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u/brianmmf Apr 16 '26
She was in my blind spot your honour
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u/TacTurtle Apr 16 '26
"I feared for my life and tried to escape the lunatic."
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u/ustp Apr 17 '26
Someone crazy enough to climb on my car would scare a shit out of me.
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u/PESSIMISTIC_P4STA Apr 16 '26
When crazy meets crazy
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u/SpiderWil Apr 16 '26
At the end, u can see her face shows worry that she made a very stupid life decision.
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u/Proud-Parsley6072 Apr 16 '26
Driver not giving a fk that day
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u/AlpineVibe Apr 16 '26
Shaw was charged with dangerous operation of a motor vehicle.
The ordeal was so strange, even Magistrate Sarah Thompson said "in 25 years of practice ... I have never seen such bizarre behaviour".
"The behaviour of the complainant was erratic, it was dangerous, it placed you in danger, you also placed her in danger," Thompson said.
"It was a poor decision that you made in the circumstances, being confronted with what anyone objectively would see as a terrifying situation."
Shaw was disqualified from driving for six months.
A rising para-athlete, her dreams of competing at the LA Paralympics in 2028 could be in jeopardy.
Gold Coast: Car swerves along road, trying to shake off woman clinging onto bonnet
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u/BirthdayLife6378 Apr 16 '26
Shaw was trying to make the other woman a para-athlete.
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u/BichaelScott Apr 16 '26
Origin story of the best rivalry in sports
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u/Desuexss Apr 16 '26
The person driving is a prospective para Olympian?
Well kiss that good bye
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u/Tight-Platypus5231 Apr 16 '26
"You might be crazy, but I'm fucking INSANE."
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u/Ok-Cheesecake5292 Apr 16 '26
"Pretending to be crazy works really well until you run into someone pretending to be sane"
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u/maxman162 Apr 16 '26
I think it was Mitch Hedberg who said if someone says, "Don't mess with me, I'm crazy!", that's not actually intimidating. If someone says, "Don't mess with me, I'm a refrigerator!", you stay away from that guy.
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u/PapaGummy Apr 16 '26
I like to upvote Mitch Hedberg quotes.
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u/ThrowawayAdvice1800 Apr 16 '26
I used to love Mitch Hedberg quotes. I still do, but I used to, too.
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u/p_jo Apr 16 '26
This is great. What’s it from?
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u/SignatureDapper6315 Apr 16 '26
Ok-Cheesecake5292
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u/ratchet7 Apr 16 '26 edited Apr 16 '26
Thank you for the award! It was so obvious though ;)
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u/Zocalo_Photo Apr 16 '26
Ok-Cheesecake5292
- - Michael Scott
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u/ruum-502 Apr 16 '26
You miss 100% of the quotes you don’t claim as your own
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u/c_marten Apr 16 '26
This thread made my morning. Thank you everyone.
- Abraham Lincoln
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u/Day-Hot Apr 16 '26
It's so obvious, it's right there in quotations and everything...
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I've heard this version...it's been around. "When you walk around pretending to be crazy, you're eventually going to walk into someone pretending to be sane."
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u/RocketCat5 Apr 16 '26
One of my ancestors said, and I quote, ""If thou dost wander 'bout feigning the bedlamite, thou art fated to encounter one who playeth the sober man."
It's timeless, really.
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u/Ok-Cheesecake5292 Apr 16 '26
No idea, I read it years ago somewhere. Tried finding the source but couldn't find anything. Might just be words of wisdom. Found this to be the perfect scenario for it!
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This should be in https://www.reddit.com/r/fuckaroundandfindout/
The look on her face when she realized that she screwed and has met her match. Chef's kiss.
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u/uprightedison Apr 16 '26
Yup , like the Simpsons episode when you cna pinpoint where Ralph's heart breaks 🤣 Has been out karened
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u/man_frmthe_wild Apr 16 '26
“When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.” Quote is from Hermann Hesse
Many works, including Siddhartha (1922) and Steppenwolf (1927), of German-born Swiss writer Hermann Hesse concern the struggle of the individual to find wholeness and meaning in life; he won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1946.
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u/TieSea Apr 16 '26
"everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face" - Mike Tyson.
