The rare car becoming very common once you drive it in GTA was actually a memory limitation in Vice City since its easier for the game to load in the same model of cars vs multiple models of cars at once.
I worked at a pawn shop for more than a decade and you'd be surprised at the methods criminals use to rob the shop. We've had stolen semi trucks back into our front door, bollards be damned, and what they stole was far less than the damage they'd done.
The damage exceeding the gain for the thief adds insult to injury. The same applies to idiots that steal catalytic converters or cutting the copper electrical and plumbing out of unoccupied buildings.
This actually happened in my city, Brisbane Australia, this whole clip takes place there. We are a country that runs on mining wealth and tradies so I doubt getting a loader would have been too hard. The loader driving over the train line actually caused enough damage to shut down the Ipswich line for a few days to repair the tracks. This all happened a few months ago
If i remember He drove it on to the tracks at east ipswich then ditched the front end loader about goodna with the police giving chase he then tried to swim across the river but got tried and swam back to the police.
To be fair with child Charlie, older GTAs had car types spawn in clusters, so if you start seeing a type of car, you would see many others of the same type.
The most recent example I've had of the frequency illusion (there have been quite a few) is tied to my mother's job as a nurse. One of her patients in the ICU came from an incident involving someone bringing a machete into an Applebee's. After hearing that we found so many instances of people bringing machetes into different Applebee's restaurants when before we didn't even know that was something a person would think to do.
Fun fact about those loaders, they are comically easy to steal. If the operator doesnt just leave the keys in it it’s super easy to get a key for it since they have universal keys. Newer loaders usually have trackers and will shut off if they leave a certain area without permission, but that’s only a very recent technology if it’s even set up.
If he'd kept the fork arms and just charged the cop after turning a corner he'd have gotten better results I think. The stealthy speed/dex meta is becoming less useful by the year. Destructive domestic terrorism/cop damaging meta is now king.
Craziest part about Charlie explaining the frequency illusion is that I found out about it a few days ago, figured it was a pretty unknown thing, and now all of the sudden it seems like everyone I know is experiencing the same effect.
I think theres a bit of a hivemind effect too, like, whatever caused you to look it up in the first place, might have gotten other people to learn about it too. The same way capybaras went from relatively unmentioned animals to ridiculously prolific in what feels like a week
the jump cut from the field to the railroad tracks was so random. The front loader can go anywhere and is only limited to ditches or cement barriers, and the mad lad chose railroad. What a legend
The Baader-Meinhof phenomenon is often incorrectly called an "illusion." It primarily happens when devs drop new updates and you're not paying attention to the changelog.
True… It’s crazy how many people I’ve seen dismiss Baader-Meinhoff phenomenon as just a coincidence/illusion. While Charlie’s GTA Vice City example was not technically Baader-Meinhoff (there was a game mechanic to spawn similar/same cars to the one being driven)… it’s a good example sorta. I always check the change log before I update to a new Life™️ patch.
Baader-Meinhoff (RAF) was a German terrorist organisation and carried out attacks, hostage-taking, murders and so on for decades. In 1994 someone reported in an online forum that he heard about this German terrorist organisation for the first time a few months ago and that he now reads and hears about it all the time. Several other users of the forum reported similar experiences. In 2006, Arnold Zwicky a recognised Stanford professor described this phenomenon as frequency illusion (a cognitive distortion). Since then, this has been the official name for it. So it is indeed an illusion
@@FiksIIanzO Haha I just skimmed the text and thought the term is apparently actually used in the gaming community for something else. I don't really know anything about it Edit: and also I hadn't watched the full video before 🤣 Just wanted to let the German 🇩🇪 smartass hang out about our best-known terrorist group (communists) 🤣
I think the most impressive part of this is how amazingly clear the camera quality is. Most security cameras look fuzzy with no color and impossible to look at.
This is my town! He drove up the railway tracks to a suburb about 8k away and the whole thing ended in the creekbed behind my friends house. I remember seeing it on social media and thinking it was from somewhere in the deep north of Queensland, where shit is wilder, but had to go into the dealership for work the day after it happened, and I was wondering why they had a massive window boarded up, and they told me that it was because of this. I can't believe I saw this on Charlie's channel. The service station across the road also featured on Moto Stars once too. This has made my day.
in grand theft auto if you are driving a model of car, it spawns more frequently on the road and in some cases, replaces some vehicles in the spawn list in order to reduce load as it wont have to render the entities from nothing
To be honest, there was a huge spike of these crimes here in Northern Ireland for a while 😅 They had to put concrete slabs on either side of ATM machines to stop front loaders lifting them. 🇮🇪
the gta thing is different than the psychological phenomenon. old school gta had a limit to the amount of cars it could render, so whatever car you drive it would spawn more to save resources.
@realyozthat “joke” is so bad, I’d be surprised if you laughed at it yourself. The worst bit is Charlie knew himself it was a game mechanic so how could you “expose” him
@@GRT-Versley late reply but i honestly never noticed it as much in gtaV and thought it was mostly the older ones. i also learned about it years ago so i wasn’t as sure. i was only 100% sure ab gta SA and 4.
These intros that slowly unfold into the topic from a concept relating to your feeling about the topic are great. Charlie, you must be a great essay writer.
From 4th grade to my freshman year of college I have moved 5 times. Each place that I’ve lived i have always noticed something. A pink Mitsubishi mirage. Whether it be parked next to me at the grocery store, driving down the street in the opposite direction, or in my neighbors driveway. I always thought it was weird since it is a very peculiar car. What caught my attention however was the fact that the car wasn’t just “similar” to the other pink mitsubishi mirages, it was the same car. The same license plate, the same hole in the back bumper, the. same. car. i figured that on the 5th time i moved, over 48 miles away from where i lived before, that i would never see it again. And I didn’t for a good long while, until my grandmother died. I took my mom to the store so she wouldn’t be alone, and right across the street, facing us, was the pink mitsubishi mirage. I now associate that car with death, and nothing good happens when it crosses my path.
This happened in a small town I live near in Denmark as well. Except the thieves targeted a bank and stole the ATM. All they got was painted money so I don't really understand their rationale. They did destroy the front of the bank and a restaurant they accidentality backed into on the small street, with guests watching from inside.
Yo, I really appreciate how you describe the clips you show in such detail. I often listen to them when I'm out of the room, so I don't feel the need to run back in to catch every bit of action or fear missing something. Not to mention eyesight troubles run in my family, so I know that your videos will be more accessible to me than most if I should ever inherit those problems. Thanks a bunch man!
Achievement Hunter learned that years ago when they had a challange to find a Faggio and it took them forever then 10 seconds later boom, pissed them off@@Apupv
The frequency illusion is also more commonly refered to as: "Selective perception -is the unconscious process by which people screen, select, and notice objects in their environment. During this process, information tends to be selectively perceived in ways that align with existing attitudes, beliefs, and goals."
Thanks guys, I didn't even know this was a thing, I thought I was "special" lol at noticing things like this, I guess we really are all pretty much the same
I actually worked at an IT company not even 2 minutes up the road from this dealership and saw the aftermath of this event on the drive into work the morning after. I was confused AF until me and all my colleagues collectively lost our shit when we found the news article and chase footage online later that day. They breed them different in West Ipswich man 🤣
I live in Ipswich and work around West Ipswich a bit. Postie. I've delivered mail to your company lots too. How cool was this to see on Charlie's channel!
I think it’s really jarring to see heavy heavy machinery used in such violent and dramatic ways. Like the only time you see construction tools is when they’re being used in construction, and there’s this certain relaxed, slow moving look to them. But I’m always so enamored when I see them used for crime bc this kind of machinery is so powerful and over the top for the mission at hand, it’s just so funny
I think these sort of crimes has always happened more often than you'd think. The increase in high quality security cameras combined with how easily videos can go viral has probably just brought more attention to them.
