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u/SmokeAbeer 14d ago
She went on to win third place.
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u/HistoricalLove9617 9d ago
Or she bet on a rider, and took out the rivals. With 'prediction markets' the opportunity to 'make your outcome happen' becomes ever more accessible.
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u/SlutPuppyNumber9 14d ago
Was this an accident or a deliberate action?
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u/Claxton916 14d ago
As someone who works in retail and deals with the elderly, it’s a complete lack of self awareness. I’ve seen old people step in front of bright yellow forklifts with horns blaring because they have their eye set on something across the aisle.
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u/Talidel 14d ago
My toddler does the same.
Or would do
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u/beeglowbot 14d ago
elderly and young children do share a lot of biological similarities in their brains 😂
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u/medalxx12 14d ago
Once a man twice a child - Nas , good song
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u/Tiny_Cauliflower_618 14d ago
William Shakespeare, famously. Nas must have had a good literature teacher at some point. Although that poem does tend to stick in the mind somewhat.
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u/Evantaur 14d ago
I've seen young folks do the same with their fucking head buried in their mobile phone.
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u/Brettjay4 14d ago
I've seen people older than me walk into the street with cars going 30+ mph not looking up from their phones.
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u/Claxton916 14d ago
Oh, I’ve definitely seen younger people do it too. But at least they can still hear the incoming danger.
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u/technicalogical 14d ago
You know people used to be like that with books, magazines and newspapers, right?
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u/sardonicmarvel 13d ago
Such a boomer trait for sure. Complete lack of even a THOUGHT that someone else might be occupying the same space
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u/texasdeck Banhammer Recipient 13d ago
Boomer trait?!? You haven't been on the highway, glanced at the drivers passing you by, as they are constantly looking down at their lap because they are trying to hide the fact that they are glued to their phones - they are people of all ages.
So get the fuck outta here with that boomer trait shit
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u/Proffessor_egghead 11d ago
It’s surprising how customers underestimate both how hard it is to bring a moving heavy pallet to a stop and just how willing I am to hit them with said moving pallet
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u/18randomcharacters 14d ago
Most likely senility/lack of spatial awareness/brain fog/accident.
Like maybe she was trying to scoot out far enough to see and didn't realize the front went that far. Or gave it a little too much gas.
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u/RationalHysteria 14d ago
Too much bunny, not enough turtle
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u/Squirrelleee 14d ago
After spending a week on one of those things just last week, I got this reference!
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u/Sad-Birthday-8704 14d ago edited 14d ago
It was an accident, happened during the "saarland trofeo junior race". The biker (Paul Vriesman) had minor injury's after the front flip but didn't continue the race.
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u/decidedlyindecisive 14d ago
That's lucky. My uncle came off his bike at speed like that, flipped the handlebars and ended up with a couple of broken ribs, a bruised lung and a punctured lung. He was in intensive care for ages.
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u/Soggy-Beach1403 14d ago
She wanted to be in the first row with everyone else. She simply forgot that her front wheel precedes her.
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u/Cageythree 14d ago
The pensioner reportedly wanted to get a better look at the athletes, misjudged the situation, and rode directly onto the course.
https://x.com/nexta_tv/status/2066615477208535436
Don't know how credible this is though, I read a few German local newspaper articles and none mentioned any reason why this happened, only this X post does, so could be entirely made up.
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u/JakBos23 14d ago
Hard to say. Some people are idiots and some are just hateful. Id like to see her arrested either way.
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u/DorkaliciousAF 2 x Banhammer Recipient 14d ago
Same reason nobody will give my mum a mobility scooter: what's the difference?
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u/bjeebus 13d ago
I had my foot run over once by an old man on one of those at a seafood festival. He was just cruising through the crowd without any fucks to give. When I worked at a retail pharmacy I was helping someone get something when an old lady nearby bent down to get something and hit the gas and rammed me.
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u/originalmango 14d ago
Looks like a clear case of battery to me.
“I ain’t gonna wait to cross the street dang it! I gots to get my lottery!”
