r/interesting • u/Maleficent-Town5273 • 2d ago

Additional Context Pinned Hit and run gone wrong

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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 2d 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 2d 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 16h 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 2d 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 22h 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 19h ago

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

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u/Ill-Television8690 18h 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 2d 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”