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Can anyone tell me what is going on in this .gif? (Original Post)
Sheldon Cooper
Feb 2015
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onehandle
(51,122 posts)1. Person runs thorough barrier, with person in tow.
Then backs back in and flips car.
el_bryanto
(11,804 posts)2. When a car loves a telephone pole very much they sometimes . . . nt
bravenak
(34,648 posts)3. A woman was talking to/arguing with the person in the car.
They drove off fast - scaring the hell out of her and possibly hurting her a bit. They backed up to see what was up but the gate is some strange type of fencing. It did not work. They stupidly tried again and made it, but the car did a back flip. That's what I see. Some other stuff too. I think the gat hit her when the driver tried to back out of the gate the first time.
uppityperson
(115,678 posts)4. This link claims they know what it is, youtube vid also
http://www.visir.is/flips-car-in-parking-garage/article/2014141029556
I found other hits on Iceland parking garage.
http://insider.foxnews.com/2014/10/24/video-car-flips-over-spectacularly-bad-parking-garage-getaway
A security video from the parking garage under Höfðatorg has been published online, where the driver of a car can be seen trying to reverse at full speed into the gate of the garage.....
I found other hits on Iceland parking garage.
http://insider.foxnews.com/2014/10/24/video-car-flips-over-spectacularly-bad-parking-garage-getaway
Published on Oct 23, 2014
A Icelandic motorist has been filmed flipping his car in an inexplicable but seemingly deliberate crash with a gate in a parking garage.
The incident occurred three years ago but the footage has only just been posted online as legal concerns had previously prevented garage caretaker Albert Ómar Guðbrandsson from publishing footage of the bizarre incident at Höfðatorg in downtown Reykjavik.
"We've been asked countless times to publish the video, and decided to do so now after legal counsel," he said.
"We were reluctant to publish it sooner, but we felt that this was the kind of video that the public should be allowed to see it.
The video shows the driver drop off a passenger who appears to try and stop him before he crashes through what seems to be a chain-link gate.
Not satisfied with breaking the flimsy gate the driver reverses back into it slowly and keeps his foot on the accelerator as the cars back wheels are lifted high into the air.
The driver then has another go at it at and in the process knocks over his friend who is collected by the broken gate.
Still seemingly unsatisfied the driver has a final crack at the fence, driving forward and then backing into the fence as fast as the car will travel.
As the driver reverses into the gate at pace his car is flipped onto its roof, leading his injured friend to rush to his safety.
Mr Guðbrandsson said the gate was badly damaged in the smash with the repair bill coming in at around $47,000.
A Icelandic motorist has been filmed flipping his car in an inexplicable but seemingly deliberate crash with a gate in a parking garage.
The incident occurred three years ago but the footage has only just been posted online as legal concerns had previously prevented garage caretaker Albert Ómar Guðbrandsson from publishing footage of the bizarre incident at Höfðatorg in downtown Reykjavik.
"We've been asked countless times to publish the video, and decided to do so now after legal counsel," he said.
"We were reluctant to publish it sooner, but we felt that this was the kind of video that the public should be allowed to see it.
The video shows the driver drop off a passenger who appears to try and stop him before he crashes through what seems to be a chain-link gate.
Not satisfied with breaking the flimsy gate the driver reverses back into it slowly and keeps his foot on the accelerator as the cars back wheels are lifted high into the air.
The driver then has another go at it at and in the process knocks over his friend who is collected by the broken gate.
Still seemingly unsatisfied the driver has a final crack at the fence, driving forward and then backing into the fence as fast as the car will travel.
As the driver reverses into the gate at pace his car is flipped onto its roof, leading his injured friend to rush to his safety.
Mr Guðbrandsson said the gate was badly damaged in the smash with the repair bill coming in at around $47,000.
mike_c
(36,281 posts)5. front wheel drive car...
...backs into flexible barrier, which hooks under rear end, lifts it off the ground. Second attempt is to back past the barrier by going faster-- that flips the car upside worn. Good times.
Enrique
(27,461 posts)6. a car has one of its headlights burned out
Sheldon Cooper
(3,724 posts)7. Thanks everyone, I think I can piece it together now.
Good times, indeed.