how did 1 and 2 connect? were they even related?

Just jump in the damn car and pull the brake already! Sheesh!

What was keeping him/her from jumping in the vehicle and applying the brakes? Besides stupidity?

...break me off a piece of that...
ap-ple-sauce
chry-sler-car
foot-ball-creme

@Buckster: It appears that he was trying to get the turn signal, not the brake, and he was successful.

wow... bonus points for unexpected second-camera angle vehicular carnage.

I have this same problem with my Cherokee every spring. Mostly because I burn up the handbrake in the winter months snow drifting around at night, and it always needs a little TLC by the time things start to thaw. This driving method, mad thought it is, answers the Cherokee's tendency to understeer dangerously in ice and snow. I just choose to answer with dangerous oversteer. Whatever.

Brakes, Park, Key out, steer...... I can think of three easy techniques to have missed that parked car. Can anyone think of any more?

@cyanics: Same car, different camera. I like to think that 2 happened 5 miles down the road.....

@Rust-MyEnemy: Thats four. Learn to count, limey asshole

@Rust-MyEnemy: LOL. :)

looked like he had it there, then somehow gassed ti real good and POW!

At least he used his turn signal.

Awe... The Rav4 just wanted to "see" the Sienna. Hours later, a new Yaris was born into the world.

@MarkVictorArnold: Yes, it's foot-ball creme -- that's exactly what it was.

Damn hulu.com and their re-runs of Office episodes...I never get anything done.

@cyanics: Two different security cameras on the same property.

I guess being to dumb to push on the brakes after (almost) getting in to a car rolling towards a parked car predicates that person is also too dumb to at least put on a seatbelt before the crash.

+25 points for almost getting run over by your own vehicle.

The best part, watch the person try to stop the vehicle with their feet. Hilarious.

RAV4? Naah. Ram4! D'oh!

@AustinMiniMan: My co workers are still looking at me funny from busting up.

To me this video wasn't so much about the car rolling into the parking structure it was about how ineffective that "security" gate was. Looks like I could hit that thing on a bycycle and pop it open.

@Ray Wert: No, you idiot. It's Fan-cy Feast.

@BraappBraapp: Is "Delusions of Fred Flintstone" recognized by the psychiatric community? It should be.

EPIC FAIL

@Ray Wert: its gotta rhyme with 'piece'
...
FANCY FEAST! ...its the cat food.

Frickin' WGA strike. I know they deserve a cut of the interwebs action but c'mon. I'd trade this WGA strike for a good ol' UAW strike anyday... and that's saying something coming from me.

@macfarlane.a: I think you confuse the term "dangerous oversteer" with "fun."

Looks like he forgot it a 2nd time...

@Mad_Science: As found on NASIOC some time back:
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fool me twice.. shame on me...

Watching that dude bounce off the inside of his door will never get old.

If VH1 is still doing that Web Junk 20 show, this guy is prime candidate for some laughs.

@MarkVictorArnold: Nice pull!

@MarkVictorArnold: no. it is Kit Kat bar.

@Rust-MyEnemy: Umm.. Shut door behind you upon exit?

Oh yeah, that reminds me, I did that too once! But it was in front of my house...I was loading my equipment, but since we have to park on the streets, and K-town is notorious for having no parking, I parallel parked beside a car in front of my crib, got out, and came out with my amp...only to find my car disappeared! I thought someone had stolen my car or the cops had towed it, but I was only gone for a minute literally! My head went blank for a split second...

It turns out I forgot to pull my parking brake, and the street in front of me was at a slight incline so the car rolled down about a block and stopped at a curb. luckily it hit a curb and not a car when it stopped. whew! And thank god nobody was outside watching this!

@Buckster: exactly

Failing to apply the handbrake properly or indeed, at all, is really embarrassing. A member of my family once parked her car on a gentle slope, perpendicular to a shallow canal in Holland. On her return, she found it semi-submerged. Someone had already called the fire department to pull it out. In her defense, she was suffering from severe arthritis at the time and had trouble applying the necessary force on the lever.

Still, they can keep skis from careening down the slopes by themselves. With all the electronic gizmos in today's cars, you'd think they could identify situations in which the wheels are turning without anyone sitting in the driver's seat and, automatically apply the emergency brake - even if the ignition has been cut. I can't think of any context in which you would want the car to continue rolling, but it would be easy enough to deactivate such a feature manually.

I've had something quite similar happen, except it ended up with me clinging to the bonnet of a driverless Vauxhall Viva going down a steep hill very fast while I screamed my head off.

Because when it started to roll, there was that part of my brain that BELIEVED every comic book I had ever read and told me that I could in fact stop that dainty mass of metal with my glorious human body! End result? "Not to worry, I've got it under contro-- OH JESUS CHRIST SOMEONE HELP ME!"

Yeah, I haven't always been all that smart. Funny, though.

I had a close call. I had a Taurus SHO at the time, and wanted to check a noise under the hood. I left the stick in neutral and set the parking brake. I then pulled the lever under the dash and got out. Sadly, in my rush, I pulled the parking brake release. I always hated that arrangement. Thankfully, I didn't fiddle-fart around like this dude. The SHO rolled about six to ten inches while I hurriedly stuffed my foot back into the wheel well and depressed the parking brake.

