My husband's grandmother used to slow down and block lanes whenever she thought the person behind her was "going too fast for their own good" until I asked her "what if they're trying to get to the hospital?" Her "thats what ambulances are for" Me "ok, what if one of your great grand babies was in the hospital dying and some jackass ahead of you decided you're going to fast for your own good and you miss saying goodbye because they're dead by the time you get there?" She cut it out after that conversation. *She was an awesome person and legitimately thought she was preventing accidents by do those things.
Yet here's the thing, if you're going to drive on the shoulder to go see someone dying at the hospital, that's technically not an emergency. Maliciously blocking someone in the normal lanes on the highway is being a douche though.
Shoulder lanes are for emergencies ONLY. If people weren't so inclined to use just because "they're in a hurry", this kind of malicious compliance wouldn't even exist. My brother in law almost died because a bastard wanted to skip the traffic jam using the shoulder lane. He was driving 40km/h higher than the speed limit because he was "late to work". The thing is, where he was, the shoulder lane suddenly stops with no warning sign and there's a concrete wall at the end. It's not an issue for an emergency vehicule which rarely drives that fast. But this absolute waste of oxygen didn't know. Instead of crashing into the concrete wall, he crashed into my BIL's car at something like 80km/h. His car was totaled and when the cops saw the damages, they couldn't believe my BIL was still alive. Shoulder lanes SHOULD NOT BE USED, except for real emergencies. I honestly understand OP's frustration, even though they shouldn't have played vigilante.
How do you know when someone is having an emergency though. You should let people pass on the shoulder and expect them to be assholes if it happens. This trucker could have sentenced someone to death if that was a doctor responding to a call or someone who had a severe injury.
@@stormwright8300doctors dont have hazard lights on their personal vehicles, many are on call and must rush to the hospital especially in the case of surgeons
@@thereareantsbehindyoureyes7529 Um, every car sold has some form of hazard lights installed. Check your owners manual. Now as for emergency lights, that's another story.
Technically the Karen was blocking a real lane, not the shoulder. Which is worse. I don't understand people that get ultra offended about passing. It's not a race. I will admit petty glee when I was in Dallas, and someone who "cleverly" used the shoulder to speed past regular traffic. They were instantly pulled over by a cop.
Yeah, blocking the shoulder actually isn't really that bad. Blocking traffic on a multi-lane highway because you have a tiny dick and can't bear anyone passing you is insane, and probably illegal.
I regularly drive on winding narrow highway roads, if someone is driving fast and wants to pass me, I'll happily let them, its safer thst way. But if someone is driving on the shoulder to ssve time, they'll be getting cursed out and possibly a call to the police.
Here in Europe we need to form emergency lanes when there is a traffic jam (left lane cars go to the left and right lane cars go to the right/shoulder). These kind of arseholes that overtake traffic on the emergency lane can also get people killed. I've had to escort an ambulance that had a bleeding person on board. We hit a traffic jam that was caused by road work about 10km down the highway. We went to the middle emergency lane and everything was fine until the last 200m. There at the end there were around 20 cars on the middle emergency lane that got stuck in it when trying to overtake the traffic jam, only to get stuck once the lanes started to merge. We couldn't get past because it was a mess,they couldn't even give way because there was no room. We lost around 10-15 minutes there and needless to say the man in the ambulance passed away just before we managed to get off of the highway. Yes OP MIGHT have endangered someone that MIGHT have had an emergency. However the people that overtake traffic jams like that Karen are even bigger arseholes. What OP did is 10x better than what the Karen did
My father is a fireman, I grew up around EMS, Firemen, and police. If having a medical emergency in traffic and the shoulder is open I've been told to drive on the shoulder and honk my horn "honk honk honk honk" quick succession. Making sure i'm heard and seen. This is an indication that you aren't trying to "sneak by" but that you are using the lane as a last resort.
Some years ago, my little brother discovered his allergy to bee stings by having a terrible reaction. My mom drove like never before, passing cars one after another. At some point, one guy decides no and push on the gas while my mother was passing him. Both cars going to 140 km/h on a 90 km/h road. I could ear my mother praying, beggging him to let her pass with a muffled voice. Eventually, we passed him. He threw us a middle finger while we were on his side. My brother arrived minutes before having a heart attack.
@@jurb417 Think about it this way: During anaphylaxis, your body is working in overdrive, mostly due to panic. Your oxygen is restricted, forcing your heart to try and get as much oxygen through your blood as possible. So, pounding heart, lungs and airways restricting, body in a full panic. It's even worse if you don't have an EpiPen. All of that stress can lead to cardiac arrest (heart attack.) I'm not a doctor, however, this is how a med student explained it to me. It's not word for word, but that's at least what I remember of their explanation. iirc, it's one of the top ways anaphylaxis kills, next to suffocation.
@@kitayawolfe1548 why hasn't this been phased out, through evolution? We should've stopped having allergies altogether, a long time ago. Yet we still get them. Why is that?
While the friend passing is a tragic story, I've seen people and cars completely nailed by someone trying to use a shoulder illegally and an EMS blocked because some idiot can't get over due to bumper to bumper traffic. It's not safe for someone to use a shoulder, that's why it's not a lane. Driving with hazards on is (in the US at least) how you identify an emergency
This. In my opinion, driving on the shoulder is dangerous to everyone on the road. The shoulder generally has debris so going at any speed on it can cause a blown tire and result in that car crashing. The drivers that go faster than the speed of traffic on the shoulder is a danger to first responders (as shown by the rslash story and thankfully it was an officer inside his car. If it were an officer outside the car investigating a wreck or issuing a ticket, that officer could easily be killed) and other cars should the shoulder run out abruptly. The danger is too high for shoulder driving to be okay in any sense unless with hazards and at an appropriate speed relative to traffic. As for the story mentioned of the friend who died, they were not using the shoulder. That is just stupid on the ladies part and dangerous.
@@kelsmister I'm in Iowa, people will also use hazards to let people know that they will not be driving speed limit for whatever reason and typically stay in the far right lane. I had to do this while taking my pos car to get a new one cause the car was dangerous at 60mph. The bottom was rusted out and a cross frame was cracked but I had to take the car so I could get a newer car, so I had my hazards on. Which was really good cause when I missed my turn and needed to do a u-turn in a business, my car died sticking halfway into the street with my hazards already on
@kelsmister I was also taught that the hazards are to indicate that your driving may be outside of what should be normal for the road. Not just for stopped vehicles.
In my country, when an emergency occurs , we put a white piece of cloth out of the window and honk to get it noticed. It usually works, others realize it's an emergency and move to the side. It's not written in any law but is taught to every child.
That is actual insanely useful and should be taught everywhere.i was sitting here after the second story. How could anyone tell you were in an emergency ?? This is a great example of how
In my country that particular rule is indeed written in the traffic code. It's not that the others realize it's an emergency, it's that with that cloth and the honking, the car is considered as an emergency vehicle when it comes to preference. If they block you, it is as if they were blocking an ambulance. You still have to drive accoding to the traffic regulations though.
For the second story, I assume this isn't in the US (as I am). I have a few police friends and I'm %110 sure that if that happened as is I was in this situation, those 2 cars and their drivers would have been charged with involuntary manslaughter. Their actions indirectly caused a death and/or caused the chance of life to become slimmer by blocking op.
