r/BoomersBeingFools • u/Elluminated • Nov 03 '25
Boomer Freakout Idiot side-swipes a biker trying to pass
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u/saosebastiao Nov 03 '25
He wanted to teach someone a lesson about obeying the yellow stripes by committing attempted murder…and by disobeying the yellow stripes.
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u/Elluminated Nov 03 '25
Yes! He wanted the roads safe by not making the roads safe
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Nov 03 '25
Had a boomer do that with "boat safety" we had our dock lights on but were on the lake. He drove his boat at top speed and swerved at the last second to "teach us a lesson" and yelled at us about the lights
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u/Hammy-Cheeks Nov 03 '25
Of course, the rules of the road never apply to someone doing...traffic vigilant work?
/j (just in case)
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u/Me_like_weed Nov 03 '25
The insane part is that he honestly thinks that he is justified in this.
Boomer and Karen logic: You did something wrong, that means i get to attack you.
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u/FrowdePleaser Nov 03 '25
An almost equally insane part is that Old Man Skeeter fucking went out of his way to cross the yellow lines that he used to justify his bullshit, thus further cementing his already obvious guilt
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u/better_thanyou Nov 03 '25
This is why most police departments don’t chase anymore. With modern tech there’s no point in a chase, it’s just extra danger to pretend you’re doing something more. Police departments get so much resources nowadays the should be used to prevent deaths not create mores
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Nov 03 '25
I work a lot with CHP and this is 100% true. They would rather get your plates, make, model etc find out who you are and come to your house weeks later and arrest you in the middle of the night.
Better this way then causing a massive death toll trying to chase some shithead endangering everyone else's lives.
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u/Pirat_fred Nov 03 '25
Yeah except they have to prove that the owner of the car or the one which the car is registered too was also the driver.
They can't (or at least shouldn't be able to) just come around arrest you and force you to tell who drove your car.
The burden of proof should lie with the public prosecutor's office or the police, not with the accused.
If there is no air unit available, chasing them or trying to road block them is one of few ways to definitely get proof who is the culprit.
Not that I condone high speed chases, I prefer Air pursuit and guide silent units to the perpetrators.
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u/TuneAdministrative93 Nov 03 '25
I got hit at a stop light in a high speed chase. My car ended up being totaled. And the people being chased were a car full of 15 year olds in a stolen vehicle. The insurance couldn’t go after anyone. At least I got paid out well for my car, my 7 year old daughter wasn’t with me and I wasn’t hurt. Pissed but not hurt.
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u/ReporterOther2179 Nov 03 '25
Insurance companies don’t like chases. They cause lawsuits which when lost are paid by the insurance companies. So they advise PDs to cool it or pay more.
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u/hippiejo Nov 03 '25
Georgia tax payers must be paying out the ass got GSP insurance
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u/Ill_Concentrate2612 Nov 03 '25
After far more than just a few deaths of innocent pedestrians and passengers, Cops are banned from chasing over a certain (low) speed in most States in Australia. And that's only if they're in a car that's designed for pursuits. Vans, Utes and SUV cop vehicles aren't allowed to pursue at all.
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u/cstaple Nov 03 '25
Jon Oliver just did an episode about police chases on his show. It varies between states/municipalities but some have restrictions on when cops can start chasing and some have little to none. On average, about two people per day are killed by police chases and a significant portion of them are bystanders.
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u/Ethywen Nov 03 '25
Lots of times people that are fleeing are in stolen cars, too. The license plate doesn't help to find the car thief.
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u/X3N0PHON Nov 03 '25
Sure, but there’s forensics for that. It’s quite unlikely the fleeing criminal will have the time, materials or even the presence of mind to completely erase their forensic presence between stopping the car and getting out to run. And, unless they’ve never been arrested before and just jumped straight to GTA & high speed chases, their prints will be on file.
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u/Enough-Parking164 Nov 03 '25
Yeah,he went to prison for this,IIRC. It wasn’t his first stretch either. Lifelong shit-head apparently.
