What was your first crash like, mot/o/'s?

> First day, first bike, just have taken an MSF course.
> R6
>Get cocky when riding my new first bike home
>Decide to lane split
>R6s aren't very good at tight slow maneuvers.
>Go full lock and my wrist gets jammed
>Whiskey throttle
>Side swipe a classic vehicle and wipe out in the intersection.
>Everyones watching
>Ambulance conveniently on the oncoming traffic turn lane
>Run back to classic car I hit in primer gray, worried about scratching it
>Lady driving it is more worried about me
>Ambulance tells me to pick up my bike
>Run back to bike and pick it up,
>Traffic waiting, palms sweating
>Bike wont start due to lean sensor
>Roll bike to sidewalk
>End up slowly driving it back home.
>Parents ask what took so long.
>They see scratches on bike, deny everything.
> Broke mirror and brake lever.
>Find out brake lever is broken when it hairline fractures when I come home one day and wont move. LOL

Ass was sore for a week and I was afraid of the bike for about a week too.

>driving drunk

First crash wasn't really a crash.
>driving along city street in the afternoon
>doing 40mph, the speed limit, going with flow of traffic
>no room to speed here anyways its a busy road
>see green light ahead
>keep going along
>coming up on light and realize a car is sitting there at a dead stop
>slam on my brakes
>ABS kicks in
>looks like I could make it
>my car just barely taps the car that was stopped AT THE GREEN LIGHT for no reason with no traffic in front of it
>immediately the car in front of me puts it in park
>nigress jumps out
>herewego.jpg
>she comes back to me
>all she says "are you calling the police or am i?"
>first crash, 18, just say I guess you are
>she goes back and sits in her car
>stays there blocking an entire lane of traffic
>doesnt even move her car up so mine is no longer touching it
>cant even put mine in park because if I let my foot off the brake my car will move forward and push hers slightly
>stay there with foot on the brake until the cop shows up
>cop walks up to me first
>"you alright? Why the fuck didn't the car you hit move? no ones hurt it doesnt even look like theres damage"
>tell the cop I have no idea and I've just been waiting
>finally we pull into a shopping center
>no damage to nigress car, my bumper just flexed and my grill is half sticking out
>cop is bewildered that she got called for this
>explain to cop that she was at a dead stop at a greenlight and I had to slam on my brakes
>cop is sympathetic but says she has to right me a ticket since it was a rear end, regardless of what the lady was doing
>I understand the cop has to but I mention the lady seems like shes at fault here too
>cop says its a weird situation
>ends up writing nigress ticket for reckless endangerment
>at least thats something
>have to attend 4 hour long traffic course so no points on license
>nigress never makes insurance claim because there was literally no damage and no reason to get the cops involved
>turns out better than expected
>still pissed off

Now i always avoid blacks while driving. Especially black women. One time I was driving on the highway, it was 3 lanes, no other cars, I'm coming up in the fast lane and I notice a car going stupidly slow so I get over, and I look over and for some reason this black girl is doing about 50 in the fast lane, sitting super close to her steering wheel. If you're doing 50 and theres no traffic why wouldnt you be in the slow lane? why in the fuck would you ever do 50 in the fast lane when the speed limit is 70? Christ.

Anyways its 4am so
>first real crash
>sitting at a red light
>hear beeping behind me
>not normal beeping but loud and long beeping
>shit
>all the sudden car gets hit and lurches forward
>hits the car in front of me
>glass everywhere
>after moment of initial shock hop out of car
>some car hit a motorcycle behind me and rammed the motorcycle into me and it was with enough force it rammed me into the car in front of me
>motorcyclist is writhing on the ground
>some foreign guy jumps out of the car that rear ended us all and is obviously slurring his words and flipping out
>multiple people stopping now and getting out
>two nurses run over that saw it happen
>everyone calling 911 while checking on motorcyclist
>cop was just down the street and comes up
>takes drunk asshole off to the side
>other cops show up and entire street/intersection gets closed off
>back of my car absolutely destroyed
>car in front of me that i hit is a fiat and its mostly okay but front of my car is fucked
>motorcycle and drunk guys car are wrecked
>ambulance hauls off motorcyclist while I watch drunk guy go through sobriety test
>cops taking statements from everyone
>my car still runs but barely
>drunk guy gets hauled away in a police cruiser

Insurance called my car totaled after about a month. Whole thing was a shit show and I feel bad for the dude on the bike. It's always someone else fucking up your day. All I wanted to do was head to pf changs that night for a nice dinner and instead I got my car totaled by some drunk spanish guy.

