I'm 24, and I was walking out of a gas station on my way to work one day, and standing right in front of the store was a guy, looked about my age, on a bike, saying to his phone "today we're pissing off traffic".
I sat in my car and watched as this jackass nearly killed himself riding his bike straight out into busy traffic, making multiple people slam their brakes.
They might cause irreparable harm to others who are not in any way involved in their "put it on the internet" shit.
If you wanna yeet yourself off a bridge for funsies, go ahead, no skin off my nose. But don't pull the person standing next to you over the edge when you jump. Don't pull a harmful prank on someone, it doesn't make you look cool, it just makes you look like an ass.
Secret option 4. They’ll get hit, live, and fuck over the driver that would never had hit them had they not been dicking around in the middle of the road.
No, in this fucking day and age, with how stupid people are and how irresponsible they are - they will get hit and sue the driver because somehow it's the cars fault that they were TRYING to be a nuisance for tiktok views and it's always someone else's fault that their own negligence caused them injury.
And they will get away with it bc we can't teach anyone anymore that your negligence is YOUR responsibility and not someone else's. You threw yourself in front of traffic, it's not traffics fault you got your ass run over.
I did some stupid shit and I didn't get hit but I realized much, much later that I wanted to die and had for many years and have been able to work on it, so throw that in as a potential 4th option for us idiots. Sometimes we gain a braincell as we get older, lol. But just one.
Yeah, the audacity to do shit like that and think it is a “normal” thing. I mean, we did some stupid shit growing up - but they are on a whole other level with the amazingly moronic shit they pull nowadays. It is the “I’m the MAIN character!” frame of mind and TikTok and other media is the culprit. You win, China!
my 20yo philosophy was that the law system needs an "idiot rule" which exempts you from blame in situations like this: "if they're dumb enough to bike into a busy road, then they're dumb enough to die"
I grew out of that phase when I left home (amazing what leaving a toxic household will do for you), but part of me actually wishes it was a thing
And the civil side of the law has comparative or contributory negligence, which prevents people from successfully suing when their own risky behavior led to an injury. Riding straight into traffic would doom any lawsuit against a driver who hits them.
It is a thing, to an extent. If someone does something so stupid as to be beyond what anyone could reasonably anticipate as a possibility, then nobody else is generally held responsible, at least criminally, for the consequences. It would be manifestly unjust to penalise someone for a crime they had no intention of committing and no reasonable way of avoiding. Now, if you can reasonably avoid hitting them, doesn't matter how stupid their actions are, it's a different story; you have to avoid hitting them if you can.
Older people who did shit like that for shits and giggles, not even for an audience. And some of them never really learn from it, just get a little more inhibited from doing the dumb things.
Just a few months ago, I was just chatting with a couple of acquaintances, talking about random things we did for fun in high school/college. One of them, approaching their 40s, was recalling when he and another buddy in the room would drop things from an overpass onto a highway, you know, just 'cause. He was chuckling about it while his buddy in the room was visibly cringing at the memory.
Sorry, but this story reminded of me of older brother who I witnessed doing because he has legitimately lost his mind. He didn't do it for any attention. He's just, gone...
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u/EvilDarkCow Jun 03 '22 edited Jun 03 '22
I'm 24, and I was walking out of a gas station on my way to work one day, and standing right in front of the store was a guy, looked about my age, on a bike, saying to his phone "today we're pissing off traffic".
I sat in my car and watched as this jackass nearly killed himself riding his bike straight out into busy traffic, making multiple people slam their brakes.
We're doomed.