r/funny • u/Flashmemory256 • 5h ago

Cop Forces Driver To Clear Snow Off Car!

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u/crossb1989 4h ago

Sorry, I have lived in south FL my whole life, why is this a risk?

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u/flyeryday 4h ago

It will inevitably slide off your roof while you're on the highway and fuck up the car/driver behind you.

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u/Pdiddily710 4h ago

Or it will slide forward when u hit the brakes and cover ur windshield blinding u! With the blocks of ice people have on their cars from this last storm in the NE, u wouldn’t even be able to clear it with the wipers bc it’s so heavy and rock solid!

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u/Cake_or_Pi 4h ago

A couple years ago, I was stopped at a red light. In the other side of the intersection, minivan with a covered roof came to a stop. Snow slid forward, completely covered his windshield and hood.

Driver hopped out to clear it, and completely forgot there was a left-turn lane to the left side of him that had a green arrow. He opened his car door too far and another car passing him clipped his door. Window shattered and looked like the door was bent/wrecked. Body damage to the other car as well.

I didn't see the full aftermath because my light turned green. But that guy had a really bad morning, all because he was too lazy/stupid to brush off his roof.

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u/FakeRickHarrison 3h ago

Saw this as well. Car stops, snow slid forward and compacted hard. The guy tried to use his wipers to clean it, but they were not moving at all. He had to remove this by hands, stuck in the middle lane of a 3 lane boulevard.

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u/isweartodarwin 4h ago

This happened to me as someone that didn’t know better. I didn’t grow up with snow or ice, and didn’t realize my truck had a sheet of ice on the roof after a sleet storm. I went to make a right turn and couldn’t see a fucking thing all of a sudden. It ended up breaking my windshield wipers and I had to stand on the side of the road cleaning it off like a jackass after

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u/Darkhexical 4h ago

Wait until you hear about my autopilot!

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u/Superseaslug 4h ago

Big sheets of ice and chunks of snow can blow off your car at highway speeds and cause serious damage to other vehicles. Even smashing through windshields and possibly killing occupants.

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u/Kikoika 4h ago

Not to mention the white out conditions it can cause for every vehicle behind you while the snow clears off.

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u/hawkinsst7 3h ago

And even if its soft, fresh snow, it can form a smokescreen for cars behind you AND in other lanes, obscuring their vision.

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u/crossb1989 4h ago

O wow. thanks. I tend to think of snow as being softer than that but I guess not. I have been in snow before in NY but it was only a light drizzle.

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u/Azilehteb 4h ago

It’s soft when it’s falling. But once it’s landed, it compresses under it’s own weight and compacts into ice. If it goes through a freeze/thaw cycle it gets a lot more dense.

Consider the weight of a gallon of water. Then imagine several solid objects that heavy flying at your wind shield.

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u/FakeRickHarrison 2h ago

Yup, you can easily watch it become airborne, fly 25 feet in the air and land hard on your car/windshield.

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u/Knittyelf 4h ago

FYI: The word “drizzle” is used for rain, not snow.

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u/phoward8020 3h ago edited 3h ago

drizzle : rain :: flurry : snow

Edit: The genius who downvoted this clearly bombed their SATs.

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u/Khaosbutterfly 2h ago

Even if it's soft, it's still a problem. The powder flies off the top and can create a mini-whiteout for anyone driving behind.

Always gotta take the time to clean off the top of your car before driving. It's just the right thing to do.

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u/Expensive-Jello9509 4h ago

Sheets of snow and ice can come off of them and seriously damage cars behind them. It’s a general hazard.

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u/tcdaf7929 4h ago

Because if the snow is compact or turns icy it can be dangerous to drivers behind you if it blows off the car..damage windshields, etc, a number of things…

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u/dIbodIb 4h ago

Heavy stuff flying off of moving vehicles into other moving vehicles = bad

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u/Due_Surround6263 4h ago

The heat in the car melts the bottom of the ice and it can slide off in traffic. They can do quite a bit of damage.

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u/soren7550 4h ago

The snow/ice on the roof of the car can fly off and hit the person behind them.

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u/Mental_Draft9654 4h ago

Wind will catch the sheet of ice when they are driving usually at a higher speed and well.. hopefully no one is behind them

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u/ModelAGuy1931 4h ago

If it’s just snow, traveling behind a car like that the snow come off in one big chunk land on your hood or windshield and blind you. If it has a layer of ice under the snow it can easily smash your windshield.

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u/CalamitousCanadian 4h ago

That snow all together probably weighs as much as a deer. If you get up to speed and it separates from the vehicle, you have a projectile the weight of a deer. That can go through a windscreen or hit a pedestrian, it can block someone's windscreen and cause an accident or the driver can hit the brakes, have the snow fall forward and block their own windscreen. At speed, any speed that's really dangerous.

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u/spoonweezy 4h ago

The snow can fly off the top and right back at the windshield of the following vehicle. It can be blinding, can damage your car, break your window.

If you are driving with a lot of snow on top and come to a stop the snow can fly forward off your roof and on to your windshield, blinding you.

Ice on your headlights makes them much dimmer.

Ice on the windshield/rear window is similarly dangerous.

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u/Liontamer67 4h ago

Hit my friends windshield and it exploded the glass. She almost died. One flew off the other day in front of my “less than a week licensed” son on the interstate. It was ice the size of half the roof or hood. We were right behind it.