>pic related the bike

>50cc Piaggio moped
>BMW E30
>full frontal collision
>moped in half
>user missing 6 teeth
>wrist broken
>shinbone brokeb
>collarbone fractured
>ribs bruised
it was my fault. I was an overconfident chav kid who overestimated his abilities and brakes.
Never fucked around since.

I've scraped a wheel because I didn't notice a fuckhueg pothole at night. Outside of that, I managed to get my trashcan wedged between my car and the ground once.

My worst "crashes" were my motorcycle spinning out in mud and tipping over and some drunk hillbilly driving his truck into the side of my driving school's car.
In 4 years of daily driving (I know it isn't that much)

I got rear ended by a girl that was texting
Her car was totalled and mine just needed a new bumper, she didn't have collision either. serves that idiot right.

Picture is/was my car

I was 18, had my first car for 3 months

>drive in my shitty 2004 Ford Fiesta through the german woods at 120kph 3 days before christmas
>street takes a left turn
>downhill
>guy in brand new Opel Insignia comes out of a sideway
>cuts me off
>crash without any helps of the breaks into him because shitty brakes
>both cars completely totaled
>somehow got out of the Fiesta without a single scratch, just pressure marks from the seatbelt

The Fiesta was a pretty a solid car for how it did in a 100kph+ crash

>r6 as first bike
top kek

2009. Blind guy in vitara wiped out my bumper and headlight. I fixed my silver beauty in one our. His car had all right side ripped off.

My first crash (and I’d ridden for many years before it happened) I was in Baja doing close to 100kmh (on an empty desert highway) when the front tube of the dual sport I was riding UNZIPPED spontaneously. Tire went completely flat in an instant. I lost a little speed before going for a long slide. The bike came away totally unscathed except for a ground-down mirror and plastics (DR350), and miraculously all I got was a scraped knee (still have a very noticeable scar). I was very lucky it happened where it did on a straight (in a corner and especially on a cliff I’d likely be dead), and to keep it centred on the road (just to the side it was all giant boulders and giant cactuses), and also that there was no traffic. I managed to replace the tube and straighten the wheel out bleeding at the side of the road.

p.s. I can’t recommend the DR enough, you could drop it out of a plane and I’m confident it’d drive away just fine

BTW I live in Vietnam now and see the aftermath of bike crashes on the daily. I would opt recommend motorcycling to anyone who isn’t pretty damn aware of what’s around them and with good reflexes. The typical middle age guy who buys a giant bike he can barely keep balanced and only rides on the weekend in particular terrifies me (and not surprisingly a lot of those guys end up hurt/dead before long).

> First day, first bike, just have taken an MSF course.
> R6
Why is this allowed?

Hit a pole at 2mph, no damage because plastic renault bumper
:^^^)

>I've watched motovloggers
>basically semi professional

>yesterday
>stopped at light
>light turns green
>hit gas
>hear weird clunk as brakes release
>???
>woman behind me honks at me
>pull into destination some 2 miles later
>scratch on bumper
This bitch rear ends me and then has the fucking audacity to honk at me. I hate the fucking midwest.

I've been rear-ended twice. Both times I was stopped in traffic. First time was very light and the only damage was from the guys license plate screws. I made him give me 200 bucks and then got my bumper fixed for free.

Second time was a lot worse.
>stopped in traffic in right lane of highway
>driver two cars behind doesnt see that traffic has stopped
>hits guy behind me (also stopped) going 60
>car gets pushed into me and i get pushed into the car ahead of me.

The dude that was stopped behind me got rekt, the idiot that hit him was unconscious until paramedics arrived. Somehow my car was relatively undamaged. Drove it away. Got quoted 700 bucks to fix rear bumper and crash bar (way too low, appraiser was an asshole, but whatever) ended up taking the cash since the car looked pretty much undamaged and was in rough shape anyway.

>2005
>Be 16 with permit
>Turning right on to main road on a green light
>Old fucker in a big truck runs red light and side-swipes me
>Cop shows up
>Old guy claims I jumped into his lane, I tell the cop he ran a red light
>Cop believes old man and gives me a ticket

Fucking Baby Boomer generational bias, man.

