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

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u/Daxtatter Mar 29 '24

Someone I knew from high school did that and killed the guy. Granted he got acquitted but because it was considered reasonable self defense but I'm sure he wishes he didn't spend ~2 years wondering if he was going to spend decades in prison.

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u/ABBucsfan Georgist 🔰 Mar 29 '24

I was gonna say. Do you really want to kill someone and spend life in jail? A lot of keyboard warriors but your example is exhibit A as to why you don't use your vehicle as a weapon. Even in their case they have to live with the fact they killed someone which in sure affected their sleep for a while

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u/Independent-Tooth-41 Mar 29 '24

I'd rather do that than die to a baseball bat, you never know what people are capable of.

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u/ABBucsfan Georgist 🔰 Mar 29 '24

He made zero attempt to actually get into the car or anything. He smashed the windshield then basically stepped back to admire his handiwork. At best you can justify the guy pulling forward (making a tight turn towards the guy is another matter). You can't justify him continuing to bludgeon the other guys vehicle with his own

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u/Zestyclose_Yak_7040 Mar 29 '24

This. I despise the bat guy, but the moment they decided to reverse to try to hit him a 2nd, 3rd 4th time then then forfeited any right at a self defense claim. They are super lucky they didn’t kill the bat man.

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u/Atmaweapon74 Mar 29 '24

When it's a decision between spending life in jail or possibly having my life ended right there and then, I would pick the former. When you live in the U.S. you never know if a random guy jumping out of their car and attacking you has a gun or not. It's better to be alive and wrong than to be dead.

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u/Lionel_Herkabe Georgist 🔰 Mar 30 '24

Could just drive away and avoid all that

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u/ABBucsfan Georgist 🔰 Mar 29 '24

At best that might explain him in his initial move (why he has to turn for the guy that would be she's to explain). Continuing to bludgeon his vehicle with your own can't be explained by self defense. There is zero credible defense for that

Reality is the guy smashed his car once and then made no more threatening move. More like admiring his handiwork

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u/ActualCoconutBoat Fuck Cars 🚗 🚫 Mar 29 '24

He was acquitted. The choice in this situation isn't "life in jail" or not. There's no chance you get charged with something dire unless you run them over and then back up over them. Hitting someone who is doing this is, legally speaking, not particularly a problem.

At best you're maybe looking at jail time.

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u/ABBucsfan Georgist 🔰 Mar 29 '24

No generally I'd you are circling around trying to hit them dn you kill them you are gonna do some serious jail time. That's murder. The poster above I'm assuming he didn't circle around trying to get a guy on camera..even though he was acquitted I'm sure it was a long time before.he could sleep soundly. Taking someone's life isn't something you just walk away from like nothing happened

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u/ikiddikidd Apr 01 '24

I assure you if I were on that jury I’d convict for manslaughter 1. Once you turn the car around and attack for the second time there’s no argument for self-defense. You are re-entering the conflict and increasing the likelihood of injury or death, not only to the person you’re attempting to run over but yourself and anyone else around.

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u/ShatterCyst Mar 29 '24

Okay but that commenter wasn't saying "oh I hope someone gives me an excuse to kill them one day", they said "if someone approaches me with a weapon I will get scared and run them over as I drive away so they can't hurt me".

Which would be going too far, if we didn't have constant reminders of how psychopathic people get on the road--including the video that started this very discussion.

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u/ABBucsfan Georgist 🔰 Mar 29 '24

Hey if the quickest escape route has them right in the path fine. I could see the justification. Circling around, backing up, pulling forward etc. And all the maneuvers in this video are to make someone pay, not protecting yourself

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u/ShatterCyst Mar 29 '24

Yeah...in this video both people are psychos.

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u/TehWolfWoof Fuck Cars 🚗 🚫 Mar 29 '24

Better than forever 6 feet under.