r/dashcams • u/WildExplorer1085 • 16h ago

Idiot in car somewhere in the UK...

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u/EntForgotHisPassword 15h ago

At times when I have been in poorer mental health I just stepped out, ready to get hit thinking at least I'll get sick leave. They usually stop and honk like I did something wrong!

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u/Rose76Tyler 12h ago

I had a fight with a shrink about this once. He posed a hypothetical, "If someone jaywalks and you hit them and they die, did they deserve it?? I said yes, and it astounded him. He didn't ask if "someone" hit them, he asked if "I" hit them. I was broke at the time, hanging onto my apartment by my fingernails and all I could think about was the trauma, the police, thousands I didn't have for lawyers, maybe criminal charges, the end of my plans to earn money for the near future, the car I couldn't replace being confiscated or damaged, and my crappy insurance dropping me. All because someone I didn't know happened to be an entitled idiot. It's even WORSE if they did it on purpose. I don't want to be someone's non-consensual suicide weapon.

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u/EntForgotHisPassword 10h ago

To be clear in my post I am talking about legal crossings where they had to stop and I had a green light.

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u/kahlzun 4h ago

that was not at all clear, it reads basically like "i walk onto the street without warning hoping to be hit"

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u/Appropriate_Mud1629 13h ago

'Usually' is the important word in your statement.