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People Share The Worst Roads In Their Countries After Brit ‘Complains’ About A Potholed Street And Here Are 43 Of The Scariest Ones
You don’t really care about how bad a road is until you are the one using said bad road. The same applies to snow in winter—you don’t really care about it until all of your regular parking spots become piles of snow and you can’t but try and improvise your parking until the snow melts.
Anyway, this British humor without context page on Twitter, very appropriately called No Context Brits, has recently shared a picture of a pretty rough road—one that has been patched up so much, it’s just ridiculous at this point.
Image credits: NoContextBrits
And while the post got almost 95,000 likes with over 10,300 retweets and 21,100 quote tweets, turns out this bit of road wasn’t all that bad, as it spawned a slew of responses showing off all of the more horrible roads around the world.
Bored Panda has created a curated list of some of the best bad road flexes people shared in response to this now-viral tweet, which you can find below. So, go vote and comment on the ones you liked the most and why not let us know of the road situation where you live in the comment section!
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Mieke Mcdonald 4 years ago
This made me laugh way too hard!!! I am South African, I need say no more......
Terilee Bruyere 4 years ago
I laughed as well and feel better knowing that I'm not the only one.
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Dwight k schrute. 4 years ago
In South Africa people used to drive on the left side of the road, now they drive on what's left of the road.
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Andrew Gibb 4 years ago
In Portland, Oregon they don't drink and drive, they smoke weed and fly
An Co 4 years ago
I believe this is done to force the state to take action. The state knows the roots will destroy the entire road if they do not remove the trees, and once you remove them, it makes a lot of sense to fix them.
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jimmy pop 4 years ago
I can neither see nice nor straight ... are we looking at the same picture?
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olivier FRESSE 4 years ago
Maybe the big difference in temperature between winter and summer. This is a road killer
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Miss Melanie 4 years ago
Road patchwork pattern is kinda cool looking tho! But, I don’t drive on it either.Sorry.
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Nikki Sevven 4 years ago
We say that in New England as well. Many don't realize that we have four seasons in New England: almost winter, winter, still winter, and road construction.
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Vicky Z 4 years ago
3???? Hahaha you are amateurs! We have adult ones in Greece! We have one in my neighborhood that will go to college soon!
Hilary Mol 4 years ago
When I was an exchange student in Argentina, I witnessed a "pothole birthday" near my school. Someone put candles in a dozen alfajores and then put them around the pothole. The day after, someone added balloons.
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Lav Oravaf 4 years ago
maybe is Captain Schettino, when he fled Italy, after the Costa Concordia "oops"
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Jessica Bertram 4 years ago
NEVER EVER put your wheel into a puddle you cannot see the bottom of. Rule 1 of the pothole road.
Kimberley Gayle Thomas 4 years ago
This looks to be a real life combination of the game called "Life" and "Chutes & Ladders".
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Joshua Seaman 4 years ago
This looks like an archeological dig site in the middle of the road. 😂
Jo Johannsen 4 years ago
That's an E ticket ride (only old people who have been to Disneyland will get this).
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Vicky Z 4 years ago
I see your pot craters and i dare you to see Greek roads! We honor our holes on the streets as ancient! Because they are ancient too!
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Kimberley Gayle Thomas 4 years ago
Looking at this makes me wonder if not only may the puddles be deep, but does one have to worry about this being a real-life version of Mario with fire popping up out of nowhere?
OhBlahDi OhBlahDa 4 years ago
The soil in Uganda is beautifully red. Anything can grow there and the produce tastes delicious. Best growing medium!
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Vaida Kuodytė 4 years ago
The street I grew up on in Lithuania has looked like this for at least 30 years, and counting. Except less red.
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denzoren 4 years ago
You know its been there a while when plants are thriving. Maybe a fish or two also.
Miss Cris 4 years ago
More beautiful and interesting than the only grass field next to it!
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SuperChicken 4 years ago (edited)
The capital of the state of Mississippi in the southern part of the US - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mississippi
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Vicky Z 4 years ago (edited)
And few seconds later he disappeared and we never saw him again... (honestly i see him and I'm scared he will go down)
H.L.Lewis 4 years ago
Lol, I was just hoping he got out before it sank more!
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Two_rolling_black_eyes 4 years ago (edited)
A couple years ago a man by the name of Alexander Susuki decided to fix his neighborhood potholes himself in St. Paul Minnesota. He was arrested and fined for doing it. The explanation was unlawful damage to a public throughway.
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Sawdust 4 years ago
Would've been cool to see a car stranded atop the manhole.
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Rannveig Ess 4 years ago
"How can you tell he's a king" "He doesn't have sh*t all over him" ...monty python
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BluEyedSeoulite 4 years ago
I wonder who Disney is going to sue for copyright infringement for this...
