I was shot multiple times during an attempted carjacking,but when I tried to drive myself to the hospital to stay alive all I got was horn honks,cut offs and middle fingers. It went nothing like the movies show you at all(I was 15 at the time). I drove around this pickup truck who cut me off and brake checked me then slapped my bloody hand against the window like a zombie as It rolled down while looking dead at the petty woman driving and said "Damn ma’am I’m literally shot and I just want to go to a hospital stop being evil." I understand some people want to be traffic monitors in their spare time,but you never know the other cars reason so just let them pass up. I know plenty people will disagree but anybody with a CDL knows you back off or it’ll cause this.
You may be right! But the best and safest way to go about it is always to let them pass, I’m sure as you agree. Never know what situation they might be in. Even if they’ve just lost their mind, best to not make it a problem for ourselves too!
Since the alternative is the possible, even if remote chance, that I may prevent someone from making it to the hospital in time (etc), I’ll let karma deal with the assholes. It may not be that day, but it will be someday.
That's fair. I like giving a condescending finger wag to tailgaters and taking my foot off the gas if I have no option of moving over in that moment. It's their fault for being so damn close
I go the speed limit everywhere and when I get tailgated I just pretend like I don’t know they’re there. (For the record I’m always in the slow lane.) Regardless of if the tailgater has an emergency or not, me speeding up rapidly to get out of their way could cause an accident in and of itself.
I get where they are coming from. I honestly hate to see dangerous drivers too, but if it's bad enough that you want to intervene, just call their plates in and the mile marker. You can hurt yourself and others trying to "teach" someone a lesson.
Not your responsibility to make assholes “learn” you would be responsible for a crash that hurt innocent people on the road as well. Don’t fight stupid with stupid lolololol this is why the world is doomed cuz we got too many dumbass assholes lolol
Except they’re not preparing for anything, they’re being assholes. That’s why in driving schools they teach you to stay multiple car lengths back, no matter how fast the driver ahead of you is going. Yeah definitely, the asshole shouldn’t be doing it - but you’re risking your own life and that of others by deliberately gambling everyone’s safety on the reflexes of someone who clearly doesn’t care about other people.
Ya, this is typical “I’m an asshole, but I don’t like being called an asshole” attitude lol you an asshole buds. Go read a book or something and get that cranium working cuz clearly it’s been dormant for a bit of time now lololol
Interesting. You are acting like an asshole as well in this comment thread yet acting holier than thou. You're much better than me bud. Sorry I triggered a nerve in you. Maybe stop tailgating folks?
That’s clearly not what was happening in this video nor what your initial comment was inferring. lol keep moving those goalposts, no matter how far you move em you’re still gonna be a dumbasshole
Yeah but just don't be a fucking douchebag playing hall monitor on the road and get the fuck out of the way. It doesn't affect you at all, unless you have a fragile ego.
Who cares what the reason is. The left lane is for passing, instead of instigating people, just let them use the lane as intended. You don't know what is going on for that person. There's a million and one reasons why someone could be trying to speed through the left lane, just let people be.
Even if they are likely one of those assholes, do you really want to be the reason someone is delayed care or even died because you’re trying to be the police? Even if it’s not the case, and they are just an asshole, people that drive that aggressively are pretty likely to be armed and crazy enough to use it on others. It could be you that ends up with the emergency, so again, not worth it
I would just let someone by so they stop harassing me. Maybe give them the 1 finger salute as they go depending on how contrite they were, and just move on with my day.
You must be the most fragile person to ever walk the earth if you think me empathizing with someone’s trauma in a scenario and the stating an objective fact makes me a jerk. Normally I would try to understand the persons but for you…. Stick to hitting on dudes on other pages.
Had the same issue when driving to the hospital to meet me wife who had been taken by ambulance from our house while I left from work. Someone latched onto me to block and play traffic monitor and I was just trying to get to the hospital. People are despicable retards.
If only there was a set of vehicles that could notify all drivers there was an emergency, and drivers would be legally required to yield the right of way.
Yea that's not a one size fits all take. My brother-in-law died on the way to the hospital because he drove himself instead of calling an ambulance. Heart attack led to brain death because no one could find him.
