"Tread Marked", Way to Die #160, is the third death featured in "It's a Dead, Dead, Dead World", which aired on July 15, 2012.
Plot[]
Ted, a junk scavenger, finds a tire on the side of the road and attempts to pull it into his truck. Meanwhile, down the road, Jed, an outlaw, is drunk-driving, until he is stopped by a police officer. Jed acts impolite to the police officer and freely admits that he's been drunk-driving, and when asked to get out of his car, Jed manages to subdue the officer by tasering him and stealing his gun in a standoff. Meanwhile, Ted slips up in the bed of his truck and loses the tire. Back at the scene where the officer is, Jed is about to shoot him when all of a sudden, the same tire that Ted attempted to pull it into his truck rolls down the hill and hits the Jed on the right side of his body, causing him to die from multiple injuries sustained from the tire, as well as his head hitting the street pavement, crushing his frontal lobes, thus sending the evildoing outlaw to the hell where he belonged.
Transcript[]
- Jed: "Guess who's in charge now?"
- Narrator: "Jed's all set to pop a cop."
- Jed: "Got you in my sights, pig!"
- Narrator: "Instead..."
(A tire that Ted loses rolling towards Jed)
- Jed: (screams)
(The tire hits Jed, causing him to fall lobe first to the road)
- Narrator: "...Jed gets some tread."
Interviewees[]
- Dr. Duncan McBride - Neurotrama Surgeon
Trivia[]
- In the German version, the scene where the police officer pulls over Jed is extended with Jed saying "I don't need a permit for my firearm. I said I'ma American that's what we do. We drink, and we shoot stuff. So what, I pay my taxes, I pay your salary."
- This is the only segment that aired in the episode It's a Dead, Dead, Dead World to not be in all caps.
- A college student named Meg died in a similar way.
Goofs[]
- Factual Error: It is almost impossible to tackle a police officer, plus the officer should had more than one gun, or a walkie-talkie to call for backup.
- Factual Error: When we see the tire rolling away from Ted's truck, the road appears to curve at the end. According to the narrator, this happened miles away from Jed tackling the officer, but the tire somehow managed to make turns and find him without any barriers or obstacles to stop it.
Segment Nicknames[]
- Tire Straits (Spike TV)
- Road Roll
- Tire of Fate
- Wheel of Misfortune
- Tread Trap
Foreign Names[]
- La Rueda del Destino (The Wheel of Fate) - Latin American Spanish and European Spanish dubs
- La rueda de la fortuna (Wheel of Fortune) - Pluto TV Spanish dub
- Rodado (Wheeled) - Brazilian Portuguese dub
- Ausgereift (Matured) - German dub
- Kunaklato Yanta (Unexpected Tire) - Lazoran dub
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