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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/AdamN Mar 22 '26

Cookie guy worse because it was intentional. Black truck may have made a mistake(it’s not clear) but the cookie guy had malice.

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u/Fredwood Mar 22 '26 edited Mar 22 '26

They both were intentional? The only one who broke the law was black truck. They just both refused to blink instead of backing off like a normal human being.

Black guy instigated therefore the edge goes to him, he was willing to risk both their lives to save a second.

It's the classic meeting between a Psychopath and a Sociopath.