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  • Bullsheet arteeste...

  • What is a "square rut?"

  • man you should go to the Khans math academy on youtube or buy a year 5 math book.

  • "Sir, I wouldn't even wipe my ass without my formula sheets."

  • This guy's an idiot. How many third graders can divide 3 by 16 and get an answer

  • Accident lawyer

    DUI Lawyers agree that Drinking and Driving is not a premeditated crime. Most people do not think, tonight I am going to drink

  • He's dead.

    Retired Kansas City, Mo., Police Officer Steven David Weinberg, 57, of Lees Summit, MO, passed away Monday, September 17, 2007 while riding his motorcycle on Missouri 350 in Raytown, MO after colliding with a pickup truck that was pulling out onto the highway. He was en route to a Blue Knights meeting at the time of the collision.

    Thumbs up for guilt trip.

  • for sake of accuracy, I'll have to say no! lol, this makes me feel so smart :D

  • this is super long and super boring. unless you're very passionate about math and are prone to nerd rage, don't bother watching.

  • Expert my ass.

  • AMERICA! FUCK YEAH!

  • The lawyer fuck up. Should have ask him about his education to the subject. Who certified him as accident reconstructions. How long has he been doing it. An expert could do it on a white board in court and explain where the formulas came from. I watched a real expert do just that. The prosecutor did not want him to. The guy was just a dumb cop.

  • @TehPenar

    Just shut up and admit that you need a formula sheet too.

  • @lalalove1994

    person born in '94 who can't convert inches to feet

    glad to see british schools are shitty too

  • i don't use capital letters (intentionally, mind you) and don't put 'full stops' at the end of the last sentence in each paragraph. other than that, my english is literally immaculate (including my comma usage, you faggot)

    in this paragraph alone you:

    1) misused a comma (in a sentence talking about comma usage, hilariously enough)

    2) misspelled "occasionally"

    3) didn't capitalize Jew (immediately after calling me out for not capitalizing shit)

  • @TehPenar

    Interesting that you continue down this vain. Still not willing to admit you failed to understand the math conversion in the video.

    Also, just fyi, I put that comma in straight after talking about the use of commas so that you'd know what one was. But I love your immaculate literal use of language despite admiting to a host of errors, that's priceless. Please show YouTube the way, we have much to learn from you pretentious wanker.

  • @fatsquirrel75

    at first glance, i've counted 8 spelling/grammatical errors in your last post

    you really suck at this lol

  • @TehPenar

    You may believe you have wonderful trolling skills but you simply fail to understand that your most effective trolling tool is your own innate stupidity. People respond to your comments and highlight your retardation and you have somehow fooled yourself into believing you have trolled them. Face facts, you are not a great troll. You are simply a born retard. This video is about an idiot failing to comprehend their own stupidity. So it is very fitting that you decided to comment here.

  • @fatsquirrel75

    calling you retarded isn't "trolling"

    i've realized at this point that there's no way to argue with a 35 year old man who can't do pre-hs algebra and doesn't even know how to spell fucking "admitting," yet is still convinced beyond any doubt that he's brilliant

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  • @TehPenar

    Trolling also because no one would be so stupid to refer to the above video as algebra. Obvious troll is obvious.

  • @TehPenar

    Trolling because noone could be so stupid to believe that crossing two traffic lanes and heading up across an intersection involves a distance of 5 feet. The obvious conclusion that everyone (aside from you and one other) was that the result from his measurement and a conversion of 1inch to 20feet is 63.75 feet (not 68 as stated).

    Checked out your channel and it is filled with comments of others calling you retarded. I'd hoped you were a troll, seems you really are just stupid.

  • @fatsquirrel75 Last 2 sentences are well said.

  • @TehPenar Hey you're like...pretty...smart. Can you point out my mistakes so that i look like a fool? You are arguing on Youtube, your life must be nice. English and Algebra aren't everything fuckstick. What about consideration, common sense, happiness? You obviously don't have these. Judging by this argument and the comments on your channel you are obviously insecure and sad. Congratulations you have half decent english and a horrid attitude, still nobody cares. This comment is obv pieced badly

  • What a pathetic dumb monkey this guy is. 

  • Metric system.... its the smart system.

  • FORMULA SHEETS FORMULA SHEETS FORMULA SHEETS FORMULA SHEETS FORMULA SHEETS FORMULA SHEETS FORMULA SHEETS FORMULA SHEETS FORMULA SHEETS FORMULA SHEETS FORMULA SHEETS FORMULA SHEETS

  • Ouch, this hurt to watch. As a previous expert witness myself, I know how the opposing council likes to focus on seemingly unimportant details to prove incompetence. It is not the math problem that mattered but how he responded to the request. What makes this even worse to watch is that he said he is the President of the company... wow.

