Breaking the law for real - eviltoast
  • Garbanzo@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    I assume they’re having an emergency. Or they’re a raging asshole. In either case it’s not a great idea to play games with them. If you ever fuck around and find out I hope you’ll come tell us about it so I can gloat.

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      7 months ago

      I sometimes wonder who died and made them all highway patrol. I just want to get home safe, can people just not fucking ego trip behind the wheel of the 2 ton deathmobile?

    • Zorque@kbin.social
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      7 months ago

      Funny thing about irrational people? Even if you act as safe as you can, they’ll find some way to blame you for being their problem.

      Tolerance of intolerance is not tolerance. It’s enablement. Sure, don’t be a petty dick and make the situation worse… but don’t necessarily act the doormat either.

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        7 months ago

        I’ve got a similar story, but with a much more positive ending.

        Was at a LARP event, camping in the woods, when a girl started having an asthma attack. She’d forgotten her inhaler, no one else had one on hand, and she was visibly turning blue as she suffocated. We called 911, but the nearest hospital was in a city several miles away and the 911 operator couldn’t locate our site to send the ambulance.

        We agreed to meet the ambulance on the highway halfway, loaded up in my truck, and I booked it. Pushed my little 4-cylinder Frontier up to 115mph. Fastest I’ve ever driven. I had my hazards going and was flashing my brights like an asshole at every car I overtook. Thank fuck they all yielded to me.

        We met the ambulance on the side of the road, transferred her over, and they were able to get her breathing again. She survived.

    • MrJameGumb@lemmy.world
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      7 months ago

      So you feel that it would be better for me to either increase to an unsafe speed or force my way back into the slower traffic that I was trying to pass in the first place?

      • Garbanzo@lemmy.world
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        7 months ago

        You’re driving at the bleeding edge of what you consider safe, couldn’t possibly pick it up a bit to get by and move over? You’re doing that and have the audacity to judge other drivers? Get the fuck off the road entirely, sell your car, stay indoors.

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          7 months ago

          Ah, so your answer is “why don’t you just do what I tell you?” and beyond that you immediately resort to hurling insults? This is all starting to make a lot of sense now…

          • Garbanzo@lemmy.world
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            7 months ago

            You’re claiming to be driving so fast that any increase in speed would make an unsafe situation. Your reading comprehension is so poor that you take offense at non-existent insults. Yeah, you shouldn’t be driving at all.

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              7 months ago

              I was just about to type out another argument, but I realized it’s pointless. You clearly will not be happy with any answer other than “everyone should just let you drive however you want to” with a healthy dose of “the rules only apply to everyone else”…

              You have fun with that buddy

              ✩⋆。 ˚ᎶᎾᎾⅅ ℕᏐᎶℍᎢ⋆。˚✩

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          7 months ago

          Well there is this thing called a speed limit, that is a very clear hard limit. If you go over, it is at the very least financially unsafe.

          • Garbanzo@lemmy.world
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            7 months ago

            There’s also a law that says to yield to overtaking traffic. Where’s the law that says creating a rolling road block is OK? How did I miss the legislation that deputized every self righteous prick as some kind of speed limit enforcer?