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Love it!
Nobody more annoying than a German tourist bitching about everything
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ITT Americans hate being called out for their bullshit, unless it’s by Germans 🤔
Yeah, ok, he’s not wrong, but also, he can f— right off. We don’t need/want foreigners 2 cents, we know it’s fucked, but fuck him. Sorry.
This comment actually perfectly encapsulates how the US has got to the point that it’s at today.
No it really doesn’t
Haha, do you mean that for real? I am curious who you are in real life, you seem to be an interesting person.
I live on a small 14-acre farm in my parents’ 5 bedroom house. I had some issues and moved back home several years ago, but now I couldn’t leave because there is too much to do, and they are older now and need more help around here.
Well hell yeah. Who is this German ass hole? Thinks he fucking superior? I think his country and people have plenty of their own issues and bullshit. It was 1 stuck ambulance in NY city, and he’s going to talk all that bull shit about our country?
I’m sorry, but I’m not very patriotic until I see this kinda shit. That German can fuck on back to his own country and act like prick about his own ambulances stuck in traffic.
Well that’s the thing. Our ambulances are not stuck in traffic :D
Either way! You (and him, or other like kind) can fuck right on back. You don’t think we have eyes? And we know it’s ridiculous, but do you see us locals talking shit like that? Well. And even if you do, it’s our place to talk shit about, not yours.
Aren’t Germans supposed to be smart enough not to act like a jackass in a foreign country?
Well I am not in a foreign country and it’s everybodys place to talk shit about everything. If you don’t like it, don’t read it. Don’t take it too seriously. I would be happy if you point out something ridiculous about Germany. It’s to better ourselves or to laugh together at it.
No, it’s not… terrible take. You sound unapologetically German. So, German… but you also sound young. Anyway…
Thanks?
I’ve seen roads so congested in NYC that they literally cannot get through. Saw a firetruck honk for a solid 5 minutes before getting to move anywhere.
Anyone got a mirror? It would be nice if catbox didn’t block vpn traffic, I’m not disabling my vpn for a meme
Lol, as if this hasn’t been how it’s always been… These things are for rich people, the rest of us find another way, or you know, die.
You should see major cities in latin america if you think that’s bad. In many countries it’s like they don’t even care.
The US has no excuse though, we should be way, way better.
Why would cities in latin america have excuses?
Education quality is a tip of the iceberg.
Talk to someone who went to a public school in say the dominican republic. I’ve heard stories of years of kids just waiting around with next to no actual teaching involved from someone who was physically there in their childhood. If you don’t go to a private school odds are you aren’t going to get any real education or structure beyond what you pick up at home… and odds are your parents were in the same boat.
The US education system has been nothing like that, it is going to get like that in the south though. In remote low population areas it’s very possible to get bad - and clearly some teenage pregnancies disrupt things in the US, but in the DR it’s a lot worse.
I’m from Chile and whenever you’re in a jam and an ambulance needs to get through, cars move out of their way to let it through. In Santiago, at least. We also stop at zebra crossings to let pedestrians cross.
America is a bit bigger than your NY road…
Is all the same tho. All of the US is full of carbrainrot.
This is beyond car brain. This is the increasing amount of people simply not giving a shit about the social contract over the years coupled with cops not doing their actual jobs in favor whatever it is they do (sitting in their cars fucking around in their phones and harassing minorities?)
But you see the lack of concern for the social contract in many other aspects of american life. Asking people to wear a paper mask during a pandemic was probably the most notable recent non car example. We all know how that went. In other cultures it’s a regular practice; you simply do it as a courtesy when you have recently had a cold. In A america during a pandemic 30-40% of the population revealed themselves to be utterly pathetic toddlers that can’t handle being asked to do something by a perceived authority figure or slightly inconvenienced.
This isn’t cars this is people and their culture.
I am from the UK, a large city too, and we have lots of cars and incredibly busy roads where it’s standstill a lot, but cars will move out of the way for emergency vehicles, you’ll drive on the kerb if you have to.
Edit: We also have paramedics on motorcycles and bicycles so that they can get there even faster if traffic is an issue. Or in city centres.