  • Ouch, this hurt to watch. As a previous expert witness myself, I know how the opposing council likes to focus on seemingly unimportant details to prove incompetence. It is not the math problem that mattered but how he responded to the request. What makes this even worse to watch is that he said he is the President of the company... wow.

  • That's highly specialized education at its best.

  • Affirmative action at its best.

  • @Sk82beast wat

  • @xkeltoix I mean, they hire dumbasses like this guy right from a bad college where he learned nothing, only because they need more minority architects. It happens all the time.

  • @Sk82beast i dont think he classifies as a minority, even if he may be jewish. could be wrong though.

    its possible the guy weaseled into the job, i couldnt imagine him getting by the interview process without knowing someone. unfortunately so many jobs are gotten this way.

  • @xkeltoix Hes hispanic.

  • @Sk82beast I dont see it.He also has a jewish last name. Weinberg, right?

  • @xkeltoix  Jew mexican

  • 5 people didn't have thier formula sheets

  • Is this dumbass an Engineer? I'll kill myself, I'm glad I'm a Chemical Engineer and not subject to this stupidity.

  • The "expert" appears to have confused 3/8 with 3/16

    He seems to have calculated 3.375 * 20 = 67.5

    instead of 3.1875 * 20 = 63.75

    The attorney is trying to point out his error.

  • Oooh, it's 63.75'. Hmmm. He's going to nail me for not remembering to say 64 instead of 68. I'd better find some way to avoid answering this question, even if I end up looking like a doofus on youtube. LOL

  • @haygoodb Wow. That was really painful. Is it just me or does the guy just talk too much in answering every question?

  • He's an idiot...

  • can I have his job? Because I'm more prepared than he is.

  • You don't just mulitply by 20. The scale is 1" : 20' so you'd multiply the 3 3/16" * 20' / 1" = 64'

  • i will not do it without my formula sheets. i will not do it without my formula sheets. i will not do it without my formula sheets. i will not do it without my formula sheets. i will not do it without my formula sheets. i will not do it without my formula sheets. i will not do it without my formula sheets. i will not do it without my formula sheets. i will not do it without my formula sheets. lalalalalalalLALALALALALALA I CANT HERE YOU!!

  • Deriving it back to square roots and kinetic energy is serious business.

  • What the fuck? Formula? It's multiplication.

  • I bet he did

    3.18 inches * 20 = 63.75" / 12" = 5.31 feet

    THEN ( derp... 5.31 inches cant be right)

    63.75 + 5.31 = 69 FEET (68 approx.)

    Cause he has no idea what the hell he is doing.

    Its obvious you don't know math when you get a crazy answer like 68' and don't realize that a street intersection is not that big.

  • the expert is a moron. surprise

  • Wow...

  • Where the fuck are the formula sheets? Nigga bring them !

  • Could you idiots stop talking about metric please? This has nothing to do with imperial versus metric. He just doesn't know that the correct approach is to multiply by 20.

  • Hahaha

  • Hahaha

  • 3 + 3/16ths of an inch = 3 + 0.1875 = 3.1875 inches

    3.1875 inches = 3.1875 * 0.0834 = 0.2658 feet

    To scale: 0.2658 * 20 = 5.316 feet

  • Metric system? lol. If this guy can't do this problem now, he probably can't do it in any form at all. He needs his formula sheets!

  • What is more stupid: The British unit system, the "experts" incapability to convert a quantity with the conversion factor given, or the lawyers idiotic persistence?

  • And this is what happens when you hire a friend of a friend instead of someone who deserves the job.

  • Typical fucking lawyer bullshit.

  • lmfao!!!!! METRIC!!!!! IT'S SO MUCH SIMPLER!!!!!

  • I guess he has been demoted to moderate witness

  • I'm not sure if the metric system would have helped this guy. I'm not sure if anything can help this guy. (Not an anti-metric system post, btw)

  • @MrDeFino yeah true. Scaling is easy and junior school shit. But this bloke can't divide fractions, even on a calculator.

  • Fucking formulas, how do they work?

  • Why is Tom Hanks antagonizing this guy?

  • @awesomefish I just caught my breath from laughing at the video and read the comments and saw THIS.

