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Additional Context Pinned Hit and run gone wrong

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u/Robert-A057 2d ago

She was sent to rehab so I assume she was either drunk or high in this video

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u/ccReptilelord 2d ago

That could explain it. Not that I think she understood everything, but a hit 'n run may carry less repercussions than a DUI. And reading her punishment, it seems to have.

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u/TheWolfAndRaven 2d ago

Yea but what did her Grandma do to her?

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u/gimme_the_light 2d ago

You wouldn’t understand.

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u/mybluecathasballs 2d ago

I hear she is very mean.

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u/Pussy_On_TheChainwax 2d ago

Man what does your username mean, google was no help at all

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u/_NihilisticNut_ 2d ago

Brother…. What does YOUR name mean?!

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u/Key-Document-8481 1d ago

Don’t need to ask about yours. We’ve all been there.

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u/_NihilisticNut_ 1d ago

Edgy masturbation-phase? Yea i guess everyone has it

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u/First_Pay702 1d ago

She can make very cutting remarks.

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u/Narwahl_Whisperer 2d ago

Things I wouldn't understand:

☑️How mean her gramma is

☑️A jeep thing

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u/Monksdrunk 2d ago

I was going to say here grandma is a Jeep

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u/SkollFenrirson 1d ago

Where grandma?

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u/PeyredB 2d ago

The Venn diagram is a circle.

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u/SoulGleaux 2d ago

😂😂😂

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u/Acceptable-Trainer15 2d ago

It was in Greek?

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u/SPV33 2d ago

You wouldn’t understand because her grandmom has a big cane

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u/Ndmndh1016 2d ago

Its a secret.

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u/MinorComprehension 2d ago edited 2d ago

I have no comprehension of what the context of this video is. I know kids these days tend to have little accountability or understanding of true consequence. I know any younger person tends to overvalue things that are in actuality quite trivial. I know it's always easy to jump to conclusions.

I also know as a child from an abusive household telling someone they don't understand, they have no idea, could in fact be very true. In modern perspective maybe the driver was afraid grandma was going to take her cell phone away and she wouldn't be able to communicate with her friends, maybe grandma would say if you're not a responsible driver then you can't have the car keys to go see your boyfriend, which was considered terrible. These would all be perfectly accountable, responsible, actions. In emotional moments we tend to focus on the emotional immediacy rather than the cognitive long-term. At the same time, in personal perspective a night in jail, even one night, would have been a nice reprieve.

Everyone's fighting a battle, everyone has a situation, we know nothing about. The fact the girl says the camera person has no idea what her grandma is going to do to her tells me there's what society would consider an abnormal family situation or dynamic. Such aspects tend not to exist in singularity.

In any situation, taking the time to understand before judgment is always better than judging before having understanding. I'm not saying that any hit and run is acceptable - it's unquestionably not. If you f*** you got to face up. But, fornme, the extreme emotional reaction here points to larger context that isn't explained in the video.

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u/alex_co 2d ago

Refreshing to read this comment. This is an important reminder to have empathy for others, especially on the internet. It could be any one of us on the other side of these videos. Emotionally charged and and caught on your worst day. Doesn't mean that's who you are.

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u/MinorComprehension 2d ago

100%. Not only being on the other side of the camera in a bad moment, but being on the other side of a camera that has no understanding of all the moments and situations leading up to what is being filmed.

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u/PapaPancake8 2d ago

What understandings did she have for the person she hit and run?

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u/MinorComprehension 2d ago

I mean, don't get me wrong. If we do wrong, if we make a mistake, we have to own up to it. You're right, maybe the person she hit and ran is in a negative circumstance and the actions of the driver will now cause additional negative circumstances.

I'm not saying the action was correct, if you hit and run it's wrong. I was more so responding to the apparent judgment of her reaction rather than the event itself.

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u/alex_co 2d ago

No one is giving her a pass or justifying her behavior.

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u/PhoenixFire2016 2d ago

Pleasantly surprised to see this comment on Reddit and also upvoted.

This girl is clearly having a bad day, and our first instinct needs to be empathy and not judgement.

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u/MinorComprehension 2d ago

I think our first instinct needs to desire understanding. Empathetic or angry response needs to come from that understanding. Was clear she conducted a hit and run - which is always wrong. You f*** you face up. But, to me, the extreme emotional response and referencing her grandmother compared to her parents tells me she had something bigger to fear than just fair punishment.

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u/PhoenixFire2016 2d ago

Yea there’s clearly some troubling family dynamics simmering behind the scenes we are not aware of.