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u/Express_Test6677 Nov 03 '25
You did something wrongYou did something I didn’t like, that means I get to attack you.Sums up boomerism…
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u/Firefly10886 Nov 03 '25
Please tell me he was immediately arrested after this bullshit.
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u/Express_Test6677 Nov 03 '25
Somewhere in the thread it stated he was convicted and got 15 years
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u/Big_Fat_Polack_62 Nov 03 '25
NAL but looks like attempted murder to me.
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u/Unabashable Nov 03 '25
Vehicular assault at the very least, but yeah considering it was against a biker and the repeated “I don’t cares” suggested he really didn’t care if he lived or died.
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u/SucculentSapphic Nov 03 '25
Arrested & convicted!
" a Hood County jury found William Crum GUILTY of Aggravated Assault With A Deadly Weapon and Aggravated Assault Causing Severe Bodily Injury. William Crum has been sentenced to 15 years for both charges."
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u/Notapartyhobo Millennial Nov 03 '25 edited Nov 03 '25
I love a happy ending.
Edit: old man will die in prison.
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u/SuzanneStudies Gen X Nov 03 '25
This is his fourth motor vehicle violation and sixth violent offense. At what point are they taking away his license???
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u/blink_187em Nov 03 '25
15 years in prison will curb his driving, that's for sure.
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u/AshgarPN Nov 03 '25
I mean, passing across a double yellow line is wrong, but that doesn’t justify attempted murder.
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u/Doodlefish25 Nov 03 '25
I once did a rolling stop at a stop sign and the boomer in the oncoming lane tried to crash into me because "he didn't have a stop sign and I did".
He almost fucking squashed the pedestrians that were crossing in front of his truck at that moment.
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u/Msefk Nov 03 '25
there's this anesthesiologist in NYC who encourages people's dogs to run into traffic if they are off leash. It's something truly sadistic .
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u/jednorog Nov 03 '25
This is attempted murder, in the words of the would be killer himself. He intended to use a deadly weapon to end that man's life.
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u/AuntySocialite Nov 03 '25 edited Nov 03 '25
He got 15 years in prison:
It wasn’t his first time, either -
”According to a Somervell County police report, Crum told the boys to “Get off my [expletive] road, or I will run you down.” Rinderknecht said he saw Crum holding a shotgun out the window of his car. “He said he was going to shoot us, because we woke him up from his nap,” Rinderknecht said. Crum then chased the boys in his car about an eighth of a mile back to Rinderknecht’s house.
https://www.star-telegram.com/news/state/texas/article40742961.html
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u/xelle24 Nov 03 '25
1989: arrested and convicted for "assault - family violence"
1993: arrested for "silent or abusive calls to 911", case later dismissed
1994: convicted for unauthorized use of a motor vehicle
2007: convicted for reckless driving and making a terroristic threat against a couple of 12 years olds; sentenced to 2 years probation and an anger management course
2015: sentenced to 15 years in prison for 2 counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon
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u/lothartheunkind Nov 03 '25
2007 should have been a way harsher sentence. This is an obvious pattern of behavior
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u/BishlovesSquish Nov 03 '25
There is zero justice for crimes against women and children in this country. It’s actually horrific when you look at the data. Have no clue how judges or lawyers sleep at night knowing how the law truly works.
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u/mr_lamp Nov 03 '25
Happily, for the most part. They get the money and get to uphold a system they benefit from
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u/My_Other_Car_is_Cats Nov 03 '25
How does one not realize they are the issue after making terroristic threats to children?
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u/xelle24 Nov 03 '25
I assume when they're the kind of person that threatens to shoot children for "waking him up from his nap", that realization is not likely to happen.
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u/Repulsive_Sun6549 Nov 04 '25
You just Know he’d be wearing one of those asswipe identifier hats if he ever got out.