    Omg. lmfaoooo

  • @awesomefish

    I thought it was Jeff Bridges.

  • How would the metric system help this guy? He is supposed to be an expert, he is handed a calculator, and he can't show his work. He doesn't understand fractions, if he did he would just type 51 / 16 * 20 in the calculator and see that the answer is not "approximately 68 feet". Basically he says he can't multiply a compound fraction and an integer value without a computer program (even with a calculator). Perhaps they should replace him with a 13 year old... maybe he has a son that age.

  • somebody get this guy a formula sheet

  • "trained in math formulas?" what the heck

  • Expert witness? Really?

  • What a moron. Assume it's 4 inches not 3 3/16 inches to make the math easier and the scale is 20 to 1. Multiply 4X20 =80 80inches 80 inches is 6 feet 6 inches. That's a long way from 68 feet. I could have done that in my head in the 5th grade and i wasn't that good at math.

  • Just to be clear here, is the basic claim here that 3.1875 inches * 20 = 68 feet? And not 5.3125 feet?

  • @mherdeg I think the scale is actually "one [inch] to twenty [feet]". The lawyer doesn't make it perfectly clear because they both can see what it says for themselves. The correct distance would be 63.75ft if this is the case. Basically there no way this guy could be right, but that isn't really surprising from a guy who doesn't know what the slash means in a fraction.

  • @mherdeg I think the lawyer means the scale is 1 inch to 20 feet, although you're right that that is not what he says.

  • @maquih That's probably it. The scale is 1" to 20'. Not that it makes this moron less of a moron.

    The lawyer has made his point though. The guy either can't or won't convert 3/16 to decimal. So he's either not capable of doing 5th grade math or he refuses to. So he's either not an expert or an uncooperative expert. Either way he'll screwed and will never be called as an expert again.

  • I got closer 63 3/4 inches, versus the expert's 68 inches. I will never be an expert accident reconstructionist.

  • to be fair, that is hard maths

  • This guys a joke...

  • Retard.

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  • Holy shit

  • @ReconstructedText HAHAHAHAAHHA YOU IDIOT this is basic math. Scaling is taught in elementary school. This guy doesn't know what he's talking about and neither do you.

  • @andrewmtoy Umad?

  • @andrewmtoy True, but as long as the witness feigns ignorance the lawyer cannot do anything. This is a strategy.

  • @ReconstructedText faulty memory does not work when all of the information is provided for him. The lawyer is merely showing he is not an EXPERT.

  • @Edding795 Why wouldn't faulty memory work? Yes, the facts are provided to him, and yes, I think he ought to be able to do the conversion. But, that he won't without a formula sheet doesn't mean he isn't an expert.

  • @ReconstructedText I see. This is true. You seem correct...it's a strategy that this "expert" witness is using.

  • @ReconstructedText this guy needs a formula sheet

  • @AzN2LiMiTs Can I have yours?

  • @ReconstructedText Would you want him as your expert witness?

  • @ReconstructedText You are so very wrong. There is no formula sheet for transforming 3/16 into a fraction. It's called arithmetic. Or a calculator, which was handed to him. 3 and 3/16 inches is... wait for it... 3+3/16 inches. That is the formula. To convert that to scale you multiply it by 20... It is so absurdly simple...

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  • FORMULA SHEETS

  • rofl

  • no without my formula sheets, no.

  • This is horrifying.

  • @TeddySensei I just had flashbacks to K-PAX, you are so right about Jeff Bridges!

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  • KE =1/2mv^2

  • god ... this is why i hate lawyers and court people and the like ... massive wanks all of them. ANSWER THE DAMN QUESTION. Good god

  • @Acherus29A The attorney was the one asking the question. The expert witness could not do a simple math problem WITH a calculator.

    You know what I hate? People that make assumptions without actually getting the truth by paying attention.

  • Why are you guys bashing him for using 21st century technology? are you all 50 years old?

  • @DrGodfather14 Because he can't change 3/16 into a decimal. That's an elementary/middle school grade question. He is supposed to be an expert witness in accident reconstruction that deals with high level math involving physics. If he can't convert a simple fraction to a decimal, I wouldn't be surprised if he can't even do a basic trajectory problem. We're bashing him because this guy is a moron who doesn't deserve to be considered an *expert* witness.

  • "the square rut and kinetic energy"

  • @Staltercj I halfway think he's just using those words to try to sound like there is some type of technical "magic" behind what he is doing.

  • The metric system would have saved all this.