>tearing up the twisties, trying to push the limit a bit
>coming up to a hairpin turn
>go in a little faster than usual
>drag pegs because loldualsport with soft suspension and low pegs
>no biggie, not the first time I've done this
>hmm, I've never dragged pegs this hard befo-
>lowside
>fairing is scratched up, but I got away without a single injury
Lesson: don't try to push the limit on the street and always wear gear

Today I figure there would be a camera. You should have fought the ticket.

>be me
>Stopped on a 4 lane highway in left lane
>Bored as fuck, see Stacy in a Matrix on her phone, we're the first ones at the light
>Chad in a lifted F-250 pulls up behind her and gets on his phone
>Green light
>Both just sitting there, I start accelerating
>Someone honks at Chad, who floors it still on the phone
>Stacy gets buttfucked by Chad
>Drive away bcus lol late for class

Told the story on here several times
>"""Rallying""" in my beater subaru
>Going sideways on gravel mountain road
>Back starts spinning too far
>Turn the wheel all the way in the other direction like a retard
>Suddenly gain traction
>Drive off cliff

Why are you fucking morons telling car crash stories when OP is talking about motorcycles?

my second or third time riding my zx12r, a learner driver stalled her car and rolled down a hill into me. I have nerve damage in my shoulders.

Haven't yet. Dreading it.

My scooter fell over once. All the fuel leaked out and I had to buy more.

My first few were all low speed drops and slow low-sides

Clackamas County Oregon. Look at the firetruck's door.

never happened. one time i almost drifted my miata into the ditch, but i managed to avoid it

and i guess one time i've rekt the rollerskating guy
>sun blasting directly into my eyes
>can see guy in a car from the road trying to get into the little street i'm on
>i guess i'm a bit in his way, so i wanted to move
>can't see shit
>moved a bit forward, stopped on the bike lane that was between little street and the road
>rollerskating guy out of nowhere, he avoids my car and falls on the roadside
>whoops
he was sulking, it was kinda amusing. i apologized multiple times, asking if he's fine, he was constantly talking about how he has no brakes in his rollerskates, then just got up and rollerskated away
i guess i'm a bit more careful now

She probably wanted you to turn to the side of the road to exchange info. You kept on going and so did she.

First day I had my bike, riding it home. Got most of the way home, then mounted a kerb I didn't see under the thick fog that was coating the ground to a height of two feet, and which had appeared suddenly. Wheels slid out from under me, then I hit the ground and slid for a bit.
Luckily, the guy in the car behind was a biker as well, and helped me get the bike upright again and everything sorted out, since my helmet had filled with fog.

The only injury was a bruised elbow, and the only damage some scratches and a bent gear lever. It turns out, safety gear is a good thing.

Never hit another car but I ended up in a ditch twice.

>Taking highway off ramp in old POS Altima
>Road was wet, just stopped raining
>Paying attention, breaking smoothly like normal
>All of a sudden 100% traction loss
>Didn't even start the curve, went straight into curb at 40mph
>Both front tires popped and I went into a ditch
>Drove out, called AAA
>While I'm waiting two other cars lose traction at the same spot and go into ditch
>Both drive off with no problems
To this day I swear there had to be oil on the road or something. Second time in ditch was just me accidentally taking my Miata sideways for the first time and having no idea how to drift properly.

this, feels nice knowing im not the only one that retarded. Understeered dad's corolla on a rainy highway entrance.

also got in a hit and run 6 months after I got my first car. Retard tailgating truck totaled my accord, which worked out cause insurance gave me double what I payed for the car.

I have crashed many things

First one was when i was about 10 in a golf cart
>grandparents live on a private lake
>everyone uses golf carts/atvs to get around
>fucking around in the golf cart with a friend
>doing power slides on the gravel and shit
>on the way back to the house was swerving down the road for luls
>get a little close to the ditch
>panic slightly hit gas instead of break
>cart is going into the ditch
>look at friend and yell bail out
>I tuck and roll
>he froze up and rode it into the ditch
>cart hits a tree stump
>everyone ok
>take walk of shame to grandparents house and tell my grandpa I crashed his golf cart
>hes mad but glad no one got hurt
>gets the 4 wheeler out and pulls it out of the ditch

