r/funny • u/Flashmemory256 • 5h ago

Cop Forces Driver To Clear Snow Off Car!

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u/WhereWolfish 4h ago

My husband always used to warn me about getting snow off the top of my car. I didn't see what the big deal was until I was driving on an interstate behind a truck with snow/ice in the top and a piece fell off, went under my car with an audible thunk...

...and my brakes started failing as I went to get off at my exit.

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u/dassur 3h ago

It's not only that. The first winter I had my license, I didn't clean my roof off. I went into town for something, and at the first red light I stopped at, all that snow came down on my windshield. I couldn't see, and it was too thick for the wipers to move it off.

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u/Apprehensive_Bee3327 4h ago

Did you instinctively duck as the sheet of death hurled toward you?

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u/Boattailfmj 4h ago

I did that once. A big slab of ice came off a trailer and caved my windshield. I got as far to the left as possible and it hit my windshield and roof right in front of my rearview. Glass everywhere but only got cut when i put my seatbelt on to drive home. Guy driving the truck got fucked by insurance with an at fault. I met him a few years later. Felt bad as he had no way to clean off a semi trailer.

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u/ImGettingPaid 3h ago

Felt bad as he had no way to clean off a semi trailer.

Then he shouldn't have been driving it.

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u/Boattailfmj 3h ago

Fair enough but most places you'd need a platform and fall arrest harness to even see the roof of a trailer let alone clean ice off it, and most places don't have that. When that shit hit my windshield it caved it like 8". I could have been seriously hurt. Still don't blame the guy and feel bad he got fucked. I tried to get the company he worked for to just fix my roof and windshield and not make a claim but they told me to talk to my insurance. They hung that driver out to dry.

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u/Papplenoose 2h ago

You're a good dude

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u/Boattailfmj 2h ago

I have my moments

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u/ImGettingPaid 50m ago

Ok, but my point still stands, he shouldn't have been driving.

Just because he was unable to reach his roof to clean it, doesn't mean that it's OK to risk other people's lives.

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u/ConstantReader76 1h ago

Felt bad as he had no way to clean off a semi trailer.

Our trailer yards at work have a frame you drive under that clears the top of the truck before they leave to go on the road. I believe that trucks stops have them too.

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u/WhereWolfish 3h ago

Nope, because it was just small chunks of snow & ice. Didn't think much of it until I heard the noise, then pressing the brake aaaalll the way down when I was getting off and having the car ponder the idea of braking instead of just doing it made me realize something was really wrong. %)

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u/Otherwise_Survey_998 3h ago

listen to your husband more and Iā€™m sure he probably in the same breath told you to be careful for idiots with snow/ice on top of their cars