You really do have a difficult time with comprehesion don't you?
Pot, I presume? Allow me to introduce myself - I am kettle.
Shout/yell...synonymous. I didn't say you went on for miles shouting at one another. I said you began a shouting match...commenced a dialog with a raised voice, screamed, yelled
Yes -
I yelled. One sentence. With no response. Again, your assertion that that's what constitutes a shouting
match doesn't make sense now does it? How can something with one participant be a match?
What was your motivation for yelling at him?
Oh, I don't know - maybe it was that like most normal people, I yell at someone when they almost kill me. You think I'm crazy, I think I'm perfectly sane. I have said many times on this board that I don't bite my tongue. So sue me. The fact that I yelled that at him, he then hit a pole, and I got his wallet when he fled - I feel the outcome was more than favorable.
The distance is 1/4 mile yet on a busy thoroughfare where you were travelling 40-45 mph when he hit a light pole?
It's an 8 lane road. We were in the far right lanes, which were empty. The light he ran was red, so the section we were in was not crowded. Unless you have a complete beater for a car, getting up to 40mph in 1/4 of a mile isn't exactly a flabbergasting feat.
Here let's look at this again. With your son in the car, you sped off ignoring traffic laws by jumping over a median, reaching speeds of 40-45 mph in a busy intersection
The intersection is a busy intersection. I didn't say the intersection was busy when this all went down. The section we were at had red lights. He ran a red light, so the oncoming traffic was not yet moving. I never said I reached speeds of 40-45 in the intersection. That's your lack of reading comprehension blowing your mind again. Oh, the irony.
within 1/4 mile you catch up to a dangerous individual, you yell at him, he loses concentration, runs into a light pole, he gets out of his vehicle and starts shooting at you and your son. And you can't see the carelessness in that?
Again, your comprehension sucks. I don't fault you, because you apparently don't realize it does. I never said he fired at or toward me. I said plain as day that he got out, and started firing wildly. Do I need to define wildly for you, or do you get it yet?
Again, catching up to someone in a 1/4 of a mile isn't the death defying magic trick that you're trying to make it out to be. His truck was beat to **** already from the accident, so he wasn't going so fast. I was going that speed to catch up to him. I spoke to a detective today about it, because they wanted to know if I had any additional information I wanted to put into the report. during the conversation, he informed me that they did catch the guy, but that he was not drunk. He tested positive for Ketamine. I actually had to look it up to see what it was. It definitely explained everything.
Impulsive reaction. I have had many in my lifetime, and I have been reckless. I will admit that. But with a child in the car I am not going to go racing off to catch somebody.
You're human, I'm human. Anyone who says they haven't done something reckless in their life or impulsive is lying to themselves, so thank you for stepping up and not acting like a saint. None of us are perfect.
It's one of those situations where unless you have been in a similar situation, you can't sit here and say how you would react. I never would have thought I would do something like that, but **** happens. That's what makes it impulsive, because it isn't planned or well thought out.
I told you in my original post, I probably would have had my camera out taking pics, provided I did not have another human being in the car, much less my young son.
I'm poor. As a result, I have a cheap ****ty flip phone with an even ****tier camera on it. On my phone, once I hit the camera button, it takes a while to load, then it takes a few seconds of auto focus before it snaps a pic. The whole thing happened so fast, that I would have accomplished nothing by doing that. And trying to follow him and take pics while driving would have been more reckless than yelling at him.
Again I say, until you have been put into a ****ed up situation like that, you can't say what you would do, because you don't know. No matter how hard you try to convince you'd do this or that, I'm not buying it, none of it. You can't say what you would do, plain and simple.
I call
Since you joined BGO you have posted more than any other member. You are on track to post more than 3,000 times in a year. Most of the members who have been here for almost 2 years now have less posts than that. In one month you have started 24 threads, that's a pace of nearly 300 for the year. Again, few have started 100 threads in almost 2years. Take it for what it's worth but that suggests a person seeking attention.
