Microblog Memes

Engagement bait.

I went and checked Facebook for notifications the other day and saw this exact post.

This is all over the place: Posts by people who are confidently wrong in some obvious way, just begging for some smart internet person to come set them straight and get their wimpy dopamine hit.

It is really enlightening, in a depressing way, to scroll mainstream social media like that and see the level of enshittification that people are conditioned to accept and keep scrolling through. It is so much worse than even ad-driven legacy media like live TV.

This is actually very funny tho

Reminds me of that dude that fashioned a concrete reinforced steel mailbox pole and got sued after paralysing a dude that hit it.

https://www.lipstickalley.com/threads/homeowner-who-fortified-his-mailbox-after-repeated-vandalism-is-sued-by-driver-who-was-left-paralyzed-after-crashing-into-it.4580112/

Homeowner won though.

Behold the rewards of not linking to source: commenters fall for engagement bait, lack of web accessibility.

A) I don’t believe this is real.

B) Back in the ‘70s, there was an article in National Lampoon where a guy liked to put a cinder block in a paper bag and watch people swerve to hit it.

The guy's page is full of trolling and rage bait. It's not serious

FAFO

He's wrong though, this is objectively funny. I would love to hear the conversation with insurance, bet that's funny too. 

If you plow through a snowman with your car, you're an asshole. If you do it with your brand new sports car, you're a stupid asshole.

i thought something was up. a snow man made of the fluffiest powder would absolutely totall my car. ain’t no way i would just hit snow men

I wanna see the zoom video of that court hearing. I don't think a judge is gonna be on your side, buddy.

So Mark Majeski purposefully crashed his car into a static object and blames someone else for the consequences of his own actions?

Reminds me of a short story.

"It's a concrete puppy," Cross told him. "With a lead core. Painted to look like a Dalmatian. Weighs almost seventy pounds. Fong did it. Nice job, huh?"

"What's it for?" Princess asked.

"It's a lie detector," Cross said.

Unless the snowman was built in the road, the driver is at fault not the people that created the snowman.

Even in case of a "usual" snowman, you can easily crack plastic bodyparts or dent metal ones. This is not GTA, where you just have to remember which items are breakable and which are not

What would make you think driving through a snowman is a good idea to begin with? You'd have to be driving through a yard or at least jumping a curb. Take the guy's license away for reckless driving.

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.

Don't be an ass trying to wreck some kid's fun. Could just as well do the same if it melted and refroze a bit to turn it to ice. FAFO

I'd be surprised if there were any legal consequences for something like this. It's not a "booby trap" in the traditional sense where it poses a danger to legitimate visitors or emergency responders entering a property. It is a solid structure inside another (seemingly less solid) structure. You should already not be trying to ram into it. It poses zero risk to anyone that doesn't already intent to maliciously destroy the apparently less solid structure.