• givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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      A friend from college got a job as an ER nurse in a not so nice city I grew up by…

      She didn’t really explain to anyone who knew the area where she worked, and she didn’t tell co-workers she wasn’t familiar enough with the area. But like, she was an ER nurse, she knew people were getting shot constantly. But she wanted to seem cool and like she could handle herself.

      So like a month in of 3rd shift she’s sitting at a red light a few blocks away from the hospital and a sketch all black tinted car flashes their high beams at after pulling up behind.

      She doesn’t know what to do, so she just sits there in here car.

      Luckily it was a cop who then turned his lights on. He assumed the only reason a car would stop at a red light was because the driver fell asleep drunk, and rather than the cop wanting to stop and get out of his vehicle, he was trying to wake a drunk driver up so they’d leave…

      TLDR

      He told her to never stop at a red light around there. Slow down, look, and then run the red light.

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        I’ve heard of that in Detroit. My jujitsu instructor told a story of driving through there somewhere and he stopped at a red light. A police officer pulled him over and explained that he would get robbed if he stopped at lights, and that everyone would know he was clueless and from out of town.

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          Detroit is exactly what came to mind for me as well. Years ago I was driving back from downtown to Ann Arbor and the interchange I needed was closed so I had to exit in the middle of downtown Detroit. It was pre smartphone days and I was lost at night by myself. I stopped at a red and an unhoused person walked into the middle of the road and threw a coke bottle at my car. Luckily it was plastic.

          I was terrified that he was going to come closer and attack my car and me. Luckily that’s all he did. When I got back, everyone asked me why I stopped at the light and I said it was red. They told me never to stop at a red in Detroit. Wild city.

          Edit: spelling

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            Ever seen the movie Black Hawk Down? There’s a scene where a convoy of hummvees takes heavy fire while trying to get out of Mogadishu.

            Detroit is like Mogadishu. You don’t stop for anything and try not to engage the locals as much as possible.

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              It was my first summer driving in a big city and I was there for an internship so want aware of how bad it was - I was also young and afraid to break any rules. Ah to be young and naive.

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            I lived in Cleveland for a few years, never heard of/seen anything like that there. Some sketchy neighborhoods, yeah, but so bad police advise you not to stop at red lights? nah.

            I mean, Ohio cops are the worst, so even if it was the safe thing to do, they’d pull your ass over for running the light, and then leave as a crowd gathered around your car lol

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            I mean, they built a train to carry all the jobs out of Cleveland…

            They made a video about it even

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          I mean, it’s mostly on the city for at least not changing them to flashing red lights after a certain time.

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        yes. they should be tried for beating the man and looting his car.

        whole situation was avoidable. who chases down a gang of hyped up teenagers over littering? one of the kids threw a bottle and now this guy has injuries, severe property damage and a bunch of his possessions stolen. he chose to escalate the situation. don’t escalate. move on with your life. especially if you have all your belongings in your car because you’re moving.

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          He escalated by getting out of his car? I agree that was stupid, he should have kept moving and not stopped for lights or stop signs, but it’s pretty crazy some cities are at the point where getting out of your vehicle is considered “escalating” and leads to your car being destroyed and being viciously beaten by a group of 40 children.

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            correct. assuming malice from the kids, Mr Uulu got out of the car to confront literal children. this is escalating a trivial incident to a confrontation. over a plastic bottle hitting his car.

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              I’m just saying it’s a sad world when you think the abnormal behavior here is someone getting of their car.

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                I think it is unhinged that we allow people to drive tank sized SUVs and pickups in the first place so I don’t fault the teens for hating cars.

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                  I think it is unhinged that we allow people to drive tank sized SUVs and pickups in the first place so I don’t fault the teens for hating cars.

                  What a colossally dumb take. I’m sure this was totally an anti-car protest gone wrong. 🙄 Putting aside the fact that his car was literally a small sedan, which looks like a Toyota, I would pay good money to watch you go create “solidarity” against cars with this group of kids.

