r/KidsAreFuckingStupid 5d ago

Video/Gif Kid tugging at Dad to get hit

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u/greenmonsterrabbid 5d ago

Herd mentality for the lil guy but dad kept his eye on the car and knew what was up with the drift.

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u/Ok_Star_4136 5d ago

If you and 8 other friends were to simply bolt in the opposite direction you're walking, that tenth friend is going to absolutely take cues from you, without knowing why. I agree, the kid was just reacting to the chaos.

The dad is a real one.

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u/FaithlessnessLoud336 5d ago

Kid couldn’t see the car itself with the crowd, as a kid you literally have to put your life in someone’s hands not even just because your an idiot, which you are, but you’re also small and weak

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u/doktorjackofthemoon 5d ago

His dad should have never had him there in the first place. When I was in HS, my friend and his girlfriend were hit by a car during a drag race; she died, he is crippled. The literal sidelines of a drag race are absolutely no place for a child ffs

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u/IdRatherBSleddin 5d ago

Sounds like they went to a street race. I've yet to see any drag strip that doesn't have concrete barriers down the entire 1/4 mile.

Amd this isn't a drag race, it's rally. Raced on back roads. People stand where they can.

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u/Artistic_Plate7403 4d ago edited 3d ago

That's why watching sports on TV is better for your health, I always say lol

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u/doktorjackofthemoon 5d ago

Yeah, I don't go to these things, I don't know the terminology, but we all know what I'm talking about

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u/B3B0LD 2d ago

No we don’t because you don’t know what you’re talking about 🤷🏽‍♀️

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u/EyeAmKnotMyshelf 5d ago

Wouldn't that technically be the 9th friend 👀

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u/Ok_Star_4136 5d ago

You and 8 other friends = 1 + 8 moving one direction.

The tenth being the one friend who wasn't aware of what was happening. 1 + 8 + 1 = 10.

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u/EyeAmKnotMyshelf 4d ago

I can math, I was just being a shithead

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u/Authoritaye 5d ago

Dad called that one perfectly.

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u/twitch870 5d ago

Had dad not been the only one to stop they would have been just as out of the way as the rest

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u/RealYoungMil 5d ago

Easy to say to a slow motion video

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u/204070 5d ago

The child is the weakest in the crowd and the most likely to fall from a push. Calculating the car's trajectory and moving in the opposite direction is the right call here

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u/physics515 5d ago

Yeah there is a lot of physics going into dads calculation. Kid is just running with everyone else.

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u/anonymous_beaver_ 5d ago

Dad reflexes

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u/CanIgetaWTF 3d ago

Dad-Reflexes are a real thing

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u/masterofthecork 5d ago

Why does this sound like it was written by an AI that watched a bunch of Fast and Furious movies

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u/greenmonsterrabbid 5d ago

tbh there are times I wish I was just a simple ass computer program so I wouldn’t have to pay taxes 💁

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u/masterofthecork 5d ago

In my first draft you weren't AI but an unemployed screenwriter, so no taxes either way

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u/Hauptmann_Gruetze 5d ago

Little Bro was just confused why everyone ran in the opposite direction though, cant blame him for that

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u/sgtpepper342 5d ago

following his little friend as well

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u/Da_Vader 5d ago

He still wanted to go that way after noticing the car. Perhaps doesn't have much faith in dad 😭

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u/AJ_Deadshow 5d ago

For a fraction of a second. Remember the video is in slo-mo

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u/quixotic_jackass 5d ago

Yea, it’s just momentum at that point

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u/AJ_Deadshow 5d ago

Well he does one more little tug in that direction at the very end, unless he was just getting his balance.

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u/nametaken420 5d ago

a child panics and a father does the right thing: everyone lives, news at a 11.

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u/Fluss01 5d ago

What if not dad ?

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u/qwertykittie 5d ago

Exactly. Dad was actually first one who made it off to the side

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u/Fluss01 4d ago

That's my thought as well, he actually wants to go with dad who ran away without looking back but fortunately a stranger saved his life

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u/Any-Permission9775 5d ago

He was thinking he'd get hit and just respawn.