SUV DRIVERS???
SHALLOW END OF THE GENE POOL?
yessir

@rgseidl: It's not a situation in which I would personally want the car to keep rolling, but legions of kids tempting fate would be unable to "ghost ride" their "whips" with an automatic e-brake. Plus we wouldn't get to watch the unlucky ones on youtube crash their whips, or get whipnapped.

I had a similar "accident" in a manual shift K-car back in the quik lube days. I reached in to start the engine, and the damn thing was in gear! It took off, so I dove head first towards the floorboard and basically used my face to hit the brakes. Otherwise, the car would have driven right into 5 lanes of traffic. Close call.

The only problem I'm seeing here is this person didn't open the gate fast enough. That, or they had been drinking until they couldn't feel feelings anymore.

Laughed a little too hard at this, until I remembered a VW Rabbit parts car I was stripping back in high school..started to roll down a hill, pulled the parking brake..but it wasn't attached to anything. Kicked the shifter, however, lacking shift linkage, it wasn't going to accomplish much. At that point, I did run around in front of the car (ok it wasn't going that fast, but it was aimed at my other car) In the end, I became a human shock absorber, dampening the blow the VW delivered to my Datsun... which still ended up with a dent, delivered by my knee, rather than the VW's bumper. All that for a lousy diesel injector pump..

@bd_juju: The same thing happened to me this summer. I was pulling the engine out of an '83 280zxt and needed just an extra inch to clear the transmission from the radiator support, so I let the front down and the rear fell off the stands or something and crushed my '73 Datsun wheel chocks. The whole assemblage (280zxt, engine, crane) began to roll down my driveway. It is paved. It is steep. It has a 90 left in it. Luckily, the T-tops were off and I was able to hop in, kick some wiring harnesses and dash parts out of the way and stomp on the brakes, at which point the engine and crane continued to roll and my L28ET ended up on its side in my yard for two weeks. Meanwhile, I eased off the brakes and piloted my gutted donor to the bottom of our drive. I was unharmed. It was kinda fun. I was pretty pissed about the engine, though. And my busted wheel chock.

One of these days I'll get around to writing a full account of my Datsun related misfortunes. I should probably do that before it runs again. I think that mean Z and I will probably have a duel to the death on our first reunion drive.

Wagner said it best:

"Wotan idiot!"

To fess up, I've had not 1, but 2 parking-brake fail incidents.

1st was in high school, I was warming up my Jeep and the parking brake (stupid pedal-style) wasn't on quite as well as I thought. I look out the window to see it slowly rolling across the driveway, backwards down an embankment and bouncing off of the little hut that covered up the well. The cool part was I just put it in 4lo and drove out.

2nd was offroad. I got out to spot a guy, and again the brake wasn't on like I thought. I successfully managed to run back, dive in the car and hand-stomp the brake.

@apuesto: I would also like to state for the record and for the sake of relevance that the e-brake in the donor Z did not work, hence the rolling.

I'd also like to point out that the person in the video should not have a driver's license. Where did they learn how to drive? Florida? Well, that's where I got my license, the morning my family moved to Vermont. Upon taking up residence in the Green Mountain State (where Driver's Ed is part of HS curriculum), I actually learned how to drive. My teacher would do all sorts of stuff like holding down the throttle with a stick and going "your throttle is stuck! what do you do!?" Man, I would love to take that class again.

Although I have driven nothing but slushboxes for my personal cars for over twenty-five years now (my partner prefers manual, but I find those tedious in L.A. gridlock), I learned to drive in a four-speed manual, and to this day I am meticulous abour applying the parking break before exiting the vehicle, regardless of transmission.

My first car, the old family '70 Ford wagon, got a metallic sticker sent to us for the dash due to an NHTSA action, reminding us to do so as well.

Apparently, that Ford tranny had a habit of slipping from Park into Reverse, and backing over drivers who were checking their mailbox or reaching out to scoop up the morning newspaper. If I recall, many fatallities resulted, prompting the sticker (but no recall...!?!).

@Charles_Barrett: break = brake

In a slightly related story, a friend of mine decided that because his recently purchased Holden Kingswood (Meat Pies, Footy e.t.c) was overheating he'd coast down the long hills with the engine off.

Unfortunately managing not only to kill the engine off he activated the steering lock and dropped the keys to the floor whilst coasting at a nice 60mph towards some rather challenging corners. After putting it into park at that speed we had a trashed engine, skid marks on the hot vinyl a slightly clunky tri-matic transmission and a long walk for Meat Pies.

and yeah and the power assisted brakes on the kingsy. no good with no engine

This idiot is not hoonworthy.
He didn't even close the door!
And just how far was he prepared to wrestle it?
I think he was too chickenshit/spaz to jump in.

Hang on now, was that actually a stick-shift RAV4, or was the driver just so mind-numbingly moronic that they didn't put it in park?

@apuesto: That's actually a pretty awesome story. We need to bring that to Ralph Nader, get him to help us all convince the assorted manufacturers and the government that T-tops are a safety feature.