Jimmy Fallon is at it again. For his recent #Hashtags segment, Jimmy has asked his viewers to share their biggest car fails. And oh Buick, did they deliver. I think it's safe to say that all drivers want to forget their dreadful trips to the mechanic ASAP, but when there's a chance to achieve temporary TV and internet fame... They tweet their funny accidents to Jimmy Fallon for the whole world to see.
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Let's just hope that they haven't done it while driving. The numbers highlighting the dangers of cell phone use while driving are just scary. To be clear, at any given time throughout the day, approximately 660,000 drivers are attempting to use their phones while behind the wheel of their automobile. There's no need to mention that it's causing many car accidents daily.
Smartphones have made it incredibly easy for us to stay connected at all times, however, that doesn't mean we should constantly check our Instagram feed. The National Safety Council reports that drivers who use cell phones are four times more likely to be in a crash while using them. "There is no difference in the cognitive distraction between hand-held and hands-free devices," they said.
According to the council, cell phone-related road accidents account for about 27 percent of all crashes.
thankfully, this car runs on diesel. what if it was the other way round? a dog named "Petrol". well, wouldn't that be a bit strange.
Much attention across the country has been focused on the dangers of using cell phones and other devices while driving. In 2016, there were 444 fatal crashes reported to have involved cell phone use as a distraction (14% of all fatal distraction-affected crashes). As a result, 486 people died.
If you find it hard to stay away from your phone, there are a few things you can do before turning on your car's engine. First, silence your phone. Then, put it away and keep it out of arm's reach. Don't worry, all of the notifications will still be there when you pull up.
One of my very first cars, a beat-up old two-door Saab, could only be opened from the outside on the passenger side. I visit a friend who lives in a rather narrow street so I park really close to a wall, get out, lock the car - and only then realize that I do not have access to the other door ... Facepalm! Eventually, with maneuvers worthy of a comedy show, I managed to squeeze in through the trunk.
i also search for something for an hour and realized that it's in my shirt pocket.... damn
I had a friend who once thought her radio smelled a bit funny in her car and pulled over. When she got out of the driver's side and walked around to check on the passenger's side, the car burst into flames and burned the car entirely out. She then got a replacement car and managed to hit a deer the week after. Some people have no luck.
If you read it with a different tone it sounds like the guy could have been having a laugh about it.
Load More Replies...She was trying to open the wrong car
Load More Replies...The same happen to me, but the bird hit me with something more gooey and smelly
for those of us who grew up with boys... this is actually a pretty good, quality prank. No damage done... just confusion for a while.... and the image of 4 of your mates being dumb enough to literally lift & carry a car around the car park. I'll admit that at first, I would've been pissed... then would've been cracking up once the car was found. (and then plotting how to seek revenge!! ha!)
It's like that "how I met your mother" episode with the "I will walk a thousand miles" song being stuck in the tape deck. (now going to youtube the buttermilk biscuits to better understand your pain)
That's a corn snake, will be someone's pet. Very unlikely to hurt anyone. Most certainly won't kill anyone 😂
When we had a VW, my "seat" was in the tiny crawl space, because the dog got his own seat and my brothers would try to squish me if I sat by them. Yeah, I don't talk to any of them now, but the dog and I were always friends.
uh.... quite a misleading text, i thought he put the dog in the car when he see the car was overheating...... and the car blow up with the dog.......
We had gone to Ikea and got a bunch of stuff. 4 people, full trunk, and a bin remained. I was shotgun, and rode home with that huge bin over my head! Plenty of room!
It doesn't automatically stop when it clicks? I figured it was normal practice.
My dad was driving a car he had just bought and I went along. He decided to test the horn and it got stuck, and continued for blocks until dad pulled over popped the hood and disabled it. I can't decide what made me laugh more: him swearing and getting flustered (very rare for my Dad!), or all the drivers flipping him off as we drove coz they thought he was just doing it on purpose :'D
There was once someone who have the same (model, color) car with me parking next to me, and coincidentally we both came to our car on the same time, unlock it and hop in. After few minutes of trying my key on the car and wondering why wouldn't it turn... then only we both found out we are in the wrong car.
