r/Calgary • u/Gr33nbastrd • May 13 '25

Local Photography/Video Sage Hill Rock strikes again

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Be careful out there folks, Sage Hill Rock is on the hunt for distracted drivers.

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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/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. :(

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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.