1:20 that’s not frequency illusion I think. In gta 4 if you are driving the infernus (fast and rare car) it increases the frequency of their spawn rate. Idk if it’s the same as vice city but it probably is
1:25 It is in fact a optimization mechanic within the game. The game only loads a handful of possible cars to memory, from where it pools the oncoming traffic. And one of those slots has to be the one car you are driving, since it has to load that car for you to drive it. So now the rare car you spent hours finding is "permanently" loaded to memory and the game uses that as one of the "random" cars it spawn, hence you get that rare car much more frequently.
The car thing was very relatable for me and never heard this phenomenon and theory. My dad bought a new car recently, I helped him make his choice and get the right choice, and only after he bought it, i noticed there were loads of them! (not all the same year/accessories/ect but all the same make and model!)
I think the idea here is the fact that heavy machinery is one of the least expected threats against property and thus might be effective. No one could obviously carry something like a motorcycle that quickly unless you do some GTA-type maneuver like that.
I've "stolen" my neighbors Harley with two skate boards before. Took me 7 minutes to walk from my house to his, load it up, and walk to bike back to my garage. He freaked tf out and called the cops. And then I let him know he had a fresh set of wheels ready to go The mf paid me to change his wheels and tires for him, and then forgot...well he wasn't home and I was busy doing other things that day so I wanted to get it done real quick Point is. Stealing bikes is easy
Uh no dude. The idea is that it's easy. Construction vehicles are way easier to steal than normal vehicles. They have basic locks and are left sitting out in the open overnight. Its low hanging fruit it's easy to steal. Which is why it's usually dumber people who do it. It is Not an effective way to do things it's just an easy way. But they're big loud and slow. If you watch videos of people doing this stuff you'll see a lot more stupid people doing ridiculous things than smart ones being clever about it. Smarter criminals committ smarter crimes. Because Yes this is expected. Brute force is brute force it's expected. Most ATMs don't hold a lot of cash in them directly because of this exact reason. It's not uncommon at all, it's mostly done by dumb people, and they very rarely get things that are worth all the trouble and risk they went through.
Im surprised it doesn't happen more often. This type of heavy equipment is often stored unlocked with the keys in the ignition. When I was a kid one of the neighborhood kids stole a bulldozer and ran over every mailbox on the way downhill to the beach.
@@jefftraboulsy8631 Orrrrr... he's a construction worker? School buses also aren't usually kept locked up in the yard, I know this because my Dad drives bus. But I mean... what kind of idiot steals a big yellow noisy thing with a tracker and a black box? Plus, the fuckers are difficult to drive if you've never driven them before, which means most people with half a brain wouldn't try driving them anyway. Usually people just steal the bits they can get from the outside. Can't stop them from doing that really. Oh, and, I know this is probably exclusive to school buses, but there's a button at the back of the bus you need to press before you can leave the bus, or else the horn just BLARES. Most people don't know that, I don't think. Maybe they could put something like that on construction equipment too. The secret "press me before you turn off the ignition and open the door" button.
The Vice City thing is just a limitation from the ps2 eras. Its hard for the game to constantly bring up random cars so when its low on memory it'll just bring up cars that are already loaded and your car is the one it'll use
@@maxbracegirdle9990 You are though. Saying this bug happened because of ps2's limitation implies newer gta's on stronger platforms don't have this problem anymore, whilst they do.
@@GRT-Versley I'm not though. I said it's a limitation from the ps2 era, not that this happened because of the limitations of the ps2. And it's not a bug either. They originally wanted to have a set spawn rate for each vehicle, but this was too hard on the ps2, so a way of saving RAM was to lump cars into groups and pull from those. They then continued this practice all the way up to GTA V as a way to still save RAM to put it to use in other places. If you have a PC, you can easily get mods to have a more equal car spawn rate
I love how Charlie refers to the human brain as "noodle" and how he uses "hog wild" instead of "crazy" as well as using some other words that i've never heard anyone say before like "hoopla" and "doubloons" and "wacky" and many more.
You'd be surprised at how much heavy machinery all uses the same exact key. You can buy a keyring online with the keys for practically every and any piece of heavy machinery you could encounter, from golf carts to excavators.
Working on a bus yard I've seen it myself, got to a point where for a while we rewired the starters on the buses so if you turned the key and just pressed the starter the horn would blast unless you pushed a hidden button under the steering column
In a past life as a security manager my company used to rent out immobilization devices and tamper alarms to construction companies when they were in town, because their vehicles were always a target simply because of how easy they were to steal.
This phenomenon happens often to me. For example, a friend started saying "dogwater" often and I hadn't heard that before. And then I started hearing it in almost every video
01:13 Depending when it was, it could have also simply been a matter of RAM limitations. eg, I was playing GTA III one day (PS2, circa 2002) and found that if you stop traffic it only takes a handful of cars to build up before the game runs out of vehicle "slots" and the entire city is dead-empty until those cars get a chance to unload.
When I saw the video last week, I was hoping this Australian masterpiece would be part of the list. Glad to see Charlie got to witness and share the video
The GTA Vice City cars phenomenon was programmed into the game. Vice City changed what cars you saw on the road based on what car you were driving and what mission you were doing. It was initially thought to be a memory limitation, but there are several missions where certain cars simply appear frequently, and others (like the garage where you take wishlisted cars for a bonus payout) where certain cars are made intentionally more rare.
This was in my town! My coworkers had an impromptu crew meeting the next morning where we all sat and watched the footage and cheered when the bugger drove past our work and we got free publicity. One of the only things to come from this place to be proud of 👏
Yeh, i remember when this was on TV, i believe this is a few years old. The front-end loader i think is either his own or a company he works for. By the looks of it he was trying to load and hide the bikes into the back of the dump truck and then probably load up the dozer and hope no one would suspect him.
This was in my home town in Australia and shit was wild. Accident happened in the dodgey part of the city centre and took the shop months to get that storefront fixed. He also left the loader on the train line and it fucked up our whole rain system the next day.
The amount of times Charlie says "Front End Loader" is making me laugh too hard. Looking forward to in 2 weeks when we get the "I became a Front End Loader god" video.
I always called this "The magnet effect" although I think that is technically something else. For example: When you learn a new word you had never heard before and then it pops up naturally 4 times in week.. like a magnet bringing the word to you...
6:33 when the cop said “Good boy mate! Good boy!” I thought he was talking to the criminal, but then you said “he tried throwing off the dogs sent by getting nude” and then I realized that there must have been dogs there and that’s who the officer was calling a good boy!
The Frequency Illusion is one of my favorites. I always enjoy catching myself falling for psychological tricks. or maybe it was evolved. Better to notice that thing that caught your interest again and again. Probably evolved for threat identification. “That new thing i saw seems dangerous, oh, it seems that new thing is fairly common around here” Probably more advantageous when we were migrating
Its like the train derailments, people would legit pull up every single screw up by the rail industry for publicity. If you want someone to blame for the train derailments blame the US favoring smog spewing metal birds over improving our rail network. You can't crash a train into a building and the rail industry has more promise if it was held to the same damn standard.
@@Logan-zp8bi i doubt the rail network has much to blame on the Plane Industry for it lack of attention is been getting when they service two very different fields, if anything, the they would blame the Interstate highway and it’s truckers
This is the raw power of forklift certification but this one is unrefined in his methods, with more training almost anything is possible being forklift certified
is being forklift certified like being a saiyan? is there a forklift certified 2?
