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shaking my head...

i don't even know what to say about this genius:


Wednesday evening in Roseville, Mich., a 24-year-old man who apparently knew his pickup truck's brakes weren't working got behind the wheel anyway and tried to drive home.


He attempted, Fred Flintstone-style, to use his feet as brakes.


-via NPR


cburch
2011-08-25 17:29:34

Unbelievable. The headline is brilliant, though.


rzod
2011-08-25 17:37:13

Wow, did you watch the video? Darwin award candidate waiting to happen.


marko82
2011-08-25 17:39:09

Bumper sticker, "My other car is brakeless fixie".


edmonds59
2011-08-25 18:20:01

Speechless.


humblesage
2011-08-25 21:42:28

I wonder if they would have used the same tone in the article had he killed or seriously injured someone.


rsprake
2011-08-26 13:07:28

c'mon, rsprake, people don't kill people, cars kill peop... wait... cars don't kill people, peopl... ok, I know somehow he wouldn't be at fault, I just can't put my finger on it.


:P


ejwme
2011-08-26 14:19:28

Depends on the someone he killed or injured. If it was a cyclist, the tone would be something along the lines of "Scofflaw cyclist killed despite driver's heroic effort to stop his car with his feet."


ajbooth
2011-08-26 14:22:34

Ha ha


rsprake
2011-08-26 15:01:12