Submitted 2 weeks ago by Wudi@feddit.uk to videos@lemmy.world
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Kinda misleading. This dude is a comedian and “influencer” (not really in the typical sense but he films a lotta stuff for online content). He cuts filming just as people are moving out of the way for the ambulance.
I ain’t saying NYC doesn’t have a problem with what he’s saying, but I am saying you can see how he’s not being entirely honest and he’s incentivized to be dishonest.
No amount of dishonesty can invalidate the fact that in a typical german city that ambulance would be going literally 10 times as fast without any issues. Its not just stupid drivers, but NYC is also just a complete failure in terms of road design.
NYC is thrice as dense as Berlin, the densest city in Germany. Probably accounts for something.
Well it wasn’t leveled 80 years ago.
Even if they did eventually move out of the way, it would still be way slower than what happens in Germany (and many other European countries). Cars would begin to move out of the way as soon as they notice it approaching.
I mean, there are about a thousand people that can coroborate the fact that people block ambulances in NYC all the time.
Oh yeah absolutely I ain’t denying that, I just don’t like that this dude is doing this for content.
I am a german i never seen this guy. Maybe he is more famous in the USA.
Yeah he primarily posts English language content because his humor is mostly based off English speaking stereotypes instead of, well, jokes.
Bro is the Uncle Roger of Germans
He cuts filming just as people are moving out of the way for the ambulance.
You do realize you’ve proved his point? In Europe there’d be no “just as they are moving”, the cars would have already moved by the time the ambulance reached them.
Yes but the American ego…
I’ve never been to New York, but as somebody born and raised in Southern California, lived in Portland, Or, and is currently living in Minnesota, I have never seen this. You always move over to the right. Immediately and without question. In California, Oregon, and Minnesota, at least, it’s the law, and you can be fined for not complying.
I live right outside NYC and have to drive through on a semi-regular basis. People generally do move out of the way of emergency vehicles. BUUUTTTT, traffic is completely fucked in NYC. Watch the video again, cars are trying to move but literally have nowhere to go. This happens daily, if you’re not out off Manhattan by 3pm you travel time is now at minimum doubled on an average day. Some days its 3-4x worse.
I think the difference in Germany is that you are required by law to make space beforehand. When you are in a traffic jam on the Autobahn, there are rules for how to make a “Rettungsgasse” (rescue alley). A few years ago they bumped the penalty up to 320€ and suspend your drivers licence for a month. This penalty isn’t only applied when you actually hinder an ambulance or the like, but when your actions could affect them in theory. I love that.
As an NYC resident, cars will move over if there’s space, but there’s so much congestion that you physically can’t move, there’s no shoulder or anything.
And there’s also idiots who are fighting congestion pricing that helps with these kinds of problems by reducing the number of cars on the road. You can’t widen these roads without getting rid of sidewalks which just means even more cars and traffic so the only option is reduce the number of cars.
the right lane cars move to the right the left lane cars move to the left the ambulance goes down the middle, its interesting your brain only imagines moving right but not process the goal of creating a path
My brain can imagine the process of creating a path, wtf, that’s literally what I’m talking about. Just moving over to the right is what is written in the law in most places. Chill.
How do you know what his brain imagines
He states always move right. That works. Implied is all the stuff you said
Is he German? I couldn’t tell, ja?
Achtung! Snel! Snel!
The stereotypical Indiana Jones German 😁
He’s a comedian.
Also, there’s no place for people to pull over.
Also, there’s no place for people to pull over.
Because USA is a shithole.
Exactly. He’s criticizing the country, not just those drivers. We keep voting for people who want our cities clogged with excessive cars.
Huh? How is there not? At least on the video there is. People just are not using that place.
You’re looking at one incident, on one block, in the one city in America that is radically different than all of the others.
And that said, NYCs response times are around 10min, which is target that Germany also tries to hit. www.nyc.gov/assets/operations/…/2025_mmr.pdf
He’s exactly what I’d expect of a German comedian.
I’ve seen some videos of his act. IMO he’s not very funny, his comedic style is mostly the one where it’s shitting on everything. So it’s not surprising to see him picking a situation like this and shitting on it.
What makes the bicycle kinky?
She always wants you to ride her?
This dude is a comedian and calling things kinky is one of his catchphrases.
Another reason I don’t like this idea of this dude being used as any source of information, I find his comedy routine exhausting and overly laden with tired, old stereotypes instead of actual humor. A lot of his jokes are “Germans are fetishists”, “Germans used to be Nazis”, :Germans are rigid and rules following" and “my wife is Jewish, isn’t that bizarre?”
Oh, yeah, repeating old ‘"funny’" stereotypes isn’t really very masterful humor
That is just america in general
“No one moves out of the way!” (Cuts camera as people start moving out of the way)
Yup, but they mostly did not. That’s why the ambulance got stuck so far behind.
Also, their making way is reeeally sluggish!
Berlin is larger (892km^2 vs 783km^2) and less population dense (6 million vs 20 million in the matro areas). So… Kinda comparing apples to oranges.
The time to arrive at emergency should be the same. Death will not wait for you.
Must be nice living in a world where population dynamics and physics don’t exist.
Apples to Döner Kebabs
Then take London or Paris and compare New York to them. The ambulances are able to get through in London. Here’s something: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5Ez1K1W-uM
Ya!
