VIDEO: ‘Road rage’ driver crashes after giving the bird

[Bugsinrugs]

Since that is a surface street she was doing nothing wrong. Except filming while driving. Bad

[carambola]

I'm gonna have to call her a flat out liar. She said that she was turning in a half mile, but after one minute she started recording, the recording she posted was almost 3 minutes in length. she claims she was doing 50 by filming the speedo, but that was after the trees started going by faster. She was driving stoned is my guess.

[slakjaw]

I think they were both high.

[Baz]

They are both bad drivers.

Both.

Nothing that I don't see every day......sigh.....

[Noah930]

Pick-up guy is obviously a DB with small attachments. Goes without saying.

But film-girl is a DB, too. Contrary to her claim that there were big trucks in the slower lane prohibiting her from moving over, there were perhaps 2 trucks in the #2 lane--both of which she passed yet still refused to yield. And she didn't seem to have any problem quickly pulling over to the side of the road once DB p/u driver spun in front of her. She claimed she was going fast enough by driving 50 mph in the wet and didn't feel safe going any faster. Yet she felt it was safe to be doing 50 mph in the wet while filming with her phone pointed behind her and then to the side of her. She's clearly a piece of work, too.

[Heel n Toe]

Originally Posted by Taz's Master

...would not lead me to think that driving and shooting video at the same time is the least bit responsible, or reasonable.

Originally Posted by wdfifteen

Seems like making a video while driving is obvious unsafe operation. Letting her go will just encourage more idiots to play Steven Spielberg while driving.

From that link in the OP:

“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,” she posted on YouTube. “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. In the full video which I will post later, you will be able to see that 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.”

[javadog]

I don't condone the shooting of the video while driving, which I think is stupid. However, she was getting ready to turn left, as you can see in the video shortly after the crash, so she did have a reason to stay in the left lane.

I don't think she sped up either, at least not to screw with the guy in the truck. I think it's equally likely that he slowed down as well, to give her more bird time.

It's his fault, 100%. She may be an idiot, too; she may be ugly; he's still the *******.

JR

[URY914]

She is also fat.

[Baz]

Looking at the big picture..........


In life there are 2 paths we can follow:

1) Generous, caring, and positive

OR

2) Egomaniac, selfish, and negative


BOTH of these human beings are in category #2


If either or both were in category #1......this incident (and many others like it) would NEVER EVER happen.

That is the BIG picture here....

[wdfifteen]

Originally Posted by Heel n Toe

From that link in the OP:
[I]
“"...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."

Another vote for her being liar. I watched the video. You can't frame and reframe an image that well without monitoring it.

[ZOA NOM]

Originally Posted by Gogar

Dear stupid lady,

Please put down the video camera phone,

And move to the right lane for 5 seconds.

Let the dumbass by.

Dear Dumbass,

It's wet out. Turn into the skid.

[71scgc]

If you tailgate, someday you'll get yer ass handed to you. That was his day.

Someone posted about cops driving with one hand and holding a mic in the other. Every cop I've passed in recent history wasn't holding a mic, rather a cellphone.

I don't like being tailgated, so I don't do it.
I don't like people who homestead in the left lane. At the speed limit or below. I don't do that either.

I drive faster than most. This has me thinking of George Carlin: Any car going slower than you is an "Idiot"
Any car going faster than you is a "Maniac".

All I want is for people to use their mirrors. If you see me eatin' your ass, move over.

Carter

[ZOA NOM]

Originally Posted by 71scgc

If you see me eatin' your ass, move over.

Carter

Wait... what?

[URY914]

I bet that guy texts during movies......

[A930Rocket]

She egged him on with her antics, but they are both DB's.

[Baz]

Originally Posted by A930Rocket

She egged him on with her antics, but they are both DB's.

THIS!

Why do some of you insist on taking sides here?

They are BOTH equally guilty of MAJOR stupidity.


EGO TRIPS = ROAD (and forum) RAGE!

[nynor]

the truck driver is a tool. period. i have idiots in trucks tailgating me all the time in my 951, surface streets, freeway, wherever, just like the mental midget in that video. its like the utah state sport. eff 'em.

[Baz]

[450knotOffice]

Baz, you are absolutely correct. Both of these morons are responsible for what happened.

He needed to take a chill pill and relax.

She needed to stop playing the traffic enforcer, which is not her job.

My FIL plays that game sometimes, and it bugs the hell out of me.

[scottmandue]

Originally Posted by 450knotOffice

Baz, you are absolutely correct. Both of these morons are responsible for what happened.

He needed to take a chill pill and relax.

She needed to stop playing the traffic enforcer, which is not her job.

My FIL plays that game sometimes, and it bugs the hell out of me.

I sometimes surf (but don't post) at a LEO form... some lady posted that she always drives the speed limit and will purposely block speeders (probably expecting to be praised for her actions) almost every response from the LEO's was "don't be a traffic enforcer, that is our job, you are creating a hazard, pull to the left if someone wants to drive faster than you."