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Jeth's avatar

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."

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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!

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