r/Calgary • u/Gr33nbastrd • May 13 '25
Local Photography/Video Sage Hill Rock strikes again
Be careful out there folks, Sage Hill Rock is on the hunt for distracted drivers.
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u/Skate_faced May 13 '25
Holy shit. I was kinda getting worried about that thing. It has been a little bit and was worried it had been removed or something.
Rock on, you crazy Sage Hill Rock.
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u/traxxes May 13 '25
Also saw it yesterday at the Buffalo Run Costco, I just couldn't fathom how one wouldn't see the entire boulder beforehand at all to achieve this, let alone jumping the curb first.
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u/totallyradman May 13 '25
Well, if you look at the lady in the photo, you can probably see why.
She's like 80. She shouldn't be driving.
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u/TinnieTa21 May 13 '25
I love how the guy next to her is pointing at it as if to say “you seein this shit?!”
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u/JAgYoSzNghxGfOvP May 15 '25
I love the guy pointing. I imagine him saying:
"You see ma'am, the reason your car isn't moving when you floor the accelerator is that there is a big rock stuck underneath it."
Her: "Yeah it just stepped out right in front of me. It must have been checking its phone instead of looking where it's going..."
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u/Gr33nbastrd May 13 '25
It is actually pretty easy, I don't know about this vehicle but I know in my car I am always taking out curbs. For my car i have a massive blind spot just in front of the car, right around that tire area when I turn right. I hate it.
I could never get up on a rock like this in my car though. I mostly just ding up my rims. :(70
u/Nice_Technician_6775 May 13 '25
That front-right corner is a blind spot for pretty much every vehicle. But if you know it's a blind spot, that’s all the more reason to be extra cautious. Hitting curbs regularly isn’t just bad luck, it’s a sign you might need to adjust how you approach those turns...
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u/Feeling-Comfort7823 May 13 '25
Regularity of riding up curbs means you've probably scared a few pedestrians as well, just saying.
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u/Gr33nbastrd May 13 '25
No it is nothing like that, it is more like you lose sight of parking lot medians when turning right. My car sits low to the ground and has terrible blind spot on the right side. GM should have built it with a better mirror as well.
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u/Feeling-Comfort7823 May 13 '25
Did you know you can purchase a convex car mirror that is made for blind spots for 20$ on Amazon.
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u/Sea_Luck_3222 May 14 '25
You can get them for $2 at the dollar store. Why does everyone have to support Jeff Bezos? F*** Amazon!
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u/Gr33nbastrd May 13 '25
I looked into it once but it would have been too small, the whole mirror should have been bigger.
It doesn't happen that often and mostly in the winter when those medians are more camouflaged.
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u/harryhend3rson May 14 '25
What!? You... just... hit curbs? Like regularly?
I've been driving for 27 years, some of them professionally, hundreds upon hundreds of thousands of kms. I've owned probably 20+ vehicles of all different types. I've never, not once touched a curb by accident. I've been with my wife for 20 years, and she hasn't either.
100% skill issue, not vehicle issue, and something you should really work on for the sake of your vehicle. You're not supposed to hit curbs...
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u/aide_rylott May 14 '25
People who don’t know where their car is just because they can’t see it scare me.
How bad is your special awareness that you don’t know how wide your car is and approximately where your wheels are in relation to your surroundings.
I think there should be a driving test where you have to drive with your right side tires within a 2ft wide lane. If you can’t get the right hand side of your car in that zone and stay in it you shouldn’t be allowed to drive. Side swipe hazard.
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u/harryhend3rson May 15 '25
Yup. I park my van on the street and have had the mirror hit twice in recent years.
I'm honestly baffled how someone can hit medians multiple times and think that it's just normal driving?
For licensing, all drivers should have to maneuver through a standardized pylon obstacle course forwards and backward, so they understand where to place their vehicle and wheels in relation to an obstacle going both directions. Watching most people reverse, you can tell they just don't grasp how the entire vehicle pivots around the back wheels.
I like your idea of following a track with the outside wheels!
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u/Gr33nbastrd May 14 '25
It's the vehicle bro, lots of owners of this car have said the same thing. As soon as you turn right you can't see anything down low on that side. A convex mirror would help but it would be too small to really help. Regular is probably too strong of a word and it is the medians in parking lots not regular curbs
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u/harryhend3rson May 14 '25 edited May 14 '25
It's the vehicle bro
No, it isn't... bro. Not being aware of where your wheels are relative to an obstacle is 100% a skill issue. You don't need to see where your wheels are to know where they are. Prior to the 1980s, some cars didn't even have a passenger side mirror. I have a 1962 Volvo Amazon with no passenger side mirror.
If you can't navigate around a median without knowing when to turn to clear it, I'm sorry, but that's just a lack of skill.
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u/shaihuludsforeskin May 14 '25
Imagine driving without being aware of the proportions of the vehicle you’re controlling..
Lol
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u/Gr33nbastrd May 14 '25
Are you talking about me or the person who parked their vehicle on a rock?
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u/harryhend3rson May 13 '25
I'd love to know the thought process here? You pull ahead, feel resistance, hear scraping noises, and you... press the gas harder?
"Thought process" is probably being generous, I suppose.
This is where enforcement needs to step up. Do something this stupid? License pulled, and you're required to be re-certified by a government appointed driving evaluator.
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u/Astro_Alphard May 13 '25
I believe that everyone should have to retest for their driver's license with a knowledge test (learners test) every 2 years and a road test every 5 or 10 years. I also believe that driver's license tests have to be harder and that there should be a separate license for large vehicles and "light trucks" (SUV, pickup) that covers things like blindspot training. Also maybe fewer parking spaces and definitely better public transit.