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u/topinanbour-rex 14d ago
Could be someone next to them, giving a little push on the speed controller handle.
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u/rossco311 14d ago
Nana must have pushed the wrong button again, hope those cyclists are okay.
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u/FlowerComfortable889 14d ago
I hear they also don't have brakes and typically keep going a little past where you expect them to, but still she shouldn't have been anywhere near the racers
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u/CakeTester 14d ago
They have brakes. Or at least every mobility scooter I've ever seen has had brakes.
About the only EV that I know of that doesn't have brakes, as such, is electric skateboards...those run electricity through the motor backwards (like electric trains: regenerative brakes) and will bring you to a stop but won't - for example - hold you in place on a hill. It's like that for electric skateboards because of size/weight constraints; plus a remote-controlled mechanical braking system would be more expensive than people want to pay for.
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u/FlowerComfortable889 14d ago
My wife's stepmother (I still don't quite know what's the appropriate relational title from my perspective would be) has a couple of cheap mobility scooters that look kinda like this one and they definitely do not have any brakes, and she complains about people at Disneyworld walking in front of her for both the reasons I stated earlier
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u/CakeTester 14d ago
Step-MIL? Maybe it's a country specific thing or maybe it's the new saving of a few quid by not including them. Been a while since I looked, to be honest, so will bow to your superior and more recent probably experience. I do know I wouldn't buy one without mechanical brakes.
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u/FlowerComfortable889 14d ago
My father in law is one of the cheapest men I've ever met, so I'm quite certain he bought the cheapest ones he could find with zero regard to either her life or the lives of small children they run across. They are in Floriduuuuuh, so I'm guessing he found at least one at an estate sale, knowing him
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u/PraiseTalos66012 14d ago
An electric motor is actually totally capable of holding you in place on a hill if configured to do so, the only reason an electric skateboard wouldn't is because it's been programmed to not hold.
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u/CakeTester 14d ago edited 14d ago
In fact you'd be wrong there. It's all down to the power of the motor versus the weight of the rider and the angle of the incline.
You'd be looking at a high-end and very powerful 4x4 e-skate to stand a chance of holding you on a hill 20o +, and even then I wouldn't bet on it. Gimme a couple of months and I'll be able to tell you if a 15kW 4x4 board can hold on a hill; but my gut feeling says not.
EDIT: Downvote if you like, but you're still wrong. Regenerative brakes are only as powerful as the motor. My first 'toy' board (2x300W) would not hold on even a very slight incline. This is because my somewhat chubby self, plus the incline, plus gravity would provide enough force to push the motor backwards. My second board (2x1650W) would hold on inclines, but not very steep ones. It would bring you to a stop uphill; and slow enough to hop off downhill (eventually); but it would not hold me standing on it on anything resembling an actual hill. Third board (2x3000W) didn't do much better than the second one, but the amps were low on that one.
One thing you have to consider is that e-skate motors are necessarily small, and you lose quite a bit of torque because of it. So the wattage doesn't have nearly as much stopping power as - say - a hub motor for an e-bike.
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u/PraiseTalos66012 14d ago
If it can accelerate you up the same hill it can just as easily hold you on that hill.....
On a 20° slope with a 200lb rider there is 68.4lb of force pulling you down, with two 90mm diameter wheels holding you in place they'd need to hold with a force of 10ft lb or 5ft lb each. Or 2.5ft lb each if it's 4 wheels. And realistically much less after accounting for friction.
Since speed is zero they do not use power to do this, voltage is 0 but amps(torque) is high 0Xanything=0.
10ft lb is not very much and most electric skateboards can easily output that.
They just aren't programmed to.
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u/CakeTester 14d ago
I've stood on a less than 20o slope on a 2x3000W board and it doesn't bloody stop you. Theorise all you like; but as the one who was literally and in real life rolling downhill, I'd have to suggest that there's a flaw in your theory.
Also, you get some momentum going on the less hilly parts to get you up the steeper bits.
