194 - Road rage shooting
Video gives insight into violent mentality and understanding of consequence
Dashcam video of a road rage incident.
Video link:
https://odysee.com/@OneInOne:e/road-rage-shooting:c
(OR… Go to https://odysee.com/@OneInOne:e and search “road rage shooting”)
“The shooter, Eric Popper, says he fired 11 rounds on I-95 because he was followed and “attacked.””
Initially this moron told the cops that he was shot at but it seems that this was a road rage incident that escalated when he pulled faces at the other driver, braked in front of him and the other guy drove aggressively round him, threw a bottle of water at him and got this in return. Some sources were saying that the passenger in the other car was pregnant, no idea if this is correct.
Without focusing on the gun issue which is still increasingly relevant to the UK, this is the mentality of some “people” out there.
Two morons unable to let the slightest thing go, risking everyone around them.
The fact that the intellectual shown in the video had zero concern for where those bullets went (other cars with families? passers by?) is testament to the mindset that is out there.
Magnets for confrontation with zero respect for life.
If it’s not guns, it’s knives or beatings.
Always avoid trouble - who are you dealing with? Some will take the situation to the point of tragedy over any small, meaningless issue.
Details here:
https://jalopnik.com/driver-opens-fire-at-another-car-on-i-95-in-miami-1848446264
Mailbox email from "H":
H - "Tbh I thought from the first few seconds that he was on drugs..
The eyes (wide, fixed stare), the unconscious facial tics (maybe what was perceived as him pulling faces at the other driver?), the sniffing/nose touching, the paranoid overreaction, out of touch with reality (lack of regard)..
He's looking and behaving in that clip like every coked up person I've met - I assumed that's where the story was going.
Maybe he wasn't on anything though.
But certainly the wildfire spread of cocaine use has caused a dramatic increase of the behaviours and mentality you wrote about; 'morons unable to let the slightest thing go, risking everyone around them.. magnets for confrontation'.
It's so easy for anyone to get caught up in someone's coke-fuelled sh*tstorm too now.. It's become so cheap and easy to get hold of that people are topping themselves up before they go grocery shopping rather than saving it for the pub toilets on a Friday night.
Obviously much of the rise in aggressive mentality we see in people like the guy in the video stems from the state of utter disconnect our society has created, but honestly cocaine has so much to answer for currently and I've learnt to steer well clear of that 100 mile stare!! You're spot on with your call to avoid trouble."
Mmmm, another one where I hesitate to push the “like” button. That’s just the weirdest thing to watch. Road rage doesn’t even cover it. He seems more petulant that angry, and then to use the gun like that. Whilst being filmed by dash cam.
I don’t think of myself as having poor impulse control, but I occasionally get very annoyed by cars passing too close to my bike, or horse, and remonstrate. Once I reacted (might have been to an “‘ello darlin’”) and the driver took great offence, reversed towards me, and I ended up in a ditch under my bike.
“Always avoid trouble”. There’s a theme. Taking note!