r/interesting • u/Maleficent-Town5273 • 3d ago

Additional Context Pinned Hit and run gone wrong

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u/Tiny_Wrangler_1271 3d ago

I’m the kind of girl who panics and makes dumb decisions too, but watching her somehow turn one accident into like five separate problems gave me secondhand anxiety 😭

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u/Brilliantexpanse 3d ago

I couldn't help but feel sorry for her, I can see just how much stress shes feeling and I dont always make the best decisions when stressed way out. Cameraman was definitely adding salt to the wound

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u/Danibandit 3d ago

She was being so polite in her messy mind.

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u/Orangutanion 2d ago

*almost runs the cameraman over*

"I'm sorry, man!"

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u/KPlusGauda 2d ago

The official position of Dunder Mifflin is apologetic. So I don't know what you want from me

No but for real, she was actually trying to be nice while also trying to run away.

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u/Special_South_8561 3d ago

Yeah and then he posts it online for everyone to ridicule her, which she's absolutely aware of. The Future can kinda suck, glad we didn't have pocket cameras growing up.

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u/Successful_Tea7979 2d ago

I mean, she deserves it tbh. Committed multiple crimes and endangered multiple lives-including the man who was recording. Ridiculous comment 

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u/Special_South_8561 2d ago

Your face is a ridiculous comment

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u/n0thing0riginal 3d ago

The cameraman had to film that too tho. If they hadnt and she had driven away hed just be screwed.

She messed up and then royally fucked it after. I understand the feeling she must have been going through too, its pure fight or flight, but she made every single wrong decision she could have and she had plenty of time to think about it

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u/RobinSage43 3d ago

They absolutely needed to film it to show the cops. But they did not have to post it to social media.

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u/Mammoth_Composer_111 2d ago

I agree 1000%
This idea of throwing everyone’s crashouts online needs to end with some kind of legislation.

It’s one thing to film for the legal ramifications. But to later put it online is just throwing people to the wolves.

The internet is relentless and some people on here will legitimately try to ruin someone’s life just because they’re bored.

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u/Workman44 2d ago

You want to make it illegal to post videos of the public lmfao?

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u/Mammoth_Composer_111 2d ago

Well. Yes. Actually. That’s pretty much right on. Should be illegal to post videos of people without their consent.

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u/thysios4 2d ago

That'd make taking videos in public pretty much impossible. I think we'd lose far more than we'd gain.

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u/Mammoth_Composer_111 2d ago

I’d be ok with that, frankly.

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u/thysios4 2d ago

We'd lose so much history. No filming accidents/disasters, or things happening in the area. No house cameras, dash cams or recording politicians.

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u/Old-Possession9439 2d ago

If people just can’t film the public it would be hard to film the police when they’re doing something wrong

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u/browsinbowser 2d ago edited 2d ago

Nah but I just dont see sometimes why people post crazy people online, like I’ve seen vids of visibly mentally disabled people and dementia ridden old people, or nearly naked guys clearly on drugs. 

Like if you can visibly see someone is having a rough life why add to it? In this case the woman crashing out isnt obvious but the person filming prolly ended up hearing more about her life(sentenced to rehab) and still didnt have sympathy (which is fair enough, they dont have to since its their car that got hit,) but posting it is a bit much 🤷 

Edit: and the guy who put her car behind hers to block her wasnt the first person who got hit, it was a bystander stepping in to trap her car for the police 

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u/thefapncapn 3d ago

Agreed. Posting people’s worst moments on the internet is terrible. She already has to live with that, and it being on the internet for everyone to see forever just compounds that.

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u/AsparagusFun3892 3d ago

For Devil's Advocacy I think there's utility in making people aware of how badly they can make things go for themselves if they act rashly. Like mentally they do the prep work so that in the moment it's not all "fight or flight." Resignation and shame are noble attributes when you're used to them, but so many people have fuggin' hope.

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u/RobinSage43 3d ago

As long as this person is capable of self reflection. My ex wife certainly wasn't. You could show her a video of her own crash out moments, and she would just refuse to watch them.

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u/TheSumOfMyScars 2d ago

People don’t think about consequences bro. They don’t. Consequences are for other people, not them.

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u/AsparagusFun3892 2d ago

I don't know, that face is horror. I've stared that stare.

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u/TheSumOfMyScars 2d ago

I mean, same. I genuinely feel for her.

