Guy drives through crowd of people. I clap politely.

[Ns1]

However, witnesses in the crowd give a very different account.
After watching the scene, Sean Foley told NBC 7 the Honda driver started honking incessantly as he was stuck behind the several pedicabs and vehicles leading up to the parade on 2nd Avenue.
When he started inching forward, a parade watcher sat on his hood, Foley said. As the driver continued to accelerate, others stood in front of the car.
"People began shouting for him to stop so as not to run through a parade that included [sic] children and babies in strollers at which point he floored his car through the crowd," Foley wrote in an email.
Woman Struck by Car Amid ZombieWalk[DGO] Woman Struck by Car Amid ZombieWalkPassersby were hit by a car Saturday evening while the annual Comic-Con Zombie Walk took over downtown San Diego, as NBC 7's Vanessa Herrera reports.
Diana Jackson, who said she was about 10 people away, told NBC 7 on Facebook that the driver took off with such aggression "that his tires squealed."
Counter to police information, Foley said the driver's window was broken after he hit people, not before.
"The only reason he was surrounded by a crowd who was angry was because he was pushing his car through a crowd that was trying to watch the parade," said Foley.
Foley said the woman who suffered the arm injury was run over by both the front and back wheels.
According to the Twitter page for the SDZombieWalk, participants of the event had nothing to do with the incident. Many tweeted that they were stunned by the turn of events at the walk and wished a speedy recovery to woman injured in the incident.
Organizers released another video that shows "no zombies touching the car that we can see" and nobody beating the car, according to ZombieWalk's post on its Facebook page.

http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/loc...k-Downtown-San-Diego-Comic-Con-268762861.html

San Diego police Lt. Paul Rorrison told 10News, "The pedestrians had the right of way, but there's a possibility the driver felt he was threatened by the crowd as they … encircled his car and started jumping on his hood."

A witness shared video only with 10News of officers questioning the driver, who is deaf.

Police say his family became scared by the crowd and that is when he drove away from the scene and found an officer. An angry crowd chased him down the street before officers took him to the station for questioning.
...
Police are still investigating to determine whether any charges will be filed against the driver. They say the streets were not shut down for the "Zombie Walk" because the group did not have a permit. However, officers say the participants were obeying traffic signs and crossing legally.

http://www.10news.com/news/woman-in...ows-through-crowd-during-zombie-walk-07272014

 

[twinrider1]

He thought they were zombies.

 

[ThinClient]

This.

 

[OutHouse]

i hope the guy in the blue shirt who punched the windshield broke his hand.

 

[Ns1]

i hope the guy in the blue shirt who punched the windshield broke his hand.

It doesn't take that much force to break a windshield.

 

[SpatiallyAware]

Let me get this straight


Neckbeard in range rover acts like a mouth breathing inattentive poor-driving moron in traffic, gets the reaction he deserves (people assaulting his car) then he mows everyone over = AOK

Yet what this person did is a travesty......???


They're identical situations. Act stupid behind the wheel, act threatened when you elicit a reaction, then mow everyone over (innocent or not) who just happen to be in your path.

 

[OutHouse]

It doesn't take that much force to break a windshield.

depends. ive seen a ballpein hammer bounce off one and side windows can be very difficult to break.

http://youtu.be/CpHPm4Kr4qU

 

[Ns1]

depends. ive seen a ballpein hammer bounce off one and side windows can be very difficult to break.

http://youtu.be/CpHPm4Kr4qU

AFOAF punched a windshield in a fairly new prius. Hand was sore for a few days, left a pretty big spiderweb crack. Replacement cost = $1200.

 

[phucheneh]

depends. ive seen a ballpein hammer bounce off one and side windows can be very difficult to break.

http://youtu.be/CpHPm4Kr4qU

It takes very little force to break the windows, but it has to be concentrated. Big flat hammer: difficult to break a window with. But something with much less net force can do the job via imparting it all on a very small spot. E.g. the spring-loaded centerpunch in one of those 'rescue' pocket tools.

 

[Rakehellion]

depends. ive seen a ballpein hammer bounce off one and side windows can be very difficult to break.

http://youtu.be/CpHPm4Kr4qU

Side windows are tempered. Windshield isn't.

 

[SolMiester]

Will they were blocking traffic illegally, you can see the one guy jumping on the hood, they said flip his car, if I had my family in there, I'd do that too.