Karen 1000% should have been charged with involuntary manslaughter. She legitimately helped cause the death of a young guy (I’m assuming they’re young since op said they were in college) to be completely honest, if I were op or the family of the guy who died I’d sue the ever loving shit out of Karen for all the emotional distress her and the other asshat driver caused me. Imagine watching your close friend bleed to death and knowing who prevented them from the life saving help they desperately needed
But did they go to court? He didn't say anything. In Argentina you can be charged with manslaughter too, not sure what type though, if with guilt or willful (idk if that's the correct translation for "culposo" and "doloso")
The worst wreck I ever saw, I was in Florida and some "big buff burly guy" had been rear-ended by a senior citizen. He barreled out of his car and beat the hell out of the senior citizen. I WAS STUNNED... it was an accident!!! The poor guy (the old man) was more worried about his wife going to be mad because he had frozen items and they were thawing... I of course gave my statement and when I told my husband... he was stunned too... big guy, he got arrested, I never had to testify so I am guessing that he took a plea.
I wrote an affidavit about my nephew when he tried to kill my sister-in-law, he stabbed her several times before he was overpowered, and ultimately arrested for some reason. Anyhow, I was really dreading that court date, because I really didn't want to testify... that's what the affidavit was for. He ended up taking a plea bargain to get out at 18 or something... which might be even worse? But he ended up trying to kill someone in prison too, so I've _probably_ seen the last of him.
Similar thing happened here in the UK. An elderly man rear ended a builders van and they went ballistic at this poor guy. Luckily we got him into a hairdressers nearby, but I was horrified at the lack of empathy from the builders and some witnesses.
For the blocking the shoulder story... like people are saying if it's an emergency then use your hazard lights to let people know what's going on. HOWEVER, Karen herself admitted to the officer that she was essentially driving on the shoulder and not a lane. THAT'S why OP blocked her. It's for EMERGENCY VEHICLES ONLY. Not for traffic beaters. There was no one else in her car.
Um, I'd like to point out that Karen could have been alone in the car and still been experiencing an emergency. She could have been pregnant and going into labor, or maybe having something else and tried to drive herself to the ER to save money. (I did that exact thing because I was too cheap to pay for an ambulance. Joke was on me, I ended up having to declare bankruptcy due to the medical bills anyway!) She could have been having appendicitis, gall bladder issues, kidney stones, be injured, bleeding somewhere you couldn't see and her judgement could have been impaired by it. There's so many options. Sure, no one should EVER do that in a non-emergency situation, but a lot of people are not good people.
@@amberkat8147 Hazard blinkers , in that context, generally mean the driver is in an emergency. People will stay out of your way. If you get into that situation and don't hit your triangle button that's on you.
I also see one big difference between the two stories : in the trucker one, there was a traffic jam and the drove to a crawl. If the cars behind were in an emergency that mean they could have stopped and signal they were in a true emergency (I know going out of your car on a freeway is dangerous, but they are in a traffic jaw after all, so there aren't speeding cars). In the other story, they were slowed down with no way to making Karen understand the real emergency.
Blocking traffic story: I understand both sides of this. I'm a retired truck driver with over 20 years of over the road experience. I have been in many, many traffic backups, some due to construction, some due to accidents and more than a few just from idiots ogling a traffic stop or MINOR accident (like a flat tire) on the other side of a divided highway. I've also seen more than a few serious accidents caused by people passing traffic in the breakdown lane and the median. Yeah, I get the medical emergency aspect of it, I've seen more than a few of those as well over the years. All I can say people is to be patient and drive safely. Don't be in such a damned hurry!
That and leave early. If a traffic jam is enough to screw up your day you didn’t leave early enough. It’s ok to arrive early if it means you are driving safe.
My buddy and I were hitchhiking back in the 90’s. We got picked up by a deranged person. We were driven all of those states for hours… almost a whole day. The driver used this lane exclusively to pass almost all traffic, with hazard lights, flashing the brights and honking the horn. My friend and I were driven to different locations WAY out into to the middle of nowhere. We heard the most insane stories, as the driver wildly careened about nonstop. We observed a drug deal and heard details of criminal cases before we returned to an oasis near the interstate, where we begged for a restroom stop and ditched as soon as we were out of sight. Weirdly, OP could have enabled a potential escape for us, LOL.
My mum tells a story of driving along a country lane with my brothers best friend who had motion sickness. She had to drive so slowly so he wouldn't puke and pull over to let people pass when she could. Now every time the car in front is too slow she thinks oh, maybe it's a sick kid. Does it really matter if I'm 10 minutes late to what I'm going to?
@@valis2311 😂😂😂. We would never block an ambulance though. And if I a car was impatient just drive into the ditch to get by but hard to pass anyway on country roads!
Yeah I can guarantee that 99.999% of these people rushing dangerously everywhere don't actually have anywhere that important to get to. Certainly not important enough to be endangering the rest of our lives with their aggressive driving. To anyone who drives like that I'd say: take a breath, try to be calm, and just slow down. Your world's not going to end if you miss your exit or get to your destination a bit late.
it's one thing to block annoying people abusing a shoulder and completely another to block people on a real lane. I don't thing the 2 situations are comparable.
The point is that when someone is driving rapidly, regardless of where, sure, maybe 90% of the time they’re being a selfish a-hole… but that other 10% may be about life and death, and on the outside you won’t know the difference. So is screwing over nine a-holes for a few minutes (and probably only exacerbating their entitlement and rule breaking (and thus also worsening their risky behavior)) worth being unknowingly but directly responsible for the death of the one? The petty satisfaction of malicious compliance isn’t worth an innocent life.
The point was not about whether it was a shoulder or not (which any responsible driver should be able to tell the difference); but the issue that blocking down somebody when there's no way to know whether they're in an actual emergency or just being an asshole. If you block a speeding vehicle, disregarding whether it is a lane or a shoulder you A. Obstruct somebody whose life may be at risk (like in the story) and B. Put yourself at risk. Either the reckless driver might make a mistake and impact your car, or even worse, be somebody entitled and violent enough to pull out a gun and shoot you...
By using the shoulder, they were potentially blocking ambulance or other important vehicle from accessing people that were injured in the accident that was described. Ultimately, their could have caused deaths of the injured people. Also, in this situation, more than 1 person was trying to use the shoulder and cut through the jam and there cannot that many cars with dying people in 1 place. They were just a-holes.
That story about the emergency taking the shoulder: I would turn on my emergency lights (that red double triangle, which makes both turn lights blink). This should signal to anybody who legitimately passed Driver’s Ed that there is something wrong or different with how you’re driving. I’ve used it when on the freeway with a speed capped U-Haul, to let fast drivers know I’m not driving within 15 mph of the speed limit. Most drivers see it a good quarter mile away, and have already changed lanes before reaching me. (Edit: I turn it off when I am driving on roads with speed limits I can reach, since my driving isn’t potentially endangering others). If the emergency driver did this, good on him. Karen maliciously murdered somebody. If he didn’t, he couldn’t be identified from other shoulder skippers.
where i live its illegal to drive with ur hazard lights on or know as your 4 way flashers unless u have a large truck and having trouble going up large hills
@@robertbennett2796 I’ll admit I’m not familiar with the laws on hazard lights. But I haven’t had trouble with the U-Haul over the decade of working with theater and renting/returning quarterly set pieces. Maybe the spirit of the law protected me; an open bed trailer with wall flats and stairs isn’t safe to drive even at the 55mph limit, and said hazards prevented accidents where people approached too hot. Hence my suggestion to turn them on in an actual emergency. His driving was hazardous, in an attempt to save his friend’s life.