Can't you notice from the stuff that's inside or by the license plate?
Load More Replies...My sister and I go up to Queensland in our dad's HJ Holden and he listens to a lot of Millencolin. Once, one of the songs come up and Mum asked how we knew the lyrics. Our response, "We've driven up to Queensland a back in the ute"
HJ Holden? Millencolin? Ute? I understood 80% of this sentence.
Load More Replies...We went on holiday for the first time with our eldest daughter. She was 11 months at the time, so the car was pretty full of babystuff. About 2 miles from our destonation car broke down (weel axel broke) and we ended up pushing the car to the holiday park. I tore my jeans doing so and we had no means to get a new pair, since our car broke down and nearest town was miles away. Awesome holiday though - got to do absolutely nothing and wearing only pyjamas for the week.
Nowadays, those jeans would make you fashionable.
Load More Replies...A classmate of mine did the exam with the handbrake on. She failed- obviously. There is a light on the dash and a sound when you move off with the handbrake off. Personally I'm okay at driving, but I did once spend about 20 minutes looking for my car on a mall parking. It was a big thing several stories high and I didn't bother remembering the nearby letter/ number combinations when getting off.
my first car was stolen but recovered and my dad refused to get a new steering column for it, started it with the handle of a fork lol and my passenger door was broken, you had to roll the window down unlock the doors pull the actual lock up and open it from the outside lol
Spending the summer in Greece, I asked the lady running the small travel agency I was temporarily working for if I could borrow her car to take some clothes to the dry cleaner in the next village. Fine. So I cross the road, unlock the door, get in, turn the key to get the engine running while simultaneously softly pressing the gas pedal. You know the motion. But no, there was no sound of a humming motor, there was a "clank!" as the gas pedal hit the floor! I stare at it in disbelief, then pick it up, cross the road again and enter the travel agency to tell the lady what had happened. She looks me over, up, down, then up again, and then, looking enormously displeased, she says: (with a very heavy accent) "I have had dis car for nine years, and dis has NEVER happened before!" It was clearly my fault ...
I used to work as a service advisor for several different dealerships back in the day. 2 stories come to mind: (1) A little old man that thought putting newspaper and cardboard all around his engine bay in the winter would keep his engine "warm". He literally said he did it because "it's what homeless people do to stay warm"...you know, when they line their pants with newspaper! (2) Somebody had their vehicle towed in with every light on on their dash and a seized engine. He admitted to changing his own oil and when asked what kind of oil he used he replied "vegetable....it's all the same stuff isn't it?" No lie...vegetable oil! He thought he'd save a few dollars and do it himself...$3500 later.....LMAO
I'll never forget when I used to work in a supermarket and one of the baggers who was out picking up carts went on the intercom to say "attention shoppers, who ever owns a red honda, your car is on fire!!" and everyone literally stopped what they were doing and look out the window. My manager was then questioning why he didnt call 911 first.....LOL
My mom had a really old Buick when I was a kid. There was something wrong with the horn wiring, and every time it got cold, and she turned the wheel more than 30 degrees, it would honk. We were driving up the mountain to go skiing one winter, and the whole way up and down, you could hear us coming. HONK HONK HONK HONK. It was quite embarrassing for the kid me, but hilarious to remember, now.
15 minutes after getting home I could smell smoke. Couldn’t work out where the smell was coming from until I looked out from our bedroom window to see smoke coming from the garage. Raced out to see flames coming from under the bonnet. The only thing left of the battery was one terminal.
When I was little my mom thought when the oil light comes on, there is still some reserve oil some where, like when the fuel/gas light comes on.... Turns out that is a BIG no lol.
Oh yes, that happened to my neighbor. He didn't know what the little light meant, so he just kept driving til he cracked the block.
Load More Replies...The clutch pedal on my first car broke. The actual metal part of the pedal, not the cable or the plastic piece. That car also had a broken odometer and ended up with a new one fitted that made it look like I had done very little driving.
