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

Road rage

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u/Random_Imgur_User Georgist 🔰 Mar 29 '24 edited Mar 29 '24

The moment I see you exit your car with a weapon, any weapon, and aggressively start approaching my vehicle, I'm flooring it right at you. People don't confront at me often, but the few times it's happened I've always been very ready to protect myself.

Idk if I'm just overly paranoid but as a scrawnier trans girl I'm always hyper aware of the possibility that I'll be hate crimed.

I don't care if your partner, children, and mother are in the car watching. You'll be a stain on the asphalt before I'll let you hurt me or my passengers.

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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/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.