That should read no one.
You’re seriously saying that you cannot conceive of a circumstance wherein you or someone else are driving down a road, minding your own business, listening to the radio, sipping on your coffee, when BAM!, out of nowhere something (maybe an egg, or maybe something else) hits your car (or possibly even you), startles you, causing you to momentarily lose control as you reflex, possibly causing a crash?
Especially if the object hit you?
You keep coming back just to eggs. Forget the fucking eggs.
Any sudden distraction while operating a motor vehicle can have deadly results.
Hell, even not-so-sudden distractions cause untold numbers of traffic fatalities.
If you call for a cite for this, any chance of anyone considering anything you have to say in this thread as “meaningful contributions” will come to an abrupt end (if it hasn’t already).
I’m with Monty. FWIW, I hope they catch the shooter and put his ass behind bars for a long, long time. Wanting to kill (or at least beat) someone who has egged your car is understandable; actually doing it is intolerable.
Well, maybe throwing them the beating is marginal.
Seeing as how I’ve read about the exact same goddamn circumstance described to me a jillion times in this thread, YES, I can conceive of it. I’m saying that just because I can conceive of it doesn’t mean its really an actual threat that anyone should be concerned about, no more than using a cell phone while at the gas pump might blow up my car or worrying about the aerosol can in my luggage blowing up and taking the whole plane down.
Do you think that people who throw eggs at cars should be indicted for assault with a deadly weapon?
Don’t blame me if you, too, have wasted a lot of time googling but still can’t find a serious auto accident caused by eggs.
Who?
Excuse me? Are you saying that a couple thousand pounds of metal hurtling down a road ought to be reasonable substitute for a lounge chair and that drivers are supposed to be able to zone out and relax in their own little undisturbed reverie of radio-listening coffee-drinking bliss?
Because if that’s so, please cease driving and ask anyone you know who feels the same to voluntarily resign their car keys to the rubbish bin.
You are DRIVING. You are supposed to be in a state of alertness and anticipating ‘surprises’ so that you can react promptly. Where on earth did you ever get the idea that driving was supposed to be a happy little zen experience requiring nothing more of you but your presence?
A broken nose as a result of a deliberate act of assault would, I think, consititute grievous bodily harm - you were taking about ‘beating up’ - suggesting a sustained, injurious assault rather than just a clip around the ear.
You’re essentially talking random unforseen incidents concerning inanimate objects; pay attention! We’re talking about human-induced stupidity, here. I admit that an aerosol can exploding in your motor vehicle could startle you, causing a loss of vehicle control. Got a cite for exploding aerosol cans?
Which do you think is much more likely to happen:
- I win the Lottery;
- Some random, innocuous object causes an accident;
- Human stupidity causes an accident.
No. An egg isn’t necessarily a deadly weapon in and of itself. Ask one of the Lawyer Dopers what throwing an object at a moving vehicle constitutes, crime-wise.
I haven’t wasted a single second googling anything egg-related; to my way of thinking, it isn’t about the egg. It’s about throwing objects at moving motor vehicles being dangerous (potentially deadly) and stupid.
Point out where I said it was. You can send that Strawman down The Yellow Brick Road with Dorothy and Toto, and see if the Wizard of Oz for some brains for him.
Maybe when you’re all growed up, maybe you too can drink a beverage, listen to the radio, obey the speed limit, maintain your lane, and maintain a safe following distance between you and the cars around you. None of that makes you immune to the stupidity and carelessness of the rest of the people on the road. I have been in exactly two accidents in 21 years of driving; one, when a lady disregarded my brake lights and turn signal and ran into the back of my car at 40 mph, and then again years later when another driver decided she wanted to be in my lane while I was in it.
No one can maintain a 100% state of preparedness for every possible eventuality that can conceivably happen behind the wheel of their car. In fact, I would hazard a guess that an attempt to do so would actually be dangerous, as a keyed up driver might be prone to overreact.
We’re talking road rage, not damage. If someone deliberately swerves in your lane and you almost run off the road it will certainly make you angry.
Scaring the crap out of a driver is just stupid and guaranteed to piss someone off. BTW, I saw someone do this in front of me and the guy ran off the road and hit a steel poll, almost killing him.
In this case it’s a Darwinian thing with a statistical twist. If you look for crazy people long enough eventually you’ll find one. But sometimes you get lucky on the first go.
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Does not follow. We are talking about vandalism and you are talking about murder and a screwed up justice system. They are not the same. Egging a car does not equate to dropping a boulder on a car knowing the potential for harm is so much greater. These are different subjects.
Right, if the penalty for throwing rocks at a car resulting in somebodies death is barely a slap on the wrist then calling the police on the little darlings throwing eggs would probably get them what? blowjobs?. I’m convinced getting out of your car and pounding some sense into them is the only good solution to this problem.
If it was common knowledge among asshole vandals that if you egg a car, there is a good chance you may get killed, would you still do it? The shooter may have went overboard, but I bet the dead ones friends wont be throwing eggs for a while.
Never underestimate the human capacity for denial (“It’ll never happen to me”) or stupidity (“Let’s get guns, so when we egg a passing car, and the driver gets out to kick our ass, we can defend ourselves!”)
If it were common knowledge among internet assholes that posting stupid shit could earn you the mother of all smackdowns, there might be a lot less stupid shit posted, but that would not justify smacking internet assholes. The punishment doesn’t fit the crime.
Are We talking hardboiled or raw.
I hit a bird on an expressway.once It bounced off my hood and bounced high in the air and hit the car in back of me right in the windshield. It was a convertible with the top down.nothing happened .no accident. Cell phones are more likely to cause accidents. Should they be hunted down and shot for talking while driving. ? Tests show phone users are more dangerous than drunk drivers.
If the egg was hard boiled. If the wind was blowing the right direction. If the driver was talking on a cell phone. If the weather was more than 70 degrees. It could be possible to cause an accident.