A Boulder Placed Beside The Road To Stop Curb Jumpers Wasn’t Enough To Make Them Think Twice And It Resulted In Hilariously Dumb Accident Photos

Someone thought that placing this stone would be a solution to constant curb jumping at this place

“I am not really sure when the rock was placed there,” Devon Barnett, a member of the Facebook group dedicated to the famous rock, told to the reporters. “ I did use to work for the Hy-Vee store that is right by the rocks, and I believe it was there when I was working there back from 2000-2010.”

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“I know the rock was put there because a lot of people would drive over the curb and get flat tires. It would also cause giant holes where the grass is being ripped out and where rain would collect and make a giant mud puddle.”

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Devon thinks that drivers in big SUVs can't really see the rock. “But I also strongly believe people just do not pay attention when driving.”

Nevertheless, she agrees that the rock is turning into a celebrity. “Now that there are Facebook pages and Twitter pages, I think it started to pick up steam on Twitter first, and then a Facebook profile was created last week. I do have a picture of what was in the baggie on the ground, next to the rock in the photo you shared of me in the article.”

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The Driving Instructor Blog names several reasons why people can't make a turn with their cars. For example, many new drivers when they’re turning left, instead of looking at where they’re going while they’re turning, they’re still looking at some oncoming traffic that is down the road. If you’ve decided to turn, then you’ve decided it’s safe to turn in front of that traffic; so what’s the point in staring at it anymore? It’s not like you can turn halfway and then press pause and reevaluate your decision. So essentially you aim your car where you look. If you’re still looking at the oncoming traffic while turning left, then your car will tend to aim towards the oncoming traffic, leading to a wide turn; as oppose to simply making a safe decision to turn when you see a safe gap in that traffic, and then looking where you actually want the car to go and then going there.”

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A frequent problem is turning the wheel before the car reaches a suitable part of the road intersection. “If you do this on a right turn you run the risk of hitting the curb. Sometimes it seems like new drivers forget that their car has 4 wheels; the front 1/2 of the car makes it around the corner but the rear wheels don’t exactly and might hop the curb. If you do this on a left turn it means your car is traveling over a section of the wrong side of the road, which could obviously be dangerous if there is traffic coming there.”

Opposite to that, if you turn the steering wheel overly late on, you may go past the point where you were supposed to turn (a wide turn). “If you do turn the steering wheel ‘too late,’ then you often have no choice but to then turn the steering an additional amount – and thus of course having to un-steer it that amount on top of the required amount – in order to make it around the corner without ending up (or staying) on the wrong side of the road. This is a ton of extra and unnecessary work!! Driving should not be that much work.”

They just wanted to jump the curb, but they ended up getting stuck on a rock

Speed might also be an important factor in these mishaps. “You have issues with your vehicle speed relative to your ‘steering speed.’ If your car is going so fast that you don’t leave yourself time to turn the wheel enough, then that’s not going to work. This is one of the reasons why we recommend to slow to 20 km/hr before turning, no matter what the circumstance.”

With so many “victims” of this rock, people created a Facebook page so they would have a place to post their pictures

And they have posted:

Tow truck companies made it through the economic crisis unharmed thanks to this rock

The rock became a famous photo opportunity, and some people even thought of using props