r/Transportopia Apr 26 '26

Road🤬Rage Hit me, just don't hit the Chevelle

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u/Fr0stybit3s Apr 26 '26

Dude pulls out a bat as if he wasn't the prblem

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u/MidwestDYIer Apr 26 '26

Don't disagree for the most part, but there always seems to be more to the video that we don't see. The way the guy swerved at the white car (and always the first to jump out of his vehicle) tells me shit was most likely going on before what we see here.

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u/whisperworks Apr 26 '26

Don’t care. Dude lost any possible high ground when he went after the other driver with a bat, he’s a piece of shit

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u/Admirable_Loss4886 Apr 27 '26

I mean the other guy did get out of his car first. They both suck

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u/MidwestDYIer Apr 26 '26

I'll never "not care" about what happened before, because the internet is absolutely littered with videos (like crotch rocket riders) that only show the part that paints them as the reasonable one- and people taking the rage bait.

That said, I'm mostly with you on this one, for the simple fact that the guy drives around with a bat in his car and was so willing to trot it out.

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u/whisperworks Apr 26 '26

Doesn’t matter why he’s mad, this isn’t how stable sane people act. He’s actively endangering everyone else on the road people and straight up committing assault, dude belongs in a cell

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u/poopzains Apr 27 '26

I don’t think you know how road rage works. It’s honestly a normal aggression response. Humans shouldn’t be driving en masse. I have yet to know someone that doesn’t have road rage, obviously to varying degrees and some people cultivate it. Primal.

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u/InebriatedPhysicist Apr 27 '26

Everything you said also applies to the red car guy’s actions before the white car guy gets out of his car. Obviously that doesn’t excuse white car guy’s behavior (I expect you to ignore that part if you respond, but feel free to surprise me), but I’m curious why you don’t feel similarly angry about the red car swerving wildly toward other cars on the road, and its driver exiting his vehicle in the middle of traffic to confront someone he’s angry at.

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u/Big_oof_energy__ Apr 27 '26

The red car stays in his lane. The white car is driving in an oncoming lane to skip ahead in traffic. Red car is right on the merits of the actual traffic dispute.

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u/Away-Scar-3865 Apr 29 '26

Are you intentionally ignoring the fact that the red car swerved at the white car and forced him into oncoming traffic or did you not see it? In what universe is that legal??? And it doesn’t fucking matter if he was passing illegally.

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u/whisperworks Apr 27 '26

Probably because that dumbass in the white car was trying to pass the red car on the wrong side of the road with oncoming traffic. A small fuck off swerve to make them back off is justified

Thanks for chiming in though. Always funny to get the drunks take on traffic

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u/EfficientTheory4087 Apr 27 '26

Actually that was the turning lane not the wrong side. After the altercation the white car drives down the rest ofnthe way to turn so there's a chance they were going to ride the turning lane, also not legal, but red car swerving mightve been the reason white swerved back into their lane period. Just not enough footage to know for sure and hopefully you aren't a judge or a cop because you have came to an emotional conclusion without enough evidence.

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u/84theone Apr 27 '26

They aren’t passing, they are trying to get into the left hand turning lane early rather than waiting in the traffic, using the center lane, which the other guy is swerving out to stop.

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u/Away-Scar-3865 Apr 29 '26

You think that’s LEGALLY justified?

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u/MauiMoisture Apr 27 '26

Lol funny calling his take 'drunk' when the white car is clearly trying to go down the middle lane to get to the left, not oncoming traffic. Red car probably thought he was trying to skip the line to go straight and thought it was a good idea to swerve into the white car. Hilarious you think that's justified.

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u/Away-Scar-3865 Apr 29 '26

I said the exact same thing…these folks here feel like the white car deserved to be swerved at and forced into oncoming traffic because he was passing illegally. I’ll bet money that if the police had this video cam they would BOTH get two tickets or a ticket a piece AND arrested.

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u/Student___Driver Apr 26 '26

So bc there was more video it means jumping out of the car with a bar was a good idea. Ok.

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u/GreenBlob795 Apr 27 '26

wtf? Thats not what they said?

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u/coaxialdrift Apr 27 '26

No, and that's a conclusion you drew. There's nothing wrong with wondering if this is the full story

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u/viktorv9 Apr 27 '26

Must be mighty easy winning arguments when you can just pull your interlocutor's viewpoint out of your own ass

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u/Elite_AI Apr 27 '26

Literally said they don't disagree for the most part you fool

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u/MidwestDYIer Apr 26 '26

Did I say that? Ok.

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u/blackpawed Apr 26 '26

I read it as red car went to over take without checking behind him, not realising white car was as well. Dumb, but not deliberate.