981/5000 I went with my sister in the winter along a long straight road. It had snowed and was very smooth. Further ahead we could see a car with hazard warning lights when suddenly a dead deer lay in front of us on the road. I could only try to drive centered over it without hitting it with the wheels. We stopped briefly at the car, but the driver already had his cell phone on his ear and waved us on. We drove on for about 5 minutes until we arrived at my sister's house. There was a snow-covered parking lane and my sister jokingly suggested that I drive through the snow to get rid of "blood and hair". I did that. ... When we got out we found the deer behind my car. With a minimal wound on the head. It took a while to explain to the police that the guy in the car hit the deer and why it was behind my car.
Yeah - there IS a reason why people have their 'HAZARD' warning lights on.
Load More Replies...I'd just gotten back from a long trip, sharing the driving with a friend. Our small town had very limited choice of car mechanics, so when the cruise control quit, I went. He said it would be about $400 to fix. About a week later driving through downtown, I saw his office girl and hollered "Hey, I fixed that cruise control". "How'd you do that" she answered. "I took it out of the 'off' position" My friend wasn't used to cruise control and taking no chances, had turned it off. Nobody ever said that that guy in our town was a Good mechanic.
Once we were on a family trip in Greece and on the way back the car broke down in the middle of a city we had never been before. We didn't know where to go and the car would heat up in every few meters (my father is a mechanic that's why he noticed what was wrong and luckily the car didn't explode). None of us could speak Greek and most of Greek people can't speak english. My father remembered that he had a friend years ago, whose brothers lived in Lamia (the city we were at) and he called that friend, who called his brothers. Soon his relatives came to find us and tried to help us. They were really kind and brought me and my mother drinks and food coz it was really hot and on Sundays in Greece all supermarkets are closed. They tried to help my father find a repair shop but since it was sunday all of them were closed and no mechanic would work even though we offered to pay more. Apparently we had to wait till next morning to return home. What impressed me is that the people who helped
us, were so hospitable and didnt even let us go to a hotel for the night but insisted to go to their house. We were their guests and they cooked for us, in the evening they all gathered for talks and also went out to see the city. They were super kind and nice people. Their house was small but they did all they could to accomodate us and make us feel comfortable. It's good to know people like this still exist. It's not common to open the door of your own house to strangers. Can't wait that they return to Albania to meet and thank them again!
Load More Replies...My 1st car was a 62 plymouth valiant. When I went over the rail road tracks near my home the wind shield wipers came on and the glove box popped open. Fun watching friends reactions.
My boyfriend and I were in LA in an area we had used to live. As we merged into traffic, a car whipped around us really quick and he nearly hit a parked car trying to avoid being hit by this a*****e. My boyfriend throws his arm out and flipped the guy off. Inexplicably - at that moment, the window rolled up on its own, trapping my boyfriend's arm. It looked hilarious but he was freaking out because he couldn't get the window to roll down and he was stuck. After about 30 seconds, he managed to get it to roll back down. Since then, he hasn't done that....just flipped people off in the safety of the inside of the car.
My Renault Encore (tiny car) ran into the side of a Ford F250 pickup truck. (He made a left turn from the right lane in a one-way street. The rear wheels (dually) of the truck went over my car's hood. After the police came, and it was all over, I drove my tiny car home. The HUGE truck had to be towed. It was totalled.
1) My dad had a VW Beetle, and the car battery was under the back seat. I had to sit on the spot, and he put some newspapers over the battery to make up for the uneven height and make it comfier. My butt started smoking in the middle of the road, the car almost caught on fire. 2) My parents, sister and I went to the seaside, dad put car keys in his swimming trunks, lost the keys in the sea. With pure luck I managed to find them, I was about to give up after more than half an hour diving, when I noticed something shiny, dad was already preparing to go find the police and break into his own car to get the spare keys. 3) My husband couldn't start the car, and wanted to push it out of the garage, and tried to instruct me on how to start it that way. I tried, I failed, I crashed the mirror against neighbour's fence wall; turns out there wasn't a drop of petrol in the reservoir.
