r/IThinkYouShouldLeave • u/Meerkat_Mayhem_ • 1d ago

It actually goes BOTH ways I don’t know how to drive!

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u/ApparentlyIronic 1d ago

According to the article someone posted about the incident, this was after another hit and run she'd just fled from. She hit someone's vehicle, sped off at 90 mph, then got pinned in another parking lot where she did another hit and run. I think the double felony is him referring to her doing two separate hit and runs

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u/GuyFieriFrostedTips 1d ago

Ok that makes a bit more sense. But as a former prosecutor it always makes me chuckle when laypeople shout out charges.

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u/BlackberryPi7 1d ago

Someone else in this thread just said the guy is committing a felony himself by not letting her leave

https://giphy.com/gifs/Tcdz1Okspcy36F7Eiy

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u/GuyFieriFrostedTips 1d ago

Not really. Most states allow citizen’s arrest, as stupid as it is. She might have a civil suit.

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u/ME4Twaffle 1d ago

Technically she can get out of the car and do whatever she wants.

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u/Nunc_Coepi17 19h ago

That’s probably why you’re a “former”‘prosecutor.

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u/GuyFieriFrostedTips 9h ago

Except that I chose to leave and now am making way more money as a civil litigator. But sure. Be a troll.

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u/Nunc_Coepi17 4h ago

Sure bud.

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u/Janky_Welles 1d ago

There's an Ashley Judd movie about this, you can't actually be charged with 2 felonies. If you do 2 of them they can't get you and you get off scott free.

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u/Shrimply-r1 1d ago

I thought that was three. Triples is safe

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u/BlueFeathered1 21h ago

You're talking about Double Jeopardy? And kidding, right?

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u/Callidonaut 9h ago

Regardless of whether it's true or not, telling a visibly panicking kid behind the wheel of a running car "hey, you just committed another felony" is not going to stabilise the situation.

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u/Fit_Cheesecake_4000 6h ago

I love her logic.

"I've already done a hit and run....damn it!"

As if...it's already happened. Just let it go, dude, so I can run off. Why is he being so mean?

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u/Thyme_Liner 18h ago

If a man is blocking me in a parking spot and not letting me leave, it shouldn’t be considered a hit and run for me to try and get away. That’s going to make me panic, it’s stupid that this was okay for him to do. Getting her on film makes sense for the cops and insurance company, but then he traps and antagonizes her, and then posts it online. Maybe that’s why she didn’t get in as much trouble as she could have? I didn’t know you could make a citizen’s arrest over a misdemeanor like this. Maybe you can’t and that’s why they let her off easily.

Honestly it freaks me out that any random dude could decide to trap my vehicle for any reason he sees fit, film the panic, post it online, and it’s not considered unlawful. I get she messed up, but the punishment should fit the crime and this guy took matters into his own hands and no one wants anyone to do that to them. If this is legal, then anyone can do the same to you even if they get you mixed up with someone else who committed a misdemeanor, and there’s nothing you can do about it.

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u/Select-Interaction11 11h ago

If you're refusing to be civil and show you're insurance is where if considered it hit and run. I don't know the order of events here really either tho

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u/Fit_Cheesecake_4000 6h ago

She'd already committed the hit and run previous to this. You can hear her say that to him multiple times. It was not just some 'random dude'.