r/interesting • • Aug 20 '26

Additional Context Pinned Hit and run gone wrong

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u/Battypatty2 Aug 20 '26

i started watching this thinking “girl STOP making it worse” and ended up genuinely wondering why she seems more terrified of her grandma than the police 😭

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u/n77nac Aug 20 '26

Yeah I agree, sounds like she has a horrible home

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u/haileyskydiamonds Aug 20 '26

Or maybe she’s just a spoiled brat and Grandma has consequences? There is nothing here to suggest her home life is horrible other than her saying her grandmother is mean. She may think she can’t get in trouble if she’s not on scene. Who knows? I would give grandma the benefit of the doubt.

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u/itsliluzivert_ Aug 20 '26

Her manic franticness can be taken as a sign of underlying stress from an unhappy home.

A car accident is normally stressful, but if you’re already at your wits end, then I guess it can be the straw that breaks the camels back and causes you to flip.

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u/n77nac Aug 21 '26

I agree with this

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u/BrbFlippinInfinCoins Aug 20 '26

I think people are over-psychoanalzying this. It just looks like a young girl who has always escaped accountability. She is going through her rolodex of excuses trying to find the magic words to get her out of any consequences. She's freaking out because she is being recorded so she knows that she won't be able to BS her way out of it.

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u/Corporate_Overlords Aug 21 '26

You're doing the same thing here by thinking you know her situation. It's totally possible her grandmother beats the shit out of her every night. When I see this video I feel bad for her.

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u/PapaPancake8 Aug 20 '26

Right, this woman was 22 years old.

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u/abyssazaur Aug 20 '26

wouldn't that be the opposite of a spoiled brat

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u/haileyskydiamonds Aug 20 '26

A spoiled brat would be someone who thinks natural consequences are mean, imo.

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u/abyssazaur Aug 20 '26

it would be a brat who someone has spoiled and that someone would be grandma so this doesn't track

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u/haileyskydiamonds Aug 20 '26

Not necessarily. She could have grown up with indulgent parents.

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u/n77nac Aug 21 '26

Surely a brat wouldn’t care about the consequences?

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u/haileyskydiamonds Aug 21 '26

Why wouldn’t they? They don’t like consequences.

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u/SexualCarrots Aug 20 '26

Everything about this screams spoiled brat, but maybe the grandma is also mean.

It's like every time this poor girl does something stupid and illegal and then makes it worse the grandma gets mad.