4) I just got my license, went to the store, on my way back I noticed car wasn't receiving gas too well and red light was on which I didn't know what resembled. Parked in front of the house, wanted to pull hand brake up, only to notice it was up the whole time. 5) Went to visit a friend of mine, I had no trouble parking in, but parking out was a disaster, I am awful around tight places because they don't teach us how to maneuver in narrow places, it took me 15 minutes just to get out, 10cm up front, 10cm to the back, I hope no one was seeing/filming it, almost destroyed a bush in the process.
Load More Replies...It was my in laws wedding anniversary and they had invited the family over for dinner. My hubby thought it would be a great idea to go 4WD for a bit and I ended up giving in. Well we went and got stuck in a big puddle, he did check the water level prior but he didn’t check the mud at the bottom. It was thick sticky mud and our spare tyre (underneath the car) got caught up. My hubby was in his boxer shorts trying to dig the car out, whilst my daughter and myself were standing to the side trying not to get bitten by fire ants. He also decided to chuck his new phone onto the car seat so it didn’t get destroyed but it bounced off the seat, onto the stairwell and into the water. We were stuck for 4 hours. By the time we got to the in laws dinner had been eaten and some of the people were already going home. I felt so bad.
Another time we went 4WD my hubby got stuck in another puddle this time he didn’t check the depth and the water was deeper than he thought. There was no way we could open the car doors coz water would have flooded in, it was already slowly coming in. We had to climb out the windows. Our mate didn’t notice us stuck and drove on ahead and we tried calling him but had no reception and the UHF radio wasn’t working properly. After waiting 20 mins he ended up coming back after realising we weren’t behind him and he finally snatched us out. Now my hubby is a LOT more careful. Now for my driving fail, my hubby took me for a driving lesson around the block. I got frustrated for some reason and decided I had enough so I started driving back home. I pulled into the driveway and instead of putting my foot on the brake, I accidentally put it on the accelerator and crashed into our fence, only minor. This is one reason why I have had my learners permit for 5 years, I have a fear of driving.
Load More Replies...My dad was driving a car he had just bought and I went along. He decided to test the horn and it got stuck, and continued for blocks until dad pulled over popped the hood and disabled it. I can't decide what made me laugh more: him swearing and getting flustered (very rare for my Dad!), or all the drivers flipping him off as we drove coz they thought he was just doing it on purpose :'D
There was once someone who have the same (model, color) car with me parking next to me, and coincidentally we both came to our car on the same time, unlock it and hop in. After few minutes of trying my key on the car and wondering why wouldn't it turn... then only we both found out we are in the wrong car.
Can't you notice from the stuff that's inside or by the license plate?
Load More Replies...My sister and I go up to Queensland in our dad's HJ Holden and he listens to a lot of Millencolin. Once, one of the songs come up and Mum asked how we knew the lyrics. Our response, "We've driven up to Queensland a back in the ute"
HJ Holden? Millencolin? Ute? I understood 80% of this sentence.
Load More Replies...We went on holiday for the first time with our eldest daughter. She was 11 months at the time, so the car was pretty full of babystuff. About 2 miles from our destonation car broke down (weel axel broke) and we ended up pushing the car to the holiday park. I tore my jeans doing so and we had no means to get a new pair, since our car broke down and nearest town was miles away. Awesome holiday though - got to do absolutely nothing and wearing only pyjamas for the week.
Nowadays, those jeans would make you fashionable.
Load More Replies...A classmate of mine did the exam with the handbrake on. She failed- obviously. There is a light on the dash and a sound when you move off with the handbrake off. Personally I'm okay at driving, but I did once spend about 20 minutes looking for my car on a mall parking. It was a big thing several stories high and I didn't bother remembering the nearby letter/ number combinations when getting off.
my first car was stolen but recovered and my dad refused to get a new steering column for it, started it with the handle of a fork lol and my passenger door was broken, you had to roll the window down unlock the doors pull the actual lock up and open it from the outside lol
Spending the summer in Greece, I asked the lady running the small travel agency I was temporarily working for if I could borrow her car to take some clothes to the dry cleaner in the next village. Fine. So I cross the road, unlock the door, get in, turn the key to get the engine running while simultaneously softly pressing the gas pedal. You know the motion. But no, there was no sound of a humming motor, there was a "clank!" as the gas pedal hit the floor! I stare at it in disbelief, then pick it up, cross the road again and enter the travel agency to tell the lady what had happened. She looks me over, up, down, then up again, and then, looking enormously displeased, she says: (with a very heavy accent) "I have had dis car for nine years, and dis has NEVER happened before!" It was clearly my fault ...