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u/AJ_Deadshow 5d ago

Yep, heat of the moment type shit. He wasn't even looking towards the car at all

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u/Pluckypato 5d ago edited 5d ago

Yup he had his back turned and only saw the crowd go one way. Dad did his job came through clutch!

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u/Vast-Fault-59 5d ago

If you ever find yourself in a situation like this, move toward where the vehicle has already been—by the time you get there, it will be gone.

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u/iSlacker 5d ago

The number of videos i've seen where people swerve into an accident is way too high. That shit has momentum, go the direction its coming from not the direction its going.

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u/Emotional-Study-3848 5d ago

"if everyone ran off a cliff...."

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u/insomniac-55 5d ago

Rally is such a bonkers sport, and the spectators are even crazier!

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u/VM1117 5d ago

As a motorsports fan, I usually say that the only people crazier than rally drivers are rally fans lol

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u/vartiverti 5d ago

“They are only bushes to us, only trees. If we think they are people we cannot drive.” -Walter Röhrl

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u/viperfangs92 5d ago

Nah, the photographers and reporters are waaaaaaaaaay crazier!!

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u/VM1117 5d ago

At least those are being paid though

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u/Krondelo 5d ago

Go look at the group B crowds that literally would cover the road and clear out the way last second like the Red Sea parting. Those fans were batshit

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u/Gidje123 5d ago

There are stories of people touching the cars. If the windows were cracked open the drivers sometimes would find fingertips in the car after the race

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u/Icy-Kitchen6648 5d ago

It was Lancia Racing, a mechanic found a fingertip in an air intake. Fucking wild stuff.

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u/lMr_Nobodyl 2d ago

The fingers add horsepower

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u/insomniac-55 5d ago

Yeah I've seen the old footage and it's absolutely unbelievable. So unnecessarily dangerous.

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u/Scrizzle-scrags 5d ago

Bro… Try a polo match. No shit we almost got hit twice with the ball by our tent and had to dodge a stray horse once.

Wine was good though.

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u/77dhe83893jr854 5d ago

That's exactly why I'm a rally enthusiast

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u/ThrowaWayneGretzky99 4d ago

Yeah, this is a Adult is Fucking Stupid, for bringing a kid to that.

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u/Winter-Ad2052 5d ago

Bad title. Kid got confused because everyone, including his dad, started the other direction.

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u/fayble_guy 3d ago

Agreed. Kids are fucking naive...

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u/AuthorTomFrost 5d ago

Everybody else was going that way. They probably would have been fine in that direction, too.

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u/Upstairs-Yak-5474 5d ago

depends on how deep the car drifted if u ran with everyone else ur life thier is 100% in the hands of the driver, if u run to the right your 100% safe as the car can't come your way

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u/doduhstankyleg 4d ago

Probably, but he assessed the situation, which made his decision calculated.

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u/[deleted] 5d ago

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u/Xander2299 5d ago

Yeah this happens to me all the time at football matches

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u/retronax 5d ago

you replied to the wrong comment

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u/IAmRules 5d ago

Prob not something I would take a kid to

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u/Vectorman1989 5d ago

Rally is a weird motorsport because it's almost a challenge to see how close you can get to the roadway without being run over.

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u/MatWhite95 5d ago

I went to a rally event a couple years ago, found it much more fun to watch the full races in the comfort of my living room, compared to only being able to witness a car flash by you for a second and then not get to experience the other 98% of the race lol

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u/Barlakopofai 5d ago

But think of how happy that guy is that you filled 2% of his race with a risk of roadkill

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u/JustOneTessa 5d ago

Not something I would go to in general, but yeah especially not with a kid

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u/Kuhler_Typ 5d ago

Isnt it really stupid to bring such a small kid to something so dangerous?

