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Here's Why You Shouldn’t Give a Truck Driver the Finger…

We've already shown you the painful consequences of flipping off a Russian driving instructor, so how about we see what happens when you perform the same gesture to a truck driver in the world's largest country that covers more than an eighth of the Earth's inhabited land area?

The incident begins with an obnoxious driver of an older Audi A6 sedan illegally and dangerously overtaking a truck and then being a -insert whatever word works for you here- constantly slamming on the brakes.

There's lucky, there's really lucky and then there's this driver, reportedly from Russia, which shouldn’t come to as a surprise to anyone.

What makes this incident so special is that driver avoided not, one, not two but three vehicles including a large truck without even a scratch to his (or her) car.

We are no tractor specialists or anything of the sort, and we could be wrong, but tilting a tractor forward at a 45-degree angle and at the same time, having its mechanical arm extended all the way out, doesn't exactly sound safe, and in this case at least, it wasn't…

While the operator was attempting to bring the rear end of the tractor to the ground, the laws of gravity kicked and the vehicle fell on its back – fortunately without hitting anyone or crashing into the cars that were traveling on the road at the time.

We know that at least some of you missed our offbeat videos from Russia during the hectic press days of the Mondial de l'Automobile 2012 in Paris, so here's a fresh incident from the land of matryoshka dolls and vodka.

This video footage, captured by the victim named Vyacheslav Krekov and which was recorded on September 28, 2012 (and not in 2010 as displayed on the clip), shows the man driving his car on a road in Krasnoyarsk, the third largest city in Siberia.

For our next Offbeat story, we're moving a little to the west of Russia to Ukraine and the country's fifth largest city, Odessa, where another crazy accident took place earlier this week. Read more »

Oh, Russia…You Can Count This is a Loading Fail

If there is a next time, the men seen in this video footage trying to make their lives easier by bringing a truck into the water in order to load it with some sort of (assumingly empty) tanks from a boat, may want to try a different approach.

On the bright side, the playful German Shepard seen in the beginning of the video made a quick sprint out of the water as soon as the truck began to roll back towards the water.

A short clip awaits you right past the break.

A truck driver in southern Brazil was captured on tape trying to escape along with his…luggage after an accident that occurred on the Chavantes bridge, which connects the Brazilian states of Parana and Sao Paulo, this past Saturday.

A local website named Npdiario reported that the driver, Aguinaldo da Silva, lost control of his two-trailer truck when he tried to avoid a passenger car that suddenly stopped in front of him and ended up crashing over the guardrail with the truck cabin dangling over the water.

You have to see this accident to believe it. In the video footage that follows, we see the driver of a long lorry suddenly turning left into the other lane to avoid a crash with another truck that had stopped in the middle of the road – who knows why.

A third truck coming from the other direction has no choice than to make a small maneuver and smash into the lorry's metal container.

What follows next, will leave you speechless as the second truck's driver, who was obviously not wearing a seat belt, is thrown out of his vehicle's window but he manages to land on his feet without suffering any injuries!

Earlier today, we shared a dash-cam video of two truck drivers in Russia ganging up (to some extent) on a passenger car that had attempted to overtake them.

Now, another video of a group of truckers that was recorded on September 9 has been making the internet and even television rounds in Russia – and this one is far more violent.

Who knows why the driver of this small truck in the city of Częstochowa in south Poland was in such a big rush, but we can't really say that we have ever seen something like this…

The driver and passenger of the vehicle filming the truck seem to be having a good time watching it speeding on the sidewalk and bypassing the traffic and the lights, so we gather some of you may too.

Just hop over the break and check out the video that follows.

How many small trucks can you fit on the loading area of full size truck trailer? Well, that depends on who and where you ask that question.

In China, for example, a lorry was filmed carrying a total of 18 trucks (!) spread out in two rows. Now that's what we call being efficient – not to mention being a hazard for the rest of the road users…

A short video follows right after the break.

Seriously now, what was this man thinking when he started jogging on the tracks of a trolley car?

