Must not have been his Camaro.
I see these a_holes everyday just like this punk.
Hope they sue the stuffings out of him!
"I drive in the left lane, if you don't like it, F you." That seems to be their attitude.
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Debate rages over at Jalopnik on this one. Nobody will defend the Camaro but many also hate the left lane vigilantes who think their job is to teach people the proper driving speed.
Only person I feel sorry for is the trucker and although the Camaro driver was an aggressor, there is video evidence of the pickup driver engaging in the road rage which could make him culpable as well.
The guy in the pickup was being a jack@ss. The moral is, let Karma do your work for you.
Most road rage is just speeding until some jerk decides to “teach the speeder a lesson”.
The Camaro driver is an idiot (mostly for owning a Camaro), but the pickup driver is the punk who turned a brief encounter into a minutes-long battle that caused the idiot to get really stupid.
I think Clark W. Griswold had it right when he said “You want to ride behind someone who does something like that?”. The answer? No, obviously.
And what’s up with the tail light out in a new car? I see that a lot with GM cars.
Wonder who caught the fist fight after?
It’s surprising how people jump to conclusions. The PU was fine in the left lane when the incident started. He had a car in front of him and couldn’t go any faster.
The Camaro driver was drunk and drove like it. After the initial attempted cutoff, THEN the PU started messing with the guy on purpose. I don’t get the impression the PU would have held next to the truck under normal circumstances. So, not a left-lane vigilante, just taking advantage of his position to rub it in on the Camaro after that driver drove like an ass.
So, I give the Camaro 95% of the blame, the PU driver 5%. The Camaro should have taken his medicine, but then he was drunk on that non-dangerous alcohol stuff that doesn’t make one act violently.
Camaro driver left the scene and was later caught and arrested. Blood alcohol .19.
Bonehead comments of the month thread, this one...
The country is full of angry a-holes. Only going to get worse.
The only professional driver out there was the semi. He could have slowed up 5 mph and let the two other vehicles get by. As it turned out, all three were in the accident.
The problem with being a left-lane @$$hole (like the truck, and to some extent the right lane semi that joined in on the fun) is that you never can be sure if the other @$$hole behind you (in the camaro) is a bigger idiot that you are.
The safe, sane decision is to move into the right lane as soon as safely possible and let the idiot by.
OR, like the pickup truck, you can succumb to “tostestereene poisoning” and wind up in the ditch.
I think all three got off light. Camaro, Truck and Semi played a game where no one wins.
The sad part: there was a mile of open road in front of both trucks and it could have been easily avoided. Easily. There are always going to be idiots on the road. The smart driver does what he can to put as much distance as possible between himself and the idiot. The two trucks in this incident chose to snuggle right up close to the idiot. Dumb move.
Here’s what they should have done: Grit their teeth; swallow their pride; let the idiot by and be thankful as they watched him disappear in the distance. It may offend their macho sensibilities, but they wouldn’t have wound up in the ditch if they had just let him by.
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Camaro driver wasn’t the only idiot in this video. I see three cars hogging the left lane. Pickup driver purposely blocked Camaro driver as he tried to merge, then blocked him next to the big rig. Big rig driver apparently tried to slow down to stop that, but pick up driver slowed too.
3 idiots, one innocent big rig driver. I hope he beat the crap out of them after they all pulled over.
Dashcam driver at fault too, for boxing in the camaro and increasing the overall tension and level of danger. Four dangerous jerks that deserved to find each other.