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silver_echo
10-12-2010, 01:55 AM
http://www.myfoxdc.com/dpp/entertainment/dc-police-suv-hits-bumblebee-at-transformer-3-filming-in-dc-101110

bumblebee car totaled in car crash during filming... :cry::brokenheart::cry::brokenheart:


totaled by police officer driving through the closed road, that was closed for filming... he was on a call, but was driving through the filming area while they were filming...

his excuse was that he was on a different channel...

discuss...
fnkngrv
10-12-2010, 02:09 AM
dumbass award goes to.....
shinlee
10-12-2010, 02:17 AM
i'm sad
SilverBack
10-12-2010, 02:20 AM
Guess our taxpayer money isn't enough to buy them brains
silver_echo
10-12-2010, 02:45 AM
okay, so the initial link crashed, here is this...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_e_BHKkTgmQ
tomato
10-12-2010, 04:02 AM
It's a K-9 unit. Sure hope the dog is OK.

Why are they covering the car, btw, what are they afraid of, sun damage?!! :confused:
silver_echo
10-12-2010, 03:10 PM
It's a K-9 unit. Sure hope the dog is OK.

Why are they covering the car, btw, what are they afraid of, sun damage?!! :confused:

they were afraid of the press finding out that it got wrecked... :biggrin:
JumpmanYaris
10-12-2010, 03:31 PM
whats funny is that the 5-0 unit hardly had a scratch
silver_echo
10-12-2010, 04:27 PM
whats funny is that the 5-0 unit hardly had a scratch

yeah i know... he probably drove it back to the precinct... grrr...
Astroman
10-12-2010, 04:31 PM
What's also funny that the SUV could drive away, but the cop had to go to the hospital, while bumblebee obviously couldn't be driven but the stunt drive was just fine. I watched the video quite a bit and that SUV really got jostled there.
silver_echo
10-12-2010, 04:58 PM
What's also funny that the SUV could drive away, but the cop had to go to the hospital, while bumblebee obviously couldn't be driven but the stunt drive was just fine. I watched the video quite a bit and that SUV really got jostled there.

i guess that it boils down to that the stunt driver has been trained on how to take a hit?
BailOut
10-12-2010, 05:13 PM
i guess that it boils down to that the stunt driver has been trained on how to take a hit?
Nope. A funny thing about basic physics is that they hold true in all environments and applications. When it comes to car types something you might not expect happens depending on the vehicle's design.

Most small cars are built as one giant crumple zone. Impacts are dispersed laterally along the chassis meaning that the vehicle itself absorbs and then dissipates the energy of a collision. This is why small cars are often "totaled" in even lower speed impacts but you rarely hear of small car fatalities, or even loss of consciousness events.

Conversely, big vehicles are all solid steel and hardness and unibody construction and don't crumple or dissipate by any other means much at all. The result of this is that the vehicles come through impacts often looking near perfect or having only single-panel damage, but guess what happens to the occupants? That's right, all of the energy from an impact rolls right into and through the cabin rather than around it, and is then absorbed by the occupant's bodies. This is why a big vehicle can look pretty good but the occupants may not walk away, or do walk away but with significant soft tissue and organ bruising.

Look at it this way: I have 2 well-off buddies that work deep within the auto insurance industry. Both drive vehicles that weigh less than 3,000 pounds and rent the same when they travel. They don't even like to ride in the bigger vehicles when we have road trips.
SailDesign
10-12-2010, 05:19 PM
Nope. A funny thing about basic physics is that they hold true in all environments and applications. When it comes to car types something you might not expect happens depending on the vehicle's design.

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They don't even like to ride in the bigger vehicles when we have road trips.

Yup! SUVs are classed as trucks, which keeps the cost down (thereby making them more popular) by not having to have crumple-zones designed in. SUVs therefore are about as safe in a crash as a 50's pickup. In fact, their basic chassis design probably IS from a 50's pickup....
.Kevin.
10-12-2010, 05:21 PM
I figured a small vehicle is like a watermelon since its all tightly packed when hit it just explodes. Plus stunt driver was probably wearing protective gear. That camaro got turned into shit from like a glancing blow lol
Darb
10-12-2010, 11:53 PM
That camaro got turned into shit ...

Isn't this redundant? :laugh:
.Kevin.
10-13-2010, 12:29 AM
Isn't this redundant? :laugh:

Well said hahaha