Everything turned out okay, so it’s basically fine to laugh at this guy. I mean, sure, it’s kind of mean-spirited, but what am I supposed to do with a guy sitting in a quickly sinking car, asking whether or not he should leave it as water rises up to his neck? Empathize? That’s literally not possible. Sympathize? I don’t know this guy’s back story, but assuming he’s a more or less mentally healthy individual I don’t have much of that for him either. It’s like watching someone shouting to firefighters from the second floor window of a burning house, “Should I just stay up here or what? Stay? Did you say stay? Okay. Wait, what? I can’t hear you over the roaring flames. I’ll wait here until you speak louder.”
It’s also worth noting that, if you live in Texas (as I do), then every spring you are inundated like this man’s car with warnings to not drive into water. When there’s a flash flood watch, hell when there’s even just rain, every possible form of communication imaginable is telling you about it, and also saying, “DO NOT DRIVE INTO FUCKING WATER.”
WATCH: Houston reporter rescues man trapped in high water on live TV https://t.co/RCHmLiasW8https://t.co/SUTZnCyV3D
— ABC7 Eyewitness News (@ABC7) April 18, 2016
What’d he do? He drove into water. This is like living in Oklahoma and taking shelter in a greenhouse during a tornado warning. How do you not know better?
I’m still worried about this gentleman, though. It looks like he took about three mouthfuls of floodwater as he doggy paddled from his car to the reporter. That water is mostly swamp filth, human waste, and drowned animals. He should see a doctor today.
Essentially, this man is exactly who you imagine when another driver does something astoundingly stupid around you. Ever somehow get cut off by a car going 15 miles under the speed limit on the highway? This guy was behind the wheel. Ever see someone make a full stop before making an easy right turn on a busy street? This guy. Ever see someone drive into eight feet of water and just stay sit there wondering, “Well what the heck is all this stuff?” This guy.
The rescue didn’t look like much, but that reporter probably saved this guy’s life. Watching this was like seeing the classic frog and boiling water adage play out in real life. You shove an old man’s head underwater and he’ll fight back. You take a few minutes to fill an old man’s car up with water and he’ll just sit there and drown..
[via ABC 7]
Natural selection is pissed he didn’t stay in
After much deliberation, the man finally leaves his sinking car only to be swept away by a strong undertow which forced him to the bottom where he is then flushed deep underground and enslaved by a reptilian-humanoid species but he is sort of happy because he doesn’t have to go to work or see his boring family again.
To be fair to this guy I’m never comfortable leaving my car anywhere in Houston.
I’m never comfortable being in houston. The place already smells like sewage.
This is beautiful, watching nature take back a Prius after it lived a long, healthy life going to yoga studios, farmers markets, and half marathons. Let it go man, it had a good run.
“Sir, you obviously have dementia and just drove your fucking car into a certified lake. Do you have any comment?”
People like him vote for Bernie
Guy is driving a Prius. He was already playing with house money.
Further more, driving around 15 minutes after sunset with your parking lights on convinced they are your “low beams”? Probably the author of this misanthropic piece of ridicule trash.
People don’t often invite you to things, do they?
He’s still upset about his car sinking
“Ever see someone make a full stop before making an easy right turn on a busy street?”
Oh, so you’re the jackass aggro driver laying on the horn behind me while I follow the FUCKING LAW!!! Stop sign or red light, you come to a full stop before making a right.
Do yourself a favor and take this guys space clogging up a storm drain.
Jesus man….rough start to your Monday or nah?
Looks like someone’s boss wouldn’t take the rain as an excuse to miss work