Este video te hará odiar a Comcast más de lo que ya lo haces

Driving during winter is dangerous. Tires don’t grip on wet, icy roads, and all too often drivers get unwanted lessons in Newtonian physics. These Comcast repair trucks don’t seem to really care about physics, and may have caused at least a half-dozen wrecks on one stretch of road. Even worse, the Comcast workers just don’t seem to give a shit.

This video was sent to us by Jalopnik reader Paulo, and it’s also getting a lot of attention on Reddit. Here it is, so you can make some about-to-wreck cringe faces, too:

Wreck after wreck happens on this icy, snowy road, and the guys in the Comcast truck up front—which could have prevented it all by putting more cones out—are oblivious. Or they don’t give a shit. It’s maddening to watch.

Sure, maybe some of the drivers were going a bit too fast for the conditions, but the Comcast truck driver knows he’s blocking the road just past a blind hill.

The people coming over the hill don’t see the cones he put out until way, way too late, and that’s when the carnage ensues. Even if the driver did put out the standard number of cones, one per every 10 mph of speed on the road, those are for dry conditions.

Even if there wasn’t a specific rule, you’d think after three cars put themselves in a ditch trying to avoid slamming into the truck maybe, just maybe, he’d take a tiny bit of initiative and perform the Herculean task of dropping another couple fucking cones down closer to the crest of the hill.

Also, the distance between those cones is far too small, and if they’re not visible before the crest of the hill, they’re all but useless. Someone on the Reddit forumdug up the OSHA guidelines for this sort of lane closure, and it’s clear the Comcast workers weren’t providing nearly enough warning. Here, look at this diagram:

That’s a pretty similar situation, even if we ignore the elevation change of the blind hill. There should have been big signs warning workers blocking a lane 100 feet away, along with a line of cones guiding traffic around the lane closure. And this isn’t even accounting for slushy roads.

The interactions with the Comcast employees is by far the worst part of this frustrating video. The trucks have more cones right on them, and yet the drivers refuse to place more cones out, or at least space the cones out to a reasonable distance to accommodate a plausible stopping distance on a slushy road.

The understandably exasperated narrator of the video ends up putting out cones of his own, effectively doing the job that the Comcast employees should have done themselves, and is treated with scorn and contempt by those same employees.

“Do you have a job?” The second Comcast repair person asks the one man trying to keep more people from wrecking right in front of the trucks.

Fuck you, Comcast guys.