Once again, we peer into the wonderful world of Russian dashboard camera video. Many Russian drivers keep them to protect themselves from insurance fraud, but we've also seen footage that shows the crazy antics that take place on Russian roads.
In this video, a driver runs into a dog crossing a road. She gets out to check on him. She thinks that the dog is dead.
She's wrong.
-via Jalopnik
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Comments (6)
At about 6-7 sec, you can see the dog lie down in front of the car, and the car stops at that moment, still about 10 feet from the dog, unless this car has a 20 ft long hood we can't see.
This dog plays dead for a bit till the driver's back is turned and she's far from her car. Just far enough to be out of the path of the car if it were to start moving forward...
Then the dog gets up and runs into the vehicle. Then the car starts moving, which is nonsense, since the dog has no way to get the car out of park. The car starts moving before the dog gets completely behind the wheel, and definitely doesn't have the power to do anything like manipulating a gear shift out of park. Not having opposable thumbs is usually enough to prevent that.
Which means someone else is in the vehicle manipulating the situation in the dogs favor.
Which means this whole video is a prank.
Apologies if the author knew this was a prank before posting and I'm the idiot for not catching on to that.
I bought my first typewriter, a Royal Royalite 64 at California Typewriter. They were really friendly there, luckily for me its a quick bus ride from the UC Berkeley campus.
The first guy that invents a ribbon re-inker will make millions. Or go broke.
(maybe the ribbon companies will murder him)
...But that was way before "DOS" or "Windows" - Géé I'm getting óld...!
:-D
I don't remember inking typewriter ribbons. I did ink printer ribbons though. I remember dipping a fountain pen in the ink bottle and pulling the lever down to fill up the rubber bladder with ink. One brand of ink even had bottles with a small reservoir of ink near the lid so you wouldn't need to dip the pen way down into bottles that were nearly empty.
Remember when a bottle of ink and ribbons were really inexpensive? Now you almost have to mortgage the house to afford printer ink.
Then came Teletype printers but that's a story all by itself. GGG
(we all know why printers are so cheap)