r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Dangerous_Deal_1945 • Jun 03 '26

Video Seattle light rail service was suspended after a driver somehow got their SUV onto the tracks 30 feet above street level

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u/Uhmitsme123 Jun 03 '26

Michael Scott moment

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u/Loukoal117 Jun 03 '26

Somehow this is WORSE. She’s way the fuck up on a light rail platform and wayyy down the tracks lmao. Michael made a simple mistake (sarcasm) but it’s crazy that reality is more insane than fiction yet again

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u/Anand999 Jun 03 '26 edited Jun 03 '26

Yeah, she'd had to have been driving on the tracks for like a quarter of a mile to reach where she reached in the video.

I could maybe understand accidentally turning onto the track. The Seattle light rail unfortunately does run at grade for a big chunk of its run.

But following the track for another thousand feet... There's got to be more to the story, like driving while impaired.

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u/ZeePirate Jun 03 '26

I think you under estimate how stupid some people are.

There was a boat launch in Hawaii that people’s gps kept leading them down.

Multiple people drove their cars straight into the water because their GPS told them too

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u/AwesomeMacCoolname Jun 03 '26

A judge here in Ireland recently heard the case of a woman who had seven unpaid tickets for parking in disabled bays. When she told him she was "being singled out by the warden" and that "everybody does it" he basically said, " no, they don't, but the fact that you believe so tells me all I need to know about the kind of people you associate with".

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u/hallouminati_pie Jun 03 '26

This is a genuinely great anecdote.

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u/transemacabre Jun 03 '26

There's a decent chunk of the population whose IQ is just above the cut-off for intellectual disability. People who'd score 83, 82, 81-ish if they were tested.

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u/Zanadar Jun 03 '26

The threshold for intellectual disability is below 70, not 80, and based on how the distribution is meant to work, 2.5% of the population should be between 70 and 75.

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u/transemacabre Jun 03 '26

Borderline intellectual disability is about 71-84.

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u/transemacabre Jun 03 '26

This is why Reddit has the reputation it has for tediousness and pedantry.

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u/nsfwthrowaway5969 Jun 03 '26

It's a terrifying realisation that the average person is smarter than 50% of people.

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u/BagSalt7633 Jun 03 '26

I suspect the real issue is that the smartest bears watch tourists opening trash cans and learn from them.

Maybe what you could do is add an electronic lock that forces people to enter the current date.

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u/absurdly_tired_guy Jun 03 '26

I was at a really busy small town parking lot in the spring. It is a municipal lot and all the spots were taken because there are tons of restaurants and bars. The parking lot has a single one way marked painted arrow system that lead right up to boat docks and landing for tourist ferries in Florida. There were about four rows of double parking spaces.

A bunch of ferries showed up, there were a hundred or so people all lined up to board the pier and an older fella was looking for parking. As we (people) were lined up, he drove several miles an hour within inches of all of us and drove his Cadillac SUV right down a boat ramp into brackish water several feet deep. People screamed and two boat dudes jumped in and people were either yelling dial 911 or taking video.

A captain of one of the boats told us all to back up and we were lead away. It was crazy surreal.

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u/bonfuto Jun 03 '26

I was following my gps and got off-route. It wanted me to drive my car down some singletrack. In the other direction, it was doubletrack. So I wouldn't use that road either way. I can't imagine going down some rails because my gps told me to do it, the road isn't going to get better.

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u/PiccoloAwkward465 Jun 03 '26

I was driving out to a job site in the oilfield. The GPS had me go down some oilfield roads that seemed unmaintained. Dirt which was expected but also extremely rough. Like “should I turn around or not?”. I did get to my destination. But that rental Nissan Versa had a fucking hell of a morning.

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u/bonfuto Jun 03 '26

Rental? Send it! Those hikers will get out of the way.

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u/MediumAcceptable129 Jun 03 '26

But the GPS said thats the way!

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u/edmonton2001 Jun 03 '26

The driver also drove down the left track. so at some point you would think you are driving down the wrong side of the road. cause last time i checked we drive down the right side of the road in Seattle.

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u/nitrot150 Jun 03 '26

Exactly!! Like why would you think driving on a train track is the right way for anything? Back it up right after the fact, don’t keep going forward.

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u/Little-Geri-Seinfeld Jun 03 '26

No, it means veer to the right.

The GPS knows where to go.

NO THATS THE LIGHT RAIL!!!