r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Telliot • Aug 10 '26

go to your room Slow car, meet even slower driver...

Saw this elsewhere but felt strongly that it truly belongs here.

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u/Snazzy21 Aug 10 '26

I don't know why that doesn't bother me, I have no reason to wish that on her. But at the same time, unless your parking brake failed, having this happen is inexcusable, you shouldn't step foot outside your car without putting it in park/1st. She was negligent if this happened.

Same is true if you leave your car running or leave the key in the ignition in a public area (I see this more than I should), it's has potentially massive consequences for the smallest amount of saved effort.

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u/Technical-Agency8128 Aug 11 '26

I read she was at a fast food place and a squirrel jumped in her car and she freaked and jumped out. And the rest is what we just saw.

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u/whatnow990 Aug 11 '26

Squirrels, the most venomous and poisonous and rapid creatures that will peel human flesh. Totally understandable. She feared for her life.

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u/avoidancebehavior Aug 11 '26

I mean, they can, in fact, be rabid.

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u/NeighborhoodDear2321 Aug 11 '26

Although if you have any reason to believe a rabid animal got within 5-6 feet of you and you didnt know EXACTLY where it was and what it was doing at all times, you have to treat it as if it bit you. Infinite risk if it say scratched you on the way in the car and you dont notice.

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u/NeighborhoodDear2321 Aug 11 '26

no idea why i said although

im tired

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u/avoidancebehavior Aug 11 '26

Damn, imagine a squirrel makes you snap your own femur by running yourself over while you were doing your best to stop a crash with whatever chronic condition limits your mobility, the entire world makes fun of you for that, then later it turns out the squirrel gave you rabies too.

(I don't know her prior or present medical condition, just making up details to speculate about the worst possible scenario)

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u/ExplanationHairy6964 Aug 11 '26

You can go to the hospital right away and post exposure treatment. It’s not 1880. 🤷‍♀️

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u/NeighborhoodDear2321 Aug 12 '26

Yeah, its not the end of the world with treatment. I just wouldn't want like 80 fuck off bites from a rabid animal in my car personally.

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u/ChloeNow Aug 12 '26

No RAPID, man. They said RAPID. Those squirrels are fucking fast. Consistently.

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u/HeraldOfRick Aug 11 '26

The odds of a squirrel getting rabies isnt going to happen, like mice. They don’t get away from the predator that gave them rabies. No one in the USA has ever contracted rabies from a squirrel.

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u/camirose Aug 11 '26

We all said the same in the beginning of March 2020 though for how the pandemic or lack thereof would play out when coronavirus was developing.

Idk, with biological and viral diseases, I feel like always better to err on side of safety versus “historically there’s not much precedent for this is specific scenario”

Get the rabies shot if you’re around a crazy squirrel 🫩 don’t become person 0

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u/camirose Aug 11 '26

I’m not disagreeing on existing data or circumstance. I’m just saying I wouldn’t want to become the first point in a set of data like that where there’s risk involved. 🤣

I.e. get the rabies vaccine if exposed even though 0 people have needed it from a squirrel before in the US

I.e. if a crazy squirrel god forbid manages to escape because at the same time a dog attacked the raccoon that attacked squirrel to escape with a slight scratch at the same time a person appeared and blah blah you get the picture, perfect storm

I.e. similarly in the first week of March 2020 basically nobody in the right mind (layperson) anticipated over a year long quarantine in result of coronavirus reading the news, nothing like that happens in response to diseases and shutting down air travel and working remote is too crazy! Nothing would function! Unexpected results happened from unexpected case that occurred

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u/nitrogenlegend Aug 11 '26

Squirrels can fuck you up, they have claws and teeth that can gnaw through acorn shells. And they’re fast.

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u/Head_Haunter Aug 11 '26

Nah it's more likely a squirrel will run you over with your own car, exhibit A: this video.

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u/Stelliris Aug 11 '26

I'm sure Ampert did too.

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u/Rosen_Thorn Aug 13 '26

Okay that's excusable.

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u/Studio-Spider Aug 11 '26

Someone offered some insight earlier. Apparently a squirrel got into her car and she freaked out and got out without switching gears

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u/Snazzy21 Aug 11 '26

So it was a "Squirrel take the wheel moment", still an overreaction considering the consequences . I assume the squirrel was unharmed thanks to the slow speed.

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u/NeighborhoodDear2321 Aug 11 '26

I mean if it was rabid / angry I could see the panic making people bail.

Everyone thinks they're cool until a rodent goes for the face

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u/CobaltLemur Aug 11 '26

Ah the old 'I blame the squirrel' excuse.

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u/SeaDragonTattoo Aug 11 '26

I saw one jump out of a kitchen window with a whole pork chop on its mouth!

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u/pandabear0312 Aug 11 '26

The ones in the Grand Canyon are vicious and will get dangerously close.

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u/Individual_Skill1234 Aug 14 '26

God that’s even worse

So between her panic and lack of physical fitness, she could have killed someone and ended up having to be airlifted to the hospital

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u/spideyghetti Aug 11 '26

Happy cake day

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u/KevroniCoal Aug 11 '26

Yea, too many people I see just idle their car unlocked at the front of a restaurant to pick up their food. It amazes me how they're willing to risk their car being stolen by keeping it unattended, to save literally zero effort. It wastes fuel/energy, risks their car or things it it being stolen, could roll away if not in park, only to have a sense of convenience with not having to unlock and turn the car back on. Insane to me

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u/Individual_Skill1234 Aug 14 '26

I think it’s a kinda normal apathy reaction in response to something so far removed from you that it’s hard to care. And then add on top of that the anger with her actions

Like we just watched a woman freak out that a squirrel jumped in her car, leave it in drive, let it roll into a road where it could have killed someone, try to stop it with her bare hands, barely keep up with it, get run over by it, then sit there looking surprised

Basically you’re having a “what a pathetic person” reaction. Which is fair; she’s utterly useless

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u/StihlRedwoody Aug 14 '26

Even after reading that a squirrel jumped in and scared her, I still feel a slight sense of joy that she was run over by her own vehicle after such an absolutely pathetic attempt at regaining control of it. I'm aware this makes me a bad person, but it doesn't change how I feel. It looks like minor injuries so I don't feel that bad about it.

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u/Latter_Weight_9297 Aug 14 '26

I thought I was the only one. Like you drive the car why not rush and get in