There is no curb on many of these streets to go onto, there are bollards to protect pedestrians preventing that.
Its a design problem combined with a congestion problem, that was the reason for the congestion relief toll.
That’s a good point and a spelling correction to boot 😂.
I did add an edit that we also have bicycles / motorcycles with paramedics if speed is of the essence and traffic is poor.
I also realise that Deansgate In Manchester City centre has now got those bollards too, but we have severely limited the cars that are allowed into the city centre and I must say it’s a lot more pleasant walking around and I say that as someone that used to drive through the city centre myself on the way home from work.
Edit: I took a picture. This is slap bang in the city centre and traffic is minimal.
Time of day 14:02
I live 2 hours away from NYC and that’s also the case here
If you accept this one anecdote of an ambulance being stuck in NY, then you have to accept my anecdote that everyone in the PNW moves over to let ambulances through no problem.
It’s not all the same.
I accept that 100%. I’ve seen a decent bit the US and it’s such an enormous lump of land with so many different people and cultures that anyone trying to lump them together into some homogenous mass is off their rocker.
Sure you can travel an hour on a train in Europe and be in a totally different world culturally. The distance for those changes is bigger in the US but holy moly do they exist.
Where I live, if a person on the crosswalk doesn’t move out the way of an ambulance, it goes on the national news lol.
I mean hes got a point though. Its clear these people care more about their destination. Im from NY ive seen this plenty elsewhere, in many states. heck even seen it in canada. People just suck sometimes.
I come and save you, ja?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IQLk-LF1JY
haben sie was getrunken, ja! (ja) fragt mich die Polizei, ja! ja
Der polizist mit seinen elfenohren …
You are being rescued. Please do not resist.
You are being billed. Please do not resist.
You do not have sufficient funds to be rescued. Your health will now be removed. Please do not resist.
To be fair, with the congestion that severe, the ambulance should use helicopters. Like they do here in London.
Good luck finding a spot to land somewhere close within Manhattan. Unless you happen to have the heart attack next to a car park (or the central park) that also happens to not be heavily used right now there’s hardly any spot to safely land.
in London and other cities it’s less of a problem given we don’t build that many high rise buildings and got more big old market places and small parks.
A chopper can land safely on any road cross. And NY has shit loads of them. Then it’s a 1 minute walk.
We need them to rappel from the helicopter and swing right into your appartment through the window. This is how we save lives.
I didn’t think you could make the job of a paramedic even more exciting than it already is, but here we are.
Trauma team is on the job
“This Berk had Platinum coverage?”
Not sure you want that with no faa
This is a funny clip and an accurate depiction of NYC congestion.
But, I live in a major city and we make way for ambulances. If it’s this bad we’ll end up with civilians running red lights or cops on motorbikes to unfuck gridlock.
I myself ran a red light last week in rush hour to GTFO when I hear sirens. Just turn on my hazards, slow roll into the red light. Cars were already stopping for me so I was safe, then pulled over.
This is really just making fun of NYC traffic and how fucked it is. The delivery makes it extra funny since we rarely get such an animated German on the front page.
Ja?
Feeling confused. Why can’t the ambulance go through the small gaps between sidewalk. In my country ambulance drivers drive like its GTA.
I speak perfect english but still use „ja”, ja?
Das ist der WegThis is the way, ja?
Ja.
Ja.
Eh?
Tak.
Wenn die Polizei vorbei fährt, ja! (ja)
dann halt ich erst mal an, ja! (ja)I assumed it was some weird YouTube thing he was doing. None of my German friends use that haha.
how else would we know he’s German
In the video right after he says nobody moves out of the way there is someone moving out of the way but he edited the video to remove it.
Disingenuous bullshit.
Someone moving out of the way still doesn’t equal everyone moving out of the way. He’s way ahead of them at the end of the video. The point still stands.
Ok then why is the ambulance not passing on the left?
I’m amazed you could see that since he edited it out of the video so you couldn’t see it.
It’s literally the thumbnail, fella
There’s no place for anyone to move to. The congestion is such that you cannot get out of the way. The Van Wyck alone will slow an ambulance to 3-5mph because of traffic. You cannot get out of the way if there’s no place to go!
