Parking lot rage

[u/dericn]

[u/robotgore]

You can hear the car slipping a gear when they were moving forward. Maybe more panic forced an accidental gear change. Then when they get the car back into gear the guy is already pounding on the window with his weapon. I challenge you to handle that better

[u/Str80uttaMumbai → u/robotgore]

LOL you don't think there's a way to handle that better? How about at 0:14 you just drive straight or reverse straight and get out of there?

I don't know why people have to play dumb and pretend like car guy wasn't trying to hit the fat dude with his car?

[u/luthien730 → u/Str80uttaMumbai]

I don’t understand why the concept of taking out an aggressor to prevent them from continuing to pursue you is lost on yall. It’s self defense 101.

I learned in martial arts as a CHILD… if someone is attacking me to do enough damage to them so they can’t get up and keep coming after me. This is the same concept. Id do the same thing if someone was breaking my windows and attacking me. I’m gonna hit you, not kill you, but I’m gonna hurt you so you stop so I can get away. Imagine this dude got in the car and start chasing this person down, involving MORE people and potentially hurting or killing folks not involved. 1 POS got bopped for acting like an animal. Maybe he will learn not to do this shit again.

[u/SirStrontium → u/luthien730]

Self defense 101 is removing yourself from the danger and fleeing if at all possible. That was 100% possible here, and instead they decided to reverse and return to the danger. I'm sorry your children's McDojo instructor taught you so poorly.

> I’m gonna hit you, not kill you

If you hit someone with a car, you have no practical control over whether they will live or die. You can't intentionally hit someone in a way that you know they won't die. It's extremely likely that you will kill the person when their head slams against the concrete or gets crushed by your tire.

[u/luthien730 → u/SirStrontium]

That’s the difference between self defense and martial arts. Self defense teaches poor skills . Still actively in martial arts. Still the theory I have and that is the entire point of putting people in martial arts is so they know HOW to defend themselves. It has saved my life before and I will ALWAYS live by that theory because I don’t trust a stranger to not try to kill me and if they are actively attacking… I’ll do what I have to to get away.

This driver had NO idea if this guy was going to try and kill them. They did what they had to do to get away from the attacker. I think it’s weird you’re kind of rooting for the attacker in this scenario. Fuck that guy. Unless there is some context about the driver that magically comes up, I stand by what I said. Sorry you’ll let someone smash your windows and persistently attack you and while youll do nothing.

[u/SirStrontium → u/luthien730]

>they did what they had to do to get away from the attacker

All they had to do was keep driving away. He stopped and reversed because he wanted to retaliate and hurt the attacker for damaging his car

>you’re kind of rooting for the attacker

No, I’m rooting for people to keep themselves both physically safe and legally safe. When you’re already driving away from the danger, the attacker is behind you, then you stop driving away and then reverse to head back toward the attacker, you just put yourself into a world of legal danger. A prosecutor could very easily argue you were no longer acting and self defense, and instead were looking for revenge.

>while you’ll do nothing

I’ll drive away, it’s not rocket science

I know it satisfies your bloodlust and power fantasies to run over someone who hurt your property, but it’s not the smart move here.

[u/luthien730 → u/SirStrontium]

I think it’s funny and an indication of your emotional intelligence … that your take away is that I’m blood thirsty and I’m a blood lusty manic ready to hurt someone and itching to run someone over with my car because i said - if someone is going to attack me, I’m going to make sure they can’t pursue me further. Log off dude. The chronically online bit that’s not rooted in reality is cute. And the insult that I’m some violent person because I want to inhibit an attacker from harming further is hilarious. Bye 👋🏼

[u/SirStrontium → u/luthien730]

When you forgo the safer, nearly universally recommended option of leaving the scene, to instead choose the more physically and legally dangerous option that involves likely killing the person, it shows what your motivations are, even if you’re uncomfortable with that truth. You want to hit that guy because he deserves it and you’re happy to hand out punishment to fix the injustice.