2nd isnt really a crash but was funny
>be about 12 now
>grandparents breaking up old driveway and pouring a new bigger one
>rent a backhoe or what every they are called bucket on the front claw arm on the back
>they let me and my cousins fuck around in the heavy equipment because how fucking cool is that when you are a kid
>me and the cousins find out its really fucking easy to make this thing wheelie
>do a wheelie but give it a little to much
>claw arm on the back hits the ground and somehow the hydraulic cylinder near the scoop ends up breaking
>luckily we had already done the actual work we rented it for
>o shit
>uncle looks at it and welds it back together
>return backhoe
>they never knew

3rd
>be 17
>driving my Sonoma to school
>waiting to turn right onto main road
>car infront of me starts to go road is clear
>look left to see if it was still clear as I roll forward at .5 mph
>for whatever reason car infront decides to stop even though its clear
>love tap her bumper
>shes calls her dad
>puts me on the phone with her dad
>hes like is there any dmaage
>told him no there's a scuff on the bumper but its not broken or anything
>girls dad is like whatever no big deal

continued....

You're fucking pathetic you know that.

crashes 4-6 involved me getting rear ended at a stoplight not much story there

7th
>be 24
>finally able to afford a nice car
>buy a WRX
>Only ones dealers have are loaded out ones
>not really interested in optioned out ones for STI money
>tell them just order me a base model
>3 months later its finally been built and shipped over
>Take my mom for a ride
>on the way back to the house to drop my mom off and give my dad the keys to go rip on it
>old lady runs a 4 way flashing red and t-bones me in driver rear door
>180 in the intersection so im now facing the road i had been coming from
>I owned that car for 3 hours and it had 65miles
>was a sad day

8th
>Be 26
>I want a motorcycle
>Find a CBR 600 on craiglist
>Have 0 riding experince
>Fuck it i can ride a bicycle and drive a stick how hard could it be
>Have bike about 6 months no issues
>Got a little over confident on a road I ride on frequently
>coming into a corner
>realize I'm going to fast
>choices are stand it up and try to stop before I run out of road or just go for it
>I went with go for it
>made it halfway through corner
>lose front tire and low side bike
>bike lands on my foot
>I slide down road with bike
>finally able to kick away from bike
>fuck that hurt
>road rash and pretty sure I twisted my ankle getting out from under the bike while sliding
>limp over to bike and pick it up
>some scrapes and the rear brake lever got ground down so its smaller than it was before
>nothing actually bent though
>ride bike home
>wake up next day with a foot the size of a cantalope
>have roommate drive me to urgent care to get some x-rays
>damage ended up being broken foot, twisted ankle, and some decent rash on my leg

if you want to count driving work vehicles as well I've been rear ended in a Tow truck twice. Tow truck was good car that hit it was not good at all.

What happened after the 7th crash? Did you get a replacement WRX or what?

Some shitty drivers have no concept of where there car is in relation to the road, so they drive in the left lane on the highway using the solid line on the outer edge to guide themselves.

I was driving my girlfriend's car, a 2010 Honda Civic, going straight through a green light in the rightmost lane. Somebody pulled out pretty much directly into the front passenger side of her car while taking a right turn at a red light. The other driver had a baby in her back seat. She totaled my girfriend's car.

> Drive 05 GTO as daily
> Car slides everywhere and has horrible traction but its fun
> Always taking corners hot and power sliding around canyons
> Launching sideways and generally driving like a douche (when nobody is around)
> Buy a 98 honda civic sedan for muh mpg.
> Understeer into a guard rail a week later taking a corner too hot.
> GTO was my first car and I learned how to drive in a pickup and a camaro
> Crashed my 1st FWD car cause.

got the car fixed but lady who hit me was a liar and a cunt so it took 6 months of fighting with insurance company.