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1:15 I thought immediately about GTA and NO it's not an allusion. GTA only loads a couple of cars into your RAM, which means that you see the same cars for 10min. on average and they switch them slowly. So when you saw that one car you wanted, it loaded into the RAM and it would spawn frequently. The PS2 had 32-64MB RAM (I think) So GTA would load only 6-8 different cars into the RAM, because everything you see goes also into the RAM, so that your CPU can process it. The game is stored on the Disc or hard-drive but the CPU can only process the stuff in the RAM... Sorry for the bad English but I hope you understood it 😂😅
about 10 years ago or so they were building a new wal mart on a lets say "boujie" side of town. it was mildly developed at the time. well one of the guys left the keys in a bob cat skidsteer amongst other heavy equipment. some dudes basically went there, joy rided them, got them stuck and left. it was a big story for my small city of 100k. they never caught the guys and at the same time its like why are these idiots leaving the keys in them? "oh its a nice neighborhood they would never try to steal this" well about 6 years after the incident i was at a local bar and was talking to this dude who ive talked to in the past but it was more of a bar buddy situation. turns out he was one of the guys and gave me full detail about it all and how they got away when the cops pulled up to search the spot. i mean was it wrong for them to do that? sure. but you leave heavy equipment un attended at night and a bunch of mountain bikers/bmx guys roll up to party in a construction spot well guess what happens lmao. they didnt steal them or anything, just a bunch of punk kids fucking around. the construction company deserved that shit at that point lmao.
What's funny is my boss gets pissed if we pull the keys from the machines, although the other day he had us make sure to pull the key and lock one when we have another machine on that site with the same exact key and had us leave the key in that one smh
Lmao, you’re absolutely right about the Meinhoff illusion but the Vice City story is 100% the game spawning more of what you’re already driving. I always noticed the game would do that, probably to save on memory.
There was a guy who stole a front loader, somehow got passed the cops and drove 25 kilometer to then park it at my Grandpa's Field, put it on fire and burned up 50 hay bales in the process. After that he went down to the lake and stole a boat and slept out on the lake. Absolutely wild!!!
Frequency illusion is interesting because the Recommendation system really does work on frequencies and probabilities. So even though the forklift example could be an illusion you basically bring it to life because you shared it then 100K people watched it then they will have their own frequency illusion and they will have their own and their own and suddenly everyone is ACTUALLY talking about forklifts.
Charlie is in deep trouble when Ernst-Volker Staub, Daniela Klette and Burkhard Garweg find out that Charlie butchered the names of their dear friends and leaders… Seems that the RAF will rise again , but this time in Florida. Makes sense with all the Exil Cubans there I guess.
That bit about the GTA Vice City car showing up more often is actually a mechanic in the game. The kind of vehicle you get in affects the vehicles you see spawn.
I was stocking a grocery store overnight and a huge front loader broke through the glass near the cashes and just picked up the ATM and left lol. Its happened 3 times in a year in my small city.
I was taught in a marketing class that the "seeing a shrek green car, then seeing ten more in the home depot parking lot the same day" thing is all you said and that this was called a "reticular activator" but then they explained it exactly like you did. So I just commented to add "reticular activators" to everyone's vocabulary. You're welcome.
shrek green has become kind of a popular color in sports cars too, and if they gravitate towards similar places then it can also even have a plausible explanation
@@Fay7666 true, but in my comment, its more of an example of the phenomena of noticing something and then seeing it everywhere, than the specific color I was focused on. Like when you hear an odd word, then hear it again all day or see it in print everywhere, even if you never noticed it anywhere before, or knew the word before. Penguin explains all this pretty well in this video.
I used to think this happened to me all the time when I would learn new words, but I would actually turn out that everybody had watched the same show on TV that week and had just decided that word had always been part of their lexicon.
"The use of a large vehicle as a battering ram as part of theft" is a single word in Danish, is how common it used to be. Also the biggest prison break in Danish history was done by just ramming the outer walls with a front end loader.
Can confirm, the dirt bike heist comes from the second best city in the world, Ipswich, not far off Brisbane in Australia. If you want more wild stuff like this Gold Coast, Logan, and Caboolture/Redcliffe area will keep you entertained.
I drive some of this stuff. It's actually not that surprising when you find out a lot of equipment use a universal key, and also funnily it's often not hard to steal because of the whole "put on high vis and pretend you belong" strat. I've seen an excavator loaded onto a truck and stolen in broad daylight because everyone just assumed the guys doing it were meant to be doing what they were doing.
That happened in Brisbane, Australia a couple of years ago, it was a Benny Hill moment for sure. It ended up a foot chase when he got the loader bogged. No skunks in OZ so that wouldn't work. People have been doing this for quite some time, FELs do a good job of carving ATM out of walls but anyone with half a brain would drop the loot into a more suitable gateway vehicle and abandon the FEL.
for a long time, even till now, if you owned a CAT or any other heavy machine key, you could start any machine. many of us heavy duty techs even had our own keys to use on any vehicle
Crazy hey. I used to work at the Dominos up the road, was kind of surreal seeing this footage the first time but somehow more surreal seeing charlie cover it.
New idea for a Decepticon in a movie you gave me, Charlie. Imagine a group of Decepticons and humans trying to steal vehicles to get money for their evil schemes as well as build Megatron or a new Devastator combiner from scratch. This front loader could be a Decepticon called Pinchpoint referencing how it is directly stealing goods like a penny snatcher pinches coins. He could be yellow and grey in color and have four menacing red eyes, a heavy set body that is relatively short yet strong, and his tires could be in areas that look like he has giant rubber biceps or thighs. His weapons of choice could be a scrap metal cannon that fires shotgun shots of shrapnel and a hook on a chain that he uses like a lasso to ensnare things like cars or ATMs full of cash. Man, you gotta use AI to generate its appearance to do it justice.
Well, I wanted to make him imposing in appearance, and having the tires be on the arms between the forearms and the shoulders, or the knee and the hips could make for an interesting transformation. Where would they be otherwise? On his feet, like moon boots?
Oh, this is actually pretty common. I'm on a construction project, and in the past six months that I've been there, we've had heavy machinery stolen on three separate occasions. The first time it happened, I also thought it really couldn't be that common. Then my buddy told me that it had happened a couple weeks before i got there as well.
Depends. You could say "murder is pretty common" but obviously different states and cities vary drastically. Not everyone deals with constant theft of large machinery only some people do.
Every time my family gets a new car (i have three siblings so it's happened about six or seven times in the past ten years I'd say), I start seeing the same car EVERYWHERE. Gold X-trails, citroens, CRVs, EVERYWHERE I look. The moment Charlie mentioned the phenomenon I audibly went "Ooooh no way! it has a name!!!" and now I'm so happy to know I'm not freaking insane
A weird experience I've had is after I crashed my first car I started seeing that car more often but before the crash you'd never see that model anywhere on the road. Anybody else notice this?
yeah, quite a few years ago i bought a mint, 1994, 30k odometer integra gsr. i didnt have it for a week and i got in a really bad accident, a car coming from the opposite direction was ON FIRE, and I slowed down and was getting the car out of gear to neutral to hop out and help the people. I look back at the windshield and for a split second saw the rear bumper of an suv, blacked out and came to unable to hear or see. vision came back, looked down at my lap and thought "thats a lot of blood pouring on me". got out, somewhere in between the crash the fire car was taken care of, and people were coming up to me and turned white instantly, kind of mumbling "a. .are . .. yo.u. .. " and looking away, until one older lady came with a towel and was like, "youre really hurt, sit down and put this towel on your head so you stop bleeding", before i took the towel i looked in the rear view mirror and face, hair, shirt, everything i could see, was red and blood was pouring down my face. literally my face was completely red, and a huge puddle formed on the asphalt and only then i was like "oh thats probably not good" . . .. more stuff happened, i was ok, but from that moment on, I see 1994 integras EVERY WHERE ALL DAY EVERY DAY and have not had a day where i have not seen one (slight exaggeration, but it is extremely odd and i can't not notice them anymore). oh, when I got to the hospital and was getting checked out, I had the acura logo imprinted on my chest 100% clear from how hard i impacted the steering wheel. (wear your seatbelt folks) sorry i went on a tangent. to answer your question, yes. Its been idk, 9 years since this happened and I still see them everywhere constantly where before I rarely saw them.