I used to work as a service advisor for several different dealerships back in the day. 2 stories come to mind: (1) A little old man that thought putting newspaper and cardboard all around his engine bay in the winter would keep his engine "warm". He literally said he did it because "it's what homeless people do to stay warm"...you know, when they line their pants with newspaper! (2) Somebody had their vehicle towed in with every light on on their dash and a seized engine. He admitted to changing his own oil and when asked what kind of oil he used he replied "vegetable....it's all the same stuff isn't it?" No lie...vegetable oil! He thought he'd save a few dollars and do it himself...$3500 later.....LMAO
I'll never forget when I used to work in a supermarket and one of the baggers who was out picking up carts went on the intercom to say "attention shoppers, who ever owns a red honda, your car is on fire!!" and everyone literally stopped what they were doing and look out the window. My manager was then questioning why he didnt call 911 first.....LOL
My mom had a really old Buick when I was a kid. There was something wrong with the horn wiring, and every time it got cold, and she turned the wheel more than 30 degrees, it would honk. We were driving up the mountain to go skiing one winter, and the whole way up and down, you could hear us coming. HONK HONK HONK HONK. It was quite embarrassing for the kid me, but hilarious to remember, now.
15 minutes after getting home I could smell smoke. Couldn’t work out where the smell was coming from until I looked out from our bedroom window to see smoke coming from the garage. Raced out to see flames coming from under the bonnet. The only thing left of the battery was one terminal.
When I was little my mom thought when the oil light comes on, there is still some reserve oil some where, like when the fuel/gas light comes on.... Turns out that is a BIG no lol.
Oh yes, that happened to my neighbor. He didn't know what the little light meant, so he just kept driving til he cracked the block.
Load More Replies...The clutch pedal on my first car broke. The actual metal part of the pedal, not the cable or the plastic piece. That car also had a broken odometer and ended up with a new one fitted that made it look like I had done very little driving.
981/5000 I went with my sister in the winter along a long straight road. It had snowed and was very smooth. Further ahead we could see a car with hazard warning lights when suddenly a dead deer lay in front of us on the road. I could only try to drive centered over it without hitting it with the wheels. We stopped briefly at the car, but the driver already had his cell phone on his ear and waved us on. We drove on for about 5 minutes until we arrived at my sister's house. There was a snow-covered parking lane and my sister jokingly suggested that I drive through the snow to get rid of "blood and hair". I did that. ... When we got out we found the deer behind my car. With a minimal wound on the head. It took a while to explain to the police that the guy in the car hit the deer and why it was behind my car.
Yeah - there IS a reason why people have their 'HAZARD' warning lights on.
Load More Replies...I'd just gotten back from a long trip, sharing the driving with a friend. Our small town had very limited choice of car mechanics, so when the cruise control quit, I went. He said it would be about $400 to fix. About a week later driving through downtown, I saw his office girl and hollered "Hey, I fixed that cruise control". "How'd you do that" she answered. "I took it out of the 'off' position" My friend wasn't used to cruise control and taking no chances, had turned it off. Nobody ever said that that guy in our town was a Good mechanic.
Once we were on a family trip in Greece and on the way back the car broke down in the middle of a city we had never been before. We didn't know where to go and the car would heat up in every few meters (my father is a mechanic that's why he noticed what was wrong and luckily the car didn't explode). None of us could speak Greek and most of Greek people can't speak english. My father remembered that he had a friend years ago, whose brothers lived in Lamia (the city we were at) and he called that friend, who called his brothers. Soon his relatives came to find us and tried to help us. They were really kind and brought me and my mother drinks and food coz it was really hot and on Sundays in Greece all supermarkets are closed. They tried to help my father find a repair shop but since it was sunday all of them were closed and no mechanic would work even though we offered to pay more. Apparently we had to wait till next morning to return home. What impressed me is that the people who helped
us, were so hospitable and didnt even let us go to a hotel for the night but insisted to go to their house. We were their guests and they cooked for us, in the evening they all gathered for talks and also went out to see the city. They were super kind and nice people. Their house was small but they did all they could to accomodate us and make us feel comfortable. It's good to know people like this still exist. It's not common to open the door of your own house to strangers. Can't wait that they return to Albania to meet and thank them again!