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u/304bl Apr 16 '26
We could clearly see in her eyes when she started to be scared and realised that she fucked with the wrong person.
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u/shark-off Apr 16 '26
"are you gonna get off now" "Well I really want to, but I can't now :(" Lol
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u/Savemejeebus12 Apr 16 '26
Literally what I came to say.
Only two privileged women who have never, in their whole lives, experienced any consequences for their actions could have escalated to this level of crazy. You don’t just wake up like this one day. Crazy #1 has definitely jumped onto a moving car before and crazy #2 has never backed down from a fight before…
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u/DefendsTheDownvoted Apr 16 '26
I'm glad I'm in therapy. I'd never do something as entitled as jumping on someones car like that, but I'm sitting here feeling the driver is 100% in the right, and how is handle it. I'm apparently in the minority.
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u/Vulvas_n_Velveeta Apr 16 '26
I'm right there with you and am bummed that the driver seems to be the only one really being punished for this interaction.
I mean, when you jump on someone's car and egg them on, after trying to open their doors and banging on the windows, can you really be all that upset/surprised when they start driving after repeatedly telling you to gtfo?
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u/telemajik Apr 16 '26
The look on her face when she realizes that the tables have turned…
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u/hygsi Apr 16 '26
Fr. Girl was being a bitch cause she didn't expect to meet her match
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u/SJMCubs16 Apr 16 '26
What are the odds 2 crazy killers are at the same place at the same time?
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u/Mental-Scientist-393 Apr 16 '26
About 20 years ago, I was feeling really self-destructive and got into a road rage thing. Dude followed me into a gas station and I was thinking "This MFer is stupid. He's lucky I'm not crazy." Dude hopped out of his car and the first thing he said to me was "you're lucky I'm not crazy- honking at me like that, I could fucking kill you."
I guess we were both lucky we were just assholes and not maniacs.
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u/DecadentLife Apr 17 '26 edited Apr 17 '26
Yes, certainly lucky it didn’t go worse. Almost 30 years ago, coming home from being out, dancing with friends, I came upon a road rage incident, that became deadly. It was a car full of white guys, and another car, full of Hispanic guys, everyone was in their early to mid 20s, coming home from being out clubbing. I don’t know which car was cut off, first. Both cars pulled over to the side of the highway, and one of the white men chased one of the Hispanic men into traffic, with a knife. He was hit by a bakery truck, he landed on the side of the highway, that’s when I arrived. One of the cars was still literally parked in the right lane of the highway, I almost hit it, swerved, saw something was happening and went to help.
There was no possibility of survival, his brain was done, you cannot come back from those kinds of injuries. All four of his limbs were broken, in so many places, that each limb pointed in multiple directions. I stayed with him, while he was dying. His older brother was there, hysterical with grief. I’m pretty sure he would’ve done absolutely anything he could, to erase the previous 15 minutes, and not get into that road rage incident, that ended up killing his little brother. In front of him.
I learned more when the news came on at my job the next day. He was 24, just a few months from graduating with his tech degree, AND marrying his girlfriend of five years. Instead, he died. Over NOTHING. It’s not worth it.
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u/luckybreaks7000 Apr 16 '26
Reminds me of that intro from Cypress Hill, " you tryin to get crazy with ese ? , don't chu know I'm loco!" Good Times!
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u/TrainingSalary492 Apr 16 '26
she didn't put it in reverse at the end, so , not capitalized insane, just lowercase.
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u/Dillifec13 Apr 16 '26
You can see the point on her face where she knows she fucked up
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u/Julio-Dewey-Crayfish Apr 16 '26
My first thought as well, but I must admit it was kinda fun watching her face fall as she starts to slip and realizes how badly she misjudged her opponent.
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u/Dapper_Platform_1222 Apr 16 '26
It's sooooooo satisfying watching her come to terms with her very serious mistake at 40mph.
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u/fiddlenb Apr 16 '26
I've seen a million of these stupid videos of people acting like assholes and never any consequences.
Seeing her fall off that car is giving me a weird feeling... Am I happy? Wtf
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u/floggedlog Apr 16 '26
Schadenfreude: enjoying watching someone else suffer consequences.
