r/gifsthatendtoosoon 2d ago

That’s why we have speed limits

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u/Zeenu29 2d ago

Wrong sub. GIF ended just in time to save the guy's life.

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u/noirrespect 2d ago

Voice over:

If Gary had worn his seat belt...

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u/papillon-and-on 1d ago

He now has just enough time to press reverse. There is a reverse button on motorcycles, right?

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u/willsmithr 2d ago

He's dead

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u/CopainChevalier 1d ago

Who would have uploaded the video then?

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u/beardybrownie 1d ago

There was a similar case in the UK where a motorcyclist had an accident and died, his mother uploaded the video from his helmet cam online to deter other motorcyclists from driving as her son drove.

source (YouTube)

There’s been a few videos like this released by family members of the deceased for public awareness and public good.

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u/BarellRoller 11h ago

And people still don't learn

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u/PomegranateSea7066 10h ago

Invincible mentality.

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u/Sh0rtBr3ad 5h ago

But I can see them though.

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u/Putrid-Builder-3333 4h ago

Who posted that????

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u/DeadlyMustardd 21h ago

Whoevers porch the camera ended up on? Cops? Dunno, just some ideas to think on 😁

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u/Biichimspiderman 1d ago

Very good question

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u/SwitchIndependent714 23h ago

I didn't see that coming

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u/pailee 22h ago

Funny, because neither did he.

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u/TwinkyMonster 2d ago

Probably drunk or intoxicated, would make a good advert for it either way. I very much doubt the rider survived this! Probably, came off, collided with something like a curb and wall as they were flying or sliding across the ground. Maybe even decapitated themselves on something, these things happen. Could of even killed a pedestrian in the process.

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u/ineedhelpXDD 1d ago

Bro is 100% seriously injured but can see him surviving that. Seen a motorcycle video with a semi head on but again severely life alternative changes will occur if he didn't die in video afterwards

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u/RumoredReality 1d ago

I stubbed my toe on a corner and it was excruciating

This guy stubbed his whole everything

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u/SquirrelKaiser 1d ago

He is ether dead or in constant pain for the rest of his life. and there is no in between.

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u/AndrewFrozzen 1d ago

Would rather be dead at that point honestly

(but preferably, would rather be smart enough to not do this, to end up like that where I have to live in either constant pain or death, but being smart is a privilege apparently.)

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u/Fun_Olive_6968 23h ago

I had a major major car crash in 2017 being an idiot, these days i'm not afraid of dying, i'm afraid of surviving again, fuck this.

https://imgur.com/gallery/crashstang-Jh8DzVQ

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u/PrestigiousCrab6345 3h ago

I stubbed my little toe on my right foot. The bruise had me limping for a week.

So, by the law of degrees, this guy should be limping until 2096.

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u/memes_are_my_dreams 1d ago

Yeah best case scenario he could just skid along the pavement with bruises and asphalt burns. But that would be incredibly lucky it’s definitely more likely to be something more serious or fatal.

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u/LadderTrash 10h ago

Humans can range from “dying from slipping and hitting your head against the ground” to “surviving multiple gunshots to vital organs and making an almost full recovery.” Sometimes it is really a roll of the dice

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u/oBananaZo 9h ago

Please don’t normalise this “could of” bs.

It’s “could have”.

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u/stoooflatooof 2d ago

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u/Four-HourErection 2d ago

End when it was supposed to.

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u/wiilbehung 1d ago

Pls don’t, I’m not strong enough.

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u/justaregularpeople 19h ago

RIP general Iroh

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u/socal01 2d ago

For the first time the GIF ending was appropriate!

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u/oOMegaXDOo 2d ago

If I am not mistaken, this happened in Brazil and the guy somehow survived

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u/Hawkito 2d ago

Brazil vibes, yes

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u/Correct_Vehicle_5472 17h ago

for sure in brazil

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u/SquirrelKaiser 1d ago

Really? Hope he learns his lesson.

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u/Isariamkia 1d ago

There's a high chance he didn't. If the truck wasn't there, he wouldn't have crashed. So it's not his fault for speeding, it's the truck fault for being there.