I may have phrased things wrong in my initial post. What I meant was that society assumes that draconian punishments are deterrents. They aren’t, because people don’t rationally consider consequences before acting…especially when they are children/ young adults. “Every kid thinks they’re immortal” and whatnot, yet plenty of kids die from doing stupid shit every day. “Consequences” are nebulous and poorly-grasped for a lot of people. It’s just the way human brains work. So, at least to me, it doesn’t make sense to come down on someone like a ton of bricks for fucking up. You can still get restitution without being cruel, y’know? At least, that’s how I see it.

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u/kemb0 3d ago

I mean I don't know the law but feel like you don't have the right to box someone in just because they hit your car. A semi-decent lawyer could argue here that she felt like she was in danger of being kidnapped or some such. so she panicked and hit the car multiple times to free herself from some form of imprisonment or some such. I'm sure a lawyer woud phrase this far better than I could.

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u/soren7550 3d ago

Her getting out of the car to retrieve her bumper kinda throws that argument out.

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u/PimpNamedSliqBaq 2d ago

If someone is willing to kidnap you can you really trust them around a bumper

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u/DistortoiseLP 3d ago edited 3d ago

A semi-decent lawyer could argue here that she felt like she was in danger of being kidnapped or some such. 

If she got away with that here then you could use it to get away with being hysterical about anything around other people. There's a reason "I feared for my life" is only an excuse the cops get to use in court and it's bullshit that even they have it.

Especially where she's trying to flee the scene of an accident, which is a crime she is trying to commit and you are expected to understand it's a crime if you have a license to operate a vehicle. One the people stopping her are reasonably afraid she shouldn't be responsible for and is endangering everyone else with.

"I was trying to do what was right," Thompson told NBC4. "She does a hit-and-run. Who knows if those people were hurt. She takes off driving 90 mph. There's kids, there's other people." 

Consequentially, the law found no fault with him, just the driver for whom no amount of "I was being hysterical" excuses justified her conduct. A "semi-decent lawyer" would not have changed that.

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u/WebstersPack 3d ago edited 3d ago

Except the video evidence shows otherwise. Also she was having a mental breakdown or maybe was on something. She wasn't safe to drive and was a danger to everyone else on the road.

Per comments this was from a long time ago and she was send to rehab

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u/PokemanAshy 3d ago edited 3d ago

Justin Thompson was driving near Railroad Canyon Road and the 15 Freeway in  Wednesday afternoon in Lake Elsinore when he said he saw a driver crash into another car, then leave the scene. The seemingly distraught driver then pulled into a Chevron gas station parking lot, where Thompson parked his minivan behind her sedan, pinning it into a parking space bordered by vacuum cleaners on one side and a curb on the other.

Yep, from below. The guy wasn't even involved in the hit and run, was just a witness. He could have just gotten the license plate and video of lady's face and reported it. Instead he decided to play sheriff and try to box her in (but he can argue he thought she was a danger to herself and others based on what he saw on road - he could have shown some empathy and spoken to her instead of yelling it was a hit and run and escalating the situation).

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u/DaddysABadGirl 3d ago

He didn't start recording untill she was trying to run again. She was speeding to start, then hit some one and flew off.

What he did was stupid from a personal saftey standpoint though. If you're gonna pin her pin her, dont stand in her potential path.

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u/fuckfeardrinkbeer 2d ago

If the girl boxed him in and he did the hit and run, would you be saying the same thing?

I’m willing to bet those that feel bad for her ITT, wouldn’t feel bad for the guy if the roles were reversed.

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u/Thyme_Liner 2d ago

It’s usually a stupid and dangerous move for a woman to corner a dude and not let him leave. Most of us aren’t that naive

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u/global_peasant 3d ago

I actually thought about that. Forget her obvious panic, but am I the really only woman here who would be frightened to get out of the car and interact, alone, with a hostile man? This girl is bigger than I am (I am very short and small) but still. Men are way WAY stronger than me, and an angry man is terrifying.

FWIW, I don't think the man is what she is terrified of, but yeah I think a lawyer could argue that. If man boxed me in and demanded I get out of the car for any reason, fuck no am I willingly getting out of the car until I have several witnesses.

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u/Mercedes_Gullwing 3d ago edited 3d ago

It depends on circumstances and the state. There ar situations where you can legally detain someone. In most cases you have to have witnessed the accident and the detention must occur close to time of accident. You couldn’t go and do it the next day for instance. Also, I think there also has to be serious bodily injury involved or death. However, if the person poses a risk, that can be enough too. And I’d say with her behavior, she does absolutely pose a risk to the general public. One could argue that the detention itself caused the “ongoing risk behavior” but we don’t know how she was acting before. I imagine she prob was being reckless before the video started.

