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People are passionate about that sauce.
Posted on 05/15/2022 8:42:41 AM PDT by billorites
NEW HANOVER COUNTY, N.C. (WECT)- A Wilmington woman is facing a Driving While Impaired charge tonight, after losing control of her vehicle in the Chick-fil-A drive thru. The accident happened Monday morning at the restaurant chain’s Monkey Junction location on College Road.
Video of the incident has gone viral. The 30-second clip has been viewed hundreds of thousands of times on TikTok and Facebook.
The video, taken by another person in the drive thru line, starts as the woman is getting out of the driver’s side of her car, apparently trying to get condiments off a cart by the drive thru window. Almost instantly, her car begins rolling forward. As she runs beside the vehicle, which is travelling through the parking lot and towards a busy section of College Road, Chick-fil-A employees can be heard saying “Get your car!” and “This is why we’re concerned, ma’am.”
An employee suggests calling the police just as the woman’s car careens over a retaining wall, crashing into a ditch below. “Oh God! Please tell her to stop!” an employee says as she watches events unfold. A young man in a Chick-fil-A uniform runs towards the woman, who reportedly was able to get back into the car just before it crashed.
Family members say the woman’s vehicle was totaled in the crash, but she was not injured. They say when she was putting her drinks into the car’s cup holder, she accidentally knocked the gear shift into neutral without realizing it.
Highway Patrol confirms they responded to the crash at 9:30 a.m. on Monday, May 9. Family members who reached out to WECT say the woman in the video was charged with DWI, but not arrested. They questioned how she would have been able to get back inside a moving car if she had been impaired. They also said her blood alcohol level was .00. She was cited for failing a field sobriety test.
Family members say she has struggled with addiction in the past, but had been clean for months when she crashed her car. They say the ugly comments about the crash on social media have been difficult for her to deal with.
Chick-fil-A managers at the restaurant where the crash happened declined to comment for this story. When a reporter thanked them for their time, the employee who answered the phone responded, “My pleasure. Have a great day.”
People are passionate about that sauce.
Back when I was a kid, there were real monkeys at the junction. A little grocery store, or something.
“They say the ugly comments about the crash on social media have been difficult for her to deal with.”
I know my suggestion to her is unthinkable these days, but how about, if you don’t like comments being made about you in social media you…. Don’t go look at them?
Yes, what’s with so many people obsessing over social media?
Are some people just really worried about what somebody else says about them somewhere on social media, or elsewhere online?
Yes, good advice to just tune it out.
The Monkeyshines Bar & Grill. A rollercoaster called The Gumball. And even more when you get there.
Retaining wall is nothing more than a curb as far as I can see.
“Yes, what’s with so many people obsessing over social media?”
You do realize that FR is social media, too. Right?
I guess I didn’t know this website is considered social media.
I thought social media were sites such as Facebook, Twitter, Instragram. Is a site like this officially considered social media? Is social media anyplace online where people can make comments?
Attempting to get back into a moving car isn’t a good idea. She’s lucky the car didn’t run her over or break her leg.
LOL! ComputerGuy, I thought you were pulling our leg! You were right! :-)
“Is social media anyplace online where people can make comments?”
Pretty much.
FR is also our “safe space”.
Is this a good time to have an online auto insurance company?
I heard that some escaped, I think. That was early fifties.
In my mind, FR isn’t really social media, mostly because it doesn’t connect to other users in the profile.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_media
Here’s part of the description from Wikipedia:
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Social media are interactive digital channels that facilitate the creation and sharing of information, ideas, interests, and other forms of expression through virtual communities and networks.[1][2] While challenges to the definition of social media arise[3][4] due to the variety of stand-alone and built-in social media services currently available, there are some common features:[2]
1. Social media are interactive Web 2.0 Internet-based applications.[2][5]
2. User-generated content—such as text posts or comments, digital photos or videos, and data generated through all online interactions—is the lifeblood of social media.[2][5]
3. Users create service-specific profiles for the website or app that are designed and maintained by the social media organization.[2][6]
4. Social media helps the development of online social networks by connecting a user’s profile with those of other individuals or groups.[2][6]
Users usually access social media services through web-based apps on desktops or download services that offer social media functionality to their mobile devices (e.g., smartphones and tablets). As users engage with these electronic services, they create highly interactive platforms which individuals, communities, and organizations can share, co-create, discuss, participate, and modify user-generated or self-curated content posted online.[7][8][1] Additionally, social media are used to document memories, learn about and explore things, advertise oneself, and form friendships along with the growth of ideas from the creation of blogs, podcasts, videos, and gaming sites.[9] This changing relationship between humans and technology is the focus of the emerging field of technological self-studies.[10] Some of the most popular social media websites, with more than 100 million registered users, include Facebook (and its associated Facebook Messenger), TikTok, WeChat, Instagram, QZone, Weibo, Twitter, Tumblr, Baidu Tieba, and LinkedIn. Depending on interpretation, other popular platforms that are sometimes referred to as social media services include YouTube, QQ, Quora, Telegram, WhatsApp, Signal, LINE, Snapchat, Pinterest, Viber, Reddit, Discord, VK, Microsoft Teams, and more. Wikis are examples of collaborative content creation.
Social media outlets differ from traditional media (e.g., print magazines and newspapers, TV, and radio broadcasting) in many ways, including quality,[11] reach, frequency, usability, relevancy, and permanence.[12] Additionally, social media outlets operate in a dialogic transmission system, i.e., many sources to many receivers, while traditional media outlets operate under a monologic transmission model (i.e., one source to many receivers). For instance, a newspaper is delivered to many subscribers and a radio station broadcasts the same programs to an entire city.[13]***
For sure participants should have thick(er) skins and know when to let things go and take a break. I think much of the sensitivity people may have to social media (or private forums sharing common interests) comes from the possibility of being doxxed or exposed for whatever reason. Many also seek out like-minded online groups so they have a place to share their frustrations, opinions, and triumphs with what is considered a friendly and even receptive audience. When met with seeming indifference or even perceived hostility, it can be very dismaying for some. IMHO.
:-) The way uou initially described the place, I thought you were sending up an oblique reference to the old TV show Petticoat Junction and then I played along!
This is NC I’m talking about. We may let our monkeys drive cars, but we draw the line at them petticoats, though.
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