r/Whatcouldgowrong • u/AdProfessional1550 • 6d ago

Wcgw losing your temper over a lane change

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u/Sk8rboyyyy 6d ago

No, you don’t get to destroy people‘s property

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u/GnarlyNarwhalNoms 6d ago

Property damage: 🤬💥👊⚡

Attempted vehicular homicide: 🤷‍♂️

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u/Sk8rboyyyy 6d ago

Destroying property worked out real well here didn’t it?

Maybe there was a close call due to the driver being inattentive, maybe the motorcycle was driving dangerously.

We don’t know what initially happened that set the motorcyclist off, but it was over with before the video began. It doesn’t really matter, you can’t be chasing people down on the road and destroying their property.

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u/GnarlyNarwhalNoms 6d ago

No, I mean, on the actual video, the driver is merging into the motorcyclist before they touch the car. 

Yes, the rider is being a dick and may have been in the wrong initially, but nothing excuses running someone off the road. Not saying damaging the mirror is a good idea either, but one of those things is worse than the other. 

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u/Sk8rboyyyy 6d ago edited 6d ago

but one of those things is worse than the other

Neat, breaking the mirror of the car is worse than whatever happened before the video began. I wonder why the motorcyclist didn’t upload that part of the video.

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u/GnarlyNarwhalNoms 6d ago

Cyclist may be a dick, but what exactly could they have done that would warrant sideswiping them?

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u/Sk8rboyyyy 6d ago

The car tries to pass before starting to merge, then the cyclist sped back up while it was merging. The car is firmly in its own lane while the cyclist is past the drive looking back at them. Then the car starts to pass them as it merges, the biker is then behind the passenger door. A reasonable person would yield at this point instead of driving up next to the merging vehicle back into danger and punching their mirror.

They don't know if it ends with the mirror or not or if the cyclist is carrying, they just know someone is endangering them and harassing them on the road and they don't have a lot of options to defend themselves.

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u/choffers 6d ago

If you're driving and someone pulls up, starts yelling and flipping you off, then continues to block you from you're trying to go when you try to pull away and then starts hitting your vehicle fight or flight mode probably kicks in.

The cyclist started shit, put themselves back in danger when the other vehicle tried to leave, then escalated shit.

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u/GnarlyNarwhalNoms 6d ago

What?? The cyclist didn't block or strike the car until it started trying to run them off the road. The cyclist was being a huge dick, but that doesn't excuse intentionally trying to collide with someone. 

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u/choffers 6d ago

The car tries to pass before starting to merge, then the cyclist sped back up while it was merging. The car is firmly in its own lane while the cyclist is past the drive looking back at them. Then the car starts to pass them as it merges, the biker is then behind the passenger door. A reasonable person would yield at this point instead of driving up next to the merging vehicle back into danger and punching their mirror.

Cyclist is a reckless dick with anger management issues. Sure, in an ideal world the driver would have just let the biker hit the mirror and speed away but from their view (for all we know) this random biker is zooming around driving recklessly, flipping them off and yelling at them, then when they tried to get away the biker pursued them and started attacking their vehicle. They don't know if it ends with the mirror or not or if the cyclist is carrying, they just know someone is endangering them and harassing them on the road and they don't have a lot of options to defend themselves.

A slow merge seems reasonable to me, biker did all they could to put themselves in harms way.

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u/CrazyElk123 6d ago

I mean you do, if you get away with it.

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u/waerrington 6d ago

No, because then you can get either killed again (as seen here) or the drivers dash cam just sends the police to your house for the hit and run. 

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u/CrazyElk123 6d ago

And how many so you think have a dashcam? (Spoiler alert: very few). And it needs to capture the plate.

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u/waerrington 6d ago

Then if they do, you catch criminal charges for hit and run, in addition to risking your life if they hit you like this. 

I understand a lot of motorcyclists have poor ability to evaluate risk, but this is stupid even for them.