I was thinking the same thing. I don't know what OP did and didn't do to signal something was wrong, but I can think of multiple ways to try. Also even if it is illegal to drive with ur hazard lights on I would think turning them on until you are let past and then turning them off again would work. Besides I don't think I would be thinking to much about what's legal or not as my friend is dying. Also I can understand wanting to block unsafe drivers but if someone turned their hazards on or started flashing the headlights I would have let them pass. Like there are two options to what's going on. One there is an emergency or two they are dangerous and I would not want them behind me.
@Robert Bennett in all states, hazard light usage is legal in cases of a "traffic hazard" i.e., medical emergency, etc. Just driving with them on if you're going too slow isn't allowed in all states but in a majority. It is not illegal in ANY state to use hazard lights when you have an emergency like the OP above.
Blocking someone from illegally passing you on a shoulder and purposely going under the speed limit on an interstate because you think they're going too fast are two totally different things. There is no correlation
You're missing the point. If someone is having a medical emergency, they're going to try and pass traffic no matter if it's an actual lane or a shoulder. So just don't block people. They're most likely just being an asshole, sure, but I certainly don't want to take that chance and possibly end a life because I decided to play cop. Let the professionals handle it, trying to block traffic is reckless and dangerous.
@@BubblyBlackbird people having a medical emergency normally use their hazard lights dont you think? im a trucker and i see people block the shoulder all the time if an exit isnt coming up because of you cool kids who think your time is more valuable than everyone elses
@@Sxrew I’ve never heard of hazards lights being used by speeding cars because of medical emergency. I bet lots of people haven’t, and you’re just a Karen who maybe is responsible for someone bleeding out because you thought they needed to suffer through traffic with you
@@BubblyBlackbird I didn't miss anything. Like I said, there is a difference between someone trying to block traffic because they don't like how fast someone is going, and being stuck in a traffic jam and trying to keep Karen's from passing you illegally because they don't wanna sit in traffic. Someone with a medical emergency will have their hazards on. Rslash got this one wrong 🤷🏾♀️
Hey Rslash, just wanna let you know there's an error with the first two timestamps. The first story is incorrectly marked as being the shoulder lane story
That story about the guy's friend's death had me in tears. What an absolutely horrifying ordeal. I hope OP is doing okay. That kind of traumatic event can mess a person up big time. I had to see my dad's dead body get zipped up in a body bag when I was 13, so I know what the death of a loved one can do to your psyche.
Second Story-Friend Story: OP kept saying road, not shoulder. OP also never mentioned using emergency lights. If OP never used the lights to indicate an emergency, then most drivers would let you pass. If Altima was actively blocking a lane, not a shoulder, then she's at fault because she shouldn't go around blocking lanes. Otherwise, she's just assuming that you're trying to speed/skip traffic. The truck guy knew the Karen was doing something illegal and took the right course of action. Don't guilt trip the guy.
In the first story theres a traffic jam, in the other there is not. So therefor it still applies.. both people were breaking laws (speed limit vs shoulder driving) which is completely resonable in certain scenarios... that karen *could* have been the guys with the bleeding friend...
The point still stands though. In this case, truck Karen was the AH, but what if had been an emergency? Would your proud brownie points still matter if you kill someone? Odds are, you're dealing with an AH but on the off-chance that you're wrong? This wasn't about guilting OP; it's pretty obvious from how it all played out that Karen was in the wrong, people were pointing out that this isn't always the case.
Yes, I thought the same, I would have screamed my lungs off, "HEY, WE HAVE AN INJURED PERSON HERE" or something, if you don't people WON'T let you pass, that's a fact.
Rslash is right about the last Story, everytime a Story says “and then a new manager starts working at job” immediately everything becomes terrible for the workers and they plan their revenge
Omg so true. Had a friend who has worked his job 4 years. Loved it. New manager came in 2 months ago. All the employees are leaving or have left. Someone came in and stole money from the back room on new managers watch. Now new manager has been temporarily suspended.
Can confirm, 3 normal working people have been fired at the factory I work at since the new manager stepped in. One was fired for insubordination for refusing to go into areas where they would either get chemical burns or inhale harmful particles (with doctors note telling them they cant) One was fired because she took a small break because she was overheating in her area and went to sit down for a few minutes. Last was fired because she "made the company look bad" when in reality the new manager just didnt like her and got the factory head to come down to get her fired. Nepotism is awful.
@@Maximara yeah.. first one is filing a grievance to our union for pretty obvious reasons. Crazy workplace but it's like the only good paying place I can work at so young
Another advice for drivers, don't fuck around on the road and be extremely aware of other drivers. You can never 100% know what's going to happen and as such keep to your self when reasonable. This includes not blocking the damn hard shoulder when a car going god knows how fast from miles down may lose control and come flying down it incapable of stopping. Don't be a clever idiot.
I forget which show it was, but some director said the best way to get obedience was to make some arbitrary rule, and never explain it. His rule was "no purple" and for the most part the show is purple free (except for some accidents/oversights?). Anyhow, what I'm saying is that I'm pretty sure they _do_ tell the managers to change one rule to assert their dominance. Then, if they change the wrong one, they end up as Reddit horror stories.
Hey, fairly new manager here! Promoted from hourly workforce. I can confirm that this is not a thing, and managers that arbitrarily decide to make petty changes and enforce rules are suffering from TDS, or Tiny Dick Syndrome. Despite the name, it can apply to women as well, sometimes more potently than their male counterparts. There is a simple way to treat TDS, by simply taking a chill pill.
I am a trucker and have blocked the shoulder before as well, except when I see lights for emergency vehicles/tow trucks. That being said, if I were to see someone approach driving like a bat outta he'll, with their hazards on and laying into their horn, I'm going to assume they are the defacto ambulance atm and get out of the way as soon and safely as I can.
Related to the medical emergencies on the road: I busted my head open senior year and needed to go to the hospital. My mother drove to the school from her workplace with her hazards on, trying to get to me as soon as she could. Some asshole made it his mission to stay in front of her going 10 under the speed limit for as long as he could. When she passed him he just smiled and waved. If I had been in serious danger (which we didn't know how bad it was yet) I have no doubt that my mother would have probably ruined that man's life
Definitely different, but the story still kind of applies. If those tree service guys had come upon a traffic jam, they would have tried the shoulder and might have come across someone like the trucker. I’ll take the loss over potentially blocking someone who needs medical help. Besides, the idiots on the shoulder would have to try and merge back once they got to the cruiser anyway and who knows when/if anyone would let them back on.