                  Then there’d be two idiots recovering from a severe beating.

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          He didn’t chase anyone down according to the report. He ran away. Or tried to, anyway.

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            Anyone who looks at a situation where nobody died, and thinks it would have been better if people had been killed, is a violent person and a danger to others.

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              That’s not true, there are plenty of people who if they just fuckin’ keeled over the world would be a better place.

              That being said I don’t think shooting into a crowd of teenagers is the solution, though if I was being beaten by a crowd of them I might change my mind. Call me violent but IMO if it came between me and a crowd of fucking cishets, I know my choice.

              Either way the guys a nuclear dofus for leaving his car. I mean what are you going to do, fucking scold them?

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                  I don’t think most people would sit around and accept being beaten by a crowd of randos was my point.

                  Like you can commit to an act of self preservation while understanding you’re not some paragon of justice, rather another animal that got backed into a corner. Whether or not self defence is the moral choice, I think its probably the most human one. I don’t think we can fault people for making that choice.

                  That also doesn’t mean you have to be some bloodthirsty weirdo who jerks off to r/justiceporn to see that nuance.

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              🤷‍♂️ I guess that’s the conclusion I have when people bothsides this kinda bullshit.

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                Look, there are literally two sides here. The situation that actually happened, and the situation you think would have been better.

                Nobody died in reality, but your solution involves death, so I guess the real issue here is that you picked a side, and it’s a morally reprehensible one.

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            I mean yeah but like because of the crazy shit the heritage foundation is saying, not because of random teenagers.

            Either way, that dipshit escalated the situation himself, but if he didn’t I don’t know that I’d call shooting into an angry mob that’s trying to beat your ass “justice.” Justified maybe, but not justice. That feels like fuel for those weird dudes who jerk off to r/justiceporn.

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              He got out to yell at some vandals and he got beat. If he could protect himself, the right people would have been punished. The man had his entire life in that car, he was probably not in the best place mentally. Why was that his life? What about him? You seem to be siding with the criminals because the victim wanted to stop a crime.

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                I’m not saying they where right for beating him, I’m saying getting out of your car and escalating things isn’t helping anything.

                If a mob comes to beat your ass, potentially to death, and you shoot someone to prevent it, yeah that’s justified (and probably should be legally), but it isn’t justice. You don’t get to be fucking Judge Dredd, and act like self-defense puts you on some moral high-ground. You are not a stand-in for the legal system, which in and of itself is already incredibly flawed.

                If you left your car and started shouting at them like a fuckwit before doing so, you might not deserve the beat down but you did kind of earn it. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. You’re not going to accomplish anything by yelling at that crowd other than painting a target on your back.

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                  I think the stupid game is throwing the bottle.

                  There are two kinds of people. The ones who blame the bad guy, and the ones who blame the victim for getting mad at the bad guy.

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                He got out to yell at some vandals and he got beat. If he could protect himself, the right people would have been punished.

                Just so I understand your position: Are you saying justice is served when a plastic bottle is thrown at a car (which caused zero damage) should result in the bottle thrower and those with the bottle thrower being shot (possibly to death)?

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                  So you understand justice is served when some guy gets out of the car to yell at you, and you and your friends beat him near death and destroy and steal everything he owns?

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                what crime was he trying to stop? the kids threw a plastic bottle and it hit his car. like oops oh well, move along Mr. Uluu

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      It will be just like The Running Man!

      Huge mass-produced televised sporting event smack in the middle of an area with riots and roving gangs attacking people!

      “Its all about ratings, Ben!” -Damon Killian

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    JFC I’ve read about interactions with wild baboons that were less savage and destructive than these fucking teenagers were, holy shit.

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    to be fair, the kids were on bikes? cars are weapons, and I can see not wanting those in your community. this is the fuckcars activism we need in the world.

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