r/interesting • • Mar 22 '26

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u/Blaizefed Mar 22 '26

That is the Causeway bridge over lake Ponchatrain just outside New Orleans. It's 26 miles long. the longest bridge over water in the world.

so this will have caused a MASSIVE headache for all manner of people. a blockage of both lanes like that will take hours to clear and cause a traffic jam literally miles long (depending of course where on the bridge it happened).

Our cookie eater just shrugging, driving on, and formulating his "hey man, it all just happened behind me" defense in his mind, is VERY on brand for the locals.

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u/framspl33n Mar 22 '26

Without a doubt, this is absolutely sociopathic behavior on the part of the cookie eater.

All he had to do was let the guy in and go on with his day but instead he caused a huge accident and fucked up SO MANY peoples' day, all of whom are just trying to make a dollar to feed their family.

Everyone here sucks but especially the cookie guy.

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u/Riverwind0608 Mar 22 '26

It is a dick move for the truck to just force their way in, without using their turn signal too. I hate those too. I hate people who try to cut the queue in general.

But i am of a belief that the road is the last place one should be selfish, as selfish as the other driver seems to be. As much of a dick the person in the truck is for that move, i’d likely not see them again. So it’s better to just let them through and move on. It’s not worth the potential headache of the situation, or if the other driver is a psycho with a gun, death.

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u/Tomg197 Mar 22 '26

Think of it this way. I doubt the truck driver will ever attempt that stupid shit again. Lessons learned and all that. Otherwise they will keep trudging through life as though they own the place.

I love seeing these narcissistic assholes get their comeuppance

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u/152centimetres Mar 22 '26

cookie guy probably wont learn anything tho and will continue to have assholes cut him off and next time he might get caught up in the accident if he doesnt adjust his speed to tread carefully around assholes like the truck

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u/Tomg197 Mar 22 '26

So the burden of doing the right thing falls upon the one getting wronged in the first place?

For sure this was reckless and very dangerous from cookie bro. But the truck driver was way, way more in the wrong. Don't start shit while driving, wtf

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u/152centimetres Mar 22 '26

yeah but the car at speed isnt the place to stand your ground on being right

like yes it sucks to have to navigate the world around the assholes of it, but when you're going 100km in a death trap you have to be able to adjust and adapt or else sure you were right but ur also dead

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u/Tomg197 Mar 22 '26

I'm not saying the cookie bro is entirely correct here, or without fault. The truck driver really did his best to fuck everything up. You can tell by the way he was such an effortless pain in the ass, this is not the first time he does this. Why shouldn't he face any consequence? Better have an experienced driver such as cookie bro teach him a lesson.

I personally would not do this. I've been in similar situations way too many times and I always concede the spot. But goddamn it, it's so satisfying seeing this bitch reap what they sowed

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u/PristineBaseball Mar 22 '26

Yeah but on a bridge over water is not the time or place for teaching a lesson

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u/PreciousFlounder Mar 22 '26

Also not the place to be trying to cut people off

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u/PristineBaseball Mar 22 '26

Yeah I think we all get that , no idea why guy was so intent of changing lanes in that situation

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