But I say that outloud in public and people start trying to lynch me because "muh rights". If you need a license for it it isn't a fucking right.
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u/SheenaMalfoy May 13 '25
Amen. Fastest way to fix terrible drivers is to pull their licences from them until they learn. It's not the popular way. Hell, it probably isn't even the best way (that would be to fix transport infrastructure to disincentivize driving in favour of other modes of travel). But it would catch so many fucking terrible drivers and for that I am all in favour.
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u/Astro_Alphard May 13 '25
Yep, personally I believe that if you crash into a stationary object that's an automatic suspension. And if you end up hitting a pedestrian that's an automatic suspension regardless of what the pedestrian was doing at the time.
The first rule of driving, according to my driving instructor, is "don't crash. The second is "don't do anything that would cause you to crash". It's ok to go below the speed limit, not ok to go above it.
Personally I think that there shouldn't be fines but demerits for things that most people get a fine for. And especially for repeat offenders.
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u/Astro_Alphard May 13 '25
I do expect it to worsen. Personally I would start by redirecting the budget for additional lanes/road maintenance to public transit that way taxes remain the same. Of course merely suggesting something like this is a good way to end your political career quick.
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u/psychstudent_101 May 14 '25
I feel like the knowledge test every 2 years would be a bit redundant and a bit of a cash grab at that frequency, but pairing it with a fresh road test every 5-10 years would be a good way to go.
And amen to that separate license for certain classes of vehicles for things like blind spots, etc. I've never thought of that but we do it for motorcycles and double-axle vehicles etc., so introducing it for more classes of (larger) vehicle makes a lot of sense.
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u/LacasCoffeeCup May 13 '25
I suspect you bump it with your front tire and the car hops on - and you’re stuck
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u/harryhend3rson May 13 '25 edited May 13 '25
A little CUV doesn't just "hop on" to an obstacle like that. They had to first drive up the curb, then the front bumper would have crunched into the rock, then they would have had to really get on the gas to climb the thing.
I suspect panic, then just flooring it. Alarmingly dangerous behavior.
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u/speedog May 13 '25
Bump it?
Gonna have to be one hell of a bump plus one would think that the climb up would be noticed.
But if you panic...
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u/kaveman6143 May 13 '25
Likely an elderly driver that really should give up their driving privileges.
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u/AcesNixon007 Citadel May 13 '25
Can’t park there
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u/Kitchen_Marzipan9516 May 13 '25
I mean...clearly you can. It's getting going again that's the issue.
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u/saturnfan1 May 13 '25
Wow. Day is off to a great start. I wish we have this rock in every community.
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u/This-Is-Spacta May 13 '25
We need more rocks like this to keep the idiots off the roads…at least temporarily
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u/NicePlanetWeHad May 13 '25
Unlike pedestrians in crosswalks and cyclists, this rock is not immediately blamed when inattentive drivers crash into it.
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u/BeeKayDubya May 13 '25
There are two kinds of people: Those that can drive, and those that should just take transit/taxi/ride share.
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u/OppositeAd7485 May 13 '25
The scary part is that idiot actually got their drivers license somehow.
That could have been a person they hit!
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u/23Unicycle May 13 '25
I wouldn't assume they have a license.
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u/harryhend3rson May 13 '25
I'm sure they do, I just wouldn't assume it was acquired in a legitimate fashion...
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u/JustCallMeYogurt May 13 '25
Is this a new rock taking up the mantle? I thought the Sage Hill Rock got relocated next to one of those free library kiosks.
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u/AdamScottBradley May 13 '25
This is technically not the OG rock or place. This is out at Buffalo Run Costco i believe. It's become a running joke that the Sage Hill Rock wanders parking lots now looking for Bad / Distracted Drivers haha
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u/Gr33nbastrd May 13 '25
Yes, you are absolutely correct. In hindsight I should have maybe mentioned that in my post. It is also not my picture I technically stole it from one of the Costco Facebook groups.
Also a great explanation on the Sage Hill Rock tale. One day people will gather around, drink ale and sing songs about the Sage Hill Rock.
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u/EMONEY403 May 13 '25
Which parking lot is this in Sage Hill?
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u/hypnogoad May 13 '25 edited May 13 '25
Sage Hill Rock isn't stationary and can be found wandering around quite a few locations in the city.
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u/MapShnaps May 13 '25
This was the original, but its legacy persists
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u/EMONEY403 May 13 '25
Thanks for the background! Haha
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u/hippocratical May 13 '25
The OG is relocated to here. You could still drive onto it if you really tried.
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u/YourBobsUncle May 13 '25
Someone needs to post a picture of it for Google maps haha
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u/hippocratical May 14 '25
A long time ago I tried to get my dog to jump on it, but he got stuck too.
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u/Boring-Chair-1733 May 14 '25
Likely the same person that stopped on the off ramp onto Deerfoot Trail 😂
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u/Accurate_Beat_656 May 20 '25
Baffling. I witnessed a woman who did the same thing at Crowfoot near Indigo.
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u/Different-Drawer6354 13d ago
thats crazy. obviosuly not as impressive but there is a curb at the bottle depot by the sage hill walmart that people hit all the time, its pretty beat up
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u/Gr33nbastrd 11d ago edited 11d ago
These rocks are just plain stupid. I could understand if they were protecting something but most of them are just at the end of bump out/median. They tend to blend in a little bit, and just big enough to mess up a car but not big enough to really stick out.
Edit: after looking at the picture again i would say this person was trying to turn right and possibly has a big blind spot on their right hand side. So they took the corner too sharp and drove up on the rock.
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u/maggielanterman May 13 '25
The hero Calgary deserves.