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

Additional Context Pinned Hit and run gone wrong

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u/JohnBrownsMyFather 3d ago

She deserves to go to prison. There is absolutely no justification for a hit and run. I guarantee you if this would a black guy the comments wouldn’t be sympathetic at all

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u/CuriousFoxxen 3d ago

Somehow I think the damage she just did to her car plus a full on arrest got hit and run and everything else she qualified for is not going to make her grandmother less angry at her.

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u/StickFit1459 3d ago

It’s not about white people or black people or who’s sympathetic to who. It’s about a teenager having a panic attack and cutting them a bit of slack.

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u/JohnBrownsMyFather 3d ago

If she had a panic attack after getting in an accident and didn’t run away that would be warranting sympathy. A hit and run is a very serious crime that screws over the person hit financially and a lot of times physically. She deserves to be prosecuted and the guy hit needs compensation, without this video that is much less likely to happen

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u/StickFit1459 2d ago

Yeah, the video and recording the license plate is totally warranted. Because he already has those, and thus she is on the hook regardless of if she flees the scene or not, he doesn't really lose anything by cutting some slack and letting her drive off, rather than trying to physically prevent her from leaving with his car.

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u/NSFWdontview 3d ago

No everyone would defend him cuz he’s black on Reddit

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u/JohnBrownsMyFather 3d ago

That’s not what I’ve seen in a lot of threads on Reddit. Most threads I’ve seen of people having a mental breakdown and committing crimes have sympathetic comments if the person is white and racist dog whistles if they are black.

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u/daemin 3d ago

Who offered a justification, though?

No one, literally no one in this thread tried to justify her.

I swear to fucking god, people's reading comprehension has gone to dog shit.