why tailgating is bad...

[Dredd2099]

[millster]

Wow! Can't help but laugh at that one a little bit. I would love to have seen the look on the cop's face that responded to that wreck.

[nismo]

That's too funny. Inder

[ColonelPanic]

Holy crap! Now I see why I leave a zillion car lenghts of empty space in front of me at all times.

[ragingfish]

It's a conga line!

[wicked1981]

Damn I need to show my friend this pic. she always tailgates and gets mad when I tell her to back off a cars a**.

[ColonelPanic]

Yeah, that'll show her what can happen! Reminds me of a bumper sticker this dude up at work has... "Unless you're a hemorrhoid, stay off my a**" LOL!

[Mavrik]

What I hate is I usually like to leave a space... but some smart clown always pulls into my space left between me and the car in front of me.

[simon]

I'm glad to see that no Vibes were hurt during the making of this pic!

[MrRich]

We have to call Drunkenvibe. Because I think it's photoshopped. But maybe I am wrong.

[Kari]

Agreed...it's odd how all four got pushed under the vehicle in front of them, even if it was a car and not something sitting up particularly high. Usually the energy would dissipate enough that that might happen to one or maybe two, but not all of them. If the Honda was going fast enough to push ALL of them under like that, it would be obliterated, and it's not. There's just something odd about it...People still shouldn't tailgate though!

[StampedeVibe]

My guess is that they were braking when they got rear ended. When you brake hard, your nose dives, and your rear gets lifted, and if someone hits you, they'll go under you.Either way.... it's a great ad for not tailgating!

[MrRich]

O, and one more thing! Where are the cops?

[MoonDogg]

Quote, originally posted by ColonelPanic »Reminds me of a bumper sticker this dude up at work has... "Unless you're a hemorrhoid, stay off my a**" LOL!Best bumber sticker I seen read "If you can read this your too F***ING close"

[kostby]

Quote, originally posted by MrRich »We have to call Drunkenvibe. Because I think it's photoshopped. But maybe I am wrong.My .02: If it's photoshopped, it's truly an AMAZING job. Most people wouldn't go to the trouble of creating one this good as a gag.Notice how the rear wheels of the middle vehicles are hanging lower than they would if the cars still had full weight on them. Notice that lighting and shadows appear consistent throughout, even the black car's door left open casts a shadow in the appropriate place, and there's the correct shadow behind the person onto the car in mid-right of the picture. Notice that the rear fenders of the SUV are also raised from the car stuffed underneath. Notice the front of the final Honda IS pretty crunched. Where are the cops? Taking pics like this and laughing their rear ends off!

[ColonelPanic]

Quote, originally posted by Kari »There's just something odd about it...I'm wondering if this may have been staged for a movie or cheesy TV show (kinda looks like what would happen in a modern version of something like CHiPS.) It looks almost too perfect to just have happened like that!I'm sure this could happen when thinking about the physics of it, but I'm still kinda wondering....The real thing or fake, I do agree it's a good example of why tailgating is a bad thing! Keep yer distance folks!

[drunkenmaxx]

i think it is a well done fake. i had to look at it for a long time and zoom in and out and noticed 2 things i definitely question. 1) no air bag deployment from BMW, it obviously would have2) look closely at the rear of the blue car. it has a side turn signal on the bumper which is bent, not broken, which would not happen.

[StampedeVibe]

I'm not air bag expert, but it looks as though the BMW went right under the SUV, with the front bumper untouched. If that's the case, the sensors in the front bumper wouldn't have registered a hit, so the airbags wouldn't deploy.

[drunkenmaxx]

im pretty sure rear impact makes them go off too. i would imagine a more complex system than just sensors in the bumper anyway. plus, BMW must make one hell of a windshield, there are no cracks in it.

[Mavrik]

I'm going to lay my unexperienced opinions on the line and say its not photo chopped. The shadows of the cars match, the lighting effects. people standing around, their shadows on the cars. The rear suspension of the BMW, its easy, the rear wheel is not on the hood. And is it possible to pile up like that? never seen 4 cars at once but I have seen 2 before. I'm gonna say its a real pic but possibly constructed lol... for what reason I don't know.

[ToolGuy]

Apparently when this happens you are not supposed to shut the drivers door either...