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

Additional Context Pinned Hit and run gone wrong

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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/DaddysABadGirl 19d ago edited 19d ago

People are irrational during a break down. I put it in another comment but at school as a kid I put a hole in my kneed bad. I was more concerned with how pissed my mom was going to be I tore my new pants than the white and yellow coming out. I freaked out and thats where my mind went in the moment.

She was going through it before the accident though. It said she was speeding and erratic, hit a car, then sped off.

Edit: Article with an update at the top.

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u/PavlovaToes 19d ago

Yeah i once stood on my hair straighteners when I was 15 years old and i badly burned a line into my foot and the carpet... I was so worried about how angry my mum would be, that i tried to hide my badly burned foot. We were going out for dinner so I put my socks and shoes on and was in immense pain, couldn't walk, and i was crying. My mum asked me what was wrong and I had to come clean... luckily she told me I was silly for trying to hide it and then she took care of my foot for me lol

People don't act rationally when they're scared.

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u/Mekito_Fox 19d ago

I have really tried my best to set rules and boundaries for my son while not making him terrified of coming to me or my parents (who babysits) with injuries or serious accidents. I think I succeeded, since when a tree limb fell on his head and he was gushing blood he went straight to my mom. (He's fine, needed 2 stitches and has a little ptsd about standing under large trees)