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[–] 97 points 6 months ago (4 children)

My cousins used to live on a street with massive trees that dropped tons of leaves every autumn. The city would have special service days where everyone rakes the leaves into big piles in the street and street sweepers would come vacuum them up.

Hooligans liked the drive through the big piles in the middle of the night. I honestly kinda see the appeal, who could resist. Anyway, they started to doing the same thing. Piles of cinder blocks under some of them. I was staying with them one night and we heard some horrible carnage, came out to find some sedan high centered on a pile of cinder blocks with the bumper hanging off.

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  • [–] 27 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    There was a news story some years back about a little girl who was killed when her father did this. She was playing in a pile of leaves and her dad was unaware of that. He drove through the pile of leaves and ... yeah, that was that. :(

    Trying to find the original news story, I'm finding multiple instances of this sort of thing happening. Which is even more heartbreaking.

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  • [–] -5 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Not the first shitty dad to kill their child and definitely not the last.

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    If someone died, that would be murder charges. Putting cinder blocks in the street under leaves is a boobytrap and those are usually illegal. What if it was an ambulance coming to pick up someone up next door? Or someone swerving to miss a cat?

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  • [+] -11 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Get off your high horse Karen

    It would be manslaughter for the stupid driver driving into something obscured that they can't know is safe, at speed.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    I'm not judging. I'm just telling you guys what would happen. So you probably don't want to try this at home.

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  • [–] -2 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    But you're wrong Karen. What if a kid was playing in the leaves and they drove over them? The driver is at fault.

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    I urge you to talk to a lawyer before you try this stunt.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago*

    Tbf they'll do neither, they just want to be angry and feel self righteous for a minute. They've probably forgotten about this convo already (or will soon). Sad really, I always assume things aren't right at home for them, like playground bullies.

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