Though the video isn’t very clear about this, we are going to assume that he was wearing earphones listening to music or perhaps his favorite radio station when the tram came approaching from behind and well, let's just say rammed him off his feet…

Video footage sourced from a security camera located on a building that recently surfaced online has shed some light to an accident that took place in downtown San Francisco on August 3, 2012.

The recording shows a white crossover identified as a "Subaru Wagon" (likely a Forester) entering the inner lane of the road and slowing down behind a trolley car that had stopped for a red light when a MUNI bus came crashing from behind literally sandwiching the Japanese model.

Unlike human laws, you can't change the laws of physics and you can't escape them. Simple as that.

Now try telling that to the Russian driver of the large fuel tanker that attempted to speed through a roundabout…

This has to be one of the most bizarre accidents we have ever seen captured on a dashcam – and mind you, it did not happen in Russia but in Asia, in the small town of Caoya in Taiwan, if our translation of the video description is correct (if it isn't, tell us and we'll fix it).

In the footage, we see a passenger car turning on the street behind a large truck carrying a crane.

Who knows how or why this Russian man found himself in such an extremely sticky situation in the mud, but he was fortunate enough to receive a helping hand…or rather a bucket from one of his fellow workers.

What's really impressive about this scene are the skills of the man operating the large excavator as he was able to scoop him out of the mud with the prevision of a gifted heart surgeon.

Falling asleep or not paying attention when you are handling any kind of motorized vehicle can be dangerous, but doing so on a scooter bike and not wearing a protective helmet on your head can prove deadly.

The young woman featured in this dashcam video, reportedly from Russia, appears to have dozed off for a second or two on the bike and veered off her lane.

We suppose tractor-pulling competitions can be fun for some people but they can also be dangerous if someone gets carried away.

That someone happened to be the driver of a red tractor that was involved in a mechanical tug of war with a fellow owner of green-colored tractor - possibly in India or Pakistan, we are not sure as there are no details in the description, but feel free to enlighten us in the comments section if you happen to know.

Walking bridges are built to ensure the safe passage over roadways for pedestrians and cycling traffic, but a freak accident, which reportedly occurred in the Russian city of Vladivostok, proves that there's no such thing as "100 percent safe".

If you pay attention to the video, you will see a man hoping down the stairs of a pedestrian bridge when all of a sudden, at the 7-second mark, a silver sedan crashed into the side of a truck.

Styrofoam may be as light as a feather but try dealing with a board coming your way on the highway...while riding on a motorcycle and it's a completely different story, as a group of bikers found out earlier this week.

This incident, which was recorded by one of the riders equipped with a GoPro helmet camera, took place in McAllen, Texas.

"Thanks to some idiots who didnt tie down their box of styro foam it flew out of a trailer and hit 1 guy he fell and the rider behind him clipped his bike and fell aswell," said one of the bikers, nicknamed "Astat4" on YouTube.

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Here's Why You Shouldn’t Give a Truck Driver the Finger…

Let's Count How Many Times this Russian Driver Got Lucky

Can You Guess What Happens Next in this Scene?

You Never Know What Will Come Your Way in Russia: Sideswipe Edition

Ukraine: Someone Forgot to Yell Timber…

Oh, Russia…You Can Count This is a Loading Fail

Brazilian Truck Driver Crashes and Dangles Over a Bridge, By Passers Come to Help with a Rope

Chuck Norris Approved: Truck Driver Thrown Out of Cabin During Crash Lands on his Feet!

Russian Truckers Get Together and this Time, it Gets Really Ugly [NSFW]

Polish Moving Truck is in a Really, Really Big Hurry

So That's How They Lower Their Transport Costs in China…

Ouch…Jogging Man Violated by a Tram

Subaru Wagon Sandwiched Between San Francisco MUNI Bus and Trolley Car

This is What Happens When You Take a Fast Turn in a Large Fuel Tanker

Freaky Accident: Crane Hooks Up Car on the Road and Takes it for a Wild Ride!

That's not What Excavators are for, But it Will Do…

This is What Happens When You Fall Asleep on a Motorcycle

Really, You Didn’t See it Coming?

You Can Say That it Was a Very Close Call for This Pedestrian

Oh, the Horror…Airborne Styrofoam Causes Multiple Motorcycles to Crash Down on Texas Highway

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