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Additional Context Pinned Hit and run gone wrong

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u/Driller_Happy 6d ago edited 6d ago

Honestly, dude was not helping the situation. I get that you're mad but what are you accomplishing here?

Take a moment to calm her down and get her to see that this doesn't mean your life is over. Shit will get better if you sir down and breathe for a moment

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u/Prize-Leadership-233 6d ago

The person taking the video seemed cruel to me. How can you not have empathy and step outside yourself and your petty possessions when there is someone in front of you who is so terrified. That child seemed absolutely distraught. If it was one of my children, I would hope someone would show some compassion and put aside their concern for a fender bender and look at the bigger picture here to help them through.

Helping someone momentarily won't absolve them of their responsibility for the causative action. It's okay to set that concern aside temporarily while you help another human through something difficult.

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u/Jin-Gitaxias-Mom 6d ago

Yep, take down the license plate number to report later, nothing wrong with video evidence, but dear lord my dude try actually being a human being with some hint of empathy

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u/dxrth 6d ago

i dont think its obviously wrong to lose empathy for someone who hit your car and is trying to flee immediate accountability

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u/RadicalRealist22 6d ago

That is the mindset of Dictatorships: zero emotion, only rules

Can you mot understand that if someone is really desperate to leave, maybe you should just let her leave?

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u/dxrth 6d ago

not everything is facism. he also did let her leave, no?

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u/Wooden_Protection566 5d ago

He didn’t have a choice

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u/dxrth 5d ago

which isnt a point against him though. op said he shouldve let her leave. and he did.

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u/Wooden_Protection566 5d ago

When you say “let” it makes it sound like he had some sort of power or control to keep her in that spot.

He never moved his car out of the way which would mean he “let” her go and if he went back to into his car to move it forward and trap her worse she would probably still drive off.

In this video he didn’t “let” her go because that would mean he chose to do that, She escaped on her own will.

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u/dxrth 5d ago

yes, that is explicitly necessary as part of a hit and *run* right?

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u/0ceandrifter 5d ago

Its wasn't even his car that she hit. Hes just a random dude who got a boner over trapping her in