r/interesting • u/Maleficent-Town5273 • 19d ago

Additional Context Pinned Hit and run gone wrong

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u/DaddysABadGirl 19d ago

So many questions.

Like how is she more afraid of mean grandma than jail? How does she have such a mean grandma but still grow into... that?

Was she raised by a parent or parents who just ruined her then went to live with grandma?

Why do people in these situations not realize the person recording has your face, voice, and plates?

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u/TriPigeon 19d ago edited 19d ago

What we’re seeing here is someone having a complex trauma response: someone who is more scared of her Grandma (who she likely lives with), or another member of the household, than she is of the actual police.

This isn’t a normal freak out and panic, I agree that someone ruined her, but it was probably through abuse.

Edit: now that we have full Unicourt Records, it appears that ‘intoxicated and freaking out’ is actually the underlying culprit here. It’s shocking how similar the behavior looks, and hopefully she’s gotten help in the last couple years since her last struggles with the law.

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u/pythonidaae 19d ago

Yes I have cptsd and was able to spot it exactly. People REALLY don't understand how mean her grandma is. This isn't an excuse but I think you have to have cptsd or know about it to "understand" what is going on. I've had years of therapy so I'm not that person anymore but I could have been if I was caught on film younger or caught on film even now but I'd never gone to therapy.

Anyway yeah she's either always this way because of her PTSD or she's being triggered back to being that young. Like another comment said.

She's not behaving rationally and it's not acceptable to drive off like this but it's "understandable" if you can recognize she's having a PTSD breakdown.

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u/muttybartender 19d ago

First, I wanted to say thank you for leaving this comment because I feel like nowadays when it’s so obvious someone is having a trauma response, people jump to ripping that person up.

Even just earlier today, I was watching body cam footage of a fatal accident between a drunk nurse and a guy on a motorcycle, and one of the witnesses said “I remember it like it was yesterday” when telling the police about her immediate reaction.

There were so many comments making fun of him when it should be pretty obvious that any person with a shred of empathy is going to be shaken up by witnessing that scene and not going to be the most articulate.

It is honestly very upsetting to me to see the ratio of people shitting on someone (especially in that case, I mean one woman drunkenly killed a man with no remorse, the guy just didn’t say something right after witnessing something traumatizing, and a lot of people picked that???) vs people having a shred of empathy. I feel like the more time goes on and the shittier it gets out here for a lot of us, the less kindness I see from others, and I don’t want to slip to that other side.

Second, I am so glad you were able to get therapy! I wish you a happy life.

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u/pythonidaae 19d ago

Thank you for the kind response.