+1....

The driver honked his horn to clear the crowd, gave time to clear, then threatened!...I would push the A-holes out of the way with the car too!, there was a footpath on either side of the road FFS!

 

[Ns1]

+1....

The driver honked his horn to clear the crowd, gave time to clear, then threatened!...I would push the A-holes out of the way with the car too!, there was a footpath on either side of the road FFS!

However, officers say the participants were obeying traffic signs and crossing legally

:whiste:

 

[akugami]

1) The driver was being an idiot. This is not a traffic light. This is a stop sign. Clearly you need to stop and wait for pedestrian traffic to finish before you can go.

2) Even though there were people stopped in the middle of the street, there was a lot of pedestrians walking across the street.

3) Some idiot yells "Flip that car" and that's when things go into a huge grey area. I wouldn't be inching my car forward because that's idiotic and you have no right of way but if someone was pounding on my car and I got my kids in the back, I'm flooring it.

Two wrongs don't make a right. The driver never should have inched forward and caused the whole issue. Find another route, or sit tight and wait it out.

 

[Maximilian]

I like the "IMA GONNA RUN AFTER THAT CAR AN' CATCH 'IM AN' SAVE DA DAY!" people.

Lol yeah they all cluster in to where the car was like they were gonna go after it. Had the car come back ill bet they would've shat a brick and ran away.

 

[Tommy2000GT]

The cops should blame the people right in front of the car for causing the driver to run over the people who are well in front of the crowd and don't know about a car being there.

 

[Brainonska511]

The cops should blame the people right in front of the car for causing the driver to run over the people who are well in front of the crowd and don't know about a car being there.

Yes. It was the pedestrians fault that the driver couldn't keep his foot on the brake and wait for all the pedestrians to legally cross.

 

[Kadarin]

Video from another point of view: http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=89f_1406520751

Warning, shows some injury to her arm.

 

[cubby1223]

Person shouldn't drive into a crowd of people.

Crowd of people shouldn't give a driver of a car reason to believe driving into this crowd is the safest move for his own personal safety.

If I were the cops I would let the driver go without any charges. And hopefully his name doesn't get out because there will be some dufus comic-con nerd who thinks he is entitled to vigilante justice.

 

[rh71]

He rolled up all windows before progressing up and honking the horn. So he basically just ran out of patience. I would be annoyed too though.

One woman knocked on his window and said something before the chaos started - wonder what that was about. Was she telling him he couldn't go through there?

 

[edro]

No way he should have drove through. How did he know it wasn't a sanctioned event.
Even if not, you can't run over pedestrians, no matter how many there are.
He was stopped, then proceeded to run through. That is assault.
You gotta wait that out or try to turn around. He will definitely face charges for that.

 

[1sikbITCH]

No way he should have drove through. How did he know it wasn't a sanctioned event.
Even if not, you can't run over pedestrians, no matter how many there are.
He was stopped, then proceeded to run through. That is assault.
You gotta wait that out or try to turn around. He will definitely face charges for that.

You would think, but...

"Most likely he will not face any charges,"

http://www.cbs8.com/story/26121983/woman-injured-during-comic-con-zombie-walk

 

[brianmanahan]

 

[cubby1223]

Here is what I see is the bigger debate:

We have a group of people walking around the streets acting like inconsiderate assholes. There must be consequences to being inconsiderate assholes. Running a car through the crowd is certainly not the appropriate consequence to their actions. But, here is the question - what is both an appropriate and feasible consequence to their actions? What short of running a car through them is both realistically possible and adequately deterrent of future inconsiderate behavior?

I'm all for lesser actions to get them to stop being assholes. But will anything less have any affect at all?

 

[Capt Caveman]

Here is what I see is the bigger debate:

We have a group of people walking around the streets acting like inconsiderate assholes. There must be consequences to being inconsiderate assholes. Running a car through the crowd is certainly not the appropriate consequence to their actions. But, here is the question - what is both an appropriate and feasible consequence to their actions? What short of running a car through them is both realistically possible and adequately deterrent of future inconsiderate behavior?

How about calling the cops?

 

[LTC8K6]

AFAIK, pedestrians always have the right of way, if they are already there. Even if they are crossing illegally, if they are already there, they have the row.