@@TheSecretLover I mean yes, he shouldn’t have blocked because you never know what’s happening on the road, frankly I don’t think the highway is the place for malicious compliance or petty revenge or any of that crap (the woman literally crashed into the cop, multiple people could’ve been hurt because OP wanted to see her get caught) HOWEVER, people were linking the story about the guy who ended up dying as if the two stories were equivalent, and they just aren’t. OP was somewhat foolish to block the shoulder and cause road rage, but the woman intentionally slowing down traffic in the middle of the highway in a functioning lane is straight up dangerous, so it’s not really fair to call them equal
I enjoy when someone is weaving in and out of traffic, going like 15 miles over the limit and ending up at the same stop light that I, who drive maybe 5 over/under at any given time and drive as carefully as possible and I just laugh. Good job rushing to the same light, idiot. Or "See you at your next accident!"
One day when I was driving home from work, there are about 8 Lights along the road from my job to my apartment, me and a pickup stop next to each other at the first light, he speeds off as fast as he can I calmly accelerate and meet him at the second light, and the third light, and the fourth light... and every other light until we go different directions at the other end of town. There are only two situations where speeding is valuable, very long drives on mostly empty roads (the only way for you to save even a few minutes is over several dozens of kilometers, or excessive speeding; probably both tbh), or in an emergency where every second could actually matter.
I actually had a medical emergency recently (like 8pm Memorial day 2022) My mother had her left thumb accidentally ripped off by our dog's backyard cable/lead because he was about to jump the fence to join the neighbors for their cookout (super friendly but has no manners) I was in my room when she came bursting through the backdoor yelling for me to get the dog back inside and drive her to the ER. The nearest ER that I knew about is in Lafayette and we're in Mulberry with the main road being closed for construction until like Oct/Nov. So I had to book it down all the detours going 80/90 miles an hour until I hit Lafayette. Got her there in 25-30 minutes though. I'm just glad that no one was an ass like that one woman was cause I don't think my mom would've been mentally fine without her thumb which btw is healing really well 😊 She actually had the stitches removed last week and is hopefully getting the pins keeping the bones in place removed next week. She will need physical therapy and some skin graphs but doctor says she'll be able to play games and crochet again once everything is said and done.
Glad your mom is doing well. I just want to reiterate that this is why you don’t wrap the lead/leash around your fingers, hands, or arms while leading an animal. I work on a horse farm so I have this conversation almost daily with both kids and adults. If you wrap your lead around your arm/fingers and your animal jumps, spooks, lunges, or makes any other sudden movement, you could be very seriously hurt.
@@someonesomewhere9115, She only had her hand on the lead to keep our 80lb pitty from hanging himself while trying to join the neighbors... which why we have the cable in the first place cause he always wants to hop the fence to play with the little kids or beg for food when they grill 😅
I once had a car cut in front of me and instantly slam on their breaks to turn. County road, so it was only 2 lanes. Fortunately there are full shoulders which I had to use to avoid a collision.
@@Monasaurus_Rex unless they pull in right in front of you or you have someone at your bumper, you always have the ability to back off. I don't know where you live, but here you could be found at fault for tailgating and your argument about them not moving faster (so long as this is within 10mph of the speedlimit) wouldn't hold much water. I do, however, agree with the rest of what's said.
They do that on purpose for insurance payouts because if you hit them from behind it is automatically your fault in the US and your insurance will have to pay them
I’m a truck driver when it comes to vehicle skipping stoped traffic I might be an ass but there was an accident up ahead and we all had to merge into one lane and there was a bunch of cars coming out of the backed up traffic to get around me and there was no indication of an emergency because they were in the traffic before just fine when they saw the slowed traffic they bypassed the waiting vehicles and tried getting ahead I took up the center of the two lanes in order to slow them because a semi had gone in the ditch and a police curser was up ahead in that lane that they were trying to skip the line in I had thrown my lights and flashers on to indicate that there was slowed traffic head I wanted to ensure the safety of the office who was guarding the truck who went off the road they had room to go on the shoulder if it was an emergency situation they could have talked to the police officers that were there on scene of the semi accident
Did the OP with the dead friend ever use their hazard lights? Isn't that what your supposed to do in cases of a medical emergency? I don't drive but I'm pretty sure that's what you do. There's a huge difference between murdering a man by blocking an emergency and blocking a shoulder lane so someone can pass in traffic for a non-emergency, which I'm sure cops can attest to. Plus, wasn't Karen blocking a real lane?
yeah, people typically turn on their hazard lights to either indicate an emergency or to indicate that they are a potential driving hazard due to things like their car having issues.
How do you expect someone who is panicking because their friend is DYING to have a clear mind to think of the flashers? It doesn’t matter if they thought to turn the flashers on or not, it’s not your business to play traffic cop because you’re a petty POS. Also, if someone in a traffic jam is having an emergency, they would have no choice but to use the shoulder/emergency lane. Seriously, what is wrong with you?
Finally a Malicious compliance episode that isn’t 90 percent business mayhem stories But with that said, the one where the guy bled to death… goodness how selfish do you have to be to just let someone die like that. Even if she didn’t know seeing someone’s emergency lights should be the big flag to give the person damn space!
they threw a shirt covered in blood at her car, and she went after them to scold them about being reckless, ignoring the fact that the shirt thrown at her was COVERED IN BLOOD
I tell people that if you let speeders pass you they will be gone in seconds or you can piss off someone behind you that may have a homicidal attitude and looking for a target.
Someone shot at my dads car in traffic. Dont fuck with people! Some people have nothing to lose! This is why I am thoroughly enjoying the midwest. Traffic doesnt even exist here
With the blocking traffic one, I only do that during slow mergers/zippers where someone is explicitly trying to line cut, for exactly this reason. Clearly not an emergency at 2 mph, but otherwise, NOPE, I'm just gonna get out the way
Oh yeah that's a thing in the UK especially coming off a roundabout. It's worse during rush hour. You often see lorries try and block the merger so people don't cut in front during the busy rush
Technically zipper merging woks best if the cars in the merging lane continue driving to the end of the merging space and zipper at the end. I am too worried about what people think of me to be the person who drives to the end past others but there is the argument to be made that 1)they are using the merge area properly for the design of the merge and 2) impeding the flow of traffic (while within posted speed limits), even if it is a lane that is ending/merging is improper operation of a vehicle.
In South Africa it is illegal to not let cars pass in the fast lane, even if you are driving the speed limit (120 km/h). The reason is exactly this, you don't know if they have an emergency and it is not your job to police the speed limits.
I'll never understand the managers' inability to listen when the employees say that instruction is bad... it always has to hurt in the pockets before they listen.
the story with the lady blocking you from saving your friend,very easy to just bump into them and they'll get the fuck out of your way. when it's life or death the officers aren't gonna do shit about that.
There's actually footage of a cop doing that to a pregnant woman as she attempted to comply when he tried to pull her over. It flipped the car over and she almost died. Imagine what could have happened if that were done on a busy motorway instead of an empty one.
