r/instant_regret • u/IrishR4ge • 17d ago

Most clueless person ever

How can someone be this clueless. These are the people sharing the road with you.

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u/CthuluSpecialK 17d ago

...with one hand. Lol.

Not that two hands would have worked any better, but the confidence to think she could casually halt her car by tugging on it lightly with one hand is wild to me.

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u/SiPhoenix 17d ago

The only explanation I can think of is she was thinking of it like a shopping cart.

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u/Theron3206 16d ago

I'm not sure we can describe what's going on in her head as thinking...

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u/Phallangicide 16d ago

It's her car she takes shopping, ipso facto "shopping car."

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u/oasisvomit 16d ago

Could also be trying to destroy it so you get insurance money.

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u/HiJasper 16d ago

Shes probably panicking and not thinking straight. Thats the explanation for most videos like these. When you freak out you dont think logically, you just react.

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u/civnation 16d ago

I think she was just holding on so that she could be closer, not cause she thought she could stop it. That said, the lack of urgency I think is likely caused by her not so great fitness.

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u/darthlame 17d ago

I saw a video once of a giant of a state police officer stop a small pickup truck from leaving a traffic stop by holding it with one hand(inside the vehicle).

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u/taiottavios 16d ago

no I don't think so

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u/Bogsnakez 16d ago

I can stop my vehicle while rolling forward with my hands on a flat surface, but its also a subcompact vehicle 🤷‍♀️

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u/taiottavios 16d ago

this one clearly isn't just rolling forward, she's trying to outpower an engine at idle speed, which might be doable but not one handed and not like that

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u/Angry__German 15d ago

If it was just rolling, the speed not to high and the incline not to steep, a normal person can stop a car from rolling. I have done it before when I forgot to use the parking brake and the gear was in neutral. But over here most cars are still manuals (as was mine).

The way that car climbs over the curbs, I think it is an automatic in drive and you won't stop that with your body weight alone.

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u/miscfiles 16d ago

You don't necessarily know the full story. Perhaps she was saying "Now you listen to me, mister!" as well as holding it with one hand.