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u/Phazon2000 1d ago

That’s not how first-hand trauma works

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u/Neaksme 2d ago

Just rub some dirt in it.

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u/samk488 1d ago

Was he trying to break the sound barrier

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u/jayhow92 1d ago

The actual footage is on r/instantregret

OP cut the footage for this sub

https://www.reddit.com/r/instant_regret/s/odn0MGqAkA

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u/BeatsRocks 1d ago

Thats how the sub is formed

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u/mboyde 2d ago

I feel as though they had an appropriate time to lean right, unless i missed a ghost car in the right lane.

Edit: spelling

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u/InternUnhappy168 2d ago

Didn't even grab the brake! 💀

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u/6gv5 1d ago

At that speed motorcycle brakes do nothing. The best you can do once the car is on the middle of the road is to hope it doesn't stop and lets you pass it on the right, then you start braking after that, but instinct telling you to anticipate it to the left (to an almost certain hit) is hard to fight against.

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u/InternUnhappy168 1d ago

I would take even 1% less skin grafts and internal hemorrhaging lol

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u/battalinbabasi 1d ago

I paid for it I'm gonna use all the speed!

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u/Saiyan-Zero 1d ago

Well, he payed for it... With his life

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u/Dahren_ 10h ago

Use all the speed on a track, not a public road

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u/battalinbabasi 3h ago

Or maybe change the mentality and not use all the speed 😂

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u/CashEuphoric896 1d ago

anyone get a clear odometer read at the end? its too blurry

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u/Antstony420 1d ago

Game over

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u/AngryRinger 1d ago

And the Darwin Award goes to… (Hopefully not. He’s a moron, yes, but hopefully not a dead one)

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u/Iambetterthanuhaha 1d ago

That Ford is going to need a new front fender.

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u/FlatWhiteEnjoyer 1d ago

If you need speed limits to realize it's not a good idea to go at that speed through intersections you're not paying enough attention.

Speed limits are there for the state to bully and patronize us, nothing more.

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u/Dahren_ 10h ago

No speed limits are to legally hold people accountable for their dangerous driving. If there were no speed limits then we'd have to wait until one of these maniacs gets someone killed before being able to do anything.

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u/bigDogNJ23 1d ago

This really looks like a video game

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u/Historical-News2760 1d ago

We have only so much time before it’s cut short.

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u/CruelMustelidae 1d ago

Literally Icarus

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u/ConfidentCommercial6 1d ago

I hope his affairs were in order and he said everything he wanted to say to his family

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u/Cpt_Soban 1d ago

Here we call them "temporary Australians"

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u/SlivaLilovaya 1d ago

Жаль красный пикап

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u/Protholl 1d ago

Not enough chlorine in the gene pool

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u/BoskiCezar 1d ago

No splash? Awww

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u/mamut2000 1d ago

That's why we have brains.

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u/Otherwise_Initial516 1d ago

„Yep that's me you're probably wondering how i ended up in this situation…“

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u/gliwoma 1d ago

Damn, that's why my downloads are so slow lately. 😒

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u/Bloodless-Cut 22h ago

Darwin's natural selection at work. Problem is, these morons put other people who are trying to mind their own business in danger.

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u/0_oyo 20h ago

Will be right back

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u/Captain1613 18h ago

That truck is also dumb as hell.

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u/Major_Kangaroo5145 17h ago

Not really. Have you ever driven a vehicle?

You cant exactly measure speeds of the vehicles and calculate their trajectories. You basically look at the distance and roughly calculate how far the vehicles are . If they are far enough you turn.

When somebody is moving 2X the speed limit there is not way of processing that, especially at night all you see is a headlight.

In this case truck saw the car and the other bike that was in front of cam bike and thought safe enough and pulled forward.

