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Or it may anger them into jumping a curb to explicitly hit you. Road rage due to damage to their pavement princesses is deadly when your in a cage of steel.

• ta1243 3y ago
  Victim blaming. If a driver can be goaded into murder, perhaps they shouldn't have the tools to commit that murder so easily.
  • potatolicious 3y ago
    I don't read that comment as victim blaming at all, it's just a statement of our sad reality: it's de facto legal to murder someone in a car so long as you're not inebriated and you stay at the scene and plead your innocence. As a general rule I go out of my way to not piss off drivers, not because I think they're in the right, but because they can murder me with impunity and they know it.
  • maerF0x0 3y ago
    But we live in the kinds of society where a person has rights until they prove they shouldn't. Not the potential, but the actuality. Now I think the middle ground might be better enforcement of near misses... "No harm no foul" needs to be removed from the mindset of traffic cops.
  • falcolas 3y ago
    > Victim blaming. A rock thrown at a vehicle moving at speed can be (and has been) charged as attempted first degree murder. There are not really any victims in this scenario. https://jalopnik.com/blood-brothers-kill-woman-after-throwing-a-rock-through-1850942212 https://jalopnik.com/blood-brothers-kill-woman-after-throwin...
    • ta1243 3y ago
      An armed society is a polite society The driver of the vehicle (vehicles cause a dozen 9/11s worth of deaths a year) is armed. Only person that can stop a bad guy with a vehicle is a good guy with a rock.