Crazy Tesco Car Park Incident

Craig1981 said:
Honestly? Probably not. If it was a male passenger and he looked that freaked out, I would still feel bad for him, but probably not as much.
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The honesty is appreciated. I must admit my own reaction was also to feel sorry for her. It shows just how protected women are in our society that we often feel protective of them and feel differently if it was a man. But in situations like this I always try to swap the genders around and think whether I would feel the same. In this case if the passenger was another guy then I'd just be thinking "throw the book at him". So that's the stance I'm going to take with the female passenger too,
 
Hades said:
The honesty is appreciated. I must admit my own reaction was also to feel sorry for her. It shows just how protected women are in our society that we often feel protective of them and feel differently if it was a man. But in situations like this I always try to swap the genders around and think whether I would feel the same. In this case if the passenger was another guy then I'd just be thinking "throw the book at him". So that's the stance I'm going to take with the female passenger too,
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I would try to reserve judgement when it comes to actually calling for punishment. We don't actually know which one of them was doing the stealing. Or if it was both of them. If she was doing the stealing too she should share the punishment. If she was just dragged along unwittingly when her husband tried to steal, that changes the story. Also she wasn't in control of the car, so she had no control over the guys insane driving. She was reacting in fear to his driving and the crowd trying to get at them. If I was in that passenger seat I would have **** myself with terror.
 
One person was seriously injured by the car, which drove directly at pedestrians at the Tesco supermarket in Rickmansworth.

What a pathetic mob, should have smashed his windscreen and beaten him senseless.
 
Craig1981 said:
I would try to reserve judgement when it comes to actually calling for punishment. We don't actually know which one of them was doing the stealing. Or if it was both of them. If she was doing the stealing too she should share the punishment. If she was just dragged along unwittingly when her husband tried to steal, that changes the story. Also she wasn't in control of the car, so she had no control over the guys insane driving. She was reacting in fear to his driving and the crowd trying to get at them. If I was in that passenger seat I would have **** myself with terror.
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Yes fair point.
 
Vargas said:
What a pathetic mob, should have smashed his windscreen and beaten him senseless.
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Or..... forced him from the vehicle, pinned him to the ground to stop him getting away and then holding him there until the police showed up without resorting to mob justice and violence?
 
ozaudio said:
had they of not attacked them then I don't think the person(s) injured from them flying of the car park would have happened, so even tho they are seen as doing good , they did contribute towards it happening. same goes for all the damage to all the other cars
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How do you know they didn’t run over the people first? I mean that could cause people to want to get involved/try to stop them.
 
Hades said:
Was that before the mob tried to stop them or at the end? If it was at then end then I can actually understand it a little bit; if a mob wee smashing my car up and trying to drag me out then I'd probably drive through them too.
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That video looks like it was taken towards the end after he had already hit someone. He was lucky they were ineffective at breaking the windows of the car.

I was in the car with the kids, dropping my wife off to buy some bits at Tesco while we went on to the aquadrome next door. I didn't hang around as I didn't want the kids scared or involved.
 
Very pathetic, mobs are not what they used to be, or maybe it's down to locale. The last good lynching in Whitchurch involved some druggie who stole a charity collection tin off a pub bar. I wonder if he ever fully recovered, I had a moment's pity for him at one stage until I pulled myself together. There's a certain savagery amongst wronged inter bred rustics.
 
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Minusorange said:
Was the Citreon stolen too ?
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Apparently a hire car.

Not sure where I stand with this. If I knew I was innocent and was being attacked I'd do whatever I could (within reason) to get to safety.

If however the driver was guilty, the bystanders should have dragged him out of the car when they had the chance. Pretty pathetic the way they stand around with camera phones.
 
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