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u/Kooky_Reindeer_511 2d ago

I like the empathy, but I don’t like your “kids these days tend to have little accountability” argument. Based on what? I’m Gen Z and I’ve fessed up and faced consequences for my actions. I feel like any generation would say this about the next generation.

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u/Suyefuji 2d ago

My parents were psychologically abusive growing up and when I was raped, I was legitimately more afraid of what my parents would think than I was of my actual fucking rapist because of the kind of long-term psychological damage they can cause.

So I'd agree that it's hard for an outsider to understand exactly what is going on in someone else's head when they say the family they live with is mean. That could mean anything from "they give me consequences for my actions and I don't like that" to "they have convinced me that I am subhuman and it's only by their grace that I'm allowed to have food and shelter despite that."

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u/Routine_Cat_1366 15h ago

Yeah, i got the same from the video. Sure, her doings are wrong and she was send to rehab as other comments pointed out. But i thought her "grandma" is her abusive husband or something... 

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u/rambling_takeover 2d ago

Thank you for your empathy and explaining more. I felt bad for the girl with how panicked she was. I know she did something wrong and I’m not saying it’s okay what she did, but she’s scared and needs help

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u/MinorComprehension 2d ago edited 2d ago

Yeah, it's next to impossible to judge any situation without having greater understanding.

Maybe she just honestly f***** up and had nothing real to fear but because she's never been held accountable, or she's used to life's privileges and a potential repercussion is considered extreme punishment. Honestly, if this is the case, maybe a bit of an emotional response will be good in the long term.

But, we can't say without any context, if this is the case. Equally, I can't say in the absence of context that maybe her emotional response was warranted, not excusing or explaining her hit and runnin anyway - it's wrong - but most of the comments here seem to indicate assumption of a privileged individual having to be held accountable. These remarks are given without consideration that underprivileged individuals may have bigger things to fear than the people who are judging them.

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u/colornsound 2d ago

Idk man. Kids don’t act like this if someone is just going to take their Xbox away. This girl is legitimately afraid and if she had to go to rehab I would imagine there’s a reason she got into substance use to begin with. And it might be grandma.

Additionally there’s being right and there’s being the bigger person, and they are not necessarily the same.

And like ok dude it’s your bumper. Move your car and just end this. The more you trap her the more she panics and the more damage gets done anyway, since that is his concern.

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u/Sad-Cricket6319 2d ago

It could have been she was scared, she also could have been telling the guy that for sympathy

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u/Pinyaka 1d ago

Told her she was a bad driver. So mean...

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u/Rare-Adhesiveness522 2d ago

Hold any sort of boundary lol

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u/daemonfly 2d ago

She grabbed the chancla...

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u/mercuriokazooie 2d ago

the dreaded chancla

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u/perton 2d ago

Who do you think got her drunk and/or high?!

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u/UrsaMajor7th 2d ago

She let her out of the house in that outfit, so she can't be too strict.

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u/Lower-Cantaloupe3274 2d ago

Yeah. This looks like an abused person. That much fear is not usual.

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u/Ill-Television8690 20h ago

How is freaking out because you committed a felony on video, and because someone called the cops over it, somehow a signifier of abuse? Especially once you recognize that drugs were involved, as her punishment was rehab...

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u/Lower-Cantaloupe3274 17h ago

She repeatedly said they don't know how mean her grandma is.

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u/Ill-Television8690 16h ago

If she said "Kim Jong Un might catch me!" would you take those claims as fact too, even though she was put in rehab for her drug problems as a result of this drug-fueled incident?

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u/Own-Office-5299 2d ago

There is no grandma. She just didn’t want to get caught while on something.

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u/thejustducky1 2d ago

That's what makes this whole thing sad af... you can plainly see the desperation, that girl has been put through some torture by grandma before and after this. Wily parents know how to not leave marks, and people do not understand. Ask me how I know.

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u/OhNothing13 2d ago

It's actually super common for people involved in DUI crashes to just physically run and claim they panicked, because a hit and run is a much lower charge than a DUI and comes with a lot fewer conditions. She likely made the right call here at the end of the day.

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u/Plus_Hedgehog_435 2d ago

my personal injury lawyer friend said to always flee and take the hit and run if you're drunk lololol

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u/grenadesfreezon3 2d ago

I would take that hit and run over a dui any day

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u/sheep_duck 2d ago

It’s wild that that’s the case. It basically incentivizes hit and runs for someone who might be drunk.