1:22 the Vice City thing isn't an effect of the Phenomenon, It's GTA coding, it's always been that a set amount of vehicles spawn at a given time, so when you're driving around in that vehicle, since that vehicle is loaded and belongs to a car group that can spawn in that area, it takes up one of those slots of "possible vehicles" because it is already loaded and rendered on the machine.
Charlie. This is a extremely common crime. From someone that has worked around heavy machinery most of their life. Not many rob actual stores though. Mainly places with fences they can run over.
it's like he has been planning this for months on ends, and then when he lists the pros and cons, he got so much addicted to the pros he forgot to list the cons
The fact that it's getting more common that criminals can get their hands on excavators is crazy. But it's also hilarious seeing them trying to steal an atm's and other stuff.
1:20 yeah it was a game mechanic. To save resources it would render the same vehicle. I remember finding this one very unique vehicle that I never saw before and never saw again but I stole it and the moment I did this extremely unique vehicle duplicated to about 80% of all vehicles around me.
These things happen way more often than you think. Most of these construction vehicles have the keys left in overnight so they are stolen pretty often. As for stealing bikes with them too, we’ll that’s another story…
Do you know why they would leave the keys in overnight? Sounds like they are begging to have it stolen, why not just store the keys somewhere safe and secure would not take much effort or money
I like the idea of a good samaritan taking another construction vehicle to battle the first one. It would be like that fighting game from japan featuring dump trucks, back-hoes, and bulldozers.
I feel like the "seeing something and it becomes more common" thing could be some kind of survival mechanism. Like if you saw a new animal like a bobcat for the first time and you had no way of knowing if it's dangerous or not. You would keep an eye out for more bobcats so you could keep track of them and see if they are a threat. Just a thought.
In Germany it's actually pretty common to steal heavy machinery (including trucks and tractors) to run in store fronts or warehouses. They leave the stolen vehicle at the scene and flee in a car or on foot tho
These machines often use the same keys based on brand, i have a ring of keys that can start most common equipment. Really surprised it hasn't happened more.
Thats like when I learn a new word in english(which isn't very common as I've been speaking english since I was 9 and I'm 16 now) and there on after I hear other people using the word way more, I actually never knew about this psychological phenomenon. Ty Charlie
The rare car becoming very common once you drive it in GTA was actually a memory limitation in Vice City since its easier for the game to load in the same model of cars vs multiple models of cars at once.
Exactly what I was gonna write😂 la noire same thing. Great games for sure
Have you never played gta4
Every GTA game since GTA 3 does this, although in 5 it's car type as opposed to the specific model you're driving (sports car, sedan, SUV etc)
Gta 4 was infamous for that
only 2 bots for this, they must be slipping. Mafia did the same too if I'm not mistaken ( the OG version).
I worked at a pawn shop for more than a decade and you'd be surprised at the methods criminals use to rob the shop.
We've had stolen semi trucks back into our front door, bollards be damned, and what they stole was far less than the damage they'd done.
Maybe they got my guitar.
@realyoz and still you are here
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The damage exceeding the gain for the thief adds insult to injury. The same applies to idiots that steal catalytic converters or cutting the copper electrical and plumbing out of unoccupied buildings.
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This actually happened in my city, Brisbane Australia, this whole clip takes place there. We are a country that runs on mining wealth and tradies so I doubt getting a loader would have been too hard. The loader driving over the train line actually caused enough damage to shut down the Ipswich line for a few days to repair the tracks. This all happened a few months ago
If he stole that thing in Geebung and hit a bike shop in Ipswich, he must have done some serious miles in it
@@tpbrcombo I think it actually went so far it shut the rosewood line lol, so even further
If i remember He drove it on to the tracks at east ipswich then ditched the front end loader about goodna with the police giving chase he then tried to swim across the river but got tried and swam back to the police.
@@bruceismay5440 either way I wish you wouldn’t claim Ipswich as part of Brisbane. 😂
@@tpbrcombo it’s as much a part of greater Brisbane as my home in the Redlands is
To be fair with child Charlie, older GTAs had car types spawn in clusters, so if you start seeing a type of car, you would see many others of the same type.
Yeah, but there are normal examples without that as reasoning
Driving around in the car would also cause the game to spawn more of that car. This is how I would get the Infernus to spawn in traffic in GTA IV.
no, charlie is just crazy
@@p-__ ok
@realyoz1k comments on this channel???? All saying almost the same things?
The most recent example I've had of the frequency illusion (there have been quite a few) is tied to my mother's job as a nurse. One of her patients in the ICU came from an incident involving someone bringing a machete into an Applebee's. After hearing that we found so many instances of people bringing machetes into different Applebee's restaurants when before we didn't even know that was something a person would think to do.
I used to work at an Applebee's and that sounds about right
it's machete at applebees monday !
@@Dingusdankusmexico is not in south america...
@@Vulcan. well, it's south of America so South America. Easy geography
@@TheManinBlack9054only a south canadian would say something so dumb
Fun fact about those loaders, they are comically easy to steal. If the operator doesnt just leave the keys in it it’s super easy to get a key for it since they have universal keys. Newer loaders usually have trackers and will shut off if they leave a certain area without permission, but that’s only a very recent technology if it’s even set up.
Interesting strat, most getaway drivers minmax for speed or disguise stats, but going Strength and HP might open up a niche in the meta
If he'd kept the fork arms and just charged the cop after turning a corner he'd have gotten better results I think. The stealthy speed/dex meta is becoming less useful by the year. Destructive domestic terrorism/cop damaging meta is now king.
@@kyleguajardo hell yeah, turn those 12 years into a death sentence!!! go big or go home baby!!!!!!
Unfortunately some people p2w, as in armed robbery, the method is extremely efficient exp-wise because of how much money are in the banks.
Not a getaway vehicle but going all in on strength & HP reminds me of the Kill-Dozer.
@realyoznot another stupid YFGA
A tradesman using a front end loader to steal a couple dirt bikes might be the most Australian thing I’ve ever seen 😂😂😂
Nothing Aussie about it you clown 🤦♂️🤡
Craziest part about Charlie explaining the frequency illusion is that I found out about it a few days ago, figured it was a pretty unknown thing, and now all of the sudden it seems like everyone I know is experiencing the same effect.
🤍😂
Frequency illusion about the frequency illusion!
@@uRDMlol
frequency illusion illusion
I think theres a bit of a hivemind effect too, like, whatever caused you to look it up in the first place, might have gotten other people to learn about it too. The same way capybaras went from relatively unmentioned animals to ridiculously prolific in what feels like a week
the jump cut from the field to the railroad tracks was so random. The front loader can go anywhere and is only limited to ditches or cement barriers, and the mad lad chose railroad. What a legend
He really fucked the tracks too
@realyozshut up dude we don’t care
Random? Field?? That was a service road right next to the tracks... Not much of a jump and not random.
