Racially aggravated assault!

[meridian]

And so the guy's reaction of using threatening behavior and racist language was entirely appropriate In you view?

Appropriate? Of course not! But getting angry over it is understandable and could have been prevented if the other road user had been a bit more considerate.

Regardless of whether he was pissed or not it probably wound him up to the extent that he would have been a danger to other road users getting the rest of the way home.

[MaryPoppins]

No, I let it slide, but secretly I have a lower opinion of you now.

After that fast finger fumble, ditto.


<Snigger>

[doodab]

Perhaps if she hadn't been so ignorant and simply pulled in closer to the shop to allow other users to get near the pump she wouldn't have been met with verbal abuse.

Sure, she could have, and probably should have, moved her car. On the other hand, perhaps if he had just asked politely she would have moved her car and apologised instead of reporting the incident to the police?

It's all very well feeling angry, but ranting and raging and calling people names doesn't actually get you anywhere.

[TheBigYinJames]

It's all very well feeling angry, but ranting and raging and calling people names doesn't actually get you anywhere.

Especially when you do it in one of the few places with excellent surveillance and recording - i.e. service stations. Normally she probably wouldn't have bothered reporting it, due to one word against another, but it likely came out very nicely on the video.

[Xenophon]

After that fast finger fumble, ditto.


<Snigger>

[MaryPoppins]

Nice view, ta

[Churchill]

Nice view, ta

FFS you two, get a webcam!

[Churchill]

Scarily I knda agree,

His actions were over the top - hugely - and there is no justification for the racism at all.

However, if the woman really had left her car there for 20mins while she was in the shop, then that is out of order.

Rightly or wrongly, I certainly would have had words with her.

Could be that MF was talking bollocks and the incident never happened...

[d000hg]

I punched the first guy on the stool

Now what a strange phrase that is when taken out of context...

[Board Game Geek]

As shocking as the story MF posted was, and the behaviour involved, I am even more concerned that the perpetrator attempted to use their membership of a secretive cult to pervert the course of justice.

Everyone seens to have forgotten that bit...