Videos of aggressive tailgating sometimes draw comments defending the driver with lines like “the person being tailgated is partly to blame too.” In a thread on 5ch’s “Whatever Live G” board, participants clashed over why such defenses keep cropping up, in a discussion that tangled together criticism of the aggressive driving itself with gripes about slow drivers and sudden lane changes.
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Source: youtube.com / Original article here
It's fun watching everyone get riled up and fire back arguments
Re: #3
Is this seriously how nanG posters think?
Is this seriously how nanG posters think?
Re: #3
They just want attention — same as the guys posting inflammatory replies. Anyone taking the contrarian stance for zero payoff is just lonely.
They just want attention — same as the guys posting inflammatory replies. Anyone taking the contrarian stance for zero payoff is just lonely.
An average Joe who wants to believe 'I can see that angle too — my perspective is different from you people who only bash the obviously guilty party.'
Re: #8
In the end it's just a binary — the other guy's either at fault or not — so it's not even that deep a take.
In the end it's just a binary — the other guy's either at fault or not — so it's not even that deep a take.
Re: #8
That's some serious approval-seeking.
That's some serious approval-seeking.
No matter how someone else drives, that's never an excuse to tailgate them. But for some reason those guys think airing their feelings, lecturing people, and 'setting them straight' is a driver's sacred duty.
Re: #22
You're tailgating too, you know.
You're tailgating too, you know.
The people who get tailgated are usually either road-rage types themselves or crawling along at a snail's pace. Out of the tens of thousands of cars passing by, if someone singles you out to stick to your bumper, there's usually a reason.
Ah, the kei car with a white plate type.
Re: #25
What's the significance of a kei car with a white plate?
What's the significance of a kei car with a white plate?
Re: #34
I think they mean a regional custom plate, not a white-plate registration.
I think they mean a regional custom plate, not a white-plate registration.
You should know that 'bait driving' that provokes tailgating exists too.
If you crawl along in the right lane on the highway, getting tailgated is on you. I bet that type does everything at their own slow pace in real life too.
Re: #30
Just pass them cleanly on the left. Obviously that's technically not allowed, but it beats stewing in endless stress or tailgating them.
Just pass them cleanly on the left. Obviously that's technically not allowed, but it beats stewing in endless stress or tailgating them.
Re: #30
Getting worked up over a slowpoke like that is a waste of energy — just blow past them already.
Getting worked up over a slowpoke like that is a waste of energy — just blow past them already.
Re: #33
Those types swerve into the left lane the instant you try to pass on the left.
Those types swerve into the left lane the instant you try to pass on the left.
Re: #36
And there's the opening bell lol
And there's the opening bell lol
Re: #29
I'm not wasting my time on idiots who can't tell driving apart from everything else.
I'm not wasting my time on idiots who can't tell driving apart from everything else.
Re: #43
Thanks for the reply.
Thanks for the reply.
Well, with bullying, workplace harassment, crime — in most cases there's some cause on the victim's side too. Not that they're responsible for it, though.
Re: #46
Yeah, fair enough.
Not at fault, not responsible — but there's often still a cause.
Yeah, fair enough.
Not at fault, not responsible — but there's often still a cause.
Re: #46 Re: #83
It'd be more accurate to call it a 'trigger for tailgating' than a 'cause of being tailgated.'
It'd be more accurate to call it a 'trigger for tailgating' than a 'cause of being tailgated.'
There's an intersection where the light goes red-plus-straight-arrow, then green, but the green only lasts about 5 seconds. When some car crawls through the turn and only about 3 cars manage to turn right, it makes me want to lose it and tailgate them. And of course it's always that kind of intersection where it takes forever for the light to turn green again.
Re: #49
Are you really in that much of a hurry? I just don't get that mindset.
Are you really in that much of a hurry? I just don't get that mindset.
If they just required an IQ test and made a college degree the minimum to get a license, tailgating and accidents would probably vanish from the face of the earth.
Re: #50
No way that'd happen.
No way that'd happen.
Re: #50
Guys who naturally assume 'I'm the exception' like this one are usually the ones doing the tailgating.
Guys who naturally assume 'I'm the exception' like this one are usually the ones doing the tailgating.
When someone tailgates me, I let them pass and then tailgate the hell out of them right back. I go all in on it — for the good of society, so they regret it.
Re: #64
Don't give me some childish excuse like that.
Don't give me some childish excuse like that.
Tailgater: 'Move it already, idiot!'
Tailgated: 'There was an ambulance coming through, though.'
Tailgater: 'Shut up, just ignore it!'
The logic is completely incomprehensible.
Tailgated: 'There was an ambulance coming through, though.'
Tailgater: 'Shut up, just ignore it!'
The logic is completely incomprehensible.
Re: #117
Reality:
😡 'Move it already!'
🤤 '…(can't hear him)'
😡 'At least pull over to the side!'
🤤 '…'
Reality:
😡 'Move it already!'
🤤 '…(can't hear him)'
😡 'At least pull over to the side!'
🤤 '…'
Getting irritated at someone just driving around the speed limit is basically a sickness at this point. If you want to go that fast, buy yourself a private jet.
Re: #119
There really are cars that get caught going absolutely insane speeds all the time.
There really are cars that get caught going absolutely insane speeds all the time.
*This article is compiled and summarized from the 5ch (Whatever Live G) thread “[Seven Mysteries] Who Are These Weirdos Who Keep Defending Tailgating Videos With “The Victim Was Bad Too”?”.