I would say I've never been in an accident, but technically I have I guess.
>be towing a trailer through city
>going straight past T intersection
>perpendicular traffic has to stop, I dont
>see truck roll the stopsign right before me and stop kind of in the intersection
>pass by in front of it thinking nothing
>just about to slow for the intersection directly after it
>suddenly the rear of my truck slides a foot over
>they hit the trailer
>stop and get out and look
>no damage to the trailer
>their trucks bumper and fender are fucking fucked M8, like big time.
>they got it on the fender of the trailer and it basically ripped their shit up
>trailer stronk
>go up to them and see wtf
>woman, drunk as fuck
>she says it's fine, after I state no damage
>fug it, say good evening to them and leave
>thoughts now sink in about how the trailer has no side markers or anything and I could have been fucked
Fug XD

How the fuck are you licensed to drive???

well only one that was my fault and involved another car happened 11 years ago. Not sure what you can do when people drive into the back of you while you are sitting at a stoplight.

you don't need a license to drive a golf cart or a backhoe, even if you did I wasn't old enough one have one anyway. You get your permit at 15 here.

>driving drunk

Never been in a crash. But... I was outside with my hand on the handle ready to open the door when an ASIAN managed to back into my front... in an open parking lot.

True story: I'm European and I saw a fat woman in sweat pants who had shit herself at the Clackamas mall back in 2002, during my first ever visit to the US.

You need some new friends my dude

Yeah, fuck dogs

You committed a felony by fleeing the scene you nigger.

>stopped in traffic
>dumb german bitch not paying attention rams into me at 50kph
>get pushed into the car in front
>tries to say it was my fault

fuck that cunt, was a real solid car before she wrecked it

...

>had license for 2 days
>on intersection turning left
>see post truck coming straight
>think i can make it in time
>turns out i cant
well it was work car so who cares, havent crashed with big bike yet, with my moped ive crashed 3 times this winter already cuz its freezing and snow

I hit a deer once in my alfa 166. Needed a new headlight and bumper

tapped a Touran in heavy traffic at around 2kph no damage and we parted ways

And I guess I dropped my bike once while checking the oil and forgetting about the sidestand

>I drive drunk all the time
Go fuck yourself

>1999 V6 Camaro
>Have a 50 mile drive between my house and Uni since I live in the fucking sticks
>Roads are windy as all fuck
>Coming back home from classes
>Going around one particular sharp corner on top of a cliff
>There's a fucking semi I assume was dodging scales, halfway over on my side coming at me head on
>Have a split second to either get mashed flat or drive off the cliff
>I swerve and go off the cliff
>Car rolls and and skids the whole way down
>Semi driver slowed down to make sure I was dead then kept right on going
>Crawl out from the car and sit beside the road bleeding for an hour and a half before a car finally passed by.
>2 more hours before Bluestains show up
>Bluestain cunts don't want to deal with the hassle of finding the semi driver so I get a ticket for reckless driving
>Out three grand with the DA to take care of it
>Insurance says "lol not our problem"
I'll never ever be not pissed about it

>r6
The hell is wrong with you. Should've started on a 250/300cc bike first

Avoid women (small especially) in big SUV's they are some of the worst drivers I've seen on the road

Stories like this are why i got a dashcam.

>ITT: People who pay a shitton of money on insurance and a car yet dont drop 100 bucks on a good dashcam.

>ride on bike
>road works on on-ramp
>concrete barriers on both sides
>barriers are right on the line on the left side
>target fixate on them
>slam into them at 60-80km/h
>get dragged over barriers by bike
>slam on the ground when they ended

Gloves were pulled off, jacket was torn from my left shoulder to right hip, kevlar jeans torn completely.
Broke a bone in my hand, bruised both wrists, a rib, hips and knee. Lost one finger nail.
I still have problems putting force on something with my pinky, crawling sometimes hurts and on cold days it hurts like hell getting out of bed, it has been almost two years now.

Bike was relatively fine. Crash bars folded in completely, valve covers have been replaced. Still have the scratches going from front to back on both sides.

>been riding about 4 years at this point
>on my trusty sv650
>one summer i saved up enough for a faster bike
>minty 2007 r1
>i know its fast as liquid shit so i take it easy for the first couple days
>late one night im on the highway and some other bikes are coming up fast behind me
>was debating keeping up with them
>suddenly a self centered prick in a maroon town and country crosses two lanes from the highway entry ramp
>smashes right into the side of me, also hits one of the other bikers that had just started passing me
Two broken ribs, fracture in my arm and hip, and hell of a concussion.
I only remember up to the bikes coming up behind me, but the other bikers stayed so the police report was pretty detailed.
>i didnt even have the r1 long enough to take any pictures of it

>>concrete barriers on both sides
Of course. The fuckers can't see over the wheel. Whenever I see one she is lurching forward with her nose pointing in the air because she simply cannot see. Short people should be required to use booster seats.