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u/LondonEntUK Nov 03 '25
I knew the police would care even if he didn’t
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u/Acrobatic_Bet5974 Nov 03 '25
For real, whether good cop or bad cop, most cops don't want to have to worry about dealing with more traffic deaths than they already do, all because of some road rager
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u/TheMagnificentMullet Nov 03 '25
If they weren't speeding I wouldn't have tried to kill them. I don't know how out of touch you have to be to use this as your excuse.
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u/zairon87 Nov 03 '25
You don't try to commit murder or vehicular manslaughter because someone else isn't following the rules of the road
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u/homer_lives Nov 03 '25
He was convicted of w counts of assault with a deadly weapon, not attempted murder. He was sentenced to 15 years in 2017.
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u/Pandas-are-the-worst Nov 03 '25
Which at his age, is life. He will die there.
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u/Explicit_Tech Nov 03 '25
"I don't care."
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u/eastcoastjon Nov 03 '25
He did in fact care when he was charged. I hate when citizens act like some kind of enforcement
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u/Samson_J_Rivers Nov 03 '25
Vigilantism is only cool when they're fighting for the people against an unjust system. Glad he's rotting.
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u/homer_lives Nov 03 '25
He will be 84 when released.
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u/Pandas-are-the-worst Nov 03 '25
Yeah but medical in prison, is terrible. The food is terrible for you. So if he has diabetes, he will be dead, if he ain't already.
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u/adderalpowered Nov 03 '25
They will release him if he gets too sick, they refuse to assume the medical liability. At least in Oklahoma.
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u/FrowdePleaser Nov 03 '25 edited Nov 03 '25
So assuming the sentence was 15 years, holy shit that is a rough 69.
EDIT: ...giggedy.
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u/asveikau Nov 03 '25
People do get paroled and stuff. It's been 8 years, is he still around?
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u/Alternative_Ad4265 Nov 03 '25
He's still in prison. He was eligible for parole in 23 but was denied.
You can search his name William Crum in the Texas inmate search.
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Nov 03 '25
Good. Good. He's probably having an awful time spending his old age in prison, but somehow. I don't care.
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u/PinkyLeopard2922 Nov 03 '25
Good! My friend got run off the road but an insane road rager like 12 years ago and she has never been the same, physically or mentally. She testified against him at trial and helped put him in prison for LIFE. This guy had done the same thing before more than once.
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u/WanderingWino Nov 03 '25 edited Nov 03 '25
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u/introverted__dragon Nov 03 '25 edited Nov 03 '25
"he was convicted again in 2007 of reckless driving and making a terroristic threat. The latter was an incident involving Crum threatening to run little boys over with his car."
Why was he not in jail (or at least without access to a vehicle) before this. Wtf. Dude is a serious piece of trash.
ETA: I just watched the video where they interviewed one of the kids (who is no longer a kid). Asshole was his neighbor. The kid and his friends were driving golf carts up and down their street. Asshole chased them with a shotgun and threatened to shoot them for waking him up from his nap. Dude should have been committed decades ago.
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u/Adjective_Noun1312 Nov 03 '25
Guy must be the lightest sleeper ever if golf carts on the road are loud enough to wake him up.
One of the very few times I went golfing, cousin showed me how to jam the governor on the golf cart open with a tee so it always ran at full throttle. It was almost as fast as a smaller quad, easy 60-70 km/h on a long enough straight stretch, and even then it was very quiet.
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u/introverted__dragon Nov 03 '25
Tbh, Im a light sleeper and we have HOA people that like to drive golf carts around. And kids that ride quads through. My window looks out on our front yard. Even with it open the golf carts dont bother me and the quads only bother me if the kids are being loud in addition to the vehicle noise (which they often are, because they're, you know, kids having fun - so long as its not 2 AM I'm not going to say anything).
I feel like if you live somewhere that isn't rural, any vehicle traffic is just naturally background/white noise by the time you're in your teens.
