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.

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

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.

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Can You Guess What Happens Next in this Scene?

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.

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

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.

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Ukraine: Someone Forgot to Yell Timber…

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.

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

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.

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

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!

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

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.

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Polish Moving Truck is in a Really, Really Big Hurry

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.

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

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.

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Ouch…Jogging Man Violated by a Tram

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…

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Subaru Wagon Sandwiched Between San Francisco MUNI Bus and Trolley Car

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.

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

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…

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