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u/rtjl86 Apr 16 '26
They are both lunatics lol.
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u/MercifulPancake Apr 16 '26
if some nutcase jumps on my hood I'm speeding up out of fear of how crazy they might actually be. I don't blame the driver at all.
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u/Lovat69 Apr 16 '26
The driver lost the ability to drive for six months. Interesting they don't say what happened to the crazy person that climbed onto her car.
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u/Psychological_Day_1 Apr 16 '26
She is going to try her luck at the Paralympics now.
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u/Shrinki-Dink Apr 16 '26
This is what I was expecting - hit the brakes hard while still at a relatively low speed. They were both playing games, but in very different leagues.
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u/Talinia Apr 16 '26
Yeah, I thought that "are you gonna get off" was gonna be followed by slowing down so she could get off/fall off with less serious injuries
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u/PriscillaPalava Apr 16 '26
Nah, she’s one of those who thinks everyone else will stop what they’re doing to cater to her.
Maybe she’ll think twice next time.
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u/SupaSmol Apr 16 '26
It's the part where this is pretty clearly not legally defensible that makes it a nutty thing to do. This will very likely not count as self defense and will very likely count as something like reckless endangerment, or something to that effect.
It's definitely fun to watch and I sympathize with the driver, but it doesn't make it a reasonable action in totality. We gotta look beyond the moment and forsee where are actions are leading us and that goes for both of them. Likely the driver is in a shit ton of legal trouble and they filmed it themselves and it's now on the news. Not great!
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u/PriscillaPalava Apr 16 '26
I agree with you! The driver’s actions were wrong and it is not self defense.
But also the entitled lady is wrong. Someone elsewhere in this thread commented, “Pretending to be crazy is fun until you run into someone pretending to be sane.”
She fucked around and found out.
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u/That_Club7834 Apr 16 '26
Crazy people operate on expecting reasonable people to act reasonably.
When crazy meets crazy it becomes a game of chicken to see who will flip back to reasonable first. Or in this case, "I might go to jail but you're the one who will be paralyzed forever."
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u/Agent_Jay Apr 16 '26
From the context the driver was actually already in a wheelchair so I guess they’re sharing the experience.
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u/BisonThunderclap Apr 16 '26
Lol I was surprised, there was "I don't care about the legal consequences either."
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u/Solintari Apr 16 '26
Going straight from :10 to :22 is hilarious. >:D -> : O
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u/GeneralTonic Apr 16 '26
"I'm not trapped here with you, you're trap--"
[squeeak, thud]
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u/runningoutoft1me Apr 16 '26
First time in her life her threats didn't work lmao
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u/Gwarnage Apr 16 '26
Ha yeah, at 00:24 her face says "oh shit, is she accelerating?"
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u/ElverGun Apr 16 '26 edited Apr 16 '26
The image of her face at that moment should be the first picture that comes up after doing a search for "FAFO".
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u/Xx_overlord_xX Apr 16 '26
In all fairness the woman on the hood was in fact saying, “GO ON! GO ON!”
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u/BluntTruth1 Apr 16 '26
I hope it works in the court of law. All the driver was doing was fulfilling her wishes!
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u/Any-Enthusiasm27 Apr 16 '26
The driver is a rising para-athlete trying to go to the Olympics? Crazy situation all around.
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u/DnB_Train Apr 16 '26
What's she trying to do? Create more competition?
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u/EfficientLibrarian58 Apr 16 '26
I might have just booked my first class ticket to Hell for laughing as hard as I did at your comment
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u/Nickf090 Apr 16 '26
That article has a lot of embellishments. I didn’t hear hood lady ask for the driver to slow down once. She was still talking shit as she slid off the side.
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u/Crippled_Criptid Apr 16 '26
I watched a short news segment on it, and the lady hanging on 100% does say "slow the fuck down" right at the end, it's just weirdly not clear from this one that she did
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u/FortySixand2ool Apr 16 '26
"Slow the fuck down."
No one likes a front-left quarter panel driver.
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u/EngineZeronine Apr 16 '26
I wouldn't have even said a word. Just let her realize from the stupid interview it would have been so much more satisfying
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u/Master-CylinderPants Apr 16 '26
The problem with acting crazy is that you'll eventually run into someone who's acting sane.