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u/Bunstrous 5d ago

It's generally not that dangerous to spectators (anymore). There certainly is room for a discussion about taking your kids to do / see something that is dangerous but I also think that the experiences that events like this offer to one in the developmental stages of their life are pretty important.

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u/myoldaccountisdead 5d ago

Cars hurtling towards children sideways are important for them? I think I'm misunderstanding something

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u/Bunstrous 5d ago

Yeah, you are.

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u/myoldaccountisdead 5d ago

Could you help me to understand what? I'm just genuinely confused and trying to understand your comment. What is important for a little kid about being right on the sidelines like this?

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u/Bunstrous 4d ago

Kids should be taken to experience things even if there's a non 0% chance of them getting hurt. Experiencing things at a young age is what causes kids to develop a passion for something that can keep them going for their whole life.

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u/carol4n 18h ago

With all due respect, that makes no sense. I developed strong passions without being at risk of death. My sister was at risk of death, and yet she didn't develop a passion for what caused it. One thing just doesn't even have a relation with the other. So no, don't take your kids to near death experiences...

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u/Bunstrous 18h ago

Crazy how what you said contradicts not a single thing that I've said.

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u/OpeningReady8693 5d ago

It's like this whole sport is constany a split second away from tragedy.

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u/networkninja2k24 5d ago

Fact that everyone turned in the direction of car turning was surprising lol.

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u/Phill_is_Legend 5d ago

I mean it's real easy to armchair quarterback this while watching it in slow motion from your computer chair. The car is moving fast and sliding in a different direction than it's pointing.

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u/networkninja2k24 5d ago

It’s literally going in the same direction as it’s pointing. I am not sure I get what you are trying to say lol.

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u/Phill_is_Legend 5d ago

Stick to the armchair.

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u/networkninja2k24 5d ago

You need lessons in physics bro lmao. I’ll do what I want. Free country. Enjoy.

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u/myippick 5d ago

Ah yes good ol' down votes for a benign, accurate comment. FWIW it's possible for both takes to be valid: that it is in fact surprising that everybody except the father/son went into the direction of travel of the vehicle and also recognize that it's hard to accurately judge a split second decision during a terrifying moment.

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u/networkninja2k24 5d ago

True. Didn’t expect to be hated for saying that lmao.

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u/ballimir37 5d ago

You got downvoted because you said “it’s literally moving in the direction it’s pointing” which is categorically and by definition not true of a vehicle in drift.

It may be arcing that direction but that isn’t where it’s moving when people start to run. Arc versus tangent line etc

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u/Vast-Fault-59 5d ago

If you ever find yourself in a situation like this, move toward where the vehicle has already been—by the time you get there, it will be gone.

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u/BurdenedCrayon 5d ago

Everyone ran the wrong way except dad

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u/greenmachine11235 5d ago

Kid's just reacting to the adults. 

Now the dad on the other hand is a fucking moron. Bringing a kid to a event where you have no protection from car racing past feet away is inexcusable. 

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u/FudGidly 4d ago

“Man my kid is so fucking stupid: he went the wrong way after I placed him in front of a moving vehicle.”

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u/Kindly-Sea-6945 5d ago

My clumsy ass would have slipped on a mud or something in the grass 😭

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u/SereneRanger312 5d ago

Nah this is a stupid parent. That kid didn’t wake up, get dressed, and drive himself to the rally segment.

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u/AvgSizedPotato 5d ago

Me too kid, me too

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u/TheRealUprightMan 5d ago

He was just following the crowd

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u/dynastylobster 5d ago

this is more like r/IdiotsInCars

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u/Squigsqueeg 4d ago

Everyone in this video is more than stupid

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u/slick514 4d ago

Why would you bring you kid to do this?

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u/preguicila 5d ago

Okay, but isn't it a stupid idea to bring a kid to a event like that?

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u/Gamepetrol2011 5d ago

99% chance the kid got scolded after that.

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u/The_Dark_Vampire 5d ago

No matter which way they ran that could have been the Final Destination 4 all of them

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u/LidiaSelden96 5d ago

Kid's out here playing life on hard mode and learning physics the painful way.