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u/EdBrazilk 17h ago

He may have survived it’s all about what you strike, how you land. The high velocity didn’t help him tho

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u/Domi4 16h ago

This is when you wake up

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u/InteractionPerfect88 13h ago

This is why we have natural selection

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u/Dahren_ 10h ago

I bet he'd be all "why didn't that stupid CAGER not see me"

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u/USAtoUofT 9h ago

And then bikers will cry "LOOK TWICE SAVE LIVES" lmao

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u/Ok_Mechanic_3045 3h ago

Yoo, the truck driver had that much time to lay on the horn but couldn't swerve or brake with his 5mph ass. This is murder

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u/Maximuscarnage 2d ago

I feel like this video could have been a little longer

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u/joeyshmowie 2d ago

I hope that guy is ok

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u/[deleted] 2d ago

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u/joeyshmowie 2d ago

Everyone makes mistakes in life and this poor guy made a very deadly one. I do hope he is ok.

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u/Ollyfer 2d ago

I too hope that, but either way, they had it coming. You don't speed through a city like that, or any inhabited urban zone at that. Even on highways and the likes the danger is not worth risking for any earlier arrival. At least when driving a little slower, you are surer to arrive in the first place.

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u/Wojak__Horseman 2d ago

Well most people(most people) do not learn from their mistakes unless and until theyre disabled.

Youd very often see these very people trying the same fanatics right after their recoveries; endangering other peoples lives(the way this guy endangers the car persons life) again.

P.S. Im not sure if the car person turned his car illegally.

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u/groupfox 1d ago

Mistake is pressing gas instead of break, Very stupid, very dangerous, but mistake. Going twice over the limit in a city on a busy road is a decision.

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u/Pnollten 1d ago

I disagree. He puts other people's lives in danger, he deserves to not be ok.

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u/DrChaka69 1d ago

Like you’ve never done some stupid shit in your life man. Just because someone fucks up doesn’t mean they deserve to die, or be irreparably damaged for the rest of their life.

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u/lgnc 1d ago

everybody deserves sympathy (even serial killers, etc) — that's why the death penalty is such a horrendous concept.

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u/Dumple423 1d ago

Rage-bait was going so well up until this comment, bro. Try harder next time

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u/Psychlonuclear 1d ago

This is not a mistake, he didn't just hit a wrong button or something like that. It was a very deliberate choice.

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u/Better_Pin_3077 2d ago

Calling that a mistake is a mistake. If thats just a mistake, we wouldn't need cops and law, people should just say sorry to each other.

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u/crespn 1d ago

hope he died

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u/NoBoolii 1d ago

That’s cruel.

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u/crespn 1d ago

driving like that is cruel, what if he killed someone

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u/NoBoolii 23h ago

Such brain dead logic. Do you honestly think I’m condoning the way he’s driving? lol

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u/crespn 23h ago

no i just told you why i thought that, im happy there'll be one less danger to society

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u/St0n3yM33rkat 2d ago

Actually, the reason we have speed limits is simply to make money off of people. It has already been proven that if you removed the speed limit signs, people drive more comfortably and caused less accidents, overall.

Some people are just stupid and do stupid things...like the driver of the bike. Sign or no sign, he was still going to do it.

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u/lovedeathandramen 1d ago

So how do you suggest you stop people from doing stupid stuff like this?

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u/Zerovv 1d ago

But he is doing stuff like this?

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u/twec21 1d ago

Do you think there wasn't a speed limit in the video? Or do you think he was the last human being on wheels to learn what speed limits were (then again by the video he probably won't)

People speed like this because the speed limit isnt even part of their equation. It's one thing to know "ok the limit is 65, but it's a highway and the traffics light so we can push it to 75". That's NOT what that video was, or God only knows how more like him in daily life (GOD I hate the 101)

Edit: and the answer is speed bumps in towns, or reckless endangerment charges and seizure of the vehicles every time.

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u/St0n3yM33rkat 1d ago

We don't? People are always going to do things that others think are stupid. Trying to stop them only makes them want to do it more. Natural selection has to be allowed to run its course.