@@Threadnaught he didn't bump her to move her out of the way, he performed a PIT maneuver because she didn't want to stop on the highway. There's a very significant difference between the two
@@zrspangle Namely that "bumping" to move someone out of the way is shit that only exists in action movies and videogames, and a PIT maneuver is literally a controlled spinout that's designed to make someone crash in the ditch so they're no longer a danger to traffic. The person IN the car isn't the priority in a PIT maneuver, it's the drivers being endangered. Or, at least that's what it's *ideally* supposed to be. With the amounts of people who get out of police academies with a bunch of paranoia crammed into their heads by shitty training, the ideal and the real aren't always matching.
What I want to know is, why did the ambulance wait, instead of using their emergency lights to come to them? It's pretty irresponsible to have them drive in a regular car, which nobody can tell is carrying a dying patient. Although I might have missed it earlier. Having said that, there is NO reason for the behaviour of that other person, but it doesn't really compare to OPs story. It's actually a terrible idea to drive on the shoulder, because you never know when some emergency crews, police, or broken-down cars are stopped around the next bend, as that's what the shoulder is for. It HAS to be kept clear at all times, for that very reason.
You'll find it was waiting something like half way to the hospital, as that way it take half the time to get the person to the hospital rather than the ambulance travelling in the opposite direction going past and then having to catch up to op's car. It basically for efficiency.
"why did the ambulance wait, instead of using their emergency lights to come to them?" 'Murica. I'm guessing the ambulance was waiting at the edge of its corporation's coverage zone. Or that was the distance-from-hospital that the guy had covered in his insurance. It's Freedom. It's Protecting Your Rights. It's 'Murica.
@@tassiedevil3 yeah, that sadly makes sense when you factor in that they also have to drive back. So I guess that nobody did anything bad aside from the dumb morons blocking the passing lane -.-
I believe if you're in an emergency and need to use the shoulder, best bet is flashing your hazard lights. most people seem to understand that that is a signal of an emergency
Terrible system story: Again, I'm a retired truck driver. The last company I drove for bought a GPS system for all of it's trucks, but it was just the opposite of the system OP describes in his story. It worked well between cities, giving us good routes to use. Where our system broke down was in town going to the first and last legs of our trips. In any halfway large city it was just as likely to tell you to turn the wrong way or not give you a turn at all. We were warned explicitly not to use it to find our pickups and drop-offs, just the routes between cities. You get what you pay for. This was only 10-12 years ago so the better GPS systems were actually quite reliable, but also costly.
I feel bad for op losing his friend I hope that Karen lost her license permanently same with her car and arrested for murder because she got someone died before they could have been saved
She probably couldn't have been arrested for murder because I'm pretty sure there has to be intent. I don't know the actual word but she could maybe have been arrested for involuntarily causing his death.
@@OoverHeaven Knowing the little bit of legal information I know, the worst she would get is simply reckless driving and the charges stated in the video. Manslaughter is defined as killing someone in either an accident or some other method where intent was not to kill. There's no way she'd know that someone's life was at risk in a normal car. Now, if it was an ambulance she blocked, that could be considered manslaughter or assisted manslaughter (not sure if that's a legal term).
After hearing enough of these stories, one would think that these companies would figure out that promoting from within is MUCH BETTER than hiring a new manager from outside the company. Someone who has no idea how said company operates is bound to piss of employees and customers alike.
The "you shouldn't block the shoulder because someone could be bleeding out"- story is bullshit because of one simple reason; the bleeding out was on a lane, not the shoulder. Plus, you can see the difference between an actual emergency and the idiots trying to jump traffic, especially in a truck where you got great oversight.
Not always. In fact, not very often. Most drivers can't see what's going on in another car, and if you cut off someone with a rear passanger bleeding out, going into labor, etc. most of the victims aren't going to be sitting upright, and the driver is going to be just as agitated as the jerk-hole driver who just wants a quick shortcut. Frankly, if you're not a cop, it's not your job to try and regulate how others drive, and if you do block in someone because you personally down't like their driving, you run a very, very good risk of facing a manslaughter charge, either by causing an accident, or by having someone die by the fact that you blocked them during a medical emergency. Police have training and legal protections that alow them to make that cal. YOU DON'T.
@@jorgecarreras4214 so... ever driven in a big rig? You can see the distressed drivers a mile away, and the cue jumpers. You can anticipate on that, and help the emergency services with keeping the shoulder free for them.
I hate it when people on the road are pushy behind me or cut in or overtake using the right lane. But as long as I'm not endangered, I roll my eyes and leave it at that. You don't know someone else's day. Yeah, there's a good chance they're just a self-important asshole. But you never know if your decision to just keep it at shaking your head instead of intentionally hindering them helps someone out. Doesn't always be have to be a dead or life or "but what if...BABY?!" situation. It could be an important job interview and they're late because of a simple mistake or dumb circumstances. Or a medical appointment. Catching a non-refundable flight or, really simple and non-dramatic in the grand scheme of things but important for one person on that day - save someone from peeing or shitting their pants. Sure, on the surface, an entitled idiot getting their comeuppance is always satisfying. Until you think about it. Why was this OP so dismissive about some "blahblah sob story"? Maybe she had a real reason to be sobby. Gives me a "haha, these silly women and their imagined problems, am I right? We all know that people who annoy me are Karens and Karens aren't real people" vibe. Also, the hand-rubbing glee over someone being arrested because they were an annoyance to you, dunno. Maybe the woman was a jerk for the sake of being a jerk but that glee feels out of proportion and doesn't make the OP look like a very nice person either. So, yeah, I don't like people who drive like assholes, break the rules drastically, and potentially endanger themselves and others. Then again, I remember when my aunt and uncle picked me up one afternoon and managed to cut a one-hour drive to the capital city of my state down by almost half. I wonder what ppl like the OP would have thought if we had been stopped and they saw us crying and pleading with the officer, then to be handcuffed. Probably that those were shitty entitled parents who think the world belongs to them because they got some bratty, whiny teenage crotchfruit (bonus bratty points for being a teenage girl), when we were just on our way to the hospital to see my aunt's brother (my dad) for the last time before he lost his last fight and thus a seven-year-long battle against cancer (and why we didn't go earlier: it was meant to be like one of many other hospital stays he had over the years. Checkups, tests, a discussion about more surgery. My mom was there around noon since she planned to be home in the late afternoon. As I was told, my parents were mid-conversation when he suddenly stopped, smiled, excused himself and called his mother/my grandma and told her he's sorry but he's going to die tonight and he wanted to say goodbye while he still could. Aunt and uncle drove the three hours from their home town to ours to pick me up as soon as they heard and when we got there, he was still alive but already unconscious. That's why the lack of planing in our emergency. Selfish, I know.). Basically, I get the temptation to be an ass to another asshole. But the couple of seconds on the road are a snapshot of two stories crossing paths and that's not enough to know if someone is a true asshole or if they had a bad sandwich or a bad call half an hour earlier.
Just passed my theory in the uk and one of the rules of the road is if a car gets up ur butt, slow down and let them past, don’t prevent them from over taking.