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u/Me273 Apr 16 '26
That’s the second time I’ve seen that in this comment section, where’s it from!
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u/SpockIsMyHomeboy Apr 16 '26
I had a lady do something similar to me, my wife and kids. It was a double turning lane and I swerved a bit to wide and got close to her car, but didn't hit her. She slammed on brakes, got behind me, followed me everywhere, sped around me, got in front of me, slammed on brakes again, so I just pulled over into a Starbucks parking lot to let her go pitch a fit somewhere else. I came around the building and she had pulled around the opposite way and blocked the entire way sideways with her car to keep me from getting through.
She had called the cops, I called the cops. I got out and asked what her problem was, she yelled, cussed, etc, I told her I had my wife and kids in the car and she's scaring them. Cops showed up, got the story, she yelled and cussed at the cops, then the cop looks at me like "Im....so sorry...." He looks at the lady, interrupts her tirade of how I almost hit her and says, "Well, did he hit you, maam?" She screams "No! But he almost did! I just got out of a hospital for a lung transplant! I dont need this right now." I reply, "Sounds like the lung transplant was successful...." The cop smirks and looks at her, "You do realize that THEY aren't the ones in the wrong here, right?..."
What a day. Scary and absolutely mind boggling that person was allowed to be on the road. Plus she was a home health nurse with the company logo wrapped onto the car.
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u/advik_143 Apr 16 '26
"Sounds like the lung transplant was successful"
Lmfao that was gold
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u/QwertyArt Apr 16 '26
If she was screaming after allegedly having a lung transplant she might just get some bad news coming real soon..
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u/SpockIsMyHomeboy Apr 16 '26
Me thinks her Prednisone dose was a tee tiny bit too high 😳
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u/Basic-Record-4750 Apr 16 '26
For reals. My wife, wonderful woman. My wife on prednisone (steroids) is a honey badger
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u/chamy1039 Apr 16 '26
The way her whole face changed at 0:22 seconds...
The realization that actions have consequences, and these are hers.
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u/JUSTaSK8rat Apr 16 '26
Most people get away with shit like this because people don't get held accountable.
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u/Inner-Giraffe8850 Apr 16 '26
I need more information to the story, please.
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u/DanGleeballs Apr 16 '26 edited Apr 18 '26
She got a 6 month driving ban.
Lady on the hood was an insane psycho for sure, but that driving ban is pretty light for borderline attempted murder. She nearly went under the car at highway speeds.
She could have braked much earlier at a slower speed to shake the psycho off.
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u/roarjah Apr 16 '26
She should have just slowly driven miles across town so she had to walk back
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u/Demi_Lovatos_Spoon Apr 16 '26
That would have objectively been just as funny.
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u/KatDanger Apr 16 '26
And much less of a chance of vehicular manslaughter
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u/TechnoMaestro Apr 16 '26
Yeah I legit thought as soon as she went out of frame we were about to hear a bubump of her going under the wheels.
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u/helplessgranny Apr 16 '26
I would have just driven to the local police department.
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u/RuggleyChicken Apr 16 '26
Holy shit right? She’s lucky she survived or that would have been manslaughter.
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u/UltraSinstinctHoeku Apr 16 '26
Do women not find it funny?
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u/HoodiesAndHeels Apr 16 '26
See? That’s still only manslaughter. Not a single womanslaughter.
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u/TheLastPeanut_ Apr 16 '26 edited Apr 16 '26
Wow there are a lot of videos of people clinging onto moving cars out there
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u/FinalRun Apr 16 '26
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VKADRARa6Lg
Charged with dangerous operation of a vehicle, can't drive for 6 months
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u/another_day_in Apr 16 '26
Smug to fear took 5 seconds. Immensely satisfying
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u/themobiledeceased2 Apr 16 '26
Amateur manipulator meets FAFO. Maybe criver grew up with brothers like mine doing stupid things.
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u/Lorelessone Apr 16 '26
when you try your bs on someone who's all out of shits to give.
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u/John97212 Apr 16 '26
That moment when the car exited the car park and on to the street is the same moment the smug look drained from the womans' face and she realized she was is danger.
