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What the hell is up with that bus???
It’s a runaway. Brakes failed at the top of a hill in Perm.
Holy crap I think my heart skipped a beat. O_O
Ban public transportation!
holy macaroni, too close!
Slog: Surfing the internet 8 hours a day so you don’t have to.
Don’t stop in the bus lane in Perm. Their bus drivers play for keeps.
Perhaps our Olympic track team could use buses as a training aid. It appears that they help you run faster.
Wow! It is a good thing that guy could run fast! I would have been squashed for sure!
Any bets that the Bus Driver was drunk?
I’m assuming there was a bomb on the bus and the driver had to go 50 miles per hour at all times to keep it from exploding.
Sorry, need to reference bad action movie fulfilled.
The title for this piece should be ‘Just Missed the Bus’
@11 wins!
The guy was running when he hit the street, before he saw the bus wasn’t stopping and sped up. This is what I think happened: the light had just turned red for the pedestrian, and he decided to make a dash for it before the cars in the other direction got started. The car in front saw what he was doing and waited, whereas the bus driver (tired, distracted, bored, or drunk) just saw his green light and drove forward.
Love the Babelfish translation of the Russian description of the post on YouTube. “Supposedly the failure of brake system…. Man crossing road, clearly was born in the jacket!!!” Closest I could get on English-speaking Google to what the idiom “born in the jacket” means is “luckiest man alive”.
Seems about right. Any Russian speakers here? You guys have any other fun idioms, or can explain where that one comes from?
everybody in russia is either drunk or hungover.
In Soviet Russia, bus misses you!
@ 17 for the win
@15 perhaps “jacket” = “straitjacket”? As in he is crazy? Just a guess.
@17 you just made me squirt water out the nose!
As someone who walks everywhere, this is going to give me nightmares.
Born in a jacket might be a mistranslation of the expression born in a shirt which refers to being born with the amniotic sack intact. It’s supposed to bring you good luck for your whole life.
@17, AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAouch…
@22 — Bingo, that’s it! Babelfish strikes again. Meanwhile, way more on the subject than I ever wanted to know in the link below:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caul
It’s amazing the things you can learn from Slog…
14 – the crosswalk light doesn’t change at all though and the other cars are slowing down even before the pedestrian is visible.