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We walked out of a restaurant and saw that there had been an accident just moments before right out front. One car had knocked over a sign pole, which our friend Kat's bike was chained too. The bike was surprisingly OK, so we were cheering and taking pictures of it. The driver of the crashed car, probably drunk, was upset that we were taking pictures of his car, so he picked up Kat's bike and threw it ...

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  • Ted Roden plus 3 years ago
    "you got more friends, but we got more heart." words to live by.

    That and "what're you a race car driver?"
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  • mobtown 3 years ago
    Jake please don't linger around idiots for just for a video. We want you and your friends to stay alive.
  • Jake Lodwick plus 3 years ago
    ok.
  • islebehere plus 3 years ago
    listen to your dad, jakob!
  • CTD3 3 years ago
    Yeah man! ( legs are for walking away from "creep-age" like that.)
  • Jake Lodwick plus 3 years ago
    actually I was kind of waiting to see if it was going to escalate into a real fight!
  • IM.beta 3 years ago
    Woah! Jakob's dad is here too?! How awesome is that?!
  • LCF 3 years ago
    i'm sorry but - hehehe i find it so ironic your name is 'mobtown' and you suggest mob violence is bad hehe
  • Paul McClintock plus 3 years ago
    Haven't you ever heard of a mob acting sensibly?
  • mobtown 3 years ago
    Mobtown is where I live. That's all.
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  • isaacwayton 3 years ago
    so many choice quotes:

    "Like...Nationwide is on your side!"
    "Nice driving James Dean!"

    Why does that guy hate red bikes and scarfs so much?
  • MARCELLE 3 years ago
    i didn't hear nice driving james dean.. thats... pretty incredible
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  • Mars 3 years ago
    oh man i am SO glad you caught this moment on video!
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  • Jake Lodwick plus 3 years ago
    Those guys were so dumb it was unbelievable.
  • Thommy Browne plus 3 years ago
    This was amusing. I am glad it didn't get out of hand or else Zach would have fucked those 2 guys up with his kung fu magic.
    vimeo.com/clip:70
  • Jordaniel 2 years ago
    You're impersonation was awesome.

    "I fucking came in my pants when I told that guy to back the fuck up. I could feel my fucking dick throbbing."
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  • cdfio 3 years ago
    I think he called us "artistes." Obviously, only a genius can inventify words.
    A-mazing.
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  • Chelsa 3 years ago
    I couldn't stop laughing about it the whole way home.

    What an unexpected occurrence!
  • IM.beta 3 years ago
    You should watch IDIOCRACY... it will bring you right back.
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  • Joe Worters 3 years ago
    "You with your scarf. Your grey scarf, you fucking fag!" That made me laugh so much.
    I didn't realise that keeping warm was a homosexual activity.

    I never get people that are like that. Some people are such knobbers.
  • Joe Worters 3 years ago
    Oh yeah, and i really enjoyed Zach's "no parking" moment
  • trp0 3 years ago
    Yeah, you better watch that keepin' warm bull. We don't tolerate that shit around here!
  • islebehere plus 3 years ago
    the "no parking" moment is where i thot Zach was about to get pummeled. eek!
  • SaraLily 3 years ago
    me too!! I was praying for him by that point!!
  • Andrew Pile staff 3 years ago
    He has a point though, only fags wear grey scarfs.
  • Joe Worters 3 years ago
    More like, only fags wear GAY scarfs....yes! See what i did?
  • LCF 3 years ago
    i did! i did! i think those guys are the only idiots in the village!
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  • Noah K. 3 years ago
    I think i recognize those guys from my favorite website njguido.com
  • Andrea Allen staff 3 years ago
    Wow! Thanks for posting that link. I have found a new favorite photo gallery!
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  • fabiantoepel 3 years ago
    they sound british...
  • Zach Klein 3 years ago
    Dear German,
    They sound nothing like British people.
  • MARCELLE 3 years ago
    lol
  • Eric Lodwick 3 years ago
    haha
  • IM.beta 3 years ago
    no... they sound like Brooklyn stereotypes... the kind that embarass anyone from the state
  • Jessica Schroeder 3 years ago
    I felt it was more of a Staten Island thing...
  • The Insanities 3 years ago
    you're probably right... after all... I'm in California... I don't really know the NY accents that well
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  • aaroneous 3 years ago
    Hey, maybe those guys in the sweats are vimeo members. Then we'd all feel awkward...
  • Andrea Allen staff 3 years ago
    Hey, one of those guys is my dad!!
  • trp0 3 years ago
    I thought Carl was your "daddy".
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  • schroberts 3 years ago
    I like how they kept repeating that they've got more heart. I think they were pretty proud of that philosophical statement.
  • dalas verdugo staff 3 years ago
    Does "heart" = mindless willingness to swing your fists at anything?
  • Chelsa 3 years ago
    dalas, did you look that up on urban dictionary?
  • CTD3 3 years ago
    NO dalas it means they are willing to swing their ride into anything!
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  • MARCELLE 3 years ago
    okay. out of my deductive skills i am thinking it was Courtney C who is my new hero? (correct me if im wrong) what a woman! I'd take her with me anywhere. She was like bam and they were like what and she was like in your face motha fucka and they were like wo. and she was like.. yeah thats right.