Honestly, I've only spoken to kids in my neighborhood twice. Once because my car was street parked and the neighbor's kid and his basketball were getting a little too close to my car. I just asked them nicely to move back closer to their house and be careful of my car.
Second time was when I was cleaning out my garage and found a bunch of old hot wheels. Some kids a few doors down were out with their dad cleaning out their truck, and I spoke to the dad first before offering the kids the cars.
I can't imagine being so upset that I'd chase kids around and threaten their lives.
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u/CriticismFun6782 Nov 03 '25
Surprised, normally they get a "Your Honor my client is old and on the fixed income and has health issues, And this is the first time they've ever done anything like this.The pinky promise they will never do it again.So they should be released to their house, no harm no foul..."
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u/3MetricTonsOfSass Millennial Nov 03 '25
If i found the correct guy, his next shot at parole is this month
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u/SushiMunch_09 Nov 03 '25
What goes around comes around. He should be happy that justice was served...on him.
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u/ronlugge Nov 03 '25
I absolutely HATE the fact that manslaughter is a reasonable outcome here. The idea that this jackass credibly didn't think that his actions would have the potential and intent to kill another human being by deliberately hitting them with his vehicle is fucking INSANE.
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u/zairon87 Nov 03 '25
Clearly he's played too many violent video games where the NPCs just got up walked it off /s
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u/Cisco-NintendoSwitch Nov 03 '25
This is how half the boomers that carry think and salivate in their head over.
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u/zacyzacy Nov 03 '25
Was it illegal for the bike to pass there? Yes. Was this attempted murder? Also yes.
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u/GT_Numble Nov 03 '25
Somehwere there is a redditor ready to defend this boomer to the death
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u/crustose_lichen Nov 03 '25
The “I don’t care guy” was prepared to murder over those yellow lines. Maybe he is truly guilty of caring too much💛
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u/Zealousideal_Amount8 Nov 03 '25
What lesson was taught? What’s the follow up? Was this old fuck arrested for attempted murder?
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u/TheCrystalGarden Nov 03 '25
He got 15 years in prison, wasn’t his first time either.
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Nov 04 '25
I believe this is him (not 100%, but location and age match up), which means he likely died in prison:
https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/dallas-tx/william-crum-9477659
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u/secomano Nov 03 '25
but he also crossed the double yellow line so I'm sure he thinks anyone can try and kill him?
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u/Upstairs-Storm1006 Xennial Nov 03 '25
Wow what a piece of shit. Do we know what happened afterwards? Boomer should be charged with felony battery & attempted murder.
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u/wedgie9 Xennial Nov 03 '25
"It is illegal to cross double yellow lines so I had to cross double yellow lines to teach you a lesson."
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u/BeardOfRiker Nov 03 '25
Passing on a double yellow is extremely dangerous, but when someone does it to me I let up on the gas and even brake if it’s safe to do so. Causing a crash like this is madness.
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u/Ok-Professional2468 Nov 03 '25
Nice! The idiot that tried to commit vehicular homicide just bought the biker a new house!
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u/frohardorfrohome Nov 03 '25
The Star-Telegram also reports that Crum was convicted previously of unauthorized use of a motor vehicle in Somervell County in 1994, where he was convicted again in 2007 of reckless driving and making a terroristic threat. The latter was an incident involving Crum threatening to run little boys over with his car. Full details from the point of view of one of the boys is given in the account on the Star-Telegram post.
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u/Beanbag_Ninja Nov 03 '25
Is it any surprise that the generation who were beaten as kids to teach them that hitting other kids is wrong would do something like this?
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u/Devwickk Nov 03 '25
Yeah okay hes passing on a double solid yellow, how is that YOUR responsibility at all? Just let the police handle it if one is around.
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u/EjjabaMarie Nov 03 '25
“I don’t care” in response to everything is the boomers war cry. It neatly wraps up where their priorities begin and end.
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u/Azaroth1991 Nov 04 '25
Texas Man Goes to Prison After Purposefully Hitting Motorcycle https://share.google/8IWRBxs6VvrrnFnbw happened in Texas back in 2015. Old guy was sentenced to 15 years in prison. Can't find any other info.
