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Haha. I like how the airbag blows up
i just snorted water. thanks.
Oh god, I hope that’s real. What an asshole! He deserved it!
That is the most inspiring thing I have seen in a long time. Had she fallen asleep in the crosswalk when the asshole started honking his horn at her?–And then she doesn’t say so much as one word, just BAM! right to the grill. Love!
Ahaha I want to be Maude from “Harold and Maude” when I am old.
That lady rocks!
Is it just me or does it look like she knows what shes aiming for, the little swing with the bag just seems so spot on.
My great-grandmother lived independently until well into her eighties. Her house was across a busy street from the convenience store where she bought most of her groceries. Her solution to crossing the street was to get a cane, paint it with stripes a la a blind person (she was not blind), and stick that sucker right out into traffic when she wanted to get across the street. If cars stopped too close to her, she’d whack their bumpers — hard — as she “felt” her way across the street.
This clip brought back a lot of memories. She was a great old lady.
But man, I’m sure glad those teenage boys were filming this, cuz drivers get mean when you so much as touch their precious cars. They consider it exactly like assault on them. If those kids hadn’t been filming this, I’d have been fearful for that old woman’s safety.
How much does it cost to fix a deployed airbag on a Mercedes convertible? 5K? More? That makes it all so, so much sweeter. Be rude and nasty to a little old lady, pay out the ass. Go, old lady, go!
I am reminded of my honorary aunt, who rapped sharply on the hood of a car with her umbrella when it tried to run us over in the crosswalk. When the kid driving went to yell at her, she looked at him sternly and said something to the effect of “You’re in the wrong. *We* have the right of way.”
She’s the best.
One of my aged aunts was once the victim of an attempted mugging, when in her eighties. Two teens tried to grab her purse, but she screamed curse words at them, kicked and spit at them. As they ran away, one of them yelled “You’re no lady!”
She loved to tell that story over tea and cookies!
OMG that is fabulous. That asshole deserved what he got. And I love the kids laughing at him too. So perfect.
Why do you have to wait 60 years?
Funny? … Yes!
Well Deserved? … Yes!
But, if the intent was to cause the air bag to deploy … Unintelligent! I’ve been involved with a number of cases when minor impact air bag deployments induce unconsciousness. Were this to happen, the little old lady would have been slowly run over by the vehicle in question as the drivers would no longer be applying preassure to the brakes.
Point is, it is not advisable to intentionally cause airbags to deploy. Foret road rage which is responsible for a number of assaults and homicides each year.
That said, good for the old lady!
So seconded.
Owned!
Grandmaman 1, Obnoxious Jerkoff -1.
I’m not really feeling the love, here. We only see a brief portion of what happened and we don’t know how long the situation lasted. Also, she shouldn’t really have been asleep or whatever that was. We didn’t see how long the guy was waiting and while his reaction was certainly a little unreasonable, I don’t think it was completely baseless. I think he would seem a lot less douchey had he stopped after the first honk, though.
But, if the intent was to cause the air bag to deploy … Unintelligent! I’ve been involved with a number of cases when minor impact air bag deployments induce unconsciousness.
Oh yairs, because an old lady of that age would even KNOW that such things existed. Please.
We didn’t see how long the guy was waiting and while his reaction was certainly a little unreasonable, I don’t think it was completely baseless. I think he would seem a lot less douchey had he stopped after the first honk, though.
What about doing a little “pip, pip” type horn instead of a great big rude HONK HONK? What about getting out to help her, if she looked as if she was going narcoleptic?
I like the fact that the people videoing the scene, who presumably are on her side, are the “yoofs” who would normally be stereotyped as being a danger to the old woman. Instead, it’s the “respectable” entitled yuppie who is causing the trouble.
Aaron: Even if he’d been waiting there a half a bloody hour, honking like that is RUDE. He could have gotten out of the car to see if she was okay, or popped his head out and said, “Excuse me”, or even gently tapped the horn. But no.
The milk, in my nose, it burns.
Is this real or fake? I just have to know.
Eh, I’m suspicious. It’s just all so perfectly timed. It’s like the video that was circulating of the guy in his cubicle destroying his computer, and his cube mate peeks over the top like a gopher.
But, hey, if it didn’t happen that way, it should have. :-)
The snarky laughter at the end makes this.
She’s not asleep. She’s just moving slowly because she’s old.
It’s fake. Airbag deployment is far more violent than that, and it produces clouds of whitish powder from the propellant. The airbag videos you see in car commercials make it look like a big fluffy pillow, but it’s really quite a violent process – the airbag is there to stop you from flying through the windshield, so the fact that it causes some injuries itself (usually superficial ‘rug burn’ from the bag, sometimes bruising or broken noses) is acceptable. Still, a light person or an elderly person could easily be killed by deployment of an airbag, which is on of the reasons for the development of a newer generation of bags that sense the weight of the car occupant and adjust the deployment force accordingly.
Back when airbags were first used widely the sensors were not as sophisticated as they are now and it was possible to set off the airbag with a well placed blow. There were cases in the UK of hooligans doing this to people stopped in traffic, so there is at least some connection to reality in the video.
Ohh! You made me laugh so hard….tears, coffee spew, etc…
Whatever it takes to blame the woman, eh Aaron?
Come on. He was saying that while the preppy guy was a douche, the old woman should probably not have been asleep in the middle of the road…I could understand the first honk as “I’m concerned for your safety and a little baffled, so I’m overreacting.” After that, it’s douchebaggery.
That’s not blaming her because of her gender: I think the same dynamic could exist if the genders were switched or if both individuals were the same gender…