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My cousins used to live on a street with massive trees that dropped tons of leaves every autumn. The city would have special service days where everyone rakes the leaves into big piles in the street and street sweepers would come vacuum them up.
Hooligans liked the drive through the big piles in the middle of the night. I honestly kinda see the appeal, who could resist. Anyway, they started to doing the same thing. Piles of cinder blocks under some of them. I was staying with them one night and we heard some horrible carnage, came out to find some sedan high centered on a pile of cinder blocks with the bumper hanging off.
There was a news story some years back about a little girl who was killed when her father did this. She was playing in a pile of leaves and her dad was unaware of that. He drove through the pile of leaves and ... yeah, that was that. :(
Trying to find the original news story, I'm finding multiple instances of this sort of thing happening. Which is even more heartbreaking.
Here's the story.
What's wild is it's only one of several I found like this. People out there, train your kids to not lay in leaf piles AND not to drive through them.
https://www.wfmynews2.com/article/news/man-drives-over-leaf-pile-where-his-daughter-was-hiding-killing-her/83-402225200
Not the first shitty dad to kill their child and definitely not the last.
Having not heard the story, I wouldn't call him a shitty dad. If he didn't know she was under there it was an accident, I can't imagine the pain of accidentally killing your daughter
When you drive through obstacles you can't see through, you're stupid.
Don't do stupid things.
If you're stupid enough to do things like that, it makes you the shitty kind of stupid because you don't have the good sense to say "Hmn this vehicle is several thousand pounds of steel, and I can't see what's under or behind that leaf pile, I should probably not blast through it."
I'm sure he felt awful and I wouldn't wish that kind of pain and guilt on ANYONE. Which is why we need to condemn stupidity so people don't get a social pass for avoiding getting smarter their entire lives. When we give social consequence for being dumb, it forces people to be smarter and fewer disasters like this happen.
You're not born stupid, you just learn what you can get away with. You can make yourself more aware and smart with effort, but if we shrug and walk away from everyone who does something stupid, that pressure to get better starts to wane and people learn they can live life stupid without consequence.
I used to be more compassionate but I've since seen stupidity turn into a goddamn movement.
This rules.
This is good revenge. But what happens when the street sweepers come to pick them up?
They use blower vaccums I assume and large cinder blocks wouldn't move anyway.
If someone died, that would be murder charges. Putting cinder blocks in the street under leaves is a boobytrap and those are usually illegal. What if it was an ambulance coming to pick up someone up next door? Or someone swerving to miss a cat?
I don't think you'll get far in court
I probably wouldn't. But the paramedic crawling from the burning wreckage of an ambulance screaming "MY LEGS! I CAN"T FEEL MY LEGS!" probably would.
Get off your high horse Karen
It would be manslaughter for the stupid driver driving into something obscured that they can't know is safe, at speed.
I'm not judging. I'm just telling you guys what would happen. So you probably don't want to try this at home.
But you're wrong Karen. What if a kid was playing in the leaves and they drove over them? The driver is at fault.
I urge you to talk to a lawyer before you try this stunt.
Tbf they'll do neither, they just want to be angry and feel self righteous for a minute. They've probably forgotten about this convo already (or will soon).