The Baader-Meinhof phenomenon is often incorrectly called an "illusion." It primarily happens when devs drop new updates and you're not paying attention to the changelog.
Deserves more likes 💯
True… It’s crazy how many people I’ve seen dismiss Baader-Meinhoff phenomenon as just a coincidence/illusion. While Charlie’s GTA Vice City example was not technically Baader-Meinhoff (there was a game mechanic to spawn similar/same cars to the one being driven)… it’s a good example sorta.
I always check the change log before I update to a new Life™️ patch.
Baader-Meinhoff (RAF) was a German terrorist organisation and carried out attacks, hostage-taking, murders and so on for decades. In 1994 someone reported in an online forum that he heard about this German terrorist organisation for the first time a few months ago and that he now reads and hears about it all the time. Several other users of the forum reported similar experiences. In 2006, Arnold Zwicky a recognised Stanford professor described this phenomenon as frequency illusion (a cognitive distortion). Since then, this has been the official name for it. So it is indeed an illusion
@@sehu1291 Oooh, oooh, oooh! Do I get to "r/whooosh" now?
@@FiksIIanzO Haha I just skimmed the text and thought the term is apparently actually used in the gaming community for something else. I don't really know anything about it Edit: and also I hadn't watched the full video before 🤣 Just wanted to let the German 🇩🇪 smartass hang out about our best-known terrorist group (communists) 🤣
I think the most impressive part of this is how amazingly clear the camera quality is. Most security cameras look fuzzy with no color and impossible to look at.
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FOR REAL THOUGH
bros everywhere
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This is my town! He drove up the railway tracks to a suburb about 8k away and the whole thing ended in the creekbed behind my friends house. I remember seeing it on social media and thinking it was from somewhere in the deep north of Queensland, where shit is wilder, but had to go into the dealership for work the day after it happened, and I was wondering why they had a massive window boarded up, and they told me that it was because of this. I can't believe I saw this on Charlie's channel. The service station across the road also featured on Moto Stars once too. This has made my day.
happened in Ispwich, South West/East of Brisbane.
that makes sense cause that train station looked wayy too familiar pff
UP THE SWITCH 🎉🎉🎉
Ippyyyyyy. My fellow 2 header.
@@HotHungJock nah mate don’t be like that
in grand theft auto if you are driving a model of car, it spawns more frequently on the road and in some cases, replaces some vehicles in the spawn list in order to reduce load as it wont have to render the entities from nothing
To be honest, there was a huge spike of these crimes here in Northern Ireland for a while 😅 They had to put concrete slabs on either side of ATM machines to stop front loaders lifting them. 🇮🇪
Better than the last spree of car-related crimes in North Ireland…
Man specifies northern ireland then throws the Irish flag in 😅 yeppaaaa 🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪
@@robertclarkson3499 You know yourself it's a heated debate that doesn't need to be on this comment section 🤣🤣🤣 🇮🇪
@bconvery571 united ireland 2024🇮🇪 🙌
ha it’s all making sense now
the gta thing is different than the psychological phenomenon. old school gta had a limit to the amount of cars it could render, so whatever car you drive it would spawn more to save resources.
Put blue dye in your eyes dummy
Why is everyone saying old school gta titles, this happens in gta 5 aswell
@realyozthat “joke” is so bad, I’d be surprised if you laughed at it yourself. The worst bit is Charlie knew himself it was a game mechanic so how could you “expose” him
@@Jib06it‘s a bot
@@GRT-Versley late reply but i honestly never noticed it as much in gtaV and thought it was mostly the older ones. i also learned about it years ago so i wasn’t as sure. i was only 100% sure ab gta SA and 4.
These intros that slowly unfold into the topic from a concept relating to your feeling about the topic are great. Charlie, you must be a great essay writer.
From 4th grade to my freshman year of college I have moved 5 times. Each place that I’ve lived i have always noticed something. A pink Mitsubishi mirage. Whether it be parked next to me at the grocery store, driving down the street in the opposite direction, or in my neighbors driveway. I always thought it was weird since it is a very peculiar car. What caught my attention however was the fact that the car wasn’t just “similar” to the other pink mitsubishi mirages, it was the same car. The same license plate, the same hole in the back bumper, the. same. car. i figured that on the 5th time i moved, over 48 miles away from where i lived before, that i would never see it again. And I didn’t for a good long while, until my grandmother died. I took my mom to the store so she wouldn’t be alone, and right across the street, facing us, was the pink mitsubishi mirage. I now associate that car with death, and nothing good happens when it crosses my path.
Was there anyone even driving it? Even so, that’s still pretty scary.
Hey thats a good question@@Mr_HammerExe
Lmaooo cap 🧢
@@GravitonAllNightLong how can you prove it??
It's just your assigned FBI spy, no worries
This happened in a small town I live near in Denmark as well. Except the thieves targeted a bank and stole the ATM. All they got was painted money so I don't really understand their rationale. They did destroy the front of the bank and a restaurant they accidentality backed into on the small street, with guests watching from inside.
Owls need HUGS
You act like you need an excuse to destroy a bank.
Yo, I really appreciate how you describe the clips you show in such detail. I often listen to them when I'm out of the room, so I don't feel the need to run back in to catch every bit of action or fear missing something. Not to mention eyesight troubles run in my family, so I know that your videos will be more accessible to me than most if I should ever inherit those problems. Thanks a bunch man!
It is in fact a GTA 5 game mechanic where the 'spawn pool' of vehicles loading in nearby is based upon type you are driving.
Omg yeah, just realized that existed
I think it also varies depending on what location you are in the map. Pretty sure GTA IV also had this.
Achievement Hunter learned that years ago when they had a challange to find a Faggio and it took them forever then 10 seconds later boom, pissed them off@@Apupv
@realyozyou have one thousand comments on this channel, just stop watching already
@realyoz I don't quiet understand what u mean by that?
The frequency illusion is also more commonly refered to as:
"Selective perception
-is the unconscious process by which people screen, select, and notice objects in their environment. During this process, information tends to be selectively perceived in ways that align with existing attitudes, beliefs, and goals."
I thought it was called the Baader-Meinhof effect
@OURO8ORUO yeah of course, I just thought Baader-Meinhof is the name that it is most commonly referred to. Not "Selective Perception".
Thanks guys, I didn't even know this was a thing, I thought I was "special" lol at noticing things like this, I guess we really are all pretty much the same
It's like when you buy a car, you then notice that car model everywhere.
Confirmation bias?
1:26 is actually a game mechanic but the principal is the same lol
I actually worked at an IT company not even 2 minutes up the road from this dealership and saw the aftermath of this event on the drive into work the morning after.
I was confused AF until me and all my colleagues collectively lost our shit when we found the news article and chase footage online later that day.
They breed them different in West Ipswich man 🤣
I live in Ipswich and work around West Ipswich a bit. Postie. I've delivered mail to your company lots too. How cool was this to see on Charlie's channel!
I know that IT company. One of my mates worked there when I worked at EB games. I now work at a pub where they do our IT and will come in for drinks.
What Lorem Ipsum county name is that
Ah Ipswich, that makes tons of sense
@ArransFxckedUp oh really? I'm not from Ipswich but I've heard enough to know it's not a good place, same with Logan
I think it’s really jarring to see heavy heavy machinery used in such violent and dramatic ways. Like the only time you see construction tools is when they’re being used in construction, and there’s this certain relaxed, slow moving look to them. But I’m always so enamored when I see them used for crime bc this kind of machinery is so powerful and over the top for the mission at hand, it’s just so funny
Fr lol
@6:37 This took place in Queensland, Australia. No skunks in Australia, unfortunately (they’re a North American animal)
I think these sort of crimes has always happened more often than you'd think. The increase in high quality security cameras combined with how easily videos can go viral has probably just brought more attention to them.
