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Guy drives through crowd of people. I clap politely.

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gorcorps said:
Stupid event with stupid people having a stupid reaction to a stupid driver who did something stupid

Too much stupid in one place gets people hurt. The crowd was filled with a**holes, but the driver needed more patience
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exactly, there was plenty of dumb to go around:

- people walking, don't block traffic for extremely long times

- people in cars, even if people are blocking traffic, don't run them over
 
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I have no idea how I would react in the scene. I have been caught in a marathon in action and could do nothing for half an hour. That was my ignorance. But the cops were at the intersections and directing traffic (to wait). This was a semi controlled riot. A mass of people who when offered up to group think become little better than cattle.
 
Possessed Freak said:
I have no idea how I would react in the scene. I have been caught in a marathon in action and could do nothing for half an hour. That was my ignorance. But the cops were at the intersections and directing traffic (to wait). This was a semi controlled riot. A mass of people who when offered up to group think become little better than cattle.
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Mob rule is so scary... it is why democracy can be perverted way too easily and efficiently.
 
Ns1 said:
It doesn't take that much force to break a windshield.
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From Terminator:

Sarah Connor:
What about when he punched through the windshield?
Detective Vukovich:
He was probably on PCP. Broke every bone in his hand and wouldn't feel it for hours.
 
slag said:
From Terminator:

Sarah Connor:
What about when he punched through the windshield?
Detective Vukovich:
He was probably on PCP. Broke every bone in his hand and wouldn't feel it for hours.
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Yes, the Terminator series is the gold standard for realism.
 
Ancalagon44 said:
If they had a permit, then the road would be closed and he would need to find an alternate route. And there would be police informing him where to go.

If they had no permit, which I suspect is the case, then they were parading illegally. If so, then why not just let a vehicle pass? Would it kill you?

But none of them wanted to, in fact they started to get aggressive. If that was me and I had my family in the car, you best believe I would do whatever I had to do to get them out of harm's way. If that includes driving over a pedestrian that was threatening my family, then so be it.
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Everything about what they were doing was illegal. The driver was right to act in self-defense.
 
No fault found. Look at the traffic buildup around there. A couple vehicles and bikes. People are fifteen deep and standing around. He honks and SLOWLY moves forward. They hit car and surround him. He takes off.

What if there was someone in that car going into labor? Having an asthma attack? Bleeding to death?

It looks like everyone was patient for a while and this guy got tired of it and slowly tried to part the crowd before they turned aggressive. The entitled fucking assholes should have moved.
 
Ancalagon44 said:
They started attacking his car before he sped off. Remember, he had his family in the car.
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And before that, you may recall that the driver was honking and inching forward into the crowd of people. The crowd didn't make any movement towards the other car which was stopped and patiently waiting.
 
SAN DIEGO - The San Diego Police Department's accident investigators are poring through several clips of cellphone video as they try to determine who is at fault for an incident that happened during the annual "Zombie Walk" during Comic-Con.

The videos show a black Honda trying to force its way through the intersection of Island and 2nd avenues even though there are hundreds of people blocking the car's path.

"He's blaring his horn at everybody," said Mike Kissinger, who was in the intersection when the incident occurred.

On one of the videos a man can be heard yelling, "Let's roll the car." As the Honda inched into the middle of the intersection, it was surrounded by people, some of them tapping on windows.

Kissinger and another man sat on the car's hood to block the driver's view.

"He sort of started taking off and actually started peeling out and he was, like, going toward the crowd," said Kissinger, who is seen in one of the videos punching the car's windshield.

Salvador Sanchez says he was one of several people trying to get the driver to wait for the parade to pass.

"He just looked upset," said Sanchez. "He was honking his horn, and he was pointing like this and I was telling him just to stop."

Sanchez says at one point, the driver bumped him with his car. A couple of people sat on the hood to stop the driver from inching forward. That is when he hit the gas.

"He decided to use his car as a weapon to hit people with it, and even after hitting people and hitting myself, he still decided to go forward when he could've gone back," Sanchez said.

A woman dressed in pink and holding a camera was struck by the car and one of her arms was crushed. Blood could be seen on the pavement as several people rushed to her aid.