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Bear Hall 4 years ago
"During the rainy season the giant mole rats are flushed from their burrows and seek shelter under the dry roads." (Imagine it with David Attenborough's voice.)
Night Owl 4 years ago
I'm imagining trolls doing something similar, I guess they're related
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ThePracticalSarcastic 4 years ago
funny enough this is what most main roads in Las Vegas look like too
Two_rolling_black_eyes 4 years ago
I saw an article last year about the materials used for the wall. The concrete and steel used at that time would have been enough to repair every bridge in the US. But that is the US way - we'll spend a $1000 on a defensive system to keep arctic wolves out of the hen house because they are laying less eggs. We won't spend a dime to fix the latch on it or buy a rooster to make more hens.
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LittlePrincessBelladona 4 years ago
I have had so much brain damage driving in AZ when I lived there lol
Brenda Owens 4 years ago
They'd real dang smart. I mean they be gol-darn egmacated enough to do a hot dang good job. Yee haw.
Panda-riffic 4 years ago
I'm in AZ. It's a good thing we have Powerball! All of that money coming from the lottery is supposed to go towards our roads.
Valley Girl 4 years ago
If you guys would quit being jerks and admit that supreme leader won, that wouldn't even be necessary. I heard him say out of his own mouth he won
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A B C 4 years ago
That makes them rainproof, right? Another problem solved!
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WilvanderHeijden 4 years ago
Bad construction where they didn't leave any expansion joints. When concrete heats up it expands but when there's no room to expand it will form these dangerous ramps. Since summers are getting hotter in Europe this is an increasing and costly problem.
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Maranatha! Jesus kommt bald! 4 years ago
Belgium is a very strange country. Its rich, all is extreme ecpensive. The most people there drive expensive Cars. Mostly Big Fat Suv's. Bute the roads are realy bad. Every kilometer there are broken Tires next to the street.
Two_rolling_black_eyes 4 years ago
It looks like Belgium's space program involves ET and a really fast sprinting bicyclist.
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olivier FRESSE 4 years ago
Could it be possible that someone ran over it with an armored vehicle? Who knows ...
BG 4 years ago
The asphalt melts. It's not an appropriate road material for the climate.
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During the Bush era of the war, there was an attempt to connect all of the rural villages to Kabul by new roads. The theory was a big reason the Taliban was in power was many villages were in mountain valleys that were nearly impossible to leave. Make it easier to get out, you can escape a warlord, send your daughter somewhere she won't be stabbed for reading, etc. They built the first 25 miles. It melted and was driven on by the US Army, making it look like above. The plan was abandoned and the funding earmarked for it went to drone development - that way we could see what was going on better. The Hague would like to talk to the US about how that turned out.
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Two_rolling_black_eyes 4 years ago
They aren't potholes, they are organic lane markers. When they say keep right except to pass, they mean it.
Hugh Walter 4 years ago
You can't claim them as pot-holes if you've converted them to a central reservation!
Analyn Lahr 4 years ago
Something about bananas in Brazil? I took French in high school. I know nothing.
Carito alias La Cototina 4 years ago
It is Portuguese, it says that they take advantage of potholes to the benefit of the banana business.
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Joyce Deering 4 years ago
This bridge collapse depicts one of my all time WORST nightmares. Truly.
Andrew Gibb 4 years ago
if you look over to your left you can see why you should drive carefully (and fast) crossing this bridge
_𝕔𝕙𝕠𝕔𝕠_𝕝𝕠𝕔𝕠_ 4 years ago
My aunt had literally just driven over this bridge when it collapsed. She went home and turned on the tv and saw it.
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SydneyP 4 years ago
Suddenly potholes don't seem important at all. The children of the world though..that's what we should all focus more on. These poor kids these days face such vile and disgusting treatment at times by those who swore to protect them. I pray for kids every day and I don't even have any of my own. I just hurt for the entire world but especially those most vulnerable.
Bear Hall 4 years ago
Poor kids. They will be in trouble if the road is rebuilt and they want to cross it with all the traffic.
ProfessionalTimeWaster 4 years ago
Do you think kids their age cannot cross the road??
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Suzanne Clark 4 years ago
The Discovery channel had a program called "the world without people" and after 100 years it still looked better than these photos.
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ProfessionalTimeWaster 4 years ago
Thank you! Good to know haven't been doing nothing for nothing : )
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.kirsten./ 4 years ago
That’s rancid, it’s horrible like I just can’t. I’m glad i’m in America
Danieletc 4 years ago
But I mean, America and Americans are just the WORST at EVERYTHING, ammiright, Pandas?? THE WORST. EW. (Sarcasm, folks.)