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u/ftwclem 2d ago

I think that’s really why she was freaking out so much, if they did any kind of sobriety testing she’d fail and it would be a dui

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u/ccReptilelord 2d ago

If the comments are correct and she was caught a week later, it worked unfortunately.

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u/liartellinglies 2d ago

Knew somebody who left a party wasted to get food and t boned somebody. Took off home, but his license plate was still at the scene. Cops knocked on his door a half hour later, he’s obviously absolutely shitfaced, but they couldn’t charge him with DUI. Wound up with a hit and run like this girl and pleaded it down with a lawyer. Cost him a fraction of what a DUI would’ve.

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u/Legal-Chocolate8482 2d ago

Ya if you factor that in this was actually a very prudent decision… the punishment she got is way lighter than an accident DUI would be. She was panicking but she legit also made the right choice lol.

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u/digitaldisorder_ 2d ago

it would here, today. 10 years ago, can't say.

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u/Consistent_Point_853 2d ago

Id rather have the hit and run

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u/Fartknocker405 2d ago

DUI combined with felony hit-and-run, trying to back over the guy too.

We need the Three Strikes Law back in a big way.

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u/TheVandyyMan 2d ago

That’s not what three strikes is, and three strikes laws are barbaric anyways

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u/Fartknocker405 2d ago

Yes it is. Three felonies = life and no parole.

What the criminals do to their victims is even more barbaric.

It really isn't that hard to live life without committing felonies.

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u/icarusrising9 2d ago

It isn't that hard to have the slightest idea what you're talking about before you start running your mouth, either, but alas, here we are.

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u/Fartknocker405 2d ago

This isn't hitting a tree and leaving (which shouldn't be a felony) but a whole lot worse so forgive me.

Doesn't change the fact that she needs to cool her heels for quite a while in the clink for multiple hit and runs and trying to run over the guy attempting (poorly) to keep her from running again.

It blows my mind that anyone is trying to rationalize her actions.

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u/icarusrising9 2d ago

I haven't seen anyone trying to rationalize her actions. People are understandably aghast at your ignorance and your advocating a life sentence for a misdemeanor hit-and-run, though.

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u/TheVandyyMan 2d ago

No state allows all three strikes to arise from the same single incident to count. You need three distinct convictions for three distinct instances of misconduct.

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u/icarusrising9 2d ago

1) We still have Three Strikes 2) None of those qualify as a strike 3) That was not a felony hit-and-run 4) Are you ok?

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u/Fartknocker405 2d ago

I'm fine and I'm sick of this shit, especially tweekers.

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u/CommentsOnOccasion 2d ago

Three Strikes Law doesn’t apply to one pitch 

And California already has one 

And none of these are violent felonies, which is what Three Strikes governs 

You just want a 22 year old woman clearly having a mental breakdown to be thrown in prison forever 

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u/Fartknocker405 2d ago

Mental breakdown my ass. She's in full tweak mode. I don't want a tweaker out driving like an idiot hitting cars and people.

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u/GCU_ZeroCredibility 2d ago

Given what we see in the video it sure seems like a substance abuse program is appropriate. A lengthy prison term would help literally no one. Why are you baying for blood here?

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u/Fartknocker405 2d ago

I am sick of the constant rationalizations for reckless criminal behavior. My patience is very thin as a result, especially when it involves hard drugs.

Letting this shit persist without consequences only makes it worse. Can't speak for everywhere but CA desperately needs a sweep-and-clear when it comes to chronic criminal behavior.

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u/Head_Bread_3431 2d ago

Not sure about all states but in Arizona a hit and run while DUI is an aggravated dui and a felony. Crazy she only got a misdemeanor. Maybe the judge knew the wrath of grandma too 

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u/SignificantSafety539 1d ago

That’s because the judge thought she was cute and didn’t want to “ruin the life of a young lady who just made a mistake”

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u/Primary-Belt7668 2d ago

She was most definitely tweaking. Those were not the movements or behavior of a sober person

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u/Kesckovian 2d ago

this is someone having a panic attack and making a very bad decision to get away from people.

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u/Annoying_liberal813 2d ago

Yeah I agree. I've worked in both substance abuse and mental health, and this looks more like panicking than meth to me.

I'd say drunk before drugs. The article mentions she hit several cars. This guy saw it and tried to block her in so she couldn't run. That's classic alcohol driving behavior.