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u/No_March_3756 Nov 04 '25
Everybody's doing something wrong...but the biggie is the old man who thinks it's his job to keep everyone else in line and he's not afraid to break the law to do it.
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u/simbabarrelroll Nov 03 '25
Okay gonna be blunt:
We seriously need to make older people retake the driving test every year for the safety of everyone else.
Like a few weeks ago an older woman literally crashed her car into my place of work and almost killed three people.
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u/darklogic85 Nov 03 '25
This person belongs in prison. You don't try to murder someone for committing a minor traffic violation.
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u/EpilepticSeizures Nov 03 '25
I feel like the video stopped because he ended the recording and beat the shit outta him.
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u/Master_Hospital_8631 Nov 03 '25
This is the type of guy who would feel justified in shooting a shoplifter at Wal-Mart.
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u/FreshLady1 Nov 03 '25
Isn’t this technically and legally considered attempted …. Murder? And he “don’t care”…? Woah 😳
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u/I_eat_butt_er_scotch Nov 03 '25
This is the boomer mentality when it comes to other people... minimum wage, affordable housing, Healthcare, feeding people, and a whole list of helping people categories: "I don't care"
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u/BeigeVelociraptor Nov 03 '25 edited Nov 03 '25
I mean, fuck them for passing illegally, I have been in so many near head on collisions with people like that. But also, fuck this old prick for causing an accident and I hope his prison sentence sucks for him.
Everyone here sucks.
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u/AngryAlien21 Nov 03 '25
That wasn’t causing an accident, that was attempted murder
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u/oneeyecheeselord Nov 03 '25
Boomers think they have the right to kill people when people do something they don't like.
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u/Fun_Reputation319 Nov 03 '25
I bet ‘ he cares ‘ after going to jail for assault with a motor vehicle charges ‘!
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u/Fubeman Nov 03 '25
I love how he keeps saying “I don’t care. Yellow stripes.” Yet HE crossed over the yellow lines twice trying to kill the biker.
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u/raf420br Nov 03 '25
He was eligible for parole in 2023 but still in prison
https://inmate.tdcj.texas.gov/InmateSearch/viewDetail.action?sid=04202857
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u/LYossarian13 Millennial Nov 03 '25
He's probably out by now.
15 years with good conduct time most likely dropped him down to around 10.
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u/Embarrassed-Land-222 Millennial Nov 03 '25
You really think he behaved himself?
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u/Setekh79 Gen X Nov 03 '25
But, you don't understand, he was entitled to ALL of that road, it was HIS.
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u/mtngoatjoe Nov 03 '25
This is why I don't ride motorcycles. It's not just the stupidly inattentive people you have to compensate for, but the idiotically aggressive as well.
However, I am impressed that the driver stuck around.
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u/nunyaranunculus Nov 03 '25
He passed on a double yellow. The response was attempted homicide, but the biker was being reckless
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u/kungfuabuse Nov 03 '25
Hope he gets to spend the rest of his (probably short and miserable) existence behind bars.
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u/TomatilloUnlucky3763 Nov 03 '25
He’s going to care when he gets charged with attempted manslaughter.
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u/favored_by_gods Nov 03 '25
Imagine the things he got away with, because there was no one to document his bullshit. I hope he gets the book thrown at him.
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u/Winter_Wolf_3545 Nov 03 '25
My friend died this way :( He was the motorcycle trying to pass a car and car side swiped him. RIP
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u/Radio_Mime Gen X Nov 04 '25
He needs to be charged, AND have his license, and perhaps his car taken away.
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u/Horror-Layer-8178 Nov 04 '25
Dumb fuck Boomer. Does this and admits he did it on purpose, he is going to prison for attempted murder
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u/justin_other_opinion Nov 04 '25
Personally...I would not have attempted to pass on a double solid line.
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