

LOL.... put the hat back on cause God forbid you lose that too.

trailingedge

@VeeDub: Yes, it was a woman. She claimed her brakes failed. Apparently, so did her steering wheel...

atomx

@soggy_cheerio: Yes, stroking yourself or a passenger while driving is dangerous!

LittleJon

No offense ladies... it's just some of you don't pay attention while driving. I witnessed this a couple of days ago while sitting in traffic... and just about every other day for that matter.

VeeDub

WTF!!!!!!!! Thats crazy.... I bet it was a woman driving. Maybe It was Danica Patrick

VeeDub

This is one of those times where I wish I had kids. I'd love to tell em "see kids, when you smoke, god gets angry and plows a car thru the wall next to you to make you loose your cigarettes."

I'm going to be a terrible father...

chizelord

eye jus done got ma het an got outta thur

o0adam0o

@Platypus Man: I'm actually surprised at how often it happens. Last year, an old man had a stroke when turning onto my street. Took out a tree and two of the neighbors' cars from their driveways.

soggy_cheerio

cant a guy sit and enjoy his lentil soup and quietly read read his new issue of Barely Legal without some D-bag driving through the g-damn wall and spilling broth all over the "Tasty Theresa" article, i mean...really...what kinda world...

ravedown

What is it with Americans and hats? Actually, change that to American men.

@AhnyerKeester: Yes, but drivers in some places suck more than others. Here in California, drivers are worse than in my native England (I'm talking about the average standard, there's very good and totally crap drivers in both places). I think there are two main reasons for this:

1. The US idea that a person's car is an extension of his/her living and dining room and it's appropriate to do anything that you might do in those rooms while driving

2. The piss-easy driving test here

LittleJon

If the seats and table had been aligned differently, he'd have been more seriously injured. From the video, he slides sideways as pretty as you please (as we say) until he hits the bar and his table is replaced by the bar stool. He even puts his arm on it right after while he assesses where his table's just gone.

Had his seat been aligned a foot or so forward he'd have hit the barstool with his ribs instead of flush against the flat bar.

opedog

The first response of the bald man - put the hat back on...

randalotto

The sign said "Drive through window."

Sora57

I'd have been serving up fresh chocolate pudding to everyone in the joint.

CafeRacer1200

Unbelievable. It just pushed him right along as if everything was supposed to be that way. Amazing... I bet his coffee didn't even spill.

MyPetFly

Whether held up on a freeway jam, or moments like this, I loudly exclaim, "I hope the driver died!"

I want that guy to SO buy me a Powerball ticket!

SigmundTheSeaMonster

I was just saying yesterday that if we're going to keep using cctv footage as entertainment, we need to add sounds. Color was the first hurdle, now it's time for audio!

James

Woman Driver?

mrkymrk

@evangelistc01: Not all of us, but yeah, in general. My mom's house got hit by two cars in two different occassions. One of them was just going too fast around a corner, but the other one drove from one street, through two other people's yards, through our street, and then into the house.

Platypus Man

@AhnyerKeester: Yup. Collisions usually come in pairs... He was just getting prepared for the next car to come plowing through the window.

Rabid Penguin

"i never did find my cigarettes"

i like that guy

jcy

@evangelistc01: Drivers everywhere suck. They just tend to suck in SUVs and pick up trucks more in Norf Cah-linah. That's all.

AhnyerKeester

Of course that's the right thing to do. Don't you put your hat (or helmet) on after a collision? I do.

AhnyerKeester

Shout out from North Carolina: Drivers here SUCK.

evangelistc01

@CafeRacer1200: You and me both. Its no wonder they didn't show a shot of him from the waist down. There was most assuredly soilage happening there.

Meatlocker - still a man, despite his white iPhone fetish.

And here's how (not) to react when it crashes into your TV news broadcast...

+ Watch video

olaf74

"Hi honey! You're early, I wasn't done yet."

J. Nadeau

Just another day in the life of Supar Baldy! lol. This was helarious, it was like had so many other problems in his life he didn't even feel like reacting normally to this one. hahah. like "Oh Lord, the kids want money for college and the wife wants a G-Dam' Deeeevorce and ...." "!!CRASH!!","Oh man, and now this guy thinks this is a Drive thru window, aaah well this college money for kids..." Takes his hat..LOL

igotsnakeeyes

@LittleJon: Gotta love any comment that starts out with "What is it with Americans...". Makes me want to make mean comments about why the English have such horrible teeth, the queen and warm beer. But I won't because I'm above all that. :-)

Toshie

Wow I didn't know gizmodo was break.com....

YouandWhoseArmy

@evangelistc01: As a visitor from South Carolina just this last weekend for a business trip, I agree with you. NC drivers are downright insane.

Y'all need someone to remind you that this is The South. Slow down, have some sweet tea. =)

novacthall

"Why you sorry sunava bitch...you owe me a plate of grits!"

Saboth

I'm proud (or saddened) to say that I beat all of you. I live in Miami. We have some of the worst driving in the entire country. Not a day goes by where I don't hear something like this on the news.

chizelord

@evangelistc01:

Dude, I totally know what you mean. I recently moved to NC and have noticed that there are a high number of jackass drivers here.

Jitty

@CafeRacer1200: HAHAHAHAHA FTW!! You made me lose it with that comment.

coolfelix

ROFL, that guy is my hero! He's also, unbreakable.

