In a bizarre new trend, reckless drivers have taken road rage to the next level by turning brake-checking semi-trucks into a full-blown sport. Dubbed Playing Chicken 2025, this dangerous stunt is gaining traction across social media, where thrill-seekers film themselves slamming the brakes in front of fully loaded trucks – all in an attempt to rack up the most “near misses” without getting flattened.
The rules? Simple, but stupid. Points are awarded based on how dramatically the truck reacts. A horn blast? Five points. Sudden swerve? Ten points. Full-on jackknife? Instant leaderboard victory. Some daredevils have even introduced bonus challenges, like brake-checking a convoy or attempting to “trap” a semi between two cars.
“We used to just flip people off and move on, but now they’re treating us like NPCs in a demolition derby,” grumbled one veteran trucker. “I’d love to see them try this on an old cabover with no ABS.”
The trend has already caused a record number of highway pileups, with dashcam footage capturing everything from near-collisions to trucks plowing through their “opponents” like an unstoppable force of karma. While authorities are cracking down on offenders, catching them is proving difficult, especially since most of them flee the scene faster than their common sense.
And just when truckers thought it couldn’t get worse, a startup company is reportedly developing a “Playing Chicken” mobile app, allowing drivers to compete for prizes based on how close they come to disaster. If this sounds ridiculous, keep in mind that last year’s “Traffic Jam Selfie Challenge” resulted in multiple arrests and at least one person accidentally live-streaming their own fender bender.
Law enforcement agencies have issued stern warnings, urging drivers to remember that semi-trucks don’t stop on a dime and are not part of a real-life racing game. But as long as social media keeps rewarding stupidity, truckers can only hope that one day, Playing Chicken 2025 will go the way of the Tide Pod Challenge – into the archives of bad ideas that should’ve never existed.
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