    i actually have something to say about this. its weird. i mean i am a very aggressive person but i've gotten into two fights in new york recently, one that almost ended with a bitch on the ground.. what is with everyone here? i guess its just 'the streets'
  • Zach Klein 3 years ago
    Yeah, Courtney owned.
  • Daniel Hayek staff 3 years ago
    People here need to relax. As the proverbial chill Californian that I am it's always been hard for me to understand the intensity of the NYCer.
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  • charliesteadman plus 3 years ago
    This is proof that women and male stupidity are the root causes of war. Oh and shortages of ice cream, that would do it for me.
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  • Zach Klein 3 years ago
    Evolution will take care of those drunk-driving jerks.
  • Jake Lodwick plus 3 years ago
    In 40,000 years there will be no more drunk drivers!
  • Buck Flashroy 3 years ago
    You would hope so, but I expect they've already spawned 14 illegitimate kids by now, to carry on the family tradition.
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  • Andrea Allen staff 3 years ago
    My favorite part of fights is the "back the fuck up" and "get the fuck outta my face" trash talking and chest pushing.

    When it comes to guys actually fighting, my favorite part is the hysterical girlfriend freaking out and screaming her pipes out.
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  • islebehere plus 3 years ago
    yeah, definitely the repeated "back the fuck up" and the "no parking" moment were my favorites. oh, and courtney c getting all up in that! lol
  • Chelsa 3 years ago
    i must say the "it said no parking" is def. my favorite part too!
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  • leeb 3 years ago
    Little known fact: one of the guys with the Brooklyn accents? Barry Diller.
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  • KatFraser 3 years ago
    Dear Courtney, et al:
    You guys are such amazing friends! Thanks for sticking up for my antique Peugeot! You've definitely got WAY more heart than those drunks!
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  • CTD3 3 years ago
    Bac the fuk up!! Could you tell his "feelin's was hert"? wittle tuf fuk "wanna be" race car driver just couldn't handle drivin' FUK fuk fukfuk etc oh did he say fuk?
    Wanna be thugs. He was trying to impress the women,,,ha!
    some of the crews we end up sharing jobsites with use the "F" word as an automatic prefix for every other word , you get out of your truck and like a puttering motor boat,,, you hear;
    'fuk, fuk,fuk, fuk,fuk, fuk,fuk, fuk,fuk, fuk,fuk, fuk,fuk, fuk,fuk, fuk,fuk, fuk,fuk, fuk,fuk, fuk,
    sad.
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  • SaraLily 3 years ago
    still don't really know what exactly happened...



    tsk tsk troublemakers!!! ahhaa
  • cdfio 3 years ago
    We had just finished eating, and came out to find they had crashed into everything on the block. Thinking we were making fun of them (we weren't), they picked up Kat's bike and threw it at Courtney and a group of us.
    But we've got more friends AND more heart, and don't put up with that.
  • SaraLily 3 years ago
    ahh i see now...got it.
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  • courtney c plus 3 years ago
    blush. so silly.

    i guess i don't take kindly to drunk driving / bike throwing meaniefaces.