Seeing what people get away with today still just makes me think how easy crime must’ve been in the 70s
In Ireland we hear about some lad stealing an ATM with a tractor or a digger once a year nearly
Yep. It's the _everything gets filmed now illusion._
And here i thought it was because of voting blue.
Wow... that's a really good point.
1:20 that’s not frequency illusion I think. In gta 4 if you are driving the infernus (fast and rare car) it increases the frequency of their spawn rate. Idk if it’s the same as vice city but it probably is
1:25 It is in fact a optimization mechanic within the game. The game only loads a handful of possible cars to memory, from where it pools the oncoming traffic. And one of those slots has to be the one car you are driving, since it has to load that car for you to drive it. So now the rare car you spent hours finding is "permanently" loaded to memory and the game uses that as one of the "random" cars it spawn, hence you get that rare car much more frequently.
The car thing was very relatable for me and never heard this phenomenon and theory. My dad bought a new car recently, I helped him make his choice and get the right choice, and only after he bought it, i noticed there were loads of them! (not all the same year/accessories/ect but all the same make and model!)
I think the idea here is the fact that heavy machinery is one of the least expected threats against property and thus might be effective. No one could obviously carry something like a motorcycle that quickly unless you do some GTA-type maneuver like that.
I've "stolen" my neighbors Harley with two skate boards before. Took me 7 minutes to walk from my house to his, load it up, and walk to bike back to my garage.
He freaked tf out and called the cops. And then I let him know he had a fresh set of wheels ready to go
The mf paid me to change his wheels and tires for him, and then forgot...well he wasn't home and I was busy doing other things that day so I wanted to get it done real quick
Point is. Stealing bikes is easy
Uh no dude. The idea is that it's easy. Construction vehicles are way easier to steal than normal vehicles. They have basic locks and are left sitting out in the open overnight. Its low hanging fruit it's easy to steal. Which is why it's usually dumber people who do it. It is Not an effective way to do things it's just an easy way. But they're big loud and slow. If you watch videos of people doing this stuff you'll see a lot more stupid people doing ridiculous things than smart ones being clever about it. Smarter criminals committ smarter crimes. Because Yes this is expected. Brute force is brute force it's expected. Most ATMs don't hold a lot of cash in them directly because of this exact reason. It's not uncommon at all, it's mostly done by dumb people, and they very rarely get things that are worth all the trouble and risk they went through.
6:24 i thought that “good boy mate good boy” was for the guy putting his hands up 😂
Im surprised it doesn't happen more often. This type of heavy equipment is often stored unlocked with the keys in the ignition. When I was a kid one of the neighborhood kids stole a bulldozer and ran over every mailbox on the way downhill to the beach.
only in nice areas, it gets locked up in the hood trust me
@@TheBananamongeronly way he could know. Obviously he's a thug.
@@jefftraboulsy8631 Orrrrr... he's a construction worker?
School buses also aren't usually kept locked up in the yard, I know this because my Dad drives bus. But I mean... what kind of idiot steals a big yellow noisy thing with a tracker and a black box? Plus, the fuckers are difficult to drive if you've never driven them before, which means most people with half a brain wouldn't try driving them anyway.
Usually people just steal the bits they can get from the outside. Can't stop them from doing that really.
Oh, and, I know this is probably exclusive to school buses, but there's a button at the back of the bus you need to press before you can leave the bus, or else the horn just BLARES. Most people don't know that, I don't think. Maybe they could put something like that on construction equipment too. The secret "press me before you turn off the ignition and open the door" button.
@@theworldoflivvy3150 nah
He a thug
@@star-not-moon aight
not only is charlie a successful actor, he's also an excellent news reporter
@@p-__ my cvm tastes better then his trust me i tasted it
I just came here to hang with the botses.
doing spins on it
@@zeldafreak1975I'd miss them if they were gone at this point
@@user-ph4vk9lx9oOh yeah i am, he carried game of thrones or whatever he was in
The Vice City thing is just a limitation from the ps2 eras. Its hard for the game to constantly bring up random cars so when its low on memory it'll just bring up cars that are already loaded and your car is the one it'll use
Then why is it also a thing on gta 5 pc and all the other gta's, it's not vice city exclusive.
@@GRT-Versley I never said it was a Vice City exclusive...
@@maxbracegirdle9990 You are though. Saying this bug happened because of ps2's limitation implies newer gta's on stronger platforms don't have this problem anymore, whilst they do.
@@GRT-Versley I'm not though. I said it's a limitation from the ps2 era, not that this happened because of the limitations of the ps2. And it's not a bug either. They originally wanted to have a set spawn rate for each vehicle, but this was too hard on the ps2, so a way of saving RAM was to lump cars into groups and pull from those. They then continued this practice all the way up to GTA V as a way to still save RAM to put it to use in other places. If you have a PC, you can easily get mods to have a more equal car spawn rate
@@maxbracegirdle9990 Touché, makes sense
0:42 I legit was looking for the name of this thing yesterday. I do believe we live in a matrix now. This happens waaay too often.
I love how Charlie refers to the human brain as "noodle" and how he uses "hog wild" instead of "crazy" as well as using some other words that i've never heard anyone say before like "hoopla" and "doubloons" and "wacky" and many more.
his lexicon is my absolute fav out of any creator or actual person i know lmao
You'd be surprised at how much heavy machinery all uses the same exact key. You can buy a keyring online with the keys for practically every and any piece of heavy machinery you could encounter, from golf carts to excavators.
@realyozI exposed myself
YEP! just get a CAT key and you can start 80% of the plant on most job sites :D
its legit 12 dollars to have one shipped to me rn.... no wonder people are doing this
Working on a bus yard I've seen it myself, got to a point where for a while we rewired the starters on the buses so if you turned the key and just pressed the starter the horn would blast unless you pushed a hidden button under the steering column
In a past life as a security manager my company used to rent out immobilization devices and tamper alarms to construction companies when they were in town, because their vehicles were always a target simply because of how easy they were to steal.
The Vice City thing is indeed a game mechanic. It spawns more of what you're currently in.
This phenomenon happens often to me. For example, a friend started saying "dogwater" often and I hadn't heard that before. And then I started hearing it in almost every video
The epitome of this is when you get your first car and start to notice people with the same car so much more than before.
Yup. Suddenly everyone in the neighborhood is driving a 1990s Honda Civic
01:13 Depending when it was, it could have also simply been a matter of RAM limitations.
eg, I was playing GTA III one day (PS2, circa 2002) and found that if you stop traffic it only takes a handful of cars to build up before the game runs out of vehicle "slots" and the entire city is dead-empty until those cars get a chance to unload.
When I saw the video last week, I was hoping this Australian masterpiece would be part of the list.
Glad to see Charlie got to witness and share the video
The GTA Vice City cars phenomenon was programmed into the game. Vice City changed what cars you saw on the road based on what car you were driving and what mission you were doing. It was initially thought to be a memory limitation, but there are several missions where certain cars simply appear frequently, and others (like the garage where you take wishlisted cars for a bonus payout) where certain cars are made intentionally more rare.
This was in my town!
My coworkers had an impromptu crew meeting the next morning where we all sat and watched the footage and cheered when the bugger drove past our work and we got free publicity.
One of the only things to come from this place to be proud of 👏
Yeh, i remember when this was on TV, i believe this is a few years old.
The front-end loader i think is either his own or a company he works for. By the looks of it he was trying to load and hide the bikes into the back of the dump truck and then probably load up the dozer and hope no one would suspect him.
I lived down the street when this happened. Everybody in one mile was talking about it for weeks.