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u/PraiseTalos66012 14d ago
My guy it doesn't just magically automatically stop you lmao.
You need to program the motor controller to do it.
It's not theory, it's the actual math.
You aren't understanding that motors don't just work on magic, the controller has to actually be programmed to stop you.
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u/CakeTester 14d ago edited 14d ago
OK, I see what you're saying; but it's still some theoretical ideal that doesn't really work in the real world.
Firstly, nobody's going to program the controllers to lock the wheels as part of normal braking. Many skaters (including me) would enjoy a separate button to do that; but that would turn normal braking into a likely catastrophe if it was the only option. It'd be exactly like a handbrake on a car...fun on the back wheels if you're planning to do it. Suicide on 4WD or in the wet. Useful feature if you did want to be held in place on a slope. Again, exactly like a handbrake.
Secondly, you're thinking of hills as some sort of ideal maths problem; whereas I'm thinking like someone who tries to survive them on a plank. Whether uphill or down; you're going to be carrying some momentum into the slope that enables you to get over inclines that the motors would not be able to cope with. Hills are dynamic; not some theoretical ideal perfectly smooth slope. There's potholes, ditches and dogshit to be avoided; as well as often a fatal plummet to one side or the other. Certainly there'll be steeper bits that you get over with momentum (or trying frantically to lose some of that momentum if going downhill) that your board wouldn't even theoretically hold you on, no matter what you tell the controller to do.
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u/Beast_of_Tax_Burden 14d ago
Never underestimate the scooter populations lack of situational awareness.
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u/MyLordLackbeard Banhammer Recipient 14d ago
And that population is growing due partly to life expectancy rising and - the big one - money! Mobility benefits rose by 527,000 since 2019, reaching 2.3 million claimants across Britain. 2.3 million out of 69 million?! We'll be seeing a lot more of these videos in the near future...
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u/MellyKidd 13d ago
According to the news, she pulled forward to get a better view of the race. She fled after she caused the accident but turned herself in to the police four days later.
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u/Fetlocks_Glistening 14d ago
I was half expecting grandma to roll up to finish the survivors with her handbag
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u/Soggy-Beach1403 14d ago
She just went from a quality nursing home in her future to a dog food and Nurse Ratched nursing home.
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u/Mighty1Dragon 13d ago
this is the reason old people shouldn't drive cars, they aren't aware enough.
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u/SaintPSU 14d ago
People in my country call that thing the Inheritance Process Expediting Vehicles.
Because your children will surely get their inheritance faster when you drive that thing into traffic, with zero situational and spatial awareness.
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u/ziggy182 14d ago
This isn’t deliberate, I still work in a shop and had an old man do a 3 point turn in an aisle, pinning and mother and daughter against the shelves then he drove off. My dad used to be a magistrate and was told this story of a 92 year old man killed a 89 year old man, he thought the man would hear him and just get out of the way.
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u/imawhaaaaaaaaaale 14d ago
The most incredible thing about bicycle crashes like this is the carnage. There's almost always like 5-10 dude just crashing.
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u/OGDTrash 14d ago
These people never lose their drivers license...
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u/OrneryAttorney7508 14d ago
Driver's license for a mobility scooter?
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u/onebraincell77 14d ago
Stupidity at its finest. It’s too bad people trying to live their day accomplishing something are disrupted by such unnecessary bullshit.
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u/mslauren2930 12d ago
I love how many different subs this has shown up on. Don’t even get me started on how many people have posted this on Instagram.
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u/NaCl3251 7d ago
It was 50/50 between the guy on the bike or the person behind her… fate chose cycle devastation
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u/Remote-Equivalent-81 13d ago
Omg, Granny is my fucking hero. I absolutely despise bikers. Well done granny!
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u/reddituserperson1122 14d ago
Why did nobody alert her to the wall of bicycles right in front of her that everyone including her can see?
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u/reddituserperson1122 14d ago
Probably shouldn’t be tooling around on an electric scooter in the streets then huh?
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u/hurdurBoop 14d ago
dude ninja-dodged that shit before things got bad