Mechanic Mowed Down By Car Inside Auto Shop In Colorado Negged Gif???

**wincel** · 10-24-2024, 02:02 PM

Wtf?

**Godfrd** · 10-24-2024, 02:02 PM

He is dead.

**Havoc00** · 10-24-2024, 02:12 PM

Originally posted by Godfrd

He is dead.

brutal

**4NIK8R2000** · 10-24-2024, 02:26 PM

Damn, poor bastard only making about $17 bucks an hour. I was a tech for a few years, that hit me in the feels.

**floridaman** · 10-24-2024, 02:35 PM

based, mechanic probably scammed him

**xxAchillesxx** · 10-24-2024, 02:47 PM

Looked like another mechanic driving the car?

Good thing his noggin softened the blow by the car on the expensive tool chest.

Holy moly

Apparently it was another mechanic, brakes failed. And dude survived relatively intact too. Dayum
I know it's heat of the moment and quick timing and all, but holy hell do something. Swerve that bitch into the bollards near the garage door or a heavy piece of equipment or something.

Mechanic miraculously survives customerÂs car running him over - Colorado

https://krudplug.net/m/video.php?vid=7855

This customer’s car supposedly had a total brake failure causing an employee to drive onto the alignment rack and over the mechanic. Sam, an auto shop mechanic, is lucky to be alive after a customer’s car ran him over shortly after he rolled open the repair garage’s doors. Thanks to how he was hit and where he landed, Sam supposedly survived mostly unscathed, and it was all caught on the shop’s security cameras. OP does not disclose what auto shop this is and where exactly it’s located, although he does sort of say it’s in Colorado somewhere. In the security camera footage, we see Sam roll open the garage doors as the shop opens before the day. Sam can be seen adjusting the alignment rack moments before chaos breaks loose. Suddenly, an employee driving a customer’s Scion xA can be seen driving into the shop and onto the alignment rack, headed straight for Sam. Sam does his best to block the path of the incoming car but can only do so much. Sam falls in the middle of the raised alignment rack, his back slamming into a toolbox. The Scion xA rolls over Sam, slamming into the front of the unsecured toolbox before coming to a stop. The front of the Scion looks like it’s about to hit Sam head-on but, at this last moment, it looks like Sam slides just underneath the Scion, the bottom of the car likely coming within an inch of the top of his head. One X user slowed down the footage and pointed out how something on the front of the Scion, what looks like a tow bar you hook up to an RV, might’ve hit the front of the tool box too, creating a gap where Sam’s head might’ve been. And, according to someone in the know, the person driving was not a customer but was an employee, attributing the freak accident to some kind of brake failure.

**MikeLowrrrey** · 10-24-2024, 03:05 PM

I thought about becoming a mechanic during high school. Did my research and realized it's a shit career. Mechanics are probably the lowest on the tradie totem pole

**lockdev** · 10-24-2024, 03:09 PM

Originally posted by MikeLowrrrey

I thought about becoming a mechanic during high school. Did my research and realized it's a shit career. Mechanics are probably the lowest on the tradie totem pole

Good call.

I knew 3 guys that went that route. All 3 left the business after a few years of doing it.

Dog chit work for dog chit pay.

**JayDubs** · 10-24-2024, 03:13 PM

It's over for tradies. At least that one anyways.

I work in a shop, and posted that to our group chat. Wrote a guy up today over this very thing, came hauling ass in the shop after repeated warnings. What it is with young guys that are obsessed with horns, driving fast, revving engines, ect

**BigElephant** · 10-24-2024, 03:21 PM

Originally posted by xxAchillesxx

Looked like another mechanic driving the car?

Good thing his noggin softened the blow by the car on the expensive tool chest.

Holy moly

Apparently it was another mechanic, brakes failed. And dude survived relatively intact too. Dayum
I know it's heat of the moment and quick timing and all, but holy hell do something. Swerve that bitch into the bollards near the garage door or a heavy piece of equipment or something.

https://krudplug.net/m/video.php?vid=7855

He's alive?! Holy shit that's lucky as hell but I'm happy for him.

**BigElephant** · 10-24-2024, 03:23 PM

Originally posted by MikeLowrrrey

I thought about becoming a mechanic during high school. Did my research and realized it's a shit career. Mechanics are probably the lowest on the tradie totem pole

Could always use it to springboard to a car salesman career so you don't have to be a greasemonkey for too long. Or work your way up to own your own independent shop and then just charge people for a new Johnson rod when they don't know anything about cars.

**GaryRidgway** · 10-24-2024, 03:26 PM

Is Sam ok?

**JayDubs** · 10-24-2024, 03:37 PM

Originally posted by MikeLowrrrey

I thought about becoming a mechanic during high school. Did my research and realized it's a shit career. Mechanics are probably the lowest on the tradie totem pole

You were right. I more or less fell into it and it's a prime example of how in my life, I haven't made really bad choices, but I could have made better choices. I was a computer nerd, but loved cars, and I guess a bit retarded. Late 90's, if I had perused computers, I'd probably make 2x what I make now, and would have made it a lot faster. This is a field where you are either a HERO or a ZERO and now I'm the hero, but was the zero for a long time. Went through a lot of chit to say the least. Here is the thing, if you are smart enough to really be good, you probably undersold yourself and should be doing something better. However if you aren't that smart, you'll never be that good. Fortunate thing for me now is for a few years now I've worked away from actually turning wrenches. It's been a couple years since I have pulled an engine or trans. I just diagnose and send it to the other guys. Now, I'm looking at much better things, but it isn't easy.