This was in my home town in Australia and shit was wild. Accident happened in the dodgey part of the city centre and took the shop months to get that storefront fixed. He also left the loader on the train line and it fucked up our whole rain system the next day.
7:17 bro should’ve disguised as a sun bear
The amount of times Charlie says "Front End Loader" is making me laugh too hard.
Looking forward to in 2 weeks when we get the "I became a Front End Loader god" video.
I always called this "The magnet effect" although I think that is technically something else. For example: When you learn a new word you had never heard before and then it pops up naturally 4 times in week.. like a magnet bringing the word to you...
6:33 when the cop said “Good boy mate! Good boy!” I thought he was talking to the criminal, but then you said “he tried throwing off the dogs sent by getting nude” and then I realized that there must have been dogs there and that’s who the officer was calling a good boy!
The Frequency Illusion is one of my favorites. I always enjoy catching myself falling for psychological tricks. or maybe it was evolved. Better to notice that thing that caught your interest again and again. Probably evolved for threat identification. “That new thing i saw seems dangerous, oh, it seems that new thing is fairly common around here” Probably more advantageous when we were migrating
Its like the train derailments, people would legit pull up every single screw up by the rail industry for publicity. If you want someone to blame for the train derailments blame the US favoring smog spewing metal birds over improving our rail network. You can't crash a train into a building and the rail industry has more promise if it was held to the same damn standard.
I was just noticing the frequency illusion yesterday!
@@Logan-zp8bi i doubt the rail network has much to blame on the Plane Industry for it lack of attention is been getting when they service two very different fields, if anything, the they would blame the Interstate highway and it’s truckers
This is the raw power of forklift certification but this one is unrefined in his methods, with more training almost anything is possible being forklift certified
is being forklift certified like being a saiyan? is there a forklift certified 2?
1:15 I thought immediately about GTA and NO it's not an allusion. GTA only loads a couple of cars into your RAM, which means that you see the same cars for 10min. on average and they switch them slowly. So when you saw that one car you wanted, it loaded into the RAM and it would spawn frequently. The PS2 had 32-64MB RAM (I think) So GTA would load only 6-8 different cars into the RAM, because everything you see goes also into the RAM, so that your CPU can process it. The game is stored on the Disc or hard-drive but the CPU can only process the stuff in the RAM...
Sorry for the bad English but I hope you understood it 😂😅
about 10 years ago or so they were building a new wal mart on a lets say "boujie" side of town. it was mildly developed at the time. well one of the guys left the keys in a bob cat skidsteer amongst other heavy equipment. some dudes basically went there, joy rided them, got them stuck and left. it was a big story for my small city of 100k. they never caught the guys and at the same time its like why are these idiots leaving the keys in them? "oh its a nice neighborhood they would never try to steal this" well about 6 years after the incident i was at a local bar and was talking to this dude who ive talked to in the past but it was more of a bar buddy situation. turns out he was one of the guys and gave me full detail about it all and how they got away when the cops pulled up to search the spot. i mean was it wrong for them to do that? sure. but you leave heavy equipment un attended at night and a bunch of mountain bikers/bmx guys roll up to party in a construction spot well guess what happens lmao. they didnt steal them or anything, just a bunch of punk kids fucking around. the construction company deserved that shit at that point lmao.
"Small city of 100k" Bro what are you on??
@@1CoLoRz2fr tho, the fuck?
a lot of bots stole your comment
What's funny is my boss gets pissed if we pull the keys from the machines, although the other day he had us make sure to pull the key and lock one when we have another machine on that site with the same exact key and had us leave the key in that one smh
@AzureWolf168 I thought I grew up in a small city/large town with a population of 5k lmao
Lmao, you’re absolutely right about the Meinhoff illusion but the Vice City story is 100% the game spawning more of what you’re already driving.
I always noticed the game would do that, probably to save on memory.
There was a guy who stole a front loader, somehow got passed the cops and drove 25 kilometer to then park it at my Grandpa's Field, put it on fire and burned up 50 hay bales in the process. After that he went down to the lake and stole a boat and slept out on the lake.
Absolutely wild!!!
charlie is literally better than 90% of news outlets these days
@realyozreported you for promoting terrorism and self harm
holy glaze
As a man from Queensland I can proudly say I’m happy that this is the way our state is shown
Like seeing the time is 1:11 or 11:11 and suddenly realizing that every time you look at a clock it's 11:11.
Frequency illusion is interesting because the Recommendation system really does work on frequencies and probabilities. So even though the forklift example could be an illusion you basically bring it to life because you shared it then 100K people watched it then they will have their own frequency illusion and they will have their own and their own and suddenly everyone is ACTUALLY talking about forklifts.
@realyoz okay great
Charlie is in deep trouble when Ernst-Volker Staub, Daniela Klette and Burkhard Garweg find out that Charlie butchered the names of their dear friends and leaders…
Seems that the RAF will rise again , but this time in Florida.
Makes sense with all the Exil Cubans there I guess.
That bit about the GTA Vice City car showing up more often is actually a mechanic in the game. The kind of vehicle you get in affects the vehicles you see spawn.
I was stocking a grocery store overnight and a huge front loader broke through the glass near the cashes and just picked up the ATM and left lol. Its happened 3 times in a year in my small city.
I was taught in a marketing class that the "seeing a shrek green car, then seeing ten more in the home depot parking lot the same day" thing is all you said and that this was called a "reticular activator" but then they explained it exactly like you did. So I just commented to add "reticular activators" to everyone's vocabulary. You're welcome.
Priming kind of Imo
shrek green has become kind of a popular color in sports cars too, and if they gravitate towards similar places then it can also even have a plausible explanation
@@Fay7666 true, but in my comment, its more of an example of the phenomena of noticing something and then seeing it everywhere, than the specific color I was focused on. Like when you hear an odd word, then hear it again all day or see it in print everywhere, even if you never noticed it anywhere before, or knew the word before. Penguin explains all this pretty well in this video.
Thank you for your vocabular service
@@djentloverWord.
I used to think this happened to me all the time when I would learn new words, but I would actually turn out that everybody had watched the same show on TV that week and had just decided that word had always been part of their lexicon.
Could almost be seen as brainwashing when you look at it like that.
@realyozstfu nobody cares
"The use of a large vehicle as a battering ram as part of theft" is a single word in Danish, is how common it used to be. Also the biggest prison break in Danish history was done by just ramming the outer walls with a front end loader.
Charlie went from doubting this mans capability to praising his heist in about 0.5 seconds
"He got the Christmas Present!"
Charile's Jokes never fail to make me Laugh. 🤣
Can confirm, the dirt bike heist comes from the second best city in the world, Ipswich, not far off Brisbane in Australia.
If you want more wild stuff like this Gold Coast, Logan, and Caboolture/Redcliffe area will keep you entertained.
I drive some of this stuff. It's actually not that surprising when you find out a lot of equipment use a universal key, and also funnily it's often not hard to steal because of the whole "put on high vis and pretend you belong" strat. I've seen an excavator loaded onto a truck and stolen in broad daylight because everyone just assumed the guys doing it were meant to be doing what they were doing.
Hitman 4 story mission potential honestly, agent 47 has to steal a forklift in broad daylight to somehow get his target
These chases are getting more and more wild and HOW would you think you'd ever get out of such situation lol.
That happened in Brisbane, Australia a couple of years ago, it was a Benny Hill moment for sure. It ended up a foot chase when he got the loader bogged. No skunks in OZ so that wouldn't work.
