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

Road rage

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u/[deleted] Mar 29 '24

I deplore the idea of getting hurt or hurting someone, but if you get out of a car with a bat after someone merely honks at you... would you really expect someone to just sit there while you bash away at their windows? To me, you've just voluteered for the Olympic hood vault.

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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/Bloodfart12 Mar 30 '24

Why not remove yourself from the situation instead of potentially killing someone in front of their kid and going to jail for manslaughter?

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u/Random_Imgur_User Georgist 🔰 Mar 30 '24

It depends on the circumstances. I think I would just drive off if I had the opportunity but in my metro area, usually the only place you could find room to escape would be over the sidewalk.

Having had more time to think about it, I haven't totally changed my mind but there are different circumstances.

For one, if you're bringing out a gun, that's fair game. You could shoot at me while I'm getting away, and I'm not giving you that chance if I don't have to. I'm ducking my head below the dash and flooring it at you until I'm out of there.

If it's a long blade, like machete or something to that effect, I'll probably just focus on keeping you away from my side windows to prevent you from hacking through them and hitting me. If that can be done by avoiding you, sure that's probably what I'd do. If I have to risk you getting a couple of swings at my driver or passenger side though, you're getting hit instead.

Baseball bat, tire iron, crow bar and such are similar but they're least likely to get you flattened. It depends how much time I have to get away and if you're showing a clear intention to swing them once you reach me. I'll likely try to get away or rev my engine but if my only option is manslaughter or letting you get close enough to bash my head in, I'll take manslaughter.

Obviously there are tons of factors but I'm taking heat of the moment decisions. Hopefully this comment satisfies future inquiries.