He might not be a racist. He might be mentally ill. My brother was mentally ill. When he was normal, he had a Black-American friend with whom he was very close. In fact, they were best friends. As he got more and more ill such that his illness grew in both intensity and frequency, he would express some racial bigotry. This got him into so much trouble that he would occasionally get beat up, even though he was an ex Marine, his illness changed him both mentally and physically. He was no more of a racist than you or I but he certainly got taken for one. My point is that mental illness is so poorly understood by the general population that they frequently jump to the wrong conclusions. I'm going to reserve judgement on whether this guy was a racist or not because it would imply that I understood his mental state which I do not.
Thank you very much for the offer but I don't really swing that way. No problem that you do and I'm honored that you want to be intimate with me but I'm going to have to pass on your generous offer. And while I don't own a horse, if I did and I found out you fucked it I would shoot you both.
"Prosecutors and police pieced together events using accounts from six eyewitnesses, three of whom saw the entire incident. They all maintained that Mr Warren had driven at an acceptable speed and that Mr Magnuson started the incident, and then escalated it." "Prosecutors and police pieced together events using accounts from six eyewitnesses, three of whom saw the entire incident. They all maintained that Mr Warren had driven at an acceptable speed and that Mr Magnuson started the incident, and then escalated it." "Prosecutors and police pieced together events using accounts from six eyewitnesses, three of whom saw the entire incident. They all maintained that Mr Warren had driven at an acceptable speed and that Mr Magnuson started the incident, and then escalated it." "Prosecutors and police pieced together events using accounts from six eyewitnesses, three of whom saw the entire incident. They all maintained that Mr Warren had driven at an acceptable speed and that Mr Magnuson started the incident, and then escalated it." This is the only part you actually got right. Congrats, you're one out of five!
The driver never admitted he was driving to fast and I find it hilarious how you and a few others want to claim fault and dispute what witnesses say. Were you there hiding in the grassy knoll?
I don't know why I ever show ignored content but seeing as I did for some reason. From original article in OP.... Mr Warren stopped his truck and tried to explain to Mr Magnuson that he was exhausted and just wanted to finish his work. A. I said the guy shouldn't be charged. B. If he wasn't speeding... (my neighborhood is 17mph and I've never seen a Fed ex truck crawl through)...then he shouldn't have needed to 1. Stop and 2. Give an excuse. If someone on the freeway is driving like a dick and you box them in to piss them off and they finally get around you and cause a fatal accident because they're even angrier it is PARTLY your fault. You might not have broken the law but you know you did something wrong.
THE WITNESSES TESTIFIED THAT HE WASN'T SPEEDING!!! You are making assumptions as to why he got out and being tired and wanting to finish his route isn't the same as admitting he was speeding. These sort of cases can be a real problem without witnesses as it turns into a he said she said situation. With 6 different witnesses stating the same thing pretty much clears it up. What a fed ex driver does in your neighborhood or my neighborhood is irrelevant as the only thing relevant is what happened in this situation. In addition, the neighborhood guy should have never yelled at the driver and instead taken down the truck number and area and time and called Fed Ex so that they could handle it. Problem solved and all go home.
This. No need to get in a confrontation with somebody yelling at you. If you are driving too fast, then slow down. If you are driving carefully and according to the law, then continue on safely.
If only i could like this a million times.... I used to come here because i valued what i thought was informed and educated opinions.
There were several solutions to curb the problem and this is how I see it in the proper order 1) The person yelling could have taken down the truck number and called Fed Ex instead of yelling 2) The driver could have just kept going thus avoiding the confrontation 3) The person in the street shouldn't have attacked the driver by throwing a punch These sort of issues happen on a daily basis and when it causes harm or death then it becomes even more regretful. I doubt either one wanted the outcome that happened.
2 would be the best choice in this specific case. The guy was either propelled by deep seeded hate, mental illness, both, or other issues such as the current divisibe state of the country. It appears he was in such an irate place that his anger could not be calmed, he would not have the ability to calm himself or be calmed, thus thinking about taking down a licence plate number or not throwing a punch was not in this mans realm of reality.
There's one key thing though, the driver was on the job and representing his company. You just simply don't engage someone in this scenario. Let them be angry and keep moving. People are assholes and it's best to just ignore them. It really sucks that he was put in this position in the first place, but the best thing would have been (as Dviss said) to keep driving.
Oh there is no doubt HIS best option would have been to keep driving. The person in the neighborhoods best option would have been to just report the driver and then not to confront him when he got out. Plenty of bad judgment to go around.