I was driving from my undergrad college to my parents house one weekend. The drive home (about 2 hours) goes through a mountainous region and there can be some decent curves, downgrades, etc. I have driven this route every weekend, twice a weekend for years, I can literally tell where certain bumps are in the road as I drive it so frequently. Speed limit on this highway varies from 60-75mph depending on if you are in a fairly downhill/uphill/curvey area or not. So I am going a bit over speed limit at about 80mph (was typical for me), I am in the left lane having just passed a car, there is a car just in front of me to my right and just in front of her is a semi truck going fairly slow. (There are two lanes on this highway so a left and right lane for travel). The car suddenly flies into the left lane in front of me. I think, ok, she is probably just trying to pass the semi. So I slow down since she had been going really slow (like 65mph in the 75mph zone) and wait for her to pass, except she didn't. She decided it was her job to slow ME down because I was going 5 over the speed limit and instead she slowed so much the semi was actually starting to go faster than her. She literally matched speed with the semi truck fo miles. She was literally hanging out in the semi truck's blind spot (such a smart location to plant yourself while driving). She kept going a bit faster, then would slow down, then would try to break check me, etc. At this point it was safer to be behind the semi, so I moved over and she quickly moved over in front of me as I was moving over. I wasn't much up for playing a game of chicken on a freeway with an obviously unknowing semi truck and she seemed to think she was annoying me. I wasn't annoyed as much as I was worried about the danger she was putting everyone in (including her kids she had in the car). I finally ignored all of her movements as best I could, leaving a ton of distance between her and myself and she finally pulled over in the right lane and evenutally I passed both the semi and her. But like, seriously, Karen, I was going 5mph over speed limit (not uncommon around here) and it isn't your job to police the road and by doing so you literally put so many lives in danger. She is lucky that semi didn't need to get over abruptly.
An aggressive driver almost landed me in the hospital, or dead. I was passing a 16 wheeler, already going a bit over the speed limit. A douchbag lifted truck that was tail gating me decided to take the shoulder between me and the barrier. I'm already nervous passing 16 wheelers because of a previous accident where one almost ran me over (it was an honest mistake, blind spots and whatnot, a story for a different time). The truck clipped my drivers side mirror, thats how close he was because he was too big to completely fit on the shoulder. I was also really close to the 16 wheeler because of the truck. If I flinched, there would have been a major accident with myself, my partner and my kid probably very much unalived. I don't get how some people have their drivers license. I now have a dash cam.
I had a friend who died due to someone not allowing them to pass on a narrow mountain road. He had fallen about 25 feet from a roof on a cabin, hitting a wood pile that had large pieces of rebar in it. He not only had severe internal bleeding, but had two large gashes in his abdomen. They attempted to pass a woman, flashing their headlights, yelling, honking, and this awful woman and her friend just gave them the finger. The women would slow down to a crawl, then speed up while driving and swerving in the center of the road. They continued this for 19 miles. My friend past away shortly after they arrived at the hospital. Had he received medical attention earlier he would have survived. The woman who was driving was arrested, but her punishment was minimal. The family of my friend did sue her in civil court and they won a settlement. I should add that This was back in the early 90’s when people didn’t have cell phones, so calling for help wasn’t an option. Please move out of the way for vehicles who seem desperate to pass. Yes, they are most likely just a-holes, but it could be someone having a medical emergency.
Oeh, I know Rslash's action. I often do this while merging, but only to cars who ignore the space I leave for them to merge in. If they think "Nah, I'll just merge at the head of the merging line.", then tough luck buddy. Gave you significant room fmto merge before.
I'm surprised the arborist fellows didn't hit the car in front. If I had someone dying in the back seat and the person in front wouldn't move for any reason, I'd nudge them as lightly as possible. Obviously that's quite dangerously and I don't say I'd do it lightly - but you literally have someone potentially dying in the back seat. I think to minimize the damage and potential for calamity I'd try and come on their side, and grind on them side-by-side in order to clear some way (most people in that circumstance are going to back off; they aren't going to keep contact with your car). I'd deal with the repurcussions later - I wouldn't want to live wondering if I could've gotten them to the emergency room/the ambulance any faster.
I think if they actually hit that person with their vehicle it might have caused a bigger scene because then you've pissed off the other diver even more than the traffic does and made them confrontational, also don't know their mental stability/if they have a weapon in their car. I was thinking if the driver wasn't helping with stanching the bleed, they could have got out of the seat and ran up to their driver window pleading for them to move because who the heck is gonna see blood everywhere on OP/people in their car just assume it's a lie? I'm not saying it's the friends fault that's what they should have done, in crisis situations sometimes we don't all think straight and panic though, that situation was horrible.
@@RandomAnagram. they probably could have also used hazard lights. At least in the US, you'd turn them on for a medical emergency to signal that you are driving abnormally and other drivers should use caution. Otherwise, it's hard to distinguish that. But Karen was a dick because she was blocking an actual lane
Regarding the road blocking stories, I highly suggest turning on your hazards when in an emergency. My mom and I encountered someone clearly in a rush and had their hazards on. Everybody assumed they had an emergency and they that person through because of the hazard lights.
oh man I hope that Karen and the other car got arrest for basic murder that the fact she the reason why OP friend died because she block them for 10min and those 10min could have literally save OP friend life and that I remember another story like this where a women was having a baby and Op was driving his car to get his wife to the hospital and a cop pull Op over and Op didn't and told the cop his wife was having a baby and the cop didn't care and start cuss out Op so Op got back in his car and drove off and got to the hospital and OP was arrest by that cop but the cop got in trouble for not help Op get to the hospital
I once blocked someone like that while calling them a butthole. I was annoyed at this butthole all the way until it became clear that in this admittedly confusing construction zone, I was blocking an actual lane. Since then every time I get angry on the road at someone, I have a mantra- who’s the butthole? Is it me? Calms me down every time. Nowadays I still cringe and imagine apologizing to the poor person I blocked 😬 I’m sorry I was a butthole dude wherever you are.
@@shykorustotora your take is absolutely abysmal. OP was speeding for a medical emergency, a pretty common reason to speed. People do it with pregnancy all the time if a woman goes into labor. The woman purposefully chose to get in front of him and go under the speed limit. The only person putting anybody in danger was her.
@@shykorustotora So... are you saying that what this Karen did by being directly responsible for OP's friend's death was JUSTIFIED? If so you're fucking sick man. Like a legit sociopath.
Always teach everyone. Friends, family, anyone. If a car is moving faster than the flow of traffic or their hazard lights are on pull over and let em go
For a few days now, I've been rewatching your malicious compliance play list while at work. Your content is great and I usually have a smile on my face as I hear story after story of people getting what they deserve. I'm surprised I haven't grown tired of it as I normally get bored of hearing the same voice all day but I, almost quite literally, can listen to your voice all day. Thank you for so much free content
In regards to the truck blocking the shoulder. He only moved to block the shoulder after one car had already passed him, and he saw several other trying to do the same, indicating he recognised that one may be fine, but more indicate people are just tying to beat the jam. Also, he did state that he would unblock if he saw flashing lights. Whether he would have moved for flashing hazards, or only emergency vehicle flashing lights, only OP would know. One could argue that by gatekeeping the shoulder OP is ensuring it remains clear for emergency vehicles (and any vehicle he deemed ‘in an emergency’)And if this was his intention, I could give a pass. But when OP said “if I’m stuck in traffic, they can be stuck in traffic” it just sounded like he was being petty. He was probably doing both. Complex situation. If more cars had gone on the shoulder, they may have jammed and ended up blocking the lane for emergency vehicles… Thin ice, but end of day, not his job to police the shoulders, take note of registrations and report to police if you must.
