Two seattle protesters are run over while standing in the road at night.

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  1. Steve N

    Steve N Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    I'll never understand why protesters stand in the middle of the street and block traffic. Not only does it infuriate the people who can freely travel, but do they think they'll win a fight with a car? And to stand in the road at night?

    Video of the incident is at the below link. Very graphic.

    https://twitter.com/TruthRaiderHQ/status/1279359494385000448

    And before anyone says the driver was a right wing white supremacist, here he is:

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    The HIGHWAY was BLOCKED and the driver entered it on an EXIT RAMP. he was driving like a bat out of hell and didn't even try to avoid the people who were two women. He has been arrested.
     
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    Polydectes Well-Known Member

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    I laughed out loud when I read this. If it was humor well done. If it wasn't it was still funny.
     
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    Polydectes Well-Known Member

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    The reason why you don't understand why protesters do this, it's because they are not protesters. They are bullies.

    They might have started out as protesters and nobody listens to them because what they were protesting for was stupid. So because you didn't listen to them is they're going to interfere with your daily life. Maybe if you get fired from work for being late, or someone in desperate need of an ambulance guys before it gets there maybe you will consider giving into their demands.

    It is essentially holding your ability to move about freely hostage.

    This is not how you protest. If you want to get a message out the best way to get it out is to encourage people to interact with you.

    and if you inconvenience them by blocking up traffic they cheer when the police grab them up and pop them on the head with a billy club. Because they're just pissing people off.

    And I said earlier, this isn't about getting sympathy or support for their cause it's about holding your daily life hostage.

    Just be glad they like the follow-through to stick with it
     
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    Idiot protestors are playing stupid games and winning stupid prizes.
     
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    These aren't protesters, this isn't protest. They might have started off as protesters, but what they were advocating for was too stupid are crazy for the average people to empathize with.

    So because you're not buying them the bicycle that they really really really really really really want, they are going to throw a fit and lay down and play dead weight just like a small child will do.

    Don't call them protesters that is not what they are. They are fit throwing childless little selfish brats. Where is I don't think they should be run over I'm going to use the old adage you play stupid games win stupid prizes.
     
  7. Steve N

    Steve N Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    You’re right, of course. And that’s why all the garbage that’s going on today is turning me against them.
     
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    i've watched this video seven times and it just keeps getting funnier every time. here are my questions. why were vehicles partially obstructing his right of way? what was the speed limit and how fast was he actually going? was his view sufficiently obstructed that he could not see the idiots in the roadway? i know you don't care about any of these questions, you'll simply side with the idiots, but they are important. hopefully he was within the rational limits and will get off. if so, we should give him a parade.

    by the by - i finally had to stop watching the replays, as i was in danger of losing bladder control. you can only laugh so hard before nature is forced to take its course.
     
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    Well, I saw the video differently. He was on the highway driving highway speed and tried to avoid cars blocking the road that probably appeared suddenly with the darkness and speed. He most likely didnt see the protesters til too late. A highway can have several on ramps. Protesters unlawfully blocking highways are more then destructive pests...they put lives at risk. They should have been arrested.
     
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    was he drunk or something, seems weird to bypass the blocked exit ramp and do this (need a picture of how it was blocked)

    if it was an accident, the driver is lucky he is not white, cause no one would have believed it, I still have a hard time believing it unless alcohol was involved

    as for those laughing about this, I see nothing funny about it
     
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    he may not of thought it was closed if just blocked by vehicles and just drove around them

    https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/04/us/seattle-protesters-car-struck/index.html

    'Mead said a car drove around a series of "support vehicles" that protesters were using to block I-5 and protect themselves, and onto the shoulder of the freeway where protesters were standing."

    if no alcohol involved, I do not think he should be guilty of a felony, just a horrible accident sounds like

    protest during daylight hours, not at night on a roadway, not safe - that is the lesson to be learned here
     
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    Do you suppose those two learned FINALLY it is not smart to play in the streets? People are getting fed up with their kind of ignorance!!!!!
     
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    When you so weed-whack you gotta smoke a bowl before gettin' yo ID pic...
     
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    i got a hearty laugh out of it and i am unashamed. i feel the same sense of satisfaction as when i see some fool allowing a friend to kick him in the nuts with a steel toed boot, i know that at least this portion of the shallow end of the gene pool won't be adulterating the species. when i was a young lad my mother warned me not to play in the middle of the street and i have been wise enough to heed her words. these people either didn't have parents able to pass along such vital information or they chose to ignore it. either way i don't think we really need their genetic material clogging up the future of humanity.

    now read the rest of your post and i'm sure you can tell us what is wrong with it. this is the i-5, not some backwater side road in podunk nowhere. that you should so quickly jump to the drunk driving conclusion tells us quite a bit about you. that if this were a white driver we should suspect malfeasance tells us quite a bit about the sad state of affairs in this nation today. this is no less racism than jim crow and certainly no less ignorant.
     
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    would you stick around if a bunch of angry mo-fos were chasing you down? reginald denny tried that and look where it got him.
     
  17. Steve N

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    Ya think he might know who let the dogs out?
     
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    if that happened, I would not..... BUT...... is that what happened?
     
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    still find nothing funny about it and hope the two women make it through this ok
     
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    They are just fit throwing children. Don't give them what they want. Don't call them protesters.
     
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    So the protesters took it upon themselves to unlawfully block a highway? In commonsense land the protesters are at fault and should be arrested. Or can any tom dick and harry take it upon themselves to block highways with unmarked cars so they can enjoy their chosen activity?
     
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    yep, sounds like it

    re-read my last line, I agreed, stupid to stand in a road at night like that
     
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    I wasn't trying to argue with you...just surprised and outraged that no one in the media thinks it's strange that people can purposely block highways with no consequence.
     
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    it's dangerous for sure

    I do not even think cops should be stopping people for things like seat belt violations as it puts the cops and the citizen's life at risk over nothing

    traffic is nothing to take lightly, anything can happen, especially at night

    I hit a deer at night once and almost crashed trying to avoid it at the last minute when realized was not gonna stop in time, that thing just stood there staring at me in what seemed like me moving in slow motion
     
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    people die every day. a woman goes to work, an aneurysm pops in her brain and she dies before paramedics can even arrive. a man walks out his front door and is gunned down just for being in the wrong place at the wrong time. a child looks both ways before crossing the street, only to be run down by a drunk driver or merely some yahoo with a "need for speed". these are people worth shedding a tear for. these are people simply going about their lives who had something unexpected, unusual and deadly happen to them. their lives were cut short through no fault of their own. then we have these two, people who decided that the rest of the world had to put itself on hold while they vented. they seemed to think that everyone else should pay attention to them, though they refused to pay attention to the actions and needs of those around them. well, they learned the hard way that the world does not revolve around them.

    blm was built on the backs of men who died through the same sort of stupidity. this is why that movement is worthy of the same sort of derision i extend to these two flying twits.
     

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