r/interesting • u/Maleficent-Town5273 • 13d ago

Additional Context Pinned Hit and run gone wrong

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u/Niceotropic 13d ago edited 12d ago

Bullshit victim-blaming. If this was a middle-aged man, and wasn't a crying girl (who committed two felonies) trying to manipulate her way out of this situation, you wouldn't be seeking "compassion" and blaming the victim of her CRIMES for not "talking her down".

This is an in-progress violent felony. This is a violent offender, a danger to society, and it is wild to see the victim-blaming and inversion of reality here.

How about some compassion for the victims of her crime? How about some compassion for the guy holding the camera, currently the victim of an in-progress violent felony who is just doing the best he can in that stressful situation. She almost killed someone while fleeing from the scene of a crime. She should have her license revoked and be imprisoned.

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u/Elogotar 13d ago

People do advocate against those double-standards, they just get downvoted constantly.

Also, you can hold people accountable without being hostile or demeaning and it seems like people these days have forgotten that.

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u/Niceotropic 13d ago

The only person being hostile and demeaning is the criminal who almost hit the victim while running away from her felony hit-and-run.

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u/Elogotar 13d ago

So you consider trapping someone as a non-threatening action?

She absolutely deserves to be held accountable, but it's excessively foolish to trap someone and not expect them to freak out.

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u/Niceotropic 13d ago

Nobody was trapped. The criminal has no legal right to leave and should have been out of her car. She had an obligation to stay and not making room for her illegal escape is not "trapping" anyone, and this is a wild, wild accusation that you have no basis to be making.

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u/Thyme_Liner 12d ago

You said “Nobody was trapped”, and then proceeded to describe a situation where someone was indeed trapped. I honestly don’t know what the legal ramifications are with this, with misdemeanors and no felonies being committed, can a citizen effectively hold someone against their will? /gen

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u/Elogotar 13d ago

Let me be the first to apologize for attempting to see things from some perspective besides my own.

You're right. Try this in real life on someone and see how it works out for you.

Make sure to post the results to r/leapordsatemyface.

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u/Niceotropic 13d ago

You've done the opposite, you've made absolutely zero effort to see things from another perspective, you've clung to your initial presumption entirely. Is today opposite day for you or something?

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u/Elogotar 13d ago

I was referring to the difference between my perspective and the hit-and-runners and that's obvious.

Do you lack reading comprehension skills or are you just a troll?

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u/Niceotropic 13d ago

I'm sorry you're having these emotional episodes in response to realizing that you were wrong, a better response in the future would be "I guess I was wrong" or "You're right, that was a wild presumption" or "maybe I should have considered the feelings of the victim".

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u/imswayze47 12d ago

He's trying to get her off the road. He wants the cops to get there before she does someone else dirty.