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Woman survives car being cut in half ⁠94%

5/9/2026, 8:27:25 PM

Topics: Video
Keywords: Youtube

BS Summary: This video contains 20 faulty reasoning types, including Negativity Bias, Availability Heuristic, and Anecdotal, with Appeal to Emotion as the most egregious example at 38% saturation with 100 hits. Analysis detected 621 faulty-reasoning hits from 263 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 90.6% and a BS Rank of ⁠94% (1,064 of 16,813 videos). This video is worse (more manipulative) than 93.70% of the video peer group.

Jaw-dropping moments. A violent wreck 
caught on camera. That's the back half 
of 19-year-old Demi Vasley's 2015 Kia 
Optima flipping and rolling. Sparks 
flying before slamming to a harrowing stop. 
The front half of her car in the road where Vasley says she was still strapped in. 
>> I could see in my rearview mirror that 
the whole back half of my car was gone. 
>> The dramatic scene captured on a nearby gas station security camera in the suburbs of Detroit just before midnight 
on May 4th. 
Vasley says she was leaving her boyfriend's home when another car slammed into her. 
>> I just had probably the worst scream of my life. 
My scream is honestly still haunting me till this day. 
I didn't know if I was alive or if I was dead. 
First thing a few blocks ahead of me was a huge Taco Bell sign and I just knew like, oh wow, I'm still on Earth right where where I was. 
>> Did you get out of the car yourself? 
>> No, they had to get me out. 
I was a little stuck. 
I just my body was just in complete shock so it was a bit hard for me to move. 
at the hospital. 
She says police told her three cars were involved and one of the other drivers may have been impaired. 
A recent high school grad who dreams of becoming a famous artist 
one day says she's dealing with neck and back pain, but tonight is grateful to be 
Confirmation Bias
3.4%
Anchoring Bias
0%
Availability Heuristic
32.3%
Representativeness Heuristic
2.3%
Hindsight Bias
0%
Overconfidence Bias
4.6%
Framing Effect
17.5%
Loss Aversion
0%
Status Quo Bias
0%
Sunk Cost Effect
0%
Optimism Bias
8%
Pessimism Bias
8%
Negativity Bias
33.5%
Self-Serving Bias
11.4%
Fundamental Attribution Error
6.5%
Actor-Observer Bias
5.3%
In-Group Bias
0%
Out-Group Homogeneity Bias
0%
Halo Effect
4.6%
Horn Effect
0%
Dunning-Kruger Effect
0%
Recency Bias
0%
Primacy Effect
1.9%
Blind-Spot Bias
0%
Ad Hominem
0%
Straw Man
0%
Appeal to Authority
7.2%
False Dilemma
8%
Slippery Slope
0%
Circular Reasoning
0%
Hasty Generalization
0%
Red Herring
0%
Bandwagon
0%
Appeal to Emotion
38%
Begging the Question
0%
Post Hoc (False Cause)
0%
Tu Quoque
0%
Burden of Proof
7.2%
Appeal to Nature
0%
Composition/Division
0%
Anecdotal
21.3%
No True Scotsman
0%
Ambiguity (Equivocation)
9.1%
Gambler’s Fallacy
0%
Middle Ground
0%
Personal Incredulity
0%
Special Pleading
0%
Genetic Fallacy
0%
Unattributed Quote
6.1%
Quote-first Misdirection
0%
Biased Writer Voice
0%
Indoctrination
0%
Politically Left Leaning Bias
0%
Politically Right Leaning Bias
0%
Attempt to Sell a Product or Service
0%

263 words analyzed.

Analysis

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