Load More Replies...My 1st car was a 62 plymouth valiant. When I went over the rail road tracks near my home the wind shield wipers came on and the glove box popped open. Fun watching friends reactions.
My boyfriend and I were in LA in an area we had used to live. As we merged into traffic, a car whipped around us really quick and he nearly hit a parked car trying to avoid being hit by this a*****e. My boyfriend throws his arm out and flipped the guy off. Inexplicably - at that moment, the window rolled up on its own, trapping my boyfriend's arm. It looked hilarious but he was freaking out because he couldn't get the window to roll down and he was stuck. After about 30 seconds, he managed to get it to roll back down. Since then, he hasn't done that....just flipped people off in the safety of the inside of the car.
My Renault Encore (tiny car) ran into the side of a Ford F250 pickup truck. (He made a left turn from the right lane in a one-way street. The rear wheels (dually) of the truck went over my car's hood. After the police came, and it was all over, I drove my tiny car home. The HUGE truck had to be towed. It was totalled.
1) My dad had a VW Beetle, and the car battery was under the back seat. I had to sit on the spot, and he put some newspapers over the battery to make up for the uneven height and make it comfier. My butt started smoking in the middle of the road, the car almost caught on fire. 2) My parents, sister and I went to the seaside, dad put car keys in his swimming trunks, lost the keys in the sea. With pure luck I managed to find them, I was about to give up after more than half an hour diving, when I noticed something shiny, dad was already preparing to go find the police and break into his own car to get the spare keys. 3) My husband couldn't start the car, and wanted to push it out of the garage, and tried to instruct me on how to start it that way. I tried, I failed, I crashed the mirror against neighbour's fence wall; turns out there wasn't a drop of petrol in the reservoir.
4) I just got my license, went to the store, on my way back I noticed car wasn't receiving gas too well and red light was on which I didn't know what resembled. Parked in front of the house, wanted to pull hand brake up, only to notice it was up the whole time. 5) Went to visit a friend of mine, I had no trouble parking in, but parking out was a disaster, I am awful around tight places because they don't teach us how to maneuver in narrow places, it took me 15 minutes just to get out, 10cm up front, 10cm to the back, I hope no one was seeing/filming it, almost destroyed a bush in the process.
Load More Replies...It was my in laws wedding anniversary and they had invited the family over for dinner. My hubby thought it would be a great idea to go 4WD for a bit and I ended up giving in. Well we went and got stuck in a big puddle, he did check the water level prior but he didn’t check the mud at the bottom. It was thick sticky mud and our spare tyre (underneath the car) got caught up. My hubby was in his boxer shorts trying to dig the car out, whilst my daughter and myself were standing to the side trying not to get bitten by fire ants. He also decided to chuck his new phone onto the car seat so it didn’t get destroyed but it bounced off the seat, onto the stairwell and into the water. We were stuck for 4 hours. By the time we got to the in laws dinner had been eaten and some of the people were already going home. I felt so bad.
Another time we went 4WD my hubby got stuck in another puddle this time he didn’t check the depth and the water was deeper than he thought. There was no way we could open the car doors coz water would have flooded in, it was already slowly coming in. We had to climb out the windows. Our mate didn’t notice us stuck and drove on ahead and we tried calling him but had no reception and the UHF radio wasn’t working properly. After waiting 20 mins he ended up coming back after realising we weren’t behind him and he finally snatched us out. Now my hubby is a LOT more careful. Now for my driving fail, my hubby took me for a driving lesson around the block. I got frustrated for some reason and decided I had enough so I started driving back home. I pulled into the driveway and instead of putting my foot on the brake, I accidentally put it on the accelerator and crashed into our fence, only minor. This is one reason why I have had my learners permit for 5 years, I have a fear of driving.
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