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u/LankyAd9481 Apr 17 '26
but also not smart enough to let go while the car was at the slowest speed it was going to be going for awhile.
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u/AlarmedAlarm626 Apr 16 '26
Haha you can see the fear of God being put in her once the car speeds up. The good old saying is “fuck around and find out”
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u/Practical-Basket-602 Apr 16 '26
Holding onto a car like that.... Looks like she got everything she was hoping for🤣
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u/AggravatingBox2421 Apr 16 '26
That’s terrifying. I was hit by a car last month and the damage it did will be permanent and devastating. This dumb bitch just chose to get into that kind of pain
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u/kala1234567890 Apr 16 '26
Happened to me July 3rd 2024, Lost half my left leg and crushed my left hand due to drunk driver tboning me on my motorcycle. No recourse, no jail, case dismissal, and low insurance premiums. Shit sucks.
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u/AggravatingBox2421 Apr 16 '26
I’m so sorry to hear that, dude. I’m really lucky because my state has a no-fault organisation that will pay your medical bills and give you a lump-sum of money for your suffering. If you lived here, you’d be a damn millionaire
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u/nampezdel Apr 16 '26
…that woman could easily have died from this. She nearly went under the car.
Oh no! Not the consequences of my own actions!!!
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u/PerfectlyCromulent02 Apr 16 '26
Personal opinion but if a bitch jumps on the hood of my car after attempting to detain me against my will, they should have no legal recourse if I drive away
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u/bocephus_huxtable Apr 16 '26
That seem like a REALLY simple rule/consequence.
Obviously not correct in Australia (where this happened), but I wonder what the consequences would have been in America? ...Texas?
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u/Jenzira Apr 16 '26 edited Apr 20 '26
It's going to depend on the state and if a court determines self defense or not. The threat of concealed handguns (and guns in general) is very real in the United States, and while most are law abiding citizens, you also have people like the woman in the video. There absolutely could be several other scenarios were a driver could do this exact thing, and be found completely innocent.
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u/reidmrdotcom Apr 16 '26
Looks like the driver is Natalie Alice Shaw, and they had a short news segment on her. They don't say if the "passenger" was injured or not. Driver's license was suspended for 6 months. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKADRARa6Lg
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u/WorriedMarch4398 Apr 16 '26 edited Apr 16 '26
So, honest question when does this move from self defense to assault or potentially murder?
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u/pjmyerface Apr 16 '26
I just thought of Road Rash the game on Sega Genesis. Good times.
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u/RogBoArt Apr 16 '26 edited Apr 16 '26
I can't stand the attitudes of people like her. "I have zero power except to cling onto your car like a spider that hasn't flown off yet but I'm going to act really cool and powerful. "
It was really satisfying to see her face suddenly realize the driver was going on a main road with her still attached. Yeah FAFO moron.
This is what people don't get. They act all cocky in places of minimal power and normally that doesn't matter because we live in a society that broke survival of the fittest. The thing they don't consider is that if they've met their crazy match they're putting themselves in real danger. It's like those people with the "The closer you get the slower I drive stickers" who are just lucky they haven't met the nutjob with the weapon.
I wish people would just respect each other and each others' property. Just leave each other alone and be good to each other.. or you could end up clinging to a hood about to figure out what road rash 35+mph can cause through a thin casual outfit.
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u/ScarScream81 Apr 16 '26 edited Apr 16 '26
Dude that girl was looking all confident and cocky but when the other crazy girl called her bluff her facial expression completely changed! 😂🤣
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u/SqUpdate Apr 16 '26
What's more shocking to me than this clip is everyone talking about how crazy the driver was. People are so used to being extra and doing what they want without facing repercussions. I would of done the same thing as the driver, but probably slammed my brakes before driving out into the intersection and made her fling off the front. If we can take away anything from jackass it's "If you're gonna be dumb, you've gotta be tough!"
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u/Suchafatfatcat Apr 16 '26
I doubt this was the first time crazypants tried something like this. She was too confident in her decision to hop onto the hood of the car. It was the first time she encountered someone who just didn’t give a damn.
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u/IKIR115 Apr 16 '26 edited Apr 16 '26
Mucho thanks to the following community members who took the time to provide further context!
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