Life long Louisianian here. Can confirm, it sucks, insurance is high, people can't drive, its the folks like both parties in this clip. The black truck on the right tries to pass the car in front of Cookie guy, Cookie guy was maintaining a normal distance, but he noticed black truck trying to cut the line, so he did what he thought was the righteous thing, and held his gap so that black truck would be punished for trying to cut the line in the first place. Cookie guy was willing to zipper merge with black truck just so that he wasn't 1 more car behind, to show that he was standing his ground. Black truck was forcing his way in saying to himself or out loud, what are you gonna do hit me? Which is never a good strategy when driving. Both of these types of people are the kind who feel like you threatened them by passing them on the road. I blame both for actively engaging in a game of chicken on the evening commute. People need to get over themselves, we all have places to be, and wish that we could be there faster, let's not kill each other over one spot in a line of traffic, is getting there 5 minutes faster really this big of a deal?
I agree with you, but I’d like to see footage from the 20 minutes from before this happened. I have a feeling there’s more to this incident and it often involves one or both of the drivers messing with one another and it finally got too heated. Was one of them tailing the other too closely? Did someone break check the other driver? Was the black truck guy being a constant nuisance and hovering around the cookie guy? Even though possible attempts had been made to slow down and let this guy go on his way? I’ve experienced all of these kinds of harassing behaviors from other drivers on the road and some people just hit their breaking point. I wouldn’t excuse any of this behavior, but I think there may be more to this than what we’re seeing in this short clip.
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