Technically you're not *supposed* to use it as an emergency lane (you're not an actual emergency vehicle and you're also not an on-call first responder). It's not a legal thing, it's more a courtesy thing. What IS taught is that it's part of the driving etiquette that, if you're gonna drive weird for some reason (including but not limited to medical emergency or unsafe vehicle you're getting to the mechanic ASAP as safely as possible), you want the four blinkers on. Emergency lights (the flashing headlights) is NOT FOR MOVING VEHICLES, IT IS FOR SIGNALLING THAT YOU'RE STOPPED AND THERE IS AN ACCIDENT/HAZARD IN THE ROAD. Don't flash your headlights while you're moving, unless you need to warn a driver ahead that something is wrong with their car (and only do it a few times until they fix what's wrong or until they signal back that they got it (usually that's turning on your 4-ways once or twice).
I saw a video of a neurosurgeon w a camera on his head driving 110 into the hospital at night. He got there without anyone stopping him and it’s good he did cuz his patient had a major brain bleed and they couldn’t even show it all on RU-vid. If someone stopped him, then someone’s friend, someone’s sister, someone’s daughter, probably would’ve died on that OR table
Someone I know does this sometimes, when he says they're being idiots and blocks them. If I say they may have an emergency but whenever he refutes that I generally reply if that guy is driving dangerously I would rather he do it far away from me. That helps.
@RSlash I work as a professional driver. If you have an emergency, throw your flashers on. Flashers or Hazards are a universal sign of a problem or emergency. Throw them on, call 911 (or your countries equivalent) and let them know you need a police escort due to an emergency. Don't get mad when people block you if you aren't using the proper ways to warn of an emergency. The death in this video is sad and could have been prevented by proper use of all available resources on the car. While I would say the two other cars are douches but not getting out of the way isn't a problem. The impeding traffic ticket is because they went under the speed limit.
I like how the landlord walked in to the apartment and just went "wow the destroyed the place, looks like a hurricane came through here. Better get that security deposit"
I would add to the shoulder blocking incident: If they don't have their blinkers on its not a medical emergency. Most people can tell if a person is genuinely frantic by using there mirrors. There's a huge difference between road ranging and panic in body language. You can most times also see if they are alone in the car. I'm with the 18 wheeler driver on that one.
Thank you very much for the extra story with the 2nd story in the vid, about blocking the lane... It can really be dangerous when usual peopel try to take law into their own hands, thinking they're doing something good.. When in reality they may be murdering someone. Some people need to realise that normal people can have emergencies too, not just police cars/ambulances/firefighters etc...
Blocking the shoulder is a safety measure. I am a retired tuck driver, non emergency vehicles blocking the shoulder make it difficult to impossible for emergency vehicle to reach the scene. IMRHO, every driver who impedes emergency vehicles should be cited for reckless endangerment and if the victim of the accident dies, should be brought up on manslaughter charges. I drove for 42 years and will not begin to tell you how many accidents turned into helicopter rides because people blocked the shoulder. Blocking the shoulder is at the least dangerous, and can cause an accident.
I can only imagine the gut punch that Karen felt when she realized that not only she got a ticket and she killed someone, but that the blood of her victim was smeared all over the top of her car. I hope she didn't see it until when she got home, just so that the haunting image of her terrible choices will be in her head forever. I may be cruel, but I really hope she learned her lesson.
Rslash has been out of my algorithm and I haven't listened in a year or so. I didn't know you had new videos, your videos got me into the world of choosing beggars and Karen's! I've missed listening to your videos!! Your voice is comforting for some reason lol
two things about the impeding traffic / emergency lane 1- the idiot lady that 'maybe' led to the bleeding out death of the friend was impeding traffic. they were driving on the most left lane. even when there is a speed limit (like most of the world) you must never drive there unless you are passing. she was a complete idiot. 2- when you are in a medical emergency and need to drive outside legal options you turn on your signals and everybody makes room for a car with the signal lights on constantly. it is a widely accepted thing, that i have not seen being misused almost at all (surprisngly!) 3- you are not allowed to drive in the emergnecy lane for absolutely any other reason than in an emergency. the truck driver was ok to do what he did, as they were passing traffic and were not indicating by any way that they are in any kind of an emergency. do you think the cops would have arrested for crasshing into them if she had a girl in labour or sb bleeding back there? tey would have taken them and rushed them trough the traffic. while the second story is very sad, it is not comparable to the first one. these are two cmpletely different cases
I have mixed feelings about the arborist story. People driving recklessly because they have an emergency is also putting other people at risk. They weren't in an emergency vehicle, so other drivers have no way of knowing the situation. On the other side, blocking traffic just because you think it's your right is also dangerous.
In the US, you would turn on your hazard lights to signal abnormal driving and emergencies. That's how you'd distinguish the two. Assuming that everyone will know you have an emergency just because you're speeding will get people killed. But Karen was a duck because she blocked an actual lane.
Fun fact: lots of people in Jakarta, Indonesia give a crap about the shoulder lane. they use it 90% of the time when traffic is at a standstill. although, if a vip escort is driving down, the escort uses the breakdown lane and people usually take advantage of that to drive right behind them to get past traffic. and if anyone asks where the cops are in all this? almost nonexistent, the cops in indonesia are pretty pathetic. and a little corrupt.
Those two situations are COMPLETELY different. While I do feel terribly for the guy who lost his friend to that, it’s not the same. OP was blocking a SHOULDER, which is meant for emergency vehicles, not for cars to get past a traffic jam. As much as I’d love to allow someone to break the law to save a life, not everyone can do that. Blocking someone from passing you and blocking someone from illegally using an emergency shoulder are two completely different scenarios. Please don’t get confused.
There's a HUUUUUGGGEE difference in blocking someone who is driving in the fast lane and clearly trying to pass as a solo vehicle, and a row of cars who are TRYING to drive on the shoulder just because of traffic. The passers are the douche bags, not the people who follow the rules of the road.
Tbh, if I was driving and those two blocked the main lane. I'd literally just have sped up to ram them. And: If they didn't move: Actually ram them. Life or death doesn't require pleasantries.
Months ago, a guy behind me was PISSED that everybody was doing 20 in an active school zone, which is the law. Mind u, if there WAS an emergency, the turning lane was open, and that lane WOULD get him to the hospital. But no. Not what he needed. So, I sped up to 40 the second i got to the End School Zone sign, to get out of his way, I made it so he could go around me by doing that. Nope. He started cussing even MORE. He kept weaving in and out of traffic on his way towards the freeway entrance. I give up.
I'd not let someone past just because they were honking and driving fast, I wouldn't purposefully block them. Just wouldn't move out of the way. HOWEVER, if they were in an emergency, I would. You may ask, how do you know. Well, they'd be using their emergency lights. Like all cars have. You're supposed to use them if you have an emergency.
