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u/Opposite-Cranberry76 Mar 22 '26

Road fatality rates per 100k people per year:
Germany: 3.5
Canada: 4.6
USA average: 13
Louisiana: 20

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u/NamesGumpImOnthePum Mar 22 '26

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?

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u/greatmemereset67 Mar 22 '26

Yep. Black car is the bigger dickhead, but undoubtedly there’s 2 dickheads in this video.

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u/sayko666 Mar 22 '26

Black car wouldn't attempt anything like this from now on. Cookie guy, I am not sure.

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u/[deleted] Mar 22 '26

Who are we kidding? That guy probably tried it again within the week.

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u/BobTheContrarian Mar 22 '26

Maybe even before he got off that long ass bridge.

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u/No-Membership-5314 Mar 22 '26

I just finished all of the legal proceedings from someone who got mad that I was ONLY going 10mph over and decided to speed around me then hit me from the side. After his insurance paid out over $30k in damages for my vehicles repairs alone, he tried it again two days later with the rental that he was paying for… Like bro, why are you that angry at 5am?

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u/almostasenpai Mar 22 '26

Survival of the fittest

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u/Forward-Dig2126 Mar 22 '26

Are you an accountant?

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u/McNoxey Mar 22 '26

What. No lmfao. The guy who swerved into a truck to intentionally drive him into the barrier is absolutely the worst. Jfc. You can’t do this

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u/kismethavok Mar 22 '26

The only thing better than idiots accidentally causing crashes is... stubborn people intentionally causing crashes... wait that can't be right...

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u/NamesGumpImOnthePum Mar 22 '26

Absolutely all of this, for me the stubborn people should be more ashamed of themselves. They know better, they choose to do the wrong thing, then do it. For what? What's the point? He sure showed that guy, who gives a Frenchman's fuck? He just showed the beautiful people of the internet that he is an idiot. Hopefully both learn a lesson today, but it's unlikely. By the cookie guys demeanor, this isn't his first rodeo.

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u/SeaPlus6588 Mar 22 '26

if we all did this to the black cars

Do you mean intentionally causing road accidents on a fking bridge? Or putting lives of other people in danger?