    (that said, we weren't on our best behavior either)
  • trp0 3 years ago
    You should have thrown the bike back at 'em! :)
  • F.o.l.l.y 3 years ago
    *applauds*
  • Charlie 3 years ago
    Girls like you are awesome! I had a girlfriend like you Courtney, who like you, had no patients for a-holes like them. She had your same reactions, only she would start pushing. ... Enter me to pull her out, which inevitably put me in the fight that I didn't start but was going to finish (that part not so awesome). ...Ah yes, good times.
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  • Francis 3 years ago
    Spread the love.. hah.
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  • HaNNaH123 3 years ago
    what idiots!!!
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  • trp0 3 years ago
    So many fun things! I like the brilliant observation made that those two might have been drunk. (Either that or they were just from [insert your favorite NYC borough here]. :))

    Good ole american overreaction. Good times.

    Now that I think about it, they act a bit like I picture our country acts when it gets around other countries. I wonder whose bike we're gonna throw next!
  • CTD3 3 years ago
    Great analogy trpO!
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  • Erick C. 3 years ago
    crazy.

    violence is never cool but last time i got in a car accident i was literally shaking and if a group of punk kids were making light of a fucked up thing that just happened to me while i was in that nervous state of mind i would have probably flipped out too.

    but ah, that New York attitude. remember that guy that wanted to fight us when i visited Jake? i think he also said something like "i'll take you all on!!" and after i told him i was from Los Angeles he responded with, "oh, that means you're asshole!!" hee hee. people in New York need to smoke more weed and chiiiiiiiiiiiill like us Cali hippies. :)
  • Scott Greider 3 years ago
    I agree with your first point. The Brooklyn Boys were definitely out of line, but the Vimeo Set certainly could have avoided all that provocation. And additionally, chest-thumping can take on many different forms. One side was obviously guilty. But in a more subtle way, wasn't the other side also?
  • Jake Lodwick plus 3 years ago
    No, we weren't guilty at all, because we weren't making fun of their accident. We were making fun of the fact that our friend's bike was destroyed in what seemed like an insane coincidence.

    Watch the video closely; we're not making fun of the car or otherwise chest-thumping.
  • Scott Greider 3 years ago
    Jakob, sorry to belabor the point, but is there any fundamental difference between making fun of someone's scarf with the intent to belittle and making fun of someone's accent with the same intent? Honestly, wasn't one group acting superior because of their brawn, while the other was doing so because of their brain. Am I misreading that?
  • Erick C. 3 years ago
    i'm not justifying their meathead bullshit but it's tactless to take pictures and laugh near a car accident. the chest-thumping is obvious with the "no parking" and "james dean" jokes and your Geico bit. it's really funny but it's also pride and ego being thrown around.
  • andrea plus 3 years ago
    for what it's worth, I didn't "like" this one because, in all objectivity, I have to agree with Scott and Erick. While I admire your numerous pleas to leave the scene, I was disappointed in the accent-mimicking. Tempting as it is to do, it just perpetuates negativity and misunderstanding. I dunno, maybe I need to lighten up...
  • Jake Lodwick plus 3 years ago
    I guess I was thinking of "chest-thumping" as "starting a fight", which we weren't doing. I thought our group's behavior was reasonable considering they attacked us, but we certainly weren't 100% right and they weren't 100% (who ever is?). I guess the right thing to do would have been to walk away after the guy threw the bike?

    I made fun of their accents because they had funny voices and we were in a fight with them, not because I have a superior brain. If they'd been stuffy professors I would have been saying, "Ah, yes, is this Geico? It appears I've had an automobile collision, etc". The accent mimicking was my way of fighting them, since I wasn't going to throw a punch.

    Anyway, I'm looking forward to these analysts uploading their own high-pressure incident footage the next time one occurs!
  • Ricky Van Veen 3 years ago
    i agree with scott, erick, and mrs. jakesmom. if i had just got in a car accident and a group of kids was standing at the scene laughing loudly (for one reason or another), i wouldn't be happy and rational either. the best thing to do would have been to walk away and not get involved.
  • Erick C. 3 years ago
    hey, it's four of us against you jake. you think you got more heart, wiseguy? why dont you getta fuck outta here wich yo video site ya schmuck? ;)
  • Jake Lodwick plus 3 years ago
    Ricky, we already *were* involved because they crashed into our friend's bike. We didn't make a choice to get involved.

