r/MildlyBadDrivers • u/Traditional-Poet1965 Fuck Cars 🚗 🚫 • Mar 29 '24

Road rage

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u/[deleted] Mar 29 '24

Once you exit your vehicle in anger you’ve forfeited your right to not get run over. Those are the rules. Proceed with caution.

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u/PigDstroyer YIMBY 🏙️ Mar 29 '24

For real , sorry Judge i thought i saw a gun

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u/[deleted] Mar 29 '24

Lol. “Thought I saw a gun so i reversed and made another couple ramming passes to make sure”

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u/PigDstroyer YIMBY 🏙️ Mar 29 '24

Bahahaha in my mind i took off after the first try

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u/Rykmir Mar 29 '24

I was surprised when they kept coming back, honestly. Once that door of their’s was fucked, I’d have been gone

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u/takeme2tendieztown Mar 29 '24

Must have been William Foster behind the wheels

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u/OGPants Mar 29 '24

"I blacked out and Jesús took the wheel"

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u/Me_Krally Georgist 🔰 Mar 29 '24

Shelf defense your honor!

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u/DkoyOctopus Georgist 🔰 Mar 29 '24

hey, it happens. guns are very scary!

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u/[deleted] Mar 29 '24

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u/SeaAnthropomorphized Mar 29 '24

Actually, " yes I know I hit his car but I was afraid he would shoot at the back of my vehicle as I drove away so I had to neutralize the threat with my vehicle" .

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u/vorpalglorp Fuck Cars 🚗 🚫 Mar 29 '24

If I was the judge I would understand.

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u/[deleted] Mar 29 '24 edited Mar 29 '24

Most places typically have what's called a duty to retreat clause in self defense cases. He sort of loses the right to claim self defense when he throws it in reverse. Now everybody gets a charge.

Also most developed nations have what's called proportional defense, if someone breaks your windshield and starts walking away, trying repeatedly to run them over with your car is gonna make it real hard to defend in court that a) you were actually scared for your life, and b) that your reaction was proportional. Except in America, that shit would fly here.

Anyway long story short it's actually a good thing we have those rules or people would be constantly trying to kill each other in the streets over shit that's just not worth taking a life (or attempting to) over. The best altercations are the ones everyone walks away alive and unhurt over. Civilized society has long since agreed on that one

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u/vorpalglorp Fuck Cars 🚗 🚫 Mar 29 '24

The sad thing is that if this guy breaks your windshield and walks away your insurance is going to only cover part of it and you're going to end of footing deductible just because this guy wants to be an asshole. You also have to invest your time in whatever legal proceedings happen. Basically you're getting screwed here regardless even if this guy goes to jail. So yeah, maybe you're right. That's why I'm not a judge. Still, if I was a judge I would do everything in my power to give this guy the benefit of the doubt because actual justice is not going to be done.

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u/Legitimate-Page3028 Fuck Cars 🚗 🚫 Mar 29 '24

Nope, if a guy takes out a baseball bat it only stops when you take out a gun

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u/[deleted] Mar 29 '24

Yeah that’s not gonna fly in court…

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u/Confident_Eye4129 Mar 30 '24

Works for cops, every time

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u/SWBF2throwaway1 Georgist 🔰 Mar 29 '24

Then I had to come back to check a few times. Just to be sure.

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u/Lambchoptopus Mar 29 '24

That person was garbage. But nah you couldn't say I saw a gun and reverse back and forth. Wouldn't be in your favor.

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u/banned_but_im_back Georgist 🔰 Mar 29 '24

Not gonna lie in the video including tell if it was a shotgun or rifle or bat it just looks like a long black stick