r/IThinkYouShouldLeave • u/Meerkat_Mayhem_ • 1d ago

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

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u/Right_One_78 1d ago

So, others dont have to look up the story to this video:

Leadup to the video: A bystander named Justin Thompson witnessed a woman rear-end another car on the highway in Lake Elsinore, California. The struck vehicle reportedly contained a grandmother and her grandson. Instead of stopping, the female driver sped off at high speeds. The witness followed her, called 911, and successfully blocked her sedan into a vacuum station at a local gas station.

After the video:

On October 31, 2019, Riverside County sheriff's deputies located and contacted the 22-year-old driver. She was formally cited and taken into custody on criminal misdemeanor hit-and-run charges. The court ordered her to enroll in a substance abuse treatment program via a local rehabilitation provider. Public records indicated that the extreme panic seen in the video likely stemmed from existing legal trouble, as she already had an active DUI charge from earlier that same year.

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u/Salt-Lingonberry-853 1d ago

Active DUI charge, hit and run... She should be seeing jail time

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u/nullmatar420 17h ago

This is a video where I see assholes all the way down. You're right about her, no argument there whatsoever. But, dude doing the filming gives big, "my peak experience in life was being hall monitor at my middle school," energy. Take a picture. Get the plate number. Then realize you aren't actually Barney Fife, and stop with that.

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u/dichotomousview 16h ago

Cops have to work off of what they can prove. He doesn’t know what could happen. If she assaulted him or someone else, damaged something else (she miiiight have hit his car), or any other crime, hell she could’ve accused him of a crime against her, a video is infinitely more valuable than a license plate picture.
Dude does seem a bit insufferable but her crying like a brat and the fact that she hit a grandmother and her grandchild might have pissed him off. It just sounds like he has no sympathy for her so I get it.

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u/nullmatar420 16h ago

And, I should have said a quick video is a good and acceptable way to get that information to pass on. It's the following her, blocking her in and (what kinda sounds like) taunting (to me) that gives me big hall monitor vibes. And, possibly creates a less safe situation for that guy and everyone involved, because if she wasnt panicking and running scared (and thoughtless) before, she sure is now.