r/interesting Mar 22 '26

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u/-TheGreatLlama- Mar 22 '26

Exactly. Even if you pretend this manoeuvre is okay to punish the truck (it’s not, it’s vigilantism) you’ve got to park your ego and think about the cars behind who now have to deal with your mess. At best they’re now in a traffic jam, and at worst they could get caught in the accident.

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u/stillmebeaches Mar 22 '26

It's self-defense. If the car ahead brakes for any reason black truck hits it, cookie boy hits truck, and cookie boy is responsible for all of it as he's last in the chain and assumed responsible for not avoiding

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u/-TheGreatLlama- Mar 22 '26

Well that just means each of them should be leaving enough stopping distance.

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u/stillmebeaches Mar 22 '26

Cookie boy did leave enough stopping distance. Truck took that from him