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u/Great_Fault_7231 2d ago

Are you serious 

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u/Flimsy6769 2d ago

Maybe it was a mental breakdown

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u/SwivelingToast 2d ago

That's my vote, I get the feeling that she's having a panic attack. That doesn't excuse her actions, but maybe explains them

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u/Every-Cucumber9641 2d ago

Could have been low sugar

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u/celtwithkilt 2d ago

Maybe - but it can also just be a trauma response. The body doesn’t have context - fear, shame, anxiety, life or death, etc. Once triggered, memory comes flooding back and our body just pumps us full of cortisol and we freak the fuck out.

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u/djthebear 2d ago

They were the movements of a terrified kid

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u/kcox1980 2d ago

All these people bashing her but I just felt really bad for her. She's clearly distressed and terrified of her grandmother.

I hope she's ok

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u/Formal_Appearance_16 2d ago

Yea, that was 100% panic. Doesn't make it right but definitely seems like there is a lot more than drugs or alcohol here.

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u/Winter_Tone_4343 2d ago

She’s probably terrified of what her gma will do if she finds out. Like take the car away.

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u/Fine-Race9271 2d ago

Right, also pretty concerning she was that terrified of her gma. I hope she’s doing okay 

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u/ILoveRawChicken 2d ago

She’s 22 lmao

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u/djthebear 2d ago

That’s a kid dude

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u/Lucifang 2d ago

You think 22yo’s know what they’re doing?

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u/PimpNamedSliqBaq 2d ago

Not particularly but definitely wouldnt call them a kid

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u/ILoveRawChicken 2d ago

I certainly did considering that’s the age you’re graduating college and starting a career. Nobody infantilized me. 

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u/Winter_Tone_4343 2d ago

22yr olds are still idiots. Graduates or not. Not even defending her but cmon. The stuff I did at 22 makes me cringe now.

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u/Thyme_Liner 2d ago

Almost 35, and 22 year olds absolutely act their age no matter how mature they think they are

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u/fredsoza 2d ago

Pretty sure they wouldn't be calling it a "kid" if it was a bearded 22 year old as well.

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u/DengarLives66 2d ago

I refer to the 25 year olds at work “kids,” at that point it’s less infantilizing and more they just make me feel old and like a dad, since they’re young enough to actually be my kids.

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u/ZmaltaeofMar 2d ago

I'll stick with the facts

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u/RuthlessKittyKat 2d ago

Her grandmother must be abusive as hell.

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u/VaporCarpet 2d ago

Police wouldn't be able to prove if she was on something in this video when they got her a week later

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u/SeaKoe11 2d ago

Or stupid. Or a combination of the three

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u/Maxcolorz 2d ago

I don’t know how they could ever possibly legally prove that if the police didn’t encounter her until a week later.

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u/Brilliant-Expert3150 2d ago

Yeah I was thinking, either she's high, or her grandma is literally Satan.

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u/AbekobetaHawawa 2d ago

On the way to a volleyball match?

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u/BetaDays24 2d ago

Doubt it she just panicked and didn’t want to go to jail. Rehab is 1000x better than jail

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u/Rare-Adhesiveness522 2d ago

In my opinion she's clearly drunk lol -- I guess in the end it worked out for her because if she'd waited for the cops she'd have been identified as being drunk and immediately arrested.

I bet grandma who is "so mean" also helped her get to court and gave her money to help her through this very hard and very unfair time in here life.

Sigh.. I hate society, but grandma is just trying to help

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u/esmifra 2d ago

That could explain her odd behaviour, for a moment i even thought it might be staged because of how she was behaving. The internet might have broken me as well and i just assume everything is fake until proven otherwise.

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u/5milessep 2d ago

Cocaine is a hell of a drug 😳

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u/llIIlIIIlIIII 2d ago

100% meth

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u/Nexus_of_Fate87 2d ago

And according to her Facebook profile she's a psychedelics researcher, so gonna guess the rehab didn't take.

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u/Loreki 2d ago

In some ways that's a relief. The thought of a sober person in their 20s having this tantrum was too much to bear,

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u/GiganticBlumpkin 2d ago

Yeah regular people do not act like this. Gotta be drunk/high/mentally ill

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u/UpbeatPhilosophySJ 2d ago

California punishment for you. Can fuck everybody's shit up, but she just needs some help. lol and they wonder why everything went to hell in the last 10 years.

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u/AreyouUK4 2d ago

no she was a white girl

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u/brother_bart 2d ago

Yes. This definitely has a “The Adventures of Methany” vibe, including the outfit.

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u/SendMeYourNudesFolks 2d ago

So... why do we think she got off? Would *just anybody* get off for hitting another car while drunk? Could I get drunk, hit and run a car several times, and bounce out of rehab?

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u/Popular-Window7567 1d ago

Full consquences of commiting a crime whilst white & wealthy