As if the usa is the only country in the world with congested rush hour traffic. I’ve been in streets that were way more tightly packed + chaotic than this and people would still clear a path for vehicles with sirens. The emergency vehicle would only be able to go 20 to 30 kmh without a motorcycle escort, but that’s still significantly faster than what we’re seeing here.
What we’re seeing in this video, is that (some) vehicles that are directly in front of the ambulance move out of the way, but vehicles that are a tiny bit further ahead, don’t even try. If a vehicle that is directly in front of the ambulance can move out of the way, then a vehicle that is 30 places ahead, is also able to move out of the way, but they don’t even try … What should happen is that as soon as drivers hear a siren, they should start looking for where it’s coming from and then clear a path, and drivers should also especially not be driving into the path that others are clearing. Instead it seems like these drivers wait till the siren is right behind them and only then some start to move out of the way.
Looking for excuses in American exceptionalism reads like a case of “we’ve tried nothing and we’re all out of ideas”. This particular problem is something that can be easily improved upon by a public awareness campaign and some light fines for those that keep obstructing after the campaign has been running for some time. But what’s obviously even easier than that, is finding an excuse to continue doing nothing about the problem.
Well, I guess you’ve got it all figured out then. Just stupid Americans, right?
Yeah, absolutely. Americans making excuses as to why solutions that work in other countries, would not work in the USA, are a scourge on your society. Your lives could be so much better if you lot stopped falling for that American exceptionalism propaganda and stopped inventing reasons to not do anything about known problems. And now that you’ve turned into a banana republic, I’m done being polite about it.
A retort that completely disregards the reasons why it doesn’t work in some major cities based on the sole example presented here while you make sweeping judgements conflated into an overall condemnation of everyone living here. Wow. Fuck right off. Really. Blocked.
Yes. With video evidence.
Part of the problem is that the “rugged individualism” that America was founded on also equates to entitlement. The last generations that truly had it rough, where a community spirit was important to surviving are dying or gone, and no one has learned their lesson. Yet.
Yeah but they do actually just stop. If there is a siren anywhere in the area, and everyone just stops driving their car. Even when there is somewhere to go, no one ever does.
Yeah that’s usually at an intersection where the only place to go to is into a red light with crossing traffic. A quick search of laws in the US shows no relief for motorists just because there’s a fire truck behind you trying to get through. If you run the red light to make way you could be ticketed (even though it would be real asshole to issue the ticket), and if someone hits you while you run the red or move into tbe intersection to make way it’s your fault. So there’s a lot of disincentive to move in those cases. Where I live people all move over if they can. Otherwise they stay put to be predictable and let the emergency vehicle use the breakdown lane or oncoming traffic. Worst thing is when people cluelessly start randomly trying to outsmart the ambulance and cause a clusterfuck of cars that nobody can get past. US drivers have fuckall for discipline.
I feel like this is mostly your fault for letting 12-year-olds drive, which seems to be the US norm.
Hey have you attended high school education? Great, here is a gun feel free to drive like a maniac who has no concept of lane discipline.
Americans make the Italians look considerate
There’s congestion in German cities too. The point isn’t to drive away. During rettungsgasse, nobody goes anywhere. They just make way by stopping to the sides.
The problem in NY is that the cars are too big for the lanes to do that.
There are no lanes to move aside into. It has nothing to do with vehicle size or “driving away”. I really don’t know what to tell you, I’ve spent plenty of time in several German cities as well as US cities, the comparison isn’t there. There are no breakdown lanes or shoulders to move into in many places to make room for emergency vehicles. You’re welcome to argue all you want, but I drive in and around NYC regularly so I’m more than familiar.
There seems to be quite some space there compared to what I’ve seen emergency vehicles use here in the Netherlands. Recently there was one traveling across a pretty narrow bridge and a road that normally allocated 2 cars. The traffic was completely stuck and yet somehow the emergency vehicle got enough space to travel through. It outpaces me while I was racing down the bridge on a bike. That was more crowded and narrow than this. People went everywhere with their car to create a way for the emergency vehicle
