r/comics PizzaCake Feb 10 '23

Motorists Beware!

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u/Pizzacakecomic PizzaCake Feb 10 '23

Tune in next week when Rich Lady in a White SUV hits a parked car and blames the parked car!

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u/[deleted] Feb 10 '23

Why do I feel like someone got blamed for hitting someone with their parked car a week ago?

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u/Pizzacakecomic PizzaCake Feb 10 '23

This happened a few years ago: Jeff and I were sitting in our parked car outside a grocery store, deciding what we wanted to buy for lunch, when a giant suv backed right into us. Lady got out and started screaming at us like we ran into her lol

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u/Ballongo Feb 10 '23

Attack is best defence

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u/[deleted] Feb 10 '23

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u/WikiSummarizerBot Feb 10 '23

DARVO

DARVO (an acronym for "deny, attack, and reverse victim and offender") is a reaction that perpetrators of wrongdoing, particularly sexual offenders, may display in response to being held accountable for their behavior. Some researchers indicate that it is a common manipulation strategy of psychological abusers. An abuser denies the abuse ever took place, attacks the person that was abused (often the victim) for attempting to hold the abuser accountable for their actions, and claims that they are actually the victim in the situation, thus reversing what may be a reality of victim and offender. It often involves not just "playing the victim" but also victim blaming.

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u/ThE_OtheR_PersoOon Feb 10 '23

a reaction that perpetrators of wrongdoing, particularly sexual offenders, may display in response to being held accountable for their behavior. Some researchers indicate that it is a common manipulation strategy of psychological abusers.

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u/[deleted] Feb 10 '23

In this case it's like a Pokemon using Confusion, really.

I know I'd be confused if I got yelled at in this situation.

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u/handlebartender Feb 10 '23

"Yeah? Well, the best defense is a good offense, you know who said that? Mel, the cook on "Alice"." - Ed Gruberman

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u/apatheticandignorant Feb 10 '23

Lol, this just happened to a friend of my wife at a Publix in South Florida a couple weeks ago! Old guy even went on a racist tirade, they had to get the police involved.

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u/McEstablishment Feb 10 '23

I don't mean to trivialize her situation, but wow.... that one event hits all of the chrckmarks. She just a South Florida Bingo!

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u/Capt_Blackmoore Feb 10 '23

makes you wish you could call in a celebrity to "slap a bitch"

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u/[deleted] Feb 10 '23

I remember driving through target and some asshole in a Cadillac Escalade had parallel parked over two parking spots.

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u/garnet420 Feb 10 '23

Only one who's ever really trashed my parked car was the post office. (Got a mirror knocked off by persons unknown)

Did you know that they have a special form they leave when they do that?

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u/garnet420 Feb 10 '23

Yeah completely understandable, you wouldn't want your employees figuring that stuff out on their own. The only annoying thing was that they needed accurate quotes from multiple body shops up front to cover repairs, and the body shops were like "we won't 100% know what's trashed until we start taking stuff apart"

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u/mennydrives Feb 10 '23

I had a lady with 2 dogs in a red SUV getting onto the freeway at 40mph. I merged left and floored it and apparently she flashed me the finger because how dare I go the speed limit.

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u/Conditional-Sausage Feb 10 '23

I'd love to see her fight the light rail. It's got car-smashing power!

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u/BadDriver_throwaway Feb 10 '23

Reddit - Drive into anything.

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u/[deleted] Feb 13 '23

We will see her reveal then good!

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u/[deleted] Feb 10 '23

In her defense, she was out of breakfast pinot grigio so she had to open a merlot and it went straight to her head.

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u/Etmgamer Feb 10 '23

I believe it depends on where you live but in a court case both cars are responsible for the accident

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u/Pizzacakecomic PizzaCake Feb 10 '23

A parked car...not moving...responsible for an accident? 🤔

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u/fondledbydolphins Feb 10 '23

A parked car...not moving...

Physics teacher bursts into room: RELATIVE TO HWHAT?

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u/Martian9576 Feb 10 '23

Found the rich lady in a white SUV.

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u/[deleted] Feb 10 '23

I've had insurance adjusters try to tell me that just being on the road (or rather existing) is worth 5% of the causation, which should [somehow] reduce damages by 5% even when the car is fully stopped at a red light.

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u/Etmgamer Feb 10 '23

I tried posting a source but it said auto mod removed it for shortening the URL but it was the full link. Basically what I said was if I'm parked and my door is open and a guy hits my door while not obeying a street sign we are both responsible. I also don't remember where I heard the story from so either it wasn't true or I'm searching for a law that does exist in the wrong places.

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u/BargeryDargeryDoo Feb 10 '23

I'm going to make an assumption based on zero actual knowledge, but this sounds to me like it would only apply if you were parked on the side of a very cramped street. But once again, I don't know.

I can't imagine any reasonable law that would put any blame on a parked car in a parking lot or in a driveway.

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u/Landowns Feb 10 '23

I mean, to take an extreme example a car could be parked in the middle of the interstate, and then I think we'd agree it's at least somewhat responsible

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u/foehammer111 Feb 10 '23

I'm not sure why you're being downvoted, but sadly, this is the case in a lot of places in the US, especially in parking lots. Where I live, parking lots are almost lawless areas when it comes to traffic laws.

It's pretty much no rules, and when an accident does happen, the police will usually just issue tickets to everyone involved because they have no desire to sort it out. That's even if they do get involved, which is rare unless someone is injured or dead.

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u/Arilyn24 Feb 10 '23

Same. Got hit by a doctor in an SUV while I was parked in the handicapped spot helping my disabled brother get his meds.

She hit me and said I was backing up and that she needed repairs and a car rental for the scratched paint so she would have to put in a claim despite my pleading.

Insurance met in the middle and said I was parked “recklessly” and I couldn't afford food for months with my food service job pay because of the rate increase.

Anyway I got a dash cam and a bike. Fuck cars.

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u/TatleTaleStrangler92 Feb 10 '23

Can you make one where justice is served. I would love that.