People have been doing this for quite some time, FELs do a good job of carving ATM out of walls but anyone with half a brain would drop the loot into a more suitable gateway vehicle and abandon the FEL.
for a long time, even till now, if you owned a CAT or any other heavy machine key, you could start any machine. many of us heavy duty techs even had our own keys to use on any vehicle
15 years of watching Charlie and he's finally done a video about my home town in Australia.
Crazy hey. I used to work at the Dominos up the road, was kind of surreal seeing this footage the first time but somehow more surreal seeing charlie cover it.
I was searching for someone to say this is Australia 😂👌🏼 our home hahah soo, no skunks
I was wondering why the cop didn't just shoot the guy driving the front loader to death from his car...
Now I get it.
I wonder at what point he thought "This won't look sus at all. No one will try to stop me!"
New idea for a Decepticon in a movie you gave me, Charlie.
Imagine a group of Decepticons and humans trying to steal vehicles to get money for their evil schemes as well as build Megatron or a new Devastator combiner from scratch.
This front loader could be a Decepticon called Pinchpoint referencing how it is directly stealing goods like a penny snatcher pinches coins.
He could be yellow and grey in color and have four menacing red eyes, a heavy set body that is relatively short yet strong, and his tires could be in areas that look like he has giant rubber biceps or thighs.
His weapons of choice could be a scrap metal cannon that fires shotgun shots of shrapnel and a hook on a chain that he uses like a lasso to ensnare things like cars or ATMs full of cash. Man, you gotta use AI to generate its appearance to do it justice.
If you gona make movie abaut deseptions straling you got to include swindle
Lol @ the part where you specifically talked about giant rubber biceps or thighs - you’ve thought about this a lot I bet
Well, I wanted to make him imposing in appearance, and having the tires be on the arms between the forearms and the shoulders, or the knee and the hips could make for an interesting transformation. Where would they be otherwise? On his feet, like moon boots?
Oh, this is actually pretty common. I'm on a construction project, and in the past six months that I've been there, we've had heavy machinery stolen on three separate occasions. The first time it happened, I also thought it really couldn't be that common. Then my buddy told me that it had happened a couple weeks before i got there as well.
Depends. You could say "murder is pretty common" but obviously different states and cities vary drastically. Not everyone deals with constant theft of large machinery only some people do.
Every time my family gets a new car (i have three siblings so it's happened about six or seven times in the past ten years I'd say), I start seeing the same car EVERYWHERE. Gold X-trails, citroens, CRVs, EVERYWHERE I look. The moment Charlie mentioned the phenomenon I audibly went "Ooooh no way! it has a name!!!" and now I'm so happy to know I'm not freaking insane
Petition for Charlie to have his own documentary
@realyozwhat is your motivation?
A weird experience I've had is after I crashed my first car I started seeing that car more often but before the crash you'd never see that model anywhere on the road. Anybody else notice this?
yeah, quite a few years ago i bought a mint, 1994, 30k odometer integra gsr. i didnt have it for a week and i got in a really bad accident, a car coming from the opposite direction was ON FIRE, and I slowed down and was getting the car out of gear to neutral to hop out and help the people. I look back at the windshield and for a split second saw the rear bumper of an suv, blacked out and came to unable to hear or see. vision came back, looked down at my lap and thought "thats a lot of blood pouring on me". got out, somewhere in between the crash the fire car was taken care of, and people were coming up to me and turned white instantly, kind of mumbling "a. .are . .. yo.u. .. " and looking away, until one older lady came with a towel and was like, "youre really hurt, sit down and put this towel on your head so you stop bleeding", before i took the towel i looked in the rear view mirror and face, hair, shirt, everything i could see, was red and blood was pouring down my face. literally my face was completely red, and a huge puddle formed on the asphalt and only then i was like "oh thats probably not good" . . .. more stuff happened, i was ok, but from that moment on, I see 1994 integras EVERY WHERE ALL DAY EVERY DAY and have not had a day where i have not seen one (slight exaggeration, but it is extremely odd and i can't not notice them anymore). oh, when I got to the hospital and was getting checked out, I had the acura logo imprinted on my chest 100% clear from how hard i impacted the steering wheel. (wear your seatbelt folks)
sorry i went on a tangent. to answer your question, yes. Its been idk, 9 years since this happened and I still see them everywhere constantly where before I rarely saw them.
1:22 the Vice City thing isn't an effect of the Phenomenon, It's GTA coding, it's always been that a set amount of vehicles spawn at a given time, so when you're driving around in that vehicle, since that vehicle is loaded and belongs to a car group that can spawn in that area, it takes up one of those slots of "possible vehicles" because it is already loaded and rendered on the machine.
Charlie. This is a extremely common crime. From someone that has worked around heavy machinery most of their life. Not many rob actual stores though. Mainly places with fences they can run over.
Charlie is the greatest news reporter of all time
I agree
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@realyozwhy does bro keep copy and pasting the same nonsense 🤣🤣
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it's like he has been planning this for months on ends, and then when he lists the pros and cons, he got so much addicted to the pros he forgot to list the cons
The fact that it's getting more common that criminals can get their hands on excavators is crazy. But it's also hilarious seeing them trying to steal an atm's and other stuff.
Fun Fact: Heavy Equipment like this share keys among the same brands of vehicles - and excavator key will run a skidsteer - it’s fucked
My favourite part of this is that it happened in queensland thats so fucking typical tbh
@@flavourruling2162you can also buy almost every key in existence that will open any vehicle for under $100
4:20 Transformers Revenge of the Fallen: Scrapper.
1:20 yeah it was a game mechanic. To save resources it would render the same vehicle. I remember finding this one very unique vehicle that I never saw before and never saw again but I stole it and the moment I did this extremely unique vehicle duplicated to about 80% of all vehicles around me.
These things happen way more often than you think. Most of these construction vehicles have the keys left in overnight so they are stolen pretty often. As for stealing bikes with them too, we’ll that’s another story…
Do you know why they would leave the keys in overnight? Sounds like they are begging to have it stolen, why not just store the keys somewhere safe and secure would not take much effort or money
I like the idea of a good samaritan taking another construction vehicle to battle the first one. It would be like that fighting game from japan featuring dump trucks, back-hoes, and bulldozers.
I remember when someone in an articulated grader was trying to stop killdozer that was a cool little battle
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Aussies are descended from our penal colony, they're just practising their ancestral traditions lol
I feel like the "seeing something and it becomes more common" thing could be some kind of survival mechanism. Like if you saw a new animal like a bobcat for the first time and you had no way of knowing if it's dangerous or not. You would keep an eye out for more bobcats so you could keep track of them and see if they are a threat. Just a thought.
Proly our bodies are made to survive they have same insticts as thousands of years ago despite changes
dude is defying my existence
In Germany it's actually pretty common to steal heavy machinery (including trucks and tractors) to run in store fronts or warehouses. They leave the stolen vehicle at the scene and flee in a car or on foot tho
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What happens if u don't
@@r011ing_thunder6I die from a lack of charlie videos
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@I1p well I hope charlie posts videos every dae 😇
These machines often use the same keys based on brand, i have a ring of keys that can start most common equipment.
Really surprised it hasn't happened more.
i quite literally just woke up, perfect time for him to upload
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Actually yes Charlie, it was a game mechanic. It’s still a good example if you don’t know of this mechanic.
More of a limitation of the hardware and game engine
Thats like when I learn a new word in english(which isn't very common as I've been speaking english since I was 9 and I'm 16 now) and there on after I hear other people using the word way more, I actually never knew about this psychological phenomenon. Ty Charlie
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"Society has all the criminals that it deserves" -Emma Goldman
A phrase that slaps so hard, that after years of reading it my butt cheeks still hurt
Its also an incredibly stupid statement.