Posted on 03/28/2014 7:22:34 AM PDT by servo1969
This happened to me on SR 41 in Tampa on Monday March 24th. This pathetic excuse for a human being tailgated me for about three minutes. After about a minute, and me shaking my head, I pulled out my phone and started recording. I couldn't move over because there were trucks in the right lane, and I sure as heck wasn't going to speed on a rainy day with the roads being as slick as they were. I was turning left in about a half-mile when this happened. Now bear in mind, that this guy had already passed a truck in a left turn lane, was tailgating and driving recklessly on a wet slick road, wasn't paying attention, and all in all being an ignorant ass. Not once was I mouthing off, I never brake checked him, and in fact until I watched the video after the accident I didn't even know he shot a bird at me because I wasn't looking at him at all, I was paying attention to the road while holding the phone up with my right hand. I've recorded circumstances like this before, catching idiots doing stupid things, but never ever had this happen.
He initially fled the scene of the accident, but thanks to this video he has been caught and charged. Massive props to the Sheriffs Department and most especially the Highway Patrol who responded to the scene. This moron could have easily killed somebody with his moronic behavior, and my laughing at the end would have been replaced with tears. Needless to say though, I've never seen Karma come back so fast.
*****EDITED TO ADD******
WOW! I go to work and come back to over 600,000 views and find it's on theblaze.com and various other media sites. I'm flabbergasted! (love for an excuse to use that word). I'm also a little saddened and shocked at some of the comments. After the umpteenth death threat and billionth time being called a b!#$h/c$%t/whore/slut/add whatever epithet you want... I am extremely amazed at how rude people are.
Apparently people seem to think that they were right there and know exactly what was going on. You weren't there. You don't know what happened other than the truth that I told. And apparently I did get a comment of someone who he had done this same thing to... thank you for that.
I appreciate the comments of those that, even if they disagreed with me, they didn't resort to bullyish behavior, they stated their response and I respect that. To those that wished death upon me, I truly hope your life isn't as miserable as you portray online. Because some of those comments belong to people that belong in a psycho ward, or at the very least, anger management/therapy. They were rude, uncalled for, and just downright mean.
So because of those hateful warmongers, I have disabled all commenting on this video. Have fun talking about me in your forums, and on Reddit, or wherever else you talk smack on. Just know... I won't be there. I think my ears are itching... somebody must be talking about me. Where's my Q-Tip?
Goodbye and have an awesome and amazing rest of your day. I'm gonna go pet my dog, feed my fish, watch some TV, and sit my "fat" self on my sofa ;)
I think we agree on both points.
Sure the lady was inconsiderate and a PITA.
But she did not cause the accident in the sense of cause/effect.
Cause/flipping jackass brain/effect is how I see it. The flipping jackass brain caused the accident.
Yep. We are, in fact, in agreement.
I’d pay good money to see those two in a cage match.
“Clearly any normal person can see it.”
Naaaa. Your wrong.
I can see where they were both in the wrong. But the guy in the crash was charged. It looked to me like he was trying to aggressively cut in front when he lost control.
LOL. Back atcha.
I think we can all agree that the guy was driving alongside of the woman, and he was in control enough of his vehicle at that time to flip her off. With a clear lane in front of him. So at that point, there was no accident. They were simply driving next to one another.
He decides, all on his own, to “teach her a lesson” (or express his feelings in some way) by quickly accelerating and swerving in front of her, which unfortunatly for him, was a maneuver the road conditions did not favor. He lost control of his vehicle by virtue of a maneuver that ultimately led to the wreck. It was his foot on the gas and his hand on the wheel.
That he was unable to control his own anger, leading to his ill considered action, is completely on him. 100%. That was the cause of the accident ... his lack of control.
I don’t find the ‘that person made me mad so I did something really stupid” argument as supporting the idea that the other person caused it.
No swerve. No crash. No story.
“That was the cause of the accident ... his lack of control.”
If the woman that was messing with the guy in the truck
did not exist, would the guy have had the accident? Probably
not. But if the guy in the truck did not exist, then the
broad would have found someone else to mess with. There is
no doubt that the broad was messing with the guy, recording
wile deliberately impeding his progress. She started it
intentionally to make the video and was too stupid to know
that it could get out of hand. She and so many on this
thread who want to side with her are the ones who are just
too stupid to realize the danger of getting in the way of people THEY think are driving to fast.
Yea, the do gooder did cause the guy to have a wreck because like
all do gooders, they aren’t capable of figuring in the
unintended consequences.
So the next time you are driving on the road and you see
someone you think is driving too fast and you want to get
in front of them to slow them down, keep in mind , it might
be someone who would have no problem pit maneuvering
you into the ditch.
The moral of the story, speed limits are set so that the
stupidest drivers who barely pass the driving test can
drive safely. So when some one wants to drive faster than
you, let them. Don’t be a do gooder just get the hell
out of the way.
Funny that you mention unintended consequences in this context. That describes what happened to the pickup driver perfectly. I doubt that he intended to lose control and wreck as a consequence of his ill advised swerve.
You know what I find stupid? Believing that someone who recognizes the idiocy of the pickup drivers actions must mean that person supports the woman’s actions. Not everything is zero sum. It is not a binary universe.
Both can be in the wrong at the same time.
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