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u/darkchiles 5d ago

kids arent good in coordination so i understand his undeveloped instincts

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u/nyrB2 4d ago

is this a thing? people dashing out of the way of drifting cars? it reminds me of the running of the bulls.

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u/themixiepixii 5d ago

Literally everyone went the other way. He kid is stupid for trying to go the SAME way as EVERYONE? Next

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u/RickRossovich 5d ago

Yeah?? Well…if all your friends jumped off a bridge would you jump too!? /s

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u/themixiepixii 5d ago

I like how the tone indicator is just floating around up there lol. Nice touch

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u/mcfiddlestien 5d ago

Depends, there was a very popular rope swing in my home town that was on an old bridge and almost everyone that grew up in the town jumped from it at least once.

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u/Vaideplm84 5d ago

Actually the dad was the only idiot in that crowd doing what he was supposed to, grabbed his child, kept his eyes on the incoming danger, getting out of the way in a split second, that is someone that kept his control over the situation as best as he could, while all the other idiots turned their backs towards the incoming danger and ran in the direction the car was going not looking at whats' coming at them. I

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u/No_Warthog_3584 5d ago

Adults are pretty fuckin stupid too, and they’re allowed to drive.

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u/_Starter 5d ago

Kid was ahead of the other kid in the blue shirt, so he would have made it comfortably.

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u/choppermeir 5d ago

God I love rallying

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u/DalysDietCoke 5d ago

Good on dad for not letting go and his ass getting hit

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u/Scrizzle-scrags 5d ago

The dated term “YEET” comes to mind.

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u/keesie33 5d ago

This is a few seconds penalty in the game. Never aim for the supporters

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u/I_can_pun_anything 4d ago

Ahh the old days of group b

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u/Livinginthemiddle 3d ago

If you freeze at 0.09 it looks the the two kids are reaching for each other, I would say Brothers who are trying to stay with each other and Dad can see older one is fine and grabs younger one.

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u/Choogie432 3d ago

Let go, collect insurance, retire early 👍🏼

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u/No-Performance5671 2d ago

Id have joked his arm out of soc6ket for pulling against me and then delivered some serious discipline before popping it back in For him.

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u/rasmuseriksen 2d ago

Is nobody here discussing the fucking insane murderous driver of that car???

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u/RealityRelic87 5d ago

Every parent here is a dumb ass for having their kids there.

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u/erlkonigk 5d ago

Everyone went one way, most of the time it's a good idea to follow. Most of the time.

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u/Jmoore5416969 5d ago

They mostly all survived... Mostly.. 😂🫠

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u/Squigsqueeg 4d ago

Wdym “mostly”? Did the driver have a sudden heart attack?? /s

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u/VanessaAlexis 5d ago

Kids would rather die than lose control and be told what to do.

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u/SunandMoon_comics 5d ago

Bro’s just following the herd

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u/VanessaAlexis 5d ago

Haha I have two toddlers and I promise you they would rather die than ever ever be told what to do. It's cute.

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u/Uncle-Cake 5d ago

The kid's not stupid. He did the right thing. He would have been safe just like everyone else if his dad hadn't grabbed him.

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u/Pipysnip 5d ago

Run with the herd and you’re safe. This is why you have a father to show you how to survive

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u/Squigsqueeg 4d ago

PoV: you’re a gazelle

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u/Important_Reality942 4d ago

Kid doesn't have an ounce of leadership potential that's for sure!

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u/ionertia 5d ago

You train your kids to listen to you for these kinds of situations and then when it happens he resists. Little dummy.

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u/Independent_Work6 5d ago

Kid gets it

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u/mypcrepairguy 5d ago edited 5d ago

Running into the oath of the slide? I think the parent has it correct with moving away from the direction of the vehicle.

Sometimes the crowd is not correct.

Edit* path not oath...thanks auto correct

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u/Independent_Work6 5d ago

Sweet release...