This is Mario Adrion right? A stand up comedian.
Not just NYC. I see the same kinda shit in California too.
We have entirely too many entitled fuckfaces in this country and all of them drive.
All of them are forced to drive. Some people admit they are terrible drivers, but have no options if they still want to have a life not revolving around commuting.
Being a terrible driver and not making way for emergency vehicles aren’t necessarily mutual.
Like, using another example, a bad driver might park a little over the line. An entitled asshole will purposely take up 4 spots or use the handicap space when they are not handicapped.
The transcription is almost correct all the way except for one part.
When he says, “Whoever needed it, they’re dead”.
The transcription reads, “Whoever needed it, they’re okay”.
because social media platforms will delete your content and ban you if you continue to talk about the “bad stuff”.
welcome to the dawn of the age of new speak. I heard a 13 year old kid last week say “unalive” instead of “kill”.
we’re so fucked.
It’s way worse. They don’t ban you and they don’t delete your content. TikTok ads don’t pay enough that demonetization is a concern either.
The algorithm just silently (!) deranks your content. They don’t have guidelines, they don’t have feedback, they will never communicate on what is and is not okay to post about. You’ll just say “Fuck ICE” in a video once and notice it is doing suspiciously worse than the rest, but then again, you’re never quite sure why some of your videos “make it” and some don’t. So maybe you’re being paranoid? You can’t tell.
So on top of the very real algorithmic censorship from these platforms, you’ve got very frequent bouts of mass psychosis where everyone self-censors for no other reason that other people are doing it and they don’t want to risk it. Is the word “dead” de-ranked? Quite likely not even, but who’s to say, and it doesn’t cost anything to farm a little engagement in the comments by self-censoring…
Isn’t the future bright?
If I post that list to all of the social media accounts I made before I realized that privacy is important, will they get deleted?
It’s to be advertiser friendly. All kids use new words. We did the same
Do people in Germany typically call for ambulances after their heart attack? Doesn’t sound like an ideal strategy
Also #fuckcars
Why not? Ambulance at your house in 10 mins is not unheard of (where I am)
That’s faster than I would be able to hail a cab or public transport. I sure as hell am not gonna cycle or drive if I am actively suffering from a cardiac arrest
I just imagine an old grey haired guy sitting on the kitchen floor taking his pulse
“Waaait for it not yet, still happening almost”
While his family is there clambering for him to just call for an ambulance
10 minutes still feel like a lot. I don’t think I ever had to wait that much for an ambulance. Though I do live in an atypical town.
You better. If you do not arrive at the ER via ambulance, they will assume your case is not an emergency.
That’s pretty fucked,
sorry your Nana died, she didn’t use der zugelassene Krankenwagen! So we left her in the lobby
I really wish Germany would pay us back for that little getting rid of the Nazis thing that happened last century.
Did we get rid of them or just bring them here?
It’s a little from column A, a little from column B (dossiers of both held together by a rather flimsy paperclip).
Stop begging for someone else to save us and do something about it yourself. Organize, get to know your neighbors, save your money outside of the American economy.
Reparations are a thing. Also you should really read up on denazification and how it stopped being useful to the US (and thus was ended) once the Communists became the new enemy.
I wish I could downvote this twice.
We tried that after WWI, let me know how that reparations turned out.
Oh, don’t worry friend, history rhymes, and you’re going to get your “payback”. In fact, you’re getting it right now, only not in the way you were expecting. This time around the Old World is going to be coming to the rescue of the New. Rescue it from the same fascist ideology.
Let me know how you plan on paying us back. But don’t worry - we’re not going to blackmail you into it. Europeans are more decent than that - nowadays we prefer the negotiations table. Which doesn’t means we’ve forgotten how to use guns. We’re the ones who taught you how to wage war, after all.
By the way, Europe used to have its own ICE thing going on but we decided to disband it in 1945. Not sure why, but I’ve heard Americans had something do with it. Ironic, isn’t it?
After you sort your current situation out, we can talk about it
The ambulance could have just passed right through his front teeth to get by.
His jokes about Germany and being German gets repetitive, but i can’t deny that he still makes me laugh everytime!
That in built up areas the times are not so different. That is evident in many studies. Rural areas are incomparable as the US has rural areas at a level Germany can’t understand
Some societies consider the welfare of others; other societies don’t.
I dunno, The last time we let Germany march places it didn’t go well.
US drivers do not understand the Rettungsgasse. +1 Deutschland!
Where do you expect them to go? They’re supposed to fly out of the way?
This guy is a fucking donkey.
Rural areas have problems. And it’s hard to compare them as they are so different : Montana is bigger than Germany and only had like 100,000 people. Other places are not so different between the countries are not so different despite what the guy in the video is asserting.
So he’s saying “send a German” but what I’m hearing is “tow a gurney with a bike.”
well Mario is indeed German lol
Germany has a higher mortality rate for heart attacks than the US
DagwoodIII@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
NYC EMS story.
Cab driver gets in a fender bender with a 911 ambulance.
After arguing with the crew and supervisor he decides he has neck and back pain and he must go to the hospital.
A second ambulance is dispatched and, following protocol, fully immobilizes him and takes him to the hospital.
En route the cabbie complains about how slow the ambulance is going.
“Everyone else is like you, none of them get out of the way.”