  • Props to the guy asking the questions. He remains calm and gets to the bottom of it... or at least tries to do so in a rational way.

    I would've lost my cool after seconds.

  • HINT: IT'S THREE DIVIDED BY SIXTEEN, YOU INCOMPETENT BOZO!! MOST OF US LEARNED THAT IN FIFTH GRADE!!

  • 3/16(20)....right?

  • HINT: IT'S THREE DIVIDED BY SIXTEEN, YOU INCOMPETENT BOZO!! MOST OF US LEARNED THAT IN FIFTH GRADE!!

  • Kinetic energy lol, jezus

  • facepalm

  • you need a formula sheet to convert 3/16 to a decimal? damn...

  • wow .... that is all i can say... wow

  • Expert? This guy can't convert fractions into decimals. And his original answer was wrong.

    I'd hate to think that someone would go to jail based on this guy's testimony.

    An expert should be able to check his work.

  • Once again renewing my faith in our delightful criminal justice system.

  • @Hammerzeiterr

    well said. you look "os" smart in comparison

  • √Ek = derp

  • 3 divided by 16

  • Why the fuck am I studying Physics when I can become an "accident reconstruction expert"? Fucked by the world again.

  • The square rut.

  • Nerds discussing math on YouTube videos.

  • i had one of these troopers who actually do the accident reconstruction come into my hs. the guy legitimately admits that all they do is use these equations specifically created for these cases. they don't derive anything, know anything about physics, or know how to memorize them. he gave us the sheet of equations they use and they are the most simple equations i have ever seen.

  • 3/16=(ans+3)x2=6.375

  • "ans" = kinetic energy

  • @Ryaneugenekelley ans = sharp calculator slang for last answer calculated

  • I'm English and never used inches in mathematic problems but i was able to figure out that it was 63.75feet in a few minutes. How can you trust people like this?

  • look, why are you guys arguing about the math involved?.. the dude in the video is trolling/stalling because he's guilty or doesn't want to be implicated... needing a formula sheet for accuracy's sake is a legitimate defensive move, and if i were in his shoes and maybe guilty of something i'd stall out and burn up the same way he does in the video..

  • @42n8s0n He's an expert witness for the defence, not the defendant. He isn't being accused of anything.

  • @42n8s0n Witnesses aren't on trial. If he's guilty of something, it's incompetence or collusion.

  • @42n8s0n He's not on trial. He's an expert witness called in for the defense.

  • And if by expert you mean moron then yes the title is accurate.

  • How did this guy ever land a desk job?

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  • @MrBiken

    He couldn't convert 3/16 to a decimal value. That's enough said.

    He also couldn't explain how he went form 3 and 36 to 68. He couldn't explain what scale the blueprint was on. The blueprint's supposed to say it right there.

    He's a complete fraud.

    If I hired a statistician who couldn't explain to me the reasoning and method behind a statistical test he used, I would fire him on the spot, and that's several times harder than this.

  • @DeepLyricist

    It wasn't just 3/16, but either way, I agree that he should be able to explain the scale. I think he is capable of running the numbers though. He ran them when he first sat down. I think he came up with a different number and realized the numbers listed on the figure were wrong. The lawyer was probably aware of this as well and hence the motivation for asking the question in the first place.

  • how do you convert 3/16 to a decimal value? 3 divided by 16. jesus christ this guy is a joke, i could do that in 4th fucking grade.

  • It was actually three and three sixteenth inches. But it still had to be divided by twelve, and then multiplied by twenty. Not just one simple button press. Though he probably didn't want to do it since the answer was 63.75 feet, not 68.

  • Come on America, start using the metric system.

  • @random5 You're assuming sanity in the US measurement system? There is your first mistake. It's not all that uncommon to use ratios varying in units of measure. Using 1 inch to represent 1 foot would be a 1:12 scale to us sane people, but I've seen that called a 1:1 ratio with the units being labeled. In this case for the purpose of the drawing using a 1 inch to 20 feet ratio makes sense in the context of the dimensions of an intersection.

  • What a fucking cunt. 

  • Because his 3 /16 on his sheet is different.

  • Being a person who works daily with scaled drawings, it is most likely a 1 inch to 20 feet.

    You wouldn't list it as 1 inch to 240 inch scale, as it is impractical. In the metric system, you normally find scales that have an intrinsic conversion from centimetres to metres.

  • @FalsettoMachine Usually 1000 millimetres : 1 metre

  • @FalsettoMachine and this makes a difference how?