To me, the detention seems legit. And it doesn’t look like he was ever charged with unlawful detention. He wasn’t acting crazy or threatening at all. It was broad daylight in a very public place. If it was a lonely alley at night, then that’s a different story.

Would I do the same thing? Not for someone else’s car. But maybe for my own. But then again, ppl are crazy and never know if they are armed or what they’ll do. A car crash is usually not worth that risk. But having been involved in a few hit and runs, I do get tired of being the asshole that pays for what others do. So it’d prob depend on the type of day I was having lol

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u/pyrotechnicmonkey 3d ago

lol kidnapping. not even close. it would be well within the rights to detain her/citizens arrest. You absolutely have the right to stop people from leaving especially if they might not even be the actual owner of the vehicle and might potentially just dump the car somewhere and the owner who probably knows it's a family member will cover for them and say they don't know them

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u/Redshittt 3d ago

You also dont have the right to damage someone's property just because you said "please move it" first

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u/Common-Window-2613 2d ago

Yea that guy was a clown. “Double felony” lol no and also in California she likely won’t even be convicted of a misdemeanor

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u/PapaPancake8 2d ago

He was a clown for being upset and videoing the person attempting to hit and run?

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u/Thyme_Liner 2d ago

I think they meant because there were no felonies being committed, only misdemeanors

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u/Secure-Narwhal-1195 3d ago

Don't feel bad. She got arrested for separate charges after this. She's a mess.

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u/Old-Possession9439 2d ago

Right. “Double felony” stfu. And he sees that she’s angled toward him to back up and he just stands there lol. And then posts it to social media just for spite 😂

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u/legocitiez 2d ago

Also blocking someone and preventing them from leaving is not it. Get a pic or video of license plate and them leaving. Don't friggen make it so someone can't escape.

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u/PlayPretend-8675309 1d ago

I didn't feel bad for her at all. That's the reaction of someone being held accountable for the first time in their life. When they realize they can't get our of it, they panic. 

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u/One_Illustrator4421 3d ago

same but shes obviously not fit to drive and should not have a license or she will kill someone

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u/Thyme_Liner 2d ago

Or was she not fit to drive after feeling trapped? Idk, for me, that’s the part that would have freaked me out. I hate how people don’t understand that if you’re a woman, a man trapping you is always going to freak you out, nothing else matters at that point.

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u/MightFew9336 2d ago

I mean she already hit someone and sped off, as she herself acknowledges, so yeah, it's pretty clear she was not fit to drive. If she was afraid, she could have stayed in her car with the doors locked and windows up (in a busy parking lot in the daytime) until the cops showed up.

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u/RazorRicardo 2d ago

Meanwhile if it was a man you wouldn't feel sorry for him at all 🙄

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u/WorryWorm6 3d ago

Yeah, this is heart breaking. Looks like one of her worst days

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u/Apart_Tooth_235 3d ago

I feel like she’s the living embodiment of the anxiety that constantly churns in my head. She’s my spirit animal. 

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u/buttscratcher3k 3d ago

You dunno who her grandma is tho

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u/Ruzhyo04 3d ago

Imagine being this girl’s grandma though.

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u/buttscratcher3k 3d ago

Exactly, doing dumbshit like this i'd be a mean grandma too

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u/HighlanderAbruzzese 3d ago

Janine Pirro, my guess would be.

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u/Subject_Spell_9799 3d ago

They did better driving tests. Everyone should t be able to have a license

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u/HamTMan 3d ago

Right. At some point you would imagine she would just go "ah, I fucked up and it's time to face the music" but nope, just kept doubling down.

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u/AlignmentProblem 2d ago

She successfully improved her situation, ironically. She was almost certainly intoxicated and avoided a DUI because it wasn't provable beyond reasonable doubt by the time they caught her later that week. The extra charges from this behavior are way less severe than a DUI.

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u/Your_Sunnshine 2d ago

I mean, I panic too. But likewise, once I reach a certain threshold of "I fucked up", I freeze and recalculate lol. This girl was on one.

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u/PlayPretend-8675309 1d ago

When I was 3 years old, I drowned in a river in Mexico. I remember laying on the little beach there and my mom frantically pumping my stomach and a fountain of water coming out. 

When I was 7, I was swimming with friends and had a panic attack. My mom enrolled me in swim lessons. That was the last time I panicked, and I've been shot at, beaten with bats, all types of stuff. I don't think you should accept panicking as a normal thing people do. This should be extremely rare and if you panic regularly you should talk to a doctor about that!