So let me get this straight....I am an active member of a site that I love, so that makes me an attention whore? You are aware that the internet is anonymous right? How many threads have I started that come across as HEY LOOK AT ME? Forgive me for my ignorance if I thought the point of a message board was to start and participate in conversations :doh:
If I was an attention seeker, I would start flamboyant post after flamboyant post like Mick or Westy. Also, I would interact with people in public, something I very rarely do. This site is the only site I go on that requires interaction with people. I'm a very private person, and I shy away from attention. Your comments make me laugh, because everyone that knows me in real life would know what a joke your assumptions of me are.
You know what they say about opinions right?
I did not say you did not care at all for your son. I said in that moment following the close call, you thought nothing of what could happen to your or your son as you sped off to play the hero.
Actually, that last part is not what you said - go back and read your own post again. You said that my actions showed I did not care for my son.
you exhibited tremendous recklessness. Your behavior in that situation suggests you cared less in that instant for your son than you did to achieve your inflated self righteousness!
Do you not remember writing this?
You cared less about your son's personal safety as you chased after an individual who exhibited they were dangerous as you did for getting his license plate number. Chasing him was dangerous enough, then you yelled at him, confronted him while driving 40-45 mph. Were you looking at him as you were yelling at him at that rate of speed? Were you looking at the driver of the vehicle as you yelled at him while driving 40-45 mph in a such a short distance through traffic?
There you go adding details to the story to make your incorrect point again. You keep portraying this image that I was on a wild high speed pursuit while weaving in and out of traffic. Please do yourself a favor and start from the beginning and read what I wrote, because your constant inaccurate responses are getting tired.
You were trying to do your civic duty. You don't have to answer this, but ask yourself why it was so important to speed off after this man when you had you son in the car. Again, how old is your son?
Why? Instead of answering this question from you for the thrid time, go back and read the response I gave you the last two times you asked me the exact same thing.
What if you had been shot and killed in front of your son? Look, it's a good thing it didn't happen because he was too drunk to hit the side of a barn, but how would the loss of his father have affected your son as he grew up?
Again with the irrelevant what ifs. What if I had never gone out and missed it completely? What if I had walked into Home Depot during a robbery and got shot as I walked in the door? Hypothetical situations mean nothing.
Where did those bullets go?
As far as I know, all over the sky and one in the pavement. The closest that any of those bullets came to me was when they were leaving the chamber.
And something else that has not been mentioned. How is your son handling being shot at?
He's handling it fine, because he wasn't shot at. Not only that, but he's a huge fan of the police and military, and watches all the shows on TruTV and such. He wants to be a cop when he grows up, so he was pumped about nailing the bad guy, and he was amazed as any boy his age would be when the guy hit the pole. He didn't know what was going on to the extent that I did.
You say getting shot at could not be foreseen? Of course that can be foreseen!
Really/ So you're telling me with that statement that anyone that gets shot either deserved it for their stupid choices, or that they at least saw it coming? Pretty ignorant statement if you ask me.
I am not claiming perfection. I have made plenty of mistakes. I have also placed myself in danger unnecessarily. I am able to look back and say I was foolish for doing something so reckless. Unfortunately, you still defend your recklessness to me because I called you reckless. I have never been as reckless as you were with a child in the car! Never!
Good for you with the self promotion of how wonderful you are and how ****ty you think I am. Should I kiss your ass and bow down to your superior intellect and decision making skills, or pat you on the back first? And you call me the attention whore seeking affirmation for my actions?
Look, I have witnessed someone being hit by a car and watched the driver run off. I often feel like I wish I could do more when I see injustice. But the one thing I try my utmost to over come is self-righteousness, especially when it comes to placing the lives of those I love and others in danger. I can still be self-righteous.
I mean look at my reaction to you and your incessant need for affirmation.
See above. The irony of your comments is just oozing all over this post.
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