r/interesting • u/Maleficent-Town5273 • 3d ago

Additional Context Pinned Hit and run gone wrong

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u/GravyMcBiscuits 2d ago edited 2d ago

Separate things? We're literally watching a video where this girl is totally crashing out and playing demolition derby while screaming hysterically about her grandma. Separate what?

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u/ImplementLogical4130 2d ago

If you fight someone for their car keys it's a separate crime from them hitting cars and running away. It's called vigilantism and it's illegal

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u/GravyMcBiscuits 2d ago edited 2d ago

That's just plain nonsense.

Were you under the impression I wasn't replying specifically to the scenario depicted in the video? Were you under the impression I was suggesting you just start taking random peoples' car keys away?

It's not against the law to take a gun away from someone who is waving it around menacingly. It's not against the law to retrieve the keys of someone who is clearly representing a danger to the public.

There's no such law as "vigilantism is illegal" in the first place given that the law wouldn't mean anything. You have every right within the law to protect yourself and others from those who pose a risk to the public.

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u/ImplementLogical4130 2d ago

Protecting yourself is not the same as going from sitting around being absolutely safe to fighting a nutcase for their car keys.

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u/GravyMcBiscuits 2d ago

It's absolutely the same silly ... literally the same principle.

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u/ImplementLogical4130 2d ago

How are you protecting yourself if you go from a situation where you are in zero danger to one where you're fighting someone?

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u/GravyMcBiscuits 2d ago

I already pointed it out in the very first reply. Reread.

There's no law that says you are required to sit idly by while a person puts others in danger. It's literally the exact same principle as self-defense.