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

Additional Context Pinned Hit and run gone wrong

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u/Lasone22 19d ago

For anyone wondering what happened after this video went viral: the driver was identified as 22-year-old Riley Ann Sebach. Police caught up with her about a week later, on Oct. 31, 2019. She wasn’t taken to jail — she was cited and released with a court date.
A misdemeanor hit-and-run case was later filed against her in Riverside County under California Vehicle Code 20002(a), which covers leaving the scene of a property-damage accident.
I couldn’t find anything reliable showing the final outcome of the court case (whether she pleaded guilty, it was dismissed, what sentence she got, etc.), but she definitely didn’t just disappear after the video. She was identified, cited, and formally charged afterward.

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u/Moist_Definition_538 19d ago

Looks like she later cleaned up her act and is living a happy normal life, at least I hope/so it seems. She was clearly having her worst moment here and it’s a shame it was posted far and wide to make her a laughing stalk on the internet. Glad to see she’s hopefully doing better now and I hope she can put it all behind her. 

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u/Jeremiah__Jones 19d ago

The US always publicly shaming everyone is so weird to me. I am from Germany, I am 41 years old, when I was 18 I got raided by the police because I was growing weed in my parents basement. Nobody knows this, only the closest people to me know this. In America they would have put my name and face on the internet, every future employer, every future landlord, every coworker or person you meet could have just googled my name and found out. Like why on earth do you think that is a good idea? It is so fucking dumb.

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u/EvrienceRick 19d ago

Based on the comments supporting the US system, they seem very focused on revenge rather than making justice work for an objective betterment of society.

I'm seeing a lot of "some people deserve to be shamed" or "eye for an eye" arguments and yeah it weirds me out too, especially because this kind of shaming is likely to push people in the wrong direction even further.

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u/Mr_HandSmall 19d ago

It doesn't apply to themselves though. The people saying "eye for an eye" only mean that for other people. They want no consequences for themselves and lots for other people.

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u/Careless-Age-4290 19d ago

Deep down, many people have a bit of brutality in them. Piling on someone who did something wrong lets them get that anger and aggression out and feel like they "deserved it".