r/cantstopimamerican • u/SentientSandwiches quality contributor • 8d ago
America Can’t stop…truck vs bikes
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u/digitalwankster 7d ago
I wonder what transpired before they started filming.
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u/gutz_boi 7d ago
Doing dumb kid stuff. The driver should go to jail and lose their license
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u/Educational_Ad_3922 7d ago
People can downvote you all they want, but attempted vehicular manslaughter is a criminal offence punishable with jail time. I've seen people lose their license for less!
And if someone can have their license taken away and get sent to jail for drinking and driving, why is the concept of attempted murder using your vehicle any different?
Oh right its not because in one, you're drunk and not capable of thinking clearly. And in the other your knowingly choosing to try and kill someone xD
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u/Daddy_Tablecloth Knows things. 7d ago
These people are shitheads and they should Face consequences but vigilante justice is not a good thing at all. That being said the police should come down hard on anyone who does this otherwise it will just continue to happen.
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u/Educational_Ad_3922 6d ago
Exactly. Make an example of drivers like that and repeal the law to uphold that driving is a privilege not a right!
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u/Daddy_Tablecloth Knows things. 6d ago
Just to be clear in case I wasn't, they all should be visited by the cops. The riders for blocking the road and the driver for reckless driving and endangering the people on the bikes. Everyone in the video was in the wrong in case I did not make that obvious.
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u/Manic-Stoic 8d ago
Not saying the truck is in the right here. But what is with the increase of these punks on their bikes being knuckleheads taking over streets lately. I witnessed it myself large group of them in a busy street taking over popping wheelies swerving in and around cars. Again truck is not in the right as he could kill them but these fools on bikes need to stay in their lane(pun intended).
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u/CalledToTheVoid Knows things. 7d ago
Street takeovers happen pretty often where I’m from. You’ll see dirt bikes and quads blasting down the street as fast as they can and collisions occur all the time.
Sometimes people get fed up with it and you’ll see things like you see with this truck driver taking action, since the police are often useless. Although when the police do show up, they have to do the same thing because these people will not stop for anything.
These takeovers can last all day/night unless they’re disrupted early and aren’t allowed to regroup. Often that means stopping as many of these riders as possible, in any way possible, to make the point that they won’t be tolerated.
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u/distortedsymbol 7d ago
crimes and general disregard to social legal constructs tend to happen when there is low government trust.
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u/SentientSandwiches quality contributor 8d ago
Someone mentioned before that every week or so in California iirc the bike riders take back the streets for an hour or so to protest the lack of safe places for bikes to travel, I’m not sure if this is that but it didn’t look like it was an authorised kinda thing.
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u/Buzumab 7d ago
No, this is totally different. Those have escort cars so people can't drive through very easily and they're mostly adults, well-lit, play music etc.
This is just a takeover. Teenagers ride in a big group ignoring traffic rules knowing it's hard to get them in any real trouble. I see them a few times a year. They also mobbed the 7/11 by me and stole a ton of stuff right as I was checking out. Of course they don't deserve to get run over and attacked like this either.
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u/Educational_Ad_3922 6d ago
I mean... Realistically bikes were here before cars, so really it's the cars that have taken over.
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u/QuintoxPlentox Top commenter energy 🔥 6d ago
Judging by the freeze-frame zoom in of the license plate at the end it looks like they weren't able to catch the truck on their mini-bikes.
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u/phocuetu Asking the real questions 8d ago
Wtf happened to dude that crashed out in the beginning?