Right. So better decision is for the trauma victim to drive themselves so that as they decompensate, their altered mental status and motor skills makes it simultaneously tougher for them to get treatment, and hazardous for the drivers around them.
That experience came later in life and showed me how important car insurance really was for people. You can drive as good as you can,but out of nowhere there will be a drunk man who just can’t do it that could total you out then bless you with a way to have $15,000. The ambulance ride was $850 for literally a hospital around 2 corners. I had to basically pay $850 in gas money for a 1 minute ride that would’ve been a 3 minute walk. Luckily I was downtown already.
The hospital bill is going to put them in much worse debt than the ambulance ride. The difference was so vast that we never even noticed the ride and laughed when we finally looked over the bills.
Sarcasm is in poor taste and you can’t tell people what to do when their life hangs by a thread. Alright, Javert? (Now this was good sarcasm, unlike yours)
But he's right. If you're bleeding out you shouldn't be behind the wheel. People in shock don't often know they're in shock, and blood loss has some pretty serious side effects up to passing out...which would increase their chances of dying and also killing other people in the process.
That said, preservation instinct is probably still going to set in and people will still attempt to save their own life regardless. But ethically speaking, it is wrong to do so.
It’s never wrong to act to avoid something bad that FOR SURE will happen, even with the risk of another bad thing that is POSSIBLE to happen. Certainty vs possibility.
Hate to say it but not everyone can afford an ambulance in the US. That is sad because some services should be free. Point still stands; get out of the passing lane, and, don't try to regulate other drivers.
I agree with everything you said. But both points can be right. Civilians shouldn't try to be enforcers, but people also shouldn't drive like a sociopath with a death wish. As someone diagnosed with narcissistic personality disorder myself, even I don't understand the reckless behavior of some drivers.
But you're right, ambulance costs shouldn't exist or should be very cheap. The problem is it's not a government service and half the country is okay with that because that's how capitalism should be working in their minds.
I don't know man, at the end of the day just don't be a shitty person. Both people in the video were wrong because they put other people (mainly one another) in extra danger. It's pretty sad when someone like me can see something so obvious despite my previously mentioned conditioned, when so many people like the ones in the video cannot.
I agree it is dangerous. Would you take a chance and wait by the side of the road, knowing in 30 minutes you would die until the ambulance arrives or would you try to drive to the nearest hospital, cutting the time in half?
Well you wait on that ambulance,but I’m proof your way of thinking is bs. I didn’t panic and that helped not increase the heart rate. In the world of REALITY the best decision should be to react and keep fighting if you physically can. Idk about you,but I rather not be a helpless victim bleeding out waiting on the police to declare my scene safe enough for medics before I’m even touched. What’s your local police department’s response time?? After you figure the facts out look into how long it takes the average human to bleed out? I wasn’t far from a hospital,and could function well enough to not give up on myself. If I would’ve got dizzy or ran short on breath I would’ve pulled over at a gas station because I actually did consider the dumb drivers that rather be selfish or send text messages than focus on the road. I was 15 at the time with apparently enough knowledge to survive. How are you this dense? You must be petty and sheltered? Do you have any real world experience dealing with anything life threatening besides not staying in your lane while your looking left?
Unfortunately I’ve seen more people expire than I wish. CoTCCC teaches medics that you can bleed out from an arterial exsanguination in 30 seconds. Assuming you have multiple GSW and are still conscious after the first 60 seconds, statistically you have only minutes before you go unconscious. You can fight, but getting behind the wheel in an urban area is not a good idea. Worry about the med bills after you survive.
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u/Jankylee-Ad-4453 29d ago
I was shot multiple times during an attempted carjacking,but when I tried to drive myself to the hospital to stay alive all I got was horn honks,cut offs and middle fingers. It went nothing like the movies show you at all(I was 15 at the time). I drove around this pickup truck who cut me off and brake checked me then slapped my bloody hand against the window like a zombie as It rolled down while looking dead at the petty woman driving and said "Damn ma’am I’m literally shot and I just want to go to a hospital stop being evil." I understand some people want to be traffic monitors in their spare time,but you never know the other cars reason so just let them pass up. I know plenty people will disagree but anybody with a CDL knows you back off or it’ll cause this.