Idiot couldn't handle his new toy in the rainy Metro Vancouver [OC]

2 years ago by xploit to c/idiotsincars

Managed to hit the concrete barriers on both sides of a 3 lane highway. Luckily didn't hit anyone but traffic was about 3km long an hour later and caused another accident within the traffic jam itself.

Edit:grammar, and obligatory - I took the frame from my partner's video who captured it for me, as I was busy avoiding the debris scattered all over the highway trying not to get a puncture. I don't touch my phone while I drive, and hope you don't either.

lurch 29 points 2 years ago
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NJSpradlin 7 points 2 years ago
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gravitas_deficiency 11 points 2 years ago

I mean depending on the model of McLaren, it might be on Pilot Sport Cups or some similar borderline track tire. Or just ultra high performance summers. Anything more than moderate rain will make them hydroplane like a motherfucker even when you’re just coasting.

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Thorny_Insight 6 points 2 years ago

I drive a rear wheel-drive vehicle with no traction control. Even despite the relatively long wheelbase that thing still wants to go sideways on wet tarmac if you apply slightly too much gas. For me the immediate counter-steer is second nature but an inexperienced driver would spin out before they even had time to realize what happened. I can only imagine how much easier and faster that happens on a powerful tiny supercar like that. I'm guessing it's either that what happened here or just good old hydroplaning.

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riodoro1 -4 points 2 years ago

I drive a rear wheel-drive vehicle with no traction control

Its 2024, what the fuck are you thinking. I know you’re literally the stig, until you’re not.

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BearOfaTime 7 points 2 years ago

You gonna pay for a replacement vehicle?

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riodoro1 -1 points 2 years ago

should I also test his walls for lead paint?

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11111one11111 3 points 2 years ago

Easier said than done. We're talking about a rear wheel drive rocket on low profile rubber shoes. You try walking on ice with Bruce Smith pushing you from behind lol.

Guys an idiot for trying but Ricky Bobby himself would have trouble keeping 1st place driving that car in those conditions.

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walden 12 points 2 years ago

If that's the driver in the picture, I just can't help but feel sorry for the guy. His whole life he's been told having a fancy car means he's made it in life, but nobody ever taught him how to not look like a slob. Some financing department somewhere is raking in their 20% on the loan, and the insurance company is happy to provide the absolute minimum coverage required by law.

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xploit 10 points 2 years ago

Driver - yes.
Owner - who knows...

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DrRatso 10 points 2 years ago

My money is on it being a rental

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phoenixz 6 points 2 years ago

If you feel the need to show off your penis size and how much money you got with a car I honestly will laugh when you wreck it.

Seriously, I loathe these assholes in Yale town who need to BRROOAAAAAPPPP accelerate to 100km/h for 2 seconds to then having to slam the breaks for the next stop light. If tomorrow they're all crashed and a total loss, I'd be so happy.

Sorry, zero tears for show offs.

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jqubed 15 points 2 years ago

It is possible to own an expensive sports car and not be a giant prick who is a hazard to others in traffic. But the people who buy an expensive sports car purely for the pleasure of driving are much more likely to take it to a track than be dumb on the street, because there aren’t a lot of streets where you can really experience the car to its full potential.

A really expensive car can make you feel like an amazing driver, but can also very suddenly reveal if you’re actually skilled enough to drive it. A lot more people have the money for these cars than the money and skills for these cars.

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Delphia 2 points 2 years ago

When I used to race, myself and a few other guys used to embarrass exotics at the track because my Civic cost less than their last major service and I wasnt afraid (financially) of putting it into the wall.

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Traegert 0 points 2 years ago

Possible but not probable.

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ratofkryll 4 points 2 years ago

Was there an N on the back?

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xploit 1 point 2 years ago

Sadly didn't see one, but it may have just come off on the concrete barriers lol.
He did actually crack the 2nd concrete barrier that stopped him, noticed that as I drove past earlier

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northendtrooper 3 points 2 years ago

Most likely he'll come up on top as these cars appreciate in value l.

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nilloc 1 point 2 years ago

Mclarens? The F1’s appreciation makes full rebuilds viable, but besides maybe the Mclaren Senna or a special P1, they’d likely be totaled. Especially if the monocoque is damaged. Carbon fiber repairs are difficult to impossible to certify for safety.

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Anticorp 2 points 2 years ago

Damn, that's a beautiful car.

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Thcdenton 2 points 2 years ago

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phoenixz -6 points 2 years ago

What is it with the huge amount of micro dicks in Vancouver needing a Lambo or Ferrari to show they totally really have a big big penis?

Seriously, burrard has multiple agencies selling that vroom vroom little boy trash. It's loud, obnoxious, and just plain plain sad

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Thorny_Insight 19 points 2 years ago

You'd think we would have grown past bodyshaming by this point but apparently not.

As someone who dealt with massive insecurity in my teenage years due to what turned out to be an average sized dick I fucking hate reading comments like this. This same ignorance is what makes people think it's acceptable to make fun of skinny people. By definition 50% of the men reading that comment are below average sized and they don't even own a supercar.

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ProgrammingSocks 8 points 2 years ago

100% fair. The problem is ego and masculinity issues which doesn't really correlate with penor size.

