Originally published at: Video shows car crashing into coffee shop booth as two guys recorded a podcast | Boing Boing
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That one guy literally almost bought it… if the SUV had gone a bit more into the coffee shop…
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Even scarier, a guy with four mechanical arms burst in to kidnap one of the podcasters right after the car came through the window.
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“What the fuck just happened here?”
Well said!
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I could imagine that at least one or both of the guys could’ve ended up with severe spinal injuries had the car gone in a bit further but glad to see everyone was ok.
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I imagine a bunch of momentum was dispersed knocking over that bollard, without which, ouch!
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And then there was what was happening next door.
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Yeah, the vehicle hit (and flattened) a bollard or two on the way in, which is the only thing that saved them.
Yeah, though it went down a little too easily. A real bollard (or at least better foundations) would have put a huge dent in that SUV, instead… (cue World Bollard Association videos)
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Having seen some before I did indeed think that was an ill-founded bollard. Gotta love bollards.
The WBA comment on the podcast video:
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Man, everyone is a critic!
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Dude on the left reacted as if a waiter had dropped a tray of dishes behind him.
That was some next-level calm.
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TIL there is a World Bollard Association.
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See, this is why they should be called drive-round’s, and not drive-thru’s.
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I don’t think the vehicle actually knocked over a bollard, it appears to more or less thread the needle between two of them. My first thought was that whoever installed the bollards set them too far apart.
At 0sec you can see a bollard directly behind the right-hand glass on the table. The car runs straight into that bollard, which is then gone, and the car scrapes its neighbors as you saw.
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After the vehicle pulls back you can see the bollard that it flattened. It looks like maybe it’s still solidly in the ground but bent over like a pipe cleaner.
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A good bollard should stop a tank (which, as the video points out, is what modern SUVs have turned into)… World Bollard Association has some satisfying videos of various road monsters getting at least their undercarriages torn up by driving over bollards, when not actually getting split in two.
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