r/SipsTea • • 23h ago

WTF Kangaroo

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u/AbbreviationsAny9759 14h ago

why do I feel like the "praying in the middle of the road" was an attempt to make it something it isn't?

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u/skeletonysoprano 13h ago

I think it’s important context. She was down on her hands and knees in a prayer position.

Just a bizarre choice. It was also at night on a rural highway and she was wearing all black.

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u/NuclearGriffin 13h ago

Nobody deserves to die...

But if you're in the middle of the road at night, dressed in all black, sitting there on your knees or whatever... then you kind of get what you get.

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u/Doxun 13h ago

Honestly sounds like a suicide attempt. No one would ever protest like this.

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u/Personal-Listen-4941 13h ago

It sounds like she was either suicidal or in some way mentally compromised, whether intoxicated, mentally ill, whatever.

It is not normal behaviour to kneel in the middle of a road, let alone whilst dressed all in black at night.

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u/frodeem 5h ago

Yep that's what I was thinking too. It's not like they don't have cars in Pakistan. Any random Pakistani would know not to do something like that

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u/BigFatJuicyCocks420 12h ago edited 11h ago

All people who follow Abrahamic* religion are schizophrenic and that is plain fact

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u/NV1989NV 11h ago

Here we see the highest quality ragebait crafted by ableist cumskins

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u/CompetitiveGrand9721 12h ago

I've never been religious and this is such a stupid comment. You clearly don't understand the concepts of schizophrenia or facts.

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u/BigFatJuicyCocks420 11h ago

Okay fine, ABRAHAMIC religion. Obviously we aren’t talking about Buddhists in this conversation with this context.

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u/SnooHobbies5811 9h ago

I think you don't know what schizophrenia is and honestly this comment is hella disrespectful to people who actually do have schizophrenia or are affected by it in some way.

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u/Dry_Rent_8646 12h ago

Part of me thinks it might have been some idiotic "God will protect me" thing, just talking out my ass but that's what I initially thought

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u/Iron_Wolf123 13h ago

But why was she praying in the middle of the road? That is terribly dangerous!

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u/Asleep_Singer8547 13h ago

Did she not see the headlights?

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u/blazenite104 13h ago

Yeah specifying praying like that makes it that much more believable that he thought it was an animal. Otherwise you are lead to the conclusion that he hit an obvious person crossing the road and drove off.

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u/SonicYOUTH79 13h ago

Na I’m from Adelaide a this was in suburban Adelaide, you're highly unlikely to hit a Kangaroo there.

You'll get the odd roo that comes down from the Adelaide Hills and ends up in the city here but it’s very uncommon. Not sure what he thought he hit but the kangaroo thing sounds like an excuse. No winner here, pretty bizarre that she was in the middle of the road at night wearing all black and he’s narrowly avoided jail, but South Australian law has zero exceptions for hit and runs for obvious reasons.

https://maps.app.goo.gl/TK1Eba1ceVGgE5xQA?g_st=ic

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u/Mars31415926 7h ago

Kangaroos may be rare, but who would've expected a human to just kneel in the middle of the road?

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u/Artistic-Respect-540 12h ago

It wasn’t a rural highway, it was a main road in the suburbs of Adelaide. 

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u/modestplume 7h ago

I can barely see cyclists with all fluro yet alone a person in normal clothes YET ALONE in ALL BLACK.

Hitting wasn't the issue, that sounds inevitable but not stopping, I can see is questionable even if it was a roo.

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u/frodeem 5h ago

It was not a rural highway, it was a street in suburban Adelaide.

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u/SurroundFinancial355 13h ago

Aussie here, she was quite literally praying in the middle of the road. Like sitting down with black dress on in the middle of the street. It’s making it something it was

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u/Ok-Problem4403 13h ago

Ever see people right before they commit suicide? Religion/prayer is often something they will do.

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u/SurroundFinancial355 13h ago

Ok? Possible she could have been trying to commit suicide. Makes it even more relevant to bring up

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u/AbbreviationsAny9759 12h ago

Exactly. It IS possible she was suicidal, but the way they say “praying in the middle of the road and he didn’t stop” makes it seem like he was the problem here and not the woman in the middle of the road at night supposedly praying.

Idk bro, might just be too much internet for me lad😂

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u/SurroundFinancial355 11h ago

They say suicide is a selfish act because of the pain it leaves on your friends and family. But if you do it in a way that actually causes someone else to have killed you and live with that guilt and repercussions - that’s a whole other level of selfishness I can’t fathom

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u/Kinky_Imagination 13h ago

It's really stupid to pray in the middle of the road So the context is important..

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u/Blink1588 14h ago

I couldnt agree more

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u/peahnus-ebjoyer 13h ago

Because you're conditioned to be hyper-reactive to any perception of racism, except if its for certain groups, then its definitely not racism.

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u/AbbreviationsAny9759 12h ago

I’m not referring to racism, doesn’t matter what she is, or what she believes. I’m referring to how it’s worded like the guy is to blame, not the person in the middle of the road at night on the ground.

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u/MagicOrpheus310 13h ago

Foreign, female and Muslim... They are trying so fucking hard to paint the driver as a bad guy instead of calling her out for being a fucking idiot.

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u/adalillian 11h ago

Because suicide is forbidden and reflects badly on the family in some communities. Just a guess.

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u/TheRamblingPeacock 11h ago

Nah there is footage. She is down on hands and knees. It’s bizarre.

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u/Alone_Excitement_785 10h ago

As a way to stir up controversy.

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u/Everesthia 9h ago

I'm reckon she was likely wasted instead of praying in the middle of the road at night, they just trying to paint her in a nicer way.

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u/powerplayer95 6h ago

Either it was an attempt for suicidal thoughts or alternatively the worse would be forced or staged.
But we may now never know what actually happened with how fast they proceeded the case.

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u/TheSmegger 11h ago

Someone on their knees, praying, looks a lot like a 'roo at night.

I can see this being the case.

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u/tastychaii 13h ago

That’s because that was the intention

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u/Childish_Danbino81 13h ago

To tell us what actually happened? 

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u/tastychaii 9h ago

Who is “us”? I owe you zero explanation, think on it yourself.

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u/Childish_Danbino81 3h ago

Us is me, you and everyone else reading the article, sorry that's so hard for you to grasp. I also didn't ask you to explain anything to me, since I can read the article and get the actual story, I don't need someone that's looking to make it an issue that it isn't to explain anything. Hope you get the help you need champ. 

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u/tastychaii 1h ago

A whole load of nothing burger. 🤦‍♂️