The driver was stopped by police a few blocks away. He spoke to an officer using sign language because he is deaf.

10News contacted certified sign language interpreter Amanda Briggs to tell us what he said. Briggs could only see part of the conversation. The man said he was in a hurry to get home, and felt bad about the woman who was injured.

"I feel awful about it, but really people wouldn't get out of the way. Everyone kept coming in front of my car. I didn't know what to do," Briggs said.

10News took the video to attorney King Aminpour, who specializes in these types of cases.

"I've been handling car accident cases for the last 18 years," he said. "I have not seen such careless and reckless behavior on the part of a driver when you have so many pedestrians so close to your vehicle."

Investigators say they will be watching several videos to determine what, if any, charges should be filed
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http://www.10news.com/news/new-cell-phone-videos-of-zombie-walk-hit-and-run-surface
 
Brainonska511 said:
And before that, you may recall that the driver was honking and inching forward into the crowd of people. The crowd didn't make any movement towards the other car which was stopped and patiently waiting.
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If honking and inching your car is grounds to be surrounded and threatened ("flip the car!"), then these things need to be better controlled. No more fucking zombie walks... they're a stupid idea to begin with.
 
Brainonska511 said:
And before that, you may recall that the driver was honking and inching forward into the crowd of people. The crowd didn't make any movement towards the other car which was stopped and patiently waiting.
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You seem to forget that the crowd was not part of the official zombie walk, nor were half the people actually moving through the intersection. Honking is 100% justified when peds are just standing in the middle of the road deliberately not moving.
 
gorcorps said:
If honking and inching your car is grounds to be surrounded and threatened ("flip the car!"), then these things need to be better controlled. No more fucking zombie walks... they're a stupid idea to begin with.
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If you were allowed to attack everyone that honked at you imagine the number of 'good shoots' we'd start seeing. "Officer, he honked at me and was inching towards the rear of my car!"
 
Apple Of Sodom said:
"He was driving drunk! He could have killed someone."

He didn't, moot point.

See, I can do it too!

And you don't know the situation in the car. It could have been an emergency.
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Serious, would it have killed them to get out of not-so-far-from-reality character and one guy hold an arm up for two goddamn seconds to let traffic through? I'd only feel bad for them if they were actively trying to get out of the way of the car and were struck intentionally. But people in mobs somehow think there is an exception to the rule that four wheels >>>>>>>>>>>>> two wheels >> pedestrians.
 
Brainonska511 said:
And before that, you may recall that the driver was honking and inching forward into the crowd of people. The crowd didn't make any movement towards the other car which was stopped and patiently waiting.
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And they didn't move either. They didn't just let him pass, or another car pass. This was not an official parade and they should have respected other users of the road. Instead their entitlement complex made them think all other users of the road must suck it.

So he starts hooting and inching forward - hooting probably to warn people I might add - and they get aggressive. WTF? Being hooted at does not give you the right to start assaulting someone. Just get out the flipping way and let him pass.
 
Ancalagon44 said:
And they didn't move either. They didn't just let him pass, or another car pass. This was not an official parade and they should have respected other users of the road. Instead their entitlement complex made them think all other users of the road must suck it.

So he starts hooting and inching forward - hooting probably to warn people I might add - and they get aggressive. WTF? Being hooted at does not give you the right to start assaulting someone. Just get out the flipping way and let him pass.
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I'm not sure why us asshole Americans do this type of stuff. In other countries they use the horn for good. Honk to let you know to pass, honk to signal to let you in. Only in USA do we hear a horn and immediately go into full fucking throwdown mode.

Who the fuck do these people think they are?
 
Person creates event with sole purpose of being a jerk to motorists.
Person doesn't get a permit.
Person doesn't get any professional legal advice.
Person doesn't go over safety procedures with participants.

Big surprise! The event ended in disaster.

It's like the asshole at the bar who's shocked when someone finally punches him in the face.
 
Ns1 said:
Except it wasn't, so he's pretty much an asshole.
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You don't know what was going on in the car. And I would say people surrounding my car and banging on it makes it an emergency. It doesn't matter if he solicited that response by honking - it was still wrong of them to do that. And I've seen plenty of news articles about people being beaten nearly to death in those situations.
 
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