... 4 years ago
Well, they mostly are but India wins on dumping trash on streets and from there to ocean.
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JennyLaRue 4 years ago
Is the new road empty because everyone is still trying to get off the old road?
Samantha PandaNotBored 4 years ago
That’s classed as a motorway, so isn’t in the magnifying competition
Jon S. 4 years ago
Same. Are they celebrating a great new road or sarcastic about the way it got ripped up so quickly?
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Whawhawhatsis 4 years ago
If you want to find a bad road, check out General de Gaulle Drive on the New Orleans city limit on the Westbank. There are blocks there than you can't drive over faster than about 2 mph unless you want to lose the bottom of your car. I moved away from that area right before Katrina, but I'll bet that road still looks *exactly* the same.
Joe Reaves 4 years ago
Don't be ridiculous. Katrina was 15 years ago. It'll look much worse by now! :)
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Whawhawhatsis 4 years ago
In Florida these days, alas. I still miss NOLA -- what a great town, in spite of the hideous roads!
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Amanda Panda 4 years ago (edited)
Broadway post-Katrina swallowed an Escalade. I wouldn’t care if I didn’t need to attend school…. No holds barred in NOLA. You’re a bucking bronco on every street.
darnell cullen 4 years ago
Galactic potholes can be found in New Orleans . Paved roads are for the weak!
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Joe Reaves 4 years ago
We do that in the UK too in some places, but it looks like you guys do it with more style
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Mieke Mcdonald 4 years ago
Just a South African having a swim in a pothole. ............ It's to draw attention to the potholes, get into the media, and hopefully someone higher up in the corrupt line will fix it.....
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SuperChicken 4 years ago
Why would you want to dig your hand in the pothole, let alone sit in it? 🤢
Inkblot Butterfly 4 years ago
Water exists, we can wash all of the dirt off.
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TimesNewLogan 4 years ago
This is what happens when you give tax breaks to the rich, while continuing to dump money into the military.
Cold Contagious 4 years ago
It's not safe to be walking in West Memphis, TN. I'd take my chances with the bridge before I'd walk over there.
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Joe Reaves 4 years ago
From a news article on US bridge safety - Nearly 231,000 U.S. bridges need major repair work or should be replaced, according to an American Road & Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA) analysis of the just released U.S. Department of Transportation’s 2019 National Bridge Inventory (NBI) database. That figure represents 37 percent, or more than a third, of all U.S. bridges. More than 46,000 of those bridges are “structurally deficient” and in poor condition. They are crossed 178 million times a day. An additional 81,000 bridges should be replaced. Estimated cost to repair them $164 BILLION.
Load More Replies... Samantha PandaNotBored 4 years ago
The things I’ve been reading lately about failed buildings and bridges across the world,and the botch jobs of repairing them, I would not trust this as much as I would trust it’s repair
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ProfessionalTimeWaster 4 years ago
Come on! This is a million times better than the ones we have after rains!
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Dan Buczynski 4 years ago
In fairness, this bridge was brought down and a new one built in its place. We have like 400 other bridges that are about to fall dahn, though.
Two_rolling_black_eyes 4 years ago
I've seen this other places with the theory you build the replacement span underneath then raise into place afterwards to minimize the time the bridge is down. If its the sole bridge into an area, every day down could be worth lives.
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MAL 4 years ago
And yet when I visit Illinois from Wisconsin and have to pay your tolls, your highways are total S**T. Where is that money going?! Because it's certainly not going to fix the freeways. I know ours aren't the best either, but at least we're not taking visitors' money and saying it's to fix the freeways. What a bunch of BS. I know y'all feel the same way, too.
LittlePrincessBelladona 4 years ago
All of Illinois is hooooorrriiiiibbbllllleeeeeeeee with pot holes I can't drive anywhere without hitting at least 10!
Hilary Mol 4 years ago
And there's always one lane that's worse than the other, even though it's the same road.
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Stven Paul 4 years ago
Definitely NOT a road 2 blocks from citi field. Looks like the junk yard section of an industrial park out on long Island. If its a photo from the U.S. at all.
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Aunt Messy 4 years ago
In Chicago these have to be cemented down with globs of asphalt. Otherwise people take them to the metal recyclers and sell them.
cookie panda 4 years ago
imagine driving in a rain storm. SLIIIIIIIIP. and what if it got struck by lightning?
Gitte Scheipers 4 years ago
But why? Really why? They are noisy and dangerous here they only use it in a few occasion and for a very short period of time and very slow speed
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FrozenThunderbolt 4 years ago
People here in NZ get so sick of crappy patch jobs the have taken to painting d***s around them to force the council to act to fix them. download-6...7c970e.jpg 
Brîndușa 4 years ago (edited)
This is fresh concrete.Why is that stupid riding the motorcycle on that fresh road?!?