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phoenixz 1 point 2 years ago

I think everyone perfectly understands what I'm saying, yet choose to ig oremall of that to make some point about having to be politically correct. You get the point, how about you just take it?

I have no problem with small penises, nobody should, nobody should be ashamed of having a smaller or bigger penis.

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Anticorp 2 points 2 years ago

There's a whole second side of that issue too, which never gets discussed because it's literally not visible. Intercourse involves two people, and it works best when both people are about the same size down there.

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Postmortal_Pop 1 point 5 months ago

I do get your point here, and honestly I wholly agree. However, I do want to make a point that big dick energy/little dick energy is rarely ever to actually do with the body. It's a cultural shorthand for expressing that someone is insecure with their identity and compensate for it by aggressively flaunting the arbitrary thing they picked to decide they're better than other people. Every guy I've met with a massive dong has positively oozed small dick energy because they feel the need to judge dudes who do not have dicks their size or gals that are not interested in them for it.

I'm in a similar position with "white people" things. As a white male who comes from a long line of counter culture ancestors, I still have a viseral reaction when I hear the vapid, racist, and entitled nonsense of our society get referred to that way. Try as we might though, my spouse and I can't find a better way to state it that doesn't take an essay to understand. I live in Kansas, everyone but my spouse is white, when I see a lifted truck roll coal on a cyclist and say "fucking white people" I'm not taking about my boss or the old couple we adopted as grandparents, I'm using a shorthand.

I understand that this comes again from a negative place and while I want for change I have yet to see anything that encapsulates these ideas and also provides a harmful blow to the targeted audience. That is an important point. Gentle language is important for the well being of everyone but you need tough language to enforce an understanding of wrong doing. You cannot gentle parent a kid away from putting a fork in an outlet, you need to set an understanding that it is not ok. Pejorative language to shame actions is the only way we can culturally push back against bad actors. So when we say this guy has a micropenis, it isn't about his body, he may have the biggest cock in town, what we're really saying is "no amount compensation will make up for you being a terrible member of society" but in a way that actually hurts people because societally we have agreed it is a hurtful thing to hear.

On the long list of other linguistic things that fit the bill, swears that are bodily functions, religious explanations, genitals, or sex. Responses to sneezes that are religious. Complements that are rooted in appearance. Insults that are or were medical terms for disabilities. Unfortunately, it's everywhere in our language. Lame was an insult to the handicapped, dumb used to mean you couldn't speak, bastard used to be as bad as any racial slur. It's incredibly hard to escape this in our language.

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phoenixz 1 point 2 years ago

I think you miss the point. I don't care if somebody has a big or small dick. Personally I prefer the smaller ones, easier fit when the wife helps out. Nobody should ever be ashamed of their penis size and that wasn't the point.

Having said that, I have a problem with people needing to show off that they are so so not insecure! I call it tiny penis syndrome, but call it what you want. Call it "look at my money syndrome", it's all the same. It's all insecure douches showing off to get girls, and they disgust me.

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Thorny_Insight 1 point 2 years ago

Many if not most men just like nice cars. Simple as that. It doesn't have to do anything with insecurities.

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phoenixz 1 point 2 years ago

Yeah, sure, and indintbhaveva problem with that. I have a problem with that the guys able to afford said cars typically are douchebags who need to show off said car.

Then there is the point for how much more those pollute, howuch those take out from the poor, etc etc etc .... Just find a different hobby, or stop being insecure

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TheRealKuni 4 points 2 years ago

Is there something inherently wrong with wanting a cool car?

If I had the money I would seriously consider getting a McLaren. Not for daily driving, but for track days or taking out on nice days. They’re awesome cars.

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phoenixz 2 points 2 years ago

Short answer: no. Long answer: fuck yeah

We live in a world that is about to get fucked by climate change. If you think a few Forrest fires is bad, wait until entire crops start dying and people want more food and water than the world will be able to produce. Yet here we are producing wasteful shit cars for a tiny amount of people with tiny penises that have the need to let thousands of homeless in the street know that they VROOOOOOMMM VROOOOOMM at four in the morning. Yes, real example.

Then, people who got the money to buy this likely got that money from places where in the end a whole lot of other people got screwed over. The difference between the poorest and the rich shouldn't pass 1:10, yet somehow it passed 1:1.000.000 and nobody has a problem. Here in Vancouver there is an enormous homeless problem, and these assholes can drive around in a stupid overpriced car going nowhere? Can we PLEASE for once tax these assholes, then use the money to properly care for the less fortunate? Why is that so hard? But muy caahaaaaarr! I don't give a fuck.

Then, the people driving these cars (at least here in Vancouver) are the douche types who just can't stop showing off hoe much money they have. You know the type, only wears the absolute most expensive clothes brands, must have at least 5 gold chains, some 100.000 dollar watch, that sort of crap. And then let's VROOOOOOMMM accelerate 0-100 in a 100 meter street only to slam full in the breaks on the next stoplight, then rinse and repeat.

So yeah, fuck all that, get rid of these useless showoff machines.

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z00s 1 point 2 years ago

For every person struggling with corporate price gouging and private rent gouging, there is someone to whom that money is going. This is how they signal their "success".

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