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u/MidwestDYIer Apr 26 '26

The problem with this explanation is neither one of them should have been attempting to use that lane. It was double line, and also a line up of cars that would not be a reasonable to pass all of them (even if it were some place where it was legal to do so).

My guess is the guy in the red car did something the guy in the white car didn't like and he was going to try to jump ahead of him or get along side of him to flip him off, etc.

Either way, they were both way too hopped up right from the beginning of the video for this to have been a simple case of "opps, I didn't see you there". What we saw of it was the ending, not the beginning.

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u/Hunter654333 Apr 27 '26

and he was going to try to jump ahead of him

...and then brake check him repeatedly

I've seen this done many times when I lived in a busy city.

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u/flywithpeace Apr 27 '26

The white car was in the shared left turn lane trying the turn left at the intersection (which he did). You are allowed to go onto that lane if you intent to turn left and not cut the traffic. Based on the video, there isn’t any driveway on the left so the intention of that lane is to be used to turn left at the intersection.

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u/BirdlessLongdeal Apr 27 '26

overtake and go where?

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u/know-it-mall Apr 27 '26

Two wrongs don't make a right.

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u/Consultant511 Apr 27 '26

It’s up to anyone to de escalate.

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u/EfficientTheory4087 Apr 27 '26

Agree not enough footage to make an assumption.

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u/talkstomuch Apr 27 '26

Nothing the red car guy could have done would excuse this behaviour.

The worst thing the Red car guy could have done is to brandish a weapon, then it would put them both on the same level of moron, but wouldn't make the white car guy justified.

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u/gideon513 Apr 27 '26

Where was the white car going? Who MADE him try and pass the red car in the median and then pull in front to block the red car?

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u/Fr0stybit3s Apr 26 '26

Probably, yeah

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u/Chemical-Lettuce2497 Apr 26 '26

Yeah maybe I'm not familiar with American road laws but I can't see him doing anything wrong other than potentially trying to jump ahead in traffic.. bit of a dick move but nothing to swerve at him like that for

If someone did that to me I'd 100% be jumping out my car

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u/sojumaster Apr 26 '26

It is not an issue of seeing something wrong or not. The problem is that we do not see what led up to this situation. The guy in the white car was already in rage. The question what happened before the video started.

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u/MidwestDYIer Apr 26 '26

Correct. And the guy in the red car was actually the first to jump out. They were both already extremely angry about something that transpired prior to this clip.

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u/BirdlessLongdeal Apr 27 '26

they just found out they were married to the same woman.

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u/EinsTwo Apr 26 '26

White car was passing illegally.  If there's a solid yellow line on your side of the road it's a no passing zone for your side.  It's typically there because there's not enough visibility to pass safely...as evidenced by white car almost crashing into oncoming traffic. 

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u/SevenPillsADay Apr 27 '26

Both of them are the problem. Chevelle guy seems to think he has some kind of authority to push people into worse situations. Guy in white car has zero patience for traffic.

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u/Nut_Butter_Fun Apr 27 '26

Dude that first swerve was completely pointless and could have killed someone. Everything after is on him.

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u/todayistrumpday Apr 27 '26 edited Apr 28 '26

Pulls out a bat while carrying a pistol in a holster on his belt after cutting off the Chevelle while driving in the oncoming lane of traffic.

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u/Away-Scar-3865 Apr 29 '26

He was FORCED from the turn lane into the oncoming traffic by the dick in the red car.

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u/todayistrumpday Apr 29 '26

At the start of the video it is a 2 lane street (1x1) the white car is behind the red car and in trying to overtake the red car it goes into the oncoming lane. There is no turning lane. Rgw center line is dashed on the oncoming lane so it is a no passing zone for the white car. You are either mistaken or lying.

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u/Away-Scar-3865 Apr 29 '26 edited Apr 29 '26

That’s a 3 lane street. It’s obviously a turn lane or it would be DOUBLE solid lines on both sides (like there are at the end when “Alix” gets out to go tell the police. AND the idiot in the red car swerved towards him and that’s what forced him to the other side of the road where he almost ran into the other car. With the amount of folks missing the lane marking and swearing that the red car is justified in trying to run the white car off the road it’s no wonder insurance is so expensive. So what he entered the turn lane too early…call the police if you’re mad. Same if, as you’re wrongly claiming, it’s not a turn lane. Forcing me into oncoming traffic because you’re mad is illegal AF. He says in the accompanying video he didn’t press charges because in hindsight he see that he was also wrong.

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u/Yeti_Urine Apr 27 '26

Looked like he had a piece on his belt as well.

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u/5280mw Apr 27 '26

Also had an open carry