Nothing ever goes right with road rage, but the best an individual can do is to put the matter in the right hands: The police. A reckless driver engages in a hit and run in East Oakland, California, and in exchange, the hunted becomes the unwanted hunter by chasing the runner. What are we doing here?
In a video uploaded to r/PublicFreakout on Reddit, a driver is filming a car chase where there’s no footage of the “hit,” but we can spot the runner in an oddly silent clip. Adding no context to the video, the driver says absolutely nothing, chasing a car with a reason that I can not understand. I’m incredibly impressed the driver didn’t say anything the entire length of this video.
The chase starts at high speed, passing red lights by both drivers, adding more risk to what’s already a wrong script for a hit and run scenario. With that in mind, even if it all turns out good, there’s one big question to be asked of this man: “So what was the plan here? Citizen’s arrest?”
What I assume is a bit of trash talk or worse, a brawl that’d benefit nobody. What actually happens, though, is that the runner turns, shows a gun, and then blind-shots the car. The shot could’ve hit anybody around, hence proving why this chase was wrong from the start. “Should’ve brought your own gun I guess,” is what a user adds, and could’ve made this 10x worse.
“If you decide to go on a high speed chase in Oakland, with someone who did a hit and run, and is driving a black car with tinted windows, you are a special kind of stupid.” Now, while I think chasing the runner in almost any scenario is on par with being “a special kind of stupid,” another user adds, “Can confirm. I’m originally from The Town. It’s worst part of Oakland at that..”
At the end of the day, a car hit isn’t something to go crazy about, especially if your car isn’t severely damaged and you already have the footage of the runner’s license plate.
