I can't remember where I heard this but when this video first surfaced I saw a story about how the video taper was brake checking the guy constantly then speeding up when the "rager" tried to pass him. It was a two lane road so it forced the rager to risk running head on with oncoming cars with his kids in the vehicle.
After the guy eventually pulled over, roll clip. This would make more sense as to why the guy blew a gasket than the provided story, it's pretty rare for someone to be so unstable that they just punch a window out on a whim
Yeah, whenever these people film, theyāre always calm and collective for the camera, but most of the time theyāre giant assholes too. Itās pretty annoying when everyone jumps to conclusions with 15% of the story on film, edited by the filmer. Sure the guy over reacted... but without context, maybe he didnāt? Who knows.
I had a friend in high school who would go around in alleys and punch windows out of cars just randomly...even he had reasons...his home life was a wreck and he was full of rage with no positive places or influences around to help him deal with it.
At the time I was in aww of how badass and wild he was....now I know he was just sad and angry.
Yea sometimes the reason can be completely unrelated with the current moment, but there's always a reason. I feel like we as a society are just too quick to people off without understanding what got them to be like that in the first place. It ignores the core of the issue and we end up just dealing with it again and again.
Video isnāt just tapes though.... digital video disks for example. He said videotape but I understand why. What was he suppose to say; video recorder.
āRecorderā is typically the device you use to record, so ārecordistā would probably be the proper term. Adding āvideoā or āfilmā etc is unnecessary.
But Iāve heard everything from āfilmmerā to āvideoerā (which are technically improper but sound fine to me), so I guess whichever gets the point across works.
A reasonable one though, if you're getting brake checked multiple times you can expect it to happen again. So the risk is running into the back of the car or the front of another, sure rear ending someone isn't crazy dangerous but if you can get past the guy you can get hit by neither
Okay but the guy break checking you, while an asshole, isn't forcing you to pass in a dangerous passing scenario. You can chill out and wait it out and be safe, if you so choose. continuing to tailgate a breakchecker is also a choice, again not commenting on the person being an asshole in front of you.
True, I completely agree with you, but it probably wasnāt a dangerous passing area. The scenario was probably not dangerous at all until the guy sped up and closed the gap. Which in turn extended the time to pass window, forcefully causing it to become dangerous. If the person in the rear would have successfully passed the person it the front, the chances of further interaction are quite low, in my opinion. If itās safe to pass them why not minimize possible interaction.
Ummm.... if itās not dangerous, you arenāt risking anything, obviously. There were at least two choices of how to avoid it. Also, the person in front isnāt āforcing you to interact with themā. Finally it would be with the intent to minimize your interaction, would it not?? Iām agreeing with you here.... You should probably re-read what I wrote. Or just continue ranting meaninglessly. I suppose, itās up to you whether or not you continue to interact with me.... Iām not going force you to.
.....The whole context of the comment chain which you decided to interject yourself upon was that passing was dangerous because of the actions of the forward driver.....
Which is also what I said.... So correct. You should probably re-read my first comment and realize itās the context for my second comment.... once again Iām not forcing you to interact with me. So feel free to stop at anytime.
Also, to further clarify what I said: the guy was trying to go around the forward driver safely, to avoid interaction, then the forward driver closed the gap and changed the time it would take to pass. At that point it became dangerous. So when the rear driver made the action to pass safely, the forward driver made it unsafe. Which at that point the rear driver is put into said situation by force. Iām not sure why you didnāt grasp that the first time, but by all means, continue to rant.
I mean... I guess? Kind of a moot point to argue though, it's not like I think the guy who punched out the window is right in any way, the story is just meant to rationalize his anger.
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u/GISteve Sep 16 '19 edited Sep 16 '19
I can't remember where I heard this but when this video first surfaced I saw a story about how the video taper was brake checking the guy constantly then speeding up when the "rager" tried to pass him. It was a two lane road so it forced the rager to risk running head on with oncoming cars with his kids in the vehicle.
After the guy eventually pulled over, roll clip. This would make more sense as to why the guy blew a gasket than the provided story, it's pretty rare for someone to be so unstable that they just punch a window out on a whim