I have a friend whos appendix rubtured, and after a call to the emergency phone. His gf ended up having to drive him to another hospital than the closest due to (something something not important) they were told to hang a white cloth out the window, drive with emergency blinking lights on, and be heavy on the horn when needed. Be safe through red lights and not to drive faster than under full control. That's when I learned we actually have emergency codes in place in Denmark for acting as an ambulance. But just make sure to inform the authorities about your emergency to make sure they won't pull you over.
My mother once had to drive way fast in city streets, but at least there was almost no traffice to impede her, it was the Saturday night before Easter, and my dad was suffering a heart attack. Mom, being a nurse and knowing dad's medical history, bundled him into the car and took off, while I stayed home to call the hospital. As mom said "I didn't pay a lot of attention to the traffic light." So for them the situation was lucky, unlike that poor guy in the tree crew. People, give way. It wasn't all the same for my dad, but I sure identified with that story.
There is only one way to handle a traffic jam. Be courteous to other vehicles. It works like magic to lighten up congestion. The woman in the title story should also be charged with manslaughter. Failing that, civil suit.
I’m due with my first son pretty much any day now and because of the distance between us and the closest hospital where I’m supposed to go to deliver I hate hearing stories like the trucker so proud he wouldn’t let someone pass. One of my biggest fears is being in active labor stuck in traffic or worse having an accident on the way there because someone wants to play traffic god.
Turn on your hazards so everyone know you have an emergency. That let's people know your are driving fast for a reason. I have had to do that trying to get someone to the hospital and most people pulled off or stopped at intersections and let me go.
You don't get to just assume people will assume you're having an emergency. Call an ambulance or 911 so they can join you on the route with their own flashers. You don't get to just take things into your own hands because you're having a baby. What if there was another mother on the road also having a baby and you recklessly crash into her because you didn't plan ahead?
@@tuesdayriot obviously the plan is to leave with enough time to not have to speed. And my partner would never drive recklessly with me and our son in the car. But you’d be surprised how many people especially in our area will see you driving the flow of traffic and decide to randomly slow down to below the speed of traffic as a “you can’t pass me cuz I said so” instead of just allowing others to pass
For the lane blocking reply story: why was the ambulance just waiting for some folks with a guy bleeding out instead of coming to meet you halfway? You were flooring it down the highway, I'm sure if the ambulance floored it to meet you, the time it took to get the victim to the hospital would be fractioned. Just my immediate thoughts
Not to mention, people who work with machines like chainsaws are required to wear gear that prevents accidents exactly like that. There's a lot that didn't add up.
Yeah seriously leave the shoulder open. My sister’s car caught fire a few years ago on the way home from a family celebration. The rest of us were in one vehicle headed home when we got her frantic call. She was fine and managed to get out before the thing turned into a complete inferno but was understandably shaken and needed us there. We of course immediately turned around to get to her and ended up hitting the traffic caused by the emergency vehicles. So we did the only thing we could and used the shoulder. Several cars tried to get in our way as we were just doing our best to get to my panicked sister. I remember my mom honking and my brother yelling out the window as we were all collectively freaked out and just trying to make sure my sister was ok as soon as possible. Don’t judge people just let them do what they need to do.
YOU were not in an emergency. If you had waited through the traffic, there was zero increased risk to amyone. Speeding down the shoulder DID increase the risk. Points for wanting to be of help to someone in distress. All of them lost and then some for making the scenario more dangerous for more people.
@@lrwerewolf ok fair but we were told we were ok to come get her as she was standing with police, we weren’t speeding and despite our panic we never did anything to put anyone in danger. My mom honked and my brother yelled at people for extending our panic and keeping us away longer but we didn’t do anything wrong and were in fact doing what was necessary to finish resolving an emergency situation. They couldn’t fully clear everything up until she was somewhere safe and she was too shaken to just go with a tow truck so we had to get her.
To side with the truck driver from scenario 1, his whole point was that people were driving on a shoulder to pass slow traffic. These drivers using the shoulder BLOCKED THE SHOULDER, PREVENTING EMERGENCY VEHICLES! In other words, his little move was to keep people off the shoulder and keep it open for police, ambulances, and people that actually needed it. What a lot of people don't realize is that professional truck drivers are, in a lot of ways, the traffic controllers on highways. They coordinate with each other to keep things flowing at a reasonable rate and prevent major accidents or blockages.
Despite the tragic story, I still think the Trucker OP did a good thing. My friend lost an uncle who was on the shoulder during a traffic jam because his motorcycle ran out of gas. Some guy drove on the shoulder to cut traffic (illegal where I live) and hit him. He passed away before an ambulance could get to him; I have no clue what happened to the driver. Just don’t drive on the shoulder.
I don't even have a driver's license but… at least in my country, if you're having an emergency, you turn one the 4 blinkers letting people know. Usually people just move out of the way because you could be a cop, a fireman rushing to the station/fire, etc… Is this not the normal procedure?
Whether it is the shoulder or the lane, please don't block neither out of spite. You never know if the person has an actual emergency or not. It may be a minor annoyance now, but it is not worth someone's life.
@KitKatBlackCat Oh lord. Not every person who is panicking or even dying is going to think of the flashers. How about you just don’t play traffic cop when it’s not your business?
@@anonymoususer6422 So, let people drive on the shoulder and risk them killing someone who had an actual need for it? Let someone run over some poor unfortunate person whose car broke down who needed to get it off the road before someone got hurt? Let someone who just wanted a convenient route obstruct someone with a genuine medical need?
@@SentaiYamaneko You completely missed the point of the story that came after this one. You are not a cop. People don't always think to use flashing lights during an emergency. You are acting like a Karen.
@@songohan3321 And you completely missed the point of that story that the driver was blocking an actual lane, not the shoulder. Which is worse. And you're using that term wrong. Karens are the people who use the shoulder without a need for it because they don't want to wait in traffic or block actual lanes out of a smug need for keeping people from passing. Not people who are concerned about idiots breaking the law for their own convenience and putting people's lives in danger. If you don't even know how to use that word right, you're too dumb for this argument.
My mother always tells me “If someone is speeding, it’s for a reason, they could be in an emergency, they can be pooping, peeing or they can just be an asshole, who knows? You just need to let them pass”
People who use a chainsaw at work, get proper protective clothing. The lack of that is what killed the tree surgeon, not someone else's driving. If the company you work for refuses you that protective gear, then don't effing work for them.
@@healingthroughchrist1988 It sounded like he hti an artery, and we don't know how deep the wound was, might have messed up an organ or 2. Pretty much a death sentence if not treated instantly. He bled out. And there was near nothing they could have done, off course Karen made it so much worse.
Many others are pointing it out already, those two stories about traffic are no correlation at all because the Shoulder story is just someone doing it for convenience, while the guy passing (may he rest in peace and his friends and family find their own peace as well) was caused by people breaking rhe law just to be jerks and causing a death.
@@polishnope5609 HAHAHAH! Do you not know what an ambulance is?? They have bright flashing light and loud sirens to warn people around them that they are in an emergency situation... Do you live in Somalia or something? Have you ever seen a real life ambulance?
Nah the guy who bleed out story doesn’t dissuade me from the guy blocking the emergency lane from people not in an emergency. You should use your hazard lights in that kind of emergency. Hazard lights and driving slow car distresss hazard lights and driving fast medical emergency.