    A bigger point is that even if we were annoying them, and even if you can relate to being angry after a car crash, that doesn't justify their violence. You should still do the right thing even if you aren't happy about a bunch of kids laughing.

    Is our friend excused from acting rationally since her bike was destroyed?
  • Aneste 1 year ago
    it was an accident. and everyones laughing and touching someone else's car. making light of an accident. and you guys could have just picked up your bike and talked to the driver, you could have worked it out but you guys just took pics and laughed.
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  • dalas verdugo staff 3 years ago
    In Portland we would have settled this by going to a tea house and having a nice cup of Pu-er. Then we would have ridden our bikes to the forest and checked out some slugs and mushrooms.

    NYC IS TOO INTENSE!
  • thphoto 3 years ago
    lol
  • Charlie 3 years ago
    I think the protocol is the same in Santa Cruz.
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  • loonachic plus 3 years ago
    i bet they could have taken the lot of you. cause they have more heart.

    and chicks can stir up some shit, can't they? dang...
  • LCF 3 years ago
    here we would calmly wait in the car a moment or two, get out - exchange details, and if not serious, laugh about the predicament and go on your way happy you're alive even if your car is slightly dinged
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  • Cassie 3 years ago
    what happened? They hit your bike and made a dent in their car?
  • Mars 3 years ago
    They hit the pole that the bike was chained to knocking the pole out of the ground. They may have hit other things before hitting the pole as well.
  • Cassie 3 years ago
    haha....craziness
  • Jake Lodwick plus 3 years ago
    They hit a taxi, too, before hitting the pole.

    What if someone had been on the sidewalk? They could have been killed pretty easily. If the driver actually was drunk (I couldn't tell) I hope he got busted for it.
  • Cassie 3 years ago
    word...
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  • ojo 3 years ago
    I just thought of flagging this film for the permanent usage of the F*-word when I realized that this is NY. Of course, we have to gauge if the appearance of the funny vimeo staff and there friends could neutralize the massive usage of the forbidden word. ;-)
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  • zach linder 3 years ago
    "Ain't nobody afraid of nothing."

    The amount of negatives in that sentence is mind-blowing.

    Also, where is this? Looks like the LES.
  • Jake Lodwick plus 3 years ago
    Williamsburg
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  • adamiss 3 years ago
    Ahhh, this reminds me of my childhood. Growing up on Long Island was a priceless experience.
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  • Sheriff Benson 3 years ago
    Hahah that was crazy intense, but I still wanted to be there when that happened. I loved how you guys handled that. GOLDEN!
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  • Gentry 3 years ago
    I have no idea where the New York stereotype came from....

    oh yeah!! Those kinda guys.
  • Gentry 3 years ago
    P.S. I feel sorry for anyone that has an incident like this in front of people that own a video site....
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  • Jozef Garcia plus 3 years ago
    "Hello, Geico I wanna talk to you about some paper work"

    It was weird watching a video of some car that crashed and people around it laughing. Never seen that before. Wow, that situation wouldn't have come out so perfectly if someone scripted it.

    The man's attitude towards you guys seemed like the typical New York thing to do. "I screwed up!... You want some of me!?" =P

    "Hey it says No Parking!" that was too perfect.
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  • matthew sturm 3 years ago
    Courtney: "I don't want you to fuck with my friend's bike!"

    Guy:"Who gives a fuck about you, or your friends bike?!"

    Chrissy: "Who gives a fuck about your Honda Civic?!"

    priceless.
  • CTD3 3 years ago
    That was really priceless!
  • LCF 3 years ago
    bike > honda civic
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  • DJ Paine plus 3 years ago
    ok- who was it that keeps going back over to the idiots and wants a word?
    that's what i would have done. not leave it alone.

    classic video.

    and i love that fact that you guys have such a big posse!!
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