    All he had to do to get the measurement in feet from 3 and 3/16 inches on the scaled drawing then, was 3.1875 * 20, which gives 63.75 feet right?

    He starts complaining about how he cant convert 3/16 to decimal, but he has a calculator! just punch in 3 divided by 16!

    Also, the reason the metric system is so good is that it is based on whole numbers (multiples of ten), which makes it a hellofa lot easier to do conversions.

  • @varyconfuzed I don't think so... I'm pretty sure the scale on the document is 1inch representing 20 feet. but I see where you are coming from. A true 1:20 would be as you stated I just don't think they are using that scale, I guess it would be more accurately described as 1:240

  • @raaronjohnson

    I'll admit I always work within the sane metric system but why a scale wouldn't be an exact ratio? And even if for some crazy reason it's not the units would be in the corner of the sheet so I doubt there's any confusion regarding that.

  • it really kills me when people use overly complex words. Dude needs to cut out the "utilize" bullshit and just say "use."

  • How has nobody else posted this? 3 & 3/16ths = 3.1875

    3.1875 * 20 = 63.75 feet

  • @raaronjohnson and in the scientific and logical metric system?

  • @raaronjohnson actually it's 63.75 *inches*. Divide by 12 and you get 5.3 feet. That is if the scale is 1:20

  • @varyconfuzed

    yeah, rofl

    it's embarrassing how many idiots posting comments have embarrassed themselves saying, "this guy is so stupid! it's 63.75 feet!"

  • @TehPenar

    Are you retarded?

    The scale is clearly 1 inch to 20 feet .. so 3 inches equals 60 feet, plus the 3/16inch and the sum total is 63.75 feet.

    If you fail to understand this, I pity you.

    What is your answer?

  • @fatsquirrel75

    dear fatretard, the scale is 1 to 20, not 1 inch to 20 feet

    you probably shouldn't be worrying about mathematics when you don't even know how many periods are in an ellipsis

  • @TehPenar

    Oh sure,

    because they get in experts to explain why something moved forward 60 inches..

    What was this an accident in tiny town?

  • @fatsquirrel75

    he even said the scale was 1 to 20 you fucktard, rofl

    things in accidents often move forward 5 feet, kiddo. don't try to downplay being a retard

  • @TehPenar

    Yes, scale is 1 inch to 20 feet.

    So this 5 feet covers one side of an intersection to another .. sure that happens to. I hope you are a troll else I pity your faculties.

    And as for kiddo, please, you named yourself after a penis, so I'm sure you are the epitomy of maturity and wisdom.

  • @fatsquirrel75

    "Yes, scale is 1 inch to 20 feet."

    it's 1 to 20, you moron... they say it several times in the video

    "So this 5 feet covers one side of an intersection to another .. sure that happens to. I hope you are a troll else I pity your faculties."

    let me get this straight...

    1) you don't know the difference between "to" and "too"

    2) you STILL don't know how many periods and in an ellipsis

    3) you don't know how to use commas

    ...and you're "pitying" MY education?

  • @TehPenar

    youtube comments .. serious business.

  • @fatsquirrel75

    a 35 year old australian who can't speak fucking english is trying to be elitist over youtube comments

    what a sad world we live in

  • @TehPenar

    An american that can't do math. Gee, where have I seen that before. I guess considering the guy in the video is considered an expert in your country I can't expect much for TehPenar.

    Why does the guy talk about doing conversions? why does he mention feet and inches? Hmmm. I wonder.

  • @fatsquirrel75

    your english is still awful, and you're still denying being wrong despite blatant evidence to the contrary. shocking

    i guess you can't really do much else in your situation though. you tried to act intellectually elitist (despite having the grammatical skills of a fucking caveman), were proven wrong, and immediately tried to fall back on person attacks (which were almost as bad as your grammar and awkward as your syntax - not quite though)

  • @TehPenar

    You seriously believe you have superior grammar? You do not start sentences with capitals. You almost never use commas, and never full stops. Your whole gripe is that I occassionally type .. wow, I guess you can throw this grammar jew into Auschwitz.

  • @fatsquirrel75

    4) typed with the syntax of a caveman with asperger's syndrome

    5) wrote this: "Your whole gripe is that I occassionally type .. wow," proving your reading comprehension is as piss poor as everything else about

    here are a few pieces of advice that should help you throughout your life:

    1) don't try and be intellectually elitist when you're both stupid and poorly educated

    2) don't try and be mean when you obviously have some sort of autism related mental condition

  • @TehPenar I have Asbergers Sydrome. Problem?