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Kenny Kulbiski 4 years ago
Here in the U.S. Republican senators just refused to even consider voting on an infrastructure bill. I suppose because good roads would make it to easy for people to get vaccinated and vote.
John Juan 4 years ago
Well, they just want politicians to pick the voters instead of the voters picking the politicians. Almost the same thing. /s
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Jon S. 4 years ago
For context with UK potholes, they used to be very rare. We don't have much ice, our rainfall is spread evenly through the year, 95% of the country has solid geology and roads underwent regular maintenance. Then the government cut the maintenance budget to save money. They didn't save a penny as more money was spent fixing undrivable roads and damaged vehicles. So they decided to pass a bill making potholes not the government's responsibility.
Rannveig Ess 4 years ago
This man drew attention to the potholes in his town by spray painting uh,,,well...the URL says it all. Brilliant! https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/may/07/new-zealand-man-threatened-with-prosecution-over-penis-pothole-drawings
denzoren 4 years ago
I'm in Trinidad & Tobago, we have the largest deposit of asphalt, the Pitch Lake. Ironically, we also have horrible roads even though we're only 5131km-squared.
Jessica Bertram 4 years ago
the roads in Tobago (i have been there 5 times and spend most of my time up in the northern part around Roxborough) aren't super bad, because there's only the one road that loops round that part of the island. but drive off that main road and you see some crazy roads for sure. how's the lockdown going in trinidad?
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TimesNewLogan 4 years ago
The state mineral is asphalt, and the state motto is "Road Work Ahead".
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s. vitkovitsky 4 years ago
The pyramids are still around, both in Egypt and Mexico, ya got yer Stonehenge and yer Easter Islsnd heads, yer Great Wall, yer Roman aqueducts and colliseum ... but constructing a flat length of road stymies us!
Suze Williams 4 years ago
Speaking as a Brit who works in the road repair industry - I've had some interesting phone calls with members of public who call in to complain about the state of our roads saying "it's worse than that of some third world countries" and yes I do get into a bit with them and tell them it's really really not and that he should be thankful he has roads to drive on at all where he can drive 5 minutes round the corner to his local shop and buy expensive mineral water and to remind himself that some countries don't have those luxuries!
Kenny Kulbiski 4 years ago
Here in the U.S. Republican senators just refused to even consider voting on an infrastructure bill. I suppose because good roads would make it to easy for people to get vaccinated and vote.
John Juan 4 years ago
Well, they just want politicians to pick the voters instead of the voters picking the politicians. Almost the same thing. /s
Load More Replies... Jon S. 4 years ago
For context with UK potholes, they used to be very rare. We don't have much ice, our rainfall is spread evenly through the year, 95% of the country has solid geology and roads underwent regular maintenance. Then the government cut the maintenance budget to save money. They didn't save a penny as more money was spent fixing undrivable roads and damaged vehicles. So they decided to pass a bill making potholes not the government's responsibility.
Rannveig Ess 4 years ago
This man drew attention to the potholes in his town by spray painting uh,,,well...the URL says it all. Brilliant! https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/may/07/new-zealand-man-threatened-with-prosecution-over-penis-pothole-drawings
denzoren 4 years ago
I'm in Trinidad & Tobago, we have the largest deposit of asphalt, the Pitch Lake. Ironically, we also have horrible roads even though we're only 5131km-squared.
Jessica Bertram 4 years ago
the roads in Tobago (i have been there 5 times and spend most of my time up in the northern part around Roxborough) aren't super bad, because there's only the one road that loops round that part of the island. but drive off that main road and you see some crazy roads for sure. how's the lockdown going in trinidad?
Load More Replies... TimesNewLogan 4 years ago
The state mineral is asphalt, and the state motto is "Road Work Ahead".
Load More Replies... s. vitkovitsky 4 years ago
The pyramids are still around, both in Egypt and Mexico, ya got yer Stonehenge and yer Easter Islsnd heads, yer Great Wall, yer Roman aqueducts and colliseum ... but constructing a flat length of road stymies us!
Suze Williams 4 years ago
Speaking as a Brit who works in the road repair industry - I've had some interesting phone calls with members of public who call in to complain about the state of our roads saying "it's worse than that of some third world countries" and yes I do get into a bit with them and tell them it's really really not and that he should be thankful he has roads to drive on at all where he can drive 5 minutes round the corner to his local shop and buy expensive mineral water and to remind himself that some countries don't have those luxuries!
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