>rainy day
>driving in left lane down windy road
>go around a bend and see a car with its hazards on
>slam on brakes and manage to stop in time
>car behind me rear ends me
>car behind that car rear ends him
Turns out the car that was stopped had hydroplaned into the curb.

>be innadesert with my husky 501
>wander out into the middle of nowhere and send it
>hit a kiddie berm out in the middle of nowhere, 6th gear pinned
>do a handstand on my fucking bars when the bike kicks me off

We traditionally put down grit in the sloped paved driveway to make it less slippery after snowfall. Back when I was underage and riding a scooter I ironically didn't slip on snow but slipped on the grit turning into the driveway, and put the scooter into the adjacent fence. Had to replace one of the brake levers and smashed up the front plastic piece, forcing me to ride around with the front covered in duct tape for the rest of the time.

I don't think you could consider it a crash but it was an accident for sure.

>got first manual car
>it's an 89 Mustang
>conveniently also my first rwd car
>decide to practice driving stick on the gravel roads by my house because they're straight and empty
>took turn too fast and oversteer into a ditch
>broke part of my bumper and my pride
>there was a mail truck behind me who probably thought I was an idiot (which isn't a wrong assumption)

I was at this intersection in the lane turning to the right. My lane and the pedestrian crossing on the road (the one further away) gets the green light at the same time.
I was coming on at around 30km/h (~19 mi/h), and was already taking the turn, when a pedestrian I didn't see before ran in front of me.
I'm still an inexperienced rider, so I made a bad decision: I grabbed the front brakes. You can guess the rest.
The bike suffered mostly suffered cosmetical damage, scratched paint on the right fairing and rollbar, however my right turn signal was totaled, had to get a new one.

>age 9
>took keys of dad's truck
>"i'm going to travel, see the world"
>get in truck
>"wtf! R is ready? D is done? P is park? hmmm ok"
>reversed into garage door

never had any crash since then

Fuck you, kys

Put your trip back on, cummy.

>just close one eye. Really works.
LOOOOL i really want to see you with one eye closed during a field sobriety test

>you could drop it out of a plane and I’m confident it’d drive away just fine

All of this, I have a 1997 DR350, looks the same as your pic. You just can not kill these bikes.

What car was ruined dog?

NICE TRY INSURANCE GUY
YOU WON'T CATCH ME AT FAULT

>car in front of me that i hit is a fiat and its mostly okay
>but front of my car is fucked

How'd you get a ticket if the cop didn't witness the accident?

>Drive off cliff
lmao

I wasn't lmaoing then lol

>be 6 or 7
>driving my bush basher around the property
>have bits of wood drilled into the pedals so i can reach them
>brake breaks
>can't reach the brake anymore
>heading for the dam
>run into a tree stump instead
>car rolls because its a big fuck off stump
not bad for a first crash
pic related but not it, was an 83 celeica gt

>getting pretty good at doing wheelies on my 600
>can ride at balance point and work the rear brake, not shitty throttle choppy low wheelies
>loop one as soon as I pop the clutch one time. Didn't even have time to hit the brake
>road rash on my butt and all the plastics on the bike fucked
>less than a month later I buy a liter peter
>hit a deer that jumped out into me on the way home
>bike flipped forward and landed on my leg, breaking it
>now have 2 fucked up bikes and a broken leg

No liter no peter
>inb4 46cc too few

I took it down to South America and sold it there, which I regret since I'll never have another bike near as tough, reliable, and easy to work on. But shipping home would have cost more than the bike was worth (in dollar terms).

>driving in town with instructor
>when starting to move at an intersection everything suddenly shakes and I think I fucked up or something
>turns out some super tired trucker that had been driving for like 9 hours that was behind us started moving and the weight of his car was too great for him to stop it in time or some shit
>faggot instruction later acted to other students like I caused an accident because he was asspained he had to go fix his shitbox's rear hatch and blamed the learning student because I actually wanted him to teach me how to drive instead of knowing everything already before stepping into his car

>Restricted licenses
Why is THIS allowed?

Because idiots run out and buy sport bikes.

You weren't loling then lmao

It has two wheels for a reason.

Sat in the front passenger seat while my friend drifted a Volvo 740 wagon straight into a container.