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u/lovedeathandramen 1d ago

So in court, the guy can say, "Sorry about your kid mam, but I was going the legal limit in town, which is no limit and your kid happen to be in the way. Natural selection you know"

There should be a way to decide who is at fault and keep innocent people from doing stupid stuff. I understand people are stupid, and they are going to drive like they want. I live in South Africa, you cant tell me anything, and we have something called minibus taxis, they drive like a*s, they go where they want. If we dont have a way of saying look, you are causing trouble, everyone will go haywire. I like u/twec21 's suggestion about speed humps. Then you can't do anything without causing trouble to your own car first.

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u/St0n3yM33rkat 1d ago

I could not possibly imagine what it's like to live in South Africa. Maybe it wouldn't work there; that idk. I will have to go with your pov, for your country, as I do not nor have I ever lived there.

And no. That person still hit a child, in your scenario. Speed limit or none, they hit a child. That's jail. It doesn't matter how fast they were going.

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u/lovedeathandramen 1d ago

I hear what you are saying, but I don't agree. Let's say that the road has a huge uphill and a sudden downhill, and there is no speed regulation and the kid crossed the road behind the big uphill, the first time I see him is when hes 5m infront of me, I was going 200km/h, there is no way I will stop in time. Who's at fault? The kid crossed the road at a dangerous place, and I was "speeding" whatever that means with no law.

We are both in the wrong, unfortunately it turned out worse for the kid than me, it doesn't mean I am in the wrong, I'm not talking morally here, im talking law alone. We need stuff in place put by people who calculated and through about stuff like this, cause not everyone has common sense.

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u/plated-Honor 1d ago

Could you elaborate on speed limits not making people drive slower or cause more accidents? The only study I’m finding with some quick googling is this DOT paper from the 90’s https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/publications/research/safety/97084/97084.pdf.

While it does address driver behavior not changing much when they adjusted signage, it doesn’t support your statement at all. The study shows that drivers don’t change behavior drastically when faced with changes to traffic laws, and instead choose to follow what they perceive as safe or what they’re accustomed to. There’s no way to extrapolate that the human race as a whole would drive just as safely without these traffic laws existing.

I’d be very interested in seeing more sources because I am not super knowledgeable on the subject. But I have lived in countries where there are essentially no traffic laws because they aren’t enforced, and I can assure you the vast majority of people did not drive very safely.

I can agree that in many countries the sets of laws that surround vehicles are shit and largely oppress the average person, as well as the systems/people that enforce them being very corrupt and favoring those with the wealth to sidestep repercussion.

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u/Grobo_ 1d ago

Where are the studies that proof this claim ? Especially in a dense urban area.

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u/Brief-Translator1370 1d ago

I sincerely doubt the government makes money off of speeding tickets. Do you have any idea how many speeding a tickets a single officer would have to give out to make up for their salary?

Quick google search says state/local governments spend over 100 billion a year and make about 10 billion. So your theory is pretty stupid

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u/Clinthor86 1d ago

Good luck getting the boot lickers of reddit to understand that lol

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u/NYC2BUR 2d ago

That's not why we have posted speed limits. Posted the speed limits are there to keep the regular driving public from bumping into each other other.

It's the same thing with padlocks. If a criminal wants to break in to your shit that has a padlock on it, then they're gonna break into your shit that has a padlock on it.

Criminals gonna crime.

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u/just1nc4s3 2d ago

The irony of your second sentence in the context of this video, is just baffling.

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u/NYC2BUR 2d ago

And the third sentence brings them together into one cohesive thought.. amazing right?

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u/InnuendoBot5001 1d ago

It amazes me how some people see "deterrents don't work 100% of the time" and conclude "we should have no deterrents"

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u/NYC2BUR 1d ago

Well, I kind of agree with you. Even the most saintly motherfuckers on the planet would be tempted if there wasn't a lock. So yeah I think padlocks are necessary.

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u/OriginalChicachu 1d ago

But the padlocks are indeed an attempt to deter criminal activity, padlocks make it harder, which I understand can be subjective, but yes the intent is to deter criminals. And so are speed limits.

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u/Happy-Owl8729 1h ago

Is he alive? But he definitely learned this lesson