Car crashes into Chicago salon after 83yo driver hit gas pedal instead of brake.

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  1. SlyPokerDog

    SlyPokerDog Woof! Staff Member Administrator

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    Videos like this are fascinating to me, it's a trip watching everyone's reaction.

    The two women behind the counter:

    The one in gray is lucky as hell. The other one does a deer in the headlights but you can't really blame her.

    The two women on the couch:

    One just starts to walk away while the first thing the other one does is grab her phone for a picture. Really? Neither of them thinks to check on the people who got plowed by a car?

     
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    VanillaGorilla Well-Known Member

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    Old drivers are scarier than young ones.
     
  3. jlprk

    jlprk The ESPN mod is insane.

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    These are vain women in a hair salon. What do you expect from conceited freaks who pay to have their nails trimmed and polished?
     
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    speeds $2.50 highball, $1.50 beer Staff Member Administrator GFX Team

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    The girls behind the counter have poor instincts.
     
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    Geez! Not my experience. Not many guys my age drive down the road, screwing around with there phone/Iphone/.
    Every other young guys is and young ladies are even worse.
     
  6. BonesJones

    BonesJones https://www.youtube.com/c/blazersuprise

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    Or she was calling 911...
     
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    He was probably on his way to the Old Country Buffet for his Honored Citizens discount.

    (Groans from S2)

    Thanks Folks! I will be here all week.
     
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    Haakzilla Well-Known Member

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    ...ban senior drivers (and guns) for a safer world, right?! :dunno:
     
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    VanillaGorilla Well-Known Member

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    Ideally.
     
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    PDXFonz I’m listening

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    Shit this is exactly what I thought. Obviously this comes at you fast and you have a split second to make a decision, but I can't believe their instinct was to stand still.
     
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    PDXFonz I’m listening

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    Denny is going to have a field day with this one.
     
  12. bodyman5000 and 1

    bodyman5000 and 1 Lions, Tigers, Me, Bears

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    Just yesterday I honked at someone going 45 and blocking traffic while approaching an exit on a 65 mph freeway. My wife said he looked 100 and I was mean for honking.

    I told her that if everyone honked at him maybe he would understand that he shouldn't be driving.
     
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  13. PtldPlatypus

    PtldPlatypus Let's go Baby Blazers! Staff Member Global Moderator Moderator

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    My wife's extremely competent 93-year-old grandfather was just killed on Thursday in a car accident, by a much younger, much less attentive driver.

    This talk of elderly drivers being inferior and unworthy to be behind the wheel offends me greatly.
     
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    stampedehero Make Your Day, a Doobies Day Staff Member Moderator

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    In the town I work, many of the population are Indie. Avoid Honda Oddessy's at all costs. The CVS was hit 4 times from people jumping over the curb. I don't know, but in all probability a Honda Oddessy was the suspect vehicle. Its not just age but cultural ability to drive as well.
     

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