I have no excuse for not knowing the right names, but that does not change the question.
I have a question. It's something I've wondered about people being pulled from their vehicles - especially Reginald Denny wasn't he in a Semi?)
If I am in my car, sometimes a Jeep Cherokee, sometimes an old Camero,and I encounter a mob, can the mob prevent me from running them down?
Seriously. What prevents the mob from getting creamed? My sense of human worth? It seems to me that Reginald Denny could have ran them down.
If it were my life, I'd absolutely run a mob over. Or can a mob be so huge, that even a car is useless?
Somewhere around here I have the video of the first cops fleeing the intersection at ground zero as the riot started, and leaving the victims to the crowds as they were being dragged out of their cars, and their cars attacked.
The cops fled for their lives without lending a hand at all.
I have another piece of video of some suburbanites crouching behind their automobile road blocks, protecting their city street with pistols and baseball bats, as thugs cruised by evaluating them and their defenses.
The whispering, crouching yuppies, said that cops occasionally came by, and that they had to hide their guns from them, it is incredible video.
Google the Crown Heights riots, among others. If you plow into the crowd to escape, you had better escape! If the bodies are too thick in front and you come to a stop, the fully enraged crowd will literally rip to to pieces with their bare hands. Seriously.
Plus, what makes you think you will be car #1 with just a few rioters in front? If so, yes, by all means put the hammer down.
But what if you are car #17 in gridlock with 100s of swarming rioters? Then what? You had better have helicopter rotors ready to unfold in a big, big hurry for a vertical escape.
Yeah, I think Denny was in a semi, and I wondered why he didn’t just run the thugs over, too. All I can think is that the situation was so unexpected and happened so fast he didn’t know what to do.
If I remember correctly he had both driver’s and passenger’s- side windows open, and the doors were unlocked so as he slowed down it was easy for the thugs to climb on the truck, get the door open and pull him out.
I think after witnessing the event on tv, lots of us remember the horror of the situation and the reporter in the helicopter screaming “Where are the police? There are no police!”, so in the future in similar situations thugs WILL be run down. Now, I never drive with doors unlocked and windows open-and I definitely WOULD run people down who were trying to stop me.