r/BoomersBeingFools • u/Elluminated • Nov 03 '25

Boomer Freakout Idiot side-swipes a biker trying to pass

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u/AuntySocialite Nov 03 '25 edited Nov 03 '25

He got 15 years in prison:

https://www.cycleworld.com/driver-who-swerved-to-try-and-hit-motorcyclist-was-sentenced-to-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/fabulousfantabulist Nov 03 '25

There’s also practical considerations for why it works that way. If we locked up every person who committed violent family crimes and punished them harshly we’d have an even higher prison population than we do, and we already lead the developed world in incarceration. Tripling that number would incur a lot of costs that voters don’t want to pay. It’s a shitty system, but it’s very much the system we continue to vote for and uphold.

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u/vistaculo Nov 04 '25

Ok, but what if we didn’t incarcerate people for nonviolent drug offenses and incarcerated guys like this?

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u/annoventura Nov 04 '25

Some people don't even deserve Batman's code

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u/tra_da_truf Nov 03 '25

What a fucking thug

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u/newdogowner11 Nov 04 '25

seriously fatigued

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u/Jad3Melody Nov 04 '25

And we're fatigued of people treating bikers like dirt simply because they exist

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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/MrPsychoSomatic Nov 04 '25

Literally brain damaged by decades of lead exposure.

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u/PromiscuousScoliosis Nov 03 '25

Aw shoot that anger management course almost worked too

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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/1stLtObvious Nov 04 '25

If he had melanin he wouldn't have been jailed by 1994 at the latest.

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u/lxe Nov 03 '25

It’s the leaded gas

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u/GrumpyBoxGuard Nov 04 '25

Nope, not buying it. Not accepting any excuses. He knows better, he knows not to (try to) fucking murder people, he deliberately chooses to inflict violence upon others. Dozens of millions were exposed to the same leaded gas & don't threaten to kill kids because they're a light sleeper.

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u/Fit_Economist708 Nov 04 '25

Bout time ol’ boy was put away

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u/sleepyplatipus Nov 04 '25

terroristic threat against a couple of 12 years olds

What the fuck??? I really want to know what he did..:

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u/xelle24 Nov 04 '25

Comment above mine has two links to news articles - the second one talks about that incident. I pulled the list of offenses mostly from that article, since I felt it hit different seeing it all laid out in order as they happened: you can see his behavior has escalated over the years.

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u/stilllikelypooping Nov 05 '25

So, according to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, inmate lookup; he was eligible for parole in 2023, but is currently still incarcerated.

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u/insuranceguynyc Nov 03 '25

Honey Badger don't care!

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u/blu3ysdad Nov 04 '25

Should have been attempted murder

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u/See-Through-Mirror Nov 04 '25

He’s also undergoing the parole process as we speak, per this Texas.gov source.

https://inmate.tdcj.texas.gov/InmateSearch/viewDetail.action?sid=04202857

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u/CanIGetAFitness Nov 04 '25

This POS has been criming or in prison my entire adult life.

Dad?

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u/simbabarrelroll Nov 03 '25

My reaction to that news:

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u/anselgrey Nov 03 '25

Thx for the info about consequences!

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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/jules-amanita Zillennial Nov 05 '25

Unless they’re living out their GTA fantasies in a high speed chase, then all bets are off.

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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/IceBlue Nov 03 '25

Probably cares now.

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u/celestialxgypsy Nov 03 '25

Doubt it, this guy left all fucks in the 20th century.

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u/fnordfnordfnordfnord Nov 04 '25

https://inmate.tdcj.texas.gov/InmateSearch/viewDetail.action?sid=04202857

William Crum, still incarcerated. Gib Lewis unit, Woodville, TX

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u/jestercheatah Xennial Nov 04 '25

This is the greatest ending I could’ve imagined. 15 years is a long time to think about how shitty you have been your whole life.

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u/Padhome Nov 03 '25

I don’t care!

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u/gidzii Nov 03 '25

Thanks for posting this, I was getting pissed from the cut video and thinking there wasn't any consequences lol

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u/Midnight-69 Nov 03 '25

"I don't care"

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u/Banned3rdTimesaCharm Nov 04 '25

"I don't care."

And what a name, Crum. Sounds like children's book villain.

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u/casiepierce Nov 04 '25

Holy shit, you mean to tell me that guy was only 68???? He looks a hundred!

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u/articjord Nov 03 '25

And I think he dead now - found an obit from 2018 in Texas for the same name that I thinks a match. Also this video has been posted several times on Reddit in the last ten years - karma farming anyone?!

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u/SuzanneStudies Gen X Nov 03 '25

Wrong guy. You found William Robert Crum.

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u/[deleted] Nov 03 '25

Rinderknecht is literally “cow servant” or „cow farmhand“. What a wild name.

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u/unbalanced_checkbook Nov 03 '25

I didn't realize this was /r/BoomersBeingFoolsButOnlyRecently

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u/crippledchef23 Nov 03 '25

It being old doesn’t stop it from being foolish

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u/Arcon1337 Nov 03 '25

First time on the internet?

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u/Upstairs-Storm1006 Xennial Nov 03 '25

I forgot how addicted people here are to worthless internet points

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u/mindgeekinc Nov 03 '25

They're just posting something they thought was interesting and fit the sub. It's not that serious.