r/interesting • u/Maleficent-Town5273 • Aug 20 '26

Additional Context Pinned Hit and run gone wrong

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u/TriPigeon Aug 20 '26 edited Aug 20 '26

What we’re seeing here is someone having a complex trauma response: someone who is more scared of her Grandma (who she likely lives with), or another member of the household, than she is of the actual police.

This isn’t a normal freak out and panic, I agree that someone ruined her, but it was probably through abuse.

Edit: now that we have full Unicourt Records, it appears that ‘intoxicated and freaking out’ is actually the underlying culprit here. It’s shocking how similar the behavior looks, and hopefully she’s gotten help in the last couple years since her last struggles with the law.

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u/DaddysABadGirl Aug 20 '26 edited Aug 20 '26

People are irrational during a break down. I put it in another comment but at school as a kid I put a hole in my kneed bad. I was more concerned with how pissed my mom was going to be I tore my new pants than the white and yellow coming out. I freaked out and thats where my mind went in the moment.

She was going through it before the accident though. It said she was speeding and erratic, hit a car, then sped off.

Edit: Article with an update at the top.

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u/BradPffft Aug 21 '26

Rich kids will bury a body just to avoid a talk with daddy. This type of behavior, while possibly explainable and it seems like nobody got hurt, terrifies the ever living shit out of me cuz this is the type of person that's going to get someone killed believing the absolute incorrect thing.

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u/Magelatin Aug 21 '26

It's really true. When your parents have money, there's a whole world standing behind every dumb or mean thing they do to you.

My kids have working class parents, and they aren't scared of shit, because they've seen all kinds of people challenge us as parents.

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u/BradPffft Aug 21 '26

Oh yeah, also I noticed if she didn't have room to speed away she would have ran that cameraman over. No doubt. He's lucky he had room to get away. And while this is an extreme example of the emotional breakdown, I see it every single day in entry level positions, Of young people. Instead of telling a supervisor or a boss or a coworker, you broke something or made a mess, they'll literally attempt to cover it up, hide it, and if they can't, they'll just walk out of work. Or they'll even say like they're too overwhelmed to have dealt with it. If you're having a mental breakdown and you need mental space and time off, I am all for that, but this shirking of responsibility in the middle of a workplace is going to start coming with liability. I'm just going to start adding waivers to all of my new hires. Dangerous behavior is not excused because of mental illness. It might be more understood and I might have way more empathy 100%. Actions have consequence, consequences are your liability.

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u/BradPffft Aug 21 '26

Most important thing to learn or teach is smelling bullshit immediately. Godspeed to you and yours.