Bokusatsu_Tenshi

pwned haha wow it's amazing that he's alive

zed0

@zenpoet: Lol, very true.

I was walking along the sidewalk with a friend once, and a two wheeler came skidding up from behind, and before i could know it, swept me right off my feet, flipped me up and i came crashing back down, flat on my back. What did I do first before even trying to move? Checked to see if my keys were there.

Lucifer_Cat

@LoganSix:
Ny have to be like that,
but NJ drivers are just plain crazy, sorry guys.

br4nd0n

I was in a video rental store one night and a car came crashing inside, sending videos flying everywhere. Obviously is scared the hell out of me; for a split second I thought a bomb went off. Then the car backed out, turned around and started to drive away. I ran after it to get the license plate, and then the driver stopped, got out, and drunkenly stumbled towards me. He started crying saying that he was sorry, and then the store employees grabbed him and called the cops.

InsaneGain

@soggy_cheerio: Why can't Helen Keller drive? Because she is a woman?

dylanwho

bald is beautiful! People with hair are such tools.

archetype94306

@dylanwho: That is a horribly sexist joke that I will now be required to tell to everyone I know ad infinitum.

chonnes

@SigmundTheSeaMonster: I'd say he already used up what luck he had.

-Core-

Unbreakeable 2?

Digo

My girlfriend's Grandma drove through a wall once... of a DMV... on her way to take the driving test. Needless to say, Grandma doesn't drive anymore.

LastVigilante

@CafeRacer1200: LMAO!

allstarecho

@atomx:
I can't tell you how often people (usually senior citizens) jam on the gas pedal instead of the break, and then claim their "brakes failed". I'm sure it happens occasionally, but almost all the time, it's just the person not knowing what the hell they're doing.

@comfortablesofa:
I'm going to have to agree on that one. Especially recently, the Parkway is a great place to watch dumbasses make insanely close calls.

Darkest Daze

nice tattoo

AndersonBMX

Shit!!!
That's exactly how I'd react...

...if I overdosed on Valium

LandofMinos, I didn't do it, nobody saw me do it

Thank goodness! Now he can get back to curing cancer.

Yes, yes, straight to Hell - I know the way..

Bad Juju

@Toshie: It simply short-hand for, "Why do so many Americans like hats?". My statement didn't mean that all Americans like hats, just that as a collective group, hats are more popular here than in, say, Europe.

I don't think there is anything that anyone apart from the most thin-skinned person could find offensive about what I said.

Then again... What is it with Americans and getting upset so easily? (j/k)

LittleJon

The Untouchable! :D

DaSmith

@jcy: Seconded

Nemesisesq

Their GPS made them do it!

andyc52042

What's even better is the guy sitting at the counter at the top of the frame. He jumps across the place and onto a table in about 3 frames. Priceless...

Ashman

@LittleJon:
"1. The US idea that a person's car is an extension of his/her living and dining room and it's appropriate to do anything that you might do in those rooms while driving

2. The piss-easy driving test here."

Geez, I don't know how I could have ever found that offensive. :-)

I'd expand on that but I've got to stop by my haberdasher before swinging by the local diner's drive through...

Toshie

@Toshie: Wow! It's impossible to post anything here that makes reference to differences in statistical distributions or populations of people without someone getting upset.

Re 1:

Evidence a: Cup holders (often inserted in the US model of a car and absence in non-US models).

Evidence b: The fact that in many countries just drinking from a cup while in control of a vehicle is a ticketable office. In the US it is not.

Evidence c: Drive-throughs.

Re 2:

Evidence: Having personally taken a driving test in California and the UK. The test here in Cali is a joke. Someone can pass the test without being fit to drive. Included in this is the fact that there is no freeway driving component to the test.

It's funny how most people here in the US make frequent collective references to people in other countries and yet are offended when observation of national tendencies on their own soil are made.

LittleJon

Probably for the best he didn't finish his lunch.

trendspotter

@LittleJon: Cheers!

dylanwho

@LittleJon: I'm not upset, just making conversation. I'm sorry if I'm upsetting you, it's not my intent.

So cup holders and drive throughs make us guilty of: "The US idea that a person's car is an extension of his/her living and dining room and it's appropriate to do anything that you might do in those rooms while driving"? Seems a stretch...

As for the California versus UK driving tests, I can't comment, but I agree the driving tests in the states that I've taken them should be much more stringent and comprehensive.

"It's funny how most people here in the US make frequent collective references to people in other countries and yet are offended when observation of national tendencies on their own soil are made."
It's funny how you're complaining about generalizations by making a generalization of your own. :-)

Toshie

That guy put spiderman to shame

j0sh097

@Toshie: I wasn't complaining about generalizations. I was merely pointing out that we all do it and so shouldn't be offended when it comes back at us.

I think it's actually natural for humans to generalize. We evolved in small genetically-similar groups and our group cohensiveness and in-group socialization would benefit from generalizations about other groups. Of course this doesn't necessarily work well in our current environment. A bit like our craving for fat to reduce our changes of starving to death is bad in our food-rich environment.

LittleJon

Oh shit! OLD PEOPLE ARE DRIVING.

Priest

@evangelistc01:
Amen to that. Here in Wilmington even more than normal. Wait, maybe its because we have been infested with rivers from up north.......hmmmmmm

THShorn92

WHERE'A MAH CIGARETTES!

cpt.snerd

She probably blindly listened to her Tom-Tom.

nutcracker