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Old 04-16-10, 03:44 PM
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Default Video - Bus Driver falls asleep and goes bowling for cars

Saw this on TruTV and knew there had to be a clip on the web somewhere.

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Absolutely scary, guy fell asleep and took out dozens of cars on the highway.

Hope it's not a repost.
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Reminds me of the old joke; "When I die, I want to die peacefully in my sleep, like my Grandfather - not shouting and screaming like the passengers on his bus".
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crazy video...... these drivers are so irresponsible
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Old 04-16-10, 04:40 PM
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Like they said, a miracle that no lives were lost.
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thats some scary footage.. omg
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This video is obviously rigged from two completely different incidents. Up to 1:19 the background is apparantly in Taiwan, with Taiwanese security trucks and license plates and exit signs and cars not sold in the US, but when the video switches to the aftermath scene at 1:20 all of a sudden we see cars that are only sold in the US and US ambulances.

And I can't find any actual news referring to this incident either.

Something doesn't add up here.

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Originally Posted by Mister Two
This video is obviously rigged from two completely different incidents. Up to 1:19 the background is apparantly in Taiwan, with Taiwanese security trucks and license plates and exit signs and cars not sold in the US, but when the video switches to the aftermath scene at 1:20 all of a sudden we see cars that are only sold in the US and US ambulances.

And I can't find any actual news referring to this incident either.

Something doesn't add up here.
lol you'd wake a friend up from a wet dream wouldn't ya?

I had to go back and look again, you're absolutely right. lol they probably just spliced an aftermath scene in there to stretch it out to commercial. Good eye though, I didn't catch that at all the first time around.
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Originally Posted by Mister Two
This video is obviously rigged from two completely different incidents. Up to 1:19 the background is apparantly in Taiwan, with Taiwanese security trucks and license plates and exit signs and cars not sold in the US, but when the video switches to the aftermath scene at 1:20 all of a sudden we see cars that are only sold in the US and US ambulances.

And I can't find any actual news referring to this incident either.

Something doesn't add up here.
Yes, I noticed that too, I was like the scene is completely different. . Either way crazy.
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Love the computer generated reenactment!! LOL!
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fake isnt it?
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Originally Posted by Mister Two
This video is obviously rigged from two completely different incidents. Up to 1:19 the background is apparantly in Taiwan, with Taiwanese security trucks and license plates and exit signs and cars not sold in the US, but when the video switches to the aftermath scene at 1:20 all of a sudden we see cars that are only sold in the US and US ambulances.

And I can't find any actual news referring to this incident either.

Something doesn't add up here.
Scary incident... but I noticed that as well. Saw a lot of JDM cars so it clearly is an Asian country (didn't know it was Taiwan), but then later footage shows USDM cars in US highways. Weird.
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The in-bus footage is computer generated, it's not even real. The aftermath is real.
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My studies of sleep, which is limited, tells me that there are more than likely other psychological forces at work than merely dozing off and sleeping through that. Terrible that it happened though.
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Originally Posted by Mister Two
Something doesn't add up here.
Sadly, the video footage (of the crash itself) appears to be true

http://www.accidentsplanet.com/2010/...n-highway.html

This occurred along Sun-Yat-sen Highway (a.k.a. National Highway No.1) approaching the Puyan interchange en-route to Kaoshiung City.

According to the report, there at least nine fatalities (four